DEATH NOTICES FROM THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE,
NASHVILLE TENNESSEE 1874-1876
By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2000
Transcribed by Laurel Baty
All of the Death Notices have been placed on the Madison County Tennessee page and can be found HERE
September 8, 1853
JAMES W. HAMILTON born Wythe Co., Va., April 26, 1770; died near Nashville, Tenn., August 22, 1853.
December 21, 1854
THOMAS OWENS born Wythe Co., Va.; md Mary Ann HARRIS at age 19; moved in 1814 to Ky.; died Sept. 26, 1854.
May 17, 1855
SUSANNAH VAUGHT w/o Andrew VAUGHT; d/o George and Catharine Kisling; sister of Rev. John Kisling of the Indiana Conference; born Wythe Co., Va., Nov. 19, 1798; md at age 17; in 1827 moved to Indiana and the next spring moved to Pulaski Co., Ky. where she lived and died Nov. 19, 1854.
JULY-DECEMBER 1858
MARY PIERCE widow of David PIERCE, born Wythe Co., Va., 1777; died Wythe Co., Va., July 26, 1858; joined MEC 1842.
Apri1 29, 1858
SARAH J. J. A. STEPHENS d/o Joseph and Isabella E. STEPHENS, born Wythe Co., Va., June 26, 1836; joined MECS Oct. 23, 1853; died March 15, 1858.
January 22, 1859
MARIETTA T. LOGAN d/o William M. LOGAN, formerly of Augusta Co., Va.; died Sept. 25, 1856 at residence of James HOGE, Wythe Co., Va., aged 16 years, 23 days.
March 3, 1859
DAVID UMBARGER born June 28, 1815; died Wythe Co., Va., Nov. 16, 1858; md Sophronia DARTER, Dec. 4, 1837. Resolutions of Respect for him by First Quarterly Conf. for Wytheville Circuit, not dated.
September 1, 1859
NANCY PICKENS widow of John PICKENS; born Wythe Co., Va.; family moved to S.C.; she died July 4, 1859 in house of her son, Robert PICKENS in Bradley Co., Tenn., aged 80 years.
NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, V. 29, #21. May 22, 1869
PETER PENNER s/o George and Anna PENNER b Montgomery Co., Va., Oct. 5, 1795; d April 18, 1869; moved to Warren Co., Ky., 18l6; joined MEC, 1817; md Elizabeth Alford, 1822, who was born in Wythe Co., Va. and moved to Ky. in 1808.
THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1860
ROBERT C. COX died Wytheville, Va., Sept. 13, 1859 in his 45th year; md Mary CHAFFIN of Wythe Co., Va., May 1857. Presbyterian.
January 24, 1861
MALINDA F. WATSON consort of Dr. Edwin E. WATSON; d/o David and Mary PIERCE; born Wythe Co., Va. July 22, 1820; died Pulaski County, Jan. 5, 1861; md Sept. 1840; joined MEC April 1842.
June 6, 1861
SARAH BUSTER ROUSSEAU, born Wythe Co., Va. March 9, 1793; died May 20, 1861; md John ROUSSEAU, July 19, 1812, Warren Co., Ky.
JANUARY-JUNE 1873 January 11, 1873
SARAH N. FOSTER, nee Oury, born March 9, 1801; md Capt. John FOSTER, Jan. 1822, who was a former clerk of the Wythe Co., Va. circuit court; joined MEC 1830; death date not given.
January 18, 1873
ISABELLA McCLINTOCK died Wytheville, Va. Dec. 24, 1872 aged 65 years, 2 months, 29 days old.
August 2, 1873
Tribute of Respect for R. C. BAILEY who died Wytheville, Va. May 27, 1873; by Quarterly Conference, Broad St. Church, Knoxville, July 21, 1873.
