Maj. Joseph Ezra Gillette [7525]
- Born: 26 Jun 1827, Southampton County, Virgina 1
- Marriage: Edith Emiline Worrell [7526]
- Died: 1 Nov 1863, Southampton County, Virgina at age 36 1
- Buried: 1863, Southampton County, Virgina 1
 Cause of his death was DWIA.
General Notes:
Son of Ezra & Elizabeth F. Murdaugh Gillette.
Medical Notes:
Wounded at Brandy Station. Returned home to "Cedar Lawn" and passed away from injuries the following November.
Noted events in his life were:
• He was buried at the Gillette Family Cemetery in Southampton County, Virgina in 1863. 1 Memorial# 27511270
• Newspaper: Tidewater News, 2 Dec 2008, Southampton County, Virgina. 1 COURTLAND \emdash Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with the June desecration of a Confederate grave at the Gillette family cemetery east of Courtland.
Southampton County lawmen have made arrests in last summer's desecration of a Confederate grave site.
Kyle Sinclair Burks, 21, Aaron Richard Howard, 20, and Justin Thomas Rainey, 23, were charged with one count each of violation of sepulcher and attempted grand larceny. Southampton County authorities who made the arrest would not speculate on the men's motive.
The three are accused of digging up the grave of Maj. Joseph Ezra Gillette, the man for whom the Urquhart-Gillette Camp 1471 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named.
Gillette served as a captain and then a major in the 13th Virginia Cavalry. He died at his family's ancestral home, "Cedar Lawn," on Nov. 1, 1863, from wounds he received at Brandy Station. He is buried in a small family cemetery that is maintained by the local SCV camp.
Detective Cpl. Richard Morris, a spokesman for the Southampton Sheriff's Office, said after the incident that vandals had dug 4 feet into the grave and there was "nothing to indicate" that the vandals had reached Gillette's remains.
Joseph married Edith Emiline Worrell [7526] [MRIN: 3104]. (Edith Emiline Worrell [7526] was born on 24 Jan 1833,2 died on 5 Oct 1895 2 and was buried in 1895 in Southampton County, Virgina 2.)
Marriage Notes:
Children:
Joseph Lewis Gillette (1850 - 1911)*
Bettie Romine Gillette Everett (1855 - 1933) +*
William Percy Gillette (1858 - 1932)*
Robert Amos Pope (1864 - 1935)*
Benjamin Ashby Pope (1875 - 1945)*
*see www.findagrave.com
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