Ambler, Rebecca Lewis b. May 20, 1746 d. August 5, 1806 Folk Figure. The child of a well-connected family who married a prominent man and became the mother-in-law of Chief Justice John Marshall, today she is chiefly known as the object of Thomas Jefferson's first adolescent crush. Born to wealth and position but orphaned at 10, she was raised in Yorktown at the home of her aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and William Nelson. Rebecca was the sister of one of Jefferson's classmates at the College of William and Mary; just when and where Jefferson first...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Callender, James Thomson b. 1758 d. July 17, 1803 Journalist, Political Pamphleteer. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries he was known as a political pamphleteer and newspaper writer. He acquired no formal education during his years in Scotland, but by the age of 30 he had developed a talent for political protest and the writing of incendiary articles and pamphlets against the British Crown. He had to flee Scotland in 1793 or face trial for sedition. He sought asylum in America where he understood that there would be no...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Carrington, Edward b. February 11, 1748 d. October 28, 1810 He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of artillery in the Revolutionary Army in 1776 and later served as quartermaster general on the staff of General Nathanael Greene; He commanded the artillery in the Battles of Hobkirk's Hill and Yorktown in 1781; A Delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788, he was appointed Marshal of Virginia by President Washington in 1789; He served as jury foreman during Aaron Burr's trial for treason in 1807. (Bio by: Garver Graver) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
McClurg, James b. 1746 d. July 9, 1823 Richmond Mayor. McClurg served as the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in 1797, and as a Member of the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787. In 1787, he also advocated establishment of a monarchy for the United States. (Bio by: K) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Page, John b. April 17, 1743 d. October 11, 1808 He served under George Washington during Washington's expedition during the French and Indian War. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1776-1779. He raised a militia regiment from Gloucester County and served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War. A United States Representative from Virginia from 1789 to 1797 and Governor of Virginia from 1802 to 1805, he was serving as United States Commissioner of Loans for Virginia at the time of his death. His family home, "Rosewell," in...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Poe, Elizabeth b. 1787 d. December 8, 1811 Actress, Literary Folk Figure. A noted thespian of her day, she is better remembered as the mother of Edgar Allan Poe. Raised in a London theatrical family, she left for America with her mother in 1795, her father having died in 1789, arriving in Boston on January 3, 1796. Eliza made her stage debut at nine in David Garrick's "Miss in Her Teens"; she and Mrs. Arnold joined a traveling theater troup called the Charleston Comedians, Eliza remaining with the group after her mother died in 1798...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Wythe, George b. 1726 d. June 8, 1806 Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Virginia. Born in Back River, near Hampton, Virginia, his father died when he was three years old. George’s mother was highly educated, and she home-schooled him until he was sixteen. At 16, George began to study law with his uncle, and passed the bar exam in 1757. A year later, he married Ann Lewis, who died eight months after their wedding. Later he married Elizabeth Taliaferro, with whom he would have one child, who would not survive...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson) Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
b. February 11, 1748 d. October 28, 1810