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Maplewood Cemetery.

MAPLEWOOD Cemetery is located
on Maplewood Avenue
and was opened about 1827 on
what was formerly a part of the
old Sinclair farm. Among the interments
there are Rev. James Stuart
Hanckel, Rector of the Protestant
Episcopal church, Belle Tevis, wife of
Henry Laning, M. D., for nine years a
missionary in Japan, Carl H. Hotopp,
who was killed on the C. & O.
Railway near Basic City; Rev. Paul
Whitehead of the M. E. Church, Judge
Egbert R. Watson, ex-Mayor R. F.
Harris, ex-Mayor Benj. R. Pace, Major
Robert F. Mason, Philip Agnew McNeale,
the boy who lost his life at the
Brown School fire May 7, 1902; Job

Foster of Batavia, N. Y., a member of
Robinson & Eldreds Circus, who was
killed here by an elephant Dec. 22,
1851; Lieut. Col. G. A. Harrell of the
14th Tennessee regiment, Col. Jno. R.
Jones, Lieut. James L. Daniel, Rev.
J. M. Hedrick, Col. R. T. W. Duke,
Past Grand Master of Masons; Dr.
James A. Leitch, General Jno. M.
Jones, James Alexander, who published
the Jeffersonian Republican; Lieut.
W. W. Alexander, Capt. J. B. Alexander,
Miss Maud Coleman Woods,
daughter of Micajah Woods, who had
the reputation of being one of the
handsomest girls in the South and an
active worker in the Daughters of the
Confederacy; J. Farish, for many years
County Treasurer, R. H. Rawlings,
founder of Rawlings Institute; Crawford
J. and William A., the young
sons of John C. Patterson Jr., who lost
their lives at the great theatre fire in
Chicago Dec. 30, 1903; General Long
and his wife, who for many years was
Postmistress here; Wm. T. Jones,
formerly City Treasurer; Major Horace
W. Jones, a teacher for 50 years. In
the Wertenbaker section are the bodies
of six children who in 1862 died within
a few weeks of each other. Here too is
the body of the boy Stuart Wertenbaker
who died Aug. 21, 1872 and a
stone tool chest containing tools lays
near the grave. Near the centre of the
cemetery is the grave of Letitia Shelby
who died Sept. 8, 1777, and was formerly
buried in a garden nearby. The
other cemeteries of the city are Riverview
on the Woolen Mills road, the
Hebrew, opposite Oakwood, the University
of Virginia grounds and the
daughters of Zion for colored people.

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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.