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A funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at Myers Park Baptist Church, 1900 Queens Road. Kenneth W. Poe Funeral and Cremation Service is in charge of arrangements. Show comments
In 1891, the Shenandoah Valley Railroad was purchased by the Norfolk and Western Railway, further expanding Stuart Draft's reach. [8] George Samuel Etter opened his Etter Funeral Home in Stuarts Draft in 1895. [9] [d] Other businesses that opened in Stuarts Draft in 1895 include a barrel factory and a chair factory. [4]
The first telegraph was installed in Stuart with completion of the railroad here in 1884. Reportedly the first telephone was operated at the Hotel Perkins. By 1923, ten lines served the county, each with a central; the Stuart central was located in the home of Walter S. Gilbert. In 1937, the Lee Telephone Company acquired all the private lines.
Alexander Moody Stuart, 1809 - 1898. Free Church minister 43 Queen Street, Edinburgh Memorial plaque to Alexander Moody Stuart in Kutná Hora (Bohemia) Alexander Moody Stuart (15 June 1809 – 31 July 1898) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly to the Free Church of Scotland in 1875. [1]
In 1889, Moody set up the private bank W. L. Moody and Company,. [1] In 1905, he founded American National Insurance Company, [1] [5] [9] which, at the time of Moody's death, was the biggest one west of the Mississippi River. [10] In 1907, Moody founded City National Bank. [11] He was President of the bank until he died. [11]
Archibald Stuart (December 2, 1795 – September 20, 1855) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the first cousin of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart and the father of Confederate General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart , who was the seventh of eleven children.
Stuart also served in the State Corporation Commission from 1902 to 1908. [5] Although Stuart wanted to run for governor in 1909, he acceded to Martin's advice and instead ran for U.S. Congress, but lost to six-term Republican Campbell Bascom Slemp. [6] In return for that party loyalty, Martin allowed Stuart to run for governor unopposed.
The former Hawk Eye building still stands and is now used as a funeral home. On Dec. 1, 2016, The Hawk Eye and five other Harris papers were sold to GateHouse Media for $20 million. [4] Within seven months, GateHouse laid off half of the newsroom and other employees, an action seen at other Harris papers. [5]