Sunday's Obituary: James Newton Carter

Evening Star (DC)
23 August 1923

VETERAN VIRGINIAN DIES

James Newton Carter Served in Confederate Army

James Newton Carter, a native and a life-long resident of Prince William county, Va., died at his home in Occoquan, Va. yesterday. He was eighty years old. Mr. Carter served in the Confederate army in the civil war as a member of Company H, 15th Virginia Cavalry. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Turner Carter and these children: Thomas I. of New York, Henry H. of Washington and William Minor and Samuel N. of Baltimore, and five daughters, Mrs. C. A. Macomb, Mrs. J. W. Ayres and Mrs. W. R. Ersfeld of Washington, Mrs. Warren P. Clarke of Woodbridge, Va., and Mrs. George Saufley of Hazard, Ky., as well as eleven grandchildren.

Sunday's Obituary: Joseph B. Reid

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
23 January 1905

Death of Confederate Veteran

Mr. Joseph B. Reid of Brentsville, Va., died at Providence Hospital Friday afternoon.  He was seventy-two years old and was one of the best-known residents of Prince William county.  During the war he served in Company H, 15th Virginia Confederate Cavalry and represented his county in the legislature some time after the close of the war.

Funeral services were conducted at the home of his son, Mr. Henry W. Reid, No. 2 Massachusetts avenue yesterday morning.  The remains will be interred at Manassas.

[Sgt. Joseph B. Reid is buried in the Manassas City Cemetery, Confederate Section.  ~cgl]

Sunday's Obituary: Edwin Nelson, Circuit Court Clerk

The Sun (Baltimore, MD)
13 February 1911

CIRCUIT COURT CLERK 40 YEARS

Edwin Nelson, Ex-Legislator, of Manassas, Va., Dead

Manassas, Va., Feb. 12 -- Edwin Nelson, for 40 years Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince William County, and holding other offices of public trust, died here today after a lingering illness of a complication of diseases in his eightieth year.  The funeral will take place from the Primitive Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon, and interment will be made in the Confederate Cemetery.

The widow, three sons, John H. Nelson, connected with the Interstate Commerce Commission, C. Paul Nelson, of Charlestown, W. Va., and James E. Nelson, of this place, and two daughters, Mrs. A. O. Weeden, of New Baltimore, Va., and Mrs. Albert Speiden, of Manassas, survive.

Mr. Nelson represented Prince William county in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1878-79 and was 'one of the strongest advocates of the famous McCulloch bill, through which the Virginia debt question was settled.

[Edwin Nelson was a Lieutenant in the Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, Co. H.  A more detailed obituary can be found on page 1 of the 16 February 1911 edition of the Manassas Democrat, which includes a photograph. ~cgl]

Military Monday: Prince William Rangers, Co. H, 15th Va. Cavalry

Manassas Journal

October 20, 1905

PRINCE WILLIAM'S HONOR ROLL

Prince William Rangers, Co. H, 15th Va. Cavalry

[Prepared for The Journal by Mrs. Geo. W. Johnson]

Captain William Gardner Brawner, killed in Maryland, '63

1st Lieut., J. C. Kincheloe

2nd Lieut., Edwin Nelson, taken prisoner in '63 and kept at Johnson's Island until end of war

3rd Lieut., Frank Davis

Com. Sergeant, John H. Hammill

Orderly Sergeant, Samuel H. Jones

2nd Sergeant, Leroy Davis

2nd Sergeant, William Kincheloe

3rd Sergeant, John Butler

4th Sergeant, W. W. Kincheloe

4th Sergeant, W. R. Lipscomb

1st Corporal, Geo. W. Hixon

2nd Corporal, Isaac Fairfax

3rd Corporal Charles Butler

4th Corporal, Levi Hixson

Privates

Robert Arrington	Benjamin E. Lynn
Luther Able [Abel]	Shirley Lynn
Benjamin Abel [Abel]	Wesley Ledman
Bradfield, Henry	A. T. Marshall
Thomas Botts	Joseph Mayhugh
Richard Brawner	John Mayhugh
James M. Barbee	Z. Mayhugh
Thomas Beach	James V. Nash
Cornelius Beach	Geo. W. Payne
Alexander Colbert	Jackson Payne
John Colbert	Dangg Pettit
W. W. Chappell	George Pettit
Leroy Cornwall	William Raney
James Cornwall	Joseph B. Reid
Richard Cornwall	Polk Reid
James O. Cornwall	Jackson Reid
M. Cornwall	John H. Renoe
George Cornwall	Joseph Richardson
John L. Cornwall	George Richardson
E. Dorsey Cole	Wm. Richardson
C. H. Copen	Randolph Spittle
Robert Carter	Lewis Spittle
Edward Carter	Edward Shepherd
C. A. Cannon	James Stone
George Davis	Thomas Stone
Henry Davis	Thomas Simpson
John Davis	John Slingerland
B. D. Davis	William Smoot
Peter Davis	Newton Stribling
Newton Delancy	John Smallwood
Thomas Dewell	Wallace Tansill
John French	George Tillet
Wellington Fairfax	John R. Tillet
Thomas Fairfax	Wm. Vermillion
Mark Florence	William Wilson
Wallace Hixson	William Wilkins
Henry Keys	Lewis Woodward
Ashwell King	George Wilt
Ramon Kincheloe	William Wilt
George Lowe	Thomas Windsor
Samuel R. Lowe	Grandison Warring