Garland-Rodes Camp Photo Montage

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Garland-Rodes Camp Photo Montage

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The Garland-Rodes Camp Photo Montage is a composition of individual photographic portraits of members of the Garland-Rodes Camp of Confederate Civil War veterans. The men pictured in the montage served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

For more information on the Garland-Rodes veterans see JML.MS1161

The following short biographies were compiled by Library staff. The biographies are for each of the 130 members of the Garland-Rodes Camp of Confederate Veterans, pictured in the montage assembled circa 1909 by Lynchburg photographer and Camp member Adam Hamilton Plecker. The biographies have been compiled from several sources, many for which copies are in each member’s folder including the following:
--Virginia Regimental Histories Series, published by H.E. Howard, Inc, of Lynchburg, VA, especially the volumes covering the majority of pictured members, namely those detailing the service of the 11th Virginia Infantry and the 2nd Virginia Cavalry.
--Obituaries, almost exclusively from the Lynchburg News – an index for finding these obituaries on microfilm is maintained by Jones Memorial Library.
--Ancestry.com US Census records and images, Virginia death certificates, Virginia marriage records, public member trees (a number of these are glaringly in error, and so noted on the printed material in each veteran’s folder), and miscellaneous ancestry.com records.
--Find-a-grave (internet website), giving birth and death data, as well as, in many cases parents, siblings and children of the referenced member.
--Lynchburg City directories.
--“Virginia Families,” a Family Tree Maker database, maintained by Jones Memorial Library staff, covering some 300,000 individuals, mostly from the Lynchburg area.
--Family files, referenced as “FF” at the end of each biography, and held at Jones Memorial Library, as well as date included in manuscripts (“MS”) at the Library, and printed biographies and family histories in the Jones collection.
--The records of the Garland-Rodes Camp of Confederate Veterans, the earliest of which are lost, but those of later years are complete, and housed in Jones Memorial Library – MS1161.

There are a few pictured members whose identity, based on the initials provided on the montage, could not be definitely established. In these cases, a biography is included for a verified member with similar initials. These biographies have an identifying code at the end in brackets, noting the initials on the montage.

001 – Williams, Jehu John, Jr. (24 June 1836, Orange Co VA – 17 Oct 1906, Lynchburg – 500 Church Street, buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Jehu John Williams, Sr., & Susannah Sanford Tompkins. He worked as a jeweler with his father before the War, and was in the dry goods business with A. B. Stratton; after the War he was in the grocery business, then entered the coal, wood and ice business with George A. Barnett. Served in Co. B, 2nd VA Cavalry (Wise Troop); then was Captain in the Quartermaster’s Department; in 1864 he was in Co. G, 11th VA Infantry; taken prisoner at Five Forks; released from Point Lookout 7 June 1865. He never married. Obituary – News, 18 Oct 1906, p. 10, col. 3; funeral article News, 20 Oct 1906, p. 10, col. 2. His sister Ann Elizabeth Williams married James Duffel Gregory, and their son was #102, William Sidney Gregory.

002 – Otey, Peter Johnston (22 Dec 1840, Lynchburg – 4 May 1902, Lynchburg – Federal Street, buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of John Mathews Otey & Lucy Wilhelmina Norvell. He worked at the Express Office, as a clerk for General Malone; entered the insurance business with #004 John Minor Blackford & W. Hays Otey; was teller of the Lynchburg National Bank, then Cashier; President of the Lynchburg & Durham Railroad; Vice-President and General Manager of Rivermont Land Company. He served on Lynchburg City Council, for a long time as its President; and was U.S. Representative from the 6th District of Virginia. He was an 1860 graduate of VMI, and a civil engineer on the Virginia & Kentucky Railroad. Served as 2nd Lieutenant in the 30th Battalion of Sharpshooters, in the 51st VA Infantry; promoted to Major, and while in the 13th VA Battalion, was captured at Waynesboro VA 2 Mar 1865, and imprisoned at Fort Delaware/Hamilton until released in June 1865. He married 14 Apr 1863, in Wytheville VA, Mary Malvina Floyd (1844-1915), daughter of Benjamin Rush Floyd, and grand-daughter of Governor John Floyd. Major Otey’s daughter Natalie Floyd Otey married Anselm Lynch Ward, first cousin of Gen. James Griffin Dearing, Jr.; their daughter was Floyd Ward (Dance Studio). He was also brother of #074 Kirkwood Otey. (See also FF1235, MS2381, MS1424, MS1877)

003 – Adams, Richard Henry Toler (6 Nov 1839, Lynchburg – 14 Nov 1900, Lynchburg, Cabell Street, buried Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Isaac Adams & Susan Elizabeth Brown DuVal. Before the War he worked in the Richmond firm of Tinsley, Tardy & Williams; post-War he was in the coal and lumber business, then with I.H. Adams & Bros. (in 1900 this was Adams Brothers & Payne Co.); then with his two brothers in the tobacco business as Adams, Chambers & Co. He was CEO of the Virginia Paving & Brick Co. of Chilhowie VA, President of the First National Bank, President of Eureka Coal & Coke Company, and of the Lynchburg Coal & Coke Company. He attended Court Street Methodist Church, serving on its Board of Stewards, and served on Lynchburg City Council. He enlisted in Co. G, 11th VA Infantry (Home Guard) as a private; became brigade commander, commander of the Light Division of Jackson’s Corps; was Captain in the Signal Service in General A.P. Hill’s division; had three horses killed under him, and was wounded at Petersburg, and paroled at Appomattox 9 April 1865. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 16 Nov 1900, pg. 4, col. 4. Resolutions of Respect were printed in the Lynchburg News by the Lynchburg Cotton Mill, of which he was Director, as well as by the Board of Stewards of Court Street Methodist Church. He married Susan Leigh Scott (1846-1930), whose brother Robert Crenshaw Scott married Mary Catherine Terrell, daughter of #034 Dr. John Jay Terrell; Susan’s sister Ella Clark Scott married #040 Cleland Kinloch Nelson, and Mr. Adams’ sister Sarah Frances DuVal Adams was wife of John Wesley Carroll (Lone Jack Smoking Tobacco). (See also FF1985, FF4650)

004 – Blackford, Charles Minor (17 Oct 1833, Fredericksburg VA – 10 Mar 1903, Lynchburg, 618 Pearl Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William Matthews Blackford & Mary Berkeley Minor (a great-grand-daughter of “King” Carter). Graduate of UVa Law School, 1853; attorney in partnership with Maj. Thomas Jellis Kirkpatrick, later with Blackford, Horsely & Blackford. President of the Virginia Bar Association, 1894/5; Lynchburg City Attorney 1869-1881; President of the Lynchburg School Board; President of People’s Savings Bank (in 1903 this was People’s National Bank); President of People’s National Bank of Brookneal and the Commercial Trust and Savings Bank. He also served on the Vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. At the beginning of the War, he was 1st Lieutenant in the Lynchburg Company of the 2nd VA Cavalry, then Captain; and later appointed Judge Advocate General on the staff of General Longstreet. Obituary – Richmond News Leader, 10 Mar 1903. He was married in 1856 to Susan Leigh Colston (1835-1916), a great-grand-daughter of Chief Justice John Marshall. He was also first cousin to #036 William Hill Blackford. (See also FF4168, FF2147, MS1793, & E605.B62 & E605.B63)

005 – Winfree, Christopher Valentine (14 Nov 1826, Lynchburg – 18 June 1902, Lynchburg, College Hill; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Christopher Winfree & Cornelia Myer Tilden. Graduated from VMI, 1848; was civil engineer with the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad (now [1902] N&W); later he went into tobacco manufacturing with Winfree & Lloyd; he was a Director of People’s National Bank, the Lynchburg Cotton Mill, and Glamorgan Pipe & Foundry Company. He served on the Board of Stewards of Court Street Methodist Church – then Memorial Methodist Church; served on the Board of Randolph-Macon Womans College, and was a charter member of the Hill City Lodge of Masons. He enlisted as 1st Lieutenant in Co. E, 11th VA Infantry (Lynchburg Rifles) under Gen. Samuel Garland’ promoted to Major of the Home Guard; paroled in Lynchburg. He first married Virginia Ann Brown (1838-1884); second to Sarah C. Doniphan (d. 1904); a daughter by his first wife was married to Walter Bowman Ryan, first cousin of Thomas Fortune Ryan, of “Oak Ridge,” Nelson County. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 June 1902, p. 6, col. 3. (See also FF4337)

006 – Horsley, John Dunscombe (30 Apr 1849, “Rock Cliff,” Norwood, Nelson Co VA – 20 Nov 1909, Lynchburg, Federal Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Dr. William M. & Eliza G. Horsley. He entered VMI in 1863, and as a cadet participated in their campaigns. After the War he finished at VMI and entered UVa law school, being admitted to the bar in 1873. He began his law practice in Nelson County, and continued until he was elevated to Judge for the circuit including Nelson County and Lynchburg, as well as adjoining counties. At this time he was a member of the firm of Horsley & Brown, and of Martin & Horsley in Buckingham. He moved to Lynchburg in 1894, becoming partners with the Blackfords; later with S. V. Kemp; and still later with Coleman & Easley; serving as counsel for the C&O and the Southern Railway. He served as President of First National Bank, as well as second VP and Director of Lynchburg Traction & Light Co. He was a longtime member of the Democratic State Committee. He was married in 1879 to Florence Massie (Tunstall) (1848-1912), sister of Senator of Senator Bland Massie, and widow of John Liggat Tunstall (great-grandson of John Lynch). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 21 Nov 1909, p. 6, col. 2.

007 – Latham, Henry Grey, II (4 Mar 1831, Lynchburg – 5 May 1903, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Henry Grey Latham, Sr., & Rebecca Jane Owen. He attended Hampden-Sydney and UVa; participated in the engineering corps for the route of (1903) N&W Railroad; then he returned to UVa, graduating in the medical department. Shortly before the War he re-located to Lynchburg from Baltimore and Richmond. He organized a company of artillery, known as the Latham Battery, one of the first companies to leave for the War. He was booked for promotion to Major when he was transferred at that rank to the medical department. After the War he was in the drug business; then a physician and surgeon in general practice. He served as President of the State Medical Board for several terms. He was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. He married Ann Elizabeth Turner (1833-1897). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 6 May 1903, p. 6, col. 4. (See also FF1719)

008 – Bowman, Nathaniel Randolph (16 Jan 1836, Prince Edward Co VA – 17 Sept 1905, Lynchburg, Church Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of James Taylor Bowman & Tabitha Lovelace. He moved to Lynchburg in 1853, and engaged in the tobacco business, then in real estate as C.I. Johnson-Bowman Real Estate Co. His Confederate service was as drill master at Camp Lee; then as a member of the 2nd VA Cavalry (Old Wise Troop); he was also a private in the Ordnance Bureau of the 20th Battalion of Heavy Artillery. He married first to Matilda Catherine Wilkes (1842-1864), and second to Annette Louise Moore (1845-1921), daughter of Maurice Moore & Sarah Snead. After the War he was President of City Council (1900), and a member of First Baptist Church. His nephew Walter B. Ryan, married Lizzie Kent Winfree, daughter of #005, Christopher Valentine Winfree. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 Sept 1905, p. 7, col. 1.

009 – Craighill, Robert Templeman (25 Apr 1843, Charles Town, Jefferson Co VA [now WV] – 26 Sept 1907, Lynchburg, 610 Court Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William Nathaniel Craighill and Sarah Elizabeth Brown. In the War he served in Co. B, 12th Va Cavalry, Rosser’s Brigade; wounded near Culpeper, he was sent to Lynchburg for hospital work – there he met his future wife, Missouri Edley Hobson (1843-1927). After the War he studied law and began his practice in 1866 with his wife’s uncle-by-marriage David Rittenhouse Edley; then with Slaughter & Craighill. Later he engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers. He was a member of the Vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, a Trustee of the Episcopal Theological Seminary (Alexandria), served on the staff of Governor Holliday, was author of Virginia Peerage, acted as Trustee of the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, and was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Virginia. Among his children were Lt. Col. Robert Edley Craighill and architect Samuel Preston Craighill. Among his brothers was Brig. General William Price Craighill of the Union Army, and Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, and #057 Edward Addison Craighill. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 28 Sept 1907, p. 4, col. 4.

010 – Snead, William Benjamin (1 Sept 1836, Staunton VA – 28 May 1918, Lynchburg, 1020 Clay Street, buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Elisha L. Snead & Susan A. Thomas. He served as private in Co. G, 11th VA Infantry, and provided a substitute 3 June 1862, due to disability; he also reportedly was in the Secret Service. His profession was carpenter – W.B. Snead & Co., and was a member of the Marshall Lodge of Masons in Lynchburg. He married 21 Feb 1862 Susanna Augusta Bailey (1844-1935). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 31 May 1918, p. 2, col. 3.

