Summerville continued to be a prosperous plantation up until the end of the Civil War, at which point all of the slaves were emancipated. This caused the plantation to go to ruin and it appears that the Summerville house was abandoned. In the late 1980s most of the Summerville tract was built over by a housing development, including the area where the house would have stood and most likely the burial grounds of the slaves and William Fleming. References External links 1736 births 1824 deaths Continental Congressmen from Virginia 18th-century American politicians House of Burgesses members Members of the Virginia House of Delegates Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia Virginia lawyers People from Cumberland County, Virginia College of William & Mary alumni