Caroline County, Virginia obituaries

Caroline County, Virginia

Obituaries

Corbin, Mr. Francis - of the Reeds, Caroline County, whose death was announced in the last Enquirer, was a gentleman of fine education, of extensive reading, and most sociable manners. He was a member of the Virginia Convention for adopting the Federal Constitution, a member of the Virginia Legislature, and a gentleman who at all seasons of his life had turned his attention to the study of politics. He had seen much of life, had read much, thought much, was full of anecdote, acquainted with many of the first men in this county and an agreeable companion. He has left a family to lament his loss.
An Acquaintance
Richmond Enquirer, June 5, 1821 [submitted by Frances Cooley]

Dickenson, John -- Nov., 1835 – In Caroline co., aged about 48, John Dickenson, an eminent lawyer. ["Historical Collections of Virginia" by Henry Lowe, Babcock & Company, Charleston, S.C., 1845. p. 406-407; submitted by Robyn Greenlund]

NAMES OF CAROLINE CITIZENS WHOSE OBITUARY NOTICES APPEARED IN THE RICHMOND "ENQUIRER" FROM THE YEAR 1800 TO 1828

Mrs. Frances C. Battaile --- August 12, 1828
William Bernard --- February 9, 1822
Joseph Brame --- November 17, 1820
Richard Bridges --- April 18, 1826
Mrs. Martha Brown --- December 20, 1823
Capt. Thomas Burruss --- March 19, 1824
Thomas Burke --- February 6, 1807
Dwight Backers Chandler --- September 18, 1821
Timothy Chandler --- March 30, 1831
Mrs. Eliza Dabney --- May 4, 1827
William Dickinson --- October 7, 1823
Thomas Dickinson --- July 24, 1826
A. G. Dickinson --- December 1, 1826
Reuben Garnett --- August 26, 1825
William Guy --- March 17, 1807
Mrs. Mary Guy --- June 29, 1819
Mrs. Ann Guy --- September 27, 1815
Hannah M. Hill --- October 8, 1828
Richard Hoomes --- December 27, 1823
Mrs. Lucy Mary Hoomes --- August 13, 1814
Mrs. Judith Hoomes --- August 16, 1822
Capt. John Hoomes --- December 27, 1805
Major John Hoomes --- March 23, 1824
Col. Armistead Hoomes --- February 6, 1827
Mrs. Annie C. Hoomes --- March 27, 1810
Col. Reuben Lowkersley --- September 30, 1823
Mrs. Nancy D. Minor --- October 9, 1821
Edmund Pendleton --- July 10, 1827
Mrs. Sarah Rawlins --- January 20, 1824
John Scott --- February 28, 1822
Mrs. Patsy Scott --- January 26, 1813
Thomas Streshley --- April 26, 1825
Mrs. Anna Swinton --- September 1, 1820
Geo. Lawrence Taliaferro --- February 23, 1826
Robert H. Taliaferro --- July 1, 1807
Col. John Taylor --- March 18, 1828
Col. John Taylor, of Caroline --- August 27, 1824
Capt. William Taylor --- October 13, 1809
Elizabeth Thomas --- January 6, 1824
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Todd --- December 12, 1826
Mrs. Mary Toler --- November 26, 1813
Col. James Upshaw --- July 22, 1806
Mrs. Ann Watson --- May 28, 1822
Mrs. Mary Ann White --- January 24, 1822
Mrs. Sarah C. Woodford --- April 27, 1827
John G. Woolfolk --- April 23, 1819
Richard Woolfolk --- May 30, 1820
Joseph M. Wyatt --- August 12, 1823
[Transcribed by Nancy Hannah from "A history of Caroline County, Virginia : from its formation in 1727 to 1924" by Marshall Wingfield, 1924]

NAMES OF CAROLINE CITIZENS WHOSE OBITUARY NOTICES APPEARED IN THE RICHMOND "WHIG" FROM 1825 TO 1838

Robert W. Allen --- March 26, 1836
John M. Blondell --- July 27, 1838
James Blunt --- January 26, 1832
George Buckner --- November 28, 1828
Patrick Clopton --- July 23, 1829
T. T. Dickinson --- February 11, 1825
Dr. B. F. Doswell --- November 1, 1828
Mrs. Judith Page Harrison --- July 25, 1834
Elizabeth D. Hill --- November 17, 1835
Josiah Hotchkiss --- September 7, 1832
Mrs. Caroline M. Kean --- September 22, 1831
Samuel Luck --- January 23, 1838
William B. McGruder --- September 24, 1833
--Mrs. Mary O. Meaux --- September 30, 1825
Robert C. Pendleton --- April 15, 1836
John Roy --- May 16, 1834
Eliza Taliaferro --- January 9, 1838
Peter Thornton --- October 11, 1833
Thomas Griffin Thornton --- November 2, 1830
Thomas Trevillian --- December 2, 1825
William Turner --- October 17, 1829
Mrs. Mary Ann Motley --- April 10, 1835
[Transcribed by Nancy Hannah from "A history of Caroline County, Virginia : from its formation in 1727 to 1924" by Marshall Wingfield, 1924]

the Richmond Enquirer
October 5, 1838
Departed this life, on Thursday, the 6th of September, at the house of Mr. Henry McClung of Staunton, Mrs. Martha Ann Harrison, the wife of Capt. Wm. Harrison of Caroline county, in the 30th year of her ge, after a protracted illness of several months, leaving so affectionate husband, and two interesting little children, to bemoan their irreparable bereavement. Mrs. Harrison had been laboring for many months under that most afflicting disease, consumption. She was induced, through the advice of her physician, to undertake a trip to the Red Sulphur Springs, with the hope of arresting her disease. After much pain and suffering, she reached Staunton on the 12th of August, where she lingered until death put an end to her suffering. Mrs. Harrison had never joined any church, but had long enjoyed the consoling belief, that the medintorial sacrifice of a Saviour had made her peace with her Maker. She said to the writer of this, but a day or two before her death, that though she should "pass through the valley and shadow of death," she would "fear no evil." She was frequently engaged in solemn appeals to a throne of grace-saying (euolgy continues - no other names mentioned).
Submitted by: Dena Whitesell

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