Honor Roll: Falls Church, Virginia, New York Memorial Stone

The brick Episcopal Church in Falls Church, Virginia, dates to 1769 and was designed by Colonel James Wren, a vestryman at the original church. George Washington was appointed a church warden and tasked with raising funds for the new church building. The church takes its name from a nearby road that led to a ferry below Little Falls in the Potomac River.

Falls Church Episcopal Church, Falls Church, Virginia;
personal collection

In the church cemetery is memorial stone commonly called the New York Memorial Stone.

New York Memorial Stone; personal collection

(I certainly have an uncanny knack of showing up to photograph a memorial when time of day and sun are completely wrong!)

In Memory
Of the Civil War Soldiers
Who Were Buried in this
Hallowed Ground
1861-1864

Edward Boweman, 21st New York Volunteer Infantry
John Decker, 20th New York State Militia
Patrick Doyle, 20th New York State Militia
Horace Dougherty, 144th New York Volunteer Infantry
Franklin E. Dunham, 20th New York State Militia
Curtis Fagan, 144th New York Volunteer Infantry
James H. Fleming, 16th New York Cavalry
William B. Hallenbeck, 20th New York State Militia
Abraham C. Hinkley, 20th New York State Militia
Amasa L. Hoyt, Jr., 144th New York Volunteer Infantry
Ananias Hyatt, 20th New York State Militia
William Keator, 20th New York State Militia
William H. Lee, 14th New York Volunteer Infantry
Smith McCoon, 20th New York State Militia
John M. Mowers, 23rd New York State Militia
Thomas Paine, 144th New York State Militia
Hiram Risedorf, 20th New York State Militia
Charles Schoonmaker, 20th New York State Militia
Isaac Smith, 20th New York State Militia
Ira M. Stevens, 20th New York State Militia
Josiah Upright, 20th New York State Militia
Eliphalet S. Webb, 144th New York Volunteer Infantry
James R. Wilson, 21st New York Volunteer Infantry

This post was written as a contribution to the Honor Roll Project, which was created by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy.