Born 1783 Chester County Pa
Died 1869 Franklin County VA
Married 1805
Elizabeth Snider Sink
1485-1871
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Children
Otey Sink
Born 1812 Died unknown
Naomi Frances “Omey” Sink Metz Layman
Born 1821 Died 1906
Pvt Joanathan Sink
Born 1818 Died 1863
Gordonsville-Pest House Cemetery
Married Oct 15 1854
Naomi Altice
Born in 1818 at Taylors Store P.O., Franklin County, Virginia. The son of Henry Silas and Elizabeth Jane Snider Sink.
Married Naomi Altick, on 15 October 1854.
Enlisted in Confederate Army on 10 March 1862 as private, Co. B, 24 Infantry Regiment, with his son William.
Died of smallpox at the Pest House Hospital in Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. Near by was the Exchange Hotel that was used as a hospital during the war, that treated over 70,000 soldiers, both Union and Confederate. But soldiers with contagious diseases were moved less than a mile away to the “Pest House”. Most were buried on the grounds in common graves.
Children
Elizabeth Sink Jannay
1844-1920
Old Liberty Cemetery
James Sink
1849-1931
Skelton Sink
1848-1931
Old Liberty Cemetery
Fannie Sink Hodges
1852-1930
Old Liberty Cemetery
Jonathan Whitehead ‘John” Sink Jr
1855-1918
Old Liberty Cemetery
George Jacob Sink
1856-1946
Married 1881
Lucy Victoria Oyler-Sink
1864-1936