MILLY DIBRELL d/o William CARTER, born Wythe Co., Va. Oct. 17, 1790; died Sparta, Tenn. Aug. 15, 1873; moved with parents to Wayne Co., Ky.; md Anthony DIBRELL Apri1 25, 1811.
JANUARY-JUNE 1875
JAMES W. YERION born Wythe Co., Va. June 14, 1814; died Nov. 20, 1874.
ELIZABETH B. FLEECE born Wythe Co., Va. Dec. 25, 1795; moved with family to Montice11o, Ky.; md Dr. John W. Fleech, May 1, 1814 and moved to Danville, Ky.; he died "being thrown from a buggy," July 6, 1843; she died Mar. 22, 1875; mother of 12 children, 3 only surviving her.
Death Notices, Nashville Christian Advocate, 1874-1876
ELEANOR DUNBAR BURNS, nee RAWLEY, born Wythe Co., Va. July 22, 1800; died Chattanooga, Tenn. Dec. 2, 1875; md James O. Burns, September 27, 1831.
July 21, 1877
JOHN McGAVOCK born Max meadows, Wythe Co., Va., Jan. 30, 1792; s/o David and Elizabeth McGAVOCK who moved to Tenn. in 1796, settling in no. Nashville; there were 8 brothers and 1 sister in this family circle -James, John, Randle, Frank, Lysander, Hugh, David, Albert and the late Mrs. Joseph L. Ewing. "These brothers were remarkable for their fine physical development - tall, large and robust and men of unusual enterprise." He served in Gen. Andrew Jackson's forces in the War of 1812, against the Creek Indians. Died recently "in sight of his early home*" Only three children survived him, one the wife of Dr. J. B. McFerrin in whose residence he died.
[From sources in the Tenn. State Library, Mrs. Genella Olker found that John McGavock died July 7, 1877. See page 100.]
Page 100)
Referred from page 23, obituary of JOHN McGAVOCK. From THE HISTORY OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENN., by W. W. Clayton (Nashville, 1880):
Page 425
DAVID McGAVOCK
David McGAVOCK was one of the early settlers of Nashville. He was a son of James McGAVOCK, Sr., of Rockbridge Co., Va., where he was born the 6th of February, 1763. When it became known in Southwestern Virginia that the new and desirable lands in the Cumberland Valley were open for settlement, and that Robertson, Donelson, Rains, and their associates had established their little colony at Nashborough, the young men of that region who were ambitious and had their fortunes to make hastened away over the mountains and joined the colonists at their new settlement. David McGAVOCK, who had just become of age, made his appearance in Nashville, in 1785-86, and located and purchased for his father and himself two thousand two hundred and forty acres of land, situated on both sides of the Cumberland River north of the bluff. All that part of the city known as North Nashville stands on one of their tracts, and that known as North Edgefield stands on another. The lands selected by him show that he was an excellent judge of them, and the plats and charts executed by his own hand, which are still extant, show that he was an accurate and experienced surveyor.
After he had purchased his lands, the next thing necessary was to bring them under cultivation, for he had come to establish for himself a home in the new country, and not as a mere adventurer or speculator. At Freeland’s Station, now known as McGavock’s Spring, in the middle of his father’s nine hundred and forty acre tract, he built him a cabin, and, with all the laboring force he could command, proceeded to make arrangements for putting in a crop. He took the lead of all the settlers in agriculture, so that, as the historian of Nashville says in 1792, a large crop of corn was raised by him, which sold at a very high price. He had joined the colony work, and had brought with him from Virginia not only the means of purchasing the choicest lands, but he had brought his axe, his hoe, and his mattock, with which to make the wilderness blossom as the rose.
