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Facts and Events
On his death-bed William Cabell called all of his children around him, and said to them:
- "My children, ever love and honor your dear mother. She richly deserves your tenderest affections. She and I have been married nearly fifty years, and every day has been a wedding day." 2
References
- ↑ Agnes S.B. Gamble, in Brown, Alexander. The Cabells and their kin: a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895).
p 249 - [William H. Cabell wrote,] "On the 11th of March, 1805, I was married to Agnes S.B. Gamble, oldest daughter of Col. Robert Gamble, of Richmond.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble Cabell, in Find A Grave.
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...A woman of the loveliest character, she had been for many years a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. She continuously urged her husband to accompany her to church, but with only occasional success. He had been brought up in the Episcopal faith. On one occasion, about twenty years before his death, in a spirit of pleasantry he replied to her urging: "You know I don't consider yours the true faith. Now, if you will join my church, The Church, I will always go with you." She smiled, but said nothing then. The next Sunday she said: "Now, husband, you must go with me to church to-day. I have united myself with the Episcopal Church, -- your church -- and have taken a pew for us in Bishop Moore's church." The Judge kissed his devoted wife, and after that attended service with her regularly, becoming a communicant. On his death-bed he called all of his children around him, and said to them: "My children, ever love and honor your dear mother. She richly deserves your tenderest affections. She and I have been married nearly fifty years, and every day has been a wedding day." They married on March 11, 1805. ----- [source needed]
- Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia. Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia quarterly magazine. (Richmond [Virginia]: Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, 1922-[1932])
Vol. 1-2.
Robert Gamble, of Ireland, and Augusta County, Virginia, was father of James Gamble (born 1729; died circa 1781), of Augusta County, Virginia; married Agnes Bell (daughter of James Bell, of Augusta County), and had issue: Robert Gamble (born 1754; died 1810), of Augusta County, and Richmond, Virginia. He married Catherine Gratton, born 1753; died 1831; daughter of John Gratton, of Ireland, and Augusta County, later Rockingham County, Virginia; Immigrant, Magistrate 1178, (Churchwarden) and had issue: Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble (born 1783; died 1863) married (as his second wife) William H. Cabell (born 1772; died 1853), of Buckingham County, and Richmond, Virginia.
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