Levi Pace Corr (1817-1897), son of a Methodist minister, willed the freedom of his slaves as soon as it was legal to do so. (It was legal to do so in his lifetime, but any slave freed after 1806 would have to leave Virginia within one year. Having nowhere to go, that would not have …
Category Archives: Virginia
Samuel Andrew McGinniss
On Friday, March 7, 1862, just two weeks after his 18th birthday, Samuel Andrew McGinniss enlisted in the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company E “The Westmoreland Greys” under the command of Captain J. Bailey Jett at Fort Lowry (Tappahannock).[1] Andrew’s youngest uncle, John, had been a member of Company E for almost a year. Andrew …
John C Calhoun
1st Lt Calhoun was born in Pendleton County, Virginia on March 4,1840. He was killed in action on July 6, 1863 in Williamsport Maryland by a shell fragment. He was serving under General John D Imboden and protecting the retreat from Gettysburg. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15548394/john-c.-calhoun
Simon Peter Graham
Simon Peter Graham was born on August 11th, 1834 in Roanoke Virginia to humble farmers John and Elizabeth Graham. Simon spent his young years hunting with his father and helping tend to the fields along with elder brother James. In 1858 the responsibility fell to 24-year-old James, and 14-year-old Simon to handle the farm after …
Andrew Tennant
Andrew Tennant BIRTH 10 Feb 1839 West Virginia, USA DEATH 8 Oct 1925 (aged 86) Reedy, Roane County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL McClung Cemetery Reedy, Roane County, West Virginia, USA When Andrew Tennant was born on February 10, 1839, in Monongalia, West Virginia, his father, Jacob, was 26 and his mother, Margaret, was 24. He …