In 1820, only two years after Weston became the governmental seat of Lewis County, the town's first true cemetery, a one-acre plot, was established on the hillside above the south end of Center Avenue at 15 South Center Ave. It became known as the Old Hill Cemetery, and after Weston's attorney William E. Arnold gave a piece of his abutting property for an addition to the graveyard, it became the Arnold Cemetery. A section of the original acre was reserved, fenced off, and consecrated for the burial of deceased Catholics, reflecting the more stringent separation of religious sects at the time. On September 26th 1864, the third and final Confederate raid came through, when 800 rebels with guns blazing passed by this graveyard, plunged down the hill onto Center St., and proceeded to loot the town; this was the only southern access to the town at the time and the only raid that actually came from the south. A notable person buried on Old Hill is Alexander Scott Withers, one of young Thomas J., later Stonewall, Jackson's teachers and the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare, an authoritative account of the conflict between white settlers and Native Americans in western Virginia in the last half of the 1700s.