Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr and one of the most learned women of her era, was the wife of Governor Joseph Alston, who is buried west of here with Aaron Burr Alston, their ten-year-old son. She sailed from Georgetown on Dec. 30, 1812, on the schooner Patriot to join her father in New York and disappeared off the N.C. coast during a terrific storm.