Mrs. Mary Scott Headstone

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Title

Mrs. Mary Scott Headstone

Subject

Scott Family Cemetery

Description

Epitaph
Sacred to the memory
of
Mrs. Mary Scott
the amiable and lamented consort
of Richard Marshall Scott
of Bush Hill,
who departed this life in the 43d year of her age
at Richmond in Virginia
13th of January 1812.
She expired in the arms of her husband
then delegate from the county of Fairfax in the
general assembly of Virginia.

Her remains,
dear and sacred to her husband
by his particular desire
were translated from Richmond to this spot
the family burying ground
and interred 17th day of January 1812
See Mary's urn; the virtues in a train
In sympathetic grief attend her bier;
While Friendship Love Charity remain
In silent anguish; type of sad despair.




Mrs. Mary Scott 
First wife of Richard Marshall Scott, Mary Love died tragically from the flames of a theater fire in Richmond, Virginia along with 70 others, including the acting Governor in December of 1811. Distraught over his wife's death R.M. Scott declined to marry again for 16 years, however continued to mourn her loss through his emotional diary entries throughout his life. 

Creator

Marianne Cinalli

Date

April 5, 2011

Type

Image

Citation

Marianne Cinalli, “Mrs. Mary Scott Headstone,” My Cemetery, accessed March 28, 2024, https://mycemetery.org/items/show/75.

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