Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lassiter, Daniel A October 7, 1898
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Norfolk Landmark, October 9 & 11, 1898, Public Ledger, October 10, 1898
Norfolk Landmark. Soldiers Die at Jacksonville
Information reached this city yesterday from Jacksonville of the death of 
Corporal D. A. Lassiter, of Company B, Fourth Virginia Regiment, who died at 
that place of typhoid fever Friday evening at 7 o'clock. His mother, Mrs. R. F. 
Lassiter of Falkland Street this city, was with him at the time of his death.

Willie Wonycott of Huntersville, and a member of Company A, Fourth Virginia 
Regiment, died at Jacksonville Saturday morning. Mrs. A. B. Tennis, his mother, 
had been with him for about ten days up to his death. The remains will be 
brought back to Norfolk this evening at six o'clock.

Young Wonycott met with an accident a few weeks since, causing lockjaw, which 
resulted in his death.

Funeral services: The remains of Corporal D. Lassiter, of Company B, and 
Private Wonycott, of Company A, of Fourth Virginia Regiment, who died while in 
camp at Jacksonville, arrived here Sunday night and were met by numerous, 
comrades of the deceased, who were home on their furloughs.

The funeral of young Lassiter took place yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from 
the Queen Street Methodist Church, and was conducted by the pastor, the Rev. J. 
W. Moore. The interment was in Elmwood Cemetery, and the following were the 
pall-bearers: Sergeant G. L. Laylor, Company B; Corporal J. E. Griggs, Company 
E; Privates, J. A. Potts, Company B; J. E. Duncan, Company B; L. C. Mathews, 
Company G; H. T. Gray, Company B. Citizens: Charles H. Dixon and R. L. Morris.

The funeral of Young Wonycott took place yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from 
No. 26 Washington Avenue, Huntersville, and was conducted by the Rev. L. R. 
Wright of the Grace Baptist Church. The interment was in Elmwood Cemetery.

Public Ledger additions:
The readers of this paper have been advised of the deaths of Corporal Daniel 
Lassiter, of Company B, and Private Wonycott, of Company A, Fourth Virginia 
Regiment, and by the time this letter is read the remains of these two men will 
have been consigned to their graves. It is needless to say that these deaths 
have cast a gloom over the Fourth Regiment camp, for in a soldier's death there 
is something unusually sad, and this was especially so in the case of these two 
men. Both men suffered much during their illness and fought bravely to regain 
their health, but their time on earth was up and the attention of skilled 
nurses and devoted mothers were to no avail. They had to answer the last 
supreme call--their duty had been faithfully performed--they had been summoned 
to rest.

The bodies were brought from the Second Division Hospital Saturday morning to 
the undertaking establishment of Clark & Burns, where they were embalmed and 
nicely shrouded in uniforms. The caskets containing the remains were covered 
with the national flag. Many friends of the deceased men called during the day 
to take a last view of their departed comrades.


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