This is another great-grandmother, Annie Lettie Swain Van Pelt.  She was my mother's mother's mother.  Mom called her Ma, as opposed to her other Grandmother, who was Grandma Barnett.

Annie Swain was born in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of the seven children born to Matthew and Jane Catherine Dicken Swain. Annie married Archibald Douglas Van Pelt in 1884 and they had 6 children.  When Annie died in 1937, my mother would have been almost 15 years old. 

Archibald Douglas Van Pelt was from Harrisonburg, Virginia.  He was the son of James and Sarah Van Pelt.  I don't know much about his family.   Archibald was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.  He was taken a prisoner at the Battle of Gettysburg.  He was transferred a couple of times before he was paroled and allowed to return home.

The 1870 Census says that he was a barkeeper.  My mother said that Archibald worked in Talcott, West Virginia, on the Big Bend Tunnel through the mountain.  That means he would have worked with the legendary John Henry.  Annie & Archibald's son, Guilford, was born in Talcott.  But the other children were born in Richmond.  Mom said that her grandmother would return to Richmond to have her children where the medical facilities were better.  No doubt she preferred being located closer to family, as well. 

The 1902 Richmond City directory lists Archibald D. Van Pelt as a bricklayer living at 16 E. Marshall St.  That's the address that I remember my mom mentioning many times. 

Archibald & Annie are buried together in Oakwood cemetery in Richmond.