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Note: It appears she had no direct descendants.
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Write up with Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress Prepar ed April 1977 by R. Bolling Batte found in Virginia State Library, Archiv es Division Accession Number 29493 transcribed by John M. Poythress:
215 Elizabeth Poythress
(1725 - 1795). She was married three times; (1) to Walter Boyd, who di ed in the town of Blandford in 1779; (2) to James Mills (1718 -1782) of Mi ddlesex County; and (3) to Thomas Griffin Peachy (1734 - 1810) of Williams burg, but then the Clerk of the Court in
Amelia County. Elizabeth had no children by any of her three husbands. S he died in Petersburg leaving a will on record there. In it she named as b eneficiaries her husband, nephews, nieces, and others. The will has been v ery helpful in establishing with certainty a number of relationships with in this branch of the Poythress family. Elizabeth (Poythress-Boyd-Mills) P eachy was buried by her second husband in the churchyard of Christ Churc h, Middlesex. Thomas G. Peachy died 6 March 1810 in Williamsburg and was b uried in the garden of his home where all three of his children by his fir st marriage, and whom he had outlived, had been buried. In 1911 expansi on of Eastern State Hospital necessitated the removal of the remains in t he former Peachy garden to nearby Cedar Grove Cemetery. A single large, gr anite block was then erected as a monument on the lot. It bears ten name s, one below the other, with associated years. The first three lines read:
"Col. Thomas G. Peachy 1734-1810 Elizabeth Gilliam Peachy 1741-1781
Elizabeth Beverley Peachy - 1795
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The second line, of course, refers to TGP�s first wife. The third line ap parently was intended to refer to his second wife who is not even buried t here. While the year of death shown is correct for Elizabeth Poythress, t he second wife, the name "Beverley" is an error. The great-grandchildr en of TGP who caused the monument to be erected more than 100 years aft er his death probably had very scant information as to the second wife.
They had her confused with the first wife of James Mills who was Elizabe th Beverley. After all, TGP�s second wife was only a step-grandmother to t hese 20th century Peachys.
The late John McGill, in his very excellent The Beverley Family of Virgin ia was also confused as to the respective marriages of James Mills and Tho mas G. Peachy. On page 616 he has Elizabeth Beverley married in 1743 to Ja mes Mills, which is correct. Then he shows her as marrying (2) in 17 83 to Thomas Griffin Peachy. Actually Elizabeth (Beverley) Mills, who di ed in 1770, was married but once. It was her husband who married twi ce as is clearly shown in The Virginia Gazette for Sept. 4, 1771. It was t his second wife of James Mills; I. e, his widow, Elizabeth (Poythress) Mil ls, who married Thomas G. Peachy in 1783, thirteen years after Elizabeth ( Beverley) Mills had been buried.
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