He made annual visits to his Virginia home between the seasons of harvest and planting, and it was on one of these occasions, in 1789, that he married Elizabeth McDowell, a lady belonging to a prominent and influential family of his native town. They had been neighbors and friends from childhood, and their married life was prosperous and happy. He had not yet fully prepared his new home in the Cumberland Valley for her reception, nor was it yet considered a safe or comfortable residence for women and children on the defenseless frontier. It was therefore the better part of wisdom for him to leave his wife at home with their parents, while he spent nearly the whole of every year at Nashville, cutting away the cane and clearing up his fields. It was not till 1795, after the birth of his sons James, John, and Francis that he moved his family from the old home at May Meadows, where the ancestral hamlet still stands near the railway station, off over the Cumberland Mountains to their new and well-arranged abiding-place in the Far West.
He had erected what was considered a palatial residence on the frontier—a frame house with glass windows, with iron trimmings for the doors and with wide, spacious porches on either side—within a few yards of an unfailing spring of water. And there the little family began their home-life on the frontier. It was but a few years, however, before he was enabled to build a nice brick house near the spot, the largest and most convenient in the settlement at that time, and which is still standing near the cotton- factory in North Nashville. There he reared a large and respectable family becoming identified with the city, county, and State in all their interests for more than half a century and there he died on the 7th of August, 1835.
Two of the children of David McGAVOCK and Elizabeth McDowell died in infancy; the survivors, six sons and a daughter—all of whom have now passed away to the better world—were among the most thrifty and enterprising people of the county. James and John, who were the two eldest, married sisters, the daughters of Mr. Kent, of Wythe Co., Va., and inherited in equal shares one of the quarter-sections located by their father north of the river. Francis McGAVOCK, who married the daughter of John Harding, settled upon a fine estate on Richland Creek, near Nashville, and enjoyed a long and happy life there. Randall McGavock married and moved to Louisiana, where he reared a highly respectable family, some of whom returned to the ancestral home in Virginia and some to Tennessee. Lysander McGavock, who married Elizabeth Crockett, of Virginia, settled in early life on a thousand productive acres near Brentwood, in Williamson County, where his children still reside in the delightful home left them by their parents. Hugh and Sally, the two younger children, were twins. The former inherited many of the noble qualities of his father; the latter married Joseph L. Ewing, who for many years was a leading man in his section of the county, enjoying in a large degree the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
Later in life David McGavock married the widow Hubbell as his second wife, by whom he had two children, one of whom died young. The other was Dr. David McGavock, who inherited from his father the family mansion, and occupied it until his death in 1865.
These were the children of David McGavock, who, respectively, have many descendants in the city and county. For the last thirty-two years of his life he was register of the land-office, to whom he was elected by the Legislature, and the books so long kept by his own hand bear witness that he was a man of method and a most faithful public servant. Nor had his education been neglected. His father, James McGavock Sr., who was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, in 1728, and came to this country when a young man, had married, in 1760, Mary Cloyd, a daughter of David Cloyd, of Rockbridge Co., Va., and had been altogether the architect of his own fortune. He was qualified therefore, to give his son David the most useful of lessons and to teach him how to work his way onward and upward, as he had done himself, by constant diligence and uniform integrity in all his dealings with his fellow-men. And right well did the dutiful son profit by these lessons. His father had no doubt advised him to make a comfortable home in the Cumberland Valley before he removed his young wife and children to the then Far West. At all events, he labored with persistence and energy to this end, visiting his old home in Virginia once a year, and foregoing the happiness of constant companionship with his wife and children that he might lay the foundation of future competency, perchance of fortune and better prepare his new home for the reception of her who was to be its mistress. About six years he labored in this way, and then, when all was in readiness, removed his little family to a home which proved one of comfort and happiness for the future, and in later life one of affluence. David McGavock was a fair specimen of the best young men from Virginia and North Carolina who laid the foundation on which rests the superstructure of Tennessee and its beautiful capital, and none among the solid old pioneers left a fairer name or a better heritage to their descendants than did he to his numerous and influential posterity.
