The memorial to an unknown soldier of the American Revolution is located in the churchyard of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House, 323 S. Fairfax Street Alexandria, Virginia. Built in 1775, the church was also the site of memorial services for President George Washington in 1799.
This tomb holds the remains of a man in the Continental Army whose coffin was uncovered during excavations for the foundations of nearby St. Mary's Catholic Church in 1826. The remains were reburied. In 1925, a movement began to refurbish the church because of its many historical connections. As a part of the process, a table stone with an iron fence was erected as a memorial.
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American War of Independence/Revolutionary War: 1775-1783.
Contributor: Susan Ayer Redfern #48862375
The memorial to an unknown soldier of the American Revolution is located in the churchyard of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House, 323 S. Fairfax Street Alexandria, Virginia. Built in 1775, the church was also the site of memorial services for President George Washington in 1799.
This tomb holds the remains of a man in the Continental Army whose coffin was uncovered during excavations for the foundations of nearby St. Mary's Catholic Church in 1826. The remains were reburied. In 1925, a movement began to refurbish the church because of its many historical connections. As a part of the process, a table stone with an iron fence was erected as a memorial.
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American War of Independence/Revolutionary War: 1775-1783.
Contributor: Susan Ayer Redfern #48862375
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
Inscription
Epitaph to the Unknown Soldier Carved atop the Memorial
Here lies a soldier of the Revolution whose identity is known but to God.
His was an idealism that recognized a Supreme Being,
that planted religious liberty on our shores, that overthrew despotism,
that established a people's government, that wrote a Constitution
setting metes and bounds of delegated authority, that fixed a
standard of value upon men above gold and lifted high the
torch of civil liberty along the pathway of mankind.
In ourselves his soul exists as part of ours, his memory's mansion.
