GEORGE V. LITCHFIELD
Is a son of George V. and Rachel Litchfield, who settled in Washington
county about 1815, and reared a family of eight children. His mother
was the daughter of John Mitchell, who married a daughter of William
King, the elder, who discovered and developed the great salt works of
Washington and Smyth counties. The subject of this sketch was born
in Abingdon, on January 20, 1837, and was married in Wythe county,
Virginia, November 20, 1867, Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham there joining
him in wedlock with Elizabeth P. Pierce. The wife of Mr. Litchfield,
born in Pulaski county, Virginia, is a daughter of James N. and Nancy
Pierce. Her mother is of a family distinguished in the civil and military
annals of Virginia, being the sister of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and a
daughter of Judge Archibald Stuart, who married Elizabeth Pannill
Mr. and Mrs. Litchfield have five children: Annie S., Lizzie P., Mary,
George Victor and Belle, and have buried three Rachel B., James P.,
Flora S.
Mr. Litchfield served through the late war, an officer in Company D,
1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., from April, 1861, to April, 1865. He was
wounded in engagement at Slaterville, and a second time at Waterloo
Bridge by a sharpshooter, through the hand. He had two brothers in
service, one of whom is now deceased. In 1879 Mr. Litchfield was
mayor of Abingdon. He is a resident of that town, engaged in farming
and as a manufacturer.
