Lucy Grymes
(1743-1830)
BIRTH
September 4, 1743
PLACE
Middlesex County, Virginia
DEATH
September 18, 1830
PLACE
Springfield, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
Philip Grymes
(1721-1761)
HUSBAND
Thomas Nelson Jr.
(1738-1789)
CHILDREN
Mary Nelson
(1774–1803)
CHILDREN
Susanna Nelson
(1780–1850)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lucy Grymes Nelson (1743–1830) married Thomas Nelson Jr. in July 1762 and raised a large family at Yorktown. Their family Bible records eleven children who survived to adulthood, including diplomat Hugh Nelson. Thomas became a Declaration signer, Revolutionary general and Virginia governor, exposing the household to the war and its costs. Lucy outlived him by forty-one years. Their Bible records marriage and births, supplying direct evidence for the household’s history.
EARLY LIFE
Lucy Grymes was born on Sep 4, 1743 in Middlesex County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Lucy Grymes is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Lucy Grymes died on Sep 18, 1830 in Springfield, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Lucy Grymes died on Sep 18, 1830, in Springfield, Virginia. Lucy Grymes Nelson married Thomas Nelson Jr. in July 1762 and raised a large family at Yorktown. Their family Bible records eleven children who survived to adulthood, including diplomat Hugh Nelson. Thomas became a Declaration signer, Revolutionary general and Virginia governor, exposing the household to the war and its costs. Lucy outlived him by forty-one years. Their Bible records marriage and births, supplying direct evidence for the household’s history. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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