Charles Philip Latham

Charles Philip Latham[2318] M V B K Y Photo: Yes.[2319] “… the buttons on the uniform coat [are] … on the wrong side … the old photos were camera positives and were mirror images of reality.”[2320] Cd image is saved in E:\BHC Work Folder\Cavalryman Photos. Born: [NOTE:signature is in his 2 January 1864 letter to his father. Image on CD as well as other places but CD file likely best.] 19 August 1844 in Washington, D. C.[2321] Married: Charles married first Kate Rice Miller on 15 May 1876. She was born in 1854 and died on 7 June 1878, in childbirth.[2322] “Mrs. Charles P. Latham, formerly Miss Kate Miller, died yesterday evening.… She had married Mr. Latham in the prime, beauty and hopefulness of young womanhood, had been married about one year, and leaves an infant about two days old.”[2323] Charles married second Mary Edwards, who was born in Floyd County. Her father was F. W. Edwards.[2324] His second wife “was always known as May but her name could have been Mary.”[2325] “… May, who was called Aunt May … always visited my grandmother in the company of Mary Abernethy…. I think they lived in Washington or Alexandria. The last time I saw her must have [been] circa 1940. Mary, and CPL’s daughter Ella, made regular visits for some years afterwards.”[2326] Died: About 8 February 1897 at 413 P Street N. W., Washington, D. C.[2327] Where is he buried? Obituary: “He filled the office of judge most impartially and acceptably, and was known to have one of the most thorough legal minds ….”[2328] See Obituary Chapter. Children: Kate Miller Latham, born in 1878; Ella Latham and S. E. Latham.[2329] “His daughter, by his second wife (May Edwards), Miss Ella Latham worked at The Library Of Congress well into the 20th Century. I … remember her as well as her mother, May.” [2330] “He leaves two children, Miss Kate Latham, by his first marriage, and Miss Ella Latham, by his second…” [NOTE:obituary] “I know nothing about Ida G. Eubank, and the Misses S. E. and Ella G. Latham. [The] G initial must stand for Gray. Woodville’s mother was Dorothy Gray.”[2331] Parents and Siblings: Sarah Martha (Bowen) and Woodville Latham, Sr. (21 January 1811– ). His father died in Lynchburg in August 1881. His siblings were Ella G., Mary, and Woodville, Jr.[2332] “Judge Latham leaves four sisters Mrs. Mary L. Abernethy, of this city; Mrs. Ida G. Eubank, of Newport News, and Misses S. E. and Ella G. Latham, of Washington, D. C.,…” [NOTE:obituary] “…when my family records were made, (1900–1930) the siblings of CPL were all well known to everyone at the time. Apparently, it was not thought necessary to include them.” [2333] Other Family: His paternal grandparents were Dorothy (Gray) ( –1813) and Philip Latham (1766–1815).Woodville, Charles’s father, was “Chief Clerk in the Navy Department in Washington, D. C. prior to the … [war].” “He moved his family to [the] Danville area … when the war started. Apparently, this is where he came from before marrying and moving to Washington. It appears that he had family in that area.”[2334] “Later, he was the mayor of Culpeper.”[2335] [“I have no information indicating that he ever returned to Washington.”[2336]] His maternal grandparents were Sarah “Sally” [Hill[2337]] (Fishback) and Dr. Peter B. Bowen, who was born in 1786.[2338] “My family records indicate that [Peter B. Bowen, Jr., [BH]] was an uncle of Charles P. Latham although he was only two years older [than Charles]. [Peter’s] father was Dr. Peter B. Bowen who was apparently 56 years old when he was born. The same Dr. Peter B. Bowen’s daughter, Sarah Martha Bowen, [married] Woodville Latham, Sr., and [was] mother of Charles P. Latham. [Therefore, to Charles Latham, Peter would have been his mother’s much younger brother.] I cannot guarantee the accuracy of my records, but if he is the cousin of C. P. Latham, I have no knowledge of his parents.”[2339] “Woodville Sr. had a brother named Robert….”[2340] [NOTE:put this where BH asks re ‘bob’ in letter] “I got a huge number of [Google] hits all referring to Woodville Jr. [Charles’s brother]. They revealed some family history relating to the earliest history of the movie industry in New York.” Woodville Jr.’s sons were Otway and Gray. “My information follows the Latham family back some 28 generations to the time of Henry (I 100-1135). The first one to arrive in Virginia (Robert Latham) came in 1620 in the “George”. By 1860, they were all over the state.”[2341] Charles Latham’s oldest daughter, Kate Miller Latham, was the maternal grandmother of Charles Cardwell.[2342] [His great-grandson, Charles Cardwell, … Talked 5-30-2003.] Stories, Letters & Biographies: In 1864, Charles wrote, “I am in a room with only eight others … .” “[Y]ou can imagine the pleasure … in communicating with one whom we know … .” Thirty-one years later: “I had gone into the army when a mere boy, and … knew little that occurred outside of my own company, except while I was in prison, and I took it for granted that there was nothing in… [that] experience … to interest them.[2343] See Letters Chapter. One “Mr. Lathem” is mentioned in the journal of a Black Horse cavalryman’s family member. See Stories Chapter under Sally Alice Armstrong. CSR: Enlisted 15 April 1863; absent for horse April 1863; captured 10 November 1863 Warrenton Springs; Old Capitol Prison 12 December 1863; Point Lookout Prison 3 February 1864; exchanged 3 May 1864; Chimborazo Hospital 8 May 1864 Debility; paroled 4 May 1865 Winchester. Additional Information: Resided at Danville.[2344] More might be found at reference.[2345] His 1895 letterhead was printed, “Charles P. Latham, Attorney at Law, Practices before Courts of the District of Columbia, and Departments of Government at Washington, and State and Federal Courts at Richmond, Va.”