Obituaries
Aisquith,
Mrs Sally L.,
died in Leesburg, VA., July 31 (pub Aug 3 1831)
(Source:
Submitted by K Torp, National Intelligencer as pub. in the NGSQ, vol
55, No. 1, March 1967.)
Arnett,
M. Nelle
M.
Nelle Arnett, 87, of 20665 Ryder Mills Court, Ashburn, Virginia,
formerly of 699 Baxter Court, died Friday, September 02, 1994, at
Loudon County Hospital in Leesburg, Virginia. Born March 30, 1907,
in Farmington to John E. and Margaret A. Clague Quilliam, she
married Harry Arnett on September 03, 1932, in Crown Point, Indiana.
He died February 06, 1966. One brother and three sisters also
preceded her in death. Surviving are her god child, Lee Hunter of
Ashburn Virginia, whom she raised; and one sister, Mrs. Lee
(Lucille) St. Clair of Creve Coeur. She worked at Marion Negley
Dairy Store and later at Camp Ellis, retiring in 1945. She then
worked for the Fulton County Assessor's Office in Canton. She was a
member of First Presbyterian Church in Canton. She was a 50-year
member of Women's International Bowling Congress. Services will be
at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Oaks-Hines Funeral Home. The Rev. Tony Suitor
will officiate. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the
funeral home. Burial will be in White Chapel Memory Gardens.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.
[Peoria
Journal Star, Peoria IL September 4, 1994 _Submitted by Stormee
Girl]
Bayne,
Mary, wife
of Ellsworth Bayne, of P.C.Co., MD, died in Loudoun Co, VA., Aug 17,
age 55 yrs., 6 mos. (pub Aug 24 1831). (Source::
Submitted by K Torp, National Intelligencer as pub. in the NGSQ, vol
55, No. 1, March 1967.)
Brown,
Mrs.
Leesburg,
Va., March 1. - Mrs. Brown, wife of William H. Brown, died at
her home, near Hamilton, on Friday night. She was a Miss Nichols, of
a prominent family of this county. Her husband and one daughter
survive.
[Richmond Times Dispatch (2 Mar. 1910) Transcribed by
FoFG MZ]
Currie,
Mrs.
Leesburg,
Va., June 8. It is with painful feelings we have to notice the
untimely death of Mrs. Currie and her sister, (Mrs. Jones,)
with their two infant children, which occurred in the vicinity of
this town on Thursday last. The catastrophie to which we allude, was
occasioned by the sudden descent of an overflowing flood in one of
the branches of Tuscarora. The house occupied by the family of Mr.
Currie, situate upon the margin of the stream, was instantaneously
swept away, together with its unhappy inmates – all of whom
perished! The bodies of the deceased were afterwards found, a short
distance from the fatal spot. One of the females, as we have been
informed, retained within her arms, the faded form of her infant
child, fast locked in the cold embrace of death. Their bodies were
interred in the Presbyterian burial ground in this place on Saturday
last.
(Republican Compiler ( Gettysburg , Pennsylvania ) June
23 1824 Submitted by N. Piper)
Douglass,
Brigadier General Hugh
The Alexandria Herald -- May 12, 1815 -- Died,
in Loudoun county, Va. on the morning of the 2d inst. Brigadier
General Hugh Douglass, in the 55th year of his age. The life of this
excellent man was eminently distinguished by those virtues which
meliorate and sweeten society...As a husband, father and brother, he
was most affectionate and tender; he was ardent and sincere in his
friendships....(long eulogy omitted, but no further mention of
family, military service).
(submitted
by: Dena Whitesell)
Galt,
Francis T.
Surgeon
Francis T. Galt,
Surgeon of the Confederate Cruiser Alabama during the Civil
War, died at his home, Woodside, near Upperville, Va., November 17,
aged 83.
Surgeon Galt was the son of Major John M. Galt, U.S. Army,
and was born at Norfolk, Va., December 30, 1832. He attended the
schools of Norfolk and graduated in medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1854 and at once entered the United
States Navy as Assistant Surgeon October 2, 1855. He was promoted to
Passed Assistant Surgeon May 4, 1860, and resigned on March 20,
1861, when he offered his services to Virginia. He was assigned
first to the steamer St. Lawrence and later to the
Alabama, remaining on the latter ship until she was sunk in
the fight with the U.S.S. Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France. Dr. Galt
was a member of Admiral Tucker’s party which explored the headwaters
of the Amazon River for the Peruvian Government. After the
conclusion of the Civil War, Dr. Galt practiced his profession in
Loudoun county, Va., which he continued until a year before his
death. He is survived by a widow, one son, Mr. Herbert H. Galt, St.
Paul, and a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Nevill, of Loudoun,
Va.
(Source: The Military Surgeon, January 1916.)
Hampstone,
Robert T.
