Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Babcock, George B. April 26, 1880
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Norfolk Virginian April 29, 1880
All that was mortal of Geo. B. Babcock, an old and tried veteran of three wars, 
was consigned to the grave yesterday morning, at 11 o’clock, on his farm near 
Lake Lawson. The deceased was born in Chatham, New York, in December 1819. In 
1837, at the early age of 19, he entered the United States Army, and served in 
the Florida war, which ended with the capture and banishment of Wild Cat.
When the Mexican war broke out, the deceased was a private in Company K, 2d 
United States Artillery, Col. Bankhead, under Captain Smith, with the late 
General W.F. Barry as 1st Lieutenant. He was present in all the actions of his 
company and was wounded once or twice.
When the “late war” broke out, he volunteered in the 23d New York Regiment, and 
served all the war with credit to his State and honor to himself.
In 1869, he moved to Virginia, where he won hosts of friends. Candid, upright 
and moral, a man of the strictest integrity and most conscientious scruples, he 
became a general favorite among his neighbors, a good soldier in life. Many 
years ago, he enlisted under the banner of the Cross, and died a consistent 
Christian in the Methodist Church. His funeral discourse was preached by the 
Rev. Mr. Bayton in a manner which did justice to a good man, with the most 
marked effect upon those present. The deceased leaves a wife and four children, 
whose loss is heaven’s gain, for by the death of such a man as George B. Babcock 
earth loses a mortal, but the army of the Lord gains a true recruit, whose 
battle of life showed whom “he loved he chasteneth.” May his bright example of 
the Christian soldier and man be followed by his old companions in life, who all 
have to answer at the last roll call.

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