COLE.
In 1778 William Cole, a citizen of Charles City County,
purchased from John Jones upwards of a thousand acres in
North Garden, just north of Tom's Mountain. His wife
was Susanna Watson, a sister it is believed of William
Watson, who settled in North Garden in 1762. His children
were William, John, Mary, the wife of Thomas Woolfolk,
Nancy, the wife of Edmund Anderson, Sarah, Susan, the
wife of Jasper Anderson, Richard, Joseph and Elizabeth,
the wife of Joseph H. Irvin. The most of the sons never
lived in the county, their father leaving them portions of his
large estate below Richmond. He devised to Joseph his
Albemarle land, on which he, his mother and sisters appear
to have had their dwelling. The father died in 1802, Joseph
in 1812, and his mother in 1814. In 1815 the land was sold,
part to Norborne K. Thomas & Co., of Richmond, and
part to Stephen Moore; a considerable portion of it subsequently
came into the possession of Atwell and Philip Edge.
For many years after the estate had passed into the hands
of strangers, Miss Sarah Cole, whose residence was in Richmond,
was accustomed to pay annual visits to the old home,
where the remains of many of her kindred lay buried.
