The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-07

Nicholas Brooke took UP land In
1916, ana did nothing more. IL seems.
LOT nc disappears from the records.
noocrt brooke, the progentor of the
virginia family OF that name. settled
In st, Mays county, Maryland. four
years intcr Ills descendants lived
ilrst ut Brooke Bank, In Essex, and
GRADUALLY spread over Virginia and
everywhere else. Robert Brooke's
grandfather was Richard Brooke.
mere is still at the church OF whit
Church an Inscription upon nm old
brass-very quaint and interesting
to Richard Brooke and his wife. Who
lived together forty-one years, and
We're married In 1852
liichard Brookc's son and grandson
were rectors of whit Church" and
the parsonage in which they lived was
standing some years since
The inscription on the old brass Is:
"Pietatis Opus
This grave Ooh. griefc.l hath swal-
lowed up with wide and open
The bodie OF good Richard Brooke. OF
Whit Church, South.
And Elizabeth. his wooded wife, twice
twentie yeares and one;
Sweete Jesus hath their souls In
Heaven, the ground-hesh. skin
l ana bone.
In Januarie (worn with auc) daie six
tecnth died hec
From Christ full fifteen hundred years
and more by ninetythree.
But dealt, her twist of life in MAZE day
twentieth did untwyne
From Christ full fifteen hundred genres
and more by ninety-nine.
They left behind them we'll to live and
grown to good degree
First Richard, Thomas. Robert Brooke.
the youngest of the three;
Elizabeth and Barbara. then Dorothee
the last,
All six the knot. OF Natures love and
kindness keeping fast.
This tombstone and tho plate thereon
thus craven fnire and largo.
Did Robert Brooke. the youngest son.
make at his proper charge,
A clifton of London State by faithful
Service free,
OF Marchantes' great Adventures n
brother sworn Is hcc.
And of the Indian Companie (como
gain or loss) lin.
And of the Goldsmith's Livcrle. all
these Gods gifts to him.
The monument or memories In love
performed hee,
December thlrtic- one from Christ six
teen hundred and three"
For NIL ingenious and unusual
cpltaphs commend me TO this. still, 1t
must be satisfaction and delight TO
all OF the descendants and relatives OF
Richard Brooke and Elizabeth, hIa
wife. of "yNhit Church" Cor whom we
can't prove our Nicholas to DO one).
Hing.
or John King we can find nothing.
There are Kings everywhere. notably
In Halifax county. and William Rufus
King, e-President United States,
was related to them. II Is said
Any data concerning this family Will
be printed.
Michael Cd King and William %
King appeared in Nansemond county
in 1894. There Is no reason against
their being tho childron of John, and
no reason for II. except tho ever recur-
rent John.
Michacl's children were Michael (2)
william (2l and John (2). William
(a) married Mary. daughter of Joshua
drcn were Mary Hudson CO, Rosoa
Iatmer (a). William King (3l. and
grandson. Thomas 90 King.
John (2) King was sheriff. etc. ITO
married winifred Conner, and had
John (s). William (3). Michael (3).
Secondly, he married Rebecca. daugh-
ter OF Edward Moon. and widow OF
William Armistead and had Armistead
i(3) and Charles t3).
Michael King (3) married Jane (7),
and had Michael ca and Henry t4).
Henry t4) was Burgess for Elizabeth
City and member conventions 1774-1775.
He married Rachel. daughter OF Will
liam Westwood, and had Michael (5l.
Henry t5). Mary tb) Westwood. James
(5) and Rachel t5).
Armistead 90, son OF John (2)
{Michael ~, hurried Mary, and had
issue: Judith 90. Rebecca -, Mary
(4). Charles (D and Henry az. Henry.
tD. son OF Armistead (3). seems to
have had no children, Charles (3),
son Of John (25, married Elizabeth
daughter OF Thomas Tabb ana Mary
Armistead. his wife. and had Mary 4),
who married Colonel Francis Mallory
Miles 90. John az, married Molly
Starke. and had John Starke (5), and
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