A.W. MOUNTCASTLE

A.W. MOUNTCASTLE

ALISON WOODVILLE MOUNTCASTLE, who died on May 2, 1932, at his home in Lenoir City, Tennessee, was born in Mooresburg, Tenn., January 21, 1858. He had been retired from business a number of years, due to failing health.

He was the oldest son of ROBERT E. and SALLIE WILLIAMS MOUNTCASTLE. When he was a small boy, his parents moved to Richmond, Va. and there he and his mother went through the struggle of the War Between the States while his father was away serving the Confederacy as a captain in the 5th Virginia Cavalry. One of his cherished memories of those war days was of a time when GEN. ROBERT E. LEE and a small group of his men had lost their way and stopped at his home to inquire about directions and , at his mother's urgent invitation, they remained for supper. Soon after the war, his father was accidentally killed by a runaway horse.

MR. MOUNTCASTLE came back to Tennessee when a young man with his mother and took up residence at 'Sunshine', the country place of his uncle, COL. FRANK E. WILLIAMS, near Lenoir City, which he later inherited. He married MISS JULIA LEEPER on December 12, 1893 and she survives him with three daughters and a son, also four grandchildren.

Religion was always a dominant interest in his life....family prayers and Grace at the table were always observed in his home. Not to have been a veteran himself, he shared to a very marked degree the deep-seated love and loyalty of all Southerners for our precious Southland, and in this love he 'lived and moved and had his being'. The Confederate Veteran was always on his reading table along with his Bible and thus, hand in hand with God, he grew old in faith and sweetness of character and was ready when the Great General blew taps and he quietly joined the ranks of the 'Great Gray Champions' of the South.

Excerpts from "The Confederate Veterans" Project

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