Annals of Henrico parish, Part 47

Author: Moore, Josiah Staunton, 1843- ed; Burton, L. W. (Lewis William), 1852-1940; Brock, Robert Alonzo, 1839-1914
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Richmond, Williams printing company]
Number of Pages: 872


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IV. Benjamin.


V. Peyton m. Lucy, daughter of Gov. Benj. Harrison. VI. Anne m. Benj. Harrison, of Brandon.


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VII. Elizabeth m. Philip Grymes, of Brandon, Rappa- hannock County. No issue.


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VIII. Lucy m. Lewis Burwell, of King's Mill. No issue. NOTE 20. Samuel Du Val was a Member of the House of Burgesses in 1773; of the Virginia Convention of 1775, and an officer of the Revolution.


NOTE 21. Rev. Miles Selden was the son of Joseph, first settler of the name in Virginia. He was Chaplain of the Virginia Convention of 1775. A son, Miles Selden, Jr., represented the County of Henrico, in the Virginia Assem- bly for several years.


NOTE 22. Thomas Adams was one of the Delegates from Virginia to the Convention held in Philadelphia in 1778, and a signer of the articles of Confederation between the States. He was a member of the Virginia Senate of 1786, from Augusta County. He was a brother of Colonel Richard Adams, the elder.


NOTE 23. Ryland Randolph, son of Richard Randolph, of Curles. He inherited an ample fortune, which, remarks his sarcastic Kinsman, "of Roanoke," "he squandered to the last shilling."


NOTE 24. Turner Southall was a member, successively, of both branches of the Virginia Assembly for a series of years during the Revolutionary war, and afterwards. He was a zealous patriot and a highly useful citizen, being fre- quently elected to local offices of trust and importance.


NOTE 25. Richard Adams .- This was Col. Richard Adams, the elder, (son of Ebenezer, of York County,) born in 1723; died August 2d, 1800; married April 10th, 1755, Elizabeth Griffin, (sister of Judge Cyrus Griffin, of Virginia, President


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of the old Congress of 1788,) born 1738, died Dec. 23d, 1800. Colonel Adams was a member of the House of Burgesses 1773; of the Convention of 1775, and of the Virginia Assembly frequently afterwards. He was an en- terprising and public spirited citizen, inaugurating many and fostering most of the schemes of local improvement of his day. His means were ample and his landed possessions within the limits, and in the immediate vicinity of Richmond probably more extensive than any other, then resident. His residence on Richmond or Church Hill is still standing, being the large wooden building at the corner of 22d and Grace streets, so long occupied by the late Loftin N. Ellett, Esq., and now used as a convent by the Roman Catholic Church. When first occupied by Colonel Adams it was within the outer limits of a thick grove of forest trees, a representative of which, a primeval oak, of monarchial dimensions, is still standing a few hundred yards distant, near the corner of 24th and Grace streets. Both the mansion of Col. Adams and the venerable St. John's Church were used as barracks by the British soldiery, under the traitor Arnold, during his occupancy of Richmond in 1781. The efforts of Col. Adams to induce the tide of improvement in the growing little town and embryo city of Richmond in the direction of his landed possessions on Richmond Hill, were constant and strenuous. A venerable descendant, a grand-daughter-Mrs. Eliza Griffin Carrington, now in her 83d year, relates an authentic tradition of her childhood: That quite a warm friendship at one time existed between her ancestor and Thomas Jefferson, who was a frequent guest of Col. Adams. During a visit of the former, not long preceding the Resolu-


