Married Cecelia Bellett in Williamsburg, VA in 1818.

The tombstone also says infants: Edgar Antonio, John Paradise, James Lee, and Lucy Ludwell were buried in Beuton Parish Churchyard, Williamsburg. One son in CA, and 5 here.

"The truely good are truely great. Weep for the living, not the dead."
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It is contrary to Democratic doctrine and teaching to speak of the "aristocracy of blood,'' and "inherited talent," for in the very first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence it is asserted that all men are created free and equal. Politically this may be so; but mentally it is not. The mental differences in men lie not in the quantity of brains they possess, but in the quality. That there is a "strain" in brains which passes from generation to generation there is no doubt. This has been illustrated a thousand times in the history of such families as the Adamses, Marshalls, the Washburns, the Lamars, the Beechers, the Lees, and Randolphs and hundreds of others of equal or less note.
The family under consideration seem to have inherited their mental qualities, as might be proved by tracing their history to their ancestors, - which indulgence, however, for want of space, cannot be granted in this instance. The brains of the Barzizas were of an excellent strain and toned with morality.
Philip Ignatius Barziza, the founder of the Barziza family in America, was born in Venice, Italy, August 10, 1796. He came to this country when a young man to look after an estate that had been bequeathed to him by some ancestors who settled at an early date in the New World. Having secured a portion of the estate he concluded to remain in this country, and settled in Williamsburg, Virginia. There, when about twenty-two years of age, or in 1818, he married Cecilia Bellett, of a French Canadian family,
Philip Ignatius Barziza, Sr., and Cecilia Amanda Bellett had ten children, six of whom, - five sons and one daughter, - became grown, to-wit: Francis Louis, William Lee, Philippa Ludwell, Edgar Atheling, Philip Ignatius, and Decimus et Ultimus. These sons are all dead. The daughter, Philippa L. , still lives in Houston. Four members of the family died in infancy. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
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