Sunday's Obituary: Martha Alice Corder

Manassas Journal
18 January 1924

MRS. CORDER DIES

Nokesville Resident Succumbs to Lingering Illness

Mrs. Martha Alice Corder, wife of Mr. Phillip Corder, died on Tuesday at her home between Nokesville and Aden, after an illness of twelve months. Funeral services took place this morning from her late home and interment was at Greenwich. Rev. T. D. D. Clark, of Manassas, conducted the funeral service.

Mrs. Corder was seventy-eight years old. She is survived by her husband, who is extremely ill, and by two sons and a daughter, Mrs. Bare, of Washington; Capt. Corder, of No. 10 Engine Company, Washington, and Mr. Amos Corder, who lives at the family home near Nokesville.

[NOTE: Martha and Phillip Corder both died in 1924 and are buried together in Greenwich Presbyterian Church cemetery. ~cgl]

Sunday's Obituary: John W. Hall

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
13 August 1931

RITES FOR JOHN W. HALL

Special Dispatch to The Star

GAINESVILLE, Va., August 13. -- Funeral rites were conducted today for John W. Hall, 91 years old, prominent Prince William County citizen, who died Monday, following a brief illness. The deceased was a member of the Prince William Cavalry during the war between the States and was one of the oldest Confederate veterans in the county.

Services were held in the family home, with Rev. J. Royal Cook of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church officiating, while burial was in the cemetery on the place. The pallbearers were John Ellis, Douglas Cockerille, Shirley Reid, J. L. Mayhugh, Raymond Ellis and Frank Cockerille, all from the Gainesville and Greenwich communities, where the deceased had lived throughout his life.

Those surviving are two daughters, Mrs. T. M. Cook, Greenwich, and Mrs. Ernest Hoffman, Roanoke, and a grand-daughter, Mrs. Samuel Thornton of Washington.

Church Record Sunday: Notice to Builders (Greenwich Presbyterian)

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)
6 December 1856

NOTICE TO BUILDERS. -- The undersigned is authorized by the Building Committee composed of the following gentlemen, Dr. Brooks, Dr. B. G. D. Moxley, Mr. Charles Green, Mr. William Ellis, and Col. Samuel Simpson, to invite proposals on the part of Contractors for the building of a new edifice at Greenwich, in Prince William county, for the exclusive use of the Presbyterian community. The plans and specifications for the same will be exhibited by J. V. Brooke, esq., of Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va. The material for making the bricks can be had on the spot or in the vicinity. Written proposals or bids for this work, will require to be sent in by or before the first of January next, and the work to be commenced early in the spring of 1857.

S. SIMPSON, Chairman
of the Building Committee.

Gainesville P.O., Pr. Wm. co., dec 2--eo3t*

Sunday's Obituary: John Meredith Hooe

Richmond Times Dispatch
21 October 1916

Manassas, Va., October 20 -- The funeral of John Meredith Hooe, deputy sheriff of Prince William County, who died on Tuesday of hemorrhage of the brain, was held yesterday at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  The pastor, Rev. E. A. Roads, was assisted by Rev. Alford Kelley, pastor of the Manassas Presbyterian Church, and Rev. J. Royal Cooke, pastor of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Hooe was a member.  Five Prince William County councils of the order of Fraternal Americans took charge of the service at the grave.  Mr. Hooe was a member of Aden Council.

Mr. Hooe was forty-six years old and a nephew of the late Representative Elisha E. Meredith, of Virginia.  His wife and seven children survive.

[John Meredith Hooe is buried beside his wife, Margaret Bertha Kiewit Hooe, in the Manassas Cemetery, Manassas, Va. ~ cgl]