Botetourt County

Obituary / Death Notices

John Loup

     FINCASTLE, VA., February 12. – Mr. John Loup, who resided near this place, fell in the snow while going to the woodyard on Saturday, and died of heart failure.

     Mr. Loup was about sixty years of age, and was regarded as one of our best citizens. He leaves a widow, who has been afflicted for a number of years, and will most sadly feel the loss of her best earthly friend.
[Richmond Times Dispatch (13 Feb. 1908) Transcribed by FoFG MZ]

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Rev. Mr. Shriver and his wife, residing at Locust Bottom, Botetourt county, were killed by lightning on the 25th ult.
(The Charlotte Gazette, Drakes Branch, VA, Thursday, July 2, 1874 Submitted by:  Bea. Adams King)

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Stover, Lewis F.
A Shocking Occurrence
On the 25th Jan. Lewis F., a child about 14 months old, the son of Capt. Mathias Stover, near the Botetourt Springs, Virginia, a play with his brother Charles about two years old, wandered within the circle of a bark mill near the house, while the manager had stept out, and by some means not distinctly known, poor Lewis got thrown down by the horse, or fell across the pathway of the bark breaker – a stone that at least weighted 1500 pounds; which rolled over his breast.  Charles screamed and sprang before the horse and prevented its passing over him the second time; his alarm was heard by a little girl near, who ran to the spot and took up the child a lifeless corpse.
(Source; Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania March 14, 1827. Submitted by Nancy Piper)