Elizabeth, barely 15 at the time of her marriage, was given a number of expensive gifts for her wedding, including a "Colonial silver service" and a "beautiful necklace, brooch and earrings of pearls and diamonds." She and Charles, a planter and merchant, lived at Lombardy Grove, their life described as "smooth and eventless." They had four children: William Baskerville (1816-1895), of Buena Vista, Mecklenburg County; Henry E. C. Baskerville (1817- 1900) of Richmond; Mary Ann Elizabeth Baskerville (1819-1873) wife of Richard Venable Watkins of Mayo, Halifax County; and Charles Baskerville (1821-1890) of Mississippi.
Elizabeth Coleman Baskerville died in 1821, soon after the birth of her fourth child, at age 24, and is buried at Lombardy Grove".
Excerpt from Battlefield - Clover - Providence Driving Tour online at oldhalifax.com.
Elizabeth, barely 15 at the time of her marriage, was given a number of expensive gifts for her wedding, including a "Colonial silver service" and a "beautiful necklace, brooch and earrings of pearls and diamonds." She and Charles, a planter and merchant, lived at Lombardy Grove, their life described as "smooth and eventless." They had four children: William Baskerville (1816-1895), of Buena Vista, Mecklenburg County; Henry E. C. Baskerville (1817- 1900) of Richmond; Mary Ann Elizabeth Baskerville (1819-1873) wife of Richard Venable Watkins of Mayo, Halifax County; and Charles Baskerville (1821-1890) of Mississippi.
Elizabeth Coleman Baskerville died in 1821, soon after the birth of her fourth child, at age 24, and is buried at Lombardy Grove".
Excerpt from Battlefield - Clover - Providence Driving Tour online at oldhalifax.com.
Inscription
From WPA 1937 cemetery survey.
Inscription: Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Ann wife of Charles Baskervill and daughter of Col. H. E. Coleman of Halifax, Va. who died August 19 - 1821 in the 25 yr. of her age.
Family Members
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Mary Margaret Coleman Logan
1798–1869
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John Coleman
1800–1869
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Henry Embry Coleman II
1806–1878
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William Murray Coleman
1808–1821
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Sarah Embry Coleman Chalmers
1810–1852
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Dr Ethelbert Algernon Coleman
1812–1892
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Charles Baskerville Coleman
1814–1849
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Virginia Frances Park Coleman
1816–1817
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Jane Catharine Coleman Hamilton
1820–1850
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