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Submitted: 6/2/22 • Approved: 6/22/22 • Last Updated: 6/25/22 • R1435056-G0-S3
Confederate States Army
FIRST LIEUTENANT Company A 16h Regiment
Civil War Confederate
June 21, 1828 - October 15, 1900
M.W. Drewrey, was born in Princess Anne, Virginia in 1828, the son of Dr. Matthias and Frances Wells Drewrey.
He passed from this life in 1900 in Van Buren, Arkansas.
He was was educated in Virginia and lived in Norfolk, Virginia until he was 16 years old. He then worked as an apprentice at the brick mason's trade for five years and in 1857 was employed in the Government Navy yard at Norfolk for 14 months. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service in Company A, Sixteenth Regiment Atlantic Guards, serving as first Lieutenant for 18 months.
After the war he worked at his trade in Memphis, Tennesse and in 1869 moved to Van Buren, Arkansas.
In Van Buren he manufactured brick. He erected a large number of the best buildings in town, among which may be mentioned, the court house, public school, Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the business blocks of Wood & Southmayed, Creekmore & Lynch and many more. He also erected a large college at North Fork and a public school at Paris, Arkansas.
In 1857 he married Miss Amy Rainey, daughter of John S. Rainey, a native of Princess Anne County, Virginia.
Their marriage was blessed with two children, Maggie and a son who died at the age of seven years.
He was a conservative man, a good citizen, and a Republican. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. and he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 6/2/22 by Billsully060
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