Mathews County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries.....Tombstones 

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Old Tombstones in Mathews County
     compiled by Lyon G. Tyler, ed. 


William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 
   Vol. 3, No. 4. (Apr., 1895), pp. 255-256. 

Page 255

               OLD TOMBSTONES IN MATTHEWS COUNTY.         255
     
     ERROR: On page 31 of this volume (Vol. III. No. 1) the four last lines of
the inscription of "John Dixon, only son of John Dixon and Elizabeth Pey-
ton," etc., were transposed from the inscription of Doct. John Dixon his son
(page 30).  It was the latter "who died" etc., and was "the last male de-
scendant of the Dixon family."

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              OLD TOMBSTONES IN MATHEWS COUNTY.

                COLLECTED BY THE EDITOR.
                     
                           I.
                    
                      "YEATMANS."

                Sacred to the memory of
                     Mary Yeatman
               Wife of Thomas M. Yeatman
              & daughter of John Tompkins
               She died in October 1796.
                     Aged 31 years.
                      ___________

                        Sacred
                   to the Memory of
                   Thomas Robinson
                    Eldest son of
          Thomas Muse Yeatman & Mary Tompkins.
                  Born Jan'y 5, 1789,
                  Died Aug. 25, 1832.
                     ______________

                          II.
 
                      OAK GROVE. 2
           
                  Here lyeth Interred
              the -- of William Armistead,
           who departed this life the 13 day,
              of June 1711, aged 40 years.
                    ________________

                         III.

                   TRINITY CHURCH. 3
                  
                     In Memory of
                    Mr. John Nason
               who Died May ye 18th 1772
                       Aged 52.


Page 256

256          WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY.

             Here is deposited the Mortal Part of
           Lucy Dixon, wife of the Rev. John Dixon.4
                             Her
       Exemplary Peity, Domestic Virtues, Liberal Charity
                 Deservedly Caused her to be 
     Highly esteemed, cordially beloved, sincerely lamented
                             By
               The Public, Her Family, the Poor.
                 Obiit Novr, 1769, Aetat: 41.
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                            NOTES.
     1 "Yeatman's plantation" lies opposite to "Toddbury" on North River.
There are two other headstones, but the briars were so dense as to render
approach impossible.
     2 This place lies on East River, and the tomb must be that of William Armi-
stead, eldest son of Col. John Armistead of Hesse.  (See Keith's "Ancestry of
Benjamin Harrison").
     3 Trinity church is a wooden structure 40 feet long by 27 feet.  Kingston
church, which stands at the other end of the county, was rebuilt just before
the war, chiefly through the exertions of Miss Elizabeth Tompkins.
     4 Lucy Dixon's husband was Rev. John Dixon, minister of Kingston parish in
1754, and Professor of Divinity, in William and Mary College, from 1770 till his
death in 1777.  Sons John and Thomas; Anne infant daughter Thomas;
and nephew Roger Dixon.  (Chancery papers in Williamsburg.)
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          OLD TOMBSTONES IN NORTHAMPTON AND ACCOMAC
                     COUNTIES, VA. 1

                           I.
              WARWICK, OR "QUINBY'S FARM",
                 In Northampton County.
              In memory of Arthur Upshur2
              born in ye County of Essex in ye
              Kingdom of England who died
              January 26, 1709 in ye 85th Year
                        of his Age.
                        __________
                   
                  In memory of Mary ye
                  Wife of Arthur Upshur
               born in ye County of Warwick
                 in ye Kingdom of England
                 who died July ye 3d 1703
                  in ye 85th of her Age.



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