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Aisquith, Mrs. Sally L.
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
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]


Burson, Mrs. Mary
At her residence near Unison, Loudoun Co. on the 16th of February, Mrs. Mary Burson in her 77th year
[3/5/1875 Alexandria Gazette Submitted by Erica Beatty]


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.)


Goechneuer, Mrs. Elizabeth J.
In Loudoun county near Oatland, at the residence of her daughter, Frances Daniels, on Friday evening March 19th 1875 Mrs. Elizabeth J. Goechneuer in the seventy eighth year of her age.
[4/16/1875 Alexandria Gazette Submitted by Erica Beatty]


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]


Luckett, Sallie
At her home in Middleburg Va., on Monday eveing last Miss Sallie Luckett widow of the late Francis W. Luckett in the 80th year of age.
[11/26/1875 Alexandria Gazette Submitted by Erica Beatty]


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)


Noland, Lloyd
Suddenly at Middleburg, Va on the 15th of November 1875 of congestion of the lungs Lloyd Noland eldest son of Major R.W. N Noland in the 31st year of his age.
[11/26/1875 Alexandria Gazette Submitted by Erica Beatty]


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]


Peyton, Henry
Union Town, Pa, Dec. 31.
A man by the name of Henry Peyton from Loudon county, Va. Was on Friday night last, taken into custody and lodged in jail, for (as we have understood) behaving rudely.  When taken to prison, he was in a state of intoxication.  On Saturday afternoon he was a corpse. His remains, were on Sunday, decently interred in the Presbyterian burying ground, adjacent to this place. – Genius.
[Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA, January 14, 1829 - Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Saunders, John E.
DEATH IN A STAGE COACH.--On Tuesday evening last as one of the Coaches of the National Road Line was descending Winding Hill, about 5 miles east of Smithfield, one of the passengers was suddenly seized apparently with a fainting fit.  When taken out of the Coach, however, he was found to be dead.  Upon an examination of his papers it was discovered that the unfortunate gentleman was Mr. John E. Saunders of Louden Co., Va.--Cum. Civ.
[Gallipolis Journal (Gallipolis, Oh.) Thursday, January 23, 1851 Submitted by Kathy McDaniel]


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]


Turner, Richard H.
Of consumption on the 20th of February 1875 at the residence of his sisters Middleburg, Va in the 40th year of his age. Richard H. Turner
[3/5/1875 Alexandria Gazette Submitted by Erica Beatty]
 


 

Williams, Mary E.
At her home in Waterford, Loudoun county, on the 12th instant Mary E. Williams wife of William Williams and daughter of the late Isaac Walker, in the 52d year of her age
[4/19/1875 Alexandria Gazette Submitted by Erica Beatty]



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