Bernard Markham (1774 - 1777)

Born 2 Oct 1774 in Chesterfield, Virginia

Ancestors

Died Aug 1777 at age 2 in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Bernard was born in 1774. He was the son of Bernard Markham and Mary Harris. He passed away in 1777.

Research Notes

Bernard Markham, son of Bernard and Mary Markham, was born the 2d day of October, 1774. He died August, 1777; is buried in the orchard where 'I (Colonel Bernard Markham) now live, at the Ware." It was near "Osborne's," two or three miles from Richmond. (This "plantacon at ye Ware" must have come to the Markhams with Mary Harris, for it figures in the wills of several of her ancestors).
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Entries from the George Markham Bible appear in the "Markham Family of Virginia", an article written by Mrs Flournoy "Liddie" Rivers, and published in the Virginia Magazine of History in 1897. Liddie Rivers gives this information related to the Bible: These entries are in an old Bible in possession of Mrs. George Lyng Bryant, of Leesburg, Florida (who was Mary Jane Markham, a granddaughter of Colonel Bernard Markham). She testifies that the last entry, as well as the notice in next number of the deaths of Bernard and Mary Markham, are in the penmanship of George Markham, her father. Parenthetical remarks were likely added by Liddie Rivers.

Sources

• George Markham Bible.