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OLD HOMES AND FAMILIES

THE OLD MANSION

"Old Mansion" has the distinction of being the oldest house
in Caroline. Just when it was erected cannot be definitely stated

but it is quite certain that it was not later than 1675. The house
stands just to the south of the corporate limits of Bowling Green
and is probably in or about the center of that large tract of land
granted to Major Hoomes by the British Crown in 1670.

The structure is of the early colonial "one and a half story"
type and is said to have been built of bricks brought from England.
It is also said that this particular style of architecture prevailed
in the earliest colonial period because of the higher tax levied by
England on two story, or three story houses.

Little is known of Major Hoomes, grantee of this estate, save
that he had one son, Col. John Waller Hoomes, who was a great
sportsman and an importer of thorough-bred horses.

A race track circled the lawn, on either side of which cherry
trees were planted. There was also a fine bowling green before
the house, from which the estate was named. The giant cedars
which for more than a century bordered the avenue leading to
the house were brought, as tiny switches, from Gloucester county
in the saddle bags of Major Hoomes. Avenues of elms—old
English prides—graced the south side of the house, while on the
north were avenues of aspens. Box-bordered plots to the front
of the house and a succession of terraces on the west, or rear, added
to the natural beauty of the site.

When the county seat was removed from the original site
Col. Hoomes donated to the county sufficient land for the
Court House and other public buildings and also gave the name
of his estate—"Bowling Green"—to be the name of the county
seat, taking the name "The Mansion" for his place instead.
This name was changed, in the course of the years, to "Old
Mansion."

Col. John Waller Hoomes had one daughter, Sophia, who
married one Major Allen and for whom a frame addition was
added to the house. Later Col. Hoomes built his daughter a
home a short distance below "The Mansion" which was called
"Oak Ridge." There is a tradition that after removing to
"Oak Ridge" the daughter never again visited the old home by
daylight, but, according to stories accredited to her coachman,
she made long visits to by night.

Many ghost stories are associated with "Old Mansion"—as
with all old places—chief among these being the story that the
"ghost" of Col. Hoomes always appeared to each member of
the family before their death, walking out in full view, dressed
as when in the flesh and not in grave clothes. The appearance
of his "ghost" is said to have been an unfailing warning of the

approach of death to some member of the family. Another
equally hair-raising ghost story connected with this old place
is, that a headless horseman, riding furiously around the old
race track, always heralded the approaching death of an eldest
son.

There is a tradition that here an invalid wife was frightened
to death by her husband placing a hideous mask at the window
of her sick room, and that this husband, while enamoured of his
housekeeper, affected great grief at his wife's funeral, sitting his
horse backward and demanding a sheet for his tears. Growing
out of this tradition is another ghost story to the effect that the
spirit of this woman haunted the house for many years and that
groans, screams, stealthy footsteps and other fearful sounds,
drove tenant after tenant away from the place.

Still another tradition—this colored with a little historical
support—has it that on the spacious lawn Washington and his
weary soldiers, camped and rested en route to Yorktown; while
of more authentic historicity is the story that Washington, returning
from Yorktown, after the surrender of Cornwallis, made
a great banquet on the lawn in honor of LaFayette, which was
spread on three great tables extending almost across the lawn,
at one of which were seated the guests of honor, Washington and
the officers of his army and at the other two the private soldiers.

In 1842, Mr. William Grymes Maury purchased "Old Mansion"
and here brought up his large family of twelve children. In 1862
the place passed into the possession of Mr. James Thomas White,
who married Fenella Strachan Maury, second daughter of Wm.
Grymes Maury and remains in possession of the White family
to this day, being owned by Mrs. J. L. White, her son, John
Cary White, and her daughter, Anne Maury White, of Richmond.

A strange coincidence in connection with the recent ownership
is the fact that the late J. L. White, whose widow and children
now own the place, was a nephew—thrice removed—of Col.
John Waller Hoomes; and Mrs. J. L. White (nee Cary) was a
niece—thrice removed—of Mrs. John Waller Hoomes, who
graced the "Old Mansion" so long ago.

GAY MONT

The following description of this interesting old estate is
taken from Mrs. Sale's remarkable book Historic Gardens of
Virginia. "Gay Mont lies on a high hill overlooking the Rappahannock

River and Valley, twenty miles below Fredericksburg.
The estate was originally a part of the Miller grant and comprised
about two thousand acres. It later became a part of the Catlett
estate and was purchased from this family in 1790 by John
Hipkins, of "Belle Grove," on the opposite bank of the Rappahannock
in King George county. At his death the place was
left to John Hipkins Bernard, grandson of John Hipkins.

The original house comprised only the central, or two-story
portion of the present building and was erected about 1725.
Two wings, one at either end, were added in 1798, and the
octagonal music room at the back in 1830. The latter opens on
a small porch, from the steps of which one can look down the
central garden walk to the sun dial.

