30 Apr 30, 1895, Fredericksburg Star, pg 3, col. 2:

"A Good Woman Goes to Her Rest.

Mrs. Sophia Fairfax Botts, relict of the late Wm. Botts [William Alexander Botts], died at her home in Stafford county on Monday, April 22, 1895, aged 72. She had...a great sufferer from partial paralysis for a year or more,...(she bore?) her affliction with great fortitude. She was a lady of cheerful disposition and of rare conversational powers. She leaves six children, three sons and three daughters, all grown, with numerous grand children to mourn their loss. Mrs. Botts was of ... ancestry, being a great grand daughter of Lord Fairfax of colonial...owned all the land in what is called the Northern Neck of Virginia, lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, and from the Chesapeake bay back to the Alleghany mountains. Lord Fairfax, inherited the above land from Lord Culpeper whose daughter he married. She was a sister of Col. John W. Fairfax, of Loudoun county, who was Gen. Longstreet's Chief of Staff during our late war; an aunt of Hon. Henry Fairfax of the same county, also an aunt of Messrs. R. M. and W. B. Jones of Stafford county."

Contributed by Donna Blaney Tolson