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Armistead, Martha

American, born before 1834

Trueheart, Martha; Armistead, Jesse S. Mrs. Rev.

Biography

Martha was the daughter of Bartholomew and Elizabeth Mosby Trueheart of the Selma estate in Powhatan County, Virginia. She married the Reverend Dr. Jesse S. Armistead, a well known minister of the Presbyterian Church who lived for many years before the Civil War at "Woodville" in the Guinea neighborhood of Cumberland County. The Armisteads had two sons and three daughters. Some time after Bartholomew's death in 1834, the Selma estate was sold to a Dr. Henderson, along with two paintings of hunting scenes which had hung in the house. Bartholomew Trueheart, who it is said appears atop his favorite horse as the central figure of both compositions, had commissioned the pictures (now in the NGA) from an unknown itinerant artist around the year 1800. Henderson later gave the paintings to Martha Armistead, and they were passed by descent through her family before being sold in 1948.

Bibliography

1964
Blanton, Natalie. West Hill, Cumberland County, Virginia: The Story of Those Who Have Loved It. (Privately printed), 1964: 26.

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