Alexander Garrett to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1822
From Alexander Garrett
Wednessday morning 18th Decr 1822.
Dear Sir
The child of my daughter Southall, died in yesterday. she is desirous it should be burried by the side of the one you were so good as to permit my wife and self to deposit in your grave yard some time past. If it is not askeing too much of you, I should be greatly obliged by your permission to gratify my daughter in her wish.
Alex: Garrett
RC (MHi); addressed: “Mr Jefferson Monticello”; endorsed by TJ.
William Garrett Southall (1821–22) was the only child of Mary Anne Garrett southall and Valentine Wood Southall (James P. C. Southall, “Concerning the Southalls of Virginia,” 45 [1937]: 291; Vi: Southall Family Bible). For Alexander Garrett’s child previously buried in the Monticello grave yard, see Frank Carr to TJ, 21 July 1815, and note.
Index Entries
- children; death of search
- Garrett, Alexander; and burial of family members at Monticello search
- Garrett, Alexander; letters from search
- Garrett, Evelina Bolling (Alexander Garrett’s second wife); and burial of family members at Monticello search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); burials at search
- Southall, Mary Anne Garrett (Valentine Wood Southall’s wife); and death of child search
- Southall, Valentine Wood; and death of child search
- Southall, William Garrett; death of search