• Listed as a farmer in the 1850 Federal Census, Fairfax, Virginia.
• Listed as a farmer in the 1860 Federal Census, South West Revenue District, Fauquier, VA.
• Entered the Confederate Army as Aide de Camp on the Staff of Gen. R. E. Lee, with the rank of Lieut. Colonel, and was killed at Cheat Mountain, W. Va., while on a scout (sic).

Notes

• Mt. Vernon by inheritance from his mother, Jane Charlotte, and sold it three years later. He was the last private owner of the estate of President George Washington. For many years, however, he had shared responsibilities with his mother for running both Blakeley and Mt. Vernon. To preserve it he sold it to the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association in 1858.
• On September 13th, 1861, he was killed at Elk Water on Cheat Mountain, when he reconnoitered too far into enemy-held territory. A distant relative to John Augustine, through the Lees, and a childhood friend, Gen. Lee was hit hard by one of the first personal losses he would experience in the War.

Sources:

1. Stella Pickett Hardy, "Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled in the Colonies prior to the Revolution," Baltimore, MD: Southern Book Co., 1958.

Links

• http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I13291&tree=Legends