Person:Catherine Grattan (1)

Headstone

Cemetery Headstone--a white marble slab on pedestals--Inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Mrs. CATHERINE GAMBLE, widow of Col. Robert Gamble, late of the City of Richmond. She died the 24th December, 1830, in the 79th year of her age. There was no wife more devoted, No mother more affectionate, No friend more true, No neighbor more kind, No Christian more pious."

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia. Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia quarterly magazine. (Richmond [Virginia]: Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, 1922-[1932])
   Vol. 1-2.

   Robert Gamble, of Ireland, and Augusta County, Virginia, was father of James Gamble (born 1729; died circa 1781), of Augusta County, Virginia; married Agnes Bell (daughter of James Bell, of Augusta County), and had issue: Robert Gamble (born 1754; died 1810), of Augusta County, and Richmond, Virginia. He married Catherine Gratton, born 1753; died 1831; daughter of John Gratton, of Ireland, and Augusta County, later Rockingham County, Virginia; Immigrant, Magistrate 1178, (Churchwarden) and had issue: Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble (born 1783; died 1863) married (as his second wife) William H. Cabell (born 1772; died 1853), of Buckingham County, and Richmond, Virginia.