Elizabeth Hill Byrd

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Birth: Oct. 13, 1731
Shirley
Charles City County
Virginia, USA
Death: Jul. 25, 1760
Belvidere,
Henrico County
Virginia, USA

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First wife of Col William Evelyn Byrd III of Westover. They were married on 14 APR 1748. Daughter of John Carter, Secretary of State, and Elizabeth Hill of Shirley Plantation, James River, Henrico Co, VA. Elizabeth gave birth to the following: William Byrd IV AUG 1749 John Carter Byrd 25 JAN 1750/51 Thomas Taylor Byrd 17 JAN 1752 Elizabeth Hill Byrd NOV 1754 Francis Otway Byrd 8 MAY 1756 25 JUL 1760 Elizabeth died leaving five children under the age of 11. A copy of a portrait of Elizabeth Hill Carter Byrd can be found at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. It states: Mrs. Wm. Byrd, III (Elizabeth Hill Carter) at Shirley. Her original portrait is exhibited in Shirley Plantation.

Family links: Parents: John Carter (1690 - 1742), Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke (1703 - 1771) Spouse: William Evelyn Byrd (1728 - 1777) Children:

1. William Evelyn Byrd IV (1749-1771)
2. John Carter Byrd (1751 - 1814)*
3. Thomas Taylor Byrd (1752 - 1821)*
4. Elizabeth Hill Byrd Skipwith (1755 - 1819)*
5. Francis Otway Byrd (1756 - 1800)* Burial: Westover Plantation , Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia, USA

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Birth: Oct. 13, 1731 Shirley Charles City County Virginia, USA Death: Jul. 25, 1760 Belvidere, Henrico County Virginia, USA

First wife of Col William Evelyn Byrd III of Westover. They were married on 14 APR 1748. Daughter of John Carter, Secretary of State, and Elizabeth Hill of Shirley Plantation, James River, Charles City County, VA. Elizabeth gave birth to the following: William Byrd IV AUG 1749 John Carter Byrd 25 JAN 1750/51 Thomas Taylor Byrd 17 JAN 1752 Elizabeth Hill Byrd NOV 1754 Francis Otway Byrd 8 MAY 1756 25 JUL 1760 Elizabeth died leaving five children under the age of 11.

A copy of a portrait of Elizabeth Hill Carter Byrd can be found at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. It states: Mrs. Wm. Byrd, III (Elizabeth Hill Carter) at Shirley. An original portrait of her is exhibited in Shirley Plantation.

A home called Belvidere was built about 1750 on the falls, just as his grandfather had done before he purchased Westover, by William III for his wife. With William being gone in the later years of the 1750's, in a letter she wrote him in 1757 expressing her loneliness of being here on the falls alone with her children and house servants. She died 3 years later, either and accident or suicide as some had thought.

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From the Internet. "One of the Westover Ghosts is Elizabeth Hill Carter Byrd. She was very unhappy in her marriage, and her mother in law did not like her. One day Mrs. Byrd, Sr told Elizabeth that letters from William Byrd's other women were in a high boy in an upstairs bedroom. Elizabeth went to the room to find the letters and climbed up the lower drawers to find the letters in the top drawer. The high boy fell over on her and killed her. Sad."

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