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The following info. was found in our Tombstones of Mathews Co.,Va. on page 98 -North End Cemetery (Between the Branches of North River) Perhaps of interest is the fact that John Page, of North End, who served as a member of the Council & General Court in 1768, died in 1774. (1) In 1782, Abraham Van Bibber was taxed on 550 acres & Isaac Van Bibber was taxed on 500 acres the same year. (2) In 1791, when the first tax list was made for the new county of Mathews, Abraham Van Bibber was taxed on 925 acres. (3) The home was named North End.
The Vestry of Ware Episcopal Church in Gloucester Co., gave to the Joseph Bryan Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Va. Antiquities a section of the Ware Church Cemetery for isolated & uncared for gravestones.
The following stones have been moved to Ware Church & are in lots 148 and 149:

Abraham M. Van Bibber
Birth: Apr., 1801
Death: Jan. 27, 1802
Stone only, moved from North End Cemetery in Mathews County

HESTER VAN BIBBER TABB
HESTER D...(T)ABB
WIFE OF DOCTOR HEN (T)AB
AND ONLY (DAUGHTER)
OF ANDREW AND SARAH VAN
BIBBER/Born 2nd (?)1800/(Died) 4 Feb. 1823

Abraha?)(ABRAHAM) VAN BIBBER
2d son of (ANDREW) and Sarah E. Van Bibber
departed this life Jan 27th,1802 Aged 9 months
Ad Tranquier

ANDREW VAN BIBBER,ESQ.
who departed this life Aug 4th, 1808
Aged 40 years.
And underneath this same stone
are deposited at her own request the mortal remains of his relic SARAH EMORY VAN BIBBER
who died the 15th of March 1836 Aged 67 years
"With upward aim thy wings for she was born from heav'n Fufill'd her visit and return'd on high.
(NOTE: Andrew Van Bibber Birth: 1768
Death: Aug. 4, 1808
Stone only, moved from North End Cemetery in Mathews County)

Andrew A. Van Bibber
Birth: unknown
Death: Feb. 28, 1842
Stone only, moved from North End Cemetery in Mathews County

HESTER VAN BIBBER
relic of Capt. Henry van Bibber
mother of Andrew Van Bibber, Esq.
departed this lif (sic) Nov 16,1802 Aged 65
Hester A. Van Bibber
Birth: 1737
Death: Nov. 16, 1802
Stone only, moved from North End Cemetery in Mathews County

Sarah Emory Van Bibber
Birth: 1769
Death: Mar. 15, 1836
Stone only, moved from North End Cemetery in Mathews County
NOTE: LINEAGE
Hester4 VanBibber (Isaac Jacobs3, Jacob Isaacs2, Isaac1) was born May 09, 1693. She married Jacob Gooding, son of Isaac Gooding. He was born May 09, 1698, and died December 23, 1760.
Children of Hester VanBibber and Jacob Gooding are:
2 i. Isaac5 Gooding. He married Susanna.
3 ii. Jacob Gooding.
4 iii. Veronica Gooding. She married Andrew Cannon.
+ 5 iv. Hester Gooding, died November 16, 1802.
Generation 11:
Hester5 Gooding (Hester4 VanBibber, Isaac Jacobs3, Jacob Isaacs2, Isaac1) died November 16, 1802. She married Henry VanBibber, son of Jacobus VanBibber and Ann Laroun. He was born July 22, 1729 in Cecil Co., MD, and died 1778.
Children of Hester Gooding and Henry VanBibber are:
6 i. Andrew A.6 VanBibber, born 1768; died August 04, 1808. He married Sarah E. Emery; born 1769; died March 15, 1836.
7 ii. James VanBibber. He married Elizabeth Dorsey 1787 in Baltimore, MD; born October 24, 1766.
8 iii. Henry Jr. VanBibber.
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Conclusion:

Capt. Henry Van Bibber born July 22, 1729, son of James Van Bibber and Ann Larons/Laroun, married Hester Gooding, 1737-Nov. 16, 1802. They lived at North End, a home on the North River, Mobjack Bay, Mathews County, Virginia. Hester Gooding Van Bibber was buried in North End Cemetery.
They had 3 children, Andrew, James, and Henry, Jr.
Andrew, born about 1768, married Sarah Emory, born about 1769, and they lived at North End. Andrew Van Bibber died August 4, 1808, age 40; and Sarah Emory Van Bibber, died March 15, 1836, age 67. Andrew and Sarah Emory Van Bibber were buried in North End Cemetery. They had (at least) 3 children. (Information from gravestones seems to indicated an oldest son, born before 1800.)

1. Hester Van Bibber, born ? 2, 1800, married Dr. Henry Wythe Tabb of Auburn, died Feb. 4, 1823. No issue. (only daughter)
2. (Abraha?)m Van Bibber, born 1801, died Jan. 27, 1802, aged 9 months. (2d son)
3. Andrew A. Van Bibber, born after 1801, died Feb. 28, 1842. (youngest son)
These three children were buried in North End Cemetery.
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"Adjoining Midlothian .. (built by Mr. Josiah Deans over one hundred sixty years ago, near the head of the North River).. and at the very head of the North River, used to stand North End. The house is long since gone but it was formerly a Van Bibber estate. 'Mrs. Van Bibber, of North End' was the devout congregation of one, who made the responses to Dr. William Taliaferro's readings in Ware Church during the time when there was no minister to conduct the service. Sometimes Mrs. Van Bibber would have to guard against the cold with extra wraps, and a charcoal brazier for her feet.
"On the North River in Mathews County, adjoining Green Plains, (the house named) Auburn was built in the early 1800's by Philip Tabb for his son, Dr. Henry Wythe Tabb…. Dr. Henry Wythe Tabb was married three times; first to Hester Van Bibber; from this union there was no issue….."
"Issue of Mary Mason Wythe and Philip Tabb: John, of White Marsh; Henry Wythe, of Auburn; Philip Edward, of Waverley; Thomas Todd, of Toddsbury."

Ware Church
"Near the head of the Ware River and not far from the old 'War Path' or 'Indian Road' stands Ware Church, the old brick rectangular building where citizens of Gloucester County have worshipped for nearly three hundred years. …The present building …was completed soon after 1690."

The "old Mrs. Van Bibber" who attended Ware Church as a "devout congregation of one" was probably Sarah Emory Van Bibber. "There was …almost always….(a minister), with the exception of ten years prior to 1826…..During one period, when the church had no rector, Dr. William Taliaferro went faithfully every Sunday morning to red the prayers and lessons and Psalms of the service, while the lone member of the congregation, 'old' Mrs. Van Bibber, of North End, made the responses. Bishop Meade* comments of the devout character of these two saintly people."

*Meade, William, bp. 1789-1862. Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1872.

NOTE: There are photos of Andrew and Sarah's tombstones at:
www.kimshockey.com/ va/wareparish2.html

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