Elizabeth Hill Byrd Skipwith

Biography

Elizabeth Hill Byrd Skipwith was a woman of prominence whose family connections linked her to some of the most influential families of colonial Virginia. Her life reflected the social and cultural milieu of the planter elite during the Revolutionary era.

She was interred in the Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery, a place of honor befitting her family standing. Skipwith's sixty-four years of life spanned from the mid-eighteenth century through the early decades of American independence, witnessing the transformation of colonial society into a new nation.