SPOTSYLVANIA:  CEMETERY RECORDS – FALLS CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Falls graveyard:
                  1937 July 1
                  Research made by Sue K. Gordon

Cemetery Location:  .25 mile north of Fredericksburg, Va. on Route #17, 100 
                    yards east of Route #17.
                    Spotsylvania County




This graveyard is enclosed with a substantial brick wall.  The enclosure is 
covered with periwinkle, ivy and the trees surrounding it show that they were 
planted by those who loved the ones resting at this little spot.


Francis Thornton
Married 2 June, 1732, to Sally, daughter of
Judge Harry Innes and Elizabeth Callaway,
who bore him four sons and four daughters.
Died the 2nd May, 1807, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Refined in manners, benevolent and faithful
to every duty.  In his intercourse with men
he illustrated a true philanthropy with
unfailing trust in the stonement of this mortal 
body.  In this life nothing more became him than
this death.
A Christian gentlemen of the old school

(Sally Innes was a daughter of a celebrated Judge of Virginia and Kentucky.  She 
had 8 children, three of whom in after years became Mrs. J. H. Fitzgerald, Mrs. 
Murray Forbes, Mrs. Thomas Marshall, the fourth Miss Butler Brayne Thornton, 
never married.)


Here lies the body of 
Francis Thornton
who departed this life 7th of April, Anno Domi,
one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine,
in the thirty-eight year of his age.


Here lies the remains of
Francis Thornton
of “Fall Hill”, born at “The Falls”, 1767.
Died at the White Sulphur, Virginia, 16th June,
1836.

(Francis Thornton married Frances Gregory, daughter of Roger Gregory and Mildred 
Washington.  Mildred Washington was an aunt of President Washington.)


Elizabeth H. Fitzgerald
widow of James H. Fitzgerald
born December, 1793
married, 1810
Died February 1881
Pleasant in their lives and in their death
they were not divided


Butler Brayne Thornton
Died August 3, 1833
Aged 26


Murray Forbes
fell at Chancellorsville,
May 4, 1863


Placed here by the hand of filial affection
sacred to the memory of
Mrs. Frances Buckner
who departed this life, 1818
in the 58th year of her age
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
Yea Saith the Spirit that they may rest
from their labors and their works do
follow them


James Henderson Fitzgerald
Born in Nottoway, December, 1786
and died in the City of Paris,
May 6, 1852.
All my trust is in my Saviour I know in
whom I have believed and that he is
able to keep that which I have committed
unto him against that day when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God,
and they who hear shall live.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying
unto me
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth and their works do
follow them


(Charles Washington, brother of George, married Mildred Thornton, daughter of 
Colonel Francis Thornton of “Fall Hill”, and he has a daughter buried in this 
graveyard, with a stone over the grave.  The inscription is very hard to 
decipher.)