George William Beahm 1953-

George Beahm lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife Mary.  He is a long-term fantasy fiction fan.  He has published 27 books for major U.S. publishers, mainly on pop culture figures: Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien (The Essential J.R.R. Tolkien Sourcebook: A Fan's Guide to Middle-earth and Beyond), C.S. Lewis, Anne Rice, Patricia Cornwell, and others. Most often working with veteran Imagineer/Disney artist Tim Kirk.  Beahm's company, Flights of Imagination, works with fantasy artists to publish, promote and sell their work in the mainstream http://www.flightsofimagination.com/ .

Joe Hugh 'Pete' Farmer Jr 1925 - 1999

Joe Hugh 'Pete' Farmer Jr., 74, of 13076 Chatham Road, Java, died Friday, August 13, 1999, at his home.
Mr. Farmer was born in Halifax County on August 12, 1925, the son of Joe Hugh Farmer and Molly McGregor Farmer and was married to Sally R. Farmer. He was a member of County Line Baptist Church, and a veteran of World War II.
Funeral services were held Sunday, August 15 at 3:00 p.m. at County Line Baptist Church with Rev. Joseph Cantrell officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

Mr. Farmer is survived by one daughter, Terrie F. and her husband, Woody Spell, of South Boston; one grandson, Ian Spell
of South Boston; two sisters, Ella Louise Collins, and Ruby Tate, both of Richmond. He was preceded in death by one brother, Raymond T. Farmer.

Sally Raynor Farmer 1935 - 1999

The Gazette-Virginian - November 1999

Mrs. Sally Raynor Farmer, 64, of 13076 Chatham Road, Java died November 28 at The Woodview. She was born in Halifax
County February 15, 1935, the daughter of Otis Raynor and Mary Newby Raynor, and was married to Joe Hugh (Pete)Farmer.
She was a member of the County Line Baptist Church.
Mrs. Farmer is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Terrie F. and Woody Spell of South Boston; one grandson, Ian
Spell of South Boston; her mother, Mary Newby Raynor of Vernon Hill; three sisters, Shirly R. Whitlow of Ingram, Lois R.
Betterton of Altavista, and Betty R. David of Vernon Hill.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Otis 'Boo' Raynor.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. at County Line Baptist Church with the Rev. Joey Cantrell conducting.
Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Powell Funeral Home tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. and other times at the home of her daughter,
1512 Dogwood Lane, South Boston.

Betty Jane Nicholson Bastide 1926 - 2011

BETTY J. NICHOLSON BASTIDE

 Betty Jane Nicholson Bastide, 85, of Cumberland, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at her home.

Born Feb. 10, 1926, in Laurel, Mrs. Bastide was the daughter of the late Stewart Corse Todd Nicholson and Mary Virmadella Willey Nicholson.  She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jose Bastide; four brothers, William O. Nicholson, Dallas Nicholson, Stewart Nicholson, Kenneth Nicholson.

At an early age Betty Nicholson felt the calling to the nursing profession, working in hospitals in Maryland and Virginia.  While raising her young family with her first husband the late William H. Anthony, she became a registered nurse working at the Sligo Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital and eventually becoming a private duty nurse. As a nurse this allowed her to share her gifts of Comfort, Healing and Love to her patients, these same selfless gifts that she bestowed upon her family and friends time and again.

Like her parents Betty was a longtime member of the Laurel Seventh-Day Adventist Church as well as a member of the Bladensburg Seventh-Day Adventist Church, after moving to the Cumberland area she became a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Cumberland. These houses of worship were of great comfort to her and her family.

Betty is survived by her sons, William H. Anthony and his wife, Roberta of North Carolina, Stewart T. Anthony, Greensburg, Pa. and Paul N. Anthony and his wife, Penelope, Richmond, Va.; her daughter, Mary Royce and her husband, Arthur, Gaithersburg; her brother, C. Lawton Nicholson, Elkridge; her grandchildren, Christina Sollers, Joe Sollers, Kimberlee Higgs, Alexandra Anthony, Nicholas Anthony, and, Nathan Anthony; her great-grandchildren, Miranda Lynne Higgs, Hailee Higgs, and Richard Nicholas Higgs; as well as a true friend to many, many more.

Friends will be received at the Adams Family Funeral Home, P.A., 404 Decatur St., Cumberland,  (http://www.adamsfamilyfuneralhome.com/) on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

A funeral service will be conducted at the funeral home on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011 at 11 a.m. with Pastor Scott Shafer officiating.

Interment will be in Davis Memorial Cemetery.

Betty’s family would like to thank Pastor Shafer and the many members of the Cumberland Seventh-Day church for caring for her spiritual as well as her physical needs.

From: The Cumberland Times-News Thu Oct 13, 2011, 10:37 PM EDT

Eva Lee Nicholson Foster Ambrose 1921 - 2011

Eva Lee Nicholson Foster Ambrose, age 90, a resident of Toms Brook, passed away Tuesday, August 23, 2011, at Consulate Health Care of Woodstock.

A graveside service for Mrs. Ambrose will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 26, 2011, at Riverview Cemetery with Pastor Ken Smith officiating.

She was born in Madison, Virginia on April 3, 1921, a daughter of the late Ernest Aaron and Esther Nicholson.

Survivors include her children, Jim Foster, Winchester, Betty Baker, Toms Brook, Milton Foster, Strasburg, and Barbara Ambrose, Kearneysville, West Virginia; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and her siblings, Charles Nicholson, Woodstock, John Nicholson, Inwood, and Rachel Nicholson, Woodstock.

Memorials may be made to Shenandoah County Animal Shelter, 268 Landfill Road, Edinburg, Virginia 22824.

Florine Nicholson 1922-2011

Florine Nicholson, 89, of Culpeper, VA, formerly of Front Royal, died on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at Culpeper Health and Rehab.


A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Prospect Hill Cemetery conducted by Lt. Pradeep Ramaji.


Ms. Nicholson was born August 19, 1922 in Madison County, daughter of the late Odie and Elizabeth Corbin Nicholson.


Surviving are one daughter Marie Sizemore and husband Skip of Culpeper; one son Earl Nicholson of Madison Heights, VA; one sister Dorothy Lilly of Front Royal; and one brother Woodrow Nicholson of Culpeper. She was preceded in death by a son Leon Nicholson; and eight brothers and sisters.


The family will receive friends on Monday, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Maddox Funeral Home in Front Royal.


Published in Northern Virginia Daily on August 29, 2011

Susan Collier 10/12/38 - 5/7/11

A born subversive, Susan Collier challenged the rules of mechanical patterning

"For 50 years the work of Susan Collier, who has died of cancer aged 72, patterned houses and garments, haute couture and high streets. The most famous patterns are in every textbook as exemplars of the art, and many readers would recognise their mother's curtains, their aunt's scarf and their wedding-present sheets, but be unaware of the partnership of Collier and her sister Sarah Campbell, who created them. Cloth was Collier's medium, and pattern was the way she told a story, conversed, manifested her philosophy, and entered people's visual memories. When her retrospective exhibition opens at the National theatre later this month, there will be as much of her work on the visitors as on the walls.

