Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gatch, Thomas Asbury September 1, 1901
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Virginian Pilot. Thursday, September 5th 1901
Captain Thomas Ashbury Gatch, a former well known citizen of this city, died 
at his home in Baltimore Sunday of heart failure, superinduced by asthma, with 
which he had for years been a constant sufferer.  Captain Gatch was born in 
this city March 14, 1832.  His preliminary education was received at the 
Norfolk Military Academy, but afterward he went to the Randolph Macon College 
from which he was graduated with the higest honors.  Immediately after 
graduating he became principal of the preparatory school of the college.  
Subsequently he became professor of mathematics in the Southern University at 
Greensboro, Alabama.  On the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned his 
position and returned to Norfolk.

Captain Gatch, during his long residence in the city was a member of the 
Granby Street Methodist Church.  His ancestors were among the founders of the 
Methodist Church in this country.



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