Deaths
Information about deaths in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1900-09-27, Richmond Times; Funeral of Elizabeth Van Lew tomorrow from her home – interment in Shockoe Cemetery. List of pall-bearers, including Franklin Stearns
1900-09-28, Richmond Dispatch; the funeral of Elizabeth Van Lew will be held today, interment of Shockoe Hill Cemetery. Will to be read after the funeral – estate valued at $25,000, and likely to be bought by a Boston syndicate
1900-09-28, Richmond Times; Miss Van Lew’s funeral will take place from her home today, interment in Shockoe Cemetery. List of pall-bearers, including Franklin Stearns
1900-09-30, Richmond Times; Elizabeth Van Lew’s will is probabted just after Dr. McGuire’s. Her estate is estimated at $5,000. Transcript of her will.
1900-10-04, New York Tribune; biographical obituary of Elizabeth Van Lew
1900-10-05, Richmond Times; no one has yet qualified as executor of Elizabeth Van Lew’s estate – Mr. Reynolds of Boston is coming her to do so
1900-10-06, New York Tribune; Miss Van Lew was receiving and annuity from an anonymous Boston man whom she helped escape after he tunneled out of Libby Prison
1900-10-06, Richmond Times; Mr. John P. Reynolds of Boston is here to qualify as executor of Elizabeth Van Lew’s estate. The house will be sold soon – speculation that the Monte Maria Convent will buy it, or that it may be turned into a hospital
1900-10-07, Richmond Times; John Philip Reynolds of Boston qualifies as executor of Elizabeth Van Lew’s estate – has her papers shipped to Boston. No decision yet on the Van Lew house – heirs want to get as much money for it as possible
1900-10-08, Richmond Times; J. Philip Reynolds of Boston qualifies as executor of Elizabeth Van Lew’s estate – he will sell her personal property. Details of the manuscript, which he will publish

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