(Richmond Daily Dispatch June 28, 1866)
The recent death of Mr. C. Bias in this city should not pass unnoticed. He died on Friday night last after a brief illness, though his health had been infirm for some time. Mr. Bias was a very enterprising gentleman; his early history was quite romantic, he having been rescued at sea either in infancy or an early period thereafter. A good part of his life was passed in Memphis, where he was president of a bank and a successful merchant. He is best known in Virginia as the proprietor of the Red Sweet Springs of Alleghany county, one mile from the "Old Sweet" Springs, although the latter are in Monroe county, the county line running between the two. Old Mr. Rogers, the person from whom Mr. Bias purchased the property, had brought the springs to public notice, but did not succeed in extending their fame a great deal. Through Mr. Bias's enterprise they became very popular, and for years he assembled at his hotel a large and agreeable company. Indeed, his baths became famous and his house admirably sustained. A gentleman having such extensive intercourse with intelligent people may well be tried by the estiment they placed upon him. He was universally esteamed as a most obliging and upright gentleman, giving that high proof of goodheartedness and refined disposition in his constant study of the comfort and pleasure of his guests. He sold the springs at the begining of the war to Mr. John Kelley, the present proprietor, and retired to a farm in Charlotte, but came to reside in Richmond in Decmeber last, and here we supose aged about fifty-five years, his life is ended. The grave closes over him with the regrets of very many who knew him well and esteamed by much.
He was first married to Mary Jane Gatewood Kennedy, the sister of the father of his second wife, Mary Catherine Gatewood.
The recent death of Mr. C. Bias in this city should not pass unnoticed. He died on Friday night last after a brief illness, though his health had been infirm for some time. Mr. Bias was a very enterprising gentleman; his early history was quite romantic, he having been rescued at sea either in infancy or an early period thereafter. A good part of his life was passed in Memphis, where he was president of a bank and a successful merchant. He is best known in Virginia as the proprietor of the Red Sweet Springs of Alleghany county, one mile from the "Old Sweet" Springs, although the latter are in Monroe county, the county line running between the two. Old Mr. Rogers, the person from whom Mr. Bias purchased the property, had brought the springs to public notice, but did not succeed in extending their fame a great deal. Through Mr. Bias's enterprise they became very popular, and for years he assembled at his hotel a large and agreeable company. Indeed, his baths became famous and his house admirably sustained. A gentleman having such extensive intercourse with intelligent people may well be tried by the estiment they placed upon him. He was universally esteamed as a most obliging and upright gentleman, giving that high proof of goodheartedness and refined disposition in his constant study of the comfort and pleasure of his guests. He sold the springs at the begining of the war to Mr. John Kelley, the present proprietor, and retired to a farm in Charlotte, but came to reside in Richmond in Decmeber last, and here we supose aged about fifty-five years, his life is ended. The grave closes over him with the regrets of very many who knew him well and esteamed by much.
He was first married to Mary Jane Gatewood Kennedy, the sister of the father of his second wife, Mary Catherine Gatewood.
(Richmond Daily Dispatch June 28, 1866)
The recent death of Mr. C. Bias in this city should not pass unnoticed. He died on Friday night last after a brief illness, though his health had been infirm for some time. Mr. Bias was a very enterprising gentleman; his early history was quite romantic, he having been rescued at sea either in infancy or an early period thereafter. A good part of his life was passed in Memphis, where he was president of a bank and a successful merchant. He is best known in Virginia as the proprietor of the Red Sweet Springs of Alleghany county, one mile from the "Old Sweet" Springs, although the latter are in Monroe county, the county line running between the two. Old Mr. Rogers, the person from whom Mr. Bias purchased the property, had brought the springs to public notice, but did not succeed in extending their fame a great deal. Through Mr. Bias's enterprise they became very popular, and for years he assembled at his hotel a large and agreeable company. Indeed, his baths became famous and his house admirably sustained. A gentleman having such extensive intercourse with intelligent people may well be tried by the estiment they placed upon him. He was universally esteamed as a most obliging and upright gentleman, giving that high proof of goodheartedness and refined disposition in his constant study of the comfort and pleasure of his guests. He sold the springs at the begining of the war to Mr. John Kelley, the present proprietor, and retired to a farm in Charlotte, but came to reside in Richmond in Decmeber last, and here we supose aged about fifty-five years, his life is ended. The grave closes over him with the regrets of very many who knew him well and esteamed by much.
He was first married to Mary Jane Gatewood Kennedy, the sister of the father of his second wife, Mary Catherine Gatewood.
The recent death of Mr. C. Bias in this city should not pass unnoticed. He died on Friday night last after a brief illness, though his health had been infirm for some time. Mr. Bias was a very enterprising gentleman; his early history was quite romantic, he having been rescued at sea either in infancy or an early period thereafter. A good part of his life was passed in Memphis, where he was president of a bank and a successful merchant. He is best known in Virginia as the proprietor of the Red Sweet Springs of Alleghany county, one mile from the "Old Sweet" Springs, although the latter are in Monroe county, the county line running between the two. Old Mr. Rogers, the person from whom Mr. Bias purchased the property, had brought the springs to public notice, but did not succeed in extending their fame a great deal. Through Mr. Bias's enterprise they became very popular, and for years he assembled at his hotel a large and agreeable company. Indeed, his baths became famous and his house admirably sustained. A gentleman having such extensive intercourse with intelligent people may well be tried by the estiment they placed upon him. He was universally esteamed as a most obliging and upright gentleman, giving that high proof of goodheartedness and refined disposition in his constant study of the comfort and pleasure of his guests. He sold the springs at the begining of the war to Mr. John Kelley, the present proprietor, and retired to a farm in Charlotte, but came to reside in Richmond in Decmeber last, and here we supose aged about fifty-five years, his life is ended. The grave closes over him with the regrets of very many who knew him well and esteamed by much.
He was first married to Mary Jane Gatewood Kennedy, the sister of the father of his second wife, Mary Catherine Gatewood.
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