Sunday's Obituary: L. F. Thompson

Belington Progressive (W.Va)
26 April 1923

OLDEST B. & O. VETERAN DIES

Parkersburg, W. Va., April 22 -- The acknowledged oldest living former employee of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the first railroad in the United States, died here tonight in his hundreth year. He is L. F. Thompson, who would have rounded out a century if he had survived until next fall. He was born in Prince William county, Virginia, September 22, 1823 and had been a resident of Parkersburg since 1862. After many years' service he was long ago placed on the retired list by the railroad, and only a few months ago was given a medal by the company and publicaly proclaimed its veteran of veterans. Mrs. C. A. Swenfingen of the city is a daughter. Homer P. Thompson of Cincinnati, Ohio, and George Thompson of Findlay, Ohio, are his sons.

Thompson had been employed by the Baltimore & Ohio for forty-five years and had been on pension fifteen years. At the time of his retirement he was passenger conductor between Parkersburg and Grafton.

Newspaper Tidbit: Fire at Dairy Farm (1914)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
22 January 1914

FIRE AT DAIRY FARM

Two Barns and Several Valuable Animals Destroyed by Flames

Fire discovered early this morning did considerable damage to the buildings and stock of the Sharon dairy, belonging to Corbin Thompson, at Woodbridge, Va. Two barns of the group of buildings were burned, a quantity of grain and hay destroyed, and several valuable cows and two horses were burned to death. Equipment in the form of machinery and implements also were damaged.

No idea of th origin of the blaze can be formed. Mr. Thompson himself discovered the flames about 3 a.m., and with his overseer tried to get it under control. This was found to be impossible and efforts were directed toward protecting the remaining buildings with the result that two valuable ones--the dairy house and the corn  house full of corn--were saved. Neighbors appeared in large numbers shortly after the discovery of the blaze, but, owing to the lack of fire-fighting facilities, nothing could be done to save the two barns that were ablaze. The loss has not yet been estimated.

Sunday's Obituary: Effie (Scales) Thompson

Greensboro Daily News (NC)
16 October 1936

MRS. THOMPSON DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS

Daughter of Rear Admiral Scales Had Made Home in Greensboro 10 Years

FUNERAL RITES TODAY

Mrs. Albert Lee Thompson, Jr., of Hamilton Lakes, died early Thursday morning at Wesley Long hospital after illness of a few days with pneumonia.

Funeral service will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Holy Trinity Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Thompson was a member, by the rector, Rev. Robert E. Roe. The body will leave Greensboro on Southern Train No. 32 at 10:53 o'clock tonight for Washington. The concluding service will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the grave in Congressional Cemetery in Washington under the leadership of Chaplain Sidney K. Evans, United States navy.

Surviving Mrs. Thompson are her husband and son, Archibald Scales Thompson, of Greensboro, and two sisters, Mrs. Albert George Cook, Jr., and Mrs. Frederick L. Riddle, whose husbands are lieutenant commanders in the United States navy.

Before her marriage Mrs. Thompson was Miss Effie Scales, daughter of Rear Admiral Archibald Henderson Scales and the late Mrs. Scales. Mrs. Thompson is descended from a long line of colonial ancestry on both sides of the family. Her paternal grandfather was Col. Junius Irving Scales and she was a grand-niece of Gov. Alfred M. Scales, who was the state's chief executive during the four years beginning in January 1885. She also was a lineal descendant of Chief Justice Leonard Henderson, of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

On her mother's side Mrs. Thompson was a granddaughter of Maj. Gen. William Montrose Graham, of the United States army; a great-granddaughter of Col. James Duncan Graham, of the United States engineering corps; a great-great-granddaughter of Dr. William Montrose Graham, of Prince William county, Virginia, and of John Graham, of Williamsburg, Va.

During the last 10 years, following Rear Admiral Scales' retirement from active service, Mrs. Thompson hade lived in Greensboro.

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.]

Friend of Friends Friday: March Term of Quarterly Court (1859)

Alexandria Gazette (Va)
14 March 1859

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY COURT

The March Term of the Quarterly Court of this County, adjourned to-day. All the causes on the civil Docket, which the parties were ready to try, were disposed of.

Commonwealth vs. John Simpson, charged with Simple Larceny, was continued, a material witness against the accused being absent.

Commonwealth vs. Jim, a slave, the property of Wm. M. Lewis, charged with an assault on John Thompson, with intent to kill was tried, and Jim convicted of the offence. The Court sentenced him to sale and transportation beyond the limits of the United States, and remanded him to jail, to await the requisition of the Executive of the State.