011 – Watts, Richard Thomas (5 Sept 1838, Bedford Co – 21 Sept 1910, Lynchburg, Cabell Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of War of 1812 veteran Richard Davis Watts & Isabella Eagan Newell, and brother of Mary Frances Watts (Mrs. George Morgan) Jones. After attending Emory & Henry College, he was in the wholesale merchandise business with the Jones brothers in Salisbury NC and Selma AL. In the War he was a private in Co A, 2nd VA Cavalry, 3rd Corporal in the same unit acting also as adjutant of White’s Battalion, and was a Sergeant-Major when he was wounded and captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse; he was imprisoned at Fort Delaware until the end of the War. Upon his release, he moved to Lynchburg, in business with his brother #016 James Winston Watts, and George M. Jones, as Jones, Watts & Co., wholesale house. He was Vice-President of Lynchburg Trust & Savings Bank, and a Director of the Lynchburg Cotton Mill, and attended Court Street Methodist Church. One of his grandsons was Robert Crenshaw Watts, Jr. R.T. Watts married 22 Apr 1874 Emma Margaret Hurt (1849-1911). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 22 Sept 1910, p. 10, col. 3. (See also FF3885)

012 – Langhorne, Maurice Scaisbrook (27 Mar 1823, Cumberland Co VA – 28 Mar 1908, Lynchburg, 303 Washington Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Col. Maurice H. Langhorne (War of 1812 veteran) & Elizabeth Cary Allen. Before the War he engaged in the tobacco business as M. Langhorne & Sons. In the War he was Captain of Co. A, 11th VA Infantry (Lynchburg Rifle Grays), then Lt. Colonel in May 1862; wounded at Seven Pines and promoted to Colonel, but was unable to return; he commanded the military post in Lynchburg, assigned to the Reserves. Before the end of the War he served in the Engineering Department at Richmond, under General Gilmer. After the War he returned to the tobacco business, and also served as an insurance agent. He was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the Marshall Lodge of Masons, and a Knight Templar. He married first Ann Maria Rodes (1827-1847), daughter of General David Rodes; second, Elizabeth Giles Morris (1830-1872) of Philadelphia, and third, his cousin Anne Scott Langhorne. One of his brothers was #020 Daniel Allen Langhorne. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 29 Mar 1908, p. 3, col. 1. (See also FF3027)

013 – Lewis, John Henry (30 Jan 1841, Lynchburg – 23 Feb 1907, Forest, Bedford County, on a train returning from Roanoke; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Henry Harrison Lewis & Lucy Schoolcraft. He received his B.A. from old Lynchburg College in 1860, then enrolled in law school at UVa, until his enlistment in April 1861, as private in Co. G, 11th VA Infantry (Southern Guards); he transferred in April 1862 as Lieutenant in Co. D, 20th Virginia Artillery. He was wounded at Drewry’s Bluff, and again at Saylor’s Creek, captured and imprisoned at Johnson’s Island until released 20 June 1865. He returned to UVa, and began his legal practice in 1866. He was a member of the American and Virginia Bar Associations, and a Director of First National Bank. A grandson was artist Scaisbrooke (Brookie) Langhorne Abbot. (See also FF2307, Elizabeth Lewis Otey, The Lewis, Harrison, Bezer, Schoolfield Ancestry of John H. Lewis, 1972) Obituary – Lynchburg News, 24 Feb 1907, p. 6, col. 4, and Tribute, Lynchburg News, 5 Mar 1907, p. 8, col. 3.

014 – Franklin, Thomas Henry (c1836, Charlotte Co VA – 3 Mar 1904, Pamplin City; burial place not found), son of Pleasant Franklin & Rhoda Martha Sears. In the War he served as Captain in the 58th Virginia Infantry. He was living in Lynchburg in 1900 as “insurance agent.” He married first, Mary Josephine Booth (1847-1864), and second, Idella P. Scott, both wives from Franklin County, VA.

015 – Snead, Robert Winn (29 July 1822, Albemarle Co VA – 4 Aug 1903, Lynchburg, Rivermont; buried Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Moses Snead & Martha Marshall Yates. He was Assistant Superintendent of construction for the James River & Kanawha Canal in Amherst County, also a farmer and Deputy Sheriff of Amherst County, then Sheriff, as well a proprietor of the Buffalo Springs. He raised and commanded Co. F, 50th Virginia Infantry, part of Floyd’s Brigade, until June 1862, when he was again elected Sheriff of Amherst County. Later moving to Lynchburg, he conducted a tobacco and grocery commission business with Alexander Kinnier (Kinnier & Snead – later Rucker, Hamner & Snead). He was tobacco inspector at Lynch’s Warehouse, and in 1889 was Assistant Commissioner of Revenue for Lynchburg. He was a member of the Warren Lodge No. 33, A.F. & A.M., of Amherst County. He married first, Mildred Mary Darst (1822-1850), and second, Octavia Virginia Winn (1830-1911). One of his daughters, Anna Marshall Snead (1861-1956), taught school in Lynchburg and Campbell County for more than 40 years. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 5 Aug 1903, p. 6, col. 4; 6 Aug 1903, p. 6, col. 4. (See also FF1838)

016 – Watts, James Winston (18 Apr 1833, Bedford Co VA – 3 Dec 1906, Lynchburg, Court Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of War of 1812 veteran Richard Davis Watts & Isabella Eagan Newell, and brother of Mary Frances Watts (Mrs. George Morgan) Jones. He served as Magistrate in Bedford County before the War; enlisted in April 1861 as Lieutenant in Co. A, 2nd Virginia Cavalry; was promoted to Captain in August 1861, and to Lt. Colonel in May of 1862. He was assigned to General Turner Ashby’s Brigade under Stonewall Jackson. Disabled from wounds at Aldie in July 1863, he was assigned to a post in Bedford County. After the War his professional life mirrored that of his brother #011 Richard Thomas Watts. He also served as Director of the Louisville and the Greenbrier Coal & Coke companies, was President of the National Exchange Bank and a director of this and other financial institutions in Lynchburg. He helped establish the Lynchburg Cotton Mill; served on City Council, declining re-election in 1877. He was Judge of Elections for more than 20 years, President of the Board of Police Commissioners, benefactor of Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, VA), Randolph-Macon Womans College and the Lynchburg YMCA, and a member of Court Street Methodist Church. He married 22 Feb 1854, Mary Elizabeth Jones (1833-1912), of Buckingham County. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 4 Dec 1906, p. 7, col. 1; and 6 Dec 1906, p. 6, col. 4. (See also FF3701)

017 – Payne John Meem (1 Nov 1840, Lynchburg – 16 May 1934, Amherst Co VA; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Dr. Robert Alexander Spotswood Payne & Frances Ann Russell Meem. A farmer and lawyer, Capt. Payne was for “many years” Commissioner of Accounts for Amherst County. He enlisted 21 Apr 1861; served in the 42nd Regiment, Irish Battalion; also in the Ordnance Department in Wilmington NC; he was 1st Lieutenant, PACS Ordnance, 1864/5; Captain, 3rd Co. K, 2nd Lieutenant, Co. B, 1st Virginia Infantry; resigned 18 Feb 1863, being deemed “unfit for field duty.” He married Elizabeth Allen Langhorne (1842-1936). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 17 May 1934, p. 9, col. 1. (See also MS1767: “Recollections of Lynchburg”)

018 – Carson, Theodore Myers (30 Apr 1834 Winchester VA – 23 Sept 1902, Lynchburg; buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond), son of Judge Joseph Snethen Carson & Eliza Jane Myers. A Methodist and Episcopal minister, he served as Chaplain of the 7th VA Cavalry, having graduated from Dickenson College in 1854. He was Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lynchburg. He married Victoria Ellen Allison (1844-1904). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 25 Sept 1902, in file, and Bedford Bulletin, 25 Sept 1902, p. 3, col. 1. (See also FF2720)

019 – Morgan, Robert Withers (16 June 1844, Campbell Co VA – 14 July 1904, Lynchburg; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Richard Terrell Morgan & Sophia Weston Jones. In the War he enlisted 12 Aug 1862 in Co. C, 11th Virginia Infantry; wounded later that same month; returned in March 1863; wounded again that July, and returned to service in November 1863. He was imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD, until exchanged in February 1865; paroled 27 May 1865. He was instrumental in the origination of a department of dentistry in the army, resulting in a bill establishing the Board of Dental Examiners for the army, and of which he was one of the first members. He was married to Mary Jane Moorman (1843-1921); they were parents of Lynchburg artist Georgia Morgan. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 15 July 1904, p. 5, col. 3. (See also FF4105)

020 – Langhorne, Daniel Allen (21 July 1825, Cumberland Co VA – 10 Feb 1908, Lynchburg; buried in the White Family Cemetery, Shawsville, Montgomery Co VA), son of Col. Maurice H. Langhorne & Elizabeth Cary Allen, and brother of #012 Maurice Scaisbrook Langhorne. He graduated from VMI in 1845, and then received his MD degree (1848) from the University of Pennsylvania, with further study in Edinburg, Scotland, with Sir James Young Simpson, physician to Queen Victoria. In the War, he was Lt. Colonel, 42nd Virginia Regiment; Colonel of the Provisional Army of Virginia; Commandant of a mustering post at Lynchburg; WIA at Kernstown, March 1862. He married first Sarah Wistar Morris (1829-1850); second, Virginia Preston Kent (b. 1833) of Montgomery County. He was an elder of Westminster Presbyterian Church, a member of the Marshall Lodge of Masons, and of DeMolay Commandery. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 Feb 1908, p. 10, col. 2.

021 – Franklin, James, Jr. (7 May 1839, Pittsylvania County – 18 May 1906, Lynchburg, Harrison Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of John Franklin & Martha Jane Anderson. A merchant, he came to Lynchburg in 1856, and enlisted in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry (Home Guard), 23 Apr 1861; promoted to Corporal in May, to Sergeant in early 1862, and to Lieutenant in November 1862. He was WIA in December 1862 and in May 1864, and retired to the Invalid Corps 6 March 1865. He engaged in the tobacco commission business, and served as Secretary of the Lynchburg Tobacco Association; he served several terms on City Council, and was a member of Court Street Methodist Church, the Hill City Lodge, and the DeMolay Commandery. He purchased the old Green Hill Plantation in southern Campbell County from the Pannill heirs, and gave the property to his niece and her husband, Samuel Riddley Hale, who came back from Texas to operate the farm; he also established the former Franklin Methodist Church on the Green Hill property. He married first Lucy Ann Mays (1846-1874); second to his first cousin Anna Bird Anderson (1853-1878). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 May 1906, p. 10, col. 3.

022 – Davis, Thomas Newman (7 May 1842, Amherst County – 3 May 1924, Lynchburg, 215 Harrison Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William Minor Davis & Nannie Hunter Eubank. As a student, he enlisted 22 Apr 1861 in Co. A, 11th Virginia Infantry, and was discharged 20 December 1861 (no reason in record). He was a railroad ticket agent in Lynchburg in 1880, and tax collector for the City of Lynchburg 1899-1919, and a Mason. He married Eliza Blanche Thompson of Rockbridge County (1845-1930). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 6 May 1924, p. 9, col. 1.

023 – Meem, John Gaw, Jr. (10 Feb 1833, Lynchburg – 2 Jan 1908, Washington, DC; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of John Gaw Meem, Sr., & Eliza Campbell Russell. He was a VMI graduate, Class of 1852, and spent several years as an engineer in Brazil. Upon his return, he enlisted 23 April 1861 in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, as Lieutenant; he was aide to General Kirby Smith; promoted to Captain July 1862; chief Signal Officer, November 1863, and was paroled 12 June 1865 at Shreveport LA – his obituary calls him “General” John G. Meem. He had a farm, “Mount Airy,” near Lynchburg until 1885, sold it that year and moved to Washington, serving in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and in the auditing department of the War Office. He married first, Nancy Esterbrook Cowan (1842-1896); second to Aurelia Cynthia Halsey (1845-1883), sister of #042 Stephen Peters Halsey. “General” Meem’s sister Eliza Campbell Meem was wife of General Samuel Garland; and #017 John Meem Payne, was his nephew. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 3 Jan 1908, p. 6, col. 3. (See also FF1761)

024 – Butts, Daniel Gregory Claiborne (10 Oct 1848, Brunswick Co VA – 13 Nov 1930, “Done Moving Cottage,” Oceanna VA; buried Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk VA), son of Augustine Claiborne Butts & Anna Maria Claiborne. A Methodist minister, graduate of Randolph Macon College (Ashland), he served the old Centenary Methodist congregation of Lynchburg around the turn of the century. In the War he was Chaplain of the VMI Cadet Corps. He married Alphronia Emma Swann (1847-1934). Autobiography – “From Saddle to City by Buggy, Boat, and Railway,” was published in 1922. In Lynchburg he was a member of Marshall Lodge, A.F. & A.M. He was also a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, and Chaplain of the R.E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, of Hampton. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 14 Nov 1930, p. 9, col. 2.

