s/o Bushrod C Washington Sr and Katherine Blackburn
Asheville Citizens Times June 17, 1954
Bushrod Washington Dies At 89;Funeral Saturday
Funeral services for Bushrod Corbin Washington, 89, of Shepherdstown, W. VA., a descendant of George Washington's brother, who died at 3 p. m. Tuesday in Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday in Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher. The Rev. Mark Jenkins, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be F. M. Tongue, W. F. Toms, John E. Schley, Lawrence F. Hayes, Luther Baldwin and Walter Shuford, all vestrymen or former vestryman of Calvary Episcopal Church. Honorary pallbearers will be members of C. W. Francy Post 70 of the American Legion. He was the Dean of patients at the hospital. having first gone there in July, 1921. when the unit was as he once said a "scattering of wooden shacks" He was discharged from the hospital in 1926 but was readmitted a short time later in 1934 he was again discharged, soon after married and then was admitted briefly in 1944 and readmitted in 1946 suffering with pneumonia and arthritis.
George Washington was his great-great-great uncle, He was the son of Bushrod Corbin Washington, great-great-grandson of John Augustine Washington, brother of George Washington. His mother was the former Katherine Thomas Blackburn of Virginia.
He spent most of his life in Government service and was a veteran of World War I.
He was born December 28, 1865 near Charlestown, W. Va.
Washington was educated by private tutors and at Potomac Academy in Alexandria, Va. and the Corcoran Scientific School, Washington, D. C.
He worked for the U. S. Geological Survey, the Land Office and in the original Bureau of Labor. He was a member of the National Guard of Virginia and the District of Columbia for 11 years. He served as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps during the First World War.
Surviving are one son, Bushrod Corbin Washington of Washington D. C.; three daughters, Mrs. Chester C. Baxter of Merchantsville, N. J., Mrs. Charles W. Phillips of Temple City, Calif., and Mrs. Katharine W. Hopkins of Washington: and one sister, Mrs. Annie Washington Hopkins of Washington., and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lost a grandson in World War II.
Washington had been active in Masonic affairs for years and was a life member of Almas Temple in Alexandria, VA.
Arrangements are under direction of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home.
Asheville Citizens Times June 17, 1954
Bushrod Washington Dies At 89;Funeral Saturday
Funeral services for Bushrod Corbin Washington, 89, of Shepherdstown, W. VA., a descendant of George Washington's brother, who died at 3 p. m. Tuesday in Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday in Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher. The Rev. Mark Jenkins, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be F. M. Tongue, W. F. Toms, John E. Schley, Lawrence F. Hayes, Luther Baldwin and Walter Shuford, all vestrymen or former vestryman of Calvary Episcopal Church. Honorary pallbearers will be members of C. W. Francy Post 70 of the American Legion. He was the Dean of patients at the hospital. having first gone there in July, 1921. when the unit was as he once said a "scattering of wooden shacks" He was discharged from the hospital in 1926 but was readmitted a short time later in 1934 he was again discharged, soon after married and then was admitted briefly in 1944 and readmitted in 1946 suffering with pneumonia and arthritis.
George Washington was his great-great-great uncle, He was the son of Bushrod Corbin Washington, great-great-grandson of John Augustine Washington, brother of George Washington. His mother was the former Katherine Thomas Blackburn of Virginia.
He spent most of his life in Government service and was a veteran of World War I.
He was born December 28, 1865 near Charlestown, W. Va.
Washington was educated by private tutors and at Potomac Academy in Alexandria, Va. and the Corcoran Scientific School, Washington, D. C.
He worked for the U. S. Geological Survey, the Land Office and in the original Bureau of Labor. He was a member of the National Guard of Virginia and the District of Columbia for 11 years. He served as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps during the First World War.
Surviving are one son, Bushrod Corbin Washington of Washington D. C.; three daughters, Mrs. Chester C. Baxter of Merchantsville, N. J., Mrs. Charles W. Phillips of Temple City, Calif., and Mrs. Katharine W. Hopkins of Washington: and one sister, Mrs. Annie Washington Hopkins of Washington., and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lost a grandson in World War II.
Washington had been active in Masonic affairs for years and was a life member of Almas Temple in Alexandria, VA.