Robert T.
Hempstone,
aged seventy-one, died at his home, in Leesburg, Va., August 13,
1913. He was a man of fine character and genial heart, and leaves
many friends to mourn his death.
Mr.
Hempstone was born in Montgomery County, Md., in 1842, just four
years before his parents moved to Loudoun County. He engaged in
active business in Baltimore until the nineties, when he returned to
Loudoun and retired to a handsome farm which stands as a monument to
his thrift and industry and as a reminder of his genuine
hospitality.
Mr.
Hempstone enlisted and served in the 8th Virginia under Captain
Wampler, of Company H, for eighteen months. At that time his courage
and daring brought him to the attention of Gen. George Pickett, who
made him his special courier. He is survived by two brothers and
five sisters.
(Source: Confederate Veteran. Pg 35, January
1914. Vol. XXII, No. 1)
Horn,
William Van
Middleburg,
Va., July 23. – William Van Horn died at Bloomfield on Monday, aged
sixty years. He is survived by his wife and three
children.
[Richmond Times Dispatch (24 July 1914) Transcribed by
FoFG MZ]
Hurst,
Herod
Submitters
Name: Kyle M. Condon
Obit:
Died, at his home in Union Center township, Elk county, Kansas,
January 20, 1900, at 8:20 p.m., Herod Hurst, aged 86 years 8 months
and 8 days.
Mr. Hurst
was born in Louden county, Virginia, in 1813, living there until he
was 20 years of age, when he went west, as it was then called,
traveling on foot to Warren county, Ohio, where he settled. In 1835
he was united in marriage to Nancy Kelsey. There their children were
born, consisting of five girls and seven boys, the girls and one boy
dying in childhood, the eldest son dying in Missouri five years ago.
His wife and five sons still survive him, Keenan, Jefferson and
Thomas Hurst living in this county, one in Illinois and one in
Colorado.
In 1871 he
with his family emigrated from Ohio to Kansas, settling in Linn
county, where he resided until 1894, when he moved to Elk
county.
Mr. Hurst was at his death and had been for forty-five
years a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Services
were held, conducted by pastor MacKenzie, Sunday afternoon and the
remains laid to rest in Grace Lawn cemetery.
The family
have the sympathy of all in their great
bereavemen
Hutchison,
Lieut. Benjamin H.
On
the eighth of December, 1914, Lieut. Benjamin H. Hutchison, in the
seventy-ninth year of his age, passed away at his home, in Loudon
County, near Aldie, Va. He was the son of Beverly and Mary P.
Hutchison, who owned the "Peach Orchard" farm, where once lived
Thomas Neal, father of Julia Neal, who was the mother of Stonewall
Jackson. The old Neal house was moved to its present site, and in it
Benjamin Hutchison was born and died.
In 1859, when excitement
was very high over the John Brown raid, Benjamin Hutchison and his
twin brothers, Ludwell and John, with others, started to
Charlestown, where John Brown was in prison. It was reported that
five thousand men from the North were on the way to rescue Brown ;
but upon reaching Leesburg, Hutchison and his comrades learned that
the rumor was unfounded and returned to their homes. At the breaking
out of the War between the States a company called the Champ Rifles
was organized at Aldie, Va., and B. H. Hutchison and his twin
brothers, Ludwell and John, were among the first to enlist. About
May 18, 1861, Governor Letcher ordered the Champ Rifles to Leesburg,
where it became Company D, of the 8th Virginia Regiment, Col. Eppa
Hunton commanding. This regiment, afterwards known as the "Bloody
Eighth," took part in the battle of First Manassas and was also in
the battle of Ball's Bluff. It was reorganized at Yorktown, and B.
H. Hutchison was made color sergeant. He was with the command in the
battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, the Seven Days' Battles around
Richmond. At Frazier's Farm he was badly wounded. When the flag fell
from his hand, one of the color guards picked it up, and he was
killed ; a second guard picked it up, and he was wounded ; then
Lieut. Will Davis, of Company D, took it up, and he was killed. The
flag was then carried by Capt. Charles Pickett, who was on the staff
of his brother, Gen. George E. Pickett, but at the time was acting
as aid-decamp to Colonel Hunton, then commanding the brigade,
General Pickett having been wounded the day before at Gaines's Mill.
Captain Pickett also received a bad wound, from which he never fully
recovered. As soon as able Sergeant Hutchison rejoined his regiment
and took part in the battle of Second Manassas, where a piece of
shell cut off the flagstaff in his hands. He also carried the flag
in the engagements at Boonesboro Gap and Sharpsburg.
In the fall
of 1862 Sergeant Hutchison was elected lieutenant of his company. He
was in Pickett's famous charge at Gettysburg, where he was wounded,
captured, and sent to Fort Warren and from there to Johnson's
Island, where he was kept during the winter of 1863-64. He was then
sent to Point Lookout and later was one of the six hundred officers
at Morris Island put under fire of the Confederate guns at
Charleston. He was released from Morris Island in December, 1864.
