Confederate Spy who spied for JEB Stuart & John Singleton Mosby. Born in Fairfax Courthouse, VA. Her family had several plantations in Fairfax County. She met JEB Stuart at his Camp Qui Vive in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1861. She provided intelligence on Yankee troop movements to Stuart & Mosby. She left messages for Mosby at a rock formation on her property which would be known as Mosby Rock. She had a very close relationship with Stuart. He had a lock of her hair on him when he was killed at Yellow Tavern. She married Milton Hanna at age 54 on December 4, 1890 at the St. James Hotel in Washington, D.C. She died at her home Merry Brook in Herndon at age 87. Her grave is located on her former property which is now directly in front of the Marriott Suites Hotel on Centreville Road between Worldgate Drive and the Dulles Toll Road in Herndon, VA. The 20' x 20' cemetery is surrounded by a wrought iron fence in the middle of several huge shrubs and is not visible from the road.
Confederate Spy who spied for JEB Stuart & John Singleton Mosby. Born in Fairfax Courthouse, VA. Her family had several plantations in Fairfax County. She met JEB Stuart at his Camp Qui Vive in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1861. She provided intelligence on Yankee troop movements to Stuart & Mosby. She left messages for Mosby at a rock formation on her property which would be known as Mosby Rock. She had a very close relationship with Stuart. He had a lock of her hair on him when he was killed at Yellow Tavern. She married Milton Hanna at age 54 on December 4, 1890 at the St. James Hotel in Washington, D.C. She died at her home Merry Brook in Herndon at age 87. Her grave is located on her former property which is now directly in front of the Marriott Suites Hotel on Centreville Road between Worldgate Drive and the Dulles Toll Road in Herndon, VA. The 20' x 20' cemetery is surrounded by a wrought iron fence in the middle of several huge shrubs and is not visible from the road.
Inscription
Stone is inscribed:
RATCLIFFE
COLEMAN
HANNA
Gravesite Details
Surrounded by iron fence
