| Summary: | Photo circa October 1940s (as stamped and handwritten on back of the photo). A man in suspenders and a white shirt, holds a child, apparently a little girl, while standing beside a roadside historical marker. The Culpeper County Virginia highway marker commemorates where Major John Pelham was mortally wounded during the Battle of Kelly's Ford. The marker reads, "“NO. 10-F WHERE PELHAM FELL - FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST, AT KELLY’S FORD, MAJOR JOHN PELHAM, COMMANDING STUART’S HORSE ARTILLERY, WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED, MARCH 17, 1863. CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (1927) F-10” [donated by Laura W. Henry]
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