Sunday's Obituary: Margaret Dulaney

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC)
27 November 1845

At Dumfries, (Va) on Monady, the 24th instant, Mrs. Margaret Dulaney, aged 55 years, after a few days' illness.  Her death will be severely felt by her numerous relatives and friends, who deeply deplore the loss they have sustained in the death of this amiable and truly pious woman.  She had long been a devoted member of the Methodist Church, and one of the oldest inhabitants of that town.

She lived possessed of friendship and of love,

She died assured of endless bliss above.

Newspaper Tidbit: PWCo Item: May 15, 1875

Alexandria Gazette
15 May 1875

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY ITEMS.

Geo. W. Abel was seriously injured on Monday last by the falling of a blundering horse. He was on his way from Occoquan, where heh resides, and has been employed as ferryman, and when near Cedar Run bridge the horse he was riding fell, turning a complete summersault, throwing its rider over its head and falling upon him, the pummel of the saddle striking him in the pit of the stomach. The fall so stunned the horse that it laid on Mr. Able until it was pulled off but Mr. A. was up and walking about the next day.

On Thursday of last week as Mr. Joseph B. Reid was driving from Brentsville to Bristoe Station in his buggy, the horse coming in contact with the ox team of Mr. W. A. Ketcham, threw Mr. Reid out of the buggy, who, falling upon his head received very painful injuries. Mr. John H. Butler who was in the buggy with Mr. Reid jumped out as soon as the horse started, and was not hurt.

The attendance at the Circuit Cour was smaller than usual, though quite a large amount of business was done.  ~ Manassas Gazette

Wedding Wednesday: Waters/Longwell

Baltimore Sun

29 December 1907

MANASSAS COUPLE WEDS IN FREDERICK

Frederick, Md., Dec. 28 -- Mr. Odale Dabney Waters, of Manassas, Va., and Miss Louise Anna Longwell, of Bellington, Va., came to Frederick yesterday and were married by Rev. Osborne Ingle, of All Saints Episcopal Church.  After  the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Waters left for Manassas.

Will: Robert Graham (1821)

ROBERT GRAHAM Will

Prince William County Will Book L, pg 360

12 Feb 1816; proved 04 Jun 1821

I give and bequeath to my wife MARTHA PEYTON GRAHAM the land on which I live containing three hundred & forty acres more or less and also the tract of land on which RICHARD LEE lived and where his widow now lives containing one hundred & forty acres more or less to her in absolute fee simple for ever.  This is my last will and testament in my own hand writing the twelfth day of February eighteen hundred & sixteen.

ROBERT GRAHAM  {seal}

last will and testament JOHN LINTON, JOHN TYLER LINTON

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Prince William County 4^th of June 1821.  This last will and testament of ROBERT GRAHAM decd. was presented to the Court and being proved by the oaths of JOHN LINTON and JOHN T. LINTON is ordered to be recorded.

Teste, PHIL. D. DAWE

Sunday's Obituary: Mary (Lynn) Ayers

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
8 June 1904

Mrs. Mary Ayers, whose death occurred last night at Providence Hospital, Washington, was a resident of Prince William county and had many friends in that city.  She was twenty-one years of age and was a daughter of Mr. Lewis Lynn of Prince William.  Her husband, Mr. George Ayres, and three children survive.  The funeral will take place from her late home in Prince William tomorrow afternoon.

[Mary Elizabeth Lynn, the daughter of Lewis Craig Lynn and Hannah (Bonham) Lynn, married George Ayres on 16 January 1900 in Ellicott City, Maryland.  She is buried in Sudley Methodist Church Cemetery.  --cgl]

Newspaper Tidbit: Commissioners of Election in PWCo

Alexandria Gazette
15 May 1860

COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION IN PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA

The following gentlemen have been appointed by the court of Prince William county, Commissioners to superintend the election to be held for county officers on the fourth Thursday this month:

Brentsville -- William W. Davis, A. Howison, Dr. E. W. Latimer, Jno. Camper, and Eppa Hunton, commissioners, - Jas. G. Draney, Conductor.

P. J. Cannon's Store -- Ben. Johnson, D. T. Arrington, J. Willcoxen, W. I. Wier, and Geo. A. Cannon - A. F. Woodyard, Conductor.

Hay Market -- J. A. Harrison, G. Hulfish, Thos. S. Shirley, and B. E. Harrison - G. Simpson, Conductor.

Sudley Mills -- J. T. Leachman, C. C. Cushing, M. W. Lynn, J. D. Dogan, and John Y. Cundiff - A. Buckley, Conductor.

Dumfries -- J. W. Groves, R. W. Wheat, T. H. Speake, G. W. Merchant, J. A. Annis - M. F. McConchie, Conductor.

Cole's Store -- F. Hanna, Z. A. Kankey, W. H. Smoot, W. Selecman, and Basil Brawner - W. Gaskins, Conductor.

Kings' Former Store -- John Sullivan, Ro. Wilkins, J. W. Davis, W. H. Simpson, and C. A. Nelson - John Keys, Conductor.

Sunday's Obituary: Fannie Trone Edwards

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
13 April 1912

MRS. F. T. EDWARDS DEAD

Funeral of Widow of Former Methodist Pastor Tomorrow Afternoon

Mrs. Fannie Trone Edwards, widow of Rev. Dr. William S. Edwards of the Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, died at her home in the Imperial apartments last night of heart disease. Mrs. Edwards had been ill for several weeks.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home at 4 o'clock and the officiating ministers will be Rev. Dr. John T. Ensor, pastor of the Calvary M. E. Church, and Rev. J. W. R. Sumwalt, district superintendent of M. E. churches.  Burial will be made in Baltimore, her former home at Loudon Park cemetery.

Mrs. Edwards was the daughter of the late Rev. John Trone and Mrs. Delilah Trone of Prince William county, Va, and was closely connected with the Weedon and Howison families of Virginia. She had many friends throughout Virginia, Maryland and Washington.

Since the death of her husband three years ago in Baltimore, Mrs. Edwards had made her home at the Imperial, in Washington. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Chase Palmer of Washingotn, and two sisters, Mrs. Sailor C. Richards of Manassas, Va., and Mrs. Eugene Compton of Washington.