Randall McGavock, the fourth son of James McGavock, Sr., was the assistant of his brother David in locating the early lands, and his deputy in the land-office. He was mayor of Nashville in 1824, and afterwards clerk of the Circuit Court of Davidson County and of the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals, after which he removed to Williamson County and settled on his vast tract of excellent land near Franklin, now owned and occupied by his son, Col. John McGavock, where he died at a ripe old age in 1854. He was a citizen of high character and of unquestionable integrity, and, though spending all the latter part of his long and useful life in Williamson, he was still much devoted to Davidson County.
March 9, 1878
DAVID WINNIFORD born Cumberland Co., Va., Nov. 15, 1794; served at Norfolk, Va. in War of 1812; married Elizabeth REAGAN, 1820; died Douglas Co., Oregon, Dec. 20, 1877 at residence of oldest son, W. R. WINNIFORD; joined Methodist Church at Cripple-Creek Campground, Wythe Co., Va., 1822; moved to Oregon with son about five years ago; his wife died in her 79th year; they had 4 sons, 5 daughters (one daughter died as an infant).
May 1, 1880
Colonel ABRAHAM UMBARGER, 1816-1880:
Col. Abraham UMBARGER was born in Wythe County, Va. Oct.
6, 1816, and died in the same place, March 31, 1880. In early
life he professed religion, and joined the Methodist Church, in
which he lived about forty-five years. On March 16, 1841, he was
married to Maria Miller, by whom there were eight children,
three of whom, with the wife, proceded him to eternity. He was
married the second time in 1866 to Mrs. Elizabeth King,
by whom there were nine children, four of whom, with the wife,
preceded him to the grave. Five children of the first, and five
of the last marriage survive our brother. Col. UMBARGER
will be greatly missed in the community. He was a man of good
native intellect, strengthened and polished by early training
at Emory and Henry College. He was honest, truthful, and a man
of sterling integrity. He took a deep interest in every enterprise
calculated to advance the interests of the Country, and reform
and elevate his race. He was anxious for the prosperity of the
educational institutions of the Church, which he patronized liberally
in the education of his sons. He was remarkably kind to the poor,
who now feel they have lost a friend. One of the most lovely traits
in his character was his devotion to the Church. This declaration
will touch a responsive chord in the hearts of the Holston preachers
who have traveled the Wytheville Circuit in the last forty-five
years. He was wise in counsel, unwavering in his fidelity, liberal
in his contributions, and emphatically the preacher's friend.
For the last few years he manifested great anxiety to see a good
church edifice in his community, and the large, fine church at
Mt. Pleasant is the result. That Church stands on that beautiful
eminence, a monument to Col. Umbarger's liberality and
personal efforts. For many years he was an exhorter in the Church,
and a good steward. He represented his circuit annually in the
District Conferences, and frequently was elected a delegate to
the Annual Conference. On his return from a District Conference
in July 1878, he found his excellent wife a corpse in his house.
Under the shock, his whole physical system gave way, until death
came to his relief. It is true, he desired to live to raise his
infant children, who are now left without father and mother. Death
did not come unexpectedly, for he was constantly looking out for
"the enemy." When death came, it found him serene, peaceful,
and happy in God, his Saviour. After twenty-five years of intimate
acquaintance, I have no doubt he is in that land where the inhabitants
shall say no more, "I am sick." J. M. McTeer, Wytheville,
VA
July 3, 1880
A.S.ARNOLD born Wythe Co., Virginia, February 27, 1829; died Hickman Co., Ky., April 27, 1880; married Louisa H. Brawley, January 20, 1853; joined Methodist Church in 1856; moved to Missouri in 1859; moved to Clinton, Ky. in 1862 where he died.
October 16, 1880
The Rev. STEPHEN K. VAUGHT, 1818-1880:
Memoir or Rev. Stephen K. VAUGHT: The Rev. STEPHEN K. VAUGHT,
son of Andrew and Rosana VAUGHT, was born in Wythe county,
Va., September, 1818, and died at his home in Marion county, W.
