The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-10


a good many years and was at the time y
OF consolidation with the 4Dispatc IN, was AS SO
subscriber when the Dispa tch made the IN, N,
different changes in the paper. The The, M
paper may have stopped on me a few
days when I some times failed for short n
time 10 renew subscription. I furnish s = no 81
sworn statement, but what I; have written 4
believe to be CORES Re ference % s$
mailing books will proXeSit to you. ~
''3 j Nv, cH1LDRBss.
I was born near Warren. Albemarles FIT
county, Va. May! T. 1874. Attended school
and worked on my ather's farm N N. until ati X
5Apirl. 1862. B Then Joined Captain A-ss I.
Gantt's cavalry company Was assigned
to Fifteenth Virginia cavalry. Suppose |
was liz fifty, different skirmlshes and n
battles during the war Very near Gem
eral Stuart when killed at Yellow Ta !ts-3
ern. Since the war have been managing
farms most OF the time. At present
market gardening on Rose ELL near
Charlottesville. I: have no recent pho
ltograph, but q small one taken lou 55S
years ago, "a ss33
"A Lifelong Friend. sgi
Farmville, Va, February Is. & seA.
Editor ofSTha Timea-D t spatch: n
Sir,-I have noticed your old s;IrleHusSs
| contest announced In the paper th1s We e
l
! readers. first the Dispatch, then me
Times, and then The Times--Dispatcln,,,s
| ever since my birth in 1857. and I donst Z
know how much longer, think - am
entitled to a place in the contest. = se!lo
you under separate cover g copy OF an the =
paper taken by my father In 1S57 .s5l nave nav
no doubt he was a subscriber preylo'l ls ~ ~
! that date. !. !, ll88
| also took the Dispatch all his life.,3 Then
my husband. A. w. " Lgon. who IS Q.
| farmer, took The Times for many years
! and then went back to our old friend
i the Dispatch. We now take The Times
/ Dispatch. And SO we have been "old
friends for long time. was born
July Q. 1851, and reared IN Cumperland
county. near Farmvllle, and have spent
1 all nv life at my birthplace. The Times
DISPATCH. RS above indicated. has been q
4 Lifelong friend, and expect 1t to be az
+ long as live. IN n
Very respectfully
MRS. A. w. LIGoN,t
AnAged Minister.
covington. Tenn, March 81, 1904.
Z Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
SIr.-My connection with Daily and
Weekly pispatch for a number of Years
y with the Daily. then merging into the
4 Weekly, continuously. as subscriber and
reader Gas I remember continuously to the
present date, runs, think, from. ls6s-
certainly from 1S69-for proof of which .
refer you to your predecessors. Hon, y 30
Ellyson and Fl. Theodore Elyson. They
both know me well MS q former citizen
II OF Salem, Va. 7 suppose this proof VIII
be entirely salts factory.
was born in Fluvanna county, Va.,E
Z eighty-two years since. March 5th;s re-
moved to Salem. Va. In 1852: resided IN
j Salem until 1894. when came here; have have
T been living here ever since. Except my
, habit OF visiting Salem, Va, every suns
mer and spending some two or three
q months, my occupation In life has been
q somewhat q checkered one. Commencing
with teaching school, then merchandise
Il ing, then rs agent for tho sale Of agri-
y cultural Implements and machinery
Il meanwhile. soon after and, indeed dur-
Ing tho war, occasionally preaching; was
licensed as Baptist minister, preaching
occasionally: was ordained in 1884. since
which time I have not gagged In any
regular employment.
Yours very truly.
JOHN NJ. IIARLOWE.
P. ST. enclose small photo; YOU
need not return It.
Served Under Early.
Keser's x Lanes, Nicholas Co.. W. Va,
March 8. 1901
Editor Of The Tlmes-Dlspatch:
sr.-I have been regular pald UP sub
i scrlber to the Weekly Dispatch and
Weekly Tlmes-D Dispatch ever since the
year 1870, and think ] can come in on the 4
| old friends contest. have each year
since 1 first subscribed. paid up my sub
scription for a new year before the old
year expired, because never wanted
to miss a single issue. was born on the
Rappahannock, In the county of Rappa- h
hammock, September "a. 1888 and attended
the old Jeftersonton Academy In culpeper
county. In 1919 moved to Harwood, In
Stafford county. and IN 1854 moved 70
West Virginia. where ! have lived ever
since. served In company p, Twenty
second Virginia Regiment, Confederate
army, until April IT, 1865, when at Big
Spring, Roanoke county, my regiment
was dlsbanded by General John Echols,
Lee having surrendered. ! then came back
home and have been farming pretty much
ever since. have been constant reader
OF your good paper for more than thirty
years. God bless old Virginia.
Very truly yours.
GEORGE A. THORNE.