Colonial Erland / Trumbull Family Ties to Gloucester Virginia

Warner Hall Colonial Family Cemetery

The walled family cemetery of the Warner and Lewis families is located on the Warner Hall property, southeast of Warner Hall.  Access to the Graveyard is from the road North of Warner Hall and not from Warner Hall or the Driveway to Warner Hall located West of the Graveyard.  The cemetery is the final resting place for many of the Warner and Lewis family members.  The family cemetery, is also the resting place for such well known ancestors of George Washington, Robert E. Lee, The Queen Mother of England, and Queen Elizabeth II.  Queen Elizabeth has visited Gloucester where she placed a wreath upon her ancestor's grave.  The cemetery has thirteen graves and plaques in memory of all the family.  The cemetery is owned and maintained by the Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (A.P.V.A.).  The A.P.V.A. acquired the cemetery at Warner Hall in 1903, since which time the Association's Gloucester Branch, now known as the Joseph Bryan Branch, has zealously maintained it.

There are thirteen graves in the Warner Hall Grave Yard.  they are:
1  Mary Warner (believed to be Mary Towneley Warner), 1614 - 1662
2  Augustine Warner I, 1611 - 1674
3  Augustine Warner II, 1642 - 1681
4  Mildred Reade Warner (wife of Augustine Warner II), 1694
5  Augustine Warner III, 1666 - 1686
6  Elizabeth Warner Lewis  (d/o Augustine Warner II  w/o Col John Lewis), 1672 - 1719
7  Col John Lewis (s/o John & Isabella Lewis   h/o Elizabeth Warner), 1669 - 1725
8  Mary Chiswell Lewis  (d/o John & Elizabeth Randolph Chiswell  w/o Warner Lewis II, 1748 - 1776
9  Warner Lewis II  (s/o Warner Lewis I & Eleanor Bowles Gooch Lewis & grandson of Col John Lewis & Elizabeth Warner Lewis), 1747 - 1791
10  Juliana Clayton  (d/o Dr. Thomas & Isabella Lewis Clayton), 1731 - 1734
11  Isabella Lewis Clayton (d/o Col John Lewis & Elizabeth Warner  w/o Dr. Thomas Clayton), 1706/7 - 1742 (the dates 1706/7 is exactly what is engraved on her stone)
12  (Dr.) Thomas Clayton (h/o Isabella Lewis), 1701 - 1739
13  Caroline Lewis Barrett (d/o Warner Lewis II), 1783 - 1811

Text from the Image at Left ( plaque is located on face of wall in photo above ): MILDRED WARNER DAUGHTER OF  AUGUSTINE WARNER II AND MILDRED READE MARRIED LAWRENCE WASHINGTON GRANDMOTHER OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON DIED AT WHITEHAVEN, ENGLAND 1701 HER BODY RESTS IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD WHITEHAVEN, ENGLAND THIS TABLET PLACED IN HER MEMORY BY THE POCOHANTES CHAPTER VIRGINIA SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS 1960

Sources:

MY VISIT to Warner Hall Plantation and Its Graveyard  August, 2000
National Park Service
Warner Hall Plantation and Its Graveyard by Leighton Hurley, 1993
Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin by Anderson, 1938
Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family by Sorley, 1937

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, October 1969, Vol. 77 No. 4
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, July 1973, Vol 81 No. 3
LANDMARKS Gloucester County Virginia

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