Westlake Cemetery is one of the earliest identified cemeteries west of the Allegheny Mountains. Among those buried there are William Tyree, owner of nearby Tyree Tavern, and Confederate Col. George W. Imboden, brother of Gen. John D. Imboden, but it is best known for the grave of Julia Beckwith Neale Jackson Woodson, the mother of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Born on February 28, 1798, in Loudoun County, Virginia, Julia moved with her family two years later to the Parkersburg vicinity. She married attorney Jonathan Jackson on September 28, 1817, and they had four children, including Thomas Jonathan Jackson, born on January 21, 1824. After Jonathan Jackson died two years later deeply in debt, the family was left destitute. On November 4, 1830, Julia married Blake G. Woodson, who in 1831 became court clerk of newly created Fayette County, but the household remained in poverty and he resented his stepchildren. When Julia's health failed in 1831, she sent her children to live with relatives, and Thomas J. Jackson went to Jackson's Mill in Lewis County. He returned once in the autumn of 1831 to see his mother shortly before she died. The exact date of Julia Woodson's death is uncertain: her tombstone, erected many years later, says September 1831, but because she gave birth to a son on October 7 and other documentary evidence points to December 4, 1831, that later date may be correct. A wooden headboard or footboard once marked her grave, but it had disappeared by 1855. In August 1855, Thomas J. Jackson came hoping to find his mother's grave, stayed at Tyree Tavern, and was escorted to the cemetery by William Tyree, but he was not certain the grave was found. Years later, Capt. Thomas R. Ranson, formerly of Jackson's brigade, erected a marker for Julia Jackson.