Prince William Democrat

Sunday's Obituary: Henry F. Williams

Oakland Tribune (California)
17 March 1911

PIONEER IS DEAD AFTER LONG LIFE

Henry F. Williams was Passenger of Old Steamer California

SAN FRANCISCO, March 17. -- Henry F. Williams, one of the six remaining passengers on the steamer California when the vessel made its first trip to San Francisco, February 28 1849, and who built San Francisco's first post office, died at his home, 1150 Vallejo street, shortly after noon yesterday, after an illness of only a week. His family, widow and 10 children were at his bedside when the end came.

Williams was one of the few California pioneers, and was one of 500 who came to San Francisco the last day of February, 1849, on the old side-wheel steamer California. The California brought the first load of fortune seekers to San Francisco that arrived by steamers.

Within a week after his arrival Williams opened the first carpenter shop in San Francisco. Only a few days later he began the construction of San Francisco's first post office, occupied by Charles L. Ross, the city's first post-master. He was a prominent leader in the public library movement, was a member of the Pacific Union Club in 1869, when it was known as the Pacific Club, and opened the first mechanic's fair held here.

BORN IN VIRGINIA

Williams was born in Prince William county, Va., March 2, 1828. He came to California in 1849 and lived within its borders continuously ever since.  He leaves a wife and 10 children, Charlotte F., Isabelle F., Thomas C., William R., Catherine E., J. R., Fairfax, Heloise, Duval and Sarah. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock from his late residence, 1150 Vallejo street.

Less than two weeks ago Williams, with two other argonauts, Dr. Samuel H. Willey and General W. H. Pratt, celebrated the sixty-second anniversary of the arrival of the California at this port. The only other surviving members of the party which arrived on the California are General D. W. C. Thompson, who lives in Sonoma; Mrs. Mendell, who lives in Steiner street, and Isaac B. Pine, whose address is in Tuolumne county.

Land Records: :Potomac Railroad Company Notice of Eminent Domain

Alexandria Gazette
29 June 1871

POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY, President's Office, Richmond, June 13, 1871.

To Landon Carter, Ann E. Carter, his wife, D. F. Neale, Thomas W. Neale, William Hale and Lovett Hale; --Wev and Eliabeth Wev; Samuel J. F. Tebbs, Hamilton Crockford, -- Crockford and -- Crockford, the infant children of Tebbs, who married W. W. Tebbs, the infant children of Cornelia Duval, who was Cornelia Tebbs, Thomas Duval and Laura Duval, Anna Steel, Lucien S. Duval, H. S. Duval and the infant children of John P. Duval, Foushee C. Tebbs, J. H. McVeigh, Elizabeth P. McVeigh, Ann L. Tebbs, Margaret F. Thompson, John W. Tebbs and two infant children of W. W. Tebbs, deceased; Thomas F. Tebbs, Richard Tebbs, Daisy Tebbs, George Rozel, DeButts Rozel and Anna Rozel, James Spencer, Francis C. Fitzhugh, William Haywood, Henrietta M. C. Spenve, Elizabeth Chamberlaine and Joseph Chamberlaine, A. Nicol and the Potomac and Manassas Railroad Company.

Notice is hereby given to you, that the Commissioners appointed by the County Court of Prince William county, on the 3d day of May, 1871, to ascertain a just compensation to the owners of lands upon the line of the railroad of this Company within the said county, for such of the said lands as are proposed to be taken by the said Company for its purposes, will meet for that purpose on the land owned by you in the said county, in Carrborough, on the 18th day of July, 1871, between the hours of ten a.m. and 6 p.m. 

Very respectfully,

P. V. DANIEL, Jr., Pesident
Potomac Railroad Co.
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Sunday's Obituary: James W. Nalls (1921)

Manassas Journal
16 September 1921

JAMES W. NALLS DEAD
Confederate Veteran Passes Away at His House Near Antioch

James W. Nalls died September 6 at his home near Waterfall, at the age of seventy-seven. He had been in ill health for  number of years but the direct cause of his death was thought to have been a fall which he sustained five weeks ago.

