WATKINS L. OLD, 85, CIVIL WAR VET, KIN OF GENERAL LEE, DIES.
Death today had claimed Watkins Leigh Old, a member of a once prominent aristocratic family of the South and a distant relative of General Robert E. Lee of Civil war fame.
Mr. Old, who served six months in the Army of the Confederacy before he was 14, died Sunday evening at his home at North Mulberry street, after an extended illness.
He was born on Morewood plantation, Powhatan county, Virginia, on September 18, 1851. The plantation is still owned by the family. He was the son of Major Charles and Annie Carer Leigh Old, and the great grandson of John Wickham, who successfully defended Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, in his famous trial for treason in 1807. His grandmother was a first cousin of General Lee.
Mr. Old came to Mansfield in 1886 as an employee of the Eric Railroad Co., and later served in the accounting department of the old Autltman & Taylor company.
He was the oldest member of the Masonic Lodge in Mansfield in years of membership and a member of the Episcopal church.
His wife and youngest daughter, Anna, preceded him in death.
Surviving are five sons, Jacob of Joplin, MO, William S. and M. Fry of Youngstown and Charles and Wickham. L. Old of Mansfield; three daughters, Mrs. G. W. Ribble of Bessemer, AL, Mrs. J. F. Overson and Mary E. Old of Mansfield; a sister, Mrs. S. Lee Dance of Hallsboro, Virginia; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the Grace Episcopal Church with Rev. Milton G. Nicola officiating. Burial in the Mansfield Cemetery.
~Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, OH)
Monday 2/1/1937, pg. 1 & 16
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Father: Charles Old 1823
Mother: Ann Carter Leigh 1832
Death today had claimed Watkins Leigh Old, a member of a once prominent aristocratic family of the South and a distant relative of General Robert E. Lee of Civil war fame.
Mr. Old, who served six months in the Army of the Confederacy before he was 14, died Sunday evening at his home at North Mulberry street, after an extended illness.
He was born on Morewood plantation, Powhatan county, Virginia, on September 18, 1851. The plantation is still owned by the family. He was the son of Major Charles and Annie Carer Leigh Old, and the great grandson of John Wickham, who successfully defended Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, in his famous trial for treason in 1807. His grandmother was a first cousin of General Lee.
Mr. Old came to Mansfield in 1886 as an employee of the Eric Railroad Co., and later served in the accounting department of the old Autltman & Taylor company.
He was the oldest member of the Masonic Lodge in Mansfield in years of membership and a member of the Episcopal church.
His wife and youngest daughter, Anna, preceded him in death.
Surviving are five sons, Jacob of Joplin, MO, William S. and M. Fry of Youngstown and Charles and Wickham. L. Old of Mansfield; three daughters, Mrs. G. W. Ribble of Bessemer, AL, Mrs. J. F. Overson and Mary E. Old of Mansfield; a sister, Mrs. S. Lee Dance of Hallsboro, Virginia; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the Grace Episcopal Church with Rev. Milton G. Nicola officiating. Burial in the Mansfield Cemetery.
~Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, OH)
Monday 2/1/1937, pg. 1 & 16
***
Father: Charles Old 1823
Mother: Ann Carter Leigh 1832
WATKINS L. OLD, 85, CIVIL WAR VET, KIN OF GENERAL LEE, DIES.
Death today had claimed Watkins Leigh Old, a member of a once prominent aristocratic family of the South and a distant relative of General Robert E. Lee of Civil war fame.
Mr. Old, who served six months in the Army of the Confederacy before he was 14, died Sunday evening at his home at North Mulberry street, after an extended illness.
He was born on Morewood plantation, Powhatan county, Virginia, on September 18, 1851. The plantation is still owned by the family. He was the son of Major Charles and Annie Carer Leigh Old, and the great grandson of John Wickham, who successfully defended Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, in his famous trial for treason in 1807. His grandmother was a first cousin of General Lee.
Mr. Old came to Mansfield in 1886 as an employee of the Eric Railroad Co., and later served in the accounting department of the old Autltman & Taylor company.
He was the oldest member of the Masonic Lodge in Mansfield in years of membership and a member of the Episcopal church.
His wife and youngest daughter, Anna, preceded him in death.
Surviving are five sons, Jacob of Joplin, MO, William S. and M. Fry of Youngstown and Charles and Wickham. L. Old of Mansfield; three daughters, Mrs. G. W. Ribble of Bessemer, AL, Mrs. J. F. Overson and Mary E. Old of Mansfield; a sister, Mrs. S. Lee Dance of Hallsboro, Virginia; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the Grace Episcopal Church with Rev. Milton G. Nicola officiating. Burial in the Mansfield Cemetery.
~Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, OH)
Monday 2/1/1937, pg. 1 & 16
***
Father: Charles Old 1823
Mother: Ann Carter Leigh 1832
Death today had claimed Watkins Leigh Old, a member of a once prominent aristocratic family of the South and a distant relative of General Robert E. Lee of Civil war fame.
Mr. Old, who served six months in the Army of the Confederacy before he was 14, died Sunday evening at his home at North Mulberry street, after an extended illness.
He was born on Morewood plantation, Powhatan county, Virginia, on September 18, 1851. The plantation is still owned by the family. He was the son of Major Charles and Annie Carer Leigh Old, and the great grandson of John Wickham, who successfully defended Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, in his famous trial for treason in 1807. His grandmother was a first cousin of General Lee.
Mr. Old came to Mansfield in 1886 as an employee of the Eric Railroad Co., and later served in the accounting department of the old Autltman & Taylor company.
He was the oldest member of the Masonic Lodge in Mansfield in years of membership and a member of the Episcopal church.
His wife and youngest daughter, Anna, preceded him in death.
Surviving are five sons, Jacob of Joplin, MO, William S. and M. Fry of Youngstown and Charles and Wickham. L. Old of Mansfield; three daughters, Mrs. G. W. Ribble of Bessemer, AL, Mrs. J. F. Overson and Mary E. Old of Mansfield; a sister, Mrs. S. Lee Dance of Hallsboro, Virginia; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the Grace Episcopal Church with Rev. Milton G. Nicola officiating. Burial in the Mansfield Cemetery.
~Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, OH)
Monday 2/1/1937, pg. 1 & 16
***
Father: Charles Old 1823
Mother: Ann Carter Leigh 1832
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