JAMES MADISON IRWIN.
James Carson Irwin, born in Campbell county, Virginia, October
17, 1820, in 1840 married Sarah E. Hoffman, who was born in Campbell
county, in 1822. He died on March 24, 1888, leaving a widow
and eight children, five boys and three girls. The subject of this
sketch, one of these sons, was born in Lynchburg, on October 17,
1844. In Nelson county, Virginia, September 14, 1887, Rev. B. M.
Wailes officiating, he married Ida Clay Ewers. Fannie Carson Irwin,
their daughter, was born on August 1, 1888. Mrs. Irwin was born in
Nelson county, January 2, 1855, the daughter of John Stanford
Ewers and Fannie E. Fortune, his wife, to whom he was married in
Nelson county in 1845, by Rev. B. M. Wailes, Presbyterian clergyman.
Mr. Irwin is chief of police of the city of Lynchburg, which
position he has held for the last six years. During the war he was in
service in Morgan's Cavalry of Kentucky.
