Rachel Donelson

RACHEL5 STOKELY (ALEXANDER4, JOSEPH3, JOHN (STOCKLEY)2, JOHN (STOCKLEY)1) was born in Accomac County, Virginia, and died 1801 in Davidson County, Tennessee. She married JOHN DONELSON II Abt. 1750 in Pittsylvania, Virginia, son of JOHN DONELSON and CATHERINE DAVIS. He was born April 07, 1725 in Somerset, Maryland, and died 1786 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

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She traveled four months by flat boat in the winter to help found Nashville, Tennessee.

My Fifth Great Grandmother.

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]

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