His health was greatly impaired by his long confinement and was
never entirely recovered. He was in every engagement of his command
until his capture.
"Confederate Veterans 1916" Submitted by
Tina Easley
Jones,
Mrs.
Leesburg,
Va., June 8. It is with painful feelings we have to notice the
untimely death of Mrs. Currie and her sister, (Mrs.
Jones,) with their two infant children, which
occurred in the vicinity of this town on Thursday last. The
catastrophie to which we allude, was occasioned by the sudden
descent of an overflowing flood in one of the branches of Tuscarora.
The house occupied by the family of Mr. Currie, situate upon the
margin of the stream, was instantaneously swept away, together with
its unhappy inmates – all of whom perished! The bodies of the
deceased were afterwards found, a short distance from the fatal
spot. One of the females, as we have been informed, retained within
her arms, the faded form of her infant child, fast locked in the
cold embrace of death. Their bodies were interred in the
Presbyterian burial ground in this place on Saturday last.
(Republican
Compiler ( Gettysburg , Pennsylvania ) June 23 1824 Submitted by N.
Piper)
Kidwell,
Mrs. Susan Maria
Leesburg,
Va., March 1. - Mrs. Susan Maria Kidwell, widow of John
Kidwell, died at her home, near Leesburg, aged eighty-five years.
She is survived by two sons – Robert and Richard Kidwell, of
Leesburg, and one daughter, Mrs. Robert Herndon, of this town.
Internment was in Union Cemetery, Rev. Mr. Moffett
officiating.
[Richmond Times Dispatch (2 Mar. 1910) Transcribed
by FoFG MZ]
Lawrence,
W. M.
Died, at
his residence, near Atlee, Hanover County, Thursday afternoon, July
23, 1914, at 5:30 o’clock, W. M. Lawrence, aged
seventy-one.
Funeral
notice later.
[Richmond Times Dispatch (24 July 1914) Transcribed
by FoFG MZ]
Lee,
Ludwell
March
25, 1836 – At Belmont, Loudoun co., Va., aged 76, Ludwell Lee,
second son of Richard Henry Lee, a gentleman highly respected.
["Historical
Collections of Virginia" by Henry Lowe, Babcock & Company,
Charleston, S.C., 1845. p. 406-407; submitted by Robyn
Greenlund]
Mittelberger,
John C.
John
C. Mittelberger,
residing at Clark & Second Sts., died Jan. 1. He was born in
Leesburg, VA, Oct. 5, 1817, and settled in St. Charles Co. In 183o.
He was mayor in 1872. he is survived by his wife, Lucinda Mallerson
and four children. Burial was in the City Cemetery.
(Source: St.
Charles Journal, Jan. 1882. Submitted by Joanne Scobee
Morgan)
Payne, Mrs. Sarah Catherine
Leesburg,
Va., March 1. – Mrs. Sarah Catherine Payne, wife of Bernard Payne,
of Round Hill, this county, died at her home in that place, aged
sixty years. She is survived by her husband and several
children.
[Richmond Times Dispatch (2 Mar. 1910) Transcribed by
FoFG MZ]
Slinner,
R. H.
R.
H. Skinner
was born near Middlesburg, Va., January 1, 1833; and died April 30,
1913, after some years of invalidism. At an early age he went to
Texas and lived there until 1861, when he returned to Virginia as a
member of Hood’s Brigade, Company F, 4th Texas Regiment. He was
wounded at Gettysburg and lay on the battle field seventeen days
before he could get medical attention. He was then taken to the
hospital, where he remained three months hovering between life and
death from the wound through his lung. He carried a ball there the
rest of his life. When the war closed he returned to his adopted
State and lived in Fort Worth and Corsicana. About eight years ago,
broken in health and spirit, his heart turned to Virginia, and he
returned to his native state. He was laid to rest in the cemetery at
Middlesburg, not far from where he was born.
(Source:
Confederate Veteran. Pg 36, January 1914. Vol. XXII, No. 1)
Swan,
Thomas
Jan.
19, 1840 —At Morven, Loudoun co., in his 75th year, Thomas Swan, an
eminent lawyer, and formerly attorney of the U. S. for the Dist. of
Columbia. "He attained the highest rank in his profession, uniting
to the most extensive learning the most effective eloquence as a
pleader. His influence over juries, arising from this cause, and
partly from the universal confidence in the purity of his character,
is believed to have been seldom, if ever, surpassed, in the instance
of any other American advocate.”
["Historical Collections of
Virginia" by Henry Lowe, Babcock & Company, Charleston, S.C.,
1845. p. 406-407; submitted by Robyn
Greenlund]
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