Mr. Nalls was a Confederate veteran and served throughout the war between the states as a member of the Eight Virginia infantry. He was born in Fauquier county January 1, 1844 and had been a member of the Gainesville M.E. Church for a number of years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucy L. Nalls, of Antioch, and nine children, James D. Nalls, of Gainesville; Morgan W. Nalls, of West Falls Church; Mr.s Jennie Bause, of Antioch; Mrs. Dora Byroad, of Arlington; Mrs. Lula Tingstram, of Clarendon; Mrs. Bettie Leathers, Mrs. Eva Thompson and John  H. Nalls, of Washington. He also leaves three brother sand one sister, Mr. Richard Nalls, of Manassas; Mr. Jackson Nalls, of Spencer, N.C., and Mrs. Lena Cornell, of Mount Rainier, Md.; twenty five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at Antioch on September 9 by Rev. T. D. D. Clark, of Manassas. The pallbearers were: Messrs. Archie Nalls, Levi Nalls, Ashby Nalls, William Nalls and Albert Leathers.

Wedding Wednesday: Green/Dowell (1919) - Lynn/Thompson (1909)

Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)
28 February 1919

WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS

Fredericksburg, Va., Feb. 27 -- Miss Lelia M. Green, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Green, of Prince William County, and Dr. W. Fred Dowell, of Manassas, were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents Tuesday night. The bride is a granddaughter of MRs. Belle Montague, of this city, and the groom is leading druggist of Manassas.

Washington Herald (Washington, DC)
6 June 1909

The marriage of Miss Pearl Lynn, of Prince William County, Va., and Mr. Ernest A. Thompson, of Charles County, Md., took place here on Wednesday by Rev. W. D. Kean, pastor of the Southern Methodist Church. Early in the week Miss Maud E. Bryant and Mr. John Talbert, young Washingtonians, were married here by the Rev. S. R. White.  Among others to whom marriage licenses were issued here during the week are the following: Miss Lulah G. Percy, of Lanconing, Md., and B. Ernest Manual, of Takoma Park; Miss Rosa Belle Sherwood and Erasmus Stribling, both of Richmond, Va., and Miss Ethel L. Phillips, of seattle, Wash., and Oliver L. Denslow, of Widana, Mich.

Newspaper Tidbit: PWCo Items 2 April 1914

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
2 April 1914

GIRLS OF CANNING CLUB FEAST COUNTY OFFICERS

Serve Dinner to Show Appreciation of $300 Appropriation for Work

Special Correspondence of The Star

MANASSAS, VA, April 2, 1914.

At a meeting of the Prince William county board of supervisors yesterday at the courthouse here levies were fixed for the coming year and the usual bills were allowed. In appreciation of the appropriation of $300 recently made for the work of the girls' canning clubs the members of the board were entertained at dinner at the Manassas High School, the girls' canned goods featuring the menu. The guests were Palmer Smith of Gainesville, Commonwealth's Attorney Thomas H. Lion, County Treasurer J. P. Leachman and Supervisors J. F. Gulick of Manassas, J. L. Dawson of Occoquan, J. T. Syncox of Dumfries, T. M. Russel of Coles, J. P. Manuel of Brentsville and O. C. Hutchison of Gainesville districts.

Mrs. Anna Kosheba, thirty-eight years old, was found dead with a bullet wound in her throat Thursday at her home, on a farm near Independent Hill, this county.  Her two small children were with her. The father left her in good spirits that morning to begin his work in the fields. She was apparently of unsound mind and had threatened on several occasions to end her life. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of suicide. She leaves her husband, Michael Kosheba, and four young children The family came from Hungary about sixteen yeas ago, settled in Pennsylvania and removed to this county in June, 1913.

The April term of the circuit court for Prince William county convenes here Monday, Judge J. B. T. Thornton presiding. The docket is said to be the longest known in many years.

The county school board held its regular semi-annual session Tuesday. Appropriations were made for prizes in the boys' corn clubs and for demonstration, work in the girls' tomato clubs. Supt. George G. Tyler was elected delegate at large to the school conventions. Corbin Thompson, D. J. Arrington and R. A. Rust were appointed a committee to ascertain what could be done toward obtaining the appropriation made by the last legislature for high school dormitories. A resolution was adopted asking of the county board of supervisors a levy of 20 cents on the $100 for county school purposes. At the board meeting yesterday the petition was presented and the levy granted.

Manassas Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, is to hold a silver tea Monday evening in the chapter room.  A program of readings and music will be rendered.  The proceeds will be applied to the Shiloh monument fund.

Sunday, May 3, has been designated as "go-to-church" Sunday in Manassas.

J. F. M. Palmer of Vienna, Fairfax county, has purchased the old Smith property, known as Newmarket, on the Sudley road. The property contains 114 acres.

Funeral services were held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Haymarket, Monday for William A. Buckley of Gainesville, this county, who died Sunday morning. The rector, Rev. Morris S. Eagle, officiated.

