Notes


Note for:   William Edward Braswell,   22 JAN 1887 - 12 MAY 1950         Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Oakwood Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Va.


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Note for:   Robert B. Braswell,   14 DEC 1891 - 9 OCT 1918         Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Oakwood Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Va.


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Note for:   William P. Edwards,   ABT. 1834 - SEP 1893          Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Old Gholsonville Post Office area

Individual note:   
From "Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County, Virginia:"

Captain Neblett enlisted William in Coleman's Artillery 1 March 1862 when they prepared for Confederate service. William was discharged 18 June 1863 as he had been in a hospital with rubeola (measles). He became paralyzed on the right side and had been unfit for duty for 60 days at the time of the discharge. He was 32 years of age. According to Confederate Army records, William was 6 feet tall, with dark complexion, black hair and gray eyes.

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Note for:   Cargill Massenburg Lynch,   1 JUN 1844 - 27 DEC 1887          Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Wright Family Cemetery, Highway 692

Individual note:   
According to "Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County, Virginia:"

Massenburg Lynch was 20 years of age when he was drafted into the Union Army at Hillsboro, Ohio, 27 September 1864. He was assigned to the 78th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and was present with the regiment at Columbus, Ohio, on 23 October 1864. He became a member of Col. I on 7 November 1864.

Massenburg was present with his company through December and into 1865. J. Leonard Lynch of White Plains, a grandson, says that Massenburg served in Sherman's army and evidently joined them when they were coming up thorugh the Carolinas. He is said to have been in one of three columns of the Army and to have camped one night at Tambernacle Church when they were passing through Brunswick County.

On 30 May 1865, Massenburg was in Washington, D.C., when he was discharged by order of the War Department. He still at this date had not recieved any pay for service in the Union Army.

A report of 11 July 1865 shows Massenburg in Louisville, Kentucky, and still the only compensation he had recieved for service in the Union Army was some clothing that was valued at $65.34.

While Massenburg was drafted into the Union Army, his heart was in Brunswick County. In February 1867, he returned to the county of his birth. On 1 January 1868, he married Cecelia Ann Wright, daughter of Lewis Laxton Wright and Rebecca Moore, mentioned in the topic about Pvt. Henry Gilliam Wright.

They lived near Elams, North Carolina until 1881 when they bought a farm in Brunswick county and moved back. The land was on what today are Highways 611 and 722. The south Brunswick fire tower was on that land in the 1970s.

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His tombstone, located at Wright Family Cemetery on Highway 692, says he served in Co. I, 78th Ohio Infantry Regiment.

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Note for:   James Henry Lynch,   21 NOV 1868 - 25 JAN 1937         Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery


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Note for:   Josephus Thomkins Lynch,   5 SEP 1871 - 21 MAR 1948         Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery


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Note for:   Lucy B. Jones,    -          Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery


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Note for:   J. Leonard Lynch,    - 30 APR 1981          Index
Burial:   
     Place:   Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery

Individual note:   
From "Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County, Virginia:"

Lewis Taylor, who is the father of Elizabeth L. Taylor (William Allen Wright's wife), lived in the house that J. Leonard Lynch lived in the 1970s.