James Lemuel Crittenden

James Lemuel Crittenden N E M V K Y Photo: One we don’t have is in Helm, Defend, 73. His source: Mrs. Elizabeth Thorpe. Dink has individual photo.[1151] Doug Crittendon has email and also has the picture. His is a copy of Liz Thorpe’s. Dink’s copy is a photograph of Liz’s photo. Interviewee’s mother had no picture of James. Interviewee found a photo that had been lost for 20 years. Interviewee’s cousin found it folded in a book that she bought at an ancestor’s auction. She has a photo of James in uniform. Dink Godfrey also has the one she has. Hers is not the original photo. The original was creased. She took it to a photographer to enhance it. She is not aware of any other photos. Her remake of the original is an 8 x 10.[1152] Photo provided by Doug Crittenden, great-grandson, on 5 February 2007. Scanned by editor from duplicate print. Image not (yet) altered in any way. Born: 16 December 1828/6 Essex County.[1153] 16 December 1828,[1154] Essex County.[1155] James Lemuel Crittenden was born on 10 December 1828, between Elk Run and Bristersburg in southern Fauquier County at his parents’ farm.[1156] Married: Adelaide Eustace (29 July 1832–1910) on 26 January 1866. She was born on a farm in the same area as he and is buried in the same cemetery.[1157] Died: 14 April 1908,[1158] at Catlett,[1159] and is buried at the Eustace Family Cemetery.[1160] James Lemuel Crittenden died on 14 April 1908. He is buried in southern Fauquier County, at the Eustace Town Cemetery just off of Route 28 between Midland and… [Catlett?].[1161] The cemetery’s location: Meetz Road is Route 643. Take 643 to Route 28. At Rt. 28, you can turn left to Calverton or turn right to Midland. Go right, then take the first right again at the same road number [643]. go ¼ mile to the railroad tracks. The cemetery is at the corner of the railroad tracks and Rt. 643. At that point, Rt. 643 is called Eustacetown Road instead of Meetz Road. The graves are marked. A Baptist church is there, but it is not in Calverton. The cemetery is open, no fence. There are several graves. The cemetery is owned by the town, not by the church.[1162] The original marker, a brass maltese cross, was stolen. Ripley Robinson and one of James’s great-grandchildren worked through the Veterans Administration to get a new stone, the present round-topped one. The death date on the replacement stone might be incorrect.[1163] “James L./ Crittenden/ Co. H/ 4 Va. Cav/ Confederate/ States Army….”[1164] Obituary: Children: He had two sons. They were John Crittenden and George William Crittenden. He had no daughters. John wed Nina Cassell. George, 8 April 1867–25 November 1948, wed Sarah Elizabeth George.[1165] 1870 census — domestic help Caroline Johnson. john 1 & geo 3 on census. webpage – nearest po upperville. cedar run township, co. of Fq. 1920 census — Parents and Siblings: Mary Polly Thomas, of Morrisville, and William Gatewood Crittenden; he was born in Essex County and moved to Fauquier.[1166] ***info from ancestry from HB here. 2007 May 2 W. Other Family: James and Adelaide’s son John lived at Calverton and his wife, Nina Cassell, was from Calverton. They had one child. George and Sally married on 12 September 1899 at the George home in Bristersburg. Her name was officially Sarah Elizabeth but she was always called Sally Betty. She was born 18 October 1875 and died 9 January 1913. They had seven children. James was grandfather to Interviewee’s mother. He died when she was a young child, and she had no information on him. James’s son George was grandfather to Interviewee. He died when she was a child, she remembers.[1167] Stories, Letters & Biographies: Interviewee has no stories about James.[1168] CSR: Enlisted 25 April 1861; picket Pohick Church 4 Oct. 1861; wounded and captured May 1862 Williamsburg; Fortress Monroe. Additional Information: He was 32 when the war began and 36 when it ended.[1169] Private.[1170] Wounded at Williamsburg, 1862. Resided in Midland.[1171] James Lemuel Crittenden was a farmer. The farm was probably a few hundred acres, no more than that. He lived on the farm where he was born. He owned the farm after his parents and lived there his whole life.[1172] His middle name is pronounced “LEE myool”.[1173]