Updated January 30, 2011.
September 27, 2010. John H Whitehurst, born October 13,
1834
at Knotts Island. Enlisted in the
Virginia Confederate Army on March 27, 1862 at Ocean View, VA. for
three years. He was a Private in Unit Company C, 15th Regiment,
Virginia Cavalry. Commanding Officer
was Captain
Edward W. Capps. Captured at Ashland, VA on May 11, 1864. Imprisoned at
Point Lookout, MD and Elmira, NY. Released June 16, 1865. Returned to
Knotts Island and married Lydia Waterfield on March 1, 1869 and they
had six children including our grandmother, Lydia Estelle Whitehurst
Beasley.
The five other children and his wife Lydia all died of smallpox in 1881
and 1883. In 1890, he married Lydia Simpson and they had no children.
He died
November 10, 1916 and was buried in the family cemetery beside his
parents, Levin and Charlotte, on what was Curtis Fentress' land behind
Clarence's house. Curtis plowed up the cemetery and pieces of the
gravestones
are now in the White family cemetery on White's Neck Lane.
This picture is a copy of the original small painting he brought back
with him along with the confederate bills from the civil war. "B", our
grandmother, kept this painting in a small box along with the bills and
the buttons from his uniform.
Dale Beasley December 1988.
November 8, 2010. Comment - Jack Dudley: John Hardy Whitehurst was captured at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. His Regiment was riding with JEB Stuart. This is the Battle in which JEB Stuart was wounded and died.
January 30, 2011. This gravestone was donated by a Confederate organization and is located at the original gravesite on Wards Road, Knotts Island. (Note: It appears that CAV was cemented over with INF).
