The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-04-29
In MEMORIAM.

BALDWIN. On the 2lst of April, 1868, after
an illness of five days, from inflammation of the
Kidneys at the residence of his son, C. c. Bald
win, Esq, Balcony Falls, in Rockbridge,
Va, Capt. JOSEPH C. BALDWIN aged nearly nine
ty years. This venerable man was well educa-
ted and we'll bred gentleman of the old school
of vigorous mind, extensive information, comelY
person, buoyant temperament, genial and social
disposition, and very afable and cordial man
ners During long life he had made the ac-
quaintance OF very large number of Virginia
gentlemen, among whom he had many friends
About sixty years ago, he established at Friendly
Grove, one mile south Of Winchester, and at Front
Royal the first Wooden and Cotton FACTORIES erect
ed in the Valley of Virginia At the close of the
war Of 1872, he removed to Winchester, haying
previously married there daughter of that emf
nent physician and surgeon and highly accom-
plished scholar and gentleman, DR.. Cornelius
Baldwin, and there conducted large business op-
erations-Was Director in the Farmers Bank,
vestry man in the Episcopal Church, and one
Of the most prominent, euterprising and popular
citizens Of that delightful old town. Among his
intimate friends there were Gen. Singleton, Judge
White, Judge Holmes, and that preeminently good
| and pious man, Bishop Mead who was a frequent
visitor at his house. From Winchester he remov-
| ed to Staunton, and from there to Lynchburg,
where he resided many years, and was quite
popular with all classes Of people. During the
y
Kockbridge, and there while enjoying csmfor
table and serene old age, after short illness,
sottened by every attention which skill and affec-
ton could suggest, in the midst Of his descen-
dents to the third generation, and q vigorous old
age. protracted far beyond the ordinary limit Of
human life, was calmly gathered to his fathers,
| amidst the bloom and rejoicing Of Spring
Captain Baldwin was remarkably young
looking man for his age, and with his fresh, rud-
nhna II
tenance, and full suit of iron-gr hair, would
have been taken by stranger for a hale man Of
bo HIS mental faculties were unimpaired to his
last hours, though shadow was cast upon his
Iater years by the horrible condition of his be
loved country, and by the premature deaths Of
two noble and distinguished sons, of whom ht
was justly proud-Col Cyrus B. Baldwin, Of
Houston, Miss. whe died in the Confederate ar nv
a martyr to Southern rights and constitutions
! liberty, and Judge Joe. G. Baldwin, of San Fran
cisco, California. But two of five adult children
| the eldest and youngest-Row survive. He hac
survived all his brothers and sisters many years
though the oldest of them all. He sometimes re
marked that he had seen seven generations of hi
| kindred-from his great grandfather, who at
tanned the great age of 100 years. to his grea
grand children. He had also seen and converset
with ell of our Presidents, with 2 or three excep
tons, and had survived nearly every one of hi
| contemporaries, and also, it may be added, will
mournful emphasis, the Constitution and Liber
tics Of his country is extreme old age ever de
sirable?
At the beginning of his illness, he had pre-
| sentiment hat he would not recover, and express
ed an earnest wish to be buried by the side o
lear and dear friends and relations in the Gene
terry, at Staunton; where,-life's short and trou
bled dream over,-for at best it is but a feetinI
vapor--he now sleeps soundly his last long sleep
Peace to his ashes!
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