Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-26
WYATT NJ. ELLIOTT,
HIS DEATH IN LyNCHnuRG YES
TERpAy MORNING.
Early Life and Education-His
Newspaper Connection-iis Ser
vices During the War-As Court
CIerk--EuncraI Arrangements.

LYNCHBBRG, VA. February 25.-(Spe-
cial.) --General Wyatt NJ. Elliott, Clerk
of the United States Circuit and District
courts. died this morning at his home
in this city, after a brief illness. General
Elliot; was born I'm Campbell county,
February Is. 1923. lie was the son Of
Thomas Elliott, also a native Of Camp
bell county. and Elizabeth Boncurant
Elliott. When General Elliott was years
OF age he removed to Buckingham coun-
~. and there he got his early edu-
cation under the kind auspices and pat
ronage OF his maternal uncle. Thomas
NJ. Bondurant. At the age OF Is he went
TO the Virginia Military Institute. at Lex
ington. where he entered as cadet, at
the organization Of the institute, on the
18th of November. 1859 and was captain
OF the first company. He graduated in
July. 1872. returned TO Buckingham coun-
ty. and taught school two years. as the
State law then required.
READ LAW.
During that time he read law under
Colonel w. r. Book for six months. In
1876 he removed TO Richmond. and be-
came associated In the publication OF the
Richmond Whig and continued that rea-
ton until 1856. Mean time. he was
chosen captain OF the Richmond Grays,
which he commanded from lSl7 till the
close Of the first year of the late war.
EXECUTION OF BROWN.
While commanding the Richmond Grays
he was ordered out with his COM
pany TO attend as guard at the execution
of John Brown. After the first year Of
the war be resigned his commission as
captain OF the Grays, and obtained per-
mission from the Confederate Govern
ment to recruit and organize q battalion
of six companies. which he did. He was
commissioned 10 command the same as
observation-disclosures, the command being
known as the Fifteenth Virginia Bat
talon Of Infantry. he continued with
this command In the field, attached 10
Ewells corps. until captured at Sailors
Creek. April 6. 1860 He was carried a
prisoner of war 10 JohnsOns Island. in
Lake Erie, and on the way there he hap
pened 10 be confined I'm the old Capitol
prison. at Washington city. OH the night
that President Lincoln was assassinated.
and narrowly escaped with his fellow
prisoners from being mobbed, on account
OF the excitement then prevailing in the
city He was held at Johnsons Island
until liberated by President Johnson,
about July /, 1865.
RESUMED NEWSPAPER-WORK
General Elliott then returned to Rich
mond, resumed the publication Of the
Wing. and continued the same until De-
cember. 1866, when he removed, with his
family, TO AppomattoX county. There
he pursued the occupation Of farmer
for period of years. In 1S1-'72 and
1S72-'73. ne represented Appomattox coun-
~ in the House of Delegates. md in
1875 was chosen State senator fro m the
district composed of the counties { APP
pomattox. Buckingham. and Flu anna,
and continued to represent his people as
senator for eight consecutive years.
Although his tenacious adherence to
the tenets OF the old Whig party had
Obliged him. as he thought. to differ with
the prevalent political sentiment in Vir-
ginia, yet this circumstance never for
moment alienated from him the warm
friendship and high personal respect and
confidence of his large circle of acquaint-
ances of all parties throughout the State
APPOINTED CLERK.
In 1884 he was appointed Clerk of the
United States Circuit and District courts
in this city. in which position he dis
charged the duties of the office with
HutllN dIu tOilGlttt SdllSlttllols w ullSl
in Richmond General Elliott was an
elder in the Presbyterian church. Of
which DR.. Moore was pastor. In Apo
mattox he was a ruling elder of the old
Concord church. and in Lynchburg he
was a regular attendant at the Second
Presbyterian church.
General Elliott was twice married. His
first wife was Miss Marcia p. Mosely. of
Appomattox county. OF the six children
OF this union three survive-Horace T.,
Ella V, and William Arthur. In 1889
he married Miss Elizabeth Trent, daugh-
ter Of DR.. John L. Trent, of Cumberland
who survives him On Saturday morn
ing the remains Of General Elliott will
be conveyed. over the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway. TO Buckingham county
where they will be laid TO rest at the
old home place of Colonel Thomas Bon
durant.