Henrico County, VA - Turkey Island Cemetery File submitted for use in the USGenWeb Archives Shelley J. Armstrong My family and I recently visited the family cemetery of Wm. and Mary Randolph at Turkey Island. The cemetery is on private property and we had to get special permission to copy the info from the tombstones. I promised the owner that I would put the info on the web. There is a 4 foot cement wall around the cemetery with no gate so it was quite an experience. Hope someone out there enjoys reading about our Randolphs. Catherine Knaub #1 on left HERE LYES THE BODY OF ELIZABETH RANDOLPH THE DAUGHTER _____ MARY RANDOLPH WHO WAS BORN MARCH _____ AND DYED ON GOOD FRYDAY BEING APRIL 17th (cracked) YEAR OF OUR LORD 1685 (There was also a marker at the head of her stone) HERE LIES ELIZABETH RANDOLPH DAUGHTER OF COL. WM. RANDOLPH DIED APRIL 17, 1685 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COM. 1946 #2 & #3 together on one COLL. Wm. RANDOLPH OF WARWICKSHIRE, BUT LATE OF VIRGINNIA GEN'. DIED APRIL 11, 1711 (crest) (on same stone beneath the crest) Mrs. Mary Randolph his only wife died She was Daughter of M Hen: Isham by Katherine his wife, he was of NorthamptonShire but late of Virgi nia Gent. (There is a marker for each put down by the Va. Conservation Com.) One at the head : HERE LIES COL WILLIAM RANDOLPH FOUNDER OF RANDOLPH FAMILY 1651-1711 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COM 1946 One at the foot: HERE LIES MARY ISHAM RANDOLPH WIFE OF COL. WILLIAM RANDOLPH 1659-1735 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COM. 1946 # 4 (This one was cracked in a number of places and virtually illegible) This Mo_______ __cred In Memory of ELIZABETH RANDOLPH late wife of (William)_________ of the___________of Henrico ____________________of Peter (Beverley) __________ _______________________ ___________________Peyton _____of _________family in _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ (No stone by the Va. Conservation Com. 1946) (However, this must be William Randolph, II's wife Elizabeth Peyton Beverley, as the children Peter, Beverley, and Peyton make sense, as well as the fact that it looked like "wife of William") #5 (was very difficult to read but this is what we believe that it said with many f's for s's) Here lieth the Honourable WILLIAM RANDOLPH Efq. Eldeft Son of Col. WILLIAM RANDOLPH of this Place And of MARY his wife who was of the Ancient & Eminent Family of the ISHAMS of Northamptonfhire Having been Introduced early into Bufinefs And praised through many of the (interior) Offices of Government with great Reputation and Eminent Capacity. He was at laft By his Majesty happy here and the univerfal Approbation of his Country Advanced to the Council His Experience in men and bufinefs the native Gravity and Dignity of his Person and behaviour his Attachment to the Interefts of his Country Knowledge of the Laws in general and of the Laws & Constitution of his Colony in particular his Integrity above all calumny or Sufpicion The Acutenefs of his parts and the Extenfivenefs of his Genius together with that Solidity of Senfe & Judgement which was ever predominant in all he said or did Rendred him not only equal, but an Ornament to the high Office he bore and have made him Univerfally lamented. As a moft able & Impartial Judge. and as an upright and useful Magiftrate in all other Respects. Neither was he lefs conficuous for a certain Majestic plainnefs of Senfe and honour which carried him through all parts of private life with an equal Dignity & Reputation And deservedly obtained in the character of a just good man. in all the several dutys & Relations of life Natus Nov. 1681 Mortuus Oct. 19, 1742 Anno Aetaris Gr. (at the end was a stone) HERE LIES WILLIAM RANDOLPH ELDEST SON OF COL. WM. RANDOLPH NOV 1681-OCT. 1742 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COM. 1946 #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