Among the prominent Watsonians interred here are Alexander Scott Withers; Daniel Stringer, a co-founder of Weston, owner of the town's first grist mill, and twice elected to Congress; Weeden Hoffman, one of Weston's first merchants, who opened the first general store around 1820 and an inn around 1822 on Main Avenue; Major Thomas Bland, progenitor of the prominent Bland family, owner of an early Weston hotel-tavern, and once a Virginia State Senator; Levi Maxwell, who in 1817 built one of the town's first houses; Benjamin Owen, publisher-editor of Weston's first newspaper, the Weston Sentinel; Alexander and Conrad Kester, father and son, the town's first and second gunsmiths; the Rev. Jonathan Holt, Weston's first Methodist minister; and the Rev. John Talbott, a Methodist Episcopal minister who brought together Weston's members of that denomination and in 1844 erected the town's first church building on Third Street. Bland also owned the finest house in town, which during the Civil War served as headquarters for Union General Rosecrans and Confederate General Imboden during their respective occupations.