Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lancaster, Joseph O., 1909 

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       Joseph O. Lancaster. 

    [Special to the Times-Dispatch.] 

  SUFFOLK, VA., June 13. - Joseph O. Lancaster, the last survivor but one of 
Company F, Third Virginia Infantry, which fought in Pickett's Division at 
Gettysburg, died yesterday, aged sixty-two years, leaving a widow, three 
daughters and two sons.  The only survivor of his company is Deputy Clerk of 
Courts A.P. Gomer, who was promoted to captain at Gettysburg and who said 
to-day that of twenty-five in the company and 335 in the regiment who entered 
the fight, all of the former but one and all of the latter but thirty-three 
were killed, captured or wounded. 


Joseph Oliver LANCASTER, harness maker, Confederate veteran, 
b. 4 Dec 1846, Nansemond Co., d. 12 Jun 1909*, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 83**), Suffolk, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," June 14, 1909, p. 2, col. 7 

**Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 

A biographical sketch, including his CS service, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/military/civilwar/cw_vets.txt 

*His widow applied for a pension in 1934 in Norfolk, where she'd been living 
   about 15 years.  The application gives his unit (F/3rd VA Inf.) wrong 
   (F/4th), and says he d. 9 Jun 1909, of heart trouble. 


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