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- Lived at "Walnut Grove," a farm of six hundred acres adjoining "AshBrook" and "Wysorton."84
He was a farmer of sterling integrity, who loved his home and his ownkindred intensely, and in whom this love of his own people led to adeep and passionate feeling of patriotism toward the people of hisstate and his native land. To an elder son, who in the fall of 1863,advised him to invest his Confederate money in cotton, tobacco, coal,real estate, and anything else which had intrinsic and continuousvalue,' he said: 'That is good business but it is not patriotic, andhe declined to take action which would reflect upon the credit of thestate and the Confederacy. After the surrender of both Lee andJohnston, although an old man, he volunteered to go to the Trans-Mississippi Region, to 'fight it out to the last ditch. He never heldpublic office, and never sought it. Trusted by his neighbors, he wasmade administrator of several estates, performing his duties admirablyand to the profit of those in whose interest he had been entrustedwith the administratorship. . . .''
George Washington Wysor was a member of Preston's Reserves, C. S. A.He and his wife are buried in New Dublin Cemetery, Dublin, Va
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1817 - 1883 (66 years)
