Dear Randy,
This is from my wife's family history:
Ida Walton Jones, daughter of David Crawford and Eliza Ann (Walton) Jones,
was born on March 11, 1846 in Appomattox County, and died unmarried in 1942.
She taught school for many years in Appomattox County, and managed the Jones
farm until her death. She was buried in the Jones family graveyard at "The
Meadows" in Appomattox County. While teaching, she was a correspondent for
the Appomattox and Buckingham Times. According to a Roanoke newspaper
published sometime in 1939, Miss Jones attended the funeral of General
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson conducted by a Dr. Ramsey in the First
Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg. A Ms. Massey sang "Come Ye Disconsolate."
Miss Jones said that the hearse was accompanied by a Confederate Honor Guard
that was brought by train from Chancellorsville to Lynchburg. From the train
to the church it was followed by wagons loaded with flowers. From Lynchburg,
the casket was taken by packet boat from Lynchburg to Lexington. Miss Jones
bragged to a newspaper reporter in 1939, in Roanoke, that she had attended
four World Fairs-Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Jamestown. She also
stated that she had never drunk a coca-cola nor a beer, never chewed gum,
never used rouge or lipstick, and never used profanity in her life.
Wilmer L. Kerns
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Subject: Music @ Stonewall Jackson's Funeral
Is there any note anywhere on what music was played at the funeral
procession for Stonewall Jackson? I assume that the Armory Band played, or
perhaps the Stonewall Brigade Band. Handel's DEAD MARCH from SAUL was
standard fare in those days, and I wonder if it was played or perhaps
something else.
Randy Cabell
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