Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Shands, Letitia C. Tyler, 1863 

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LETITIA TYLER SHANDS 

April 27, 1844 

March 23rd, 1863 

   She was the daughter of Martha Rochelle Tyler "who was as beautiful as her 
mother" during our brief union started of happiness such as "on fall to the 
lot of man, but the brightest joys on earth die soonest, and my sweet wife die 
in my arms." - Wm. B. Shands 

   Letitia Christian Tyler, daughter of John and Mattie was born in Jerusalem 
on the 27th day of April 1844. 

   William B. Shands and Letitia Christian Tyler were married on the 13th day 
of September 1860.  General William B. Shands (1820 - 1906) of Sussex County 
served during the Civil War as a member of company B. of the 4th Virginia 
Battalion of Reserves.  He also was Secretary to a Clerk of the House of 
Burgesses. 

   Her uncle, James Henry Rochelle following the Civil War joined his long-
time commander and friend John Randolph Tucker in surveying the upper reaches 
of the Amazon River for the Peruvian Navy.  He named an island in the Amazon 
after Letitia. 

   Letitia died of Typhoid fever, soon after giving birth to her son William. 
The family bible indicted she departed this life on Friday morning March 23rd 
of January 1863.  Aged 18 years 8 months and 26 days. 

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return 
 unto God who gave it." 


Letitia Christian (TYLER; Mrs. William Briggs) SHANDS, 
b. 27 Apr 1844, Jerusalem (now Courtland), d. 23 Mar 1863, 
interred in Poplar Grove Cemetery* 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-33): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 

Her husband is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland - Episcopal Section, 
   Plot 16.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," July 20, 1906, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s532w2ob.txt 


Courtesy of the Southampton Historical Society. 

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