From "Memoranda For Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne, Relative To The Late Governor David Holmes Of Mississippi, His Lineage:
Mrs. Gertrude E. Moss, wife of William Moss, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, who was for many years and to the end of his life, clerk of both courts of Fairfax County. She died about the year 1825, leaving a very large family—numerously connected and highly respectable.
[Source: Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society: Centenary series, Volume 4, by Mississippi Historical Society. pub. 1910].