John Irvine Rusmisel POW Records p. 2

Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M598, 145 rolls); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Point Look Out, Maryland, Book No. 237, “April to August , 1864…Contains about 1000 names not alphabetically arranged,” also Index to Ledger No. 1

Transcription:

Rusmisel, J. J. 350

[John Irvine Rusmisel is listed in the top right corner]

Link to a History of the camp by Descendants of Point Lookout POW Organization:

http://www.plpow.com/PrisonHistory.htm

Jacob Miller (1748-1815) Head Stone

This is the headstone for Jacob Miller, b. 2 Oct 1748 in Maryland, died 11 July 1815 near what is now Moore's Store, Shenandoah County, Virginia. He came to the Valley of Virginia about 1782. The stone is located in the Lydia Garber Graveyard and the inscription reads:

Den 2T Oct 1st
Jacob Miller
Auf Diese Welt Goboren
Im Yahr 1748
Gestoben Im Yahr 1815
Den 11 Yulius

Which translates as
On the 2nd of October Jacob Miller was born into this world in the year 1748.
Died in the year 1815, on the 11th of July.

The photograph is taken from the book "Jacob Miller of 1748, His Descendants and Connections, Part 1" by J. Carson Miller, 1936, on-line on Ancestry.com.

Obituary of Elizabeth PAYNE WARWICK (1763-8143)

Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Christain Advocate, Vol 1:1837-1860, Brent Holcomb, pg. 80, Issue of January 5, 1844:

Mrs. Elizabeth Warwick, wife of the Rev. Wiley Warwick of the Ga. Conference, departed this life on the 24th of November, 1843, in Habersham Co., Ga., and in the 81st year of her age. She was the daughter of William and Jane Payne, and was born in Charles Co., Maryland. Her parents died when she was very young, and she was brought up by her grandmother. At the age of 17 years she came with her brother Jacob Payne to Brunswick Co., Va. In the year 1787, under the ministry of Rev. John Easter, joined the M.E. Church at Benjamin Johnson's Meeting House, where she remained until the year 1791 when she married her present bereaved husband.... (Josiah Askew)