Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gwaltney, James Lancaster, Rev. May 23, 1864
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Virginian-Pilot October 16, 1955
           The Baptists in Norfolk---Their Last 100 Years
   Time of Pestilence
"He was a very fluent and attractive speaker, but left after one year's service, 
about the time of the great pestilence (yellow fever epidemic) of 1855, and 
settled in Savannah, Ga.," according to Colonel Stewart in his "History."
James Lancaster Gwaltney was pastor from 1856 to 1857.
Born in Isle of Wight County near Mill Swamp on November 28, 1799, he entered 
the ministry from Black Creek Church, Southampton County. He came to the 
Cumberland Street Church from the Suffolk Baptist Church. He preached the 
funerals for the victims in the church of yellow fever. He died May 23, 1864. He 
was buried first at Spring Hill, Sussex County, but was later moved to Elmwood 
Cemetery in Norfolk.
He was married twice. His first wife was a Miss Holleman, of Isle of Wight 
County. Their children were: John Ryland, Almarine, and William H. Gwaltney, 
Mrs. Almeda Wyatt and Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Mildred Marable. His second wife was 
Martha Brundell. Their children were: Mary, Mattie, and Junius Kincaid.

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