Bluefield Evening Leader, Bluefield, West Virginia
Tuesday, February 25, 1908, page 1
Staunton, Va, Feb 25. - Mrs Jed Hotchkiss died last night of pneumonia.
She was formerly Miss Sarah Lane and was born in New York seventy-five years ago, having celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday February 14.
Mrs Hotchkiss was the widow of Major Hotchkiss, who was one of the best known men in the state.
During the Confederate war Major Hotchkiss was General Jackson's chief engineer.
Mrs Hotchkiss leaves two children, Mrs George Smith Holmes, of Charleston, S C, who as Mrs Nellie Hotchkiss McCullough was chairman of the Davis monument committee, and Mrs Allen M Howison; also by one grandchild, Mrs Ellen Moore Howison.
Major Jed Hotchkiss was a prominent figure in the early development of the Flat Top coal fields and together with Capt I A Welch, Dr James O'Keefe, Col Thomas Graham and others, was a familiar figure in this section twenty years ago. Major Hotchkiss was one of the first men to direct the attention of northern capital to the immense wealth of this section and few men have done more for the material development of the Virginias than he. Major Hotchkiss preceded his wife to the better land by several years.
Bluefield Evening Leader, Bluefield, West Virginia
Tuesday, February 25, 1908, page 1
Staunton, Va, Feb 25. - Mrs Jed Hotchkiss died last night of pneumonia.
She was formerly Miss Sarah Lane and was born in New York seventy-five years ago, having celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday February 14.
Mrs Hotchkiss was the widow of Major Hotchkiss, who was one of the best known men in the state.
During the Confederate war Major Hotchkiss was General Jackson's chief engineer.
Mrs Hotchkiss leaves two children, Mrs George Smith Holmes, of Charleston, S C, who as Mrs Nellie Hotchkiss McCullough was chairman of the Davis monument committee, and Mrs Allen M Howison; also by one grandchild, Mrs Ellen Moore Howison.
Major Jed Hotchkiss was a prominent figure in the early development of the Flat Top coal fields and together with Capt I A Welch, Dr James O'Keefe, Col Thomas Graham and others, was a familiar figure in this section twenty years ago. Major Hotchkiss was one of the first men to direct the attention of northern capital to the immense wealth of this section and few men have done more for the material development of the Virginias than he. Major Hotchkiss preceded his wife to the better land by several years.
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