Miss Juliana Harvie
What a horrible fire.
Daughter of Colonel John Harvie and Mrs. Margaret Morton Jones Harvie.
Victim of the tragic, 26 December 1811 Richmond Theatre Fire. She lived in Madison Ward and "expired at her brother-in-law's, the cashier of the bank." in the wee morning hours. This is possibly John Geddes Blair, he was the cashier at Farmer's Bank of Virginia. Mr. Blair's mother-in-law, Sarah Taylor Heron, and sister-in-law, Mary Heron Greenhow, perished in the fire. Juliana's brother Edwin James Harvie also died in the fire.
Her name was/is inscribed on the East side of the white marble monument.
Virginia lost so many wonderful souls and our kin.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
What a horrible fire.
Daughter of Colonel John Harvie and Mrs. Margaret Morton Jones Harvie.
Victim of the tragic, 26 December 1811 Richmond Theatre Fire. She lived in Madison Ward and "expired at her brother-in-law's, the cashier of the bank." in the wee morning hours. This is possibly John Geddes Blair, he was the cashier at Farmer's Bank of Virginia. Mr. Blair's mother-in-law, Sarah Taylor Heron, and sister-in-law, Mary Heron Greenhow, perished in the fire. Juliana's brother Edwin James Harvie also died in the fire.
Her name was/is inscribed on the East side of the white marble monument.
Virginia lost so many wonderful souls and our kin.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Miss Juliana Harvie
What a horrible fire.
Daughter of Colonel John Harvie and Mrs. Margaret Morton Jones Harvie.
Victim of the tragic, 26 December 1811 Richmond Theatre Fire. She lived in Madison Ward and "expired at her brother-in-law's, the cashier of the bank." in the wee morning hours. This is possibly John Geddes Blair, he was the cashier at Farmer's Bank of Virginia. Mr. Blair's mother-in-law, Sarah Taylor Heron, and sister-in-law, Mary Heron Greenhow, perished in the fire. Juliana's brother Edwin James Harvie also died in the fire.
Her name was/is inscribed on the East side of the white marble monument.
Virginia lost so many wonderful souls and our kin.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
What a horrible fire.
Daughter of Colonel John Harvie and Mrs. Margaret Morton Jones Harvie.
Victim of the tragic, 26 December 1811 Richmond Theatre Fire. She lived in Madison Ward and "expired at her brother-in-law's, the cashier of the bank." in the wee morning hours. This is possibly John Geddes Blair, he was the cashier at Farmer's Bank of Virginia. Mr. Blair's mother-in-law, Sarah Taylor Heron, and sister-in-law, Mary Heron Greenhow, perished in the fire. Juliana's brother Edwin James Harvie also died in the fire.
Her name was/is inscribed on the East side of the white marble monument.
Virginia lost so many wonderful souls and our kin.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Gravesite Details
In a 27 Dec 1811 account of the tragedy, her name is listed as Miss Julia Hervey
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