Va., July 9, 1880. He was converted at about the age of 16, at
a camp meeting held under the superintendence of the Rev. James
King. He was licensed to preach in 1842; received on probation
in the Kentucky Conference, held at Louisville in 1843, and appointed
to Liberty Circuit as junior preacher with the Rev. William James.
The following is a complete list of his appointments after 1843:
In 1844, Manchester Circuit; in 1845, Irvine Circuit; in 1846,
Shelbyville Circuit; in 1847 and 1848, Point Pleasant Circuit;
in 1849, Greenbrier District, where he remained four years. This
was the last appointment he received in the Kentucky Conference.
The Western Virginia Conference was organized in 1850, and he
was one of the fifteen who composed this body at its first session.
In 1853 and 1854 he was stationed in the city of Parkersburg;
in 1855, Clarksburg and Monongahela; in 1856, Clarksburg; in 1857,
Clarksburg District; in 1858, again at Clarksburg; in 1859 and
1860, Point Pleasant Circuit. Here he remained during the disturbed
state of the country until 1868, when he was appointed to the
Parkersburg District. He had charge of this district for four
years, and in 1872 was appointed to Point Pleasant Circuit; in
1873, to Huntington District, where he remained four years; in
1877, Point Pleasant Circuit as junior preacher; in 1878, Mercer's
Bottom; in 1879, Love's Chapel. This closes the list of his appointments,
from which it will be seen that he was thirty-six years in the
itinerant ministry, and that his fields of labor embraced a portion
of Kentucky and almost the entire territory of the Western Virginia
Conference. He was elected to and served in three General Conferences
and was twice chosen president of the Annual Conference. In the
autumn of 1863 he was united in marriage with Miss Nannie MILLER,
of Marion county, W. Va., a woman of brilliant mind and rare excellence,
who proved to be to him a help meet indeed. She, with their two
sons, Robert and William, survive him. Their married life was
one of unbroken harmony and mutual love. Brother Vaught was a
man of fine personal appearance; his mind was strong and active,
and his spirit noble and generous. He was a good English scholar,
and his great memory was well stored with useful knowledge. He
was always ready to receive or to impart instruction. He had great
versatility of talent, and was remarkable for adaptability to
his surroundings in every community. He seemed to be at home wherever
duty called him to go. He was a sound theologian, and a true and
stanch Methodist. He loved all Christians, and enjoyed their society.
He was an excellent preacher, and commanded the attention both
of the educated and the illiterate. He was a man of great benevolence,
and gave of his means as occasion offered. Testimonials to his
great usefulness and noble character have been given by Quarterly
Conferences and congregations. One of these from our Church at
Coal's Mouth, signed by A. J. Becket, is before your committee,
and is a noble tribute to his excellence as a preacher, friend,
and Christian gentleman. His career in the Church has been distinguished
and eminently useful. We shall see his bright face, and hear his
manly voice no more on earth, but we hope to meet him in heaven.
F. Carroli, Samuel Black, Joshua Tunley
JANUARY-JULY 1881
JOHN W. CROW, 1805-1880:
John W. Crow—Father Crow, by eminence—sweetly fell asleep
in Jesus, at his late residence in Franklin, Ky., Friday morning,
Dec. 10,1880. He was in the 76th year of his age, and had completed
fifty-two years of faithful service, enduring hardness as a good
soldier under the Captain of his salvation. After his death the
following document, of whose existence no member of the family
was aware, was found among his papers: "I was born in Wythe
County, Va., Sept. 15, 1805. While an infant my father and mother
removed to the state of Ohio, where they resided about nine months,
and then removed to East Tennessee, near Knoxville, there remaining
until the spring of 1812. They then removed to Kentucky, to what
was then Warren, now Allen, county. Here I was brought up, and
in 1821, Aug. 22, I was happily married to Nancy W. Martin, a
pious, praying girl. In the fall of 1828, at a prayer meeting
held by Brother Thomas Lyles, I was happily converted to God,
and the next Sunday joined the Methodist Church, under the ministry
of John James. I have lived to see all my children profess religion,
and join the same Church. And, thank God, that same religion still
bears me up to this date, and I have no fears but it will, if
we are faithful, bear my loving companion and me across the rugged
Jordan." This bit of autobiography over his own sign manual
bears date Dec. 24, 1860. The Christmas holidays and the close
of the year doubtless occasioned reflection on the close of life.
