Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-08-03
Deaths.

Deaths.
There are few Of our older readers who
do not remember Capt. Joshua B. Finks
for so many years trusted officer of the
Chesapeake Il Ohio railroad, and his esti-
mable wife. Mrs. Mary V. Finks. They
resided in Waynesboro and are both re-
membered pleasantly by it's older inhabi-
tants. Capt. Finks died some years ago
and his widow has since made her home in
Waco, Texas, with her children. She
passed away there on the morning of July
Oath. She had read the VINDICAToR pretty
much all her married and widowed life,
and in her last illness, as we learn from a
note from her son, had it read to her, say
/ ing when the reading was through that
when she died She wished a notice Of her
death in this paper. She had been a most
admirable wife and mother, and her rearing
fitted her children for the responsible places
they hold in their adopted State. The Waco
Telephone speaking of her death says:
"Mrs. Mary Virginia Finks died at l 5(
O'Clock this morning at the residence of hel
daughter, Mrs. Matte Eubank, corner OF
| DouUn IutIu anu clay SGfecCS.
The deceased was II years old and has beer
a resident of Waco for years. She was the
mother of John H.. W. K, and Frank f
Finks, Miss Estelle Finks and Mrs. Eubanks
one OF the best known families of the city
She had been ill for the last too weeks and
the infrmities of her age told strongly upon
her. She was born in Virginia and was a
most estimable lady whose loss is sincerely
mourned by all who knew her, and a cause OF
that grief to her children which only those
who have lost kind and loving mother can
feel.
| The funeral services will be held at 5:3t
o'clock this afternoonat the residence of Mrs
Eubank, followed by interment at lakewood
cemetery"
| MI. Henry W. Hopkins, Confederate
veteran, who was for many years manager
| of the Warren Hotel at Millboro, died there
Oh July Oath and was buried at the Warm
| Springs where he formerly lived as clerk OF
the hotel. and where his brother, DR.. B
| A. Hopkins, lives. He was Ga years OF
age. He leaves widow, and sister, Mrs
Warren, of Millboro.
Mrs. e. A. Mcfarland, widow of Daniel
| Mcfarland and mother of the late Rev
Dr.. d. K. Mcfarland, pastor of the First
| Presbyterian church of Staunton, died al
her home in Oxford, Miss. July 10Th, after
a long illness. She was the mother of nine
children and was one of the Oldest residents
of Lafayette county. of which Oxford is
the county town.
MI. Geo. F. Thomasson, who was for
thirty years Master Bridge Builder ant
| B., died at his home in Gordonsville Jul,
Goth, in his 68th year. He was member
of Staunton Lodge No. ID. A. e. & A. M.
Royal Arch Chapter No. 2, and Stevenson
Commandery of Knights Templar, Staun-
ton. He leaves wife and three children.
MI. A. III. Tanquary who was commits
sary of the 18th Va. cavalry during the war.
and has held several prominent positions
in Jefferson county, w. Va, died at Mid
dleway in that county, on Thursday, in hi
cd year. He was a first cousin of MI. B.
| f. Hughes of this city.
| Prof. Carter John Harris of Washing
ton & Lee University, died at Lexington
yesterday, Of disease of the stomach.
A Speech II Years Ago.
| Reported for the Stanton VINDIcAToR.l
WARM SPRINGS, July 31.-Seeing in the
VINDICAToR notice of the presentation
of portrait of the late John Howe Peyton
of Augusta, to that county, brings to the
mind of Deputy Clerk E. Larew the fact
| tl,of ON IF Rafj, fu
Sept 9Th, 1922, is spread a motion Offered
by Mr.. Peyton, On the death of Judge
Spencer Roane and brief speech by hin
supporting it. Roane was judge of the
Virginia Court of Appeals, and had dice
the evening before at the Warm Springs
Hotel. He is buried here, and the follow
ing is the epitaph on his grave stone
spencer Roane. For nearly thirty years
judge of the Court Of Appeals of Virginia
Honorable and just, pure and patriotic, hi
thought strongly and spoke and acted in
dependently, and commanded universe
respect. His judicial decisions are mon
ument to his judicial worth" Pey ton was
the Commonwealth Attorney of thu
court, Bath being in the Augusta district
Young Lewis Wake, who resigned
the librarian's place at the Y. M. G. Asso
citation in Staunton, to take place in thu
office of the Warm Springs Hotel, is max
ing friends by his courtesy and prompt at
tention to the duties of the place.
The ladies at Hot Springs realized $15(
by an entertainment Saturday night for thu
benefit of the new Presbyterian churcl
there. So far, Rev. W. e. White, the pas
| tor, has secured 81, 100 for the church. Mr.
White will leave on Monday next fol
Moody's Summer Bible School at North
field, Mass, and some of his congregation
| have presented him with $50 to foot the ex