Historic Cemetery

Known as the Scott Hall Cemetery, this burial ground dates from the late 18th century. It contains the grave of Commodore Whaley of the Maryland Navy, who was killed in the Battle of the Barges in the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of Onancock Creek in November 1782. Also buried here are Colonel George Corbin, a soldier of the Revolution who died in September 1793, his daughter Agnes Corbin Ker, who died in 1813, and his son-in-law John Shepherd Ker, who died in 1806 and was the builder of Ker Place and a successful merchant, along with other members of the Ker family.

Onancock, Virginia · United States