Anna Bland was one of six children of Frances Bolling and Theodorick Bland of Prince George County, VA and must have grown up on the Bland plantation, Cawsons, located where the Appomattox river meets the James River. In her correspondence with her famous older brother Theodorick Jr she " intended to have work'd you a pair of …, but have been so taken up at balls, and .. that I really have not had time," it seems she had a busy and happy life.
Her only child with Thomas Eaton was daughter Anna Bland Eaton Dudley (b. 21 DEC 1763) whose obituary states her "mother died when she was in infancy; " Anna Eaton must have died within a year or two of her daughter's birth. Many internet sites list Anna Bland Eaton's death date as 1781 or before 1781 since her husband Thomas Eaton remarried Dec of 1781.
Anna's parents must have raised her daughter to age 12 since her daughter's obituary states "lived with grandparents until 12 years of age, taken to North Carolina to live with father" since Thomas Eaton's parents lived in North Carolina.
SOURCES
Approximate death date Anna Bland -Obituary Mrs. Anna B. Dudley Early Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennessee Abstracted by Louise Gillespie Lynch, 1977 pg 56 FamilySearch.org.
Campbell, Charles, editor. The Bland Papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. Printed by Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund and Julian C Ruffin. pp 20-21, https://books.google.com/books?id=JsgTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Adventures of Purse and Persons Virginia 1607-1624/5, 4th ed. Vol 1 pg 334, 350-351
Her only child with Thomas Eaton was daughter Anna Bland Eaton Dudley (b. 21 DEC 1763) whose obituary states her "mother died when she was in infancy; " Anna Eaton must have died within a year or two of her daughter's birth. Many internet sites list Anna Bland Eaton's death date as 1781 or before 1781 since her husband Thomas Eaton remarried Dec of 1781.
Anna's parents must have raised her daughter to age 12 since her daughter's obituary states "lived with grandparents until 12 years of age, taken to North Carolina to live with father" since Thomas Eaton's parents lived in North Carolina.
SOURCES
Approximate death date Anna Bland -Obituary Mrs. Anna B. Dudley Early Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennessee Abstracted by Louise Gillespie Lynch, 1977 pg 56 FamilySearch.org.
Campbell, Charles, editor. The Bland Papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. Printed by Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund and Julian C Ruffin. pp 20-21, https://books.google.com/books?id=JsgTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Adventures of Purse and Persons Virginia 1607-1624/5, 4th ed. Vol 1 pg 334, 350-351
Anna Bland was one of six children of Frances Bolling and Theodorick Bland of Prince George County, VA and must have grown up on the Bland plantation, Cawsons, located where the Appomattox river meets the James River. In her correspondence with her famous older brother Theodorick Jr she " intended to have work'd you a pair of …, but have been so taken up at balls, and .. that I really have not had time," it seems she had a busy and happy life.
Her only child with Thomas Eaton was daughter Anna Bland Eaton Dudley (b. 21 DEC 1763) whose obituary states her "mother died when she was in infancy; " Anna Eaton must have died within a year or two of her daughter's birth. Many internet sites list Anna Bland Eaton's death date as 1781 or before 1781 since her husband Thomas Eaton remarried Dec of 1781.
Anna's parents must have raised her daughter to age 12 since her daughter's obituary states "lived with grandparents until 12 years of age, taken to North Carolina to live with father" since Thomas Eaton's parents lived in North Carolina.
SOURCES
Approximate death date Anna Bland -Obituary Mrs. Anna B. Dudley Early Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennessee Abstracted by Louise Gillespie Lynch, 1977 pg 56 FamilySearch.org.
Campbell, Charles, editor. The Bland Papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. Printed by Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund and Julian C Ruffin. pp 20-21, https://books.google.com/books?id=JsgTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Adventures of Purse and Persons Virginia 1607-1624/5, 4th ed. Vol 1 pg 334, 350-351
Her only child with Thomas Eaton was daughter Anna Bland Eaton Dudley (b. 21 DEC 1763) whose obituary states her "mother died when she was in infancy; " Anna Eaton must have died within a year or two of her daughter's birth. Many internet sites list Anna Bland Eaton's death date as 1781 or before 1781 since her husband Thomas Eaton remarried Dec of 1781.
Anna's parents must have raised her daughter to age 12 since her daughter's obituary states "lived with grandparents until 12 years of age, taken to North Carolina to live with father" since Thomas Eaton's parents lived in North Carolina.
SOURCES
Approximate death date Anna Bland -Obituary Mrs. Anna B. Dudley Early Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennessee Abstracted by Louise Gillespie Lynch, 1977 pg 56 FamilySearch.org.
Campbell, Charles, editor. The Bland Papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. Printed by Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund and Julian C Ruffin. pp 20-21, https://books.google.com/books?id=JsgTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Adventures of Purse and Persons Virginia 1607-1624/5, 4th ed. Vol 1 pg 334, 350-351