Sixty-four years of age, he, eleven years ago this Christmas—his
first in heaven—took up his attitude of readiness and expectancy.
Knowing that the Bridegroom comes quickly, his vessel was filled
with oil, and his lamp trimmed and burning. His trustful soul
was suffered with the spirit of John’s apocalyptic prayer,
"Even so, come Lord Jesus." On April 21, 1875, after
the death of his first wife, he makes this addition to his life
sketch: "Thank God for the prospect of meeting loved ones
in heaven. ‘Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within
me, bless his holy name.’" He was married, the second
time, to Mrs. Jane E. Tappecott, with whom he had been long and
intimately associated, Jan. 9, 1877. She survives to mourn her
loss. Father Crow mentions the fact that he lived to see all his
children professors of religion and members of the Methodist Church.
Four of his sons are Methodists preachers—two local, one
a traveling preacher in Arkansas, and the other, the Rev. Enoch
M. Crow, has long efficiently filled the post of a presiding elder
in the Louisville Conference. Two sons, merchants of Franklin,
are official members of our Church, and a grandson, the Rev. John
M. Crow, is an itinerant preacher, also of this Conference. Unless
prevented by sickness, Father Crow always filled his chair in
the house of God, and gave the pastor many tokens of encouragement
and approval. He testified for Christ in class meeting and love
feast. He led in public prayer, and regularly administered at
the family altar. He supported the ministry, contributed to Missions,
and took the ADVOCATE. He walked with God. We laid him to rest,
by the side of the companion of his youth, the mother of his children,
there to sleep amid the familiar hills of Old Allen until death
shall be swallowed up in victory. "Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."
JNO. J. TIGERT
Franklin, Ky., Dec. 22, 1880.
JULY-DECEMBER 1860
WILLIAM B. RODGERS born Wythe Co., Va., Oct. 1804; moved to Adair Co., Ky. when young; joined MEC 1831; died May 8, 1860.
MARGARET ATKINS, widow, of Robertson Co., Tenn., died May 7, 1860; native of Wythe Co., Va.
JULY-DECEMBER 1871
SARAH K. COX, nee WHITE, b Wythe Co., Va., March 18, 1803; d Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 26, 1870; md Samuel Cox in her 23rd year; buried in family graveyard in Sullivan Co., Tennessee.
MARY E. BOWYER b June 26, 1820; d Wythe Co., Va., July 21, 1871 in home of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth CHAFFIN.
NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, V. 31, #41. October 14, 1871
ANN TAYLOR CALDWELL b Wythe Co., Va., Oct. 4, 1789, d Canton, Miss., May 10, 1871, md Rev. George C. LIGHT, July 3, 1808; had lived in Ky., Mo., Miss., all her children except Rev. J. A. Light of Texas and Mrs. Barlow, Canton, Miss. had predeceased her.
JULY-DECEMBER 1862
FRANCES STUART McTEER, 1806-1882:
Frances Stuart McTEER departed this life in Wytheville,
Va., Feb. 27, 1882, at 2 o’clock P.M., and was buried in
Wytheville Cemetery Feb. 28, 1882. She was a daughter of Gen.
Alexander SMYTH, and granddaughter of James SMYTH,
who was a clergyman in the Episcopal Church, and was sent by the
authorities of the Episcopal Government to Botetourt parish, which
embraces the counties west of the Blue Ridge. Sister McTEER
was born on Cripple Creek, Va., on Mountain Park Farm, Wythe County,
Dec. 2, 1806, and was 75 years and near 3 months old when she
died. Her parents gave her advantages of education and early culture
which were improved and kept up through life, so that she was
one of the most intelligent and cultivated women in the country,
and her association was much sought and enjoyed. On Feb. 9, 1824,
she was married to Col. James F. Piper, who died Sept. 8, 1854.
