SAMUEL J. HURT

     Samuel J. Hurt, born in Nottoway County, Virginia, in 1820, is a son of Merewether Hurt, who was born in Lunenburg County, was a resident of Virginia through life, and is now deceased. His mother, whose maiden name was Amy Ann Morgan has been some years dead. InBrunswick County, Virginia, in 1865, he married Julia E. Stith, and their children are two sons, Pelham and Samuel J., Jr.; Mrs. Hurt was born in Brunswick County, in 1868 the daughter of Needham Washington Stith, now deceased. The subject of this sketch went to school in early days in his native county, then was two years in the dry goods business with L. L. Parsons, of Petersburg, when about sixteen years old. Subsequently he returned to school, in Dinwiddie County, attended Jefferson Academy, and prepared himself for the practice of medicine. Abandoning that idea, he returned to Petersburg and entered into the grocery and commission business, in which he continued until the civil war.

     He entered the Confederate service in 1861, with the Petersburg Cavalry, volunteers to the State service, and was made company quartermaster, the company going to Norfolk. Soon after he was detached, and made post quartermaster at Suffolk, where he remained until the evacuation; was then transferred to the commissary department and served in same till the close of the war. He then returned to Petersburg having, as may be recorded of many whose sketches appear in these pages, sacrificed everything but life and honor to the cause, and began life again, building up a business from the foundation, resuming the same line he was engaged in before the war—groceries and commission.
[Source:  Virginia and Virginians:  History of Volume 2; by Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis; publ.  1888; Pages 634 to 659; transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack 2011~]

CAPTAIN JOHN R. PATTERSON

     Was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, on July 12, 1834. He is the son of William Patterson, born in Ireland, died in 1837, aged fifty-one years, and Ann Atkinson, born in 1798, died 1883. In Petersburg, April 9, 1867, he married Betty M., daughter of Edmund H. and Sara (Cabaniss) Osborne, both now deceased. She was born in Petersburg, April 30, 1841, and died on July 4th, 1872. Their children are: Edmund H., born April ?, 1868; Betty 0., born June 20, 1872; Ann, died June 23, 1872.

     Captain Patterson went to various country schools in Lunenburg County, and completed his academic studies at Frederick, Maryland, entering on a mercantile business previous to the war. He entered the military service of the State of Virginia on April 19, 1861, sergeant Co. E, 12^th Virginia Infantry; was promoted lieutenant in 1861: captain in 1864. He was wounded at Crampton Gap, Maryland. September 14, 1862, gun shot in right leg; was in battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Crampton Gap, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania C. H., second Cold Harbor, and many others, and surrendered at Appomattox C. H. He returned to Petersburg after the war, and resumed the grocery business, in which he continued until appointed postmaster, August 24, 1886, which office he is still ( 1888) acceptably filling.
[Source:  Virginia and Virginians:  History of Volume 2; by Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis; publ.  1888; Pages 634 to 659; transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack 2011~]

JOSEPH J. PERCIVALL

W ne born in Brunswick county, Virginia, on September 8, 1843, the son of Hugh h. Percivall, who also was born in Brunswick county, and who was the son of Joseph Percivall, a native of Scotland. The mother of Joseph J. was born in Brunswick County, her maiden name Nancy C. Rawlings. In April, 1861, Mr. Percivall entered the Confederate States Army, and was over two years in the infantry service before he attained his majority. In September, 1863, he entered Company I, 3^rd Virginia Cavalry, with which he served till the close of the war. He married at Charlottesville, Virginia, November 21, 1871, Amanda O. Beasley, who was born in Prince George County, Virginia. Her parents are Virginians, Richard R. Beasley, born in Lunenberg county, and Martha E. Jones, born in Brunswick county. Mr. and Mrs. Percivall have lost three children: Ella N. died aged nine months; Minnie, died aged five years; Bessie B., died aged two years. Their remaining children, born in the order named, are: Annie B., Kate M., Hugh L., Richard R., Amanda O., and Joseph. Mr. Percivall has been a resident for some years of Petersburg, and is engaged in the tobacco warehouse business.
Source:  Virginia and Virginians:  History of Volume 2; by Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis; publ.  1888; Pages 634 to 659; transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack 2011~

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