Notable interments

• Wilmer McLean
  Wilmer McLean
  Wilmer McLean was a wholesale grocer from Virginia. It is said that the American Civil War started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor....
  
   (May 3, 1814 – June 5, 1882) - a Major and wholesale grocer.
• The Female Stranger
  Female Stranger
  The Female Stranger was a woman who died anonymously on October 14, 1816 in Alexandria, Virginia. She was buried in the local St. Paul's Cemetery, with a monument erected supposedly by her husband, but which only identifies her as the "female stranger" along with the epitaph...
  
   (1793-1816) - a 23 year old woman who succumbed to a disease on the ship she traveled on with her husband which arrived in Alexandria. On her deathbed, she swore the people around her to oath that they would never reveal her identity and the promise was kept; her grave, a table like structure is marked "Female Stranger". Her ghost is said to haunt the cemetery and Room 8 of the Gadsby's Tavern in which she died. The unusual monument and story surrounding it have long been noted as a peculiar oddity of the town.