Grave of Patrick Henry's Mother

Grave of Patrick Henry's Mother is a Virginia historical marker in Amherst County, dedicated 2023.

Rte. 151, 100 yards north of intersection with Winton Road

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Sarah Winston Syme Henry (ca. 1710-1784) was born to a prominent family in Hanover County. She first married John Syme, with whom she had one son. Widowed, she then married John Henry, a Scottish immigrant and planter. Their second child was Patrick Henry, noted orator, leader in the Revolutionary cause, and first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In her later years, Sarah Henry resided in the household of Jane and Samuel Meredith, her daughter and son-in-law. About 1779 they moved here to Winton. When Sarah died late in 1784, she was buried in the family cemetery located in the grove of trees several hundred yards west of here.

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1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · Map Of Virginia (lower center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1847 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Virginia and West Virginia (eastern portion). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1894 · Buena Vista, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering the location of Grave of Patrick Henry's Mother, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Grave of Patrick Henry's Mother

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