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Cameron Parish forms from Truro Parish, covering the area that will become Alexandria.

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About Gravestone Stories

Gravestone Stories is a one-person project—researched, written, and developed by public historian David Heiby—dedicated to sharing Alexandria’s layered past, one gravestone at a time.

What began as a personal effort to care for a single historic cemetery has grown into a citywide initiative connecting generations of lives and stories across three centuries. David also serves as the Superintendent of Alexandria’s historic Presbyterian Cemetery & Columbarium, leading ongoing efforts to preserve, document, and interpret the city’s most significant burial sites.

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