COL. HENRY HAYMOND DIES IN CLARKSBURG
The Wheeling Intelligencer., August 02, 1920
Clarksburg, W. Va., July 31– Colonel Henry Haymond, age 81, a veteran of the Civil war, former circuit clerk of Harrison county and a recognized historian, died at 5:29, death being due to heart trouble. He had been ill three days.
Colonel Haymond’s last illness at his West Main street home where he died was known to only a few of his thousands of friends.
He was born in 1837, educated at the Northwestern Virginia Academy and was commissioned as captain in the eighteenth United States Infantry by President Lincoln in 1861. He participated in the main battles of the west during the Civil war and was wounded at Stone River and after the war fought the Sioux for two years. President Johnson conferred the Brevet rank of Major and Lieutenant Colonel on him for meritorious services during the war. In 1881 he was made a member of the board of visitors of the United States Military Academy.
He is the author of Haymond’s history of Harrison county which was published in two editions, numerous historical sketches published in newspapers in northern and central West Virginia and was an author on matter relating to early history of the Monongahela Valley and central West Virginia.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Haymond and one daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Blackford, Parkersburg; Mrs. J. E. Watson of Fairmont, is a grand daughter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
COL. HAYMOND DEAD.
Greenbrier Independent., August 06, 1920
Col. Henry Haymond, aged 81, a veteran of the Civil War, former Circuit Clerk of Harrison county and a recognized historian, died July 31st, death being due to heart trouble. He had been ill three days.
Col. Haymond was born in 1837, educated at the Northwestern Virginia Academy and was commissioned at captain in the eighteenth United State Infantry by President Lincoln in 1861. He participated in the main battles of the west during the Civil War and was wounded at Stone River and after the war fought the Sioux for two years.
