Hannah CARRINGTON

   Other names for Hannah were Mrs. Hannah CABELL and Mrs. Nicholas CABELL.

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  General Notes:

Mrs. Hannah Carrington Cabell, born. March 28, 1751, survived her husband nearly fourteen years. She resided mostly with Dr. Hare at his seat "Harewood," where she could be more constantly with her granddaughters, the children of Mrs. Hare, of whom she had taken general charge since the death of their mother.

Mrs. Cabell died August 7, 1817, was buried in the fam­ily cemetery at Liberty Hall, and her funeral sermon was preached by Bishop Richard Channing Moore, September 11, 1817.

The following obituary notice is thought to have been written by the Hon. William Wirt:

"Died, on the 7th Instant, at Montevideo (the seat of Judge Cabell in Buckingham County) Mrs. Hannah Ca­bell (widow of the late Col. Nicholas Cabell and mother of the judge) in the 67th year of her age; after a severe ill­ness of six and thirty days.

"This venerable matron possessed, in a high degree, that uncommon strength of character that distinguishes the Carrington family, to which she belonged; a spirit, frank, erect, firm, and independent; with a solid understanding, a sound judgment, a most inflexible integrity, and a warm, kind, and affectionate heart, which carried her on steadily and cheerfully to a good old age, in the faithful discharge of every duty, social and domestic. She was, moreover, a sincere Christian, and displayed its genuine character not only through life and in health, but in the trying time of sickness, and above all, in that awful hour in which she met and even welcomed the approach of Death.

Hannah married Col. Nicholas CABELL, son of Dr. William CABELL and Elizabeth BURKS, on 16 Apr 1772 in Virginia, USA. (Col. Nicholas CABELL was born on 19 Oct 1750 in Goochland Co., VA, died on 18 Aug 1803 in Buckingham, Virginia, USA and was buried in Warminster, Nelson Co., VA.)