Person:Roderick McCulloch (1)

Roderick McCulloch (...) was born November 6 1741 (0.S.) in Westmoreland County, Va.; educated at a school in Rockfish Gap and elsewhere in Va. In 1768, he was a tutor in the family of Col. William Cabell Sr., of "Union Hill", and Miss Horsley is said to have been at one time one of his scholars. From 1770 to 1775, one of his majesty's justices for Amherst; and from 1776 he held the same office for many years under the commonwealth. In 1772, he was a churchwarden, and was long a vestryman.

July 15, 1775, he subscribed to the patriotic fund for the use of the delegates, and for the aid of the Bostonians. He was a soldier in the Revolution, sheriff of Amherst in 1783-1784, vestryman of Lexington Parish, 1785-1809 (before and after), and a lay delegate, in 1786, to the Episcopal convention from his parish.

After his marriage, he settled on his wife's farm, which they sold during the Revolution for continental money, ultimately of no value. He afterwards bought the "Verdant Vale" estate, on James River, a little below Waugh's Ferry, in Amherst County, a valuable property, first owned by Capt. Cornelius Thomas.

Notwithstanding his Revolutionary losses, his own and his wife's estate afforded ample support, and being neither ambitious nor covetous, he was content. Loving home and domestic life, he accepted no offices which duty did not force upon him. He supplied himself with the best authors of the period. He was a fine scholar, with high literary culture and strong religious feelings; lofty ideas of the principles and duties of life; pure and refined in every sentiment, he devoted himself much to the society and cultivation of his children, and "they remembered him as superior to all the world". His descendants cherish many lessons and memories handed down to them about him.

Late in life, about 1819 or 1820, he had the misfortune to have his dwelling burned, with all the valuables papers, family records, etc., and his wife and self passed the remainder of their days with their daughter, Isabella Waugh, on an adjoining farm. He died November 1, 1826, and was buried by the side of his wife in the family burying ground at "Verdant Vale."

Grave marker inscription:
"He was born in the County of Westmoreland on the 6th of November 1741 died on Tuesday the 1st November 1826 aged 84 years 11 months".

Grave Marker, McCulloch Cemetery off of Waugh's Ferry Road.

1. ↑ The Cabells and their kin : a memorial volume of history, biography and genealogy
   189.