Travel Tuesday: Thrown Into Cemetery (1908)

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)

15 September 1908

THROWN INTO CEMETERY

Engineer Tossed in a Wreck at Manassas

FIVE TRAINMEN ARE INJURED

Freight Train and Detached Engine Collide with a Crash Near the Coal Bin

Manassas, VA, Sept. 14--There was a head-on collision this morning between the Manassas branch freight train and a detached engine about half a mile west of Manassas.

The engine had been ordered to the coal bin for coal and was returning over the Manassas branch track. The freight had been ordered out,with instructions to keep a lookout for the engine, but apparently the caution was not heeded.

K. D. DeMasters, the engineer on the detached engine, was tossed into the Manassas Cemetery when the crash came. He had his left foot sprained and his nose cut. 

The following members of the freight crew were injured:

Charles Mankin, engineer; back injured

John W. Cross, conductor, right foot injured

W. D. O'Hiel, fireman, left foot mashed and face and knee skinned.

---Kneff, brakeman, injured about the body

Sunday's Obituary: Dr. C. W. Hore

Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)
11 November 1904

DOCTOR DROPS DEAD

(Special to the Times-Dispatch)

Manassas, Va., Nov. 10 -- Dr. C. W. Hore, one of the brightest physicians in this section of the State, dropped dead at his home in Brentsville, the former county seat of Prince William county, this afternoon.  Apoplexy was the cause of his death. He leaves a wife, who was Miss Flora M. Kincheloe, of Brentsville.

Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
11 November 1904

Dr. C. W. Hore

(Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun)

Richmond, Va., Nov. 10 -- At Brentsville, Prince William county, today Dr. C. W. Hore died suddenly of apoplexy.  He was widely known.

[Dr. C. Wickliffe Hore was born 26 Juen 1865 and died 10 November 1904. He is buried in Manassas City Cemetery.]

Sunday's Obituary: Ella Lipscomb Weedon

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
15 May 1944

Mrs. Ella Weedon Dies; Former Manassas Resident

Mrs. Ella Lipscomb Weedon, former resident of Manassas, Va., and member of a prominent Prince William County family, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alexander E. Bauhan, Maplewood, N.J. She would have been 79 years old tomorrow.

Mrs. Weedon was the daughter of the late Judge William E. Lipscomb and Mrs. Lipscomb of Manassas. Her husband, Hugh H. Weedon, died in 1940.

She is survived by two sons, Lt. Col. Sidney L. Weedon, in the Army here, and Maj. Hugh H. Weedon, Jr., of New York, and another daughter, Mrs. John E. Chase, Washington.

Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Manassas Cemetery, followed by burial there.

Tombstone Tuesday: J. B. T. Thornton (1857)

Dr. J. B. T. THORNTON

Son of 

Peter & Mary Taylor Thornton

Born

At Hunters Hill, Caroline Co.

Died

Near Brentsville

Sept. 5, 1857

Was for years member of the County Court of Prince William Co. & a portion of the time presiding justice of said court.

Sunday's Obituary: William Peyton Larkin (1930)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
5 November 1930

JUDGE OF ELECTION DIES WHILE SEATED IN POLLING PLACE

Wellington, VA., November 5 -- William Peyton Larkin, prominent farmer of Prince William County, died here yesterday while sitting in the polling place where he was one of the judges of election.  Mr. Larkin had not felt well for several days, but arose at his usual hour on Tuesday morning and went to the polls, where he was stricken with a heart attack while talking with the other election officials and died instantly.

Mr. Larkin was a brother of James R. Larkin, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, who died in Manassas on October 17, and had been prominent in county activities for many years.  He was born in Lynchburg, Va., on February 21, 1869, and had been a resident of the county since 1890.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Lucy Adams Larkin; two sons, Peyton of Manassas and Lucien of Wellington; five daughters, Mrs. W. S. Brower (Elizabeth) of Catharpin, Mrs. Paul Bieber (Lucy) of Washington, D.C.; Misses Natalie, Lucretia and Maud of Wellington; a brother, Norvel Larkin, Manassas, and two sisters, Mrs. C. M. Larkin and Mrs. J. T. Ashford, Manassas.

Funeral rites will be conducted at Trinity Episcopal Church, Manassas, on Thursday, November 6, at 3 p.m., with Rev. A. Stuart Gibson, rector, officiating. Burial will be in the Manassas Cemetery.

Sunday's Obituary: Thomas Owen Taylor

Sun (Baltimore, MD)
28 January 1911

EX-MAYOR T. O. TAYLOR DEAD

Prominent Manassas Citizen Expires Suddenly at Home

Manassas, Va., Jan. 27. - Mr. Thomas Owen Taylor, a retired merchant, and former Mayor of Manassas for several successive terms, died of apoplexy at his home here late last night.

Mr. Taylor, who had been in feeble health for some time, left his home shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon for a walk to the post office.  After proceeding about half a block he turned back, reentered his home and, within a few moments, was stricken with apoplexy while seated in a chair. He never regained consciousness, dying seven hours later.