She attributed her gifts, including her sensitivity to colour, to her parents: her mother, the actor Patience Collier, who painted Susan's chair the peculiar red and yellow she requested, and gave her paper and brush; and her father, the pharmacologist Harry Collier, who took her on walks to stare hard at nature, spending hours peering at butterfly wings.
Susan was born in Manchester. Wherever they lived, Collier's parents planted flowers, and she was excited by their intense shades. Her formative encounter, aged around five, was with "my lifelong friend Matisse", through a book of reproductions with his name printed in a "fantastic, special blue ink" on its cover. She wanted to be a painter, but "knew I wasn't Matisse". What she could be, she realised when she shopped for fabrics in the department store Derry & Toms, and found them all morose, was a painter of textile designs.
Collier was self-taught, dogsbodying for the freelance designer Pat Albeck and selling her own initial sketches to the scarf brands Richard Allan and Jacq- mar. In 1961, she approached Liberty with a portfolio; if they bought two images, this would be her career. They bought six, and commissioned more.


Matisse for the masses ... Susan Collier's Côte d'Azur print. Photograph: Collier Campbell

As a born subversive, she challenged the rules of mechanical patterning, which from block to roller-cylinder print overorganised design, in what she described as a "plonkity-plonk" manner. Her motto was "cheat the repeat". "I was politically motivated to produce beautiful cloth for the mass market," she said. She enjoyed laundering and ironing too, all part of a textile's life-cycle. She wanted her prints to be painterly, the brushmarks left in – visibly hand-created though mass-produced, not an easy effect to achieve through machines. When you see her art work, gouache creamy as custard, thin brush squiggles all over, you hear the indrawn breath of a printer about to say: "Are you sure you want it done like that?"

Liberty retained her from 1968, her speciality being lively blossoms on Tana cotton lawn. She had married a noted pharmacologist, Andrew Herxheimer, in 1961, and they had small children, so she trained up her younger sister Sarah as an assistant. She helped in school holidays, went to art college, and joined her at Liberty in 1968. As the firm approached its centenary in 1975, its prints on natural fibres were perfect for a time when printed cloth was the fashion, summers of flowers and winters of paisleys. Liberty prints had been produced in limited runs, but when Collier took over as company design consultant in 1971, she determined to supply the wholesale quantities wanted for couturiers' new ready-to-wear collections, and do the same for furnishings.

The sisters also formed the independent Collier Campbell (C-C) studio, their eventual escape in 1977 from life within Liberty: Collier was the ebullient partner, seldom seen in less than seven yards of assorted patterns. They were a co-op and did not specify who did what, but a tranquil rendering of a difficult line was probably Campbell's, while a rose with heart and guts would be Collier's. "Pleasure sliding across the eye" was her intent, and you got an eyeful of C-C everywhere for almost two decades. Yves Saint Laurent had bespoken a range for his launch of off-the-peg collections ("we sang and danced painting the sketches"); Jean Muir and John Bates settled for special colourways; London independents (including Jaeger) mixed and did not match patterns; Bill Gibb used a print the wrong way up.
On a sunny day you could spot the bright graphics of the clothes C-C sold by post, through magazine adverts. When fashion tired of distinctive prints, there were furnishing commissions from Habitat, Marks & Spencer's first home collection (1985), and the US bedding giant Martex. The print Côte d'Azur (a window on the Mediterranean, Matisse for the masses) from a 1983 collection that won a Design Council award, was so ubiquitous worldwide that I used to send Collier postcards from far away recording sightings – as curtains above the Arctic circle, a cushion in Kyoto.
The cards went to her Queen Anne house in Clapham Old Town, which she had bought derelict in 1969 – grass was growing in its basement kitchen – and restored, planting a secret garden at the back. She stayed there until the late 90s, when the formerly dozy local pubs attracted young hordes. The last straw was a drunk girl passing out on her front path, wearing less than a metre of mangy cloth. She sold up and made ambitious gardens for two subsequent south London homes.
The world had changed. C-C were textile converters as well as designers, managing the supply of raw greige fabrics and printing processes, a business that toughened brutally with globalisation. Collier never wanted to be a big-name brand, which she felt meant fewer fresh ideas plastered over ever more objects; C-C did open a short-lived boutique in Mayfair, but it was just as the luxury trade was investing in anything but the small, chic shop. Although the business harshened further, there has seldom been a year without fresh C-C designs, and Collier was working fiercely almost until her death on a range to coincide with the half-century exhibition.
Her marriage to Herxheimer, and a later marriage to the broadcaster Frank Delany, ended in divorce. Sarah, her brother, Joe, daughters, Sophie and Charlotte, and grandchildren survive her."

Written by Veronica Horwell

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/15/susan-collier-obituary

Graham Collier 2/21/1937 - 9/9/2011

"Graham Collier and the Celebration Band, at the London Jazz Festival, 2004 Photograph: Allan Titmuss

The jazz composer Graham Collier liked quoting an old friend's description of watching him handle a big band – like someone "directing 14 Jackson Pollocks". Collier, who has died aged 74, was not a monumental composer by the standards of colossi such as Duke Ellington. But if he was a step behind, he was a quietly combative, thoughtful, subtle and often eloquent practitioner, able to write complex, yet richly harmonised and lyrical scores in shifting time-signatures, which nonetheless liberated rather than cramped improvising soloists.

He was also a gifted educator, a polemicist, a critic of the pursuit of ephemeral fashions and the instigator of initiatives that accelerated the independence of jazz in his homeland. The British scene was an also-ran on the world stage when Collier arrived, but it became a big-hitting international contender during his lifetime – and the Tynesider laid down some pioneering markers as part of that change.
Collier was the first Briton to graduate from the jazz course at Berklee College of Music, Boston. In 1968 he became the first composer to receive an Arts Council bursary for a jazz piece, his Workpoints project, at a time when many in the arts establishment thought jazz was a commercial music undeserving of public subsidy. Many British jazz artists have since been funded because of Collier's mix of perseverance, belief, political nous and bolshieness.
He was an influential member of the London-based jazz generation of the late 1960s, fired by a new confidence that contemporary composition could finally be independent of its American models. Collier also initiated a jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was the conservatoire's first jazz director and subsequently professor, from 1986 until his retirement in 1999.
He is perhaps best known, however, for running a workshop for unknown young musicians, including the pianist Django Bates and saxophonist Iain Ballamy, in London in 1984, from which sprang Loose Tubes, one of the most creative and influential jazz orchestras founded in Britain.

Collier was born in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear. He played the trumpet and then double bass with an army band from 1954, serving for three years in Hong Kong. In 1961 he won a scholarship funded by the American jazz magazine DownBeat, attending Berklee under the inspirational composition teacher Herb Pomeroy. On graduation in 1963, he toured the US as a bassist with Jimmy Dorsey's swing band before returning to Britain to found the first version of an ensemble devoted to his own compositions, Graham Collier Music.

