Sunday's Obituary: Obituaries from Outside the County (Brawner/Meredith/Dulaney/Gray)

Sun (Baltimore, MD)
10 February 1903

JOHN P. BRAWNER.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 9 -- Mr. John P. Brawner, 66 years old, died this morning at his home, 1307 Prince street. He came here from Prince William county, where he had spent his life in farming. His remains will be taken tomorrow to Bethel Cemetery.

State (Columbia, SC)
30 July 1900

DEATH OF EX-CONGRESSMAN MEREDITH

MANASSAS, Va., July 29 -- Ex-Congressman E. E. Meredith died at his home here this afternoon from an acute obstruction of the bowels.  Dr. J. Ford Thompson of Washington and Dr. O'Brien of Alexandria were summoned here to perform an operation, but death ensued while they were making preparations for the operation.

Richmond Whig (Va.)
17 November 1868

DULANEY -- At his residence, Cloverland, Prince William county, Va., on the 8th of November, 1868 Captain CASSIUS CARTER DULANEY, aged forty-three years.

Sun (Baltimore, MD)
9 December 1864

GRAY. -- On the 8th instant, Mrs. MARY A. GRAY, a native of Prince William county, Virginia. [Virginia papers please copy.]

PWCo Items: 14 September 1899

Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
14 September 1899

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY Notes.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]

HAYMARKET, VA., Sept. 13. -- The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Paul's Church, this place, under the management of Mrs. M. M. Magaw, of Gainsville, Va., gave a few nights' past, a well-acted play, entitled "Down By the Sea."

Mr. Thomas J. Chew, with his two daughters and sister, yesterday returned to his home, "Cloverland," Thoroughfare, Va. Mr. Chew spent the summer in Europe. He says his intention is to remain at his country home until Christmas.

Othneal Hutchison, son of ex-Treasurer Hutchison, Manassas, Va., sends word to his relatives that he is well and in China on his way home from the Philippines. Nothing having been heard from young Hutchison, they had supposed him dead. He belonged to a Western regiment of volunteers.

R. H. Jordan has gone to Lima, Inc. to take a professorship in a military school.

Mr. Frank M. Lee, of Buckland, this county, will marry in October Miss Catharine Tabb of Oakland Mills, Howard county, Md.

Will: Edward E. Carter (1821)

EDWARD E. CARTER Will

Prince William County Will Book L, pg. 407

20 Nov 1820; proved 01 Oct 1821

I EDWARD E. CARTER of Cloverland, Prince William County at this time laboring under a serious illness at Vermont of which I apprehend the consequence to be fatal, and being desirous of disposing of such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me, in the manner in which I wish it to go, in case I do not recover, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills heretofore made.  Imprimis. I give devise and bequeath to my brother SHIRLY the whole of my tract of land called Cloverland, including the mill, with all the slaves, stocks of every kind, farming implements and all the rest of my personal property to him and his heirs forever, he paying all my just debts.  Item I give and devise to my brother CASSIUS, that tenement now occupied by MAY WASHINGTON under a lease for lives to him and heirs forever.  Item in testimony of the love and affection I have to my sister MARY WALKER I give and bequeath to her one thousand dollars to be paid her by my brothers SHIRLEY and CASSIUS in equal portions out of the property before given to them.  Item I desire that my brothers SHIRLEY and CASSIUS shall repay to my present overseer BAZIL TAYLOR in twelve months after my decease the sum of five hundred dollars, to enable him the better to provide for the wants of his family.  Lastly I constitute and appoint my two brothers SHIRLEY and CASSIUS Exors of this my last will and testament.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 20^th day of Nov. 1820.

EDWD. E. CARTER  {seal}

Signed sealed and acknowledged in presence of

E. BROOKE, A. B. SCOTT, HENRY T. DIXON

At a Court held for Prince William County Oct 1 1821

This last will and testament of EDWARD E. CARTER decd. was presented to the Court and being proved by the oath of EDMUND BROOKE is ordered to be certified.

At a Court held for said County January 7^th 1822.

This last will and testament of EDWD. E. CARTER decd. was presented to the Court and being fully proved by the oath of HENRY T. DIXON is ordered to be recorded & CHARLES SHIRLEY CARTER the Exor. named in the said last will and testament came into Court and made oath to the same according to law and performed what is usual in such cases certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.

Teste, PHIL. D. DAWE