The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26

Bon; Rice. married la strappe; Betsy,
married white; Mnfy, Married Robt.
anderson; Maurice married Caroline
Garland; Nicholas. married Phillips.
Rice CD Garland was q distinguished
member OF Congress from Virginia,
and afterwards Judge OF the Supreme
| Court Of Louisiana. @
Robert, born IN i76 and Gill ton n,
flI69 concluded the, chiidrenlaof James
Garland and his wife Mary Rice. .
Ann Shepherd. of Amherst county;fs is
5sue: David Shepherd. James, d led sim
\ gle Frances, married Pendleton; Mary,
Il married Camden. i
married Jane Henry Meredith on
March a. 1895. tho daughtersof Colonel
Samuel Meredith and Jane Henry, his
| wire, who was a sister OF Patrick Henry,
the marriage OF David Shepherd Gar
land to Jane Henry Meredith were:
Jane Meredith, who married DR.. Jno r.
| I annn d: and moved to Indiana in 1sdoi
tayus q. Rose and moved to Indiana In
1910: Sally Armistead, who married
Captain William Waller: Samuel Mere
9th. who married Mildred Jordan
Edward A. cabeii; william Henry. who
married Frances Eubank; Patrick
Henry. who married Miss Floyd !: Eliza
4 .v q e who married George x. Ca,
LE->>aon c. Garland: Caroline died sin
gle: Martha Henry. died single. 1t is
worth while to note that tie average
age OF these eleven children was
seventy years. while n majority. or six
or them lived to be eighty. and over. 4
David s. Garland was man OF abl-
| ity and prominence; represented his
State In Congress during Madison's adj
ministratton; represented his county
tinction for twenty nine years: was
4 man OF great public spirit and enter
prise. and by his Industry and great
business ca pacity amassed q large for
owned by him. is now standing. In a
fair state of preservation In the Wis
l lago OF New Glasgow, about five miles
from Amherst Courthouse. In prox-
home stands "Winton.'' the home OF
Colonel Samuel Meredith. whose daugh-
ter David S. Garland married. Colonel
Meredith vas born in Hanovep county:
| Byrd's regiment, 175S. and for hts SER
vices was granted to him. July II, LIZA;
700 acres OF land In Kentucky. In,
company from Hanover county, which.
on May "a he resigned In favor OF his
lbrother-in-law. Patrick Henry, and ac-
cepted a teutenancy in the company.
TIe was IL fIIleIlDeE OIL lHC COHScHllOHg OIL
May. 177s. and in IRIS he subscribed
f500 to old Washing ton Henry College.
in Hanover Town, and for several years
was president of the board of trustees.
confirmed to him the Kentucky lands
granted in 1874. and that same year he,
purchased the home Of Joseph Cal bell.
near New Class ow. Amherst county
ing with him, besides his Immediate
family, his mother-in-law. Mrs. Henry,
the mother OF the great orator: AT,
Colonel Meredjth's request, Mrs. Henry
selected the spot for the family burying
ground. and in the unfolding of events
her own grave was the first heaped
and sodded within It's quiet precincts.
Mrs: isarah Winston, Henry Is buried
county, Va. and her will Is ofrecord
In the clerks office of said county. a
fact not generally known Contrary to
the popular convention OF mothers-in-.
law. Colonel Meredith was much at
tacted to Mrs. Henry. and said that
she. by. rrecett and example, lad In
Ifluenced him more Tor good than any
aisa w Of his d
ration for her. he requested to be
buried at her feet and 1t was 50 lone
Tho tombstone OF Colonel Samuel Mere,
dith bears inscription:
Hero lie the remains OF
Colonel San'1 Meredith.
who departed this life Dec. %, 1903.
Aged rs years.
BY his side Is buried his wife. Her
Ey his steuis buried his wife, Jane
Henry. Her tombstone records the fol-
lowing:
.,To the memory OF Jane Meredith,
who departed this life Aug. 12, ISIS
Aged 81 years, i month, ~ day
Rev. DR.. Archibald Alexander, the
founder OF Princeton Theological Semi
nary, in his "Reminiscences OF Patrick
Henry" says: trick Henry had sew
OF Col. Samuel Meredith. OF Amherst,
IN wa 9 n cnratnted.S Mrs. Meredith was