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Susan Cummings (born July 21, 1962, in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is an American heiress, best known for killing her boyfriend in 1997. She had been charged with homicide, but subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter only. She was released after serving 57 days. Biography Cummings and her fraternal twin sister, Diana, are the only children of billionaire arms dealer Samuel Cummings. After ...
A news story from nearby Martinsburg, West Virginia, where Thompson "at one time" resided, said that there was a bullet hole in his skull, and the body had been mutilated. [ 6 ] [ 15 ] Early reports said the body was burned before any law enforcement official arrived, [ 5 ] and as said above, the first sheriff's deputy to arrive was threatened ...
He owned Rockburn Stud Farm in The Plains, Virginia, and raced under the name of Rockburn Farm. Since 1936 he published and edited The Fauquier Democrat, a weekly newspaper in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was the president of the Loudoun Times-Mirror. [2] He died on August 15, 1969, at his Rockburn Farm estate. [3]
The Six Nations ceded the entire region including modern Fauquier to Virginia Colony at the Treaty of Albany, in 1722. Fauquier County was established on May 1, 1759, from Prince William County. It is named for Francis Fauquier, [5] Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time, who won the land in a poker game, according to legend.
Earl Washington Jr. (born May 3, 1960) is a former Virginia death-row inmate, who was fully exonerated of murder charges against him in 2000. He had been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1984 for the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Lyn Williams in Culpeper, Virginia. [1]
Turner Ashby Jr. was born at Rose Bank Plantation near Markham in Fauquier County, Virginia, to Turner Ashby Sr. and Dorothea Green Ashby. [1] As a child he often played in the waters of nearby Goose Creek, and had a pet wolf named "Lupus" that neighbors demanded he get rid of. [2]
Robert Eden Scott (April 23, 1808 – May 3, 1862) was a Virginia planter, lawyer and politician who served many terms in the Virginia General Assembly.He also represented Fauquier County at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 and the surrounding district in the Provisional Confederate Congress, until his death at the hands of Union Army deserters while defending his farm.
Thomas C. Marshall (July 21, 1784 – June 29, 1835) was a Virginia lawyer, planter and politician. He lived at Oak Hill plantation and represented Fauquier County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1830 until his death in 1835. [1]