Obituaries
James
Alexander Blankenship
Blankingship,
James Alexander, sculptor, born in Frozen Island, Prince George
County, Va., in 1859; died in New York city, July 1,1893. "He was
brought up on his father's plantation, and exhibited a talent for
modeling in clay at an early age. When thirteen years old he
completed his first important figure—a negro boy resting on a
hoe—which was purchased by William Corcoran for his art gallery in
Washington. This was followed by the widely known figure of a negro
boy pulling a thorn from his foot. His work attracted the attention
of Edward Valentine and Moses Ezekiel, the sculptors, who invited
him to New York City, where he studied with Mr. Valentine till he
was sixteen years old. Subsequently he took a course with Chapu, in
Paris. In 1890 he returned to New York City, and was appointed
Professor of Sculpture in the New York Institute of Artists and
Artisans. His last works were the designs of the allegorical statues
of "Patriotism," "Tradition," and "Theology," on the Administration
Building, and the allegorical group on the Electricity Building,
both at the Columbian Exposition, and an incomplete study for a
statue to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, to be erected in Richmond. Just
before his death he received a medal from the World's Fair
Commissioners.
(Source:
Appleton’s Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events 1893.
Vol. XVIII. Published 1894. Contributed by Robyn Greenlund)
Mrs.
Sarah W. Boisseau
Died,
in Prince George co., on the 23rd inst., Mrs. Sarah W. Boisseau,
widow of late Edward Boisseau of Chesterfield.
(5 May 1842 - "Watchman of the
South" - Submitted by B. Ziegenmeyer)
Francis
Eppes
Mr.
Francis Eppes,
of Prince George, died there lately. Published in Bruton Parish
Register on Feb. 4, 1737
(Pub. in the "William and Mary
College Quarterly". Transcribed by K.
Torp)
Dr.
Virginius W. Harrison
Dr.
Virginius W. Harrison, an esteemed physician of Petersburg, Va.,
died at the residence of his father, in Prince George county, on
Tuesday, at the age of 43 years. He was born in Prince George,
educated at Randolph Macon College and University of Virginia, and
took his degree in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, in 1851. He was actively employed on the medical staff
of the Confederate States army during the whole of the late
war.
[ Alexandria
Gazette (1 May 1873) transcribed by FoFG MZ]
Dr.
Joel B. Sturdivant
Died
at his father's residence in Prince George Co., of consumption. the
25th ult.. Dr. Joel B. Sturdivant, in his 33rd year. A Prince George
native, he leaves an aged father and mother, two brothers and one
sister. (Signed) James E. JOYNER. (V. I, no. 1. II March 1836, p.
4.)
(Source: Abstract
Obituary Notices from the Virginia Conference Sentinel and Richmond
Advocate, pub in "Magazine of Virginia Genealogy" by The Virginia
Genealogical Society Volume 23 February 1985 Number 1. Sub. by
K.Torp)
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