Letter to Miss Xenia M.A. Smith, 1889 June 12.

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Letter to Miss Xenia M.A. Smith, 1889 June 12.

Mrs. Weisiger chiefly conveys news of family and friends, particularly her widowed father Caleb Jacob. There are very brief references to the efficacy of mustard oil for treating rheumatism, ministers [Moses Drury] Hoge and Read, coming of electric [street] cars, her mother's monument in Hollywood Cemetery, the move of Sydney Baptist church to the more fashionable "West End," the weather and a James River flood.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Weisiger, Hannah Jacob.

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Wife of William Henry Weisiger, Richmond, Va., merchant. From the description of Letter to Miss Xenia M.A. Smith, 1889 June 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 77130041 ...

West End Baptist Church (Richmond, Va.)

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Jacob, Caleb.

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Hoge, Moses D. (Moses Drury), 1818-1899

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Presbyterian minister; Civil War blockade runner; orator at the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson statue, Monument Avenue, Richmond. From the description of Letter to J.D.K. Sleight, 1870 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52779251 Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., 10 June 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth Stoddert. He graduated from United States Military Academy and taught there. He taught at Hampden- Sydney College and...