Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Neimeyer, Martha C. Vaughan, 1908 

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   TURNER'S INSURRECTION. 

  Mrs. Martha Caroline Neimeyer, 
widow of Henry V. Neimeyer, died at 
her home, in Portsmouth, yesterday 
morning in her eighty-fourth year. 
  During Nat Turner's insurrection in 
Southampton county, in 1831, the slaves, 
under the fanatical leadership of Nat 
Turner, a negro preacher, murdered a 
number of people.  The sister and a 
number of other relatives of the deceased 
were among the victims.  Mrs. Neimeyer 
was then a small child, and her life was 
saved by the warning of faithful slaves 
who gave notice of the approach of the 
murderers and assisted in secreting the 
family in the woods, where they were 
hidden for two nights until the danger 
was past. 
  Mrs. Neimeyer was the daughter of 
John T. Vaughan, of Bonnie Doon, 
Southampton county, and was married 
to the late Henry V. Neimeyer, of Ports- 
mouth, 60 years ago. 


Martha Caroline (VAUGHAN; Mrs. Henry V.) NEIMEYER, 
survivor of the Southampton Insurrection, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 9 Jun 1908, at home, Portsmouth, age 83, 
interred in Cedar Grove Cemetery (Plot 4-214*), Portsmouth, 11 Oct 1956, 
"Alexandria (VA) Gazette," Vol. 109, No. 126, June 10, 1908, p. 1, col. 2 

Additional information: 

*A photo of her marker is posted with Find A Grave Memorial #37651706, 
   which gives "MARTHA CAROLINE NEIMEYER  1825 - 1908" 

Also given on the Cedar Grove Cemetery list, Portsmouth, VA USGenWeb Archives: 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/portsmouth/cemeteries/cgcem2.html 

Her marriage record - 

Henry V. Niemeyer & Martha C. Vaughan 
m. 20 Apr 1852, by Geo.D. Armstrong, Presbyterian, 
   Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Norfolk. 
license from Southampton Co. 
(Southampton Co. M.Reg. 1750-1853, p. 735) 

Her parents' - 

John T. Vaughan & Mary F. Newsom 
m.bond 3 Feb 1818; sec/wit: Henry B. Vaughan; J.W. Parker, 
m. 12 Feb 1818, by Methodist minister Benjamin Barnes 
(Southampton Co. M.Reg. 1750-1853, pp. 267, 663) 
[her father may have 1m. 24 Dec 1807 Martha N. Foster (pp. 181, 657)] 

Martha appears, age 24, in the 1850 Census, with [her uncle] Henry, 61. 
   (Southampton Co. - St. Luke's P'sh - p. 282b - dwl/fam 749) 

Henry B. Vaughan left will 10 Jul 1851 (pr. 16 Aug 1852), bequeathing, from a 
   very large estate, to "my niece Marthy C. Vaughan my negro girl Mary and 
   five thousand dollars" (Southampton Co. WB15:28-30; 76-79) 

Henry & his principal heir Thomas Vaughan are buried in a VAUGHAN family 
   cemetery, off Southampton Pkwy. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-18): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 

Henry Victor NIEMEYER (1808-1883) 1m. Jane Frances BENTHALL (1816-1843). 
  Henry is buried with Martha.  Jane is buried with her parents, Plot 6-411. 

Newspaper accounts of the Southampton Insurrection, 3 Sep - 26 Nov 1831, 
   published in "The Genius of Liberty" (Leesburg, VA), are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/18310903gl.txt 

Court proceedings on the Southampton Insurrection, Aug-Nov 1831, 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/court/ol_nat.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
and transcribed by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
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