NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – “Arlington” Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Arlington graveyard:
                  1937
                  Research made by National Youth Administration

Cemetery Location:  Near Townsend, Virginia on Routes #644 & 545
                    Northampton County, Virginia


DATE:

1696, date of grave

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

Private

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The Hon. John Custis was the father-in-law of Martha Washington, the wife of 
George Washington.

Arlington, the National cemetery, is named for this famous farm.

Inscription on tombstone:

Here lies the body of 
John Custis, Esq.
one of the Council and Major Generall of Virginia
who departed this life ye 29th day of January 1696
aged 66 years.  
And by his side a son and daughter of his grandson
John Custis whom he had by the daughter of
Daniel Park, Esq., Captain Generall and 
Chief Governor of the Luward Islands.

Virtus post funera

Beneath this marble tomb lies ye body of the
Honorable John Custis, Esquire
of the city of Williamsburg and Parish of Burton
formerly of Hungars Parish on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
and the County of Northampton, the place of his nativity.
Aged 71 years and yet lived but seven years, which was the
space of time he kept bachalor’s house at Arlington on
the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
This information put on this tomb was by his positive order.
William Colley, mason in Fenchurch Street, London, England



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

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