Silva Fallingwater was born in 1760, in Burke, North Carolina, United States, her father, Kip Chapman, was 21 and her mother, Tempe, was 19. She married John Rutherford Jr. in 1775, in Burke, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died in 1783, in Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States, at the age of 23
