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Grace Elizabeth <I>Belvin</I> Atkinson

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Grace Elizabeth Belvin Atkinson

Birth
Gloucester County, Virginia, USA
Death
31 Jan 1893 (aged 72–73)
Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 37.5512695, Longitude: -77.4330063
Plot
Range 22, Section 6, Quarter 3 -- H. A. Atkinson/Wm. Richardson plot
Memorial ID
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Grace was the youngest daughter of Aaron Belvin & Elizabeth Dobson, and the sister of Frances Belvin Rowe & John Belvin. She married Henry Atkinson on Sept. 3, 1839, and they had 5 children: Octavia Atkinson Gentry, Virginia Atkinson, Henry Atkinson Jr, William Atkinson & Lucy Atkinson Fleet.

From the Richmond Times, Feb. 3, 1893:

The funeral of Mrs. Grace Elizabeth Atkinson will take place this afternoon from the Union-Station Methodist church at 2:30. ... Mrs. Atkinson was a woman of lovely Christian character, and one who in life practiced most lavishly the greatest of cardinal virtues - charity. She had been sick several months, yet her death was unexpected to the family. She was in the seventy-third year of her age, the beloved wife of Henry A. Atkinson, Esq., the well-known furniture dealer of this city; the only sister of the late John A. Belvin, and the mother of Mrs. W. J. Gentry, Mrs. John A. Fleet, of Mathews county; Henry A. Atkinson, Jr., and William Hayes Atkinson.
Grace was the youngest daughter of Aaron Belvin & Elizabeth Dobson, and the sister of Frances Belvin Rowe & John Belvin. She married Henry Atkinson on Sept. 3, 1839, and they had 5 children: Octavia Atkinson Gentry, Virginia Atkinson, Henry Atkinson Jr, William Atkinson & Lucy Atkinson Fleet.

From the Richmond Times, Feb. 3, 1893:

The funeral of Mrs. Grace Elizabeth Atkinson will take place this afternoon from the Union-Station Methodist church at 2:30. ... Mrs. Atkinson was a woman of lovely Christian character, and one who in life practiced most lavishly the greatest of cardinal virtues - charity. She had been sick several months, yet her death was unexpected to the family. She was in the seventy-third year of her age, the beloved wife of Henry A. Atkinson, Esq., the well-known furniture dealer of this city; the only sister of the late John A. Belvin, and the mother of Mrs. W. J. Gentry, Mrs. John A. Fleet, of Mathews county; Henry A. Atkinson, Jr., and William Hayes Atkinson.


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