Re: VA Glazebrooks - John & Judith elope
-
In reply to:
VA Glazebrooks - Found Old Research 1920
Kirkwood LeCompte 8/27/01
Transcribed from Alma Glazebrook Archives regarding Judith Blackwell
"My great-great-grandfather John Blackwell + wife Mary Richardson had eleven children. My great-grandmother was the youngest. Her mother and father died when she was a baby and she was taken by her relatives ?Meridiths? in Richmond and kept until her oldest sister Elizabeth Blackwell married Gen. Thos. White who was her guardian. She was taken to "Spring Grove" Hanover Co., Va. to live. When she was only sixteen years old with the help of her maid let herself out of the window and met John Glazebrook in the garden and with friends went to North Carolina + was married. Gen. White was opposed to the marriage because she was too young."