George Warren Fitzhugh

George Warren Fitzhugh N E M Y Photo: Interviewee once met a girl who has some pictures.[1368] [NOTE:get rid of this line but make sure have full fn] Born: 12 February 1826 in Virginia.[1369] In Fauquier County.[1370] “I think that he was born near [Greenwich]…”[1371] Married: He married first Abigail Mayo Thom on 13 June 1849 in Culpeper County. Her parents were John [Warren Triplett[1372]] Thom and Abigail [DeHart[1373]] Mayo. “She was born 23 December 1830 at “Berry Hill”, Culpeper County, and died 21 November 1859,” the day after the birth of her seventh child, “at “Grapewood”, Fauquier County.” She is buried at “Elmwood”. He married second Elizabeth Frances Gray on 14 November 1871 in Fauquier. Her parents were Nathaniel [Noble[1374]] Gray and Sarah [Ann[1375]] Edmonds. “She was born 19 November 1838 in Virginia.” She was living in 1880. [1376] Died: 21 March 1873, Grapewood, Fauquier County.[1377] 1873 Greenwich.[1378] “He died of heart disease…”[1379] Buried at Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Prince William County.[1380] His family restored his cemetery marker “several years ago because it had broken.”[1381] Obituary: Children: George and Abigail had seven children. George and Elizabeth had one child. The eight were: William Dehart, 11 February 1850–5 May 1910, wed Elizabeth Carter Grayson. Thomas Cameron, 27 November 1851, “lost at sea”. Elizabeth Bland, 16 May 1853. John Alexander, 4 December 1854–[after 1910[1382]], wed Agnes Allen Somersby. Anna Blanche, 23 October 1856–August 1862 [age 5] “of diptheria.” Eugene Mayo, 16 November 1857, “died as an infant.” Henry Thom, 20 November 1859–20 November 1859. Warren Gulick, 20 July 1873–after 1930, wed Bertha A. [1383] Parents and Siblings: Martha Stuart (circa 1777– ) and William Dednam Fitzhugh (17 March 1776–3 May 1838). She was born in Rappahannock, he in Virginia; he died in Fauquier and is buried at “Elmwood.” They wed in Spotsylvania on 18 July 1820. His father had previously wed Patsy Julia Taliaferro (8 May 1782–circa 1817), daughter of Sarah Dade and Lawrence H. Taliaferro, on 2 October 1811. Siblings: from first marriage, none known; from second marriage, William Dednam, Jr., Thomas L., Frances Thornton, and George Warren [BH].[1384] Mother’s date, place of death? Other Family: His maternal grandparents were William Thornton and Martha Alexander Stuart.[1385] His paternal grandfather was William Fitzhugh, whose great-grandfather was William the Immigrant. [1386] His brothers William Dednam, Jr., and Thomas L. “died at age 19” and in “1849 Stevensburg, VA of typhoid fever”, respectively. His sister, Frances, wed Frederick Foote on 28 September 1846 in Fauquier. Frederick was son of William Foote and Sarah Alexander. George Warren’s brother-in-law was born 15 August 1802, making him at least twenty years older than Frances and 24 years older than George. Frederick died about 1882 and was buried at Stone Church Cemetery, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.[1387] George’s second daughter, Anna Blanche Fitzhugh, was born in 1856. The children born one and three years after she died as infants; in 1859, George’s first wife, Abigail, died and was buried at “Elmwood”. Not quite three years later, in 1862, Anna was also buried at “Elmwood”. Was “Elmwood” his parents’ plantation? When did BHman move away? In 1870, a year before their marriage, the second Mrs. Fitzhugh was residing at Metompkin, Accomack. In 1880, seven years after her husband’s death, she was a “[t]eacher … in Brentsville, Prince William [County],” where their son, Warren, was also a student. George’s three surviving sons were William, John and Warren. The eldest was born at “Dutchland”, Prince William County. At age 21, he married, in Gainesville, a woman who had been born in Prince William County. They both died at Inlet, Culpeper County, she on 26 April 1896. [1388] John was age 39 when he married on 11 July 1889. His wife was born 1855 in Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel Somerby and Nancy Allen Currier.[1389] He was living at Amesbury, Essex, Massachusettes in 1910.[1390] Their three children were born and died in Massachusetts: Marion Stuart, 10 Jun 1890–23 December 1893, “Scarlet Fever”; Lena Grayson, 4 October 1891–September 1974 in Salem, Essex County; Beulah Thornton, 25 June 1895–September 1964. [1391] Warren’s wife was born in 1883 in Ohio. Warren lived in Cincinnati in 1900 and in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1920 and 1930.[1392] “In 1880 [Elizabeth Bland Fitzhugh] was living with her cousin Elizabeth (Fitzhugh) Peace in Warrenton ….”[1393] Stories, Letters & Biographies: “He rode seventy-two miles on horseback in a single day to be with his command at the hanging of John Brown in 1859.”[1394] See Biographies Chapter. CSR: Enlisted 25 April 1861. Additional Information: He enlisted at age 35.[1395] “He was a member of the Black Horse Cavalry from the time of its organization until 1863, when he was honorably discharged.”[1396] George W. Fitzhugh “was not young.” He served a year on the road; he finished that campaign. Family lore is that he went to Stuart and said, “I’m too old,” and Stuart said, “then go home,” and he did.[1397] “[H]e was one of the original members of Greenwich [Presbyterian Church]…”[1398] “…I am sure that Greenwich Church has his name listed as one of the charter members…”[1399] His home was Grapewood,[1400] which is “about 1 mile from the Church.”[1401] “I believe it was Grapewood that we visited during a huge weekend reunion a couple of years ago.”[1402] “The last reunion we had in Culpeper we visited Grapewood which was one of his homes.”[1403] “[T]here are also several farms in that area where several of the Fitzhugh homes were.” [1404] “Before the… War, George Warren Fitzhugh owned a plantation, several mills, and eighty negroes.”[1405] Presumably, his pre-war civilian occupation was the management of his holdings. He lived for ten years following the discharge cited above. Some records say he was a surgeon, but that is incorrect.[1406]