025 – Pfeiffer, John Casper (25 Oct 1837, Germany – 30 Dec 1906, Lynchburg, 1417 Main Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), parents not found. By profession he was a merchant tailor, and was in Richmond’s Co. E, 13th Virginia Infantry, in the War, and moved to Lynchburg around 1878; he served as Quartermaster of the Garland-Rodes Camp for some time. He married Wilhelmina R. Quantz (1852-1935). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 1 Jan 1907, p. 6, col. 3.

026 – Martin, Rawley White (30 Sep 1835, Halifax Co VA – 20 Apr 1912, Lynchburg, 1309 Clay Street; buried in Chatham Burial Park, Pittsylvania County), son of Dr. Chesley Martin (who took part in several battles of the War with the rank of Captain) & Rebecca M. White. Dr. Martin was educated at UVa, and received his doctorate in medicine in 1858 at the University of New York. He began his practice at Chatham, but almost immediately enlisted 22 Apr 1861, in the Chatham Grays (Co. I, 43rd Virginia Regiment), quickly rising to 1st Lieutenant. He was promoted to Major in the spring of 1863, then Lt. Colonel. He was slightly wounded at Seven Pines, and was supposedly the first in Pickett’s Division to go over the stone wall at Gettysburg, and was gravely wounded there, captured and hospitalized, being a prisoner at Fort McHenry and Point Lookout until May of 1864 when he was exchanged. Then he was on detached duty in South Carolina, and was paroled at Bowling Green in June 1865, and resumed his medical practice at Chatham until 1895, when he moved to Lynchburg. He was a member of the Board of Visitors for UVa and VMI, served as President of the State Board of Health, the Board of Medical Examiners, and the State Medical Society; he was largely responsible for the establishment of the State Sanitarium at Catawba. He was also a member of the Baptist Church, and of the Hill City Lodge, No. 183, A.F. & A.M. He married in 1867 to Ellen Douglass Johnson (1845-1921) of Chatham. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 21 Apr 1912. (See also FF1931)

027 – Woodroof, Supra C. (c1832, Lynchburg – 29 Feb 1908, Richmond; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg), son of Jesse Woodroof & Elizabeth ___. He was associated before the War in Lynchburg with his brother, Seth Woodroof (see MS1047), slave dealer. Around 1885 he relocated to Richmond, becoming a guard at the State Penitentiary there, and there he died of injuries sustained in a fall from the prison wall. In the War he served in Captain Shoemaker’s Horse Artillery and the Beauregard Rifles. In Richmond he attended Monumental Church, and often attended meetings of the Lee Camp of Confederate veterans in Richmond, and was a Mason and a Knight Templar. He never married, and was, per his obituary, the last member of his family. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 1 March 1908, p. 13, col. 2. (See also FF4356)

028 – Porter, Charles Eugene (10 Aug 1842, Dover, DE – 3 March 1908, Lynchburg; buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond). He moved to Virginia during the War, and served in the Confederate Navy, enlisting 4 May 1861 at Aquia Creek Landing, and served as a gunner; he resigned in early 1862 to recruit members for the Maryland Confederate Cavalry, and in October 1862 enlisted as a private in Capt. Massie’s Company of the Fluvanna Artillery. In August 1863 he transferred back to the Navy, stationed at Richmond on the CSS Arctic and the CSS Neuse; by December of 1863 he was commissioned “Full Gunner,” and was eventually transferred to the CSS Richmond of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. He escaped the fall of Richmond by train to Danville, then to North Carolina, where he was paroled in Greensboro, 26 April 1865. He moved to Lynchburg around 1880, and was a founder associated with the local railroads, especially the C&O. He married first Virgilia Adelaide Boatwright (1839-1899), sister of #054 Robert Henry Boatwright; second to Blanche Estelle Johnson, who survived him. In Lynchburg he was a member of College Hill Baptist Church, and a Mason. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 4 March 1908, p. 4, col. 4.

029 – Aunspaugh, Robert Tilghman (3 Sept 1838, Bedford – 6 Nov 1905, Chase City; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Frederick Aunspaugh & Elizabeth Duncan Parker. He first served as 3rd Lieutenant, then 2nd Lt., in Company B, 10th Virginia Artillery, having enlisted 8 May 1861 in Bedford County; by April of 1864 he was Acting Assistant Quartermaster. He also served in Co. I, 42nd Virginia Infantry. After being engaged in the mercantile business in Bedford, he moved to Lynchburg in 1883, and was managing partner in Aunspaugh, Cobbs & Company. He moved to South Boston in 1904 and was in business as the Old Dominion Hardware Company. He first married Anna Malinda Claytor (1839-1891); second to Mary Martha Owen (1864-1912); he was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Marshall Lodge of Masons, and first President of the Board of Trustees of the Home and Retreat in Lynchburg. One of his daughters was wife of James Roland Kyle (See MS1856). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 7 Nov 1905, p. 6, col. 4, and 8 Nov 1905, p. 6, col. 3.

030 – Childs, John William (9 Jan 1845, Campbell County – 15 Sept 1930, Lynchburg, 911 Rivermont Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Rev. John Wesley Childs & Martha Binns Susannah Rives. He lived with his family for some time in Mississippi; then in Buckingham County. He enlisted in Company K, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and acted as a special courier between the War Department and the Army of Northern Virginia – the family treasured (1930) his commendation letter from Robert E Lee. He also served as Lieutenant in the Lynchburg Light Artillery. He came to Lynchburg immediately after the War, working for the Consolidated Railway Express Company; then was in charge of the export trade for the Lynchburg Tobacco Company; then as an insurance agent, and in the real estate business. He was Treasurer and Sunday School Superintendent for Rivermont Methodist Church, and for many years was chairman of the board of the Overseers of the Poor. He married Lucy Howard Brown (1852-1947). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 16 Sept 1930, p. 9, col. 1.

031 – Graves, Jeremiah Hunt (12 Jan 1844, Pittsylvania County – 29 Jan 1908, Pittsylvania County; buried at the Chiles’ River View Plantation, Hurt, Pittsylvania County), son of Jeremiah White Graves & Nancy Richardson Hunt. A farmer, he served as Corporal in Co. G, 6th Virginia Cavalry, and was hospitalized in Petersburg in 1862; he saw duty as Ordnance Sergeant in 1863, and was a POW in Hanover in 1864, and released 27 June 1865 from Elmira NY (some records are contradictory on this matter). He married Amanda Myrtalis Cleopatra Cook (1849-1938); in 1887/8 they lived in Lynchburg, and he was partner in the firm of Peak & Graves. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 30 Jan 1908, p. 6, col. 2.

032 – Reed/Reade, James Claiborne/Clayton (1 Nov 1842, Pasquotank Co NC – 7 Jan 1935, Blackstone VA; buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Blackstone), son of Lemuel Sutton Reed & Pharaba White. He was attending Randolph-Macon College (later served as a Trustee there) when he enlisted in the Bedford Light Artillery; he lost a hand in battle, and returned to duty with one hand, rising to the rank of Sergeant. He graduated after the War with his D.D. from UVa, and became a Methodist minister, and served as Grand Chaplain of the United Confederate Veterans. He held twelve pastorates in his career, including one in Lynchburg; and was presiding elder over six districts. He was Dean of the School of Religion at Blackstone in the 1920’s. His younger brother was the celebrated Dr. Walter Reed. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 8 Jan 1935, p. 4, col. 3.

033 – Garland, Maurice Hamner (14 May 1841, Mecklenburg County [Randolph-Macon College] – 26 Jan 1908, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Dr. Landon Carter Garland & Louisa Frances Garland. He was a student at the University of Alabama, leaving in his junior year, being appointed cadet drill master, and serving in that capacity until April 1862, when he enlisted as a Private in the 39th Alabama; he was shortly promoted to Lieutenant. He served as aide to his cousin General Samuel Garland, and as an aide in General Longstreet’s staff. He then served as a private in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and then made 1st Lieutenant in General Lee’s corps of engineers; then transferred as Captain in Co. E, 3rd Regiment Engineers in Mobile, Alabama. He was captured on 9 April 1865, and paroled in May. After the War he was a farmer in Amherst County, and served that county as surveyor; he moved to Lynchburg in 1888, serving the City as surveyor. He became a Mason in Alabama, never transferring his membership. He married Lucy Bertrand Galt (1841-1890). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 28 Jan 1908, p. 6, col. 3. (See also notes in “Virginia Families,” and several Garland Family Files)

034 – Terrell, John Jay (8 Aug 1829, Patrick County – 26 Jan 1908, “Rock Castle,” Campbell County; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Dr. Christopher Johnson Terrell & Susan Kennerly. The family was living in Booneville, MO, when his father died, and at age 14, he came to Campbell County to live with his aunt Miss Judith Terrell, and was in attendance at the last meeting of the Quaker community at South River. He attended Emory & Henry College, Richmond College, and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, finishing at the head of his class in 1853. He enlisted to serve in the Mexican War, but only received training at Fortress Monroe, and returned to Campbell County and to his education. In the Civil War Dr. Terrell was assigned to Lynchburg as assistant to Dr. Owen; he was in charge of Burton’s Hospital (4th & Harrison), where he managed to control the smallpox outbreak. He was the oldest member of the Marshall Lodge, A.F. & A.M., and was on the original board of Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, a member of the Campbell County Board of Health, and represented the county in the State legislature, 1885-89. He married Susan Helen Wade (1840-1919). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 8 Nov 1922, p. 8, col. 3. (See also FF2354)

035 – Williams, Edward G. (8/12 Aug 1843, Bedford County -18 Apr 1921, Phelps Co MO; buried in the Smith Cemetery there), son of Edward D. Williams & Martha E. Jones. He enlisted 19 Apr 1861 in Co. E., 11th Virginia Infantry; promoted to Sergeant early 1862; WIA 16 May 1864, and left leg amputated. He moved to Missouri about 1875, and served as Pulaski County (MO) clerk for more than 40 years. He married Emeline Moffitt (1842-1915).

036 – Blackford, William Hill (27 Dec 1841, Page/Shenandoah Co VA – 17 Oct 1910 Baltimore, MD; buried in Baltimore), son of Thomas Thornberg Blackford & Caroline Steenbergen. As a student he enlisted 23 April 1861 in Lynchburg in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry; promoted to Corporal the next month; to Sergeant in 1862; and Lieutenant in August 1862. In Richmond he was drill master at the conscript camp. He was a first cousin of #004 Charles Minor Blackford. He enlisted as a student, 23 Apr 1861, in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry; promoted to Corporal; then Sergeant; then Lieutenant 30 Aug 1862, and was assigned to Richmond as drill master at a conscript camp. He moved to Baltimore soon after the War after a stop in Parkersburg, WV, where he engaged in the insurance business for 3 years, where he was general agent for Maryland for Guardian Mutual Insurance Company of New York. By 1879 he was manager of agencies for Maryland Life Insurance Company, and was elected President of that Company in 1887. He was one of the first directors of the Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co; and in the 1890’s was a director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Parkersburg Branch Railroad. He served as a Director of the Eutaw Savings Bank, and was a member of the Maryland Club, the Baltimore Country Club, the Merchant’s Club, and the Bachelor’s Cotillion Club. He married a widow, Mrs. Alice Beirne Steenbergen-Porter. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 18 Oct 1910, p. 12, col. 5. (See also several family files on this family as well as MS1793)

037 – Worrell, Virgil Armistead Stuart (15 Aug 1843, Carroll Co VA – 18 Nov 1910, Lynchburg, 2107 Park Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Peter Worrell & Martha Hall. He enlisted in Carroll County, in Co. D, 29th Virginia Infantry, and reportedly deserted to the enemy 15 Feb 1865. He moved to Lynchburg around 1885, and worked as a carpenter in 1899. He was a member of College Hill Baptist Church, and married in 1872, Louise Kemp Gaines (1847-1922). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 Nov 1915, p. 6, col. 2.

038 – Steptoe, Nathaniel Macon (27 Oct 1844, “Federal Hill,” Bedford County – 18 Aug 1925, Lynchburg; buried at Trinity Episcopal Church, Boonsboro, Bedford County), son of Thomas Steptoe & Catherine Louisa Yancey, and grandson of longtime Bedford clerk James Steptoe & his wife Frances Callaway. He enlisted at age 16, while a student at the old Lynchburg College, as a private in Kirkpatrick’s Battery of the Amherst Light Artillery. He was brother of #056 William Tudor Steptoe, and served for many years as postmaster at Holcomb Rock in Bedford County. He married Sallie Virginia Harris (1843-1916). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 Aug 1925, p. 2, col. 3.

039 – Holt, Robert Lee (14 Apr 1845, Campbell County – 18 Mar 1912, Lynchburg, 1015 Polk Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Henry Smith Holt & Mary Lightfoot Bailey. He enlisted 10 July 1863, in Co. E, 11th Virginia Infantry, having been in Co. H of the 15th Virginia Infantry, being transferred in exchange for Samuel S. McCormack. He moved to Lynchburg after the War (around 1895), after being a farmer near Brookneal for a number of years. In Lynchburg he conducted a general store. A member in Lynchburg of First Baptist Church, he married Catherine Melissa Terry (1854-1919). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 Mar 1912, p. 6, col. 4, 5.

