Culpeper National Cemetery

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09/04/2026

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Today we remember Jesse Samuel Wilinski, the son of Marine Corps Sergeant Jesse Marcel Wilinski and Morane Wilinski. Sergeant Wilinski served in the Marines from 1997 to 2006 as an Ammunition Technician. At the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he was stationed at Camp Lejuene, North Carolina, and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jesse was born on February 14, 2007, in Asheville, North Carolina, at Mission Hospital. He was an active member of the Federation for the Blind and a Junior at Massaponax High School in Fredericksburg. Jesse was also a long-time participant in the Special Olympics and an honorary member of the Massaponax High School Soccer Team. He loved school and his daily bus ride. Outside of school Jesse enjoyed going for rides in the Shenandoah National Park and having dinner with his family. Making and sustaining friends was a special gift of his. Jesse passed away in his father’s arms on June 7, 2024, from complications related to his disability. He was survived by his parents, four siblings and three nephews and a niece.
Jesse rests in Section 11, Site 868, at Culpeper National Cemetery.

Note: Biographical information and photographs of Jesse courtesy of his father Sergeant Jesse M. Wilinski.

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09/01/2026

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08/31/2026

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Today we remember Lucy Claire Paulus. Lucy was born on July 29, 1915, in Georgiana (Butler County), Alabama, to Charles William Holloway and Minnie Ruth Lazenby, one of four children. The family moved several times during her early life, living in Georgia, Virginia and by 1940 Roanoke Rapids (Halifax County), North Carolina. Her father and brother Charles Jr. worked in a paper mill. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the Army recognized that women could provide the additional personnel desperately needed for the war effort. In May 1942 the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was established with Oveta C. Hobby as Director. Training for both WAAC officer candidates and WAAC auxiliaries (the female equivalent of privates) began in the summer of 1942 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. The organization was converted to an active duty element of the Army in July 1943 as the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), allowing women to hold military rank and be granted the same allowances and privileges as their male counterparts. By the end of World War II over 150,000 women had served in non-combat roles in the Army, from stenographers to air traffic controllers. Lucy enlisted in the WAAC in November 1942 and trained in Administration at Daytona Beach, Florida. She was then assigned to Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas. Tragedy struck her family when her father Charles died in May 1943 and her mother Minnie Ruth two months later. Lucy was discharged from the WAAC and returned to Roanoke Rapids. Her brother Charles Jr. also served in the Army with the 42nd Engineer Construction Battalion in Alaska. Little is known of Lucy’s life after World War II. She was living in Baltimore in 1965 and may have been married to Russell A. Paulus, an Army veteran, from 1971 to 1984. By 1991 Lucy was living in Hagerstown, Maryland. She died on August 16, 1991, at the VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Lucy Claire Paulus rests in Section L, Site 400, at Culpeper National Cemetery.

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08/26/2026

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08/14/2026

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Today we remember Private William Barber (or Barbour). William was born in Maine in 1820 and in November 1856 married Elizabeth Kilborn. By 1860 the couple was living in Westbrook (Cumberland County), Maine, where William worked as a stone mason. In August 1862 he enlisted in Company H of the 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry. The 17th Maine left for Washington, D.C., in late August 1862 and after garrison duty in the Defenses of Washington was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. Over the next year William and the 17th Maine fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. On the morning of July 2, 1863, the 17th Maine arrived at Gettysburg and that afternoon fought for over two hours in the Wheatfield, losing 133 men (killed, wounded and missing). Following the Confederate defeat the Army of the Potomac followed General Robert E. Lee as he retreated into Virginia. By September the Army of the Potomac was in Culpeper County with the Confederates on the south side of the Rapidan River. William contracted pneumonia and died on September 28 or 29, 1863, in Culpeper County. Buried in a temporary grave, his remains were moved to Culpeper National Cemetery after the war. Now widowed, Elizabeth applied for a pension and was granted $8 per month. Sadly, she died in Maine of an apparent seizure or stroke on July 27, 1868. She now rests with her brother Scott Ebenezer Kilborn (who died in 1916) near their parents in Black Point Cemetery in Scarborough, Maine. Her marker notes that she was the “Widow of William Barbour”.

Private William Barber rests in Section A1, Site 270, of Culpeper National Cemetery.

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08/12/2026

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Outreach informing our veterans of burial benefits. Come and see us at the Fredericksburg VA health care center.
08/06/2026

Outreach informing our veterans of burial benefits. Come and see us at the Fredericksburg VA health care center.

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Culpeper, VA
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