The group was to change regularly, in size and personnel, but it included some of the finest soloists on the London scene of the mid-60s, including John Dankworth's sideman Kenny Wheeler, the young Barbadian trumpeter Harry Beckett (who was to become a lifelong Collier associate), and Mike Westbrook's sax virtuoso discovery John Surman. Collier's later groups maintained the quality of that first line-up over the years, his bands including the composer/pianist Karl Jenkins, the trombonist and bandleader Mike Gibbs, the saxophonists Art Themen, Chris Biscoe and James Allsopp, and many more.

Collier's early groups made innovative recordings that have become cult classics, including the live sets from 1968 and 1975 issued on the US Cuneiform label under the title Workpoints. These pieces revealed his devotion to Ellington, Mingus and the Miles Davis/Gil Evans bands, but recast in a distinctively European harmonic language, and explored Britain's newly emerging crossovers of jazz and rock. The albums Down Another Road (1969) and Songs for My Father (1970) saw these ingredients mixed increasingly effectively.
Collier's career took a further leap when he was invited to form an international big band for the 1983 Bracknell Jazz Festival, and wrote the evocative and subtly shaded composition Hoarded Dreams. The big-band experience (and a conviction that the UK's jazz renaissance was producing a rising but underused generation of talented newcomers) led Collier to form a workshop orchestra in 1984. Bates and Ballamy were among the first recruits. Though the subsequent emergence of Loose Tubes as a transforming force in European jazz composition was to happen as much in spite of Collier's guidance as because of it, the mentor of these unruly charges had undoubtedly talent-spotted a group with the originality to change, and keep changing, the way jazz sounded.
In the same period, Collier also conceived a new six-year jazz degree course at the Sibelius Institute in Helsinki, along with his initiatives at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1987 he was appointed OBE and two years later participated in the founding of the International Association of Schools of Jazz, serving on its board for the next nine years. In 1994 Collier produced the report Jazz Education in America for a Winston Churchill fellowship, and the findings led to the launch of the educational journal Jazz Changes, with Collier as co-editor.
His international commissions also burgeoned during these years, and he was to compose for the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra and Germany's NDR Big Band, and for ensembles from saxophone quartets to symphony orchestras. In the mid-1990s, following a BBC commission for the London Jazz Festival, he developed the ad hoc big band the Jazz Ensemble, with a core lineup augmented by guests. It produced two albums, Charles River Fragments (1995) and The Third Colour (1999). Collier's deepening compositional resources also brought him commissions for the theatre, documentary and fiction films, and radio drama – including the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Josef Škvorecký's novella The Bass Saxophone (1989, the winner of a Sony award).
Collier wrote six books including Interaction, Opening Up the Jazz Ensemble (1995) and The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off the Paper (2009). On leaving the Royal Academy of Music in 1999, he went to live in Ronda in southern Spain, and in 2008 moved with his partner, John Gill, to an island in the Aegean Sea.
When I interviewed him for the Guardian in 1997, Collier commented on that year's composition The Third Colour, which reflected his long fascination with painting and its conceptual implications for music-making. "In abstract painting," he said, "the notion of the 'the third colour' is supposed to represent the connection between the lines. I've been working all my life between what's improvised and what's written, so maybe it's appropriate. I think the nature of improvisation is often misunderstood, inside and outside jazz. To me there are three kinds of improvising. Solo, which is obvious; textural, which is what a rhythm section often does … and structural improvising, which the bandleader or conductor might organise, deciding during the performance to have the band play the sections of the piece in a different order, or play five choruses instead of four, or whatever. What all this amounts to is that as the leader of this kind of band you can seize the moment." It's a sentiment that energised this major enabler of British jazz throughout his life.
Collier is survived by his partner."

• James Graham Collier, composer, born 21 February 1937; died 9 September 2011
written by John Fordham
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/14/graham-collier-obituary

Margaret Cochran Corbin 11/12/1751 – 1/16/1800

Portrait of Margaret Corbin

 Margaret Cochran was born in West Pennsylvania on November 12, 1751 in what is now Franklin County. Her parents were Robert Cochran, a Scots-Irish immigrant, and his wife, Sarah. In 1756, when Margaret was five years old, her parents were attacked by Native Americans. Her father was killed, and her mother was kidnapped, never to be seen again — Margaret and her brother, John, escaped the raid because they were not at home. Margaret lived with her uncle for the rest of her childhood.
In 1772, at the age of 21, Margaret married a Virginia farmer named John Corbin.
Margaret and John Corbin, along with some 600 American soldiers, were defended Fort Washington in northern Manhattan from 4,000 attacking Hessian troops under British command. John and Margaret crewed one of two cannons the defenders possessed. When her husband fell, Margaret took his place at his cannon and continued firing until she, herself, was seriously wounded. She later became the first woman in U.S. history to receive a pension from Congress for military service.  She was the first female soldier buried at West Point cemetery.

James Clyde "J.C." Corbin, Sr

. James Clyde " J.C. "Corbin, Sr., 89, of Orange, VA, passed away in Amerisist of Orange, Monday, June 7, 2010. Mr. Corbin was born in Rappahannock County, VA, to Clyde Andrew Corbin and Maggie Jane Nicholson Corbin, October 8, 1920; worked as coal stripper in West Virginia and Kentucky with his own company, J.C. Corbin Coal and Excavating Company, where he was proud to reclaim the mined grounds, leaving them better than before the mining operation.

Surviving Mr. Corbin are his children, James C. Corbin, Jr. and his wife Matilda of Orange, VA, Eugene F. Corbin and his wife Joan of Culpeper, VA and Larry L. Corbin of Culpeper, VA; his 6 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and 4 great, great grandchildren; his siblings, Irving Corbin of Spotsylvania, VA, Lucy King of Hyattsville, MD, Ms. Mary Corbin of Ladysmith, VA and Roberta Menter of AK; his very special sister-in-law, Thelma Corbin of Culpeper, VA and a number of nieces and nephews. Preceding him in death are his parents; his siblings, Charles, Raymond, Hugh, Robert, Franklin, William and Bernard Corbin, and Virginia Embrey.

The family would like to thank Gail and Arold Smith for the loving care they have given Mr. Corbin during his residence in Amerisist.

Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Clore-English Funeral Home, Friday, June 11, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. with Mason Hutcheson conducting the service. Interment will follow in Hillcrest Memory Gardens, Jeffersonton, VA. Serving as pallbearers are, Dennis Corbin, Wayne Corbin, Terry Corbin, Kevin Corbin Vaughn Corbin, Stratford Settle and Arold Smith.

The family will receive friends Thursday, June 10, 2010 at the Clore-English Funeral Home from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Memorial contributions in his honor should be given to the Hospice of the Rapidan, P.O. Box 1715, Culpeper, VA 22701.

Condolences may be given at clore-english.com. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Clore-English Funeral Home, 11190 James Monroe Highway, Culpeper, VA 22701.

