Old Hill Cemetary Memorial

Old Hill Cemetary Memorial. . , In addition to Alexander Scott Withers, prominent Watsonian's interred here are Daniel Stringer, a co-founder of Weston, owner of the first grist mill in the town, and twice elected to Congress; Weeden Hoffman, one of Weston's first merchants, who opened the first general store around 1820, and an ordinary, or inn, around 1822 on Main Avenue; Major Thomas Bland, progenitor of the prominent Bland family, owner of an early Weston hotel-tavern, and once a Virginia State Senator., Also interred here are Levi Maxwell, who in 1817 built one of the town's first houses; Benjamin Owen, publisher-editor of Weston's first newspaper, the Weston Sentinel; Alexander and Conrad Kester, father and son, the town's first and second gunsmiths; the Rev. Jonathan Holt, Weston's first Methodist minister; the Rev. John Talbott, also a Methodist Episcopal minister and the one who brought Weston's members of that denomination together and, in 1844 on Third Street, erected the town's first church building., (caption) , Major Thomas Bland, progenitor of the prominent Bland family, owner of an early Weston hotel-tavern, and once a Virginia State Senator. He also owned the finest house in town, so fine that during the Civil war it was used as headquarters by both Union General Rosecrans and Confederate General Imboden during their respective occupations.