Elizabeth Simpson’s Gravestone
Contributed by Becky Hollen
It seems no one is quite sure where the Simpson grave site was in Stafford. Sometime about
1960 Elizabeth Simson's stone was found lying near the Aquia Creek. Speculation had it that some children had
found it and carried it as far as the creek and laid it down. Someone applied to the Aquia Church to have it
placed in their Cemetery. The stone was placed in the "Dipple" family section of the Cemetery.
The history of Elizabeth Simson's stone may be found in:
Register of Overwharton Parish
by George Harrison Sanford King
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Inc
P.O. Box 738
Easley, SC 29641-0738
Aquia Episcopal Church, Stafford VA in February, 1999
“HEARE LYES Y BODY OF ELIZABTH SIMSON THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN SIMSON
DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH Y 14TH 1698 – BORNE JULY THE 27TH 1695”