1814 Nicholson land in Madison County, VA

March 30, 1814 surveyed for Michael, Benjamin, Shadrack and Aaron Nicholson, one hundred eighty four acres in Madison County by virtue of an entry made by them by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 4916 for 150 acres of land dated 29th day of June 1812 issued to James Clark and part there of assigned by him to the said Michael, Benjamin, Shadrack and Aaron Nicholson, also by virtue of a Land Office Exchange Treasury Warrant No. 2168 for 148 acres of land dated the 5th day of December 1812 issued to James Clark  of Thomas Bohannon who have assigned the balance of said Warrant to Michael, Benjamin, Shadrack and Aaron Nicholson. Beginning at Chestnut oak on the South West side of Hughes River corner to William Berry's line.

Silas ABRAHAM Beahm Jr 1921-2003

Silas Beahm
Born: 9/14/1921
Died: 11/4/2003
Services: 11 a.m., Sat. November 8, 2003, at Found and Sons Chapel
Visitation: 6 to 7 p.m., Fri. November 7, 2003, at Found and Sons Chapel
Silas Abram Beahm, Jr., 82, of Washington died Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Front Royal. He was born September 14, 1921 in Washington, VA to the late Silas Abram Beahm, Sr. and Janie Smedley Beahm. Mr. Beahm was a member of Thortons Gap Regular Baptist Church. Survivors include his three children, Donald Beahm and his wife, Sandy of Flint Hill, and Michael Beahm and John Beahm both of Washington, VA, two grandchildren, Donald R. Beahm, Jr. and his wife, Sally and Jeffrey S. Slusser and two great grandchildren, Andrew and Hunter. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Lena Baldwin Beahm, his second wife, Kathleen Atkins Beahm, his daughter, Linda Slusser and two brothers, Isaac H. Beahm and George W. Beahm. He is also survived by a number of additional family members and loved ones. The family will receive friends Friday, November 7, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Found and Sons Funeral Chapel, 850 Sperryville Pike, Culpeper. A funeral service will be held Saturday, November 8, at 11 a.m. at Found and Sons Chapel with Rev. John K. Burke and Pastor Kirby Shenk officiating. Interment will follow in Washington Masonic Cemetery. Found and Sons Funeral Chapel of Culpeper is handling the arrangements.

John W. Corbin

 John W. Corbin  is pictured with part of the regiment under the command of the "Grey Ghost".

James K. Polk Nicholson

James K. Polk Nicholson

He was a veteran of the Confederacy and served in the 38th Virginia Infantry - Company H - He applied for and was granted a Pension as a Disabled Confederate Soldier in 1910.

Edward N. Jackson 1939-2008

Edward N. Jackson passed away on Thursday, July 3, 2008. He was born on April 20, 1939 to Ohmer Oscar and Evelyn Beahm Jackson.
Edward was a resident of Ruckersville, VA.

Elmer Collier 1917-2011

Elmer Collier, 94, of Baltimore, Maryland, formerly of Greene County, Virginia, died on Friday, July 1, 2011.

He was a World War II verteran serving in the United States Army.

He is survived by his wife, June; eight children, eight grandchildren, numerous nieces, and nephews, all of Baltimore, Maryland; and one brother, Norman, of Charlottesville, Virginia.

He was a loving father and grandfather and will surely be missed by all that knew him.

Hysel Nicholson, Sr. 1934-2011

 Hysel Nicholson, Sr., age 77, of Stanardsville died Sunday, July 31, 2011 at Evergreen Nursing Home. He was born January 2, 1934 in Madison County to the late Albert and Mamie Corbin Nicholson.

Mr. Nicholson loved to play guitar and was an excellent story teller at heart. He cherished his time spent with his family and had many loving friends at Evergreen Manor House.

He is survived by his wife, Judith Ann Nicholson; nine children, Robin Morris and her husband, Ray, Henry Cox and his wife, Birgit, Hysel Nicholson, Jr. and his wife, Elaine, Joe Nicholson, Irene Cooper and her husband, Kenneth, Adam Nicholson, Mary Hapke and her husband, Tommy, Elizabeth Yarborough and her husband, Emmanuel and Barbara Starr and her husband, Chad; one sister, Virginia "Peggy" Nicholson, his wife's son, Bobby Clickner, and numerous grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Adam Nicholson and one sister, Beulah Clore.

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 11 a.m. at New Life Baptist Church, 12302 Alum Springs Rd., Culpeper, Va. with Pastor Rick Simpson officiating. A one hour visitation will be held prior to the service.

Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

Geneva Rose Buracker Cave 1939 - 2007

Geneva Rose Buracker Cave, 67, of Alexandria, died on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, at Inova. She was born on September 2, 1939, in Stanley and was a daughter of the late Ozzie Lee and Blanche Virginia Aleshire Buracker. Mrs. Cave was a home maker and a member of the Mount Clavary Comm.Church in Alexandria, Va. On Aug. 31, 1958, she married Arthur Floyd Cave, who survives.Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Arthur F. Cave Jr. of Woodbridge; a daughter,Faye Elizabeth Cave Yager of Stanley; two sisters, Carolyn A. Buracker of Luray, and EllenYoung of Rileyville; four brothers, Dwight T. Haskell, William Thomas and Harry G. Burackerall of Stanley; and five grandchildren. She was proceded in death by a brother, Freeman Buracker.

Grover Elwood Buracker 1946 - 2011

Grover Elwood Buracker, 65, of White Post, died Thursday, March 3, 2011 at his home.

He was born January 26, 1946 in Augusta, VA; the son of Grover Wilson Buracker and Virgie Calhoun Buracker. He retired from the Frederick County Landfill. He was a member of Stephens City Mennonite Church.

He married Judy K. Buracker on August 15, 1965 in Hagerstown, MD.

Along with his wife, he is survived by his sons, Grover Eric Buracker of White Post, James Derek Buracker of White Post and Jack William Miller of Bluffton, SC; his brothers, Lynwood Buracker and Jerry Buracker; his sisters, Audrey See, Groveen Neff, Nancy Vaughn, Doris Clark and Brenda Pack.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home Chapel in Stephens City with Rev. Al Huyard and Rev. Glen Horst officiating. Interment will be in Fairview Church Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Chris See, Alan See, Jeff Neff, Todd Neff, Joey Neff and Jay Neff. An honorary pallbearer will be Thomas Buracker.

The family will receive friends on Friday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, 811 W. Evergreen Ave., Suite 303, Chicago, IL 60642.

Online condolences may be left at www.jonesfuneralhomes.com

Evelyn Marie Corbin Minnick 1927-2011

Mrs. Evelyn Marie Corbin Minnick, 83, a resident of McGaheysville, passed away Saturday evening, March 19, 2011 at her home.

A daughter of the late Abraham and Edith Bowman Corbin, she was born on June 26, 1927 in Broadway, Virginia.

She attended Rockingham County schools and had been employed at Metro Pants in Harrisonburg, for 22 years before retiring.

On May 18, 1943 she married Warren H. Minnick, Sr., who survives. Also surviving are four sons, David Minnick, of Harrisonburg; Warren Minnick, Jr., of McGaheysville; Gary Minnick, of Timberville; Franklin Minnick, of Broadway; nine grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and seven sisters, Charlotte Baker, Cora Anderson, Shirley Knupp, Ruby Fultz, all of
Harrisonburg; Phyllis Hamaday, of Troper, PA; Anna Sherman and Betty Arehart, both of Timberville.

