Joseph Edmonds Timberlake, 1921

Joseph Edmonds Timberlake
Frederick County, Virginia, 1921
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, December 1921

"Joseph Edmonds Timberlake died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. O. Wade Cabrill, Strasburg, Va., on December 6, 1921, at the age of seventy-nine years.

He was born June 24, 1842, at Rich Hill, Frederick County, Va., the son of David and Elizabeth Timberlake.

At the call to arms in 1861, he entered the service of his beloved State and Southland, though he was but sixteen years of age. He and his three brothers -- Seth M., David W. ("Billie"), and James L. -- entered the war as members of the famous Stonewall Brigade, and he served with "that brave and patriotic band of gentlemen and soldiers" as a member of Company G, (Bott’s Greys), 2nd Virginia Regiment and 12th Virginia Cavalry.

The close of the war found him with five wound scars. The other brothers each received several wounds, but none were taken prisoners. Just what part these brothers really took in this struggle of the sixties is probably best told by Col. Charles T. O’Ferrall in his "Forty Years of Active Service":

"The Timberlake family furnished, I am sure, as many soldiers to the Confederate Army as any family in the South, and they were nearly all in the cavalry…..More than a dozen households were represented in the army, and, without exception, they were brave to their very marrow. I firmly believe if a thousand Timberlakes could have been marshaled on the banks of the Potomac, well mounted and equipped, and put under the command of a Timberlake and ordered to the Commons of Boston, some of them would have reached that historic ground, unless they had fallen on the way. Nothing short of death or disabling wounds would have checked them."

All four brothers lived to a ripe old age, past the allotted threescore years and ten. The answering of the last roll call by Joseph Timberlake marked the passing of the last and youngest of the four. He was of a type belonging distinctively to the old school of Virginians. While he was a man of splendid physical and moral courage, he was modest to a degree, a man of simple tastes, affectionate, pure in thought, and true to his convictions.

Because of his direct manner, he always commanded the love and respect of a large circle of friends.

One of Stonewall Jackson’s men and a Christian gentleman.

On November 20, 1868, Mr. Timberlake married Miss Angie Winston Andrews, who, with three daughters and one son, survives him.

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	"Joseph Edmonds Timberlake died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. O. Wade Cabrill, Strasburg, Va., on December 6, 1921, at the age of seventy-nine years.
	He was born June 24, 1842, at Rich Hill, Frederick County, Va., the son of David and Elizabeth Timberlake.
	At the call to arms in 1861, he entered the service of his beloved State and Southland, though he was but sixteen years of age. He and his three brothers -- Seth M., David W. ("Billie"), and James L. -- entered the war as members of the famous Stonewall Brigade, and he served with "that brave and patriotic band of gentlemen and soldiers" as a member of Company G, (Bott’s Greys), 2nd Virginia Regiment and 12th Virginia Cavalry.
	The close of the war found him with five wound scars. The other brothers each received several wounds, but none were taken prisoners. Just what part these brothers really took in this struggle of the sixties is probably best told by Col. Charles T. O’Ferrall in his "Forty Years of Active Service":

	All four brothers lived to a ripe old age, past the allotted threescore years and ten. The answering of the last roll call by Joseph Timberlake marked the passing of the last and youngest of the four. He was of a type belonging distinctively to the old school of Virginians. While he was a man of splendid physical and moral courage, he was modest to a degree, a man of simple tastes, affectionate, pure in thought, and true to his convictions.
	Because of his direct manner, he always commanded the love and respect of a large circle of friends.
	One of Stonewall Jackson’s men and a Christian gentleman.
	On November 20, 1868, Mr. Timberlake married Miss Angie Winston Andrews, who, with three daughters and one son, survives him.