040 – Nelson, Cleland Kinloch (2 Sept 1842, “Elk Hill,” Bedford County – 22 Mar 1922, Lynchburg, Peakland; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Dr. Thomas Hugh Nelson & Sarah Ann Alexander, and a great-grandson of Governor Thomas Nelson. He attended St. John’s College, Annapolis, and VMI, leaving to enlist 1 March 1862, in Co. G, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 15 March 1863; was wounded and captured at Saylor’s Creek, and imprisoned at Johnson’s Island for 3 months. He also served in Co. F, 28th Virginia Infantry. After the War he was deputy collector of internal revenue for Lynchburg. His wife was Ella Clark Scott (1852-1936), whose sister was wife of #003 R.H.T. Adams, and whose brother married a daughter of #034 Dr. J.J. Terrell. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 23 March 1922, p. 8.

041 – VanNess, John Isaac (22 Jan 1839, Baltimore, MD – 28 Aug 1919, Charlotte, NC, buried in Baltimore), son of William Isaac VanNess & Jerusha Elizabeth Earl. His Confederate service record, according to Garland-Rodes records, was in Co. B, Henley’s Battalion. By 1873 he was in Lynchburg as a photographer, and by 1900 operated a marble works on Main Street. His wife was Martha Sherman.

042 – Halsey, Stephen Peters (13 Nov 1843, Lynchburg – 1 March 1939, Lynchburg, 701 Court Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Seth Halsey & Julia D. B. Peters. As a senior at Emory & Henry College, he enlisted as a private in Co. G, 2nd Virginia Cavalry Radford Rangers), and later was transferred to the 21st Virginia Cavalry as Captain, 25 Oct 1862; then promoted to Major, 31 Aug 1863. His service was mostly under his uncle, Col. William E. Peters. After the War he conducted a tobacco business as S.P. Halsey, Tobacconist; he was part-owner of the Arlington Coal Co, the Pocahontas Fuel Co., the Pocahontas Coal Sales Co., and the Meem-Haskins Coal Co. He was President of the old Commercial Bank, which merged in 1897 with First National Bank. As a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, he served as vestryman and senior warden. He married Rebecca Emily Holmes (1849-1924), and was the last member of the Garland-Rodes Camp, UCV. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 2 March 1939, p. 8, col. 4. (See also FF1159)

043 – Hutter, James Risque (22 Oct 1841, “Sandusky,” Lynchburg – 13 June 1923; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of George Christian Hutter & Harriet James Risque. He graduated from VMI in 1860; enlisted 10 May 1861 in Co. H, 11th Virginia Infantry, as 2nd Lieutenant; was promoted to Captain; was WIA and captured at Gettysburg, and was promoted to Major during his imprisonment; exchanged in early 1865. He returned to his unit, only to be re-captured, 1 April 1865, at Five Forks; he was released from Johnson’s Island, OH, 25 July 1865. His occupation is given as farmer and surveyor. He married his cousin, Charlotte Stanard Hutter (1857-1920). Obituary not found. (See also MS1376 & Hutter Letters [MS1336])

044 – DeWitt, Clinton (6 Aug 1834, Hadley or Springfield, MA – 4 Feb 1911, Lynchburg, Church Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Benjamin DeWitt & Mary Eastman. He came to Lynchburg about 1857 and engaged in business with C.S. Bliss. At the beginning of the War he was one of the original members of the Home Guard – Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, enlisting 23 Apr 1861. Owing to impaired health he was assigned to a Lynchburg hospital. After the War he engaged in the shoe business, and in 1878 entered the tobacco business with Mayor G.W. Smith and #122 Gen. John Holmes Smith. He married Octavia Robin McDaniel Otey (1848-1915). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 5 Feb 1911, p. 6, col. 4.

045 – Tanner, Reuben Thomas (27 Apr 1844, Bedford County – 17 June 1927, Lynchburg, 1108 Rivermont Avenue; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Solomon H. Tanner & Anna Elizabeth Reynolds. He was a member of Co. F, 21st Virginia Cavalry, and later in the courier service, during which he was captured and imprisoned. After the War, he first was Captain of a packet boat on the James River & Kanawha Canal; then he became a railroad contractor. He retired after about 15 years with the City Police Department, then conducted a retail grocery store on Grace Street. He was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, and a brother of #047 John David Tanner. He married Susan Eliza Powers (1849-1939). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 18 June 1927, p. 3, col. 2.

046 – Wright, John James (17 Jan 1841, Buckingham County – 8 Oct 1906, Lynchburg, 315 Walnut Street; buried in Concord, Campbell County [per obituary, but there is a gravestone in Presbyterian Cemetery]), son of Thomas Smith Wright & Martha Elizabeth Patterson. He served during the War in Co. F, 28th Virginia Infantry (Kirkpatrick’s Battery), enlisting as a farmer, detailed as a teamster, paroled at Appomattox, and moved to Lynchburg about 1902, and was a member of Centenary Methodist Church. His wife was Susan Elizabeth Litchford (1853-1917). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 9 Oct 1906, p. 8, col. 5.

047 – Tanner, John David (12 Dec 1841, Bedford County – 14 June 1924, Lynchburg, 527 Church Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Solomon H. Tanner & Anna Elizabeth Reynolds, and brother of #045 Reuben Thomas Tanner. He enlisted in April 1861 in Co. F, 28th Virginia Infantry, as Corporal, and was wounded twice at Gaines’ Mill, disabled for several months. Again wounded at Gettysburg, he was eventually captured at Saylor’s Creek as an acting Sergeant, and imprisoned at Point Lookout. After the War he moved to Lynchburg with total assets of 50 cents, worked at several jobs until becoming Captain of a canal boat; later he became a grocer and merchant. He served on City Council, was a Mason, and a member of First Baptist Church. He married Elvira Booker Boley (1842-1925). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 15 June 1824, p. 4, col. 4.

048 – Miller, Thomas Cecil (12 Oct 1842, “Cedar Forest,” Pittsylvania County – 2 June 1926, Lynchburg, 301 Fauquier Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Samuel Thomas Miller & Frances Elizabeth Fitzpatrick. With an occupation given as “clerk,” he enlisted in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry; was WIA 30 June 1862 at Mechanicsville, and discharged that November due to disability. He then attended UVa to become a teacher as his father had been; he first taught in the City’s private schools, then in 1871 was among the original staff of Lynchburg High School, becoming Principal in 1891, returning to teaching in 1909, and retiring in 1910. He was a member and deacon of Rivermont Baptist Church. T.C. Miller School was named in his honor. He first married Mary Hunt Coleman (1843-1888), and second to Helen Gregory (1847-1906), sister of #102 William Sidney Gregory, and whose mother was sister of #001 Jehu John Williams. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 3 June 1926, p. 8, col. 4.

049 – Saunders, Peter James (c1835, Mississippi – 20 Dec 1913, Washington, DC; buried in the old City Cemetery, Lynchburg), son of John Hyde Saunders & Permelia Pettus, who had moved from Virginia soon after their marriage in 1833. He enlisted 26 April 1861 in Oxford, Mississippi, as a private in Co. A, 11th Mississippi Regiment of Pickett’s Division, and toward the end of the War was captured at Ford’s Depot, and imprisoned at Point Lookout until his release 20 June 1865. He moved to Lynchburg immediately after the War, and engaged in carpentry work until his retirement. He was married to a cousin, Jane Anne Pettus (1845-1937).

050 – Fox, Edward M. (29 Apr 1842, Lynchburg – 20 June 1926, Old Soldiers’ Home, Richmond; buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond), son of James Fox & Mary Wood. He enlisted 15 May 1861 in Co. H, 11th Virginia Infantry, as a private. He was wounded at Gettysburg, and returned to duty in January of 1864, even after having lost the use of his right hand. His occupation was farmer, and by 1900 was identified as a stone cutter. He was married to Susanna J. Smith (1851-1911). Obituary in Richmond newspaper, 21 June 1926, states that relations had not been located.

051 – Massie, John Lindsey (1 May 1845, Lynchburg – 2 Feb 1913, Amherst County; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Charles Henry Massie & Mary Lindsey Coleman. He enlisted as a private in Co. B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry; was promoted to Corporal in December of 1863, having been wounded the previous July at Shepherdstown. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1864. He was a farmer in Campbell and Amherst counties, and was married to Maria Patillo Cole (1847-1888). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 4 Feb 1913, p. 12, col. 5.

052 – Larkin, Thomas Napoleon (6 Sept 1842, Prince William County – 25 June 1913, Lynchburg; buried at Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William W. Larkin & Elizabeth J. Ashford. He enlisted 1 Oct 1862 in Co. D, 39th Virginia Cavalry, as a Sergeant; at one time acting as courier for General Lee. He moved to Lynchburg after the War, engaging in the dry goods business, and later in the real estate business; and he was an assessor for the City. He was a member of Court Street Methodist Church. He never married. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 26 June 1913, p. 10, col. 1.

053 – Karnes, James Edward (28 Dec 1844, Bedford County – 31 Dec 1922, Lynchburg, 203 F Street; buried at Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Samuel/Sampson R. Karnes & Damaris Boothe Olney. His War service was as a Private in Co. F, 28th Virginia Infantry (Hunter’s Brigade), and he was listed as deserted (Nov 1862), under arrest (Sept 1863), and imprisoned at Castle Thunder, Richmond. By the end of 1863, he is back with the unit, and still on the rolls at the end of 1864. A farmer in Bedford County, he moved to Lynchburg before 1880, becoming the only mayor of the town of Danielsville (Daniels Hill) before the area became part of Lynchburg. One of the organizers of Cabell Street Methodist Church (Rivermont Avenue Methodist), he was also a member of Marshall Lodge No. 39, A.F. & A.M., and of the Lynchburg Chapter No. 10, Royal Arch Masons. He was married to Sarah F. Garrett (1849-1931), who applied for his pension after his death. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 2 Jan 1923, p. 8, col. 5.

054 – Boatwright, Robert Henry (1842, Cumberland County – 9 May 1909, Lynchburg, 1014 Clay Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of William S. Boatwright & Mary Paine. His sister Virgilia was wife of #028 Charles Eugene Porter. Enlisting in Richmond as “salesman,” 20 June 1861, he served during the War in Snead’s Battery of the First Fluvanna Light Artillery, rising to the rank of 2nd Corporal, and surrendered at the end of the War at Chatham. After the War he moved to Lynchburg he captained a packet boat on the James River & Kanawha Canal; then he was cashier for the Richmond & Alleghany railway, then for the C&O Railroad. He eventually became their commercial agent. He was a member of First Baptist Church, the Hill City Lodge, A.F. & A.M. He married Louisa Carrie Harris (1836-1922), widow of Henry Clay Steptoe. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 May 1909, p. 6, col. 4.

055 – Jones, William Barbour, Jr. (7 March 1841 Lynchburg – 19 June 1913, Lynchburg, 2237 Rivermont Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William Barbour Jones, Sr., & Jane Grey Henderson. In the War, as a student, he enlisted 22 April 1861 in Co. A, 11th Virginia Infantry; was captured in 1864, and exchanged 14 March 1865. After the War he is listed in 1880 as a dealer in musical instruments, and by 1900 is identified as “editor,” of The Farmer’s Guide (See Virginia Newspapers, 1821-1935), and as agent for the News Herald (apparently a short-lived Lynchburg newspaper). He married Mary Susan Irvin (1850-1907). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 21 June 1913, p. 6, col. 3.

056 – Steptoe, William Tudor (4 Apr 1847, “Federal Hill,” Bedford County – 17 Oct 1911, Lynchburg, 1115 Polk Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Thomas & Catherine Louisa Yancey, and brother of #038 Nathaniel Macon Steptoe. He enlisted in Maryland, 9 Aug 1864, as a private in the Amherst Light Artillery (Kirkpatrick’s Battery), was wounded at Winchester 19 Sept 1864, and hospitalized at Charlottesville and Lynchburg. Upon his return he was taken POW at Waynesboro and sent to Fort Delaware, from which he was released 21 June 1865. After the War he eventually settled in Lynchburg, becoming a whiskey merchant and saloon keeper. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Elks. He married Ada Augusta Jordan (1851-1947). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 18 Oct 1911, p. 10, col. 2.