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tion of the Assembly of Virginia, to remove the seat of government from Williamsburg to Richmond, Jefferson, who was cognizant then of the measure, pledged himself to Col. Adams, in case of its success, to secure the location of the public buildings on Richmond Hill. Colonel Adams, in view of the prospective ultimate advantages in the enhance- ment in value of his surrounding property, promising a dona- tion of the requisite sites, for which were proposed command- ing points. The Act for the removal of the seat of govern- ment was passed June 4th, 1779,* though the definite location of the building was not indicated until the May term of 1780, when it was directed to be made upon Shockoe Hill. The following were the directors therein nominated to carry into effect the provisions of the Act, viz .: "His Excellency, Thomas Jefferson, esquire, Archibald Cary, Robert Carter Nicholas, Richard Adams, Edmund Randolph, Turner Southall, Robert Goode, James Buchanan, and Samuel Du Vall."t Mr. Jefferson incurred the life long enmity of Col. Adams because of the disappointment of the latter. Colonel Adams, at a period little later, erected, in Shockoe Creek 3 Valley, upon the site now occupied by the depot buildings of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, a substantial and spacious market house for the convenience of the residents of Rich- mond Hill. Three sons of Colonel Adams were also promi- nent and useful citizens : Colonel Richard, Jr., (born Nov. 28th, 1760, died January 9th, 1817;) Samuel Griffin, (born May 5th, 1776, died July 15th, 1821;) (both of whom od served in the Virginia Assembly,) and Dr. John, (born July


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14th, 1773, died June 23d, 1825,) who was, for some time, Mayor of Richmond; a daughter, Annie, (born Oct. 27th, 1762, died Oct. 27th, 1820,) married Col. Mayo Carrington, of Cumberland County. Colonel Adams and many of his descendants lie buried in the family cemetery, provided by himself, situated at the corner of 23d and Marshall streets. It occupies one-fourth of a square, and is substantially en- closed with a high brick wall. There is within our knowl- edge, only one other private burying-ground for the dead within the city limits, which is that of the Pickett family, immediately adjoining this, the enclosure of which has fallen to decay, and all of its tombstones have been shattered or defaced by the sacriligeous hands of wanton urchins, who, until police surveilliance was instituted, threatened to reduce the hallowed grounds of the time eloquent St. John's, to the same lamentable condition-many of its monuments present- ing painful evidences of their earnest assiduity in the heart- less work of mutilation and obliteration.


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We are not aware that there have been any interments in the Pickett grounds for a number of years past.


Colonel Richard Adams, Jr., inherited the paternal resi- dence; his brother Samuel erected the large mansion which formerly stood at the corner of 22d and Broad streets, and which was latterly known as Bellevue Hospital. It was de- stroyed by fire some years since. One of the Public School Houses now occupies its site, and Dr. John built and occu- pied that which is now known as the Van Lew residence, situated at the corner of 24th and Grace streets.


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still represented by family names, the most prominent and of the first social position in the State,


NOTE 26. John Ragland was the son of John and Anne (Beaufort) Ragland, who emigrated from Wales to the Col- ony of Virginia about the year 1723, and settled in Hanover Co. Grants of land to the extent of 16,000 acres are re- corded in the Land Registry Office of Virginia, in the name of John Ragland.1


His issue was :


I. John (of the text, ) married Ann Dudley, and settled in Goochland County.


II. William2 married and had issue.


III. Samuel2 married and settled in Louisa County. Had issue.


IV. James2 married Catharine Davis. Had issue.


V. Evan2 settled in Antrim Parish, Halifax Co .; married. Had issue.


VI. Pettus.2


VII. Martha2 married Thomas Tinsley.


VIII. Francis2 married Jeremiah Pate.


Pettus Ragland2 (John1) married Elizabeth Davis, of Hanover County. Daughter of John Davis of Wales.


Had issue :


I. Jean,3 born April 12th, 1755, married Wm. Chick.


II. John,3 born July 29th, 1756.


III. William,3 born September 17th, 1757.


IV. Sarah,3 born February 5th, 1759, married William Rice.


V. Elizabeth,3 born March 24th, 1760, married B. Wright. VI. Pettus,3 born July 8th, 1761. Moved to Halifax County.


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VII. Samuel,3 born April 12th, 1764. Died young.


VIII. Martha,3 born Sept. 17th, 1765. IX. Evan,3 born Sept. 5th, 1767, married Year- mans, of Louisa County. Removed to Tennessee.


