Following are various descriptions of the Hathaway family graveyard, as well as detailed information recorded during a visit to the cemetery in February, 1999.

"I wish my body to be buried in the grave yard at Enon Hall between the graves of my two wives and that a suitable tombstone be erected over my grave, and my wife Susan's grave, similar generally to the one over the grave of my first wife. I also direct that a strong and substantial brick wall be built around the grave yard, making it...(illegible word), considerably larger than it is now. With a substantial iron gate on the North side."

Source: Will of Walter E. Hathaway - 1918

"The cemetery is set to the south of the main dwelling, surrounded by a stretcher bond brick wall with concrete coping. Cypress and boxwoods ornament the site. A metal gate is located on the north side. The markers are set around the perimeter of the site."

Source: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Reconnaissance Survey Form
October 29, 1997

"Back of the house, in the middle of a field was a fine brick wall around the Ancestral Graveyard where generations of Hathaways are buried. The later graves are marked by stones -- the earlier by boxwood. "The black mammy" of the Hathaway family, Priscilla Fauntleroy," a loyal and devoted friend was buried in the family graveyard along with her "white folks" and her epitaph could have been "well done, good and faithful servant -- enter into the joy of thy Lord." A later generation buried his faithful dog Max here, with the inscription on his tombstone -- "The more I see of men, the better I love my dog." All that descendants now own of Enon Hall, is that little graveyard, by Va. law not transferable with the sale of the plantation, to BE PRESERVED perpetually."

Source: Lawson & Hathaway Families of Virginia
Compiled by Virginia M. McComb, 1950