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Note: In Riverview Cemetery, Dora Gill Reames is buried in the Gunn plot. Dora married Peter Spencer Reames whose father was Stephen Reames. Stephen Reames and George Thomas Reames were brothers. George Thomas Reames was the father of Lucy Ann Reames who was the mother of Virginia Alice Johnson. Stephen Reames was the uncle of Lucy Ann Reames (wife of Lewis D. Johnson) and the great uncle of Virginia Alice Johnson. This made Dora Reames Gill a First Cousin once removed of James Freeman Gunn, through his mother Lucy Reams
Virginia Alice Johnson was raised in Richmond Virginia by her Aunt, Mary Frances Reames Goulder, the sister of her mother . Mary Frances Reams Goulder's husband John H. Golder was a shoemaker by trade according to her neice, Edith Gunn Snead. The census records do not support shoemaking as the profession of John Golder. Like his father he was a brickmason. Sometime between 1880 and 1900 John Golder moved from Amelia County, Virginia where he was born, to the Clay Ward section of Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Alice Johnson lived with various relaitves after the Civil War.According to Edith Gunn Snead, Mr. Goulder made shoes for the headmaster of the school as tuition for Virginia Alice. Perhaps he did brickwork. It was Lewis/Louis D. Johnson Virginia's father that was the shoemaker.
Virginia's daughter, Edith, remembered hearing how her mother had gotten into trouble in the early days of the Civil War. Virginia loved the trains. During this time, Union troops had seized the railroad in Blackstone, and were transporting their troops. Virginia Alice gathered apples in her apron, and threw them to the Union soldiers in the waiting railroad cars. Sometimes the Uniion soldiers would throw her pennies in return. This ended when her mother learned the source of her new-found fortune.
Virginia Alice's mother Lucy Reams Johnson and several of her children died during the Civil War. Virginia's father Lewis Dickinson Johnson, returned to Blackstone after the war, but did not assume responsibility for his surviving children. It is rumored he moved to Kentucky or Tennessee. Lewis had a brother, Paschal Johnson who lived in Nottoway County, Va. What relationship he had, if any, with his brother's children isn't known.
Frances Johnson, Virginia's oldest sister, was found on the Census for 1850. She was born according to the census in January 1850.. Frances' death was reported in the 1863 mortality records for Nottoway County.
in 1870 Virginia A Johnson 11 was in the Totaro, Brunswick, Virginia census.
Roll: M593_1637 Page: 135 Image: 270 Year: 1870 living in the home of John L. Johnson, age 46 and his wife Elizabeth age 4
In 1880 Virginia Johnson was living with her brother George W. Johnson and his wife Lucy Lavinia in Nottoway County. Also in George's home was Cora Reams his neice. and J. L. Johnson brother of George and Virginia. George ran a tenant farm. The following year, Virginia Johnson married James Freeman Gunn.
At the time of the 1900 Census James Freeman and Virginia Alice were 45 and 41 years old. She had given birth to eight children, seven survived.
After the death of James Freeman Gunn, Virginia Alice married Minor Phettiplace, a contractor. He built Wesley United Methodist Church in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Minor Phettiplace had one arm. In the 1910 Census, Virginia Alice and her children by James Gunn were living in Richmond with Minor Phettiplace. Minor according to the census was born in New York state. At the time of the census, Virginia and Minor had been married 2 years (1908).
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, Virgina Johnson Gunn Phetteplace married Charles E. Martin
Name:Charles E Martin
Gender:Male
Race:White
Birth Year:abt 1852
Birth Place:Michigan
Marriage Date:19 Feb 1915
Marriage Place:Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Age:63
Residence Place:Schoolcraft, Michigan
Father:Chas Martin
Mother:??Liza Patterson
Spouse:Virginia Pheteplace
Record Number:15055
Film:123
Film Description:1915 Delta - 1915 Kent
By the 1920 Census Virginia had married Charles Martin who died about 16 months after the marriage, and Virginia moved back to Virginia. Virginia Martin age 61 was living with Wesley Gunn her son at 2201 L. Street in Richmond.
Virginia Alice Martin is in Grave #14, the last person buried in the Gunn Plot in Riverview Cemetery on April 3, 1937.
Virginia Johnson Gunn Martin,
widow of Charles F. Martin, died last night at the home of her daughter, 2701 East Broad Street. She was 78 years old. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. O. J. Brown and Mrs. Edith M. Snead; four sons, Wesley A., Willard J. and Lafayette M. Gunn of Richmond and Samuel L. Gunn of Washington; one sister, Mrs. P. H. Gunn of Blackstone; one brother, J. L. Johnson of Crew; 23 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Richmond Times Dispatch (VA) Fri. 4-2-1937
Her death certificate says she had cardio vacular renal schlerosis and acute pulmary congestion.
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