057 – Craighill, Edward Addison (2 Nov 1840, Jefferson County, (now) WV – 2 Jan 1923, Lynchburg, 608 Court Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of William Nathaniel Craighill & Sarah Elizabeth Brown, and brother of #009 Robert Templeman Craighill, and of Brig. Gen. William Price Craighill of the Union Army. Moving to Lynchburg after the War, he was a retail druggist, once in partnership as Faulkner & Craighill (later Craighill & Jones), a director of the Lynchburg Virginian, President of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Society, a member of the Lynchburg Industrial Society, a director of First National Bank, and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Central State Hospital. He was a 33rd Degree Mason, a member of the Marshall Lodge of Lynchburg, the Royal Arch Masons, the DeMolay Commandery, the Knights Templar, and served on City Council for five terms. He was also a member of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, and married Martha Ann Hobson (1855-1948), a sister of the wife of #122 Gen. John Holmes Smith. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 3 Jan 1923, p. 8, col. 5. (See also FF2015)

058 – Boland, John Eberhard (8 Dec 1842, Prussia – 15 Oct 1933, Falls Church, VA; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Eberhard Boland & Elizabeth ___. He came to America at age 9, and was engaged in farming with his father at his enlistment, 23 June 1861, as a private in Co. H, 11th Virginia Infantry. He served as a driver; was WIA 5 May 1862, a POW at Malvern Hill 1 July 1862, and exchanged 5 Aug 1862. Following this, he was present through the end of 1864, and post-War returned to farming in the Lawyers area of Campbell County. He married Susan McConville (1842-1920). Obituary (funeral notice) – Lynchburg News, 17 Oct 1933, p. 9, col. 3

059 – Hawkins, John Fourqueran, Jr. (16 Sept 1844, Bedford County – 25 Dec 1935, Boonsboro, Bedford County; buried at Shiloh Methodist Church, Forest), son of J.F. Fourqueran, Sr., & Lucinda Ann Campbell. He enlisted 1 April 1862, in Orange County, in the Amherst Light Artillery (Kirkpatrick’s Battery), and served in that unit throughout the War, even after being wounded several times, and had been promoted to Sergeant by May of 1862. After the War, he returned to farming in the Hawkins Mill area. He was married to Mattie B. Newell (1848-1897) of the Shenandoah Valley. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 27 Dec 1935, p. 8, col. 7.

060 – Colvin, Robert Mason (13 May 1845, Campbell County – 28 Jul 1938, Harrisonburg; buried there in Woodbine Cemetery), son of Robert Colvin (also a Confederate veteran) and Lucy Lee Andrew. He served with his father and brothers in Co. E, 11th Virginia Infantry, officially enlisting 15 April 1864, having run away to fight with the unit at age 15. He was taken prisoner at Milford Station, 21 May 1864, and exchanged 14 March 1865 from Point Lookout, MD, and paroled in Lynchburg, 13 April 1865. He took special interest in the compilation of the history of the Southern Confederacy, and was also a member of the S.V. Givens Camp, UCV, in Harrisonburg. He retired from a career as a railroad engineer. His wife was Lelia Susan Reynolds (d. 1904). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 29 July 1938, p. 8, col. 5.

061 – Lawson, James Robert (c1835, Charlotte County – 18 Apr 1911, Lynchburg, 605 6th Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of James Lawson & Sarah Pugh. He was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, and was a retail salesman. He married Mary Ann Wash (1850-1940). Per the records of Garland-Rodes, he served in Co. B, 46th Virginia Infantry, enlisting in Appomattox County, and may have been captured in 1862. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 April 1911, p. 10, col. 2.

062 – May, Henry C. (c1839, NC – 28 July 1924, Franklin Co NC; buried there in the May Family Cemetery), son of Tom May & Bettie Ross, per his NC death certificate. He was living in Lynchburg at least from 1900 to 1920, as a retail merchant. He is listed in the 1900 Census as a widower. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 30 July 1924, p. 7, col. 2.

063 – Lee, James Isaac (c1836, Tipton Co TN – 14 July 1925, Lynchburg, Virginia Baptist Hospital; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of William Garnett Lee & Mary Brown Adams, and first cousin of #003 R.H.T. Adams. Then occupied as a carpenter, he entered Confederate service in May 1861, in Co. F, 2nd Virginia Cavalry as a private; he was promoted through the ranks, eventually to Lieutenant. He was wounded three times, once at Cold Harbor, and had a horse shot from under him there, as well as twice in other engagements. For many years he conducted an extensive wholesale grocery business, as Lee & Co. He was active in the development of the City of Lynchburg, serving about 25 years on City Council; he was a member of Court Street Methodist Church, and of DeMolay Commandery, Knights Templar. His wife was Nannie Branch Anthony (1845-1895). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 16 July 1925, p. 8, col. 4.

064 – Rucker, Joshua Tinsley (12 Apr 1837, Bedford County – 9 Apr 1915, “Sholto,” near Boonsboro, Bedford County; buried in the Meriwether Cemetery in Bedford County), son of Joshua Rucker & Emily Tinsley. A farmer and notary, he enlisted in Co. G, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Kirkpatrick’s Battery, and was wounded four times. A member of Trinity Episcopal Church at Boonsboro, he married Lucy Ellen Harris, of Nelson County, sister of the wife of #038 N.M. Steptoe. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 6 April 1915, p. 12, col. 3.

065 – Adams, Stephen (24 Feb 1829, Schoharie Co NY – 21 March 1915, Lynchburg, 809 Clay Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of John Lawson Adams & Hannah Birdsall. He attended Albany Academy and Yale, during which time his parents moved to Lynchburg. After graduation he was first in Raleigh County, now WV, and practiced law there until the beginning of the War. He then organized a company (Adams’ Battalion) which was transferred to Wharton’s Brigade, Co. A, Virginia Sharpshooters. He was wounded at Winchester, 19 Sept 1864, while commanding the 30th Virginia Battalion, and was taken prisoner; after his recuperation, he was exchanged. After the War he came Lynchburg to engage in his law practice (he could not practice in WV since he had been a Confederate). He was a member of the Marshall Lodge of Masons, and of Court Street Methodist Church. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1870-1880, and was Judge of the Campbell County court. He married Emma Camm Saunders (1834-1926). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 23 march 1915, p. 6, col. 5. (See also FF2081)

066 – Leftwich, Lincoln Clark (19 Oct 1833, Lynchburg – 14 June 1907, Lynchburg, Home & Retreat; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Col. Augustine Leftwich & (second wife) Ann Elizabeth Williams Clark. He attended New London Academy and St. John’s College in Mobile, AL; shortly thereafter he shipped himself out of New Bedford MA on a whaling ship. When the boat stopped in New Zealand, he jumped ship for the interior, and dissuaded some of the crew from returning him. After a short stint at sheep ranching in New Zealand, he boarded another ship for Hong Kong, and became first mate on a Baltimore clipper; he left that excursion in England, then traveled to Paris to take a course in civil engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique. After returning home he engaged in the tobacco business with his father, who sent him to Australia on business and as a tourist. Back home when the War started, he was at Fort Sumter, and joined Latham’s Battery in Lynchburg, as Lieutenant. He claimed the distinction of having fired the first gun at First Manassas; was wounded on several occasions, was promoted to Captain and Chief of Staff to Gen. VanHorn; he was later Major with Generals Morgan and Forest. In early 1864 he received a commission as Lieutenant on the Confederate blockade runner CSS Minnie, which was captured 13 May 1864 by the Federals. He was to become one of the “Immortal Six Hundred,” imprisoned at Morris’ Island in Charleston harbor. He was moved to Hilton Head, then to Fort Delaware, from which he was paroled after the War. After returning to Lynchburg, he engaged in his own tobacco business, then moved to a farm in Amherst County, retiring back to Lynchburg before his death. He was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, and was married to Susan Jane Jackson (1845-1917). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 15 June 1907, p. 6, col. 4.

067 – Stratton, Robert Alexander Brooks (14 Nov 1835, Nelson County – 8 Jan 1926, Lynchburg, 2212 Memorial Avenue; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Asa Stratton & Elizabeth Marble Whitehead. He came to Lynchburg in 1860, and was a dry goods merchant. His War service began with enlistment as private in Co. E, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, 12 March 1862; he was still in that unit upon being promoted to 5th Sergeant, 15 March 1864, having had his own horse killed, for which he was paid $300. He was married first to Mary Elizabeth Whitehead (Peyton) (1850-1881), and second to Mary Eleanor Bruce (1853-1886). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 9 Jan 1926, p. 2, col. 5.

068 – Goode, Richard Bennett (19 March 1845, Charlotte County – 5 Dec 1914, Lynchburg, 510 Federal Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Hillary Mackerness Langston Goode & Sarah Anderson Boyd. He enlisted in Mary 1862, at Petersburg, in the 3rd Company, Hardaway’s/Howitzer’s Light Artillery, and surrendered at Appomattox 9 April 1865. His wife was a cousin, Panthea Burwell Goode (1849-1925). They moved to Lynchburg in 1885, continuing his occupation as a merchant. He was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and by 1899 is listed as “high constable,” for the City of Lynchburg. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 6 Dec 1913, p. 10, col. 2.

069 – Nowlin, William David (1 Sept 1836, Lynchburg – 18 Sept 1924, Lynchburg, 708 Euclid Avenue; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Joseph Bryant Nowlin & Susan B. Jones. He was engaged in the express business in Lynchburg upon his enlistment in Moorman’s (later Shoemaker’s) Battery of Stewart’s Artillery. After the War he was deputy City Treasurer for more than 50 years, and a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. His wife was Ella Margaret Poole (1841-1903), of Wheeling. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 Sept 1924, p. II-10, col. 1.

070 – Thompson, Joseph Louis (28 Dec 1840, Fluvanna County – 30 June 1927, Richmond; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of William Daniel Thompson & Mary Scott Clement. The family moved to Lynchburg a few years before the War, for which he enlisted 23 Apr 1861 as private in Co. D, 38th Battalion of Heavy Artillery, rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. After the War he was occupied first as a carpenter; then as a furniture dealer, eventually, by 1910 as a traveling salesman for furniture. He was one of the organizers of the original YMCA in the City, and the oldest member of Centenary Methodist Church. His wife was Mary Louise Waddill (1844-1936). Obituary, Lynchburg News, 1 July 1927, p. 2, col. 5.

071 – Early, John Cabell (28 Feb 1848, Kanawha Co [now WV] – 25 June 1909, Lynchburg, “The Pines,” near Rivermont; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Capt. Samuel Henry Early & Henrianne Cabell. The family moved to Lynchburg in about 1834 to the “Dr. John J. Cabell House,” now demolished (see Chambers, p. 35). While a student at VMI, he took part in the charge of cadets at Newmarket, and was appointed courier on the staff of his uncle, Gen. Jubal Anderson Early. After the War he lived in Nelson County, moving to Lynchburg about 1899. He was a member of the Swedenborgian church, as were many members of the Cabell family. He married a cousin Mary Washington Cabell (1846-1917); among their children was Miss Henrianne Cabell Early, a substantial contributor to Jones Memorial Library. One of his sisters was Miss Ruth Hairston Early, who compiled Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 27 June 1909, p. 5, col. 4.

072 – Nowlin, George Washington Perkins (1836, Appomattox [then Campbell] County – 21 Jan 1909, Lynchburg, 629 Gum Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Thomas Watkins Nowlin & Ann Tombs Carnefix. His Confederate service was in Co. H, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, enlisting in Appomattox 24 May 1861; he transferred to Co. A, 20th Virginia Heavy Artillery in January 1864. He moved to Lynchburg about 1872, and worked as a carpenter. His wife was Roberta K. Merryman (1847-1910). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 23 Jan 1909, p. 10, col. 5. [J.W. NOWLIN]

073 – Almond, Charles Henry, Sr. (26 Feb 1840, Luray, Page County – 13 Feb 1910, Lynchburg, 815 Fifth Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Emanuel Mann Almond & Barbara M. Lionberger. Before the War he had moved to Charlemont in Bedford County, engaging in the general merchandising business. When the War started, he enlisted at Forest, 28 May 1861, as a private in Co I, 2nd Virginia Cavalry; promoted to Corporal in that September; was Commissary Clerk in 1862, then Commissary Sergeant in 1863. His last promotion was to Lieutenant, for gallantry at Cedar Run, capturing 26 armed Union soldiers. In 1867 he moved to Lynchburg, resuming the same dry goods business by himself, until 1895, when it was incorporated as C.H. Almond Dry Goods Company. He was a member and Senior Deacon at First Baptist Church, and was married to Elizabeth Rucker (1845-1909). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 13 Feb 1910, p. 1, col. 6.

074 – Otey, Kirkwood (19 Oct 1829, Lynchburg – 1 June 1897, Lynchburg, Court Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of John Mathews Otey & Lucy Wilhelmina Norvell (founder of the Ladies’ Relief Hospital in Lynchburg), and brother of #002 Peter Johnston Otey. He was an 1849 graduate of VMI, and prior to the War, was associated with Daniel Warwick in tobacco manufacturing; then with the banking house of Peters, Spence & Company, part of the time in New York City. Just before the War, as a member of the Virginia Volunteer Militia, he helped form the Lynchburg Home Guard, and was at Fort Sumter when the first shots were fired. The Home Guard became Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, in which he shortly became Captain, then Major. He was wounded at Gettysburg, made Lt. Colonel, and wounded again at Drewry’s Bluff. He was a member of Marshall Lodge No. 39, A.F. & A.M., Court Street Methodist Church, was in 1881 City Auditor, and in the insurance business with his brother. He was married to his cousin Lucy Dabney Norvell (1845-1913). The Kirkwood Otey Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, is name in his honor. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 2 June 1897, p. 1, col. 2. (See also FF4163)

075 – Humphries, John Adolphus (16 Dec 1833, Alexandria – 23 July 1916, Huntington WV; buried in Washington Street Methodist Church Cemetery, Alexandria), son of William Humphries & Susan Stevenson. For most of his life, he was a railroad machinist, in Lynchburg, for the Virginia Midland Railroad. He enlisted in Alexandria as a private in Co. E, 17th Virginia Infantry; promoted to Corporal, and detailed to the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. While living in Lynchburg after the War, he was a member and choir leader at Centenary Methodist Church, and living at 117 Cabell Street. As a Mason he was a member of the Andrew Jackson Lodge No. 120 A.F. & A.M., and also a member of the Robert E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans in Alexandria. His wife was Mary Virginia Reynolds (1835-1896). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 25 July 1916, p. 12, col. 5.

