Basic Identification
Gender: male
Ethnicity:
Immigration:
Attributed Race: white
Free or Enslaved: free
Birth & Family
Birth Date: 1838/09/19
Birthplace: Botetourt(?) County, Virginia
Mother: Elizabeth Frances Jones DeWitt
Father: William Harrison DeWitt
1st Spouse: Louisa Frances Markham DeWitt
2nd Spouse: male
Age Details
Age: 55
Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): journalist; newspaper editor; teacher
Last Church:
Military Service:
Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Address:
Death
Death Date: 1894/01/09 (11?)
Death Note: none
Place of Death: home
Cause of Death: double pneumonia
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1894/01/12 or 13?
Funeral Home: Bradley & Coleman (or Richardson?)
Diuguid ID Number:
Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none
Section: 202.T
Confirmation Source for Location:
Grave Marker Erector(s):
Confirmation Source for Interment: family relationships
Notes
Death register gives age as “57” and birthplace as “Nelson [County]”; CSR gives birthplace as Bedford County
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Obituary and Biographical Detials
Death of a Lynchburg Journalist.
LYNCHBURG, VA., January 11.–(Special.)–Andrew J. DeWitt, a well-known newspaper-man of this city, died to-day; aged 55 years.
From Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12 January 1894
Civil War Compiled Service Record (Fold3.com):
– Private, Capt. Joseph Anderson’s Company, Virginia Light Artillery (later Capt. Douthat’s Company, Botetourt Artillery)
– Height: 5′-8″
– Gray eyes, light hair, light complexion
– Enlisted 8 March 1862 in Buchanan, Va.
– Absent sick at Camp Van Dorn (probably near Tazwell, Tennessee) since 23 April 1862
– Discharged for having phthisis pulmonalis (pulmonary tuberculosis) on 16 June 1862