Eliza, daughter of Kitty

Eliza, daughter of Kitty, was about 4 years old in 1827, born c. 1823. Eliza was appraised in separately from her mother, Kitty, and her brother, William/Bill, in 1827, $125.00. Kitty and her children, William and Eliza, were devised together by Margaret Reed’s will to Eliza Jane McCray, a relative living with Margaret Reed at the time of Reed’s death. Eliza Jane McCray inherited Reed’s house in Staunton. She married Walter H. Tapp in 1828, and they later purchased Elizabeth “Betsy” Truss and her children from Reed’s estate. In a memorandum separate from her will, Margaret Reed directed her executors to distribute specific articles of clothing, household items, furniture, and other possessions to her friends and family and to five enslaved women. Kitty received clothing.

Walter H. Tapp died in 1838 and Kitty died around the same time. She had been ill for months and was treated until she died by Dr. Francis T. Stribling. Tapp’s widow purchased her children, William “Bill” and Eliza from her husband’s estate. Their last name may have been Smith.