All services will be private.


Memorial contributions may be made to the RMH Hospice, c/o RMH Foundation, 2010 Health Campus Drive, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, in her memory.

Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg is handling arrangements and online condolences may be sent to the family at www.lindseyharrisonburg.com.

Jessie Pearl Corbin 1922-2011

Jessie Pearl Corbin, age 88, of Madison died Sunday, March 6, 2011 at Autumn Care of Madison. She was born July 1, 1922 in Madison to the late John and Fannie Dodson Nicholson.

Mrs. Corbin was a member of Maranatha Baptist Church.

She is survived by her children, Anna Deavers and her husband, Edward of Front Royal, Edward Corbin of Culpeper, Linwood Corbin and his wife, Renee of Elkwood, Johnny Corbin and his wife, Connie of Culpeper and Danny Corbin and his wife, Tracy of Madison, one sister, Essie Mae Nicholson, and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel Lee Corbin, two sons, Joseph Nicholson and Ronnie Corbin, two sisters, one brother and one half brother.

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Found and Sons Funeral Chapel, 850 Sperryville Pike, Culpeper, Va. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 11 a.m. at Found and Sons Funeral Chapel with Rev. John Burke officiating. Interment will follow in Culpeper National Cemetery.

The family will serve as pallbearers. An online guestbook and tribute wall is available at www.foundandsons.com

Found and Sons Funeral Chapel of Culpeper is handling the arrangements

Carroll D. Buracker 1942 - 2009

Carroll D. Buracker, 66, former Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department and CEO of a nationally known public safety consulting firm, died April 22 at the Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, Virginia of complications from a stroke. He lived in Harrisonburg, Virginia for the past 19 years but maintained close personal and business ties to Fairfax County.

Mr. Buracker's company, Carroll Buracker and Associates, Inc. (CBI), based in Harrisonburg, conducted more than 260 in-depth efficiency and management studies of police, sheriffs and fire departments; emergency medical services; 9-1-1 centers; and security services in over 120 major cities and counties around the world. Mr. Buracker served as project manager for the comprehensive assessment of Chicago's new police/fire/EMS communications system; for the emergency dispatch study in Los Angeles; for development of integrated police and security plans for the downtown districts of the cities of Seattle and Cleveland and many more. CBI's recommendations vastly improved public safety operations, drove down crime, and saved taxpayers' money.

Mr. Buracker founded a second, non-profit company, the Center for Public Safety (CPS) which was chosen by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to conduct the first and only nationwide study of policing in public housing in the United States. He became a national leader in setting standards of quality and best practices for community policing in cities and urban counties. Under his leadership, CPS and CBI produced the first nationwide community policing training video for the federal government which was released to 800 municipalities.

Mr. Buracker honed his penchant for excellence and quality while serving 20 years with the Fairfax County Police Department. He joined on New Years Day, 1966 and rose through every rank to become the Chief of Police in 1981, a position he held until his retirement in 1985. Working full time in the police department, Mr. Buracker earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from American University in six-and-a-half years, becoming the first police chief in Virginia to hold a master's degree. Later, he also graduated from the FBI National Academy.

Chief Buracker modernized law enforcement in Fairfax County with the addition of the police helicopter program; the installation of computers in police cruisers; the acquisition of armored vehicles for the SWAT team; the creation of an automated fingerprint identification system; authorization to create the department's own training facility; and standardization of blue lights on police vehicles throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

He served as chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's Police Chiefs' Committee and co-chaired the development of the Area Emergency Disaster Plan. That plan, with updates, has been implemented three times, including the day of the attack on the Pentagon.

As police chief, he was awarded Fairfax County government's two highest honors, the Onthank Leadership and the Unusual Ability Awards. He was also the recipient of more than 50 awards, including the Gold Salute Award bestowed upon him by the United Black Fund of Washington, D.C. for his work in recruiting and promoting blacks and women in law enforcement.

Born in Luray, Virginia on July 3, 1942, Carroll David Buracker was raised by foster parents. He worked on farms while attending school yet managed to excel in sports at Luray High School, becoming the first to letter in four sports. His love of athletics and physical fitness led to a lifelong passion for running. Renowned for covering over 60 miles a week, Mr. Buracker was a marathon runner who completed 12 major marathons, including Boston, the Marine Corps and New York, in less than three hours.

He served in the U.S. Army in Germany and returned to complete a brief stint as a Harrisonburg police officer before moving to Fairfax County. A chance encounter between the officer and a receptionist at the National Bank and Trust Company in McLean culminated in marriage to Patricia Blair Buracker. In addition to his wife of 38 years, survivors include the couple's two sons, David and Brian Buracker.

A visitation will be held at Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home, 9902 Braddock Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22032 on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. where services will begin at 2:00 p.m. Interment to follow at Fairfax Memorial Park.

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Buddy Franklin Buracker 1952-2011

Buddy Franklin Buracker, 59, of Harpers Ferry, WV, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, after a short illness.

Born on January 6, 1952, in Luray, Virginia, he was the son of the late Ernest and MaeBelle Rossen Buracker.

Buddy was a member of the Worship Center in Leola, Pennsylvania.

He was a devoted husband and loving father who always put family first. He will be surely missed, but will always live in the hearts of those who were privileged to know him.

Buddy is survived by his loving wife of thirty-four years, Cheryl Buracker; one son, Christopher Buracker; and one daughter, Sarah Buracker, all of Harpers Ferry; one brother, Frank Buracker of Golden Beach, MD; two nephews, Jamie Buracker and Brian Greene; and four nieces, Jessica Hagy, Mackenzie Walton, Julie and Kim Greene.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at the Eackles-Spencer & Norton Funeral Home, US 340 at Halltown Road, Charles Town/Harpers Ferry, WV, with Pastor Donald Neff officiating. Interment will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery at Luray, Virginia.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

Memorial contributions in memory of Buddy may be made to Compassion International, Colorado Springs, CO 80997.

Condolences to the family may be expressed at his obituary at www.eackles-spencerfuneralhome.com/ .

JAMES OSCAR COLLIER 1896-1965

James Oscar Collier, 69,of RFD 2, died today in a Charlottesville hospital. He was a retired farmer. Born in Greene County, he was the son of the late May and Louisa Conley Collier. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lou Horner Collier; three brothers, Clinton Collier of Eheart, Dewey Collier of Alexandria and William S. Collier of Grottoes; and four sisters, Mrs. Russell Raynor of Ehart, Mrs. William Collier and Mrs. H.B. Frazier, of Charlottesville and Mrs. Chesley Thomas of Louisa. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Hill and Irving Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Pran Church Cemetery in Albemarle County.

From The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Sat, Aug. 21, 1965

John Pollard Gaines 9/22/1795 – 12/9/1857

John Pollard Gaines
3rd Territorial Governor of Oregon
In office 1850–1853

John Pollard Gaines was a U.S. military and political figure. He was a Whig member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Kentucky from 1847 to 1849, and he served as Governor of the Oregon Territory from 1850 to 1853, stepping down after a turbulent term in office.

