 1841 - 1923 (81 years)
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| Name |
Harriet Ann Venable |
| Birth |
19 Aug 1841 |
- "Scott Green", Prince Edward Co., VA
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| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
12 Aug 1923 |
Farmville, Prince Edward County, VA  |
| Person ID |
I19239 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Thomas Frederick Venable, b. 24 Feb 1812 d. 25 Dec 1881 (Age 69 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Mary Priscilla Venable, b. 8 Oct 1815, Longwood, Prince Edward, Virginia, USA d. 14 Oct 1881, Kinderton, Prince Edward, Virginia, USA (Age 66 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
16 Jul 1834 |
| Family ID |
F7302 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Henry Watkins Edmunds, b. 10 Oct 1837, Prince Edward County, VA d. 14 Aug 1926, Farmville, Prince Edward County, VA (Age 88 years) |
| Marriage |
7 Sep 1864 |
| Children |
| | 1. Mary Embra Edmunds, b. 7 Sep 1872 d. Nov 1945, Veranda House, Leesburg, Lake, FL (Age 73 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Thomas Venable Edmunds, b. 23 Sep 1867, Prince Edward County, VA d. 4 Mar 1935, Winston-Salem, NC (Age 67 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Edwin Edmunds [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F7317 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| 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."
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