076 – Wright, William Thomas (1836, Dickson County, TN – 14 Jan 1927, Campbell County; buried at Shiloh Methodist Church, Forest), son of John Harvel Wright & Mary D. Petty. A farmer, he enlisted 23 July 1861 at Camp Hicks, as a private in Co. D, 58th Virginia Infantry, and was discharged for disability in April of 1862. He was an original member of the Ku Klux Klan after the War, and that group conducted his funeral. He first married Mary Louisa Bohn (1853-1895), and second to her sister Ruth Ann Bohn (1855-1934). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 18 Jan 1927, p. 2, col. 3.

077 – Owen, James Bernard (13 Oct 1847, Bedford County – 10 July 1921, Roanoke; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of James Francis Meriwether Owen & Agnes Harriet Watson. A farmer and grocer, he lived in Lynchburg at 507 Franklin Street, and was visiting his daughter in Roanoke when he died. He enlisted 9 Oct 1862 in Richmond, in Co. C, 10th Battalion of Heavy Artillery, serving through the War until his parole 9 April 1865 at Appomattox. His wife was Sarah Virginia Watson (1851-1933). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 12 July 1921, p. 2, col. 2.

078 – Offterdinger, Herman Jonathan (24 July 1840, Germany – 18 Oct 1913, Lynchburg, 1420 Church Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Jonathan Gottlieb Offterdinger & Christina Dorothea Jordan. Arriving in America in 1854, he lived for a while in New York City, and came to Lynchburg before the War. He enlisted 29 May 1861 in Lynchburg in Co. B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and served part of his time as courier. After the War, he was first a manufacturer of snuff and cigars; then a butcher in 1870. By 1887 he operated a saloon and restaurant, and by 1900 he was a brewery foreman. He married Rosina Frederica Kindig (1859-1940). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 18 Oct 1913, p. 10, col. 1. [H.K. OFFTERDINGER]

079 – Fleming, Robert Hanson (12 Oct 1846, Highland County – 30 Sept 1919, Hillsdale, MD; buried in the Fleming Family Cemetery, Highland County), son of William Wier Fleming & Margaret Letitia Lewis. A Presbyterian minister after the War, he was first at Woodstock, VA, then in Washington, DC; Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg for more than 20 years; and lastly at Hillsdale, MD. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater Washington & Lee University. His wife was Lucy Ward Randolph (1847-1900) of New York. His War service was as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 3 Oct 1919, p. 6, col. 4.

080 – Ewart, Edward Harvey (9 May 1845, Campbell County – 28 Feb 1925, Lynchburg, 1700 Kemper Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of James Ewart & Susanna Butler. His War service was in Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry; enlisted 25 April 1861, captured at Five Forks, 1 April 1865, and released from imprisonment 26 June 1865. A farmer and merchant, he also served on Lynchburg City Council for 16 years. He married Ann Elizabeth Phillips (1847-1928). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 3 March 1925, p, 10, col. 2.

081 – Gibbs, Henry Wise (21 Sept 1836, Campbell County – 14 Nov 1913, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Thomas C. Gibbs & Mary H. Callahan. A farmer before the War, he enlisted 29 May 1861 in Co. F, 11th Virginia Infantry, and served at least through 1864. After the War, he was a brickmason (1880 Census). He was married to Martha M. Stone (1839-1900). Obituary (funeral notice) – Lynchburg News, 14 Nov 1913, p. 4, col. 4.

082 – Deaton, Edwin Templeton (9 Aug 1839, Iredell Co NC – 7 Oct 1910, Lynchburg; buried at Madison Heights Methodist Church), son of James Deaton & Sarah Jane Goodman. A carpenter/house builder, he enlisted 23 Apr 1861, in Co. D, 38th Battalion of Heavy Artillery (Latham’s Battery), and served the entire War, taking the Oath of Allegiance in Lynchburg, 13 April 1865. He was a member of Lynchburg Lodge No. 17, Odd Fellows. His wife was Mary Paulina White (1845-1911). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 8 Oct 1910, p. 5, col. 6 & 7.

083 – Jennings, Tipton Davis, Jr. (11 Jan 1841, Lynchburg – 17 May 1915, Lynchburg, Rivermont Avenue; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery [error in obit says Spring Hill]), son of T.D. Davis & Mildred Ann Matilda Lynch Biggers, a great-grand-daughter of John Lynch. An original member of the old Lynchburg Home Guard, he enlisted as private, 23 April 1861, with his occupation listed as merchant; promoted to Corporal early 1862; WIA 30 Aug 1862, and again two weeks later. He was listed as “sick: through the remainder of the War, and was paroled in April 1865 at Greensboro, NC. He had gone there to join Gen. Johnston’s command, only to find that the General had already surrendered. Soon after the War he lived for a short time in Memphis, TN, but returned to Lynchburg for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Marshall Lodge of Masons and the DeMolay Commandery, Knights Templar, and represented Lynchburg for 17 years in the House of Delegates. He was a member of the commission charged with the re-building and enlargement of the State Capitol building, and was one term Lynchburg Postmaster. He was a member of Court Street Methodist Church, and a member of their Board of Stewards. His wife was Annie Price Seay (1845-1919). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 18 May 1915, p. 8, col. 3.

084 – Munford, Thomas Taylor (29 Mar 1831, Henrico County – 27 Feb 1918, Uniontown, Perry County, AL; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Col. George Wythe Munford, who was for 25 years Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Lucy Singleton Taylor. He entered VMI, and graduated in 1859; engaged in general railway work, and later became a farmer and planter, at which he continued after the War. He entered Confederate service, commissioned as Lt. Colonel in the 30th Virginia Mounted Infantry, which merged with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, at which time he was commissioned a full Colonel. Later he was promoted to Brigadier General. He was wounded twice at Second Manassas, and again at Turkey Ridge; the command was disbanded at (now) Miller Park in Lynchburg. He served two terms as President of the Board of Visitors of VMI, and was for many years a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where his funeral service was conducted. He married Elizabeth Henrietta Tayloe (1833-1864), whose mother was Mary Elizabeth Langhorne. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 1 March 1918, p. 2, col. 2. (See also FF3131)

085 – Fleet, Charles Browne (18 Sept 1843, King & Queen or Caroline County – 12 May 1916, Lynchburg, Harrison Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Christopher Bennett Fleet & Lucy Ann Semple. A student in law school at Columbian (now George Washington University), and also at UVa, he enlisted 1 June 1861 in Fredericksburg, as a private in the Fredericksburg Light Artillery, promoted to Corporal, October 1863; and surrendered at Appomattox. After the War he was in Charlottesville until coming to Lynchburg and purchased the drug business of T.N. Simpson in 1869, becoming a manufacturing chemist and pharmacist. He served 23 years as Secretary of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association, and on the State Board of Pharmacy. He was a member of First Baptist Church, and was married to Emma Burruss (1846-1924). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 13 May 1916, p. 12, col. 3.

086 – Hewitt, Anselm Jones (21 Sept 1843, Bedford County – 10 Sep1 1914, Lynchburg, 720 Madison Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Henry Hunter Hewitt & Jamima Howard. His War service began with enlistment at Culpeper CH, 11 March 1862, as a private in the Amherst Light Artillery (Kirkpatrick’s Battery); he was confined for a short time at Fort Delaware (captured in March and released 20 June 1865), and absent for a short time after being WIA. He was Superintendent of the Methodist (Old City) Cemetery until retirement in 1910. He married Alice Chappell Holt (d. 1908). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 Sept 1914, p. 6, col. 2.

087 – Turpin, John Oscar (17 Sept 1844, King William County – 5 Sept 1912, Richmond Retreat for the Sick; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of John O. Turpin & Martha Brown. He enlisted 1 Jan 1863, at Guinea Station, as private in Co. E, 5th Virginia Cavalry; had a horse killed under him and was paid $300 for his personal loss; he was himself wounded twice, and was captured and spent time at Point Lookout just before the end of the War. His profession in Lynchburg at the turn of the century was “druggist,” with Camm Brothers. His wife was Florence Camm (1854-1910). Obituary (funeral notice) – Lynchburg News, 8 Sept 1912, p. 6, col. 6.

088 – Plecker, Adam Hamilton (14 July 1840, Rockingham or Augusta County – 29 Jan 1929, Richmond Old Soldiers’ Home; buried in East Hill Cemetery, Salem VA), son of John W. Plecker & Ann Eliza Craun, and first cousin of the notorious Walter Plecker, head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics. A well-known and nationally-recognized photographer, he enlisted as Corporal 15 May 1861 in the Botetourt Artillery (Co. H, 28th Virginia Infantry, re-organized as an artillery unit); was a POW paroled at Vicksburg, and returned to his unit in November 1863; he received the final parole at Staunton, 19 May 1865. In addition to his photography business in Lynchburg, he had Plecker’s Mammoth Photograph Gallery in Salem, and was a member and first President of the Photographers’ Association of America. He is credited with taking and/or assembling the photographs on the Garland-Rodes montage. He married Maggie Belle Blackensto (1844-1909). No Lynchburg obituary. (See also FF1822)

089 – Williams, James Emmett (13 Mar 1846, Buckingham County – 26 Oct 1911, Lynchburg, Cleveland Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Samuel Edward Williams & Mary Elizabeth Garrett. Before moving to Lynchburg about 1889, he was a carpenter in Buckingham County, and was a manufacturer of oil of sassafras (1880 Census). He was a grocer in Lynchburg. His obituary states that he served in General Pickett’s Division during the War. His wife was Louisa Frances Apperson (1850-1918). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 27 Oct 1911, p. 2, col. 4.

090 – Thompson, William Benjamin (29 Oct 1838, Fluvanna County – 24 Oct 1916, Lynchburg, 1003 Pierce Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William Daniel Thompson & Mary Scott Clements. Like his father, he was always employed as a carpenter, contractor and builder, and entered Confederate service with Co. A (Dinwiddie Grays) of the 18th Virginia Regiment. He was captured at Saylor’s Creek and imprisoned at Point Lookout. A member of Centenary Methodist Church, his wife was Mary Elizabeth O’Brien (1840-1925). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 25 Oct 1916, p. 6, col. 3.

091 – McCorkle, Tazewell Martin (5 June 1837, Lynchburg – 7 Dec 1914, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Samuel M. McCorkle & Sarah Bonwell Perry. He was studying for the ministry at Hampden-Sydney College at the outbreak of the War, and enlisted as 3rd Lieutenant in Co. G, 20th Virginia Infantry; he later was Lieutenant in the Rockbridge Artillery, and surrendered 15 April 1865 at Farmville. He then finished his studies and went to Salem to preach. He gave up the ministry for health reasons and went into business, later returning to the ministry and for 8 years was pastor of Rivermont Avenue Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Marshall Lodge of Masons, on the board of the Masonic Home and Retreat, and served as Chaplain of the Garland-Rodes UCV. He married late in life to Susan M. Dunnington (1841-1934). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 8 Dec 1914, p. 6, col. 2.

092 – Kinnier, John Hamilton (17 Feb 1840, Lynchburg – 4 Jan 1912, Lynchburg, 518 Washington Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of James Kinnier & Jane Ballagh, both natives of Scotland. During the War he served as a private in the Amherst Light Artillery (Kirkpatrick’s Battery), until he was badly WIA at Cold Harbor, and was disabled through the rest of the War; he was paroled 15 Apr 1865 in Lynchburg. After the War he was in the coal, wood and ice business; served on City Council, and was one of the original members of Hose Company No. 1 (volunteer fire department). He was a director of Lynchburg Cotton Mill Co., the Lynchburg National Bank, and the N.B. Handy Co., and a member and elder of First Presbyterian Church. His wife was Telula Josephine Percy (1847-1914). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 5 Jan 1912, p. 6, col. 4.

093 – Seay, William Marion (26 Nov 1842, Lynchburg – 5 Feb 1912, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of George William Seay & Frances Hunley George. He lived at 817 8th Street, but died at his office over Craighill & Jones drug store. For many years he engaged in the contracting and building business. His War service began with enlistment 19 April 1861 as a private in Co. E, 11th Virginia Infantry; he was eventually promoted to Sergeant in November 1862, captured at Milford Station 21 May 1864 and imprisoned at Point Lookout. He was exchanged in March 1865, and paroled in Lynchburg, 13 Apr 1865. He was a charter member of the Lynchburg Lodge of Elks, and Grand Director of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor. He married Alice Roberta Griggs (1849-1937). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 6 Feb 1912, p. 6, col. 6.

