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1. Title:   LVA
Page:   Poythress Card 40 (error? in mother); Peachy, Card 24-25 Boxley, Card 22; Miller , Card 1
Author:   RBB

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a. Note:   It appears she had no direct descendants. --------------- Writeup with Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress PreparedApril 1977 by R. Bol ling Batte found in Virginia State Library, ArchivesDivision Accession Number 29493 transcrib ed by J.M.Poythress:
  215 Elizabeth Poythress
  (1725 - 1795). She was married three times; (1) to Walter Boyd, who diedin the town of Bland ford in 1779; (2) to James Mills (1718 -1782) ofMiddlesex County; and (3) to Thomas Griffin P eachy (1734 - 1810) ofWilliamsburg, but then the Clerk of the Court in
  Amelia County. Elizabeth had no children by any of her three husbands.She died in Petersbur g leaving a will on record there. In it she named asbeneficiaries her husband, nephews, niece s, and others. The will has beenvery helpful in establishing with certainty a number of relat ionshipswithin this branch of the Poythress family. Elizabeth(Poythress-Boyd-Mills) Peachy wa s buried by her second husband in thechurchyard of Christ Church, Middlesex. Thomas G. Peach y died 6 March1810 in Williamsburg and was buried in the garden of his home where allthree o f his children by his first marriage, and whom he had outlived,had been buried. In 1911 expan sion of Eastern State Hospital necessitatedthe removal of the remains in the former Peachy ga rden to nearby CedarGrove Cemetery. A single large, granite block was then erected as amonume nt on the lot. It bears ten names, one below the other, withassociated years. The first thre e lines read:
  "Col. Thomas G. Peachy 1734-1810 Elizabeth Gilliam Peachy 1741-1781
  Elizabeth Beverley Peachy - 1795
  * * * * * "
  The second line, of course, refers to TGPs first wife. The third lineapparently was intende d to refer to his second wife who is not evenburied there. While the year of death shown is c orrect for ElizabethPoythress, the second wife, the name "Beverley" is an error. Thegreat-gra ndchildren of TGP who caused the monument to be erected morethan 100 years after his death pr obably had very scant information as tothe second wife.
  They had her confused with the first wife of James Mills who wasElizabeth Beverley. After all , TGPs second wife was only astep-grandmother to these 20th century Peachys.
  The late John McGill, in his very excellent The Beverley Family ofVirginia was also confuse d as to the respective marriages of James Millsand Thomas G. Peachy. On page 616 he has Eliza beth Beverley married in1743 to James Mills, which is correct. Then he shows her as marryin g (2)in 1783 to Thomas Griffin Peachy. Actually Elizabeth (Beverley) Mills,who died in 1770 , was married but once. It was her husband who marriedtwice as is clearly shown in The Virgin ia Gazette for Sept. 4, 1771. Itwas this second wife of James Mills; I. e, his widow, Elizabe th(Poythress) Mills, who married Thomas G. Peachy in 1783, thirteen yearsafter Elizabeth (Bev erley) Mills had been buried.


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