Military Monday: Lt. Gilbert Rollins / Lt. Egbert Thompson / Pfc. E. Conway Owens

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
16 July 1944

WOUNDED IN ACTION

Lt. Gilbert Rollins, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rollins, Gainesville, and Lt. Egbert Thompson, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Thompson, Woodbridge, were wounded in action during the invasion of France and both are in hospitals in England.  Both men are graduates of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and formerly were Prince William County 4-H Club Members.

AWARDED PURPLE HEART

Pfc. E. Conway Owens, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Owens, Nokesville, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in Italy.  Pvt. Owens has been returned to the United States to recuperate and is at present in the Moore General Hospital in North Carolina.

Will: Rebecca Bell (1823)

REBECCA BELL Will

Prince William County Will Book M, pg 2

10 Aug 1822; proved 03 Mar 1823

In the name of God Amen I REBECCA BELL of the County of Prince William & State of Virginia being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be Almighty God for the same do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say I commit my soul to Almighty God trusting that through the redeeming grace of the Savior he will forgive my sins, I request that my body should be decently interred for defraying the expenses of which I wish two bull yearlings to be sold.  The balance of my property I give and bequeath in the following manner, Viz; to my grandson THOMAS GUY, his heirs or assigns one large brindle cow, one hog and one ewe.  To my granddaughter NANCY one bed and furniture one cow of a brindle & white color and one ewe, to my granddaughter ELIZABETH one bed and furniture and one heifer it is further my wish that if either of my grand daughters should die without issue what property I have left her shall belong to the other, it is further my wish that the following articles shall be sold, one iron pot and stew pan one tea kettle eight spoons, one washing tub and bread tray and the proceeds equally divided between the three children above named and as it was my wish that the sheep should be equally divided among the three I wish my Executor to value the two sheep and the one third of the value to be paid by THOMAS and NANCY to ELIZABETH for carrying the above will into execution.  I hereby constitute Majr. JOSEPH R. GILBERT my Executor as witness my hand and seal this tenth day of August 1822.

REBECCA BELL

Signed and sealed in the presence of

JAMES THOMPSON, WILLIAIM GRIFFID, PERRY GRIFFID

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Prince William County  Marcy 3^rd 1823 this last will and testament of REBECCA BELL decd was presented to the court and being proved by the oaths of JAMES THOMPSON and PERCY GRIFFID is admitted to record.

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions continued & held for Prince William County March 4^th 1823.  JOSEPH R. GILBERT the Executor named in the last will and testament of REBECCA BELL decd came into court and made oat to the same and took the oath of an Exor. according to law and having performed what is usual in such cases certificate is granted him for obtaining probate thereof in due form.

Teste,  P. D. DAWE

Travel Tuesday: Fast Southbound Mail Demolishes at Danville (1903)

Times-Picayune (New Orleans, VA)
28 September 1903

FAST SOUTHBOUND MAIL DEMOLISHED AT DANVILLE

Nine Men Were Killed and Seven Injured Out of a Crew of Sixteen

Southern Railway Train No. 97 Jumped Trestle Seventy-Five Feet High -- Engineer was a New Man and Not Acquainted with the Grade of the Road

Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 27 -- While running at a high rate of speed, No. 97, the Southern Railway's southbound fast mail train, jumped from a trestle seventy-five feet high, half a mile north of Danville, Va., this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock and was almost demolished.  Of the crew of sixteen men on the train, nine were killed and seven injured.

THE DEAD.

Engineer J. A. Brady, of Saltville, Va.
Fireman Clapp, White
Fireman Clapp, white
Conductor J, Thomas Blair, of Danville, Va.
Mail Clerk J. L. Thompson, of Washington
W. T. Chambers, of Midland, Va.,
D. T. Flory, of Nokesville, Va.
P. N. Ardanright, Mount Clinton, VA
Flagman S. J. Moody, of Raleigh, N.C.
A boy 12 years old, son of J. L. Thompson

THE INJURED

Mail Clerk Louis W. Spiers, Manassas, Va.
Frank E. Brooks, Charlottesville, Va
Percival Indemeyer, Washington
Chas. E. Reames, Culpepper, Va
Jennings N. Dunlop, Washington
M. C. Maupin, Charlottesville, VA

All of the injured men are seriously hurt and have been carried to the hospital in Danville.  The recovery of Mail Clerk Spiers is not expected, and other clerks are though[t] to have received mortal injuries.

