Burial

Gramps ID E7865
Date 1742-11-00
Place Henrico County, VA - Turkey Island Cemetery

Source References

  1. Shelley J. Armstrong : VAGenWeb Project ,Turkey Island Cemetery [S3855]
      • Source text:

        #6
        Sacred to the memory of COLONEL ISHAM RANDOLPH of Dungness in Goochland County Adjutant General of this Colony He was the third son of William Randolph
        and Mary his Wife The distinguishing qualities of the gentleman he possessed in the most eminent degree to justice probity and honour so firmly attached that
        no view of secular interest or worldly advantage no discouraging frowns of fortune could alter his steady purpose of heart By an easy compliance and obliging deportment he knew no enemies but gained many friends thus in his Life meriting in
        universal esteem He died universally lamented Nov. 1742 aged 57 Gentle Reader go and do thou likewise.

        (In between 2 stones for Isham which had the same inscriptions was the VCC
        stone)

        HERE LIES
        COL. ISHAM RANDOLPH
        THIRD SON OF COL. WM. RANDOLPH
        1685-1742
        VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COM. 1946

References

  1. Randolph, Isham (Primary) [I4182]