Otelia B. Mahone
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Otelia Butler Mahone from Smithfield, Virginia was a nurse during the American Civil War and the wife of Confederate Major General William Mahone, who was a civil engineer, teacher, railroad builder,
Otelia Mahone with a child, likely her daughter Otelia
Waverly, Virginia
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Waverly is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,955.
Otelia B. Mahone
…Mahone became almost as well known as her famous husband. She is credited by local legend with the naming of the towns of Windsor, Ivor, Wakefield, Waverly and Disputanta along the famous 52-mile tangent railroad tracks (now part of Norfolk Southern) engineered and built by her husband between the cities…
Downtown Waverly