X. Anne Beaufort,3 born Oct. 7th, 1768.


XI. Nancy,3 born July 13th, 1770, married Dr. Thomas Starke.


XII. Catharine,3 born 1778, married John Bowe. XIII. Fendall,3 born 1780, died 1833, married Sarah, (died 1833) daughter of Edward and Amelia Nelson, who were cousins and descendants in the third generation of Edward, born 1690, (son of James Nelson, of Essex County, England,) who emigrated to Virginia in the year 1718, and married in 1719, Mary, the daughter of Edward and Jane Garland, of New Kent County, Va.


The issue of Fendall3 and Sarah (Nelson) Ragland was eight sons and four daughters-of whom Elizabeth Mildred,4 born Feb. 20th, 1814, married May 19th, 1836. Robert King, (son of John Philip and Elizabeth [King] Brock,) born December 15th, 1801, died May 27th, 1850. The editor, who is of their issue, and who has much material towards a genealogical account of the Ragland, Davis, Nelson and Garland families, would most thankfully enter into corres- pondence with any representative of either family who may be kindly disposed to further his object. To all such, he most heartily tenders any desired information he may have in possession.


NOTE 27. John Randolph married Francis, daughter of Richard Bland.


Issue :


I. Richard married Judith Randolph.


II. Theodrick Bland died young.


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III. John, (of Roanoke) M. C. and Minister to Russia. IV. Jane Randolph.


NOTE 28. Nathaniel Wilkinson, Member of the House of Delegates of Virginia, 1778-95. A prominent and most use- ful citizen.


NOTE 29. Thomas Watkins .- The Watkins family of Virginia is supposed to be of Welsh descent. The name of James Watkins appears among the early emigrants of 1608. He may have been the ancestor of the family in Virginia. The first of the name of whom anything definite is known, was Thomas Watkins, of Swift Creek, Cumberland County, whose will bears date 1760. He had eight children. His eldest son, Thomas, of Chickahominy, (of the text) is thus spoken of by the late Benjamin Watkins Leigh, his great nephew: "Of Thomas Watkins, of Chickahominy, I have heard very full accounts from my mother, (his father was the Rev. William Leigh, of Chesterfield County,) and from my uncle Thomas, both of whom knew him well. He was a man of the highest respectability, in every point of view, and in particular, a man of indefatigable industry." He reared a large family of children, four sons and seven daughters, from whom have proceeded many descendants of various family names, in Virginia and the Southern States.


His brother, Benjamin Watkins, married Miss Cary, of Warwick. He was the first clerk of Chesterfield County, which office he held until his death. He was a man of capacity and a sterling patriot. He was a member of the Convention of 1776, and took an active part in the affairs of the Revolution. One of his daughters married the Rev. Wm.


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Leigh, the father of the chaste and elegant orator and able statesman, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and the pure minded and learned Judge William Leigh, who so long and spotlessly wore the ermine. Another daughter, Francis, married Wm. Finnie, of Amelia County, from whom are descended the numerous families of Finnie, Royall, Worsham, Sydnor and others, in Virginia and North Carolina.


His son, Thomas Watkins, married Rebecca, the daughter of the Rev. Miles Selden; and one of their daughters was the first wife of Benjamin Watkins Leigh; another of Dr. Thomas Barksdale, of Halifax County.


NOTE 30. William Randolph .- This is presumed to be William Randolph, of Bristol, son of Isham, of Durgeness.


NOTE 31. Boar Swamp Church .- This church, so desig- nated from the swamp near which it was built and which still retains its original name, was situated about twelve miles east of Richmond, upon the continuation of what is known as the Nine Mile Road. We have been informed that the original church was destroyed by fire, and another built upon its site by the Baptist denomination. The following extract deter- mines the latter event :


"About 1773, he-Rev. Elijah Baker, began to stretch his lines, and to travel more extensively. Coming down into the lower end of Henrico, he, in conjunction with one or two others, planted Boar Swamp Church."*


The church has been frequently repaired, and its appear- ance, doubtless, somewhat altered. It has for a number of years past been known as Antioch Church.


