William Arden Maury

“ Yes, all is peace, all is peace; I am perfectly resigned to His will; true it would be grateful for me to live for the dear ones around me, but if it is the will of God that I should go I can die without regret. ”

“ The manner of my father's death made a strong impression on Captain Maury in that it reminded him, he said, of the manner in which the patriarchs of the Bible saw death. And when the Captain himself lay in his own last moments the scene of my father's deathbed was present to his mind when he made the remark: "I want to die like Walker from my feet upward." ”

“ Parton, after stating that the first use Jefferson made of the liberty that came to him by the death of his father was to change his school, proceeds as follows:
"Fourteen miles away was the parsonage of Rev. James Maury, a man of great note in his time, and noted for many things; from whose twelve children have descended a great number of estimable persons of the name still living. Of Huguenot descent and genuine scholarship, he was free both from the vices and the bigotry which the refuse of the young English clergy often brought with them to Virginia in the early time. ”

“ My father was not quite forty six years old when he died and I think it remarkable that one so young should have accomplished so much and raised himself so high in the estimation of his fellow citizens.
In a tribute paid to him by his lifelong friend John Cabell Rives, under the caption, "A Good Man Gone," the writer remarks that it might be said, without giving offense to anyone, "that he was the most popular man in the city, and justly so." ”

“ My mother was a remarkable woman as will be shown by the fact that my father in his will, after giving some legacies, left the whole residue of his estate to her absolutely, and so well did this mother - left a widow at 42 - administer the great responsibility thus imposed upon her that nothing has ever occurred in all these years to create discontent or to shake the affection that holds the family together. ”

“ Maury, whose distinction it is to have educated a number of the finest scholars that Virginia has ever produced, was himself an elegant classical scholar and a thorough, zealous teacher. " (Vol. 1, p. 18.) ”

“ We therefore desire to invite you to a public dinner, upon such day as it may suit you to name, that an opportunity may be afforded for a more general expression of the high respect, and great consideration, with which, in common with others, we have the pleasure to remain, Your sincere friends. ”

“ Such was the lineage of the youth of seventeen who left the parental hearthstone to cast his lot in the city of Washington. How far he enlisted the respect and regard. of his adopted home will be shown by unmistakable evidence.
My father was not long in selecting a partner for life after coming to his adopted home. On the 6th of October, 1831, he was married to Isabel Foyles, the daughter of Thomas Foyles, an old resident of Washington city.
From this union sprang fifteen children, twelve of whom grew up to be men and women, a most united. and happy family, six of whom are still living. ”

“ Rives refers in his Life of Madison (Vol.2, p.4, N.1) as a "distinguished classical school in Williamsburg of which Walker Maury was Head Master. " To this it may be added, that Mr. Madison also passed high commendation on this school (Mad. Wks., Vol.1, p.150) .
I can not refrain from the pleasure of quoting the tribute paid this school and its Head by Mr. W. Gordon McCabe in his able and elegant address before the alumni of the University of Virginia on the 27th of June, 1888. It was as follows:
The Rev. ”