Born in The Forest, Charles City County, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Wayles
and Tabitha (Cocke) Wayles
Sister of
Unnamed Wayles [half], Unnamed Wayles [half], Martha (Wayles) Jefferson [half], Tabitha Anne (Wayles) Skelton, Anne (Wayles) Skipwith, Robert Hemmings [half], James Hemmings [half], Thenia Hemmings [half], Critta (Hemmings) Bowles [half], Peter Hemmings [half] and Sarah Hemings [half]
Wife of
Francis Eppes
— married
about 1769 in Charles City County, VA
Descendants 
Died
at age 58
in Eppington, Chesterfield County, Virginia
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Biography
Elizabeth Wayles (1752-1810), Wife of Francis Eppes
- Mother of Sen. John Wayles Eppes (Dem Rep-VA)
Elizabeth Wayles was the daughter of John and Tabitha Cocke Wayles. She married Francis Eppes VI about 1769, in Charles City County, Virginia, and they lived at her father's home, The Forest, in Charles City County until 1780 when they moved to Eppington Plantation where she died.
Elizabeth is also buried at Eppington Cemetery in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, VA. Their shared gravestone has the earliest dates in the cemetery, even though the stone was not placed until 1844. It is one of the three flat markers called ledger stones on the front row.
Inscription:
FRANCIS EPPES of Eppington Died at the Sweet Springs July 4, 1808 Aged 61 and Was Buried There
ELIZABETH EPPES Widow of FRANCIS EPPES Died June 10, 1810 Aged 61
Over Her Remains This Monument Has Been Erected By Their Surviving Daughters
To Whom The Memory of Both Have But Resigned
A World of Woe For One Where Pains And Griefs
Shall Wound No More
Research Notes
Additional Children
Mother of John Wayles Eppes who represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives (1803-1811 and 1813-1815), and also served in the U.S. Senate (1817-1819).
Sources
See also:
- http://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Eppes/6000000011301118376
- Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson By Kelly Joyce Nef
- Find A Grave Index https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2S-52RB
- Encyclopedia of Virginia: "Will of John Wayles" https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/will-and-codicil-of-john-wayles-1760-1772-1773/ ---- Author: John Wayles Transcription Source: Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 6 (1925): 268–270.
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