JOHN J. UTZ

     Another Confederate Veteran, John J. Utz, has responded
 to the call of the Grim Reaper.  The end came at 10:15 o'clock 
this morning at his home on South Second Street, after an illness 
extending over one year.  He had been a sufferer from bronchitis 
for the past five years. 
     Mr. Utz was born near Slate Mills, Rappahannock County, and was 
81 years of age Oct 21st last.  He was a carriage builder by trade and
engaged in business at Culpeper before the Civil War.  He entered the
service of the confederacy as a member of the Culpeper Minute Men, 
13th Virginia Infantry, but later joined a cavalry company.  In an
encounter with ____ troops in the streets of Orange Courthouse he
received two bad sabre wounds on the head and was forced to spend
several months in a Culpeper Hospital.
     Mr. Utz married Miss Mary F. Wells, of Richmond, who survives.  
There are no children.  He also leaves one brother, Mr. Daniel Utz,
ofBillington, Iowa, and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Nokes of Eaton, Ohio.
     Mr. Utz was a Mason, a member of Lodge No. 55, this city.

     The funeral of Mr. John J. Utz will be held at 3 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon from the High Street Baptist Church, the 
service to be conducted by the pastor, Dr. Henry W. Battle.  The
interment will be in Maplewood Cemetery.
     The funeral arrangements are in charge of Lodge No 55, A. F. and
 A. M.
     The members of John Bowie Strange Camp, Confederate Veterans,
of which Mr. Utz was a member, will attend in a body.