4th Generation: Alice Grymes

Born: Aug. 10, 1724
Married: Mann Page II on December 31, 1741
Died: January 11, 1746 at Rosewell, Gloucester County
Burial: Page Family Cemetery at Rosewell. In 1969, the Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia) moved the remaining stones in the cemetery to Abingdon Episcopal Church. The tomb of Alice Grymes Page was no longer in evidence in 1969, but the inscription was documented in the 1890's:¹

Here lies the Body of Mrs. Alice Page

Wife of Mann Page Esq.

She departed this life on the 11th Day of January 1746

In child bed of her second Son

in the 23rd year of her age

Leaving

Two Son and one Daughter

She was the third daughter

of the Honourable John Grymes Esq.

of

Middlesex County

One of his Majesty's Council in this Colony

of Virginia

Her personal Beauty

and the uncommon Sweetness of her Temper

Her affable Deportment and Exemplary Behavior

Made her respected by all who knew her

The Spotless innocency of her Life

and her singular Piety

Her constancy & resignation at the Hour of death

Sufficiently testified

Her firm & certain Hopes of a joyfull resurrection

To her Sacred memory

This Monumnet is piously erected

Parents:
John Grymes and Lucy Ludwell

Children:
John Page
Robert Page
[daughter]

Alice Grymes lived at Rosewell Plantation after she married Mann Page II. She died when giving birth to her second son.²

Alice Grymes with son John Page
Source: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) (attributed to Charles Bridges)
Picture in color on Flickr

Links

• Colonial Virginia Portraits, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
• Alice Grymes Page (Mrs. Mann Page II, 1724-1746) and Her Son

References