Thursday, April 4, 2013

I was excited to find among my mother's picture, this photo of Archibald Douglas Van Pelt.  He was one of my great-grandfathers and he was captured at Gettysburg during the Civil War.  He was the only one of my great-grandparents for whom I did not have a photo.  So this completes the set! 

After the Civil War, he helped build the Big Bend Tunnel in West Virginia.  According to family legend, his wife, Annie Lettie Swain Van Pelt, returned to Richmond for the births of their children; but they lived in West Virginia or western Virginia for much of their lives.  They eventually returned to Richmond and are both buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Here is their tombstone (Kate was one of their daughters).




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