094 – Singleton, Daniel White (1836, Pittsylvania County – 25 July 1909, R.E. Lee Camp Home & Retreat, Richmond; buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond), son of John Singleton & Martha White. He served in Co. G, 9th Virginia Cavalry (Lunenburg Light Dragoons), enlisting 20 May 1862 as a private; he was on the roll in 1864 as wagon driver for Major Waite, Quartermaster. He came to Lynchburg before 1880, and for almost 30 years worked as a carpenter. He was admitted to the Soldiers’ Home in Sept 1908, being totally disabled. His wife was Lodena A. Casey. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 29 July 1909, p. 10, col. 4.

095 – Armistead, Louis Lee (4 Jan 1829, Campbell County – 2 May 1918, Shenandoah County; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Rev. Samuel Armistead & Nancy Madison. He enlisted in the “Beauregard Rifles,” Shoemaker’s Lynchburg Artillery, 10 Mar 1862 in Lynchburg, and was discharged 20 March 1864. A tobacconist in Lynchburg after the War, he was listed in 1910 as an insurance agent, at age 79. He married Nannie Bryce Mitchell. No Lynchburg obituary.

096 – Thomas, Marcellus Alex (25 March 1846, Campbell County – 5 June 1912, Lynchburg, 1015 Taylor Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Oliver Thomas & Elizabeth S. George. During the War he served in the 13th Virginia Light Artillery, and in the 18th Virginia Heavy Artillery. He began his working life as a shoemaker, like his father, and in later life was a painting contractor. His first wife was Carrie Tinsley (1850-1872); second was Mary Ann Mason (1845-1910). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 June 1912, p. 6, col. 1.

097 – Featherston, John Charles (14 August 1837, Limestone County AL, 31 Oct 1917, Lynchburg, Fort Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Howell Colston Featherston & Delaney Odom. He served in Co. F, 9th Alabama Infantry, and achieved the rank of Captain, and was wounded at Gettysburg. He was on staff duty in the Army of Northern Virginia from May 1861 until a few months before the end of the War, then was back in Alabama with Forest’s command, when they were cut off by Sherman, and surrendered. In 1867 he settled on a farm in Bedford County, and served as chief of the business bureau of the Virginia State Grange for a few years. His wife was Letitia Preston Floyd (1842-1926), whose father was a first cousin of Governor John Buchanan Floyd. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 3 Nov 1917, p. 7, col. 4.

098 – Farmer, Henry L. (1837, Tennessee – 28 Jan 1917, New York City; buried there), son of John Page Farmer & Nancy Chenault. He spent practically his entire adult life in Lynchburg, and moved to New York about 1910, hoping to improve his health. During the War he served in Co. A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, and his working life was as a piano tuner and musician in Richmond and in Lynchburg; he was a member of the Academy of Music Orchestra. One of his sons was Andrew Edwin Farmer (1874-1936), a University music professor and concert pianist in New York. He was married to Laura A. Waldron (1851-1909). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 31 Jan 1917, p. 12, col. 3.

099 – McVeigh, Thomas Emory (30 April 1843, Alexandria – 30 August 1927, Lynchburg, 202 Harrison Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of James Harvey McVeigh & Cynthia Ariel Guest. In the War he was a member of the 17th Virginia Cavalry, twice severely wounded, and captured at Brandy Station, and imprisoned at the old Capitol Prison in Washington. He was also in Co F, 25th Virginia Cavalry. His working life was as a clerk, school teacher, dry goods salesman, and farmer. He was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and a long-time vestryman at Grace Memorial Episcopal Church. His wife was Adeline Virginia Ward (1847-1942), connected to the Hutter family of “Sandusky,” and to the Otey family. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 31 August 1927, p. 2, col. 7.

100 – Daniel, John Warwick (Lynchburg’s “Lame Lion”) (5 Sept 1842, Lynchburg – 29 June 1910, Lynchburg; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Judge (John) William Daniel, Jr. & Sarah Ann Warwick. He attended the local private schools and the old Lynchburg College, then Dr. Gressner Harrison’s University School when the War started. After the War he went to UVa, graduating in 1867. He enlisted as 2nd Lieutenant in Co. A, 11th Virginia Infantry, promoted to 1st Lieutenant and adjutant of the regiment; promoted to Major and chief of staff for Gen. Jubal A. Early, from which he was forced into retirement due to his last wound, resulting in permanent injury to his leg (“Lame Lion”). After the War, and his UVa graduation, he began his law practice in Lynchburg. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, serving three years; then in 1875 was elected to the Virginia Senate, serving until nominated for Governor in 1881, only to be defeated by the Readjuster candidate, William E. Cameron. Then he was elected to the US House of Representatives, and in 1885 was chosen to succeed Gen. William Mahone in the US Senate. He served this office for the rest of his life. He was a member of the last Constitutional Convention (before 1910), and chair of the committee on suffrage. He was a pioneer in the establishment of Virginia’s free public school system. In addition to being a member of Garland-Rodes, he belonged also to the Dearing Camp of Campbell County. His funeral at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was attended by Governor Mann, two former governors, a US Congressional delegation, and a Virginia legislative delegation. State offices were closed, and City Council asked the same of local businesses. He was married to Julia Elizabeth Murrell (1850-1937). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 30 June 1910, p. 1, col. 1. (See also FF1384)

101 – Forsberg, Ludwig August (13 Jan 1831, Stockholm, Sweden – 15 July 1910, Lynchburg, 211 Fifth Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Fredric Wilhelm Forsberg & Margaretha Catharina Lind. While a Lieutenant in the engineering corps of the Swedish army, he was ordered to Italy because of poor health, but was instead sent to the US as assistant to the Swedish architect of the US government building at Columbia SC. After this service he established an architectural office in Baltimore, and then became a topographical draftsman for the US Government in Washington DC, and assistant in the office of the Swedish ligation. Just before the War, rather than being drafted into the Union Army, he went to Charleston SC, arriving during the bombardment of Fort Sumter. He worked for South Carolina as topographi-cal engineer in harbor defense work; then he reported to Gen. Beauregard in Richmond for active service. He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant by President Davis, and detailed to the staff of Gen. Floyd. He was elected Lt. Colonel in the 51st Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, promoted to full Colonel, and served through the War. He was wounded at Winchester and captured at Waynesboro, and paroled at Fort Delaware. In the hospital at Winchester he met Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Morgan Otey (1839-1918), widow of George Gaston Otey (brother of #002 P.J. Otey and #074 Kirkwood Otey), and they married 31 August 1865. He became Lynchburg City Engineer in 1866, serving more than 20 years; served on the School Board, and was a member of Court Street Methodist Church. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 16 July 1910, p. 6, col. 4. (See also FF1384)

102 – Gregory, William Sidney (12 March 1845, Lynchburg – 20 Feb 1929, Lynchburg, 813 Clay Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of James Duffel Gregory & Ann Elizabeth Williams (sister of #001 Jehu John Williams, Jr.). He enlisted at age 16, and served throughout the War, in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, being finally captured 6 April 1865, at Saylors Creek, and sent to federal prison at Newport News, to be released 14 June 1865. He was wounded at Plymouth NC in April 1864; he reportedly refused to take the Oath of Allegiance. A merchant, book-keeper and Post Office clerk, he was married to Rosa Kent Tyree (1847-1899), who lost two brothers in the War. He was a member of Court Street Methodist Church, and a member of the City Board of Pensions. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 21 Feb 1929, p. 9, col. 1.

103 – Mason, John Thomas (1841, Bedford or Amherst County – 28 Oct 1908, Lynchburg, 710 Fifth Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of George W. & Parthenia R. Mason. His Confederate service, enlisting 3 March 1864 at Orange CH, was in the Amherst Light Artillery (Kirkpatrick’s Battery). He was a member of Court Street Methodist Church, and was married to Keziah (Kate) Chambers Wooldridge (1847-1913). Obituary – Lynchburg News 29 Oct 1908, p. 6, col. 2.

104 – Lewis, Granville Revere (18 May 1835, Philadelphia PA – 27 March 1913, Lynchburg, 2310 Park Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Dr. Zachary Lewis and Maria L. Adelaide Clopton. By 1840 the family was in King & Queen County, where his father established Croton Female Seminary. He attended Maryland University and received his MD degree from MCV, Richmond, and first practiced in Charlotte and Halifax counties until his enlistment 15 May 1861 in the Charlotte Cavalry (Co. B, 14th Virginia Cavalry); he served as a surgeon in the hospitals in Danville, Richmond and Petersburg; and he was paroled in Halifax. After the War he moved in 1873 to Lynchburg, becoming Superintendent of the Miller Orphan Asylum; he was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and a Mason. His wife was Nancy Ellyson Williams (1840-1917) of Halifax County. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 27 March 1913, p. 7, col. 4.

105 – Shaner, Jacob Ludwig (23 May 1839, Darmstadt, Germany – 24 April 1911, Lynchburg, 1923 Grace Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of John Leonard Shaner & Eva Elisabetha Hoenig. The family moved to America about 1844, first to Baltimore, then in 1850 to Lynchburg; then in 1857 to Richmond, and after the War back to Lynchburg. He participated while in Richmond in the occupation of Harper’s Ferry, was mustered into Confederate service as a private in Co. H, 15th Virginia Infantry; he was disabled by sickness in January of 1865, and paroled in Lynchburg in April 1865. A butcher in 1880, and a “provisions dealer” in 1900, he was twice elected to (and declined) a seat on City Council, was a member of First Presbyterian Church, and of the Marshall Lodge of Masons, De Molay Commandery (32nd degree Mason). He was married to Mary Elizabeth Moebus (1848-1918). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 25 April 1911, p. 6, col. 4.

106 – Carruthers, John (11 March 1827, Scotland – 15 Feb 1910, Lynchburg, Rivermont; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Robert Carruthers & Catherine Carmichael. He came to America in 1848, and was identified in records as a gardener, retail grocer, “huckster,” and florist. He enlisted in Confederate service, 31 May 1861, in Co. B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry as a private; detailed in January 1862 as a courier. He married Martha Sally Diuguid (1840-1911), a grand-daughter of Sampson Diuguid. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 16 Feb 1910, p. 10, col. 1.

107 – Harwood, Thomas M. (6 April 1841, Warwick County [Newport News] – 17 July 1910, Lynchburg, 523 Harrison Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Joseph Harwood & Frances R.K. Barham. He lived in Nelson County in 1870, working as a store clerk, and in 1880 in Lynchburg as a retail grocer; by 1900 he was clerk/book-keeper for N&W repair shops. He enlisted for the War first in the old Richmond Blues, then was transferred to a Warwick County command. He was a member of First Baptist Church, the Marshall Lodge A.F. & A.M., and De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar. He married Columbia Allen Davis (1844-1901). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 July 1910, p. 6, col. 2.

108 - Lee, Francis (Frank) Tompkins (1 Dec 1845, Lynchburg – 12 July 1918, Lynchburg Home & Retreat; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of John Burwell Lee & Lelia Maria Tompkins. While a cadet at VMI, he participated in the Battle of Newmarket. He organized the Lynchburg Light Artillery, and was Captain of the company for many years. After the War he was in the tobacco business until 1890, then engaged in developing coal properties in West Virginia; he was President of the Guyandotte and the Sovereign Coal companies. He was a member and vestryman of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. His wife was Lucy Harrison Norvell (1849-1935). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 13 July 1918, p. 2, col. 3.

109 – Oglesby, John Lewis (12 August 1834, Bedford County – 20 March 1910, Lynchburg, 1103 Rivermont Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William Oglesby & Mary Sharp. Before the War he was working with his in-laws in the tailoring business and as a clerk. He enlisted 23 April 1861 in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, only to be discharged the following September. After his service he was a carpenter, then a tobacco inspector, and finally a tobacconist. He was also a Mason. His wife was Sarah Constance Hillman (1839-1902). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 22 March 1910, p. 6, col. 5.

110 – Wray, James William (8 April 1841, Campbell County – 2 Jan 1924, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Jabez Leftwich Wray & Sarah W. Terrell. At the beginning of the War he enlisted in the Lynchburg Rifles, which became Co. E, 11th Virginia Infantry, rising to the rank of Lieutenant. He was wounded at Frazier’s Farm, 30 June 1862, returning to his unit after recovery, only to be captured after Gettysburg at Milford Station 21 May 1864, and imprisoned at Fort Delaware until 16 June 1865. He was engaged in the tobacco business in Lynchburg, as Wray Brothers, and was a member and long-time Treasurer of Centenary Methodist Church. His wife was Emma Beckwith (1848-1909). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 4 Jan 1924, p. 3, col. 1.

