LYNCHBURG, VA - CEMETERIES – Maria Ball Carter Tucker Grave
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The grave of Maria Ball (Carter) Tucker:
                  1937 Oct. 22
                  Research made by Susan R. Beardsworth

Cemetery Location:  Methodist Cemetery, right side of main drive.
                    Lynchburg, Virginia


DATE:

1823.

OWNERS:

City of Lynchburg, Virginia.

DESCRIPTION:

(blank)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Table stone, with the following inscription:


Maria Ball Tucker
wife of George Tucker
and granddaughter of Betty Lewis
the sister of George Washington
Died Jan. 31, 1823
aged 39 years


Elenor Rosalie
their daughter
died Dec. 7, 1818
in her 14th year.
A rose and rosebud half blown,
Late flourished near this ground.
A while they bright and lovely shown
And shed their fragrance round.
The scythe out down these flowers fair,
To earth too briefly given.
Though here they fade, their sweetness rare
Exhaled, ascends to heaven.


Maria Ball Carter, was a daughter of Charles Carter, and Betty Lewis of “Western 
View”, Culpeper County.  In 1802 she was married to  George Tucker, born in 
Bermuda where his family had been prominent socially and politically for several 
generations.  He was trained for the profession of law, and the fact that his 
cousin, St. George Tucker, was a prominent judge in Williamsburg, led him, at 
the age of twenty, to enroll at the college of William and Mary.  In 1806 he 
removed to Pittsylvania County, led by the prospect of a good practice; and 
during the ten years of residence in this county he became one of the most 
gifted of its lawyers, besides being its representative in the General Assembly.  
It was probably at “Deerwood” in this county that he lived, and which may 
account for the grave of Charles Carter being at that place; a simple stone 
marks the grave.  “Deerwood” is located on the south side of the Staunton River 
one and a half miles from the gap of Smith Mountain.

In 1818, George Tucker moved with his family to Lynchburg, and was soon elected 
to two successive terms in Congress.  It was during this time that his wife died 
and was buried in Lynchburg.

Deed Book F, page 348 is a record of the purchase of ten slaves by Lawrence 
Lewis, at public auction in Culpeper County, “which were sold under a deed of 
trust by Charles Carter late of the county of Culpeper to Philip Lightfoot for 
the purpose of  satisfying certain debts and claims mentioned in the said deed 
of trust on record in Culpeper County.  Lawrence Lewis being desirous of 
securing the said slaves to the support of his sister, Betty Carter, wife of 
Charles Carter, the slaves being now in the home of George Tucker in Lynchburg, 
etc.”

Betty (Lewis) Carter was a beneficiary of Washington’s will; she received the 
same share as her four brothers; one twenty-third part of the residuary estate.

Charles Carter was a son of Col. Edward and Sarah (Champe) Carter of Blenheim, 
Albemarle County.  Charles and Betty (Lewis) Carter had fifteen children.

The marriage record of two of their children, sisters and Maria  Ball (Carter) 
Tucker, are on record in the register of marriages in Lynchburg; Feb. 19, 1822, 
Henry Brown, Jr. (afterwards Colonel) to Eleanor C.L. Carter; father, Charles 
Carter; witnesses, George Tucker and D.G. Tucker; (this was Eleanor Custis Lewis 
Carter.)  On July 26, 1832 is the record of the marriage of her sister, Otway 
Ann Carter to William Owen.  She was the second wife of Dr. William Owen, and is 
buried in Lynchburg also.

When the University of Virginia opened, in 1825, Prof. George Tucker was one of 
the seven original professors, heading the school of Moral Philosophy; he was 
more than fifty years (1775-1861) old at the time, but remained at the 
University for twenty years.  His literary work continued in the form of 
articles and reviews, and among the columns he published were “A Voyage to the 
Moon”, “Rents, Wages and Profits”, “Progress of the United States in Population 
and Wealth”, “Theory of Money and Banks”, and a comprehensive “Life of 
Jefferson”.  Upon leaving the University, he moved to Philadelphia and continued 
to write until his eighty-fifth birthday.  At the age of seventy-five he began 
work on a voluminous history of the United States.  Prof. Tucker was married 
three time.  “Lewis of Warner Hall”, p. 188.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Campbell County, Virginia

Lewis of Warner Hall – The History of A Family, p. 187
This record is on file at the Clerk’s Office, Lynchburg, Virginia

Lewis of Warner Hall, p. 186.
Lewis of Warner Hall – The History of A Family by Merrow Egerton Sorley, 1935, 
may be found in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

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