Warner Hall Graveyard,  Gloucester, Virginia

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Submitted by:  
Kenneth D. Williams  <kd3bt@cox.net>


Epitaphs, as typed on sheets in a folder 
located inside the Graveyard


1

Mary Warner Ye wife of Augus-
tine Warner Esq. was born
15th of May 1614 and died ye 11th day
of August 1662

Here lies entombed ye phoenix of her time
Whose rare virtues _________________ dyne
__________________ yet we cannot say
Tho dead, ye phoenix ever dyes away


2

Augustine Warner Deceased
ye 24th of December 1674
Aged 63 years 2 Mth 26 Da

Tho dead whilest most men live he cannot dy
His name will live fresh in their memory
True worth is highly shown in living well
when future ages of his praise shall tell


3

Here Lyeth the body of
Coll Augustine Warner
who was born ye 3rd of
June 1642 and Died
ye 19th of June 1681
 


4

Illegible but probably
Mildred (Reade) Warner


5

Here lyeth interred
Augustine Warner
son of Coll Augustine &
Mildred Warner, born ye
17th of January 1666/7, and
deceased ye 17th of March 1686/7


6

Here lyeth interr'd ye body
of Elizabeth Lewis the
daughter of Col Augustine
Warner and Mildred his 
wife and late wife of John
Lewis Esq. She was born at
Chesake the 24th of November
1672 Aged 47 years 2 months
and 32 days and was a tender
Mother of 14 children. She
Departed this life the 5th
Day of February 1719/20




7

Here lyeth interred
The body of Coll John Lewis
Son of John and Isabella Lewis
and one of his Majestys Honble
Council for this colony who was
born ye 30th of November 1669 & departed
this life on ye 14th November 1725


8


Mary Lewis
 first Wife of Warner Lewis Esq.
Daughter of John Chriswell
of Williamsburg
And Elizabeth Randolph
daughter of William Randolph Esq.
of Turkey Island
Died the 1st of November 1776
Aged 28 Years


9


Warner Lewis
Eldest son of Warner Lewis Esq.
and Eleanor Gooch
Widow of William Gooch Esq.
and Daughter of
James Bowles Esq. of Maryland
Died the 30th of December 1791
Aged 44 years
 



10

Here Lies the Remains of
Juliana Clayton ye only Daughter
of Thomas Clayton and Isabella his
Wife She was born May ye 17th 1731
 * * * * * * * * ye 12th of May 1734
* * * * * 

11


Here sleeps the body
of Isabella Clayton While 
her Soul is gone in triumph to
meet the best of husbands
and never more to be divorced
by him to be taught to Sing
Eternal Praises of God and ye Lamb
For ever
(1707 - 1742)

12

(Translation)

Here beneath are the remains, his own, of Doctor (?) Thomas
Clayton, Bachelor of Medicine, youngest son of John Clayton, Esquire
formerly graduate of Pembroke Collage, Cambridge, who broken by the
zealous pursuit and toil of his profession, after he had reached the
thirty-eighth year of his age, on the seventeenth day of October in the
seventeen hundred and thirty-ninth year of our salvation after Christ
fell asleep in the Lord devoutly and sweetly, whose most loyal wife
Isabel has set up most devotedly with copious tears this marble as her
last service. Here reader, you will see no stately column standing, nor
blocks of stone bidden to come alive by the hand of the artist, nor pyra-
mids rising in lofty mass made equal by skill to those in the plains of
Isis. Let him, forsooth, seek such empty show of his achievements who
is unable to win renown by his deserts. - A. Pelzer Wagner
(1701 - 1739)