Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coomes, Joseph Richardson June 9, 1905
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Sunday, June 11, 1905 


Ku-Klux Originator Dead

Joseph Richardson Coomes Passes Away at Norfolk, VA
Norfolk, Va., June 10- Joseph Richardson Coomes, aged 68 years, a lieutenant in the

the Confederate army who, while a prisoner of war at Rock Island, Ill., in 1863
1863, with seven other Confederate prisoners, planned the Ku Klux Klan, died at his

his home in this city today.
Sir Coomes, a native of Maryland, was captured at Centerville during the civil war
war and made a prisoner at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, from which prison he esc
escaped, afterward being recaptured and sent to the military prison at Rock Isl
Island.  He married Miss Ada Lee, a cousin of General Robert E. Lee, and lived in 
in Lynchburg, Va., up to a year ago.




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