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Born in Nr Mt Jackson, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA on 8 Dec to John Wesley Wayland and Anna M Kagey..
Dr. John W. Wayland Dies Shoveling Snow At Home
Noted Historian Will Be Buried Friday at 2 p.m.
Dr.
John Walter Wayland, widely acclaimed as the Shenandoah Valley's foremost historian, died Wednesday morning at He was
Active until the very end of a long and fruitful career, the venerable Dr. Wayland died of a heart attack while shoveling snow at his home at 53 Weaver Ave.
He was rushed to Rockingham Memorial Hospital by Lindsey Ambulance but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Author of numerous histories, most of them on Shenandoah Valley subjects, Dr. Wayland was an eminent Civil War historian.
Ending a long teaching career upon his retirement from the Madison College faculty in , he continued his prolific writing until his death. His latest books were on his favorite subjects: "A Brief History of the Shenandoah Valley," and "John Kagi and John Brown," written for the centennial of John brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
He was married to Mattie V.
Fry of Bridgewater on June 8, She
