Obituary published in the "Alexandria Gazette" in Alexandria, Virginia on 8/15/1877 on page 2.

"Died, suddenly, of disease of the heart, at White Sulphur Springs, West VA., on Wednesday August 8th, William Gardner Cazenove, in the 57th year of his age.
The deceased was the tenth and youngest child of Antoine Charles and Anne II. Cazenove and born in the town of Alexandria Oct. 27, 1819.
His father was a native of Geneva, Switzerland, which place his ancestors, being Huguenots. He sought refuge after the fatal St. Bartholomew's Day.
He was sprung from an ancient and distinguished family, which, taking its rise in the South of Erath in the 15th century, thence sent forth branches in Italy, Spain, and the United States.
Wm. G. Cazenove was placed in his boyhood at the famous school of Benjamin Hollowell in Alexandria after some further preparatory studies at Georgetown College (D.C.) and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, he was entered at Princeton College, whence he was graduated with distinction in the year 1838. He then studied law in the office of Robert I. Taylor in Alexandria, and the following year was matriculated as a student of law at the University of Virginia. He graduated in that school with much credit, and soon after entered in the practice of his profession in Jefferson County, VA. He subsequently removed to Alexandria, where he continued to practice law for a time, but soon abandoned the law and engaged with his brother Louis in mercantile business, which he prosecuted with great success until the breaking out of the civil war in 1861. Espousing warmly the cause of his native State in the struggle which was forced upon her, he yielded to the solicitations of his fellow townsmen and allowed his named to be proposed as a candidate for the Virginia Legislature, was elected, and, narrowly escaping capture by the Federal forces which occupied Alexandria in the month of May, 1861, proceeded to Warrenton. He served in the Legislature for two years and was subsequently commissioned captain in the quarter master's department. At the close of the war he returned to Alexandria, where he spent the remainder of his life directing his energies to the welfare of the Virginia Midland Railroad, of which he was vice president at the time of his death. He was married in Richmond April 29, 1847, to Mary E., daughter of Judge Stanard, of Richmond, Va.
The death of Mr. Cazenove leaves a gap which it will not be easy to fill.
The community where he lived, the venerable church of which he was so long a member and a vestryman, the diocese in whose councils he has taken a not unimportant part, and the large circle of his friends and relatives, unite in mourning his loss. His intellect was clear, and vigorous and his mind was enlarged by reading and travel. His temperament was ardent, and he possessed a flow of animal spirits rarely met with. Thus, while his cultivation of humor made him an agreeable companion, his warm true heart made him a devoted and unselfish friend, and his decision of character and sound judgement united to at unswerving devotion to principle, made him a value and trusted counsellor. He was throughout life a man of the strictest integrity and the nicest sense of honor, guiding his conduct by the loftiest principles from which nothing could induce him to swerve; scorning and reprobating any measures of expedients which deviated from the straight line of honorable and upright conduct. If he was accustomed to assert positively his own opinions, he was also careful in forming them; and it was sometimes uncompromising in his reprobation of men and measures, it was because he saw in them the representatives of the meanness of baseness which his soul loathed. Whatever may have been his faults, he was always honest in his opinion and fearless in maintaining them; always genuine and true; never a flatterer; incapable of dissimulation; a faithful friend; and open antagonist; slow to make promises but prompt and faithful in fulfilling them; a man who was generally found to be better than his word.
It might be truly said of him that he was the friend of the poor, the advocate of the laboring man, and the ally of Christian benevolence. Many a quiet set of charity, many a generous gift, unheralded, gave secret attestation to his goodness of heart. More than one of the laboring men of this community were heard to say when the news of his death was received, "I have loved my best friend."
When a very young man, Mr. Cazenove united himself with the Episcopal Church. He has been for many years a useful member of the vestry of old Christ church, Alexandria, and was frequently elected delegate to the diocesan council. The diocese has lost in him a useful representative, and Christ church one of its most valuable members and liberal supporters. One who was his pastor for a number of years bears loving testimony to his kind and cordial co-operation in the labors of the parish. Many a time has he received encouragement and sympathy from Mr. Cazenove when he most felt the need of it, nor will be soon forget the warm pressure of the hand and the moistening eye with which that sympathy was expressed. As freely and as decidedly did he sometimes express his dissent from his pastor's opinions and plans. From the same source there is given most comforting testimony to his faith in the crucified Redeemer. Several years ago, in an illness in which death seemed very near, he was found bowing at the feet of Jesus and clinging in hope to his cross, not indeed with the "full assurance of faith," but rather with the faith of him who said, "Lord, I believe, help them with unbelief." The word of God was then his stay, and he loved to bow with his pastor at the throne of grace, finding there his greatest consolation.
At all times the themes which he loved most to hear dilated upon in the pulpit were, first, those which exhibited Christ as the Saviour of sinners, and, secondly, those which explained and enforced the practical duties of the Christian life. For these he thirsted, and in these he found refreshment and comfort beneath the burdens of life which pressed heavily upon him, and which, amid many conflicts, he was enabled generally to bear with resignation.
His favorite hymn was "Nearer my God to Thee," but that which most truly expresses his attitude of mind was the following: Weary of earth and laden with my sin, I look at heaven and long to enter in: - Southern Churchman"