Gaines was born September 22, 1795 in Augusta County, VA, (then VIRGINIA now WEST VIRGINIA) to Abner Gaines and Elizabeth Matthews. His grandfathers and great-grandfather served during the American Revolutionary War. He received an education and studied law, and volunteered in the War of 1812. In 1819, Gaines married Elizabeth Kincaid from Kentucky.   He was a lawyer practicing in Boone County, Kentucky, and served as a state legislator in Kentucky during the 1820s and 1830s.

Gaines volunteered and was appointed the rank of "Major" during the Mexican-American War in 1846. During the war in 1847 he was General Winfield Scott’s aide-de-camp.  He and some 80 soldiers were captured at Incarnation in January 1847. They were held captive in Mexico City until August. While a prisoner, he was elected to the 30th United States Congress from Kentucky's 10th Congressional District. He served one term and lost reelection.

At the end of his term as congressman he returned to Boone County, and in October 1849 he accepted the position of Governor of the Territory of Oregon. He was a supporter of President Zachary Taylor, who was elected in 1848. The Taylor administration rewarded Gaines by appointing him to be the Oregon territorial governor. However, Gaines was the President’s second choice, with future President Abraham Lincoln turning down the offer.   He traveled with Territorial Secretary Edward D. Hamilton aboard the sloop Falmouth to Oregon.

From the start, Gaines's tenure in office proved to be difficult. He arrived in the territory by ship, losing two of his daughters to yellow fever along the way in Santa Catarina Island, Brazil. Shortly after arriving in the territory, his wife died in 1851 after falling off a horse. His political life would prove to be just as turbulent.
During his tenure in June 1850 he became a member of an Indian Commission set up by the United States government to negotiate treaties with the Native American tribes west of the Cascade Mountains in the territory.    This commission was created because of the Donation Land Act in 1850 allowed citizens to settle up to 640 acres (2.6 km²) and the government wanted the lands west of the Cascades for settlement and to move the tribes to Eastern Oregon.   However, Gaines and his fellow commissioners Alonzo A. Skinner and Beverly S. Allen were only able to get treaties signed that allowed the tribes to remain on the west side and in the foothills of the Willamette Valley.       The commission ratified 19 treaties and was then disbanded in February 1851.

His tenure was marked with fierce partisanship, facing opposition from the press and the Democrat-controlled territorial legislature. Gaines unsuccessfully tried to keep the territorial capital at Oregon City, Oregon. The governor also pushed for other Whig policies that were often at odds with popular sentiment. These unpopular positions, coupled with fierce partisanship, cemented a perception that Gaines was an Easterner, out of touch with Pacific Coast needs and attitudes.
In 1853, Gaines left office, succeeded by the Democrat Joseph Lane, who assumed the reins of government for three days. Undeterred by the past hostilities of the Oregon electorate, he chose to stay in Oregon, remarrying and settling in a farm just outside Salem, Oregon. His second marriage was to Margaret B. Wands in 1853.    In 1854 he and two of his sons (Archibald & Abner) drove over 200 head of cattle from Kentucky and Arkansas across the plains to Oregon. 35 of these were pure bred Durham.

Gaines ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1855, but lost to Lane.  Governor Gaines' appointment to the governorship cost him the death of several of his family: two daughters (Harriet & Florella) in 1850 in Brazil, his wife (Elizabeth) in 1851 in a fall from a horse, at which time his remaining children were sent back to relatives in the east. His daughter Matilda died in Tennessee in the spring of 1857. He died December 9, 1857 and is interred in the Old Pioneer Cemetery at Salem, Oregon.

Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849)

Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849) - Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on 20 Mar 1777.  Died at New Orleans, Louisiana, 6 Jun 1849.

Edmund P. Gaines

A United States Army Officer who served with distinction during the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars and the Black Hawk War. Awarded the Thanks of Congress, an Act of Congress Gold Medal (outranking a Congressional Medal of Honor), and a brevet promotion to Major General for his actions during the War of 1812. Served in the U.S. Army until his death in New Orleans, 6 Jun 1849. He was interred in the Church Street Graveyard in Mobile, Alabama.
Fort Gaines in Mobile, Alabama is named after him and Fort Ripley in Minnesota was named after him for a time.

David M. Corbin

"David M.Corbin has been referred to as "Robin Williams with an MBA" because of his very practical, high content speeches coupled with entertaining and sometimes side splitting stories and applications. A former psychotherapist with a background in healthcare, he has served as management and leadership consultant to businesses and organizations of all sizes - from Fortune 20 companies to businesses with less than 1 million - and enjoys the challenges of all. He has worked directly with the Presidents of companies such as AT&T, Hallmark, Sprint as well as the Hon.Secretary of Veterans Administration and others.
David was the host and star of the movie Pass It On with his colleagues Mark Victor Hansen, Brian Tracy, John Assaraf, Denis Waitley, Evander Holyfield, Les Brown and 50others. www.passitontoday.com. David is featured in the Napoleon Hill Foundation's movie, Three Feet From Gold http://www.threefeetaway.com/and the book of the same name (Sterling, 2009) which is currently the #3 best selling book in America . David's latest book, Illuminate- Harnessing The Positive Power of Negative Thinking (John Wiley & Sons Publishing) has reached the #2 book in the Amazon category of business life http://www.illuminatethenegative.com/ He has been a featured speaker for INC Magazine's national and regional business conferences since 1995 and was rated in their top 5% of speakers. His full service consulting and development firm specializes in maximizing the productivity and profitability of business, industry and government. David was awarded the International Enterprise of the Year for Innovation by Bank of America for the touch screen patient interview system that he invented and took to market. Presented by Former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, Sec. James Baker, Tom Peters, Maya Angelou, Hon. Newt Gingrich and others, the Enterprise Award is awarded once per year to only one recipient."

Rachel Elizabeth Haymes 5/20/31-8/15/11

Rachel Elizabeth Haymes passed away on Monday, August 15, 2011, at the Martha Jefferson Hospital.

She was born on May 20, 1931, in Madison, VA and was the daughter of the late Ohmer Oscar and Evelyn Beahm Jackson.

She is also preceded in death by a great-granchild, Nevaeh.

She leaves behind six children, Jeanette and Mike Meade of Quinque, VA, Ted and Pam Haskins of Vacaville, CA, Dinah Williamson of Wolftown, VA, Darlene and Calvin Meade of Ruckersville, VA,  Cheryl and Pic Evans of Stanardsville, VA, and Susan Jones of Waynesboro, VA; three sisters, Virginia and Ron Lewis of Romney of  WV, Mary Stanley of Wolftown, VA, and Barbara Ann and Delmar Dodson of Brightwood, VA; 16 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 20, 2011, at Cedar Grove Church of the Brethren, 616 Cedar Grove Road, Ruckersville, VA 22968, conducted by the Reverend David Knighton.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the University of Virginia Medical Center Development, Diabetes Care and Research, C/O Cindy Reynolds, P.O. Box 800773, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0773.