The trestle where the accident occurred is 500 feet long, and is located on a sharp curve.  Engineer Brady was a new man on that division of the Southern, and it is said that he came to the curve at a very high rate of speed.

The engine had gone only about fifty feet on the trestle when it sprang from the track, carrying with it four mail cars and an express car.  The trestle, a wooden structure, also gave way for a space of fifty feet.  At the foot of the trestle is a shallow branch with a rocky bottom.

On account of the wreck, all traffic on the central and northern divisions of the Southern will be affected.  It will take several days to repair the damage to the trestle.  The Southern is arranging to run its southbound trains over the Norfolk and Western from Lynchburg, via Burksville, to Danville, new trains being made up at that place.

Military Monday: Men Who Were With Mosby

The Washington Post (DC)
October 13, 1898

MEN WHO WERE WITH MOSBY

Washingtonians Who Will Attend the Reunion of the Band

The Washington men who were with Mosby will meet at Confederate Hall tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock to make arrangements to attend the annual reunion of the famous band, which is to take place at Manassas on October 25.

The local committee on arrangements is composed of R. M. Harrover, Durand Shackleford, and M. M. Marmaduke.  The Washington men who will attend the reunion are:  A. J. Biedler, T. R. Baker, Americus Davis, P. A. Darneille, P. M. Darden, W. L. Flynn, Durand Shackleford, R. M. Harrover, A. J. Hobson, M. M. Marmaduke, D. G. Mohler (Sergeant), Dr. A. B. Mitchell, R. Macall, Lieut. Joe Nelson, James P. Nalls, J. B. Proutt, Liet. Boyd Smith, William R. Stone, T. J. Thompson, Capt. E. F. Thompson, G. R. Turberville, B. Thrift, Bush Underwood, Dr. Samuel Waggaman, Hugh T. Waters, S. H. Wilson, Sergt. J. W. Wrenn, and Lieut. Albert Wrenn.

Wedding Wednesday: Carter-Storke / Lynn-Thompson

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
June 3, 1909

Miss Helen Blanche Carter of Washington and John Seymour Storke of Prince William county, Va., were married in Rockville yesterday by Rev. S. R. White of the Baptist Church at the minister's home.  Dr. White also officiated at the marriage here yesterday afternoon of Miss Ethel L. Phillips of Seattle, Wash., and Oliver L. Denslow of Weidman, Mich., the ceremony taking place at the home of the minister.

Miss Pearl Lynn of Prince William county, Va., and Ernest Thompson of Charles county, Md., were married in Rockville yesterday by Rev. W. D. Keene, pastor of the Southern Methodist Church.

Poll for Electors 1820

POLL FOR ELECTORS
Prince William Co. Deed Book 7, pg. 453

Poll taken at the Court house of Prince William County on the first Monday in November Eighteen hundred and twenty for Electors to choose a President and Vice President of the United States.

[names listed in column one]
Edmund Brooke
Wm. Smith
Wm. Merchant
Nehemiah Lynn
George Carney
Benjamin Cole
P. Trowe
James Howison
John Merchant
Benjamin Adie
Thomas Davis
Jos. R. Lynn
Wm. French

[names listed in column two]
John Hooe Jr.
Francis Davis
Simon Suttrale
Bernd. Hooe Jr.
John Fox
Rd. W. Weedon
Joseph Wells
Noah Maddox
John Mills
John Maddox
Wm. Copin
John Tansil
Jesse Ewell

[names listed in column three]
Wm. Cooke
Michael Cleary
Robt. Hamilton
Geo. W. Jackson
Landon Carter Jr.
George Copin
J. W. M. Daniel
James Foster
W. John Washington
Redmon Foster
Gerd. Alexander Jr.
Wm. A. G. Dade
Peyton Mills

[names listed in column four]
Joseph Thompson
Francis Simpson
John Sullivan
John Gibson Jr.
J. Monroe [sp?]
P. D. Dawe
J. Leachman
Wm. M. Craig
Sampson Windsor 48
Rd. Davis Jr.
David Jamison 50

The foregoing is a Poll taken at the Court house of Prince William County on the first Monday of November 1820 for Electors to choose a President & Vice President of the United States.

Commissioners }
Gerard Alexander Jr.
Jno. Gibson Jr.
P.D. Dawe

Teste
Alex Lawson
J. W. M. Daniel

At a Court held for Prince William County December 4th 1820. This Poll for the Election of Electors to choose a President & Vice President of the United States was returned to the Court & ordered to be recorded.

Teste. Phil. D. Dawe