Rachel Stockley

1715 - 1794  (79 years)

• Name	Rachel Stockley  [1, 2]
  Birth	1715	Accomack County, Virginia, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1794	Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA   [1, 2]
  	(In North Carolina prior to Tennessee Statehood in 1795)
  Burial	Hermitage Churchyard Cemetery, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA   [2, 3]
  		Hermitage Churchyard Cemetery (also known as Donelson Family Cemetery) Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee Find a Grave: #1461217
  Person ID	I26115	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Colonel John Donelson,   b. 7 Apr 1718, Snow Hill, Worcester, Maryland, USA d. 17 Nov 1785, Barren County, Kentucky, USA (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1749	Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
  Children	1. Rachel Donelson,   b. 17 Jun 1767, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA d. 22 Dec 1828, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 61 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Samuel Donelson,   b. 1760, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA d. 1803, Clover Bottom, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA (Age 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F11194	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1715 - Accomack County, Virginia, USA Marriage - Abt 1749 - Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Death - 1794 - Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA Burial - - Hermitage Churchyard Cemetery, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Burials

  Burial Cenotaph-DONELSON John Cenotaph of Colonel John Donelson - Hermitage Churchyard Cemetery, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee

  
  

• Sources

  [S509] Sons of the American Revolution - Members. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [S5431] Find a Grave: STOCKLEY Rachel Donelson 1715-1794, Rachel Stockley Donelson. BIRTH: 1715 Accomack County, Virginia DEATH: 1794 (aged 78–79) Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee BURIAL: Hermitage Churchyard Cemetery, Hermitage, Davidson County, Tennessee MEMORIAL ID: 6639117 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6639117/rachel-donelson [S10431] Find a Grave Cenotaph (Famous), DONELSON Colonel John - American Army 1718-1785 (Veteran). Colonial Frontiersman. One of the two founders of Nashville, he joined with James Robertson to lead the first settlers to begin a new settlement on the Cumberland River at the French Lick. A land speculator and surveyor, he served in the Virginia House of Burgesses before moving to the Watauga settlements on the Holston and Watauga rivers in East Tennessee, where he met James Robertson. While Robertson led a group of mostly men and boys overland with pack horses and livestock, John Donelson organized and led a flotilla of approximately thirty boats from the Holston River to the Tennessee River, up the Ohio River, and then up the Cumberland River to the present site of Nashville, approximately 1000 miles. Most of his passengers were the wives and children of the men who went with Robertson. John Donelson was mysteriously killed on the trail between Kentucky and Nashville in 1785. His tenth child (out of eleven) was Rachel Donelson Jackson, the future wife of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6639237/john_donelson Burial Cenotaph-DONELSON John Cenotaph of Colonel John Donelson - Hermitage Churchyard Cemetery, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee