Alice "Eliza" Catlett Thornton
- Born: 21 Aug 1729, Crowes, King George Co., VA
- Marriage: Maj. John Fitzhugh 30 Oct 1746, Bedford, Stafford Co., VA
- Died: 5 Mar 1790, Stafford Co., VA at age 60
 Notes and Events:
• Relationship: g5 grandmother.
• Obituary: Fredericksburg Virginia Herald, 11 Mar 1790. "On Friday last died, of a short illness, Mrs. Eliza (sic) Fitzhugh, of Stafford County, in the 61st year of her age. She was the mother of thirteen children, all of them bred up and settled out in that regular decent manner as to the patterns of sobriety, industry, and good behaviour to all around them; these, with their children, amount in the number of 54. And what is very remarkable, that amisdt all the cares, troubles and difficulties, of so laborious a task, and the additonal misfortune of her husband being blind for near twenty years, she lived with him in so constant a tenor of conjugal affection, that not a harsh word or untoward expression ever passed between them; such are the comforts of the matrimonial state when rightly conducted. Her loss is much deplored by her acquaintances and affectionate children. but it is and must be peculiarly distressing to her surviving husband, who has now no one left to live with him to cheer the melancholy residue of his days of darkness"
Alice married Maj. John Fitzhugh, son of Henry Fitzhugh and Susanna Cooke, on 30 Oct 1746 in Bedford, Stafford Co., VA. (Maj. John Fitzhugh was born on 30 Jun 1727 in Bel Air, Stafford Co., VA and died on 1 May 1809 in Stafford Co., VA.)
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