Hannah Fairfax Washington
(1767-1828)
BIRTH
1767
PLACE
Clarke, Virginia
NAME
Hannah Fairfax Washington
DEATH
1828
PLACE
Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia
FAMILY
BROTHER
Thomas Fairfax
(1726-1746)
SISTER
Anne Fairfax Washington
(1728-1761)
SISTER
Sarah Fairfax Carlyle
(1730-1761)
BROTHER
Bryan Fairfax
(1736-1802)
BROTHER
William Henry Fairfax
(1739-1759)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hannah Fairfax Washington Whiting was a daughter of Warner Washington and Hannah Fairfax, born in Virginia in 1767. She married Peter Beverly Whiting of Elmington in Gloucester County and later lived at Berryville. Old Chapel burial histories record her death in 1828. Her mother, also named Hannah Fairfax, was a different woman. The surviving accounts chiefly document her marriage, family identity and burial; her precise birthday remains less secure.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Hannah Fairfax’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Hannah Fairfax is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hannah Fairfax died in 1828, in Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. Hannah Fairfax Washington Whiting was a daughter of Warner Washington and Hannah Fairfax, born in Virginia in 1767. She married Peter Beverly Whiting of Elmington in Gloucester County and later lived at Berryville. Old Chapel burial histories record her death in 1828. Her mother, also named Hannah Fairfax, was a different woman. The surviving accounts chiefly document her marriage, family identity and burial; her precise birthday remains less secure. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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