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Mary Lear Burwell

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Mary Lear Burwell

Birth
Death
20 Jul 1690
Burial
White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 37.3334528, Longitude: -76.5136556
Memorial ID
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The year of Mary Burwell's death is given as 1690.
(Source: To the Memory of Sweet Infants Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia, by Amy Virginia Coffman. Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. April 23,2009, Blacksburg, VA)
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Stella Picket Harvey lists her dates as 1696-1704. Death date given as Jul. 20, 1690. This is incorrect as Lewis did not marry Martha until 1694. He was still married to Abigail in 1690. The stone needs to be re-read.
(Email from Hank Rogers)
The year of Mary Burwell's death is given as 1690.
(Source: To the Memory of Sweet Infants Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia, by Amy Virginia Coffman. Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. April 23,2009, Blacksburg, VA)
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Stella Picket Harvey lists her dates as 1696-1704. Death date given as Jul. 20, 1690. This is incorrect as Lewis did not marry Martha until 1694. He was still married to Abigail in 1690. The stone needs to be re-read.
(Email from Hank Rogers)

Inscription

Here lyeth the Body
of MARY the Daughter
of LEWIS BURWELL and
MARTHA his wife
She departed this life
in the first yeare of her
age 20th July (no year given)



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  • Created by: Ron Stewart
  • Added: Sep 9, 2008
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29680556/mary_lear-burwell: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Lear Burwell (unknown–20 Jul 1690), Find a Grave Memorial ID 29680556, citing Abingdon Episcopal Church Cemetery, White Marsh, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Ron Stewart (contributor 47046011).