The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-14
Some eRemfniseenceso OF the Late Col.
]. 3. Shrlver.
WHEELING, Sept. 13, 1876.
Editors of the Register:

Editors OF the Register:
One of the earliest and pleassntest re-
miniscences of the writer's boybood is
the recollection of the ilowing white
hair ana goodly presence of Col. j. 5.
Shrlver, whose death was announced in
this mornings paper. He was then we'll
up in years, and his person was too large
to be handsome, but his appearance was
well calculated to impress strongIy y even
boyish observer. his appearance, how
ever, was far excelled by his manner,
and no one has ever spent An unremem-
bered hour in his company. y i' !
Col. Sbriver was born March 9, 1919,
in the good old town of Westminster,
Maryland, and his early youth was spent
among its old-fashioned hsunts, at the
foot Of hills which swelled away to the
Blue Ridge. When he was yet scarcely
man he came to Wheeling, where he
married Eliza FL. McElherran about the
year 1926, the wife whom he followed to
the grave last fall. After his marriage
he resided either IN Wheeling or on his
farm few miles below, until the break
ing out of the war in 1861, with the ex-
ception OF about two years spent IN Lou
isiana. When the war began, or soon
afterwards, he went to Richmond, when
he held, for several years, the position of
colonel under the state government
of Virginia. Being united by
age, and perhaps by bodily infrmity
from service in the field, he was assigned
to duty IN or near Richmond, and re-
msined there for the greater part of the
war. After the surrender, he wandered
for time, like many Of his companions,
from place to place without finding him.
self content to settle anywhere, uHtil, in
1868, he went to Nansemond county,
Virginia, and there, on farm in the
country, few miles from Norfolk, he
has made his home until his death. Col.
Shriver, as the writer knew him,
was man of quick, vivacicus
and imaginative intellect, with
much boldness and Independence
of thought; one who readily conceived or
quickly apprehended an idea or project,
but whose very quickness made details OF
execution distasteful to him, and what
lacked of novelty, iiksome. He was
lldH VI "dlLH ihiPuisOe' NSNii
and warm passions, having decided
opinions and equally decided in his man
ner of expressing them, uncompromising
in endorsing his friends, and as much so
in denouncng his enemies, though his
dcnunciations were pointed rather at
their tenets than their persons. His con.
versational powers were remarkable; he
was quick rather than u penetrating
observer, and his retentive memory
was filled with stores of anecdote,
amusing and serious, which al
rays came at his call, dressed in their
rost interesting garb, and told in the
most ielicitous manner.
But among the readers of this imperfect
sketch, there will be so many of his warm
friends--and no man had warmer-who
remember well his qualities Of head and
heart, that it is, perhaps, presumptu-
Gus to attempt to describe them.
Those friends will all, however,
sorrowfully and heartily join with
the writer in expressing griet at his
death, and sympathy for his family in
the loss they have sustained. K.