Burial

Gramps ID E5336
Date 1788-01-19
Place Randolph plantation, Matoax, beside her first husband, John Randolph.

Source References

  1. Kathy Merrill : Dinwiddie, Chesterfield, Henrico, New Kent County VA - Tombstones; Wm. Mary, Vol. 8, No. 3 [S2581]
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      • Source text:

        From the family burying ground at Matoax, the home of John Randolph, Sr., father of John Randolph of Roanoke. This place is about two miles west of Petersburg on the Appomattox river, in Chesterfield County, Va. The graveyard is on
        a hill almost immediately overhanging the river.)

        MARTHA HALL
        OB : IV : NON : MART :
        M,DCC,LXXXIV.
        AE : XXXVIII.
        Quam Sprevit Hymen Pollux
        Pheobus que colere.
        __________________
        JOHANNES RANDOLP[H]
        ob XXVIII OCTO :
        MDCCLXXV.
        AE : XXXIV.
        Non Ossibus Urna, nec Mens
        Virtutibus absit.
        __________________

        I H S
        FRANCESCAE TUCKER. (2)
        Blandae Conjugis
        Sti : GEORGII TUCKER.
        Quis Desiderio sit Modus.
        Obiit XVIII : Januarii,
        MDCCLXXXVIII,
        aet : XXXVI.

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        (2) Mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. On page 292 of "The Ves-
        try Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia 1720-1789" there is
        this entry: "Frances Daughter of Theod Bland born 25th Sept 1752."

References

  1. Bland, Frances (Primary) [I2797]