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Riverboat pilot recalled in Mechanicsville family history
Virginia Woods and Barbara Skerry preserve letters from their grandfather William Page a riverboat pilot and Confederate veteran who moved to Mechanicsville after the war. The collection includes John Page's Civil War letters detailing shipboard life and a 295 foot side wheeler the John D Simonds.
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Echanicsville
John Page
William Champe Page
William
Mississippi River
Mechanicsville
John
Virginia Woods
South
Virginia
Barbara Skerry
Freehold
N.J
Grandpa Page
Page
Virginia “Pagie” Page
Barbara
Orange
America
Mississippi
St. Louis
Jennie Hathaway
Iowa
Alice Furman
Pagie
Frank Wilson
John D. Simonds
Island 10
Memphis
John D Simonds