On March 2, 1857, she was married to Rev. J. M. McTEER,
of the Holston Conference, with whom she lived happily until the
close of life. Sister McTEER made a profession of religion
and joined the Methodist Church at Asbury Camp-ground in Wythe
county, Va., August, 1840; and this place and time was ever held
sacred by her, and she never missed but one camp-meeting at that
place in 42 years, and this was on account of sickness. She also
kept a memorandum of the sermons she had heard preached, and by
whom. Her entry book closes with sermons preached at the camp-meeting
last September. She kept her membership on the Wytheville Circuit
and seemed to feel a peculiar interest in the members of the Church
and preachers of that circuit. From the time of her conversion
to the close of her life she lived a consistent Christian. When
she joined the Church she consecrated all to the Church. Her house
was immediately open for the traveling minister, and in her parlor
at Speedwell the Methodist preachers preached and held class-meetings
until the church was built at that place. For the last 25 years
she has encouraged her husband in faithfully preaching the gospel,
and it was her greatest desire that he might go out and preach
Christ again as in other days. She was often called upon in the
congregation, and her prayers were attended with power. She was
one who surely reflected the image of Jesus, and the light of
her influence will linger for years yet to come. Wytheville society
has lost a delightful charm, and Wytheville Circuit one of its
most useful members; but we expect to see her again, for she sleeps
in Jesus. B. F. Nuckolls
JANUARY-JUNE 1872
Mrs. MARY DYER died Wythe Co., Va. March 24, 1872 in her 45th year; niece of Rev. William HICKS of the Holston Conference.
MARY E. SMOTHERS born Wythe Co., Va. June 28, 1850; died Waynesville, N.C. March 25, 1872; md J. L. Smothers July 1870; joined MECS 1866.
Mrs. MARGARET SCOTT born Wythe Co., Va. Aug. 2, 1795; died July 17, 1871.
MARTHA G. CORNETT d/o Jacob and Esther WAMPLER of Wythe Co., Va., died Grayson Co., Va. April 16, 1872; md Stephen B. CORNETT, Dec. 2, 1851; left widower, two daughters, one son.
NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, V. 31, #10. March 11, 1871
Mrs. BETSEY SANDERS b March 6, 1803; d Wythe Co., Va., Feb. 14, 1871; md Colonel John SANDERS, Jan. 27, 1820; joined MEC, 1853; d at residence of her son, Major William SANDERS.
Mrs. MARTHA W. SPRATT w/o Thomas H. SPRATT, Esq., d/o John and Keziah GANAWAY of Cripple Creek, Wythe Co., Va.; d Smyth Co., Va. Jan. 6, 1871, aged abt 31 years.
NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, V. 3l, #16. April 22, 1871
EMMA WHEELER, nee WARD, b Wythe Co., Va., June 19, 1837; d June 6, 1870; md, as her second husband, Vincent W. WHEELER, July 6, 1867.
JULY-DECEMBER 1861
FLEMING K. RICH died Wytheville, June 25, 1861 aged 55 years.
Tribute of Respect for L. W. COOPER who fell in battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861; by Mt. Ephraim Div. #159, Sons of Temperance, Wythe Co., Va. July 29, 1861.
WILLIAM WARD STEWART s/o Rev. George and Jane STEWART died Wytheville, Aug. 28, 1861 in his 9th year.
Miss SARAH E. UMBARGER died Wythe Co., Va. Sept. 8, 1861 in her 20th year.
MARY JANE FISHER d/o Andrew and Sarah FISHER, born May 3, 1839; died Cripple Creek, Wythe Co., Va. October 10, 1861.