Finding the Hidden Molair Family Cemetery in Bradley Forest (Manassas, Virginia)

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Today we visited the Molair Family Cemetery in Prince William County, Virginia. Buried here under marked stones are John Molair (father), Frances Molair (mother), Maggie Molair (daughter), John Molair, Jr. (son), and Josephine Hockman (daughter). Josephine was married to Andrew Jackson Hockman, who is buried in Valley View Cemetery, only a few miles away from this family plot. There are two other Molair family members reported to be buried here, but there are no other stones or visible gravesites around the five marked ones. They are Robert Lee Molair (1856-1914), and his daughter Mollie Molair (1897-1913). Both Robert and his daughter Mollie died of tuberculosis 3 months apart, with Mollie passing first. Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate any records for Mollie's mother or five other siblings.
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Mollie's story, by her Pastor T.W.T. Noland
DEATH OF MOLLIE MOLAIR
Last spring the subject of this notice contracted the measles. Left in a weakened condition she fell an easy prey to that more dreaded disease, tuberculosis.
She faded rapidly away until Nov. 6, [1913] when her spirit took its flight.
Two years ago I presented her with a Bible, requesting that she make it the lamp to her feet and the light to her path. So quiet was her mien and so reserved her manner, I little dreamed of how good use she was making of her Bible. To be sure she had told me that she loved and trusted in the Savior, but it was a revelation to find how familiar she was with the saving truths and precious promises of the word of God. How gratifying, too, to know she knew by memory and could sing so many of the sweet Gospel hymns.
The last time I went in to see her I read at her request from her Bible and sang and had a word of prayer.
As she neared the end she called the loved ones around her, and with a goodby and God bless you she bade them farewell, besides many a goodby and God bless you which she sent out to others whom she loved and remembered and who could not be present, and then putting her emaciated hands together and lifting her eyes toward heaven, she began singing:
“I’m Going Home to Heaven By and Bye.”
“Jesus, Lover of My Soul.”
“Jesus Paid It All.”
“Down at the Cross.”
“Softly and Tenderly.”
“I’m Going Home to Die No More.”
As thus she sang her spirit went out to God and she threw open her arms as if to be received into the open arms of Jesus.
Never in my life have I known of so touching an appeal to the loved ones left behind to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, and never have I seen in a more marked degree the comforting influences of the Gospel. We sorrow, but not as those who have no hope.
Goodby, dear Mollie,
Sure when thy gentle spirit fled
To realms beyond the azure dome,
With outstretched hands God’s angels said,
Welcome to heaven’s home, sweet home.
The funeral took place from the Hatcher Memorial Baptist church, of Brentsville, of which her father, Mr. Robert Molair, is a deacon and trustee, and was attended by a large throng of sympathizing friends and neighbors making the 7th day of November, 1913, memorable in the annals of our little village.
The deceased was only 16 years old, and, besides her parents, leaves one brother and four sisters to mourn their loss.

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