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Residences & events: Spotsylvania Co, VA, where he was a tobacco planter. 7/22/1814 - 8/17/1814 He was a Pvt in Capt Thornton's Co of VAMilitia during the British invasion of the Chesapeake during the Warof 1812. 1830 Stafford Co, VA, where he also raised tobacco. |
| The birth year is calculated from the death date. |
| His gravestone says: "Sacred to the memory of Goerge Purvis Whodeparted this life February the 9th in the 50th year of his age." |
| George, his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Elizabeth, are all buriedin a corner of a graveyard overgrown with briars and surrounded by aforest located about 12 miles south of Fredericksburg and about 1/4mile east of the RF&P railroad. Most of the others buried there areBullocks. The old house spot nearby was known as Parmount. |