His brother Richard Nathaniel Venable, who had served as an officer during the Revolutionary War, would inherit Slate Hill Plantation, as well as continue the family political tradition as a lawyer, state senator and member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829. Their nephew Abraham Watkins Venable would also serve in the U.S. Congress, representing a North Carolina district. The family's plantation house survives and is being investigated and restored. In 2003 a historical marker was added.].
