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Edward Colston Jr.

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Edward Colston Jr. Veteran

Birth
Berkeley, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
Death
20 Sep 1928 (aged 84)
Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.1745491, Longitude: -84.5234985
Plot
Garden LN, Section 103, Lot 92, Space 11
Memorial ID
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cod - myocarditis

Edward, he younger son of Edward Colston, was only sixteen years old when the late war commenced, but in spite of his youth he enlisted in 1862, in the Second Virginia Cavalry, and served with marked gallantry until he lost his left arm at Appomattox, just three days before the surrender of Gen. Lee. He was left in the field hospital, captured by the Federal troops, and taken to Elmira prison, where he was held until some months after the cessation of hostilities. After the war he studied law under his uncle, Judge J. W. Brockenbrough, who was professor of that branch in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., where he graduated with distinction, and in 1870 went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to practice his profession, where he soon attracted the attention of the leading lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, and is now engaged in an extensive and lucrative practice in that city, as a member of the firm of Harman, Colston, Goldsmith, Hoadley & Co. In 1875 he married his cousin, Miss Sally Stevenson, of Covington, Ky., a daughter of ex-Gov. John W. Stevenson.

~History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time; A. Warner & Company, 1890.
cod - myocarditis

Edward, he younger son of Edward Colston, was only sixteen years old when the late war commenced, but in spite of his youth he enlisted in 1862, in the Second Virginia Cavalry, and served with marked gallantry until he lost his left arm at Appomattox, just three days before the surrender of Gen. Lee. He was left in the field hospital, captured by the Federal troops, and taken to Elmira prison, where he was held until some months after the cessation of hostilities. After the war he studied law under his uncle, Judge J. W. Brockenbrough, who was professor of that branch in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., where he graduated with distinction, and in 1870 went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to practice his profession, where he soon attracted the attention of the leading lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, and is now engaged in an extensive and lucrative practice in that city, as a member of the firm of Harman, Colston, Goldsmith, Hoadley & Co. In 1875 he married his cousin, Miss Sally Stevenson, of Covington, Ky., a daughter of ex-Gov. John W. Stevenson.

~History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time; A. Warner & Company, 1890.

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  • Maintained by: Anne
  • Originally Created by: Auto Graver
  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78910594/edward-colston: accessed ), memorial page for Edward Colston Jr. (22 Apr 1844–20 Sep 1928), Find a Grave Memorial ID 78910594, citing Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Anne (contributor 48456023).