This monument, until 1983 located on the Belle Grove Lawn
200 yards to the west, identified the unmarked graves of
John Hipkins, died 1804; his wife Elisabeth Pratt 1754-1829; their only child Fanny Bernard 1774-1801; and her youngest children; Eliza 1794-1803 and William Bernard, Jr. 1796-1822; also five infant children of Jane Gay and John H. Bernard of Gay Mont, who erected the monument in 1849.
Marker can be reached from US 301 James Madison Parkway.
Courtesy hmdb.org
