Amy Hill Sexton

Notes:

DAR # 649174 - her DAR papers dated 1979 list her address as: 405 Virginia Way, Vidalia, GA 30474

Family/Spouse: E. Michael Rowell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Pauline Gray Edmunds. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DAR # 649174

Thomas married Florence Brown on 23 Dec 1913. Florence was born on 2 Oct 1875 in Mocksville, NC; died on 2 Jun 1957 in Winston-Salem, NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DAR # 649174 - Florence was the 2nd wife of Thomas Venable Edmunds.

Notes:

DAR # 649174

Mary's handwritten autobiography (found by Sandra Newton Miller Lassen, 1976, in a box of 1946 cancelled checks in Veranda Hse Apts.); her father was a Civil War Veteran, wounded and disabled at Kelly's Ford, 1863, "an invalid for life." There were nine children in the family.

Family photos and papers, from Harriet V. Miller, including a letter dictated by Henry Watkins Edmunds the year before his death, that includes Civil War memories.

C. E. Burrell, History of Prince Edward Co., VA, pp. 105, 107

1920 Census, FL, Lake Co., Leesburg, fam. 392, Henry W. Edmonds, 82, born VA, parents born VA, with wife, residing with the Ralph family (probably renters?), next door to the Minos Ebenezer Miller family.

Henry married Harriet Ann Venable on 7 Sep 1864. Harriet (daughter of Thomas Frederick Venable and Mary Priscilla Venable) was born on 19 Aug 1841; died on 12 Aug 1923 in Farmville, Prince Edward County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Papers of Harriet V. Miller. DAR # 649174
Census, 1850, VA, Pr. Edw. Co., p. 19, fam. 252: Harriet, age 8, attends school.
Census, 1860, VA, Pr. Edw. Co., p. 61, fam. 415: there is an entry hard to read that looks like "Huey" or "Henry," but perhaps it could be Harriet or Hattie, age 17, student.

1920 Census, FL, Lake Co., Leesburg, fam. 392, Harriet W. Edmunds, 78, born VA, parents born VA, with husband, residing with the Ralph family(probably renters?), next door to the Minos Ebenezer Miller family.

Mary's handwritten autobiography (found by Sandra Newton Mille Lassen, 1976, in a box of 1946 cancelled checks in Veranda Hse Apts.): "My mother (i.e., Harriet) moved to Hampden-Sidney when I was quite young and ran a boarding house for college boys and taught music lessons...When my mothers parents died we moved to the old Venable home "Scott Green" where we lived until I was married in 1894....my mothers hands were more than full - a large family - an invalid husband, boarders and a music class."

Transcription of notes of Harriet Ann Venable (undated) from papers of her namesake, Harriet Venable Miller:
"Just before the Civil war began Henry Watkins Edmunds joined the military company and was elected corporal. First fight got into he was wounded, captured and paroled. Came home and went to courting. Got engaged to Harriet Ann Venable. He was young and strong and vigorous and thought he could take care of a wife all right, but a short time after this engagement he was exchanged and volunteered the second time and joined a cavalry co. 3rd VA Cavalry, Fitz. Lee's Brigade, J.E.B. Stuart's division, and was severely wounded at Kelly's Ford, Culpepper Co., VA, and returned home. His father sent for Dr. Mettener, a noted surgeon who when he saw him, said it would take several years for his wound to heal (it took six years to heal). He also said that unless he had pneumonia or pleurisy his wound would not shorten his days, but that he would always be short-winded and never able to do continuous hard work.
He then wrote to his sweetheart, Hattie Venable and told her what the doctor had said and telling her as he could not ask her to sacrifice her life to the helpless cripple that he was, felt that he would not be able to take care of her, that he would make no complaint if she should cancel the engagement between them. She replied at once that the engagement should not be broken and if he could not take care of her she could and would take care of him, which she did for 59 years.
In 1914 we celebrated our Golden Wedding and John D. Rockefellow (sic) celebrated his the same day and I feel that I have left my children with a better legacy by having such a mother and her example and precept than if I had had all of John D.'s wealth to leave them."

Birth:
"Scott Green", Prince Edward Co., VA