111 – Thurman, Alexander (28 July 1845, Lynchburg – 10 Nov 1923, Lynchburg, 2101 Park Avenue; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Samuel Brown Thurman & Martha Ann Cox. He enlisted in Co. B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, 1 Feb 1864, after a year at VMI, and served until paroled in Lynchburg 13 April 1865. He moved to Wisconsin for a few years after the War, but was back in Lynchburg by 1870 as a railroad surveyor and lumber manufacturer & inspector, as well as a hotel keeper. He became the first Chief of the Lynchburg Fire Department when it became a paid organization, and served in that role for seven years; he was then a book-keeper until his retirement in 1922. His wife was Mary Argyll Sanderson (1862-1947). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 Nov 1923, p. 8, col. 4.

112 – Fisher, Elkano L. (31 March 1833, Middletown, Shenandoah County – 23 Jan 1903, Lynchburg, Main Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of George & Lydia Fisher, and half-brother of Lynchburg gunsmith Samuel Otho Fisher. His working life was as a gunsmith. At the beginning of the War he enlisted 22 April 1861, as Sergeant in Co. A, 11th Virginia Infantry (Rifle Grays), and was discharged the following August by order of the Adjutant General, likely because of his profession as an arms supplier to the military. A member of First Presbyterian Church, his first wife was Sarah F. Long (1849-1899); his second was his niece, Rebecca C. Knight (b. 1875, WV). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 24 Jan 1903, p. 6, col. 2.

113 – Dawson, Henry Clay (20 Jan 1845, Campbell County – 26 Feb 1926, Madison Heights; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of George William Dawson & Adelia Watkins Dodd. The family moved to Amherst County before 1850. He enlisted 29 May 1861 (age 16, claiming to be age 23 and a teacher), in Co. G, 2nd Virginia Cavalry. Due to sickness he was discharged in November 1863; then he joined Co. C, 34th Virginia Infantry, and surrendered at Appomattox. He was employed as a blacksmith by the Virginia & Tennessee Railway Company (N&W in 1926); he also served as a magistrate, and a member of Madison Heights Methodist Church. He married Mary Ann (Ella) Banton (1849-1930). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 27 Feb 1926, p. 2, col. 2.

114 – Williamson, John Fulton (10 Feb 1844, Campbell or Pittsylvania County – 27 March 1927, Lynchburg; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Elisha Williamson & [2nd wife] Rhoda Johnson. He enlisted 27 April 1864, in Co. F, 11th Virginia Infantry, was wounded in action 16 May of that year, and after recuperation served through the remainder of the War. He was a member of College Hill Baptist Church, and a Mason, earning his living as a house carpenter. He was married to Mary Frances Melton (1848-1923). No Lynchburg obituary, but found in Richmond Times-Dispatch, 31 March 1927, p. 7. [J.T. WILLIAMSON]

115 – Winston, William Henry Harrison (29 July 1840, Montgomery County, Indiana – 14 March 1934, Franklin, Southampton County; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Dr. Pleasant Winston & Elizabeth Cheadle Clark, who had moved to Indiana from Campbell County, both of them from the original Quaker families of Campbell County. He enlisted 26 May 1861 in Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, with his occupation listed as “farrier” (shoes horses). He had moved to Campbell County, and living at “Hills Creek” Plantation with his mother’s siblings. After the War he was a farmer in Campbell County, then in Amherst County; by 1920 he had retired to Southampton County, and living with his daughter Lucy, wife of Alfred White. He was married to Nancy Powell Moorman (1839-1916). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 15 March 1934, p. 9, col. 1, and Richmond Times-Dispatch, 15 March 1934.

116 – Turpin, William Avery (22 Feb 1833, Bedford County – 27 March 1918, Lynchburg, 908 Wise Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of David Turpin & Nancy Ann Farmer. Before and after the War he was a saddler and harness maker, first working for William A. Fitzgerald in Lynchburg while still a teenager. He joined Latham’s Battery (Co. D, 38th Battalion, Virginia Artillery), in 1862, and was incapacitated for service in 1864, having been wounded in Petersburg. He was married to Elizabeth T. Hawkins (1834-1930), a cousin of #059 J.F. Hawkins, Jr. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 29 March 1918, p. 2, col. 3.

117 – Spradlin, James Rusher (7 June 1828, Bedford County – 17 Oct 1909, Lynchburg, 314 Chestnut Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of James Spradlin & Mary Meador. He enlisted 24 July 1861, in Bedford County, as 2nd Sergeant, in Co. I, 58th Virginia Infantry, and became Captain in that unit, being wounded three times. After the War he was employed in the tobacco business and as a carpenter. He married Lucinda Mildred Jeter (1839-1906). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 19 Oct 1909, p. 10, col. 1.

118 – Coleman, Mace Henry (1840, Buckingham [Appomattox] County – 13 Oct 1910, Lynchburg, 607 Sixth Street; buried in Appomattox County), son of George Washington Coleman & Sarah A. Cashwell. In the War, he served in Co. B, 46th Virginia Infantry, enlisting 5 March 1862, occupation farmer, and served until paroled at Appomattox. He was a member of College Hill Baptist Church after moving to Lynchburg late in his life, about 1905, from Appomattox County. He was married to Paulina Cabell Foster (1829-1905). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 14 Oct 1910, p. 12, col. 2.

119 – Burkholder, Robert Calhoun (3 June 1826, Cumberland Gap, Lee County – 11 Dec 1914, Bedford County; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of James Burkholder & Mary Newton. He trained as a carpenter and “master builder,” under Alfred Taylor, with whom he was living in 1850 in Lynchburg. He enlisted 10 May 1861 as a private in the Lynchburg Light Artillery, was promoted to 4th Corporal in 1862, and discharged that August as being over-age. He then was in Co. G, as 2nd Lieutenant, in the 3rd Regiment of Virginia Reserves (Booker’s). He also served in a unit identified as the Beauregard Rifles – later the Beauregard Artillery of Moorman’s Battery. As a builder and architect, he was responsible for several National Register buildings in and around Lynchburg, including his own house at 203 Cabell Street, and Court Street Baptist Church. He was Superintendent of Construction for the US Treasury Department in 1887, and served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Bedford County, where he had retired in 1888. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Crumpton (1836-1906), whose sister was Mrs. John Wesley Carroll (Lone Jack Tobacco Co.). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 12 Dec 1914, p. 6, col. 3.

120 – Tinsley, Stephen Bowles (9 June 1844, Amherst County – 14 May 1920, Lynchburg [Forest, at his daughter’s home]; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of George McDaniel Tinsley & Eleanor Bowles. His Confederate service began at enlistment as a private in Co. G, 51st Virginia Infantry, rising to the rank of 2nd Sergeant; he transferred in August 1863 to the Amherst Artillery, General Ewell’s Corps. He was a lifelong resident and farmer in Amherst County, and was married to Leanna M. Morris (1841-1909). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 15 May 1920, p. 7, col. 2.

121 – McConville, David Daniel (23 June 1832, Campbell County – 9 April 1913, Lynchburg, 904 Eighth Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of William McConville & Mary Ann Tucker Hunter – she was a direct descendant of the first white Campbell County settler, John Irvin, of Hat Creek. A farmer before the War, he moved to Lynchburg after the War, becoming a retail grocer. He entered Confederate service as a private in Co. B, 13th Virginia Infantry. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church for more than 40 years, serving as deacon for over 30 of those years; he was a member of City Council, and a member of the Odd Fellows. He married Eleanor Margaret Hughes (1831-1919). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 April 1913, p. 6, col. 3.

122 – Smith, John Holmes (12 August 1838, Bedford County – 14 Nov 1908, Lynchburg, Court Street; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Col. William Todd Smith & Susan C. Leftwich. Educated in Lynchburg, and identified as :merchant,” he joined the Lynchburg Home Guard in 1859, and became 3rd Corporal of Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, 24 April 1861; promoted to Sergeant 18 May 1861; to Lieutenant, January 1862; and to Captain in May 1862. WIA 31 May 1862, he returned to the unit in January 1863; wounded again at Gettysburg; taken POW after surrendering at Saylors Creek, 6 April 1865; released from Johnson’s Island, Ohio, 20 June 1865. After the War he became Brig. General of State Troops. He engaged in the tobacco business with his uncle James L. Claytor, then in partnership with his brother George Woodville Smith, until 1893. He then was in the fire insurance business until 1899 when he was appointed assistant postmaster; in 1902 he became finance clerk for the Post Office. He was a member of the Piedmont Club and Hill City Lodge No. 182, Masons. He married Sarah Norvell Hobson (1856-1937), sister of Mrs. E.A. Craighill (#057), and half-sister of Mrs. R. T. Craighill (#009). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 15 Nov 1908, p. 6, col. 5.

123 – Tinsley, David Colwell (5 Dec 1844, Amherst County – 3 Jan 1924, Washington DC; buried at Mt. Gilead Methodist Church, Bedford County), son of Zachariah David Tinsley & Mary Ann Dawson. A farmer before and after the War, he entered service on his 18th birthday, in Co. E, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and served until paroled in Lynchburg at the end of hostilities. He was married to Julia Alice Acree (1847-1902). Obituary (notice) – Lynchburg News, 3 Jan 1924, p. 8, col. 4.

124 – Noel, Mathias Beamon (12 July 1844, Fluvanna County – 9 Mary 1921, Farmville, at his daughter’s home; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Robert Garnett Noel, Jr. & Barbara Ann Seay. By 1860 the family had moved to Lynchburg, where he became a tinner/metal worker, and stove dealer. His Confederate service was in Co. G, 3rd Virginia Reserves (Capt. Booker’s Regiment), and in Capt. John J. Young’s Company of Virginia Cavalry, from which he was paroled 13 April 1865, in Lynchburg. He married Octavia St. Clair Robinson (1847-1916). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 11 May 1921, p. 2, col. 4.

125 – Guggenheimer, Max, Jr. (19 May 1842, Bavaria – 27 Aug 1912, New York City, Hotel Netherland; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Sigmund & Clara Guggenheimer. While visiting Lynchburg relatives in 1856, he decided to move here, in business association with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Guggenheimer. He was a charter member in 1859 of the Lynchburg Home Guard, which became, Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry at the beginning of the War; he served until a permanent disability forced his discharge (in addition, he was not yet a citizen). After Nathaniel’s death in 1866 he assumed control of the business, growing it into a great wholesale and retail trade. He helped form the Craddock-Terry Shoe Co., was a director of the Lynchburg National Bank; organizer and first President of Lynchburg Cotton Mill; was a Mason, served on City Council, and supported Lynchburg’s Jewish congregation. His wife was Bertha V. Rosenbaum (1857-1927). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 29 Aug 1912, p. 6, col. 4. (See also FF3724)

126 – Carter, William Thomas (12 April 1845, Mobile, AL – 23 Oct 1928, Lynchburg, 1408 Church Street; buried in Holy Cross Cemetery), son of John Carter & Jane Goodwin. His Confederate service was in Co. F, 11th ALABAMA Infantry, and after the War he moved to Lynchburg, working as an engineer. His wife was Mary Murphy (1854-1926). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 26 Oct 1928, p. 9, col. 1.

127 – Wright, Drewery Christian (c1836, Buckingham County – 23 May 1925, Lynchburg; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of John Bernard Wright & Elizabeth Dean. A tobacconist, he enlisted 15 May 1861 in Co. H, 11th Virginia Infantry, as Sergeant; he was WIA 5 May 1862 at Williamsburg and never returned to duty; he was removed from the rolls 8 Sept 1864. After the War he was a policeman and watchman until retirement. His wife was Sarah Ann Angle (c1843-1913). Obituary – Lynchburg News, 23 May 1925, p. 8, col. 6.

128 – Poe, John Andrew (Sept 1845, Buckingham County – 1909, Madison Heights; buried probably in Amherst County), son of Abraham D. Poe & Eliza Jane Simpson. He served, according to his widow’s pension application, in the Virginia Cavalry, under Capt. Allen. Garland-Rodes records give his service as in Co. E, 20th Virginia and in Johnson’s Battery. His occupation post-War was house carpenter, and his wife was Mollie Willie Bragg (1848-1933). No obituary found.

129 – Farmer, Marcellus Juan (18 Jan 1842, Lynchburg – 8 Sept 1928, Roanoke; buried in Presbyterian Cemetery), son of Benjamin A. Farmer & Charlotte L. Miller. He enlisted 8 March 1862 in Lynchburg as a private in Co. D, 20th Battalion of Heavy Artillery; he was captured 6 April 1865, and confined at Point Lookout until 12 June 1865. After the War he was a tobacconist, and later a stationary engineer for the ice works. His wife was Mary Virginia Layne (1849-1937). No obituary found.

130 – Walker, William Thomas (18 Jan 1826, Buckingham County – 7 Jan 1913, Lynchburg, 922 Madison Street; buried in Spring Hill Cemetery), son of Littleton Waller Walker & Mary P. Young. He was a member of the famous “Fitz Lee Rifles,” and after the War engaged in several business enterprises, as a tobacconist, “huckster,” and produce marketer. He never married, and lived with two younger brothers. Obituary – Lynchburg News, 8 Jan 1913, p. 16, col. 3. [W.F. WALKER]

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