*Semple's Hist. of Va. Baptists, p. 393.


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NOTE 32. Peter Winston .- We are led to conclude this Peter Winston to have been the son of James, one of the three brothers, emigrants to Virginia .- Vide Note 13.


The issue of Peter Winston was:


I. Isaac2 m. Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Wm. Burton. II. William2 m. Martha Mosby, removed to Ky.


III. Peter2 m. Louisa Mosby.


IV. John2 m. Susan, daughter of Capt. John Austin, of Hanover County. Of the same family was Moses Austin, the founder of Texas, who was a merchant in Richmond in 1789. He was also engaged in the manufacture of shot, by the old method of towers, for some years. He was the con- tractor for covering the State Capitol with a leaden roof.


V. Susan3 m. Anderson Grubbs.


Isaac Winston2 (Peter.1)


Issue :


I. Emily3 m. Dr. Reuben Meredith.


II. Elizabeth3 m. Colonel Charles Parke Goodall, member of House Delegates, 1816; son of Major Parke Goodall, House of Delegates, Rev. Officer, Lieutenant of the company of volunteers of 1775, organized and commanded by Patrick Henry. Major Goodall was the proprietor of the Indian Queen Tavern, of Richmond, in "olden time." A son of Charles Parke, Charles Parke, (M. D.,) Member of House Delegates, 1864.


III. Mary3 m. Wm. Wingfield.


IV. Amanda3 m. James Williamson.


V. Thomas3 m. - Johnson.


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Issue :


I. A daughter3 m. Dr. Jones. II. m. - Sheppard. Peter Winston,2 (Peter.1)


Issue :


Ann Crawley3 m. John Jones.


John P. Winston,2 (Peter.1)


Issue :


I. Mary Ann3 m. July 31st, 1817, Peter De Moville, of Charles City County ; Member of House of Del. 1816-18. Issue-Felix4 removed to Tennessee.


II. Peter3 m. - Wood.


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NOTE 33. Mrs. Mary Randolph, the wife of William, the first of the name who settled in Virginia. The date of her death was unknown to that indefatigable genealogist, her brilliant descendant, John Randolph, of Roanoke, and it has been obliterated by the ravages of time from her monu- ment at Turkey Island.


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A .- Bowler Cocke, p. 3, line 8. He, together with his brother, were among the patentees of the rich land of Curle's Neck, on James River, which was granted in one hundred acre lots. He was clerk of Henrico County in 1738.


B .- Four-Mile Creek, p. 5, line 13. So called from its distance from Henrico Town.


C .- James Cocke, p. 16, line 16. Clerk of Henrico County in 1699.


D .- Cornealious's, p. 22, line 38, (Cornelious's Creek.) So called from Cornelius De Hull, who owned land contig- uous to it.


E .-- Joseph and John Pleasants, p. 26, lines 22-3. These were the sons of John Pleasants, who emigrated to Virginia from England in the year 1665, and settled in Henrico Coun- ty. The editor has in his possession a genealogical "Tree" of this family, which though unbroken as regards names, and extending almost down to the last generation, is deficient in dates. He has also manuscript material pertaining to the history of the family, who were originally, in point of reli- gious belief, of the Society of Friends. The late Governor James Pleasants, Jr., John Hampden Pleasants, his son, the able journalist, founder and until his death in 1846 editor of the Richmond Whig, and Hugh Rose Pleasants, the brother of the latter, so well known, more recently in connection with


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the Richmond Press, were the descendants of Joseph Pleas- ants of the text. The editor desires to perfect as far as may be practicable, a genealogy of the family, and would be grate- ful to any of its members, who might be kindly disposed to aid him with information concerning it.


