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Elizabeth Washington

Birth
Gloucester County, Virginia, USA
Death
25 Feb 1736 (aged 18)
Gloucester County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: buried at "Highgate," estate of her parents Gloucester County, Va. Add to Map
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Elizabeth Washington (1717-36/7)(unm.). A brief obituary, "a gentlewoman of great merit and beauty" appeared in the Virginia Gazette, February 25, 1736/7. Her tombstone extols her as "virtuous without reservedness, wise without affectation, beautiful without knowing it").

See Dr. Justin M. Glenn, The Washingtons, A Family History, Volume One, Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch (Savas Beatie, El Dorado Hills, Ca. 2014), I: 7; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 6.
Elizabeth Washington (1717-36/7)(unm.). A brief obituary, "a gentlewoman of great merit and beauty" appeared in the Virginia Gazette, February 25, 1736/7. Her tombstone extols her as "virtuous without reservedness, wise without affectation, beautiful without knowing it").

See Dr. Justin M. Glenn, The Washingtons, A Family History, Volume One, Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch (Savas Beatie, El Dorado Hills, Ca. 2014), I: 7; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 6.


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