Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-06
COL. LEWIS euRweLL OF sroNeLANo
Unique and Comprehensive Inscription
Hero and His Family.

nero anu
fCorrcspondencs OF the Richmond Dispafch.l
CHAsE CITY. Va. February 25.-Ihe As
ISOLATION for the Preservation OF Virginia
Antiquities has aroused the minds Of
many people as TO what may remain IN
Their midst of historic value. For land
without ruins is.a land without memories. !"
Old cemeteries are visited aud the
epitaphs are declphered which tell tale
Of departed worth. and some may trace
their lineage and know
"Thcir ancestry, a gallant Christian race,
Patterns OF every virtue, every grace"
Recently numerous inquiries have been
made of the exact inscription on tomb
stone IN an old graveyard near hore OF
hero of the American Revolution. Proba-
DIV nowhere IN the State OF Virginia can
one be found so unique and comprehen-
siye as at Stoneland.' three miles from
here. where lived an old Virginia family
over a century ago.
The old patriot who lies buried there
was the father Of sixteen children and his
descendants are now 10 be found IN al
most every State OF the Union.
At the head of his grave. against tow
ering elm. rests a slab of white marble. b
feet high and feet wide and seyeralinch
thick, upon which is carved in letters, now
plainly legible, the following:
"GESEsIs.
" He sunk Cinres Magni ct Boni Hoinin's.
Colonel LEWIS BURwE1L of Stoneland,
Son of Armistead Burwell and Christian
Blair, his wife.
Born in williamsburg September 10, lf4o,
and died July z, 1900.
Commanded a Regiment in the War OF the
Revolution.
Fourteen years a Member of the virginia
Legislature:
Married Ann SpotswOod,
Granddaughter of Alex Spotswood, Gov
ernOr Of Virginia,
March n, 1868.
CHILDREN.
MARY married Colonel Samuel Goode.
"Armistead married Lucy Crawley.
Ann married John RavenscrOft, bishop
Of North Carolina
Elizabeth married Edward Tabb.
John married -- Woods.
Christian married William Hamblin.
Lewis married Sally Green.
"Panthoa married Richard Boyd.
BLAIR married Elizabeth Hatcher.
Second marriage Of Blair, Della Harris.
SpOttswOOd married Polly Marshall.
Matilda married Alexander Boyd.
Harriet died IN infancy.
His wife Ann died February IA. 1889.
He married November 10, 1888 Eliza
beth HARRISON. cousin TO General William
ii. Harrison.
CHILDREN.
"H. Harrison married Catharine Buford.
"Peyton Randolph married Jane Sewell.
jean Blair married Colonel William
Eaton.
Martha married Grandson Field; sec
ond husband, John Field.
His wife, Elizabeth, died November
ia 1904
Erected by j. S. II. Burwell, aided by
relatives"
ISOLATED AND SOLEMN.
This old burying-ground, with its nu-
merous graves, Is situated on a command
ing eminouce amid cluster of trees of
different varieties. The desOlate old-field
pine have taken possession OF the sur
roundings and give an air Of desOlation TO
the secluded spot.
The enclosure has long since disap-
pearcd. The periwinkle peeps out from
amid decayed fallen limbs and tangled un-
dergrowth There Is no human habitation
ia view. The land around is untitled. The
winds whistle over and the rains fall upon
a dreary and deserted place. The old man
sion of twenty rooms, where once hospi-
talitv and festivities had their abode, was
long since consumed by fire. Scarcely q
brick remains Of It's massive chimneys. All
are levelled 20 the earth. The majestic
oaks of the lawn have been shattered by
the lightning and uprooted by the storm,
aud
mot o rose Of the wilderness can be seen
To toll where the garden had been"
The sword worn by Colonel Lewis Bur
we'll while commanding Virginia regi-
ment in the army Of General Washington
is now in the possession Of the family of
DIR. II. L. Burwell. of this place.
L. ID. j.