| Catherine GRATTAN
(1753-1831) |
Catherine GRATTAN
Catharine Grattan (the wife of Col. Robert Gamble) was born in Ireland in 1753, and came with her parents to America when she was eight years old. She possessed great energy and decision of character, and a degree of moral and physical courage equal to any emergency. Once, while living on the frontiers, she rode thirty miles in one night, with her sister's infant in her lap, to notify the settlements of the approach of the Indians. She died December 24, 1831, in her seventy-ninth year, and was buried by her husband in St. John's Burial Ground, Richmond, Va. Her father, Maj. John Grattan (the emigrant), and his wife were born and married in Ireland, near the city of Belfast. "The great orator and patriot, Henry Grattan, was his kinsman." He settled in the present County of Rockingham, on the north branch of the Shenandoah, about 1761, having come from Ireland via Philadelphia. In 1774, he was a churchwarden of Augusta Parish. At the first court of the new county of Rockingham, April 27, 1778, he was one of the first justices of the peace, and one of the first coroners. He built the first good flour-mill in the valley; was a merchant engaged in a large trade and barter business, with Philadelphia as his seaport.
Catherine married Col. Robert GAMBLE. (Col. Robert GAMBLE was born on 3 Sep 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA.) |
Other names for Catherine were Mrs. Catherine GAMBLE and Mrs. Robert GAMBLE.