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Meeks Store at the time of the surrender Francis Meeks operated a post office and general store across from the Court House. The building is original and was built in 1852.
In the large open field behind the Meeks Store stands a single lonely tree standing guard over a marble headstone. This is the grave of Lafayette Meeks, the 18 year old son of store owner Francis. Lafayette died at Fairfax Court House in the first fall of the war while serving in Company H, 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment. He was the victim not of Yankee bullets but of the true great killer of the war, disease, in his case typhoid fever.