“Greenfield, now known as the Greenfield Farm of Mr. Thos. N. Lupton is settled to special mention. In the partition of the old Cartmell grand between the sons, this tract embraced about 600 acres, and was assigned to Thomas Cartmell about 1770 by his father Nathaniel in his lifetime, where he raised a large family and died in 1808. The widow and several unmarried children remained there until September 1811, when the farm was sold. John Lupton a son-in-law, purchased 26 acres off the North end at 219 pounds and 14 shillings; and Isaac Hite of Belle Grove purchased 400 acres, including the old residence, and paid $25 per acre. From this place went the Cartmells who settled in Kentucky and Ohio. John Lupton acquired the whole tract later on and raised his first set of children there – John, Nathaniel and a daughter. After his death, the property was sold in 1835 under decree of court, when Jonah Lupton the father of the present owner, became the purchaser. There he lived for several years prior to his death. During that period, Thos. N. Lupton built an addition to the old Colonial building, the former occupied by his father and the old building as his own residence until about 1855.
The Cartmell family set apart a small plot of ground due West from the homestead, for a family burial-ground. There Thomas the founder, his wife, and several unmarried children lie in unmarked graves, as well as quite a number from the neighboring families. The place was crowded when the writer saw the last interment there, a Mrs. Wright, in 1850. Since then it has been abandoned, and for many years has nothing to mark the sacred place but a clump of trees standing in an open field, that sometimes reminds the ploughman that the place represents something of the past; and he leaves it, doubtless with some wonder as to what it means. Formerly the old graveyard was enclosed with a durable fence, but for the last fifty years, all has gone. In sketches of the Cartmell family, “Greenfield” branch will more fully appear. Lest there be some confusion, the writer will state here that Mr. Jonah Lupton spent nearly all his life at Rock Harbor, now the property of Rev. Dr. Jonah Lupton, to whom he gave this farm when he removed to Greenfield.”
[The following is taken from T. K. Cartmell’s An Historic Sketch of the two Fairfax families in Virginia. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1913].
