Grave of Patrick Henry's Mother

Sarah Winston Syme Henry (ca. 1710-1784) was born to a prominent family in Hanover County. She first married John Syme, with whom she had one son. Widowed, she then married John Henry, a Scottish immigrant and planter. Their second child was Patrick Henry, noted orator, leader in the Revolutionary cause, and first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In her later years, Sarah Henry resided in the household of Jane and Samuel Meredith, her daughter and son-in-law. About 1779 they moved here to Winton. When Sarah died late in 1784, she was buried in the family cemetery located in the grove of trees several hundred yards west of here.

Department of Historic Resources, 2023