Continuing with some of the interesting people in the graves at this cemetery.
WILLIAM SMOOT-- in 1861, at the age of 16, he and his entire class at Virginia Military Institute joined the Confederate Army. He served the entire war and was furloughed at Richmond in 1865 and then walked back to his family home in Northern Virginia where he found his entire family had been displaced to Maryland.
As he began walking up the lane in front of his family's new house, his mother, working in the garden, saw an unkempt, emaciated man walking toward her and ran to the house. William reportedly shouted, "Mother, don't you know me." She ran out, looked him over and asked, "But where are your boots?" His reply, "I ate them before I left Richmond."
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
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