F .- Robert Pleasants, p. 70, line 2. The son of John, the younger, (vide preceding note.) He possessed a vigorous in- tellect, and was a man of most indomitable energy. He en- gaged in mercantile pursuits as well as planting, and was re- markably successful in the acquisition of wealth. He owned and resided upon the Curle's Plantation. He entered heartily into all schemes of philanthropy, and agricultural and me- chanical improvements. A subject, in which he was deeply interested, was the emancipation of the African race from slavery in this country-in behalf of which he was in con- stant correspondence with the early advocates of the meas- ure, both here and in England. The warmest esteem existed between him and the prominent philanthropists of Pennsyl- vania, Anthony Benzenet, James Pemberton, John Smith and others. Though he possessed a number of slaves, he emancipated them all by will. He conducted a correspond- ence with Robert Bolling, Jr., of Chellowe, Buckingham county, on the culture of the vine, the manufacture of wine in Virginia, and upon kindred subjects, in 1765-70. He died near the close of the last century.


G .- St. Peter's Church, New Kent County ; vide note 11. Rev. David Mossom. It affords us deep gratification to be able to present the following extracts from a local announce- ment in the columns of the "Richmond Daily Dispatch," of the issue of November 14th, 1872, concerning this sacred


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relic of the past: "This old church has been substantially and beautifully repaired, and will be re-opened for ser- vice The original designs which had been shame- fully changed, have been restored. The high arched ceiling has been replaced, the walls replastered, finished with a hard coat, and pencilled to represent stone. A new gallery has been put up in the end of the church, and other modern im- provements not inharmonious with its original design intro- duced. It is now one of the most beautiful, comfortable and effective of the country churches." 1


H .- Jonathan Boucher, page XI, second foot line. John Mercer, the editor of an abridgement of the Laws of Virginia, printed by William Parks, at Williamsburg, in 1737, in a diary kept by him in Spotsylvania county, in 1766, men- tions a "Parson Bouchier." Could this be adopted as the correct rendering of the name, the variable orthography of the text might readily be accounted for as apparent attempts at adaptation to its pronunciation.


I .- Page XXII, foot note. New Church. Since the com- mittal of the foregoing pages to the printer, the editor has been informed that the entire walls of the New Church were erected prior to the abandonment of the work.


J .- Joseph Mayo, note 5, page 163. A recent visit of the editor to the old burying ground of the Mayo family at Pow- hatan,* enables him to present what he hopes will not be con- sidered an uninteresting addition to this note.


The Cemetery is in area about fifty by one hundred feet, and is well enclosed by a brick wall-several cedar trees


*Now owned by Mr. Geo. S. Prince.


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within the inclosure, measuring nearly two feet in diameter, are evidently of indigenous growth. The Cemetery is dis- tant from the mansion some two hundred yards, following the current of the river, (between the two, lie the recently erected depot buildings of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- road.) It occupies the summit of an eminence rivalling that on which is built the mansion. Its military advantages caused its selection during our late unhappy strife as the site of fortifications, which remain a little to the left of the Cem- etery, almost as well-defined as when they were manned by the heroes of the "lost cause."


The Cemetery (in which there is doubtless a number of un- marked graves) contains more than a score of monuments to the dead, bearing the family names of Mayo, Poythress, Ma- con, Scott, Cabell, Fulton, Thom and Atkinson-among the more interesting of them are the following:


[MAYO ARMS.]


HERE lyeth interred the Body Of JOSEPH MAYO,* Gent., Born in Sumersetshire, March 25th, 1693, and died March 25th, 1740. Aged, 47 years. Near this Tomb, also lie Interred The Bodys of three of his children ; who died in their infancy, viz: JOSEPH MAYO, born March the 28th, 1729, and died Oct. ye 9, 1732; MARIANNA MAYO, born May ye


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24th, 1731, and died Sept. 5th, 1732; STEPH., the 2d, born Sept. 18th, 1735, and died Oct'r, 1736.


[MAYO ARMS.]


Here lyeth Interred the Body Of GEORGE MAYO, Eldest son of Joseph Mayo, was born In the Island of Barbadoes,


August 30th, 1717, Died Feb. ye 19th, 1739.


