Anderson Dudley Hambrick
BIRTH Nov 1839
Roanoke County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 21 Aug 1914 (aged 74)
West Graham, Tazewell County, Virginia, USA
Anderson was born to John Anderson and Elizabeth Mary McDonald born to the life of a farmer like his parents. At the age of 22 he joins the Confederate State of Virginia 45th Infantry,the ‘Tazewell Rangers’. In the last year of the war he joined Company I, 16th Virginia Cavalry under Major General Rosser’s division in Brigadier General McCausland’s brigade. At the close of the battle of Appomattox General Robert E.Lee surrendered his troops to General Grant, Grant allowed the Confederate troops to return home without making them prisoners of war. On Anderson's pension papers on the question “When did you leave the service, and under what circumstance” he answers “left Appomattox on the 9th April, Regiment disbanded 10th April” thus ending his four year service in the war between the states.
Returning home he marries Laura Jane Crockett 15, May 1867 and they had six children. As before the war he becomes a farmer, sometime after 1880 he moved to Bluefield, West Virginia where his daughter Jennie Rebecca married Henry Lon Laughter after which he moves back to Clear Fork, Tazewell Virginia. He dies in 1914 and his wife moves in with daughter Jennie and her husband she died in 1924. As of (2017) no record has been found to mark their final resting place.
The following obituary is for Anderson Dudley Hambrick;
"The remains of A.D. Hambrick were laid to rest yesterday afternoon on the beautiful knoll overlooking the old Hambrick homestead in Bluestone Valley, where the deceased spent many years of his young manhood. The obsequies were largely attended relatives and friends being present from Bluefield, Graham and Tazewell, in addition to the large number of country people who gathered at the Wallace cemetery to pay their last tribute to their old friend and neighbor. Among the mourners were some eight or ten Confederate soldiers, several of whom served with Mr. Hambrick in the forty-fifth Virginia regiment and later in the sixteenth Virginia cavalry, among the latter being Hon. A. St. Clair, J.H. Colwell, another veteran present enlisted with the deceased in the forty-fifth regiment when the war broke out, thus offering their gallant young manhood as a sacrifice in a cause held dear to them. Mr. Hambrick soon was promoted for bravery, and when he quit the regiment to serve in the cavalry, he had been promoted to second sergeant, serving under Captain Fudge. The religious services yesterday were conducted by Rev. J.A. Tage, the West Graham minister, whose remarks were impressive and pointed. The burial was in charge of the Tazewell and Tip Top Masonic orders, and each lodge was largely represented. The funeral was said to have been the most largely attended to take place in the Bluestone Valley in many years, which is proof of the respect and high esteem in which Mr. Hambrick was held".
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