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Soon after William Cabell's arrival in Virginia in 1725 or 1726, he asked Elizabeth Burks to be his bride, beginning a thirty-year partnership. The two started their family immediately and welcomed their first child, Mary, in 1727. After bearing two more children to her newly returned husband, one of whom died in childbirth, Elizabeth Burks Cabell died in 1756, the matriarch of a Virginia dynasty. Her children cherished the memory of their mother so dearly that each named a grandchild in her honor. |