Ann Edwards

The Tombstones

Since there is little natural stone in tidewater Virginia, tombstones were rare in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Almost all had to be imported, usually from England. Many of the people buried here after the 1680s were wealthy and their families could have afforded tombstones. Nineteenth-century reports indicate that many did and the graveyard contained many tombstones. Sadly most of these have been lost, stolen or destroyed by the ravages of time. Only twenty-five remain. Some of these are not really tombstones, but merely grave markers erected in 1901 when the A.P.V.A. conducted excavations here and found the graves.

The remaining tombstones and grave markers are indicated below. The epitaphs are reconstructed either from the original or from nineteenth-century reports. They are keyed to the small map.

22. "In memory of Elizabeth Harrison Edwards wife of William Edwards and Ann Mansfield Edwards wife of William Edwards. The original inscriptions on their tombs in this churchyard have been obliterated by the ravages of time."

Links

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wvmystica/VA_-_Jamestown_O...

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From page 82 of The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 15 By Earl Gregg Swem

4 John3 Edwards (William,2 William1) lived in Surry County. In 1694, he was appointed deputy clerk of Surry County Court, during the necessary absence of William Edwards, at Jamestown, as clerk of the council. Nov. 21, 1695, Anne, wife of William Edwards, of "James City" gave a power of attorney to "Brother Mr. John Edwards."

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