NameMary Eliza Tunstall Banks
Birthabt 1799
DeathOct 1814, Richmond, Virginia
ResidenceEssex County, Virginia
Documentation
She is listed as a child of George Washington Banks and Catharine Baughan in an article by Emily Emerson Lantz in the Baltimore Sun on Sunday, 11 June 1905.
The Richmond Enquirer of Friday, 28 October 1814 has the following item: “Died in this city, Miss Eliza Banks, aged 15, the eldest daughter of Major G. W. Banks of Tappahannock, the second daughter to die within a fortnight.” (Tyler’s Quarterly, Lyon G. Tyler, Ed., Kraus Reprint Co. Millwood, N.Y. 1978, Vol. XVI, p. 28.)