MARRIAGE: 24 Jun 1842, Danville, Pittsylvania Co. VA
Notes
"In a letter by Tazwell Taylor he describes Dr John B Harvie and
Mary Blair Harvie as sincere, excellent people. Mary Blair
Harvie is a pattern of a Virginia Housewife, with 8 children and
60 servants to look after and now increased by the addition of 9
guests, does all the darning, mending, making, etc, and
housekeeping. She never seems flurried or busy, but finds time
for every duty and pleasure too and is now in addition engaged
in giving lessons on the piano to her second and third daughter
whom she teaches together, besides practising herself for her
own improvement. She has six daughters and two sons, the eldest
child a boy of 17 who left home on Monday to commence his course
as a cadet at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Her
youngest is 3 years old and she with the sister next to her are
allowed to go barefooted, all are bright joyous children and it
is a beautiful sight to see them all at the table and yet more
beautiful to see them assemble in the dusk of the evening in the
spacious parlor and gather around the Aeolian piano, presided
over by the eldest daughter, Sarah or by the mother and join in
singing well known sacred songs and hymns. Not one voice is
missing for even little Fannie, the youngest, who was taught by
her mother to sing before she could talk, joins in and her voice
, which is remarkably strong and sweet is heard distinctly above
the other voices and contributes much to the interest of the
scene. Then too the young people dance in the spacious hall
adjoining the parlor, besides which Josephine and Mary and Mrs
Judith Blair, all very fine performers, favor us with the finest
music. That with the other enjoyments of the country, rides on
horseback, visits to the Misses Archer, who asked very kindly
after you, have served to make my visit thus far very pleasant.
At Dr Harvie's Powatan County August 17, 1860."
V. Edmund Pendleton((5)) (Henry((4)), James((3)), Henry((2)),
Philip((1))), third son, b. Culpeper Co., Va., Nov. 1, 1776; d.
September 10, 1820, Winchester, Va. Married Elizabeth Ward, in
1800. She was still living in Baltimore, Md., in 1868. He left
seven sons and three daughters:
This is a copy of the inscription on the tombstone of Edmund
Pendleton, grandfather of Mrs. Jaquelin Pendleton Wysham, to
whom I am indebted for most of the data, etc., etc., in this
chapter. He is buried in the Lutheran ground, near Mt. Hebron
Cemetery, Winchester, Va. His inscription reads:
Sacred to the Memory of Edmund Pendleton. He was born in
Culpeper Co., Virginia November 1st, 1776; d. Winchester, Va.,
September 10, 1820. "Could tears retard the tyrant in his
course. Could sighs divert his dart's relentless force. Thou
still had'st lived. to bless thy children's sight. A wife's
affection, and thy friends' delight."