Dr. George CABELL, Sr.

   Cause of his death was Fall from horse.

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  General Notes:

Dr. George Cabell, Sr., born November 1, 1766; at Hampden Sidney Academy, 1777-1779; completed his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, and became one of the most successful physicians and surgeons in the Lynchburg section of Virginia.

He was the personal friend and physician of Patrick Henry, the orator, -- attended him in his last illness, and was present at his death. There is a sketch of Dr. Cabell in "Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg, by the Oldest Inhabitant," pp. 207-211, and of his wife, pp. 174-176. He lived on his farm, now a part of, but then adjoining, Lynchburg, in the fork of Blackwater Creek and James River, known as "The Point of Honor." He married Sarah, the eldest daughter of Judge Ed­mund Winston by his first wife, Alice Winston, who was his cousin. Judge Winston married secondly the widow of Patrick Henry, the orator. He practiced law in this section prior to 1767, and was a judge of his district for many years after the Revolution. He died at an advanced age in 1813. His father, William Winston, noted as a hunter, Indian fighter, and orator, was called "Langaloo Billy," and there are many anecdotes of him. He was the son of Isaac Winston, the emigrant. There are several published pedigrees of the Winstons in books, viz., Slaughter's "St. Mark's Parish," Brock's "Vestry Book of Henrico Par­ish," Henry's "Life of Henry," etc. Alice Winston, the first wife of Judge Edmund Win­ston, was the daughter of Anthony Winston by his wife, Alice Taylor, the daughter of Col. Edmund Taylor, of Caroline (by his wife, Anne Lewis), son of John Taylor (by his wife, Catherine Pendleton, daughter of Philip Pendleton (1650-1721), from Norwich, England), son of James Taylor, who emigrated from Carlisle, England, and died in 1698 in Virginia. The Winston family is very ancient, having been long seated in Wales and the neighboring shires of England. Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury (a leading manager of our foundation), was notably proud of his "Wynston" ances­try. The Virginia Winstons are said to have emigrated from Wales, but I take them to be of the same family as Dr. Thomas Winston, who was of Panswick in Gloucester­shire. Mrs. Sarah Winston Cabell died early in the spring of 1826, and Bishop Richard Channing Moore thus alludes to her in his report made to the Council of the Episcopal Church on May 20, 1826: "During the past year St. Paul's Church, Lynchburg, has been called to mourn the death (a death, however, too full of Christian hopes and consola­tions to be mourned) of one whose amiableness and purity of manners, whose elevated rank in society, whose ardent attachment to the Church, and splendid liberality in its advancement, made her the ornament and support of our suffering cause, -- the late Mrs. Sarah Cabell." Dr. George Cabell, Sr., died about two years before his wife, in December 1823.

George married Sarah WINSTON in Jul 1792.