SAMUEL W. PAULETT,
Son of R. S. and H. P. (Clark) Paulett, was born at Farmville, on
October 24, 1846. His school days were spent at Farmville, and in the
Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He entered the
Confederate States Army in July, 1861, in Company F, 18th Virginia
Infantry, regimental marker. He was three times wounded in service,
at Second Bull Run, in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, and at Sailors
Creek, April 6, 1865. He was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, also, and
was held six months, at Fort Delaware and at Point Lookout. From the
latter prison he escaped, and rejoined his regiment, serving with it until
the close of the war. Among the battles in which he took part are:
Williamsburg, the seven days fighting around Richmond, second Bull
Run, Boonsboro, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chester Station (May
16th), Hamilton Crossing, second Gaines Mills, Chester again (June
16th), Hatchers Run, Sailors Creek.
After the war, Mr. Paulett went into the tobacco business, in which he
continued six years, was then four years engaged in merchandising, then
returned to the tobacco business having an insurance business connected
with it, in which he still continues. He is connected with his father in
the tobacco business, junior member of the firm of R. S. Paulett &Son.
He was elected captain of the Farmville Guards, April 23, 1880, and has
been in command of the company, except for a short time, ever since.
For seven years he has been one of the councilmen of Farmville, and he is
also chief of the fire department. Mr. Paulett has been twice married,
his first wife Augusta E. Wiltse, who died December 1, 1875, leaving
him one son, Samuel W., jr. He married secondly, on August 10, 1879,
Jennie B. Gray, of Prince Edward county. They have three sons, Lewis,
Vernon and Gordon, and have buried one, their first-born, Percy C.