Preddy Funeral Home, Madison, is in charge of arrangements.

Published in the Daily Progress on August 18, 2011

Jacob M. Beahm 1886 - 1931

Jacob M. BEAHM, 45, died Thursday at the Madison Park Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. 
He was born in Virginia.  He is survived by his wife, Gertrude A.
BEAHM a daughter, Mrs. Emily CANNON; four sisters, Mrs. Mamie BROWN, Mrs.
Edward STOMBECK, Mrs. George ATKINS, Mrs. Katherine CLENDENNON, and three
brothers, John, William and Robert BEAHM.  The deceased conducted a
restaurant and tea room at 187 Schermerhorn Street for the past fifteen
years.  Reposing at the funeral parlors at 187 South Oxford street, where
the Rev. Dr. BROUGHER, of the Baptist Temple will conduct services on
Monday, 1 P.M.  Interment will follow at the Beechwood Cemetery, New
Rochelle, N.Y., under the direction of Weigand Bros.


Obituary published May 1931 in the Brooklyn Standard Union

"God And A Garden" by May Beahm

When God created man in His own image fair,

He made for him a garden with naught but beauty there.

He walked among the flowers, made friends of every beast,

Communion with the Father made every meal a feast.

At even, when the day grew dim,

The Lord God came and walked with him.

Now I have made a garden wilt Thou, Lord, make it fair;

May it be for me an Eden with naught but beauty there.

As I walk there when the sun sinks low,

Lord, make me in Thy image grow;

As there at eve I wait for Thee,

Wilt Thou, Lord, come and walk with me!

Published in NEW AMERICAN POETRY VOL I copyright  1945

David Beahm

David Beahm is one of New York's top event designers.  He has a broad-based background in the arts; thus, he views event design as a combination of theater and art. Beahm attended San Diego State University-California State University, James Madison University (VA), and Elon University (NC). He has worked as Company Manager (National Company) at New York City Opera, Education Administration and Union Liason at San Diego Opera and Director of Music, Luray High School at Page Country Public Schools, VA.   He founded David Beahm Design in 1989. He has been featured on Martha Stewart and designed the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones at the Plaza Hotel.

Isidor Rayner

Isidor Rayner (April 11, 1850 – November 25, 1912) was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1905-1912. He also represented the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland from 1887 to 1889, and 1891 to 1895.
Rayner was born in to a Jewish-German family [1] in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended local private schools. He later attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the University of Virginia. He began to study law and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1871.
Rayner was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates and served from 1878-1884. In 1885, he was elected to the Maryland State Senate, serving one year until 1886.
Rayner was elected the same year to the Fiftieth United States Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress, but was victorious in the next two elections to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894.
Several years later in 1899, Rayner was chosen to be the Attorney General of Maryland, serving until 1903. He was elected as a Democrat in 1905 to the U.S. Senate, and was reelected again in 1911. While senator, he served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Depredations (Sixty-second Congress).
In 1912, Rayner died in Washington, D.C. while serving as senator. He is buried at Rock Creek Cemetery.

Eliza Jane Beahm Banks 1909-2006

Eliza Jane Beahm Banks 96, of Culpeper, VA passed away at Martha Jefferson Hospital April 20, 2006. Eliza was born June 17, 1909 in Madison County, VA to William Beahm and Elizabeth Frances Gaines Beahm.

Mrs. Banks was the widow of Seldon Banks.   Surviving Mrs. Banks are her children Seldon Banks, Jr. and his wife Glenna of PA,  Lee Roy Banks and his wife Fern of Madison, VA, Louvenia Hoffman and her husband Loyce of Reva, VA,  Polly Banks of Madison, VA,  Joan Rivas and her husband Jose of Madison, VA and Eugene Banks and his wife Elizabeth of Madison, VA;  grandchildren, Ann Marie Jones, Cynthia Riggle, Kimberly Johnson, Stephanie Hall, Davis Edwards, Lisa Kuiper, Beth Lower, Waverly Banks, Roy Lee Banks, Jr., Terry White, Lucas Banks and Gregory Banks and 19 great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband and daughters Helen Kibler and Dorothy Edwards.

Pallbearers will be David Edwards, Cynthia Riggle, Joshua Ralls, Gregory Banks, Lucas Banks, Roy Banks, Jr., Waverly Banks and Jose Rivas.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 1 p.m. in the Thoroughfare Chapel, Leon, Virginia. Pastor Wayne Yowell and Pastor Michael Vaughan will conduct the service. Interment will be in Robinson River Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Brightwood, VA.

The family will receive friends Monday evening from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Clore-English Funeral Home, 11190 James Monroe Highway, Culpeper, VA. 

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 2654 Valley Avenue, Suite B, Winchester, VA 22601.
Condolences may be sent via e-mail to cloreenglish@gmail.com. The family was entrusted these arrangements to the CloreEnglish Funeral Home.

Published in The Culpeper Star-Exponent on April 22, 2006

THE OLD MOUNTAIN HOME by John T. Nicholson

THE OLD MOUNTAIN HOME
 
In the old mountain home,
For six months more,
Where then shall I go,
Down in the valley,
To perish and to die.

To leave my mountain home,
Is such a loss and grief,
Words can hardly express
The sadness of the thought.

It must be awful, you know,
Some who left, wept and mourned,
And said in words so sad,
I would rather go to my grave,
Than to leave my mountain home.

Sad the thought, I must depart
From the old mountain home,
Where life has been so sweet,
Sad will be the rest of my life,
If from my home I have to de-
   part.

No longer here to stay,
To drink at the springs,
Where the water is so cold,
Both in summer and in winter,
Flowing so full and free
Out of the old mountain coves.

Sad will be my thoughts,
When I am in the valley,
To think of days gone by,
In the old mountain home,
Where life has been so sweet.

Sad and lonely is the thought,
To plant a tree in the valley,
At the age of seventy-three,
Just to hasten on death
Of the tree in the valley.

Now I see I have been deceived,
That the old in the park
Would be let to remain,
As the last of life ebbs away.

Just a few weeks ago,
To my surprise came the order,
Sign the use permit, or
Move out at once.
How would the appraisers feel,
If they had but a heart,
And only knew the sadness
They have added to the hearts
Of the old living in the park?

Sad thought, November first,
A new situation I must face,
At the age of seventy-three,
Moved down in the valley
Just to wither and pine away.

Sweet was one the thought, 
In the mountain home to stay
Until the death angel should
   come
To take my soul to its home
In the heavenly rest above.

While my body is laid away
Beside my darling wife,
In the graveyard on the hill
To wait the trumpet sound,
At the first resurrection
When I shall arise
And meet the Lord in the air.

The rest of my stay on earth,
I am hoping to spend it,
In the mountain home,
Where life is sweet to me,
Where one never suffers
With the heat of summer,
As down in the valley.

To leave my mountain home,
At the age of seventy-three,
And go down in the valley,
Where the heat is depressing,
Is such a loss and grief,
Words fail to tell.

