Greenbried County WV Archives Obituaries.....Caraway, Joseph C. 
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Jim Patterson <novaandjim@mindspring.com>, November 22, 1998

The many friends of Joseph C. Caraway, of Renick's valley, this 
County, Were shocked to hear of his death, which occured near 
Alderson, on Wednesday, the 26th ult. Mr Caraway had left his home at 
Renick's Valley for the purpose of visiting relatives and friends in 
Blue Sulphur district, accompanied by two of his little daughters.  On 
the day of his death he was at the home of his brother-in law, 
Archibald Lipps,Esq., near Alderson, and in the afternoon started with 
his little girls to go to the home of Mr. Robert Hunt, about a mile 
distant from Mr. Lipps'. At a spring along the route he stopped, 
telling his daughters to go on and that he would soon overtake them. 
Shortly after Miss Aura Stevens and her brother Wade, who were 
returning to their home from Alderson, found him lying dead at the 
spring. He had evidently been suddenly stricken with heart disease or 
apoplexy. An inquest was deemed unnecessary. Mr Caraway was about 60 
years old, an old Confederate soldier, a good citizen, and highly 
respected by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and eleven children. 
His body was taken to his home in Renicks Valley for interment.

Source: Greenbrier Independant Oct 27 1898