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PVT Clarence Wharton Tompkins
30 Jan 1844 – 14 Nov 1917
| Birth | 30 Jan 1844 |
| Death | 14 Nov 1917 |
| Cemetery | Tompkins Family burial ground Caroline County , Virginia , USA |
| Added by | Bobbi Magee on 06 Jul 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177083860 |
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Company F, 24th Virginia Cavalry, Gary's Brigade, Fitz. Lee's Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. Residence Spotsylvania County VA; a 17 year-old Student at University of VA. Enlisted for 3 years' service on 7/20/1863 at Hanover Junction, VA., he was mustered into Company F, 42nd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, as a Private. Present on all Rolls through the end of the war. Paroled 4/9/1865 at Appomattox, VA. ----------------------------------------------------------- The 24th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was organized in June, 1864, by consolidating eight companies of the 42nd Virginia Cavalry and two companies of Dearing's Confederate Cavalry. This unit served in General Gary's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and fought in various conflicts around Richmond. Later it was involved in the Appomattox Campaign and surrendered with 19 officers and 144 men. ----------------------------------------------------------- - CLARENCE WHARTON TOMPKINS. - Departed this life at his residence, Ormsby, Caroline County, Va., on November 14, 1917, Clarence Wharton Tompkins, in the seventy-third year of his age. He was a son of the late Frank Tompkins, of Spotsylvania County, a member of the well-known Tompkins family of Virginia. Leaving the University of Virginia before he was eighteen years of age, young Tompkins enlisted as a member of Company C, 24th Virginia Cavalry. The captain of his company was L.W. Allen, a Baptist minister, and the regiment was commanded by Col. W.J. Robins. He served through two years to the end at Appomattox Courthouse and remained ever a stanch Confederate. After his marriage to Miss Sally Fitzhugh Royston, he made his home in Caroline County, devoted to his home and Church duties. For over thirty years he was junior warden of Grace Episcopal Church, always faithful to the duties of the office. His health failed some years before his death, but in all his sufferings only one thing seemed to disturb him, and that was he "could not now do his part." Mr. Tompkins was a man of influence in the best sense of the word; no one could know him and not feel the force of his unworldly life. He is survived by his wife, three sons, and three daughters.
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- William Turner Tompkins 1847–1921
- Robert Daniel Tompkins 1850–1922
- Mary Agnes Tompkins Turnipseed 1852–1928
- Evalina Welford "Eva" Tompkins Welford Abell 1855–1946
- Walter Lee Tompkins 1863–1935
- John Henrie Tompkins 1865–1958
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- William Royston Tompkins Sr 1875–1952 FaG
- Frank Ormesby Tompkins 1876–1944 FaG
- Alice Maude Tompkins Rives 1880–1980 FaG
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