M Euphan (Wallace) Dandridge (abt. 1696 - 1717)

Born about 1696 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of William Alexander Dandridge — married 1714 in Colony of Virginia

Died 22 Apr 1717 at about age 21 in Erroll On Black River, Hampton , Virginia

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Biography

Euphan, was the daughter of Anne Margaret Sheppard and her third husband, Rev. James Wallace.

Marriage (1)

She married Capt. Wilson Roscow.

Marriage (2)

Euphan secondly married Col. William Dandridge in late July 1715 Dandridge had married a young widow, Euphan Wallace Roscow.^[1]

Children

They had one son before her death on April 22, 1717.

Death and Interment

M. Euphan passed away in April of 1717 and was interred in the Third Church of Elizabeth City Parish Cemetery, Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia, USA^[2]

Inscription on gravestone: "Here lyes the body of M. Euphon Dandridge who was kind and charitable to all poor people she exchanged this life for better on the __ day of April A. D. 1717 and in the 21st year of her age. In silence let my tear make known our dearest friend from us fled who virtue pure was much shown will God did take to his home tho she lyes here she not there dead^[3]

William remarried Unity West on March 17 or 18, 1719

Sources

1. ↑ Encycopedia Virginia, Virginia Humanities (https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/dandridge-william-1689-1744/#start_entry)
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14193929/euphan-dandridge: accessed March 5, 2024), memorial page for Euphan Wallace Dandridge (1696–22 Apr 1717), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14193929, citing Third Church of Elizabeth City Parish Cemetery, Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Dawn Bilik (contributor 46839075).
3. ↑ "Cemeteries of the City of Hampton, Virginia/formerly Elizabeth City County"

Acknowledgements

• This person was created on 18 March 2011 through the import of knox17032011.ged.
• WikiTree profile Wallace-2320 created through the import of Vicki Norman family tree v2 (3).ged on Aug 1, 2012 by Vicki Norman.