102 - Helen Poor Moncure - Stafford VA
N 38° 27.858 W 077° 24.137
18S E 290408 N 4260066
A descendant of one of Stafford County's most prominent and oldest families lies in the cemetery of one of Stafford's oldest churches.
Waymark Code: WMA201
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2010
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A polished granite monument marks the final resting place of Helen Poor Moncure and her husband, Jewett Parker, in the
Aquia Church Cemetery
in Stafford, Virginia. Helen lived to be 102 years old. Her inscription reads, under the heading of MONCURE:
HELEN POOR
JUNE 25,1899
NOV. 28, 2001
Research reveals little about the personal lives of Helen or her husband, but they were descendants of a prominent family in Stafford County. The Moncures were some of the first settlers in Virginia in pre-Revolutionary times. Aquia Church, in which cemetery Helen is interred, was started by the Rev. John Moncure, who came to America from Scotland in 1733.¹
When Helen was born, the median income was $635/year, a house cost $4200, bread cost 3¢/loaf, and milk cost 28¢/gallon. When she died, the average income had increased over a thousand-fold to $68,300/year, a house cost $210,000, bread cost 98¢/loaf, and milk had increased 100% to $2.85/gallon.²
During her lifetime, Helen saw the advent of two centuries. Eighteen presidents from William McKinley to George W. Bush served in office. The United States expanded from 45 states to 50. Travel and transportation went from the introduction of the first car to rockets and space shuttles. Communication went from crank-up telephones and the telegraph to cellphones, e-mail, and instant messaging. America would fight in two world wars and be attacked twice by foreign enemies -- Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the 9/11 attacks in 2001, a few months before Helen died. The science fiction of 1899 became the technology of 2001.
¹History.librarypoint: Overwharton Parish, Stafford County
²Statistics courtesy of dMarie Time Capsule