Arrangements are under direction of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home.
s/o Bushrod C Washington Sr and Katherine Blackburn
Asheville Citizens Times June 17, 1954
Bushrod Washington Dies At 89;Funeral Saturday
Funeral services for Bushrod Corbin Washington, 89, of Shepherdstown, W. VA., a descendant of George Washington's brother, who died at 3 p. m. Tuesday in Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday in Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher. The Rev. Mark Jenkins, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be F. M. Tongue, W. F. Toms, John E. Schley, Lawrence F. Hayes, Luther Baldwin and Walter Shuford, all vestrymen or former vestryman of Calvary Episcopal Church. Honorary pallbearers will be members of C. W. Francy Post 70 of the American Legion. He was the Dean of patients at the hospital. having first gone there in July, 1921. when the unit was as he once said a "scattering of wooden shacks" He was discharged from the hospital in 1926 but was readmitted a short time later in 1934 he was again discharged, soon after married and then was admitted briefly in 1944 and readmitted in 1946 suffering with pneumonia and arthritis.
George Washington was his great-great-great uncle, He was the son of Bushrod Corbin Washington, great-great-grandson of John Augustine Washington, brother of George Washington. His mother was the former Katherine Thomas Blackburn of Virginia.
He spent most of his life in Government service and was a veteran of World War I.
He was born December 28, 1865 near Charlestown, W. Va.
Washington was educated by private tutors and at Potomac Academy in Alexandria, Va. and the Corcoran Scientific School, Washington, D. C.
He worked for the U. S. Geological Survey, the Land Office and in the original Bureau of Labor. He was a member of the National Guard of Virginia and the District of Columbia for 11 years. He served as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps during the First World War.
Surviving are one son, Bushrod Corbin Washington of Washington D. C.; three daughters, Mrs. Chester C. Baxter of Merchantsville, N. J., Mrs. Charles W. Phillips of Temple City, Calif., and Mrs. Katharine W. Hopkins of Washington: and one sister, Mrs. Annie Washington Hopkins of Washington., and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lost a grandson in World War II.
Washington had been active in Masonic affairs for years and was a life member of Almas Temple in Alexandria, VA.
Arrangements are under direction of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home.
Asheville Citizens Times June 17, 1954
Bushrod Washington Dies At 89;Funeral Saturday
Funeral services for Bushrod Corbin Washington, 89, of Shepherdstown, W. VA., a descendant of George Washington's brother, who died at 3 p. m. Tuesday in Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday in Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher. The Rev. Mark Jenkins, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be F. M. Tongue, W. F. Toms, John E. Schley, Lawrence F. Hayes, Luther Baldwin and Walter Shuford, all vestrymen or former vestryman of Calvary Episcopal Church. Honorary pallbearers will be members of C. W. Francy Post 70 of the American Legion. He was the Dean of patients at the hospital. having first gone there in July, 1921. when the unit was as he once said a "scattering of wooden shacks" He was discharged from the hospital in 1926 but was readmitted a short time later in 1934 he was again discharged, soon after married and then was admitted briefly in 1944 and readmitted in 1946 suffering with pneumonia and arthritis.
George Washington was his great-great-great uncle, He was the son of Bushrod Corbin Washington, great-great-grandson of John Augustine Washington, brother of George Washington. His mother was the former Katherine Thomas Blackburn of Virginia.
He spent most of his life in Government service and was a veteran of World War I.
He was born December 28, 1865 near Charlestown, W. Va.
Washington was educated by private tutors and at Potomac Academy in Alexandria, Va. and the Corcoran Scientific School, Washington, D. C.
He worked for the U. S. Geological Survey, the Land Office and in the original Bureau of Labor. He was a member of the National Guard of Virginia and the District of Columbia for 11 years. He served as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps during the First World War.
Surviving are one son, Bushrod Corbin Washington of Washington D. C.; three daughters, Mrs. Chester C. Baxter of Merchantsville, N. J., Mrs. Charles W. Phillips of Temple City, Calif., and Mrs. Katharine W. Hopkins of Washington: and one sister, Mrs. Annie Washington Hopkins of Washington., and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lost a grandson in World War II.
Washington had been active in Masonic affairs for years and was a life member of Almas Temple in Alexandria, VA.
Arrangements are under direction of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home.
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