Individual Details

Rachel Stockley

(Abt 1730 - 1794)



Headstone
Front inscription: IN MEMORY OF/ RACHEL STOCKLEY DONELSON WHO LIES HERE/ BORN IN VA 1715 DIED 1794/ AND HER HUSBAND COL. JOHN DONELSON BORN IN VA 1718/ KILLED BY INDIANS IN KENTUCKY 1785/ ERECTED BY THEIR DESCENDANTS AND/ RACHEL STOCKLEY DONELSON CHAPTER D.A.R./ HER CHILDREN RISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED/ APRIL 24 1933

[MONUMENT ORIGINALLY ERECTED IN 1933 IN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY ON GALLATIN ROAD ACROSS FROM DONELSON HOME "EDENWOLD" (NEAR PRESENT CORNER OF GALLATIN ROAD AND TWO MILE PARKWAY) MOVED IN 1948 TO HERMITAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BY THE RACHEL STOCKLEY DONELSON CHAPTER DAR, ORIGINAL CEMETERY NO LONGER EXISTS]

Events

BirthAbt 1730Accomac [Northampton] County, Virginia
MarriageCa 1749John Donelson
Death1794Davidson County, Tennessee

Families

SpouseJohn Donelson (1725 - 1786)
ChildAlexander Donelson (1751 - 1834)
ChildCatherine Donelson (1752 - 1834)
ChildJohn Donelson (1755 - 1830)
ChildMary Donelson (1756 - 1823)
ChildWilliam Donelson (1758 - 1820)
ChildStockley Donelson (1759 - 1805)
ChildJane Donelson (1766 - 1834)
ChildSevern Donelson (1763 - 1818)
ChildLeven Donelson (1765 - 1833)
ChildRachel Donelson (1767 - 1828)
ChildSamuel Donelson (1770 - 1804)