St. Paul's Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia)

St. Paul's Cemetery is a cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia.

Notable interments

• Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 – June 5, 1882) - a Major and wholesale grocer.
• The Female Stranger (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.^[1] The unusual monument and story surrounding it have long been noted as a peculiar oddity of the town.^[2]

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