Grave of Patrick Henry's Mother

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Sarah Winston Syme Henry (ca. 1710-1784) was born to a prominent family in Hanover County. She first married John Syme, with whom she had one son. Widowed, she then married John Henry, a Scottish immigrant and planter. Their second child was Patrick Henry, noted orator, leader in the Revolutionary cause, and first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In her later years, Sarah Henry resided in the household of Jane and Samuel Meredith, her daughter and son-in-law. About 1779 they moved here to Winton. When Sarah died late in 1784, she was buried in the family cemetery located in the grove of trees several hundred yards west of here.

Department of Historic Resources, 2023

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

William Wirt Henry, Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondence, and Speeches, vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891), 251. Jean Cabell O’Neill, “Patrick Henry’s Mother,” Journal of American History, vol. 6 (1912): 695-711. Patrick Henry Jolly, “Patrick Henry: His Life” https://patrickhenryjolly.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/sarah-winston-henry-patricks-mother/ Winton, National Register of Historic Places nomination (1974) https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/005-0021_Winton_1974_Final_Nomination.pdf “A Closer Look at Winton with the Winton Manor House Preservation Society” https://www.countyofamherst.com/egov/documents/1477314707_15817.pdf “Dabney Family of Early Virginia” https://www.dabney-early-virginia.info/getperson.php?personID=I717&tree=Dabney