The two preceding are companion stones, lying side by side, prone upon the earth. They are, in dimensions, six feet six inches in length, by three feet three inches in width, and are fully five inches in thickness, the edges being rounded into the ogee form. The material is apparently a kind of marble of great hardness and density; in color, a slatish gray. The perfect preservation of the inscriptions in all of their min- utiæ and the still unmarred and polished surface of the stones, are evidences of their unusual durability. The carved inscriptions were palpably by a skilled hand. The family coat of arms being most artistically executed. The Mayo coat of arms is as follows : Azure, vair gules argent, between three coronets or. Crest, a unicorn's head erased, bearing a chevron vair gules and argent. Here the arms appear with a crescent for difference, and are rendered with an Esquire's helmet surmounting the shield, and an exquisite mantling of scroll work.


The two following are head-stones of gray sandstone.


Sacred To the Memory of


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JOHN MAYO, Who died June 17, 1786. Aged, 50 years. Inspired by a grateful recollection of parental care and protection, this stone is rais'd by Filial Affection.


Sacred To the Memory of, MARY MAYO, Spouse of J. M., who died Sept. 1792, in the 60th year of her Age.


Now follows a venerable couple-the tombs side by side, altar-shaped and of white marble:


In Memory of Our Father, WILLIAM MAYO, Who was born in the county of Gloucester Sept. 26th, 1757. Died in Richmond, August 12th, 1837. Aged, 84 years.


In Memory of Our Mother, ELIZABETH POYTHRESS, Consort of William Mayo, Born in the County of Prince George, 1759.


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Died at Powhatan seat, Aug. 6th, 1806. Aged, 47 years.


The two next are handsome monuments of white marble, obelisk in form. The inscriptions, which are presented on four sides of the one and three of the other, are as follows :


N. Sacred To the Memory of Colonel JOHN MAYO, He was born the 21st October, 1760, at Deep Creek, Powhatan county, and died at Belleville, in the County of Henrico, May 28th, 1818. Aged, 57 years and 7 months.


W. He was endowed with an active mind, a feeling heart, and liberal spirit. Richmond will long remember his useful life, to which she owes various improvements, particularly the important Bridge which bears his name and connects


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her with Manchester. A work suggested and accomplished by individual enterprise and energy and perseverance. For many years He represented Henrico in the General Assembly, and was elected by that body A Member of the


Executive Council of State, But earthly pageant's have passed away, His mortal remains lies beneath this stone, His soul humbly offers itself to God. Reader pray thou with the widowed and the fatherless, that it may be mercifully accepted and graciously appointed to Seats of Bliss.


N. Sacred To the Memory of Mrs. ABIGAIL MAYO,* relict of the late


*Her maiden name was De Hart, and she was a native of Eliza- bethtown, New Jersey.


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Col. John Mayo, of Belleville, near Richmond, Virginia, The remembrance of her virtues, her strength of mind and character, her kindness and usefulness, will ever be cherished by her bereft children and friends. She lived beloved and respected, and died sincerely deplored, In the the 83rd year of Her Age.


W. Obit. 2nd of October, Anno Domini 1843


S. Green be the turf above thee, Mother of our other days; None knew thee, but to love thee, None named thee, but to praise.


E. Nat. 14th of February, Anno Domini 1761.


We will conclude with the following inscription to the memory of two children of the late General Winfield Scott, who married a daughter of Col. John and Abigail Mayo, whose epitaphs precede this. The tomb is altar-shaped, with white marble slab and panelled slate sides, which, from the mouldering of the cement, are now falling away :


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In Memory of Two lovely children, JOHN MAYO SCOTT, Born April 18th, 1819, Died Sept. 23rd, 1820, Buried at Montpelier, the seat of Ex-President Madison ; And EDWARD WINFIELD SCOTT, Born Mar. 23rd, 1823, died May 17th, 1827, who lies Beneath this tomb, Sons of Winfield and Maria Mayo Scott. My soul melteth away for very heaviness, Comfort thou me, Oh, LORD!




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