Mrs. Sophie Colston Cornwell, 52, widow of William B. Cornwell, lawyer and builder of the Winchester & Western Railroad, died today at the home of her sister, Mrs. William Trapnell, at Weston W. Va., according to word from her brother-in-law, former Gov. John J. Cornwell. She was a daughter of the late Capt. William B. Colston, confederate army officer and newspaper editor, Martinsburg, W. Va.
Surviving are a daughter, Miss Marion Cornwell, and two sisters, Mrs. Trapnell and Miss Susan Colston.
Source: The Washington Post, 1 July 1928, p. 6
The iconic portrait SOPHIE HUNTER COLSTON by her first cousin William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In the 1900 U.S. Census, Mrs. Colston is noted as born in September 1874. Thus the 1878 date on her tombstone is inaccurate. She was presumably named for her maternal aunt Sophie Forrest Summers Hunter.
Surviving are a daughter, Miss Marion Cornwell, and two sisters, Mrs. Trapnell and Miss Susan Colston.
Source: The Washington Post, 1 July 1928, p. 6
The iconic portrait SOPHIE HUNTER COLSTON by her first cousin William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In the 1900 U.S. Census, Mrs. Colston is noted as born in September 1874. Thus the 1878 date on her tombstone is inaccurate. She was presumably named for her maternal aunt Sophie Forrest Summers Hunter.
Mrs. Sophie Colston Cornwell, 52, widow of William B. Cornwell, lawyer and builder of the Winchester & Western Railroad, died today at the home of her sister, Mrs. William Trapnell, at Weston W. Va., according to word from her brother-in-law, former Gov. John J. Cornwell. She was a daughter of the late Capt. William B. Colston, confederate army officer and newspaper editor, Martinsburg, W. Va.
Surviving are a daughter, Miss Marion Cornwell, and two sisters, Mrs. Trapnell and Miss Susan Colston.
Source: The Washington Post, 1 July 1928, p. 6
The iconic portrait SOPHIE HUNTER COLSTON by her first cousin William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In the 1900 U.S. Census, Mrs. Colston is noted as born in September 1874. Thus the 1878 date on her tombstone is inaccurate. She was presumably named for her maternal aunt Sophie Forrest Summers Hunter.
Surviving are a daughter, Miss Marion Cornwell, and two sisters, Mrs. Trapnell and Miss Susan Colston.
Source: The Washington Post, 1 July 1928, p. 6
The iconic portrait SOPHIE HUNTER COLSTON by her first cousin William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In the 1900 U.S. Census, Mrs. Colston is noted as born in September 1874. Thus the 1878 date on her tombstone is inaccurate. She was presumably named for her maternal aunt Sophie Forrest Summers Hunter.
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