In the old mountain home,
Where the summer breezes
Blow so refreshing,
And the birds sweetly sing
In the trees at the home.

Sad the thought to leave
A garden spot of paradise,
When one is old and feeble,
And cannot work any more,
Life will not be worth living,
When planted in the valley,
Where everything is different,
To the seeing and the hearing.

At the age of seventy-three,
In my old mountain home,
Like a prisoner in his cell,
Thinking of the execution day,
For November will soon appear,
To move down in the valley,
But I am hoping and praying
For the best until the last.

Once my hope brightly beamed
With the thought that my home
Would be leased for my life---
At least that was the promise.
But now it seems I must go
From the old mountain home
To be planted in the valley,
There to grieve and pine away.

My hope is dark and gloomy,
In view of November the first,
When I must depart in sadness
From the old mountain home,
For the order had this to say,
Move out before, or on November 
   first.

Officials of the park,
If by chance this you read,
Be assured I oppose not the park,
Though sad is the thought,
At the age of seventy-three
Having to depart from the park.

For in the appraisers promise,
I had hope of living in the park
The balance of my life,
But now I see I have been de-
   ceived,
According to the order signed,
Move out before, or on November
   first.

Such a promise was the scheme
To take my home for the park.
Give an acre for the park,
Said the boosters of the park,
If you want to live in the park,
At least this was the thought,
That impressed the old in the 
   park.
Five instead of one,
I gave for the park,
In hope of favors granted,
To be living in the park.
Sad no favors to be shown,
Instead of stay I must go,
Just the same as those,
Who gave nothing for the park.

Officials of the park,
Who I honor in the right,
I am not finding fault,
This I hope you understand,
As I am only quoting facts.

For my Bible says, murmur not,
This I do as heretofore,
Filled with sadness to leave
My old mountain home,
At the age of seventy-three.
In the Swanson park bill,
I still have glimpse of hope
To see my dreams come true,
Living in the park all my life.

Officials of the park,
Can you this to me deny?
To grant my life in the park,
For at the age of seventy-three
It won’t be long, you know.
Few more years at the most,
I will reach my heavenly park.

Now when the angels come
To take my soul to rest,
Hope they will find it in the park.
Then the old will be out of the 
   way,
While the park is progressing,
When the people out of the cities
Come to see the beauties of the
   park.

Dear officials of the park,
In conclusion this I say,
Written for my aged father,
Pained at heart to leave the park
At the age of seventy-three.
If you want to know his name,
This is what you read in print,
John Russ Nicholson,
Patriarch living in the park.

                    --John T. Nicholson
Nethers, Va.

This poem was written by John T. Nicholson about his father John "Russ" Nicholson and the removal of the families from the Shenandoah National Park. It is a heart wrenching poem that reflects the pain of being forced to leave the homes that they loved.

James Russell Corbin 1951-2008

James Russell Corbin, 56, of Culpeper died on Friday, May 16, 2008, at his residence. He was born on June 13, 1951, in Fauquier County, Va., to Thelma Bennett Corbin and the late Robert Lee Corbin.

Mr. Corbin was a member of Thoroughfare Bible Church. He had a passion for hunting and enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.

In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife of 34 years, Brenda Lee Corbin; two children, James "Tony" Corbin and his wife, Deborah, of Rixeyville, and Lori Hitt and her husband, Daniel, of Castleton; and four grandchildren, Devyn, Dalton and Kaylee Hitt, and Shelby Corbin.

Additional survivors include his siblings, Lee Corbin Jr. and his wife, Sue, of Fayetteville, N.C., Wayne Corbin and his wife, Regina, of Lignum, Terry Corbin and his wife, Tena, of Fauquier, Patty Barfield and her husband, Charles, of Culpeper, and Dennis Corbin of Reva; and also one sister-in-law, Janet Corbin of Reva.

In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his brothers, Billy Corbin and Jerry "Tibbs" Corbin, and a nephew, Danny "Cricket" Corbin.

A visitation will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008, from 6-8 p.m. at Found and Sons Funeral Chapel, 850 Sperryville Pike, Culpeper VA 22701.

A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 19, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Thoroughfare Bible Church with Pastor Michael Vaughn officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Mr. Corbin's name to Hospice of the Rapidan, PO Box 1715, Culpeper VA 22701.

An online guestbook is available at www.foundandsons.com.

Found and Sons Funeral Chapel of Culpeper is handling the arrangements.

Milton Edward Beahm 1920-2011

MILTON EDWARD BEAHM

August 7, 1920 – July 18, 2011

On Monday, July 18, 2011, Milton Edward Beahm of Hyattsville, MD, departed this life to be with the Lord.  He was the husband of the late Aline Constance McCoy Beahm. He is survived by his son, Thomas Lee and daughter, Belinda Ruth and two grandsons. Milton was the 5^th of 20 children.  His surviving siblings are Mary Ellen Beahm Spicer and husband Jack of Fairless Hills, PA; Sarah Jane Beahm Thomas and husband, Bernie of Rochelle, VA; Rev. Charles E. Beahm and wife, Ethel May also of Rochelle, VA; Mabel Beahm Clore and husband, Raymond of Brightwood, VA;  Gladys Beahm Nicholson and husband Bill of Brightwood, VA; and Thomas Beahm and his wife, Esther of Oak Park, VA.  There are numerous nieces and nephews who will miss him greatly.

Milton was born in Madison, VA, August 7, 1920, to the late John William and Rosa Lee Corbin Beahm.  He worked as a young boy for Randy Tucker and the Basil Families locally, then moved to Maryland and worked at various jobs with his brothers until enlisting in  the U.S. Army in 1942. He served in WWII, through July 20, 1945, in the 92^nd Chemical Mortar Battalion in Normandy, Rhineland, and Northern France.  He received a Purple Heart for injuries received while in action in Germany, a Good Conduct Medal and a European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with 4 Bronze Stars.  After receiving an Honorable Discharge dated September 17, 1945, Milton was employed as a carpenter by Frank Rubino, owner of a local construction company where he remained for 40 years until he “retired”.  He continued to work for Mr. Rubino until his health declined.

Milton and his family attended Calvary Memorial Baptist Church in Hyattsville, MD until health issues put his wife in a nursing home, where he faithfully cared for her and his children who are now both in special care facilities.

Milton enjoyed his RV Camper and loved to talk to people by CB and/or Ham Radio up on the Skyline Drive
where he could reach almost anyone!       
                            

His Cowboy Hats and Western clothes were his favorite outfit when he went out and his guitar was a favorite past time at home.  Milton was a kind and caring brother, husband, father and friend.  We will all miss him and the Kentucky Fried Chicken he always brought to the family reunions!  He enjoyed taking videos at many of our family gatherings.

Funeral services were held for Milton at the BORGWARDT Funeral Home in Beltsville, MD, with his brother Rev. Charles Beahm officiating.  A message titled “What Will You Do With Your “Dash”?  was given to the many friends and family gathered for his Memorial Service.    Interment with Military Honors was held at the Fort Lincoln Cemetery near Washington, D.C.