Mary Walker CARTER

   Other names for Mary were Mrs. Joseph Carrington CABELL and Mrs. Mary Walker CABELL.

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  General Notes:

"At Edgewood, Nelson County, Virginia, on Tuesday, Decr. 20th 1863, of a lingering and painful disease, which she bore with Christian resignation and fortitude, Mrs. Mary W. Cabell, widow of the late Joseph C. Cabell. She is buried in the graveyard in the garden, with her husband, her mother, and other relatives. She left no children."

She was the daughter of George Carter, Esq., of Lancas­ter, and his wife, Lelia, daughter of Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet. After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Carter married, October 8, 1791, Judge St. George Tucker, being his second wife; his first wife, Mrs. Frances Bland Randolph, was the mother of John Ran­dolph of Roanoke.

George Carter, Mrs. Cabell's father, was descended from Robert, commonly called "King Carter of Coroto­man," both through his father and mother. Mrs. Cabell had an only brother, Dr. Charles Carter, of Corotoman, who left an only daughter, Miss Parke Carter, who left Corotoman to her aunt, Mrs. Cabell. Thus inheriting so much, and having so much in her own right, "Cousin Polly," as she was universally known in the family, left a very large estate, and one of the most remarkable wills that ever was written, extending with codicil after codicil until it made a large volume. Having no faith in lawyers, every word was written with her own hand, with an express in­junction on almost every page, and to every heir, that "no lawyer should have anything to do with any part of her estate;" and the consequence was, I am told, that the law­yers got three fourths of it.

Mary married Joseph Carrington CABELL, son of Col. Nicholas CABELL and Hannah CARRINGTON, on 1 Jan 1807 in Williamsburg, VA. (Joseph Carrington CABELL was born on 28 Dec 1778 and died on 5 Feb 1856 in Nelson County, Virginia, USA, "Edgewood".)