WADDELL.
Rev. James Waddell, the blind preacher, resided on the
borders of Albemarle and Louisa, the latter part of his life.
His first home in Virginia was in Lancaster County, where
he married Mary, daughter of James Gordon. To avoid the
troubles incident to the exposed state of that part of the country
during the Revolution, he removed to Augusta County,
where he took charge of the Tinkling Spring Church, and
where he purchased from James P. Cocke, Springhill, the old
Patton place. When the war ended, he fixed his residence
on his place called Hopewell, about a mile southwest of Gordonsville.
There he died in 1805, and there his remains lay
till 1871, when by the permission of friends they were transferred
to the yard of the Presbyterian Church at Rapidan,
which was called by his name. His children were Nathaniel,
James G., Elizabeth, the wife of Rev. William Calhoun,
Janetta, the wife of Dr. Archibald Alexander, Ann, Dr. Addison,
Sarah and Littleton. James G. became a member of
the Albemarle bar in 1800, but for the most of his life pursued
the calling of a teacher. He married first Mary T., daughter
of Reuben Lindsay, and secondly his cousin Lucy, daughter
of John Gordon. His home was at Springhill, on the west
side of the Gordonsville Road opposite the residence of his
father. In 1823 he sold his place to William T. Davis, and
removed to Waynesboro. The most of the family became
residents of the Valley.
