Military Monday: Men Receive Discharges

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
1 January 1946

14 Virginia County Men Receive Discharges

Manassas, Va., Jan. 1 -- Among Prince William County servicemen who have received their discharges recently are:

William H. Crummett, Nokesville, Army
James L. Gregory, Manassas, Army
Lewis J. Carper, Manassas, Army
Walter F. Davis, Woodbridge, Army
Cleveland H. Flory, Nokesville, Army
James L. Mayhugh, Bristow, Army
Robert L. Leith, Manassas, Army
Francis C. Wilson, Haymarket, Army
Vittorio Feriazzo, Triangle, Marines
James A. Douglas, Thoroughfare, Navy
James B. Muddiman, Manassas, Army
Maurice Posey, Manassas, Army
Howard C. Payne, Manassas, Army
Chester F. Smith, Dumfries, Marines
Howard E. Tribby, Manassas, Marines

Society Saturday: Farewell Party (Ruby Russell)

Manassas Journal
16 June 1932

FAREWELL PARTY

A very delightful party was given at the home of Miss Ruby Russell on Tuesday evening when she bid her friends good-by before leaving her home on West street.  She is soon to return to her country home at Canova.  She will be greatly missed by her many friends in Manassas.

Those present at the party were:  Misses Virginia, Ruth, Clara, Irene and Elizabeth Cross, Miss Edith and Virginia Carter, Miss Eula Shaw, Miss Sarah Vetter, Miss Mildred Cooke, Miss Mickie Lunsford and Mr. and Mrs. Emory Russell.

Messers. Floyd Vetter, Randolph Payne, William Ward, Edward Pattie, Douglas Dodson, Robert Leith, William Bowers, Paul Cooksey, Jake Terry, Shelmon Holmes, Russell and Willard Shaw.



[I love the reference to Miss Russell's "country home at Canova."  The Canova community was originally named Woodbine after Levi C. Lynn's home Woodbine, as well as the Baptist church and school of the same name that he founded.  It was renamed Canova in the early 1900's, largely in part to James Sullivan, who owned a general store in the area.  Eugene Scheel's "Crossroads and Corners" notes that Sullivan chose the name because it was easy to spell and was likely unaware of the famous sculptor Antonio Canova.  Today the area is called "Woodbine" once more but Canova Drive in Independent Hill remains -- Woodbine School on one side of the road and Woodbine Baptist Church on the other -- in the heart of the rapidly growing Coles Magisterial District.  Hardly "country" any longer!  --cgl]

Military Monday: Chosen for Service (Drafted)

Manassas Journal
August 31, 1917

CHOSEN FOR SERVICE

The following is a list of persons who claimed no exemption, who have been duly and legally called for the military service of the United States, and who have not been exempted or discharged:

858	Chas. F. Milstead, Occoquan
331	Dan Harris, Bristow
492	Owen J. Thomas, Neabsco
715	Arthur W. Leith, Manassas
349	John Reedy, Bristow
102	Harry R. Buckley, Haym'k't
875	Arthur L. Colbert, Manassas
714	J. W. Willcoxon, Manassas
808	W. M. Johnson, Jr., Manassas
285	Parker Williams, Nokesville
563	William C. Hinton, Quantico
146	Harry W. Polen, Catharpin
843	T. J. Runaldue, Manassas
229	A. L. Lawler, Nokesville
410	Bernard Barnes, Independent Hill
299	E. C. Blackwell, Nokesville
58	Moss Jacobs, Thoroughfare
19	Raymond Duncan, Haym'k't
4	Robert George, Hickory Grove
115	R. D. Rector, Haymarket
832	L. M. Senseney, Manassas
872	John L. Hynson, Manassas
929	Sussex H. Smith, Manassas
91	C. C. Mayhugh, Gainesville
838	Carlyle B. Buck, Manassas
861	Martin O. Smith, Manassas
17	Richard Green, Haymarket
802	B. C. Williams, Manassas
378	David L. Whetzel, Bristow
619	Wm. Lucas, Featherstone
344	Killey Riley, Bristow
202	John W. Ellis, Nokesville*
164	L. J. Hoffman, Catharpin
883	Percy S. Haydon, Manassas
566	Samuel L. Sisson, Quantico
124	Mont. J. Peters, Haymarket
744	Ernest T. Evans, Manassas
---	E. S. Bullock, Wallingfod, Pa.
76 T	hos. H. Phillips, Bristow
945	Frank Green, Did not register until after July 10, and No. 945 was assigned to him by the adjutant general by letter Aug. 16-- the eleventh number drawn in the county

* Enlisted Columbus, O., barracks

Exemption claims filed by Jacob Edward Lee Cooper (280), Nokesville, and John Thomas Norman (838), Independent Hill, on the first call, have been allowed.  The following exemption claims, marked "under consideration" in the last report, have been denied:

933	Ernest E. Smith (col.), Wellington
792	Ashton W. Brooks (col.), Manassas
103	George W. Martin, Haym't
856	Wm. C. Powell, Manassas
168	Maurice L. Payne (col.), Catharpin