Among the Founders: Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in Alexandria
When the Revolution ended, its survivors came home — and hundreds came home to Alexandria. Among the Founders is your free America 250 guide to the city’s Revolutionary War patriots — the 162-patriot registry in print, with David Heiby’s lecture menu for chapters, schools, and civic groups.
A City of Founders
George Washington’s hometown became the resting place for an extraordinary concentration of the men and women who helped build the American republic: Continental Army officers who fought at Valley Forge and Yorktown, merchant patriots who funded the cause, physicians who saved its soldiers, and tradesmen who served in local militias.
Our registry documents 162 Revolutionary War patriots across 13 historic burial grounds — 46 within the Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex alone. Many served directly with Washington: his physicians, pallbearers, business partners, and neighbors. To walk among their graves is to understand Washington not as a monument, but as a man.
Selected Figures from the Registry
The guide profiles patriots across every role in the founding — Washington’s inner circle, the founders of Alexandria, Boston Tea Party participants, women patriots, and the forgotten:
…plus John Carlyle, William Ramsay, Fairfax Resolves signer Robert Adam, Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick, Joseph Harris, and an Unknown Kentucky Soldier whose name, rank, and unit are lost to history.
Where They Rest
- Presbyterian Cemetery
- Christ Church Cemetery (Wilkes St.)
- Christ Church Burial Ground (Old Town — 18th century)
- Trinity Methodist Cemetery
- Methodist Protestant Cemetery
- St. Paul’s Cemetery
- Penny Hill Cemetery
- Old Presbyterian Meeting House burial ground
The registry spans thirteen historic burial grounds in all — and none holds more of Alexandria’s Revolutionary War veterans than Christ Church’s 18th-century burial ground in Old Town, more even than the Meeting House. For the Meeting House patriots, see the Rebellious Scoundrels guide.
Lectures & Programs
David brings this research to lecture halls, chapter meetings, and classrooms — illustrated talks built on original primary-source research, adapted to your audience and schedule.
Book a Lecture
dave@gravestonestories.com
(703) 869-0872
Format
Illustrated talks built on the registry
Adapted to your schedule
Audiences
DAR & SAR chapters
especially welcome
Bring the Founders to Your Audience
His physicians, pallbearers, business partners — the men and women who built a nation, and never left. Hear their stories from the researcher who documented them.