Former Mayor Taylor was the son of the late Joseph D. and Francis Housean Taylor, of upper Prince William county, Virginia. He was born October 12, 1834. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was in Texas and joined the Fifth Texas Infantry. Coming to Virginia with his command, he was in the battles of Seven Pines, the Wilderness and the Seven Days' fight around Richmond. Later he was a surgeon's assistant in Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond.

In 1868 he married Miss Anna Mary Smith of Baltimore. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Alfred Al Curtis, later Bishop Curtis, in Mount Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church.

He is survived by his wife and six children - Mrs. Alice A. Hutchinson, of Loudoun county, Virginia; Mr. T. Ramsay Taylor, of Norfolk; Miss Anna Selina Taylor, Mrs. Robert M. Weir and Mrs. C. Armistead Sinclair, of Manassas, and Mr. B. Conway Taylor, of Baltimore.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow at Trinity Episcopal Church and burial will be in the Manassas cemetery.

The pallbearers will be Dr. C. R. C. Johnson, Messrs. George C. Round, G. Raymond Radcliffe, H. F. Button, and W. Parker Wilson.

A s a mark of respect the public schools of Manassas were closed this afternoon.

Military Monday: Newspaper Tidbit: Confederate Graves

Manassas Journal
1 September 1916

CONFEDERATE GRAVES

Mr. Westwood Hutchison, after making a special visit with Mr. G. D. Baker, reported that on Mr. E. R. Conner's property, several miles from town, had been found six Confederate graves.  Mr. Hutchison made the report with the recommendation that the graves should be moved to the Confederate cemetery at Manassas.

Three of the graves were unmarked. The other three, as far as can now be read, are inscribed as follows:

Names of Soldiers

A. J. Smith, 16th Miss.
C. C. Archbell, Co. I, 4th N.C., age 90 yeras
--- Carter -- 1861

Mrs. Westwood Hutchison, president of the Memorial Association, will be glad to hear from anyone who may have further information concerning these Confederate dead.

Wednesday's Child: Josephine Hanna / John Jenkyn Davies

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC)
24 October 1842

DEATH.  On Thursday morning, the 20th instant, in Occoquan, Prince William county, Virginia, Josephine, youngest daughter of Francis and Eliza F. Hanna, aged 5 months and 9 days.

Manassas Journal
8 December 1916

Funeral at Trinity Church

Funeral services for John Jenkyn Davies, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Davies, who died last Thursday in Baltimore, took place Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church.  Interment was made int he Manassas cemetery.  The services were conducted by the rector, Rev. J. F. Burks.

The pallbearers were four little boys -- Hawes Davies, jr., James Jenkyn Davies, Allison A. Hooff, jr., and John Bowling Hooff.

Wednesday's Child: Ruby Athey

Manassas Journal
February 18, 1921

A YOUTHFUL VICTIM

Death Claims Miss Ruby Athey in her Thirteenth Year

Miss Ruby Athey, the thirteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Athey, died at her father's home near town at 2:15 a.m. yesterday, of typhoid pneumonia.

The young lady had been ill but a short time, the symptoms of pneumonia not becoming manifest until the day of her death.  She was of a kind and loving disposition and made many friends among the young people with whom she was associated.

The funeral services will be conducted by Elder Dalton, from the Primitive Baptist Church, Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the interment will take place in the town cemetery.

Tombstone Tuesday: James Jenkyn Davies

Manassas City Cemetery
(photo by C.Lynn)

JAMES JENKYN

Son of 

James Jenkyn &

Mildred H. Davies

Born at Brentsville

Feb. 6, 1876

Died in Manassas

Aug. 8, 1909

Was Attorney

For Commonwealth At

The Time of His Death

DAVIES

Tombstone Tuesday: Charles Craig Lynn, Jr.

Manassas City Cemetery, Manassas, VA
Photo by C.G. Lynn

Charles C. Lynn, Jr.

Oct. 1, 1919

July 1, 1990

Elizabeth D. Lynn

Sept. 28, 1920

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Charles Craig Lynn, Jr. was the son of Charles Craig Lynn and Mary (Dogan) Lynn.

Military Monday: To the People of the South (Manassas Confederate Cemetery)

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)
September 11, 1867

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.

Manassas, VA, Oct. 2, 1867 -- The Ladies Memorial Association of Manassas appeal to you to aid them in collecting and suitably interring the remains of the gallant men who fell fighting gloriously for you and yours on this ever memorable field.  The victories gained have sent a thrill of joy through every Southern heart and home; but still the bones of those who gave their lives to gain them lie uncared and unnoticed.  Our immediate section was so devastated by the war that we are not able, unaided, to perform the work before us.  A site has been donated for the Manassas Cemetery, and we propose to gather together the remains of all who fell in this region.  We ask every one who lost a friend here not only to render us all the aid possible, but to communicate with the Association, and give all the information they can about where their friends are buried, their brigade, regiment, company, &c.  We do not deem it necessary to make a stirring or eloquent appeal to the friends of the brave boys, whose bones now whiten the "plains of Manassas."  The fact that numbers from every county in the South fell here should be enough to make every one give his mite in aid of so noble a work on so proud a field.

Mrs. Sara E. Fewell
President