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 "If ever virtue lost a friend sincere, If ever sorrow claim'd Virginia's tear, If ever death a noble conquest made, 'Twas when Fauquier the debt of nature paid."

This marble was placed here at the time of the Restoration of the Church in 1905.

The inscription is taken from the obituary notice in the Virginia Gazette which also states that he was buried in the North aisle of Bruton Parish Church.

Governor Edmund Jenings

Near this marble a grave was found marked

E. J. Ju— 1727

The Hon. Edmund Jenings, Esq., son of Sir Edmund Jenings of Ripon in Yorkshire, England, was born in 1659 and died in 1727. He was Attorney General, Secretary of State President of the Council, and Acting-Governor (1706-1710) of the Colony of Virginia.

For many years he was a Vestryman of Bruton Parish and was serving the Church in this capacity when this building was erected. In 1710 he was instrumental in persuading the House of Burgesses "to appropriate a Sufficient sum of Money for building pews for the Governor, Council and House of Burgesses" in the two wings and intervening part of the Church, this entire portion of the Church being subsequently built and paid for by the House of Burgesses, under the supervision of Governor Alexander Spotswood.

This marble was placed here at the time of the Restoration of the Church in 1905.