John Hipkins Bernard was born January 10, 1890 and was
educated at Charlotte Hall, St. Mary's county, Md. He was a
grandson of William Bernard who was a nephew of Sir John
Bernard who married the granddaughter of Shakespeare. Upon
reaching his majority he went abroad for several years and on
his return brought with him many things for his home, including
landscape wallpaper—then a novelty in France—for the Gay
Mont hall, parlor and dining room. The paper in the hall shows
brightly colored Italian scences, that in the parlor represents the
Bay of Naples in soft grey tones, while that for the dining room
pictures mythological characters in sepia. He also brought over
two English gardeners who remodeled the grounds and garden
into their present form. That a rose garden antedated their
arrival and was a feature of the place from its beginning is apparent
from the original name "Rose Hill" which Mr. Bernard changed
to "Gay Mont" in honor of his bride, Miss Jane Gay Robertson,
daughter of William Robertson and Elizabeth Bolling. John
Hipkins Bernard and Jane Gay Robertson were the parents of
six children, the youngest of whom, Helen Struan, married Philip
Lightfoot Robb in 1865, and had issue whose descendants own
Gay Mont to this day. The founder of Gay Mont also owned
lands in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, and was a wealthy man
for his time. He was prominent politically and represented
Caroline, King and Queen, King William, Hanover and Essex
counties in the State Senate in 1828-30. He died in 1858, and
with his wife is buried at Gay Mont.

The portico at Gay Mont is supported by six large pillars with
balustrades between, and is enclosed at each end by the wings.

Between the windows opening on the portico and at either end
are plaster busts of Washington, Franklin, Shakespeare, Milton,
Scott, Byron, Napoleon and LaFayette.

In front of the portico is the driveway, and beyond are three
terraces, each three hundred feet in length. The last terrace,
twice the depth of the first two, broadens out at its base into a
semi-circle at either end and has a border of roses its entire length.

Between the second and third terrace there is a small formal
garden, in the shape of a circle, consisting of four plots separated
by gravel walks, with a fountain in the center surrounded by
conch shells and ivy. This little garden was christened "The
Beauty Spot" by which name it is still known. Water supplying
the fountain was brought in lead pipes from a reservoir in the
rear of the house and after the War between the States, when
ammunition was scarce, the lead from the pipe was made into
"slugs," and used instead of shot by the huntsmen of the family.

In connection with the fountain there is an amusing story
told of a small dog which had been trained to turn the wheel
which supplied the water. He would sit on the lower terrace
overlooking the avenue, intently watching for visitors, and on
seeing them approach would dash to the wheel and work violently
in order to have the fountain spraying freely by the time the host
greeted his guests at the front door.

At either end of the house there is a circular rose garden
surrounded by box bushes. Formerly this box was kept neatly
trimmed, but it has long been allowed to grow at random and
has now assumed the form of great, round masses, higher than a
man's head.

At the back of the house, separated from the lawn by trees
and shrubs, is the garden proper, consisting of a gravel walk,
three hundred feet long, parallel to the lawn, the three lateral
walks, ending in a wide terrace. Mr. Bernard is said to have
brought shiploads of gravel from Bermuda for these walks, as
well as conch shell for the fountain. The walks were bordered
with shrubs—pyrus, japonica, forsythia, spirea, in all varieties,
lilac, snowball, weigela, althea, syringa, mock-orange and others.
These were trimmed to form arches over the paths. Between
the walks were formal gardens laid out in shape of diamonds
and filled with many old-fashioned flowers. Peonies seemed to
have been the favorite centerpiece. On either side of this flower
garden, separated by walks, were two large squares devoted to

small fruits and vegetables. A hedge, formerly of roses but now
of althea, encloses the whole garden.

In addition to the lawns and gardens, a large part of the estate
of Gay Mont was given over to what might be called pleasure
grounds. On the north side of the hill was a deer park of eight
acres, with clumps of beautiful holly and enormous tulip poplars.
Mr. Bernard had a great love of trees and imported many kinds,
not only for the immediate grounds but also for the hill-sides.
Some years ago fifty varieties were counted within a comparatively
short distance of the house, among them a variety of French
chestnut, still vigorous and bearing nuts.

To the south of the hill ran "Golden Vale Creek" the name
given it on an old atlas printed before the city of Washington was
founded. Its waters were dammed to form a pond, and stocked
with fish. Here Mr. Bernard loved to entertain his friends and
it was no doubt, the scene of many gay parties. A large, round
stone table, and a spring enclosed by stone slabs are all that now
remain to mark the spot.

As horseback riding was the favorite pastime of Mr. Bernard's
daughters, he built for them a private road through the woods
and "the long meadows." This road crossed a small creek
seven or eight times by rustic bridges; the upkeep of both road
and bridges was given over to "Uncle Roly" a faithful slave.
"Uncle Roly" loved to tell stories of the past and always ended by
saying, "He had more recollections than he could remember."
He loved to boast that "Ole Missis' flowers was so sweet you
could smell 'em a mile away—just as soon as you turned into
de abenue."

During the War between the States, Gay Mont, from its
commanding position, narrowly escaped having a battery placed
on the hill. This would have made it a target for the gunboats
which shelled Port Royal and vicinity. The officers sent to
place the battery desisted at the earnest entreaties of the women
of the family.

Two of Mr. Bernard's daughters remained at Gay Mont with
their faithful servants during the entire war, thus, no doubt,
saving the place from entire destruction. General Abercrombie,
the Union Commander stationed in Port Royal, showed them
great courtesy and kindness. Many nights these young ladies
sat in a low window holding by the bridle their favorite horses,
"Ariel" and "Empress," to prevent them from being stolen.

These horses were finally taken, however, but were instantly
released when the owners appeared next day at headquarters
and begged their return. General Abercrombie then sent a
special guard to protect Gay Mont from further interference
while the Northern troops remained in the neighborhood.

The Confederate officers encamped around Fredericksburg,
General J. E. B. Stuart and his staff among them, were frequent
visitors at Gay Mont. General Stuart was very fond of a music
box in the library and would often enter the house unobserved
and announce his arrival by playing some familiar air. A chair
much scratched by his buttons was long kept as a souvenir of
his visit.

Major Duncan McKim, "the Gallant Pelham," and other
officers were dining at Gay Mont the evening before the Battle
of Fredericksburg, when a courier arrived summoning them to
headquarters. So furious was cannonading in that battle that
the big bell over the kitchen and the smaller servants bells which
hung outside the several windows, all rang while the battle was
in progress. Several of the guests of the preceding day were
killed in this battle.

The servants bells attached to the windows at Gay Mont
deserve mention only as relics of by-gone days. Each room
had its bell, rung by means of a cord within, to summon a servant
whenever wanted. One wonders how many servants were required
and where stationed to catch and locate the sounds of
these bells, hung into space from any window in the rambling
old house.

Like many Virginia homes, Gay Mont suffered severely during
the War between the States and the years following, when the
labor necessary for its upkeep could not be obtained. But so
well had the original plans been carried out and moulded into
terraces and other enduring landmarks that today Gay Mont
reflects honor on those who planned and those who carried the
plans to completion.

General Dabney Herndon Maury in his "Recollections of a
Virginian" said: "It was once my delightful privilege to pass
the Christmas holidays with Judge Butler and a company of
bright ladies and gentlemen, old and young, at "Hazelwood"
that old Virginia home of the Taylors, of Caroline. We had a
dinner party every day and every night had its delightful close
in a dance at Gay Mont, or at Port Royal or at Hazelwood.

The house, big as it was, had no vacant bed, or empty places at
the table and we young people greatly enjoyed the older people.
I remember a dinner of twenty or more seats, when we young men
and maidens listened with delight to the witty and wise conversation
sustained by Judge Butler, William P. Taylor, of "Hayfield"
and John H. Bernard, of Gay Mont, that cultured trio of gentlemen
of the old school."

PROSPECT HILL

About ten miles south of Fredericksburg on the Tidewater
Trail is a slightly traveled road leading off on the right in a
southeasterly direction to Prospect Hill, one of the most beautiful
estates in Caroline county. The present house, a substantial
brick structure, occupies the site of the old Battaile mansion,
and was erected by Basil Gordon, whose daughter, Mrs. Charles
Herndon, of Fredericksburg, remembers that when but a little
child a workman held her up so she might have a part in placing
a brick in the walls.

The house itself, without the lovely natural beauty surrounding,
is most attractive. Its spacious rooms, wide halls, beautiful
woodwork, remarkable pillars all speak of a past of wealth and
splendor.

The driveway to this old home is over-arched with great
branches of oak, sycamore, maple and elm and the brick walkways
around the house are overgrown with moss, which adds the
charming touch of age. The vines clinging close to the walls
and the great shade trees on the lawn remind one of the beautiful
old homes in "Merrie England." The adjacent woods are also
interesting aside from their natural beauty, for here are old gun
pits and breastworks, relics of the War between the States.

The location of Prospect Hill, which, by the way, suggested
the name of the place, leaves nothing to be desired. The old
Virginian not only had in mind the practical side when he chose
a site for his house, but the aesthetic as well. Here may be seen
miles of gently swelling hills, beautiful Rappahannock Valleys
and the Rappahannock itself, like a silvery ribbon, as it courses
to the sea.

It was here that Colonel Henry Fitzhugh, of "Bedford"
across the Rappahannock, married Sarah Battaile in October

1748. The place is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Gage.
For further description, especially for a description of the beautiful
flower garden, see Historic Gardens of Virginia, by Edith Tunis
Sale, from which the foregoing is largely taken.

SANTEE

Santee, familiarly known as "The Gordon Place" was originally
one of the many Fitzhugh country seats and is one of the most
interesting places in Caroline. The house was built by Battaile
Fitzhugh in 1807 and is about one-half mile distant from Prospect
Hill. Here, as at Prospect Hill, are the same masses of boxwood,
locust, poplar linden and walnut trees and the same symmetrical
hollies guarding the entrace. Here too are the bridal wreath,
honeysuckle, summer lilacs, phlox, clematis, calycanthus, wild
roses, mimosa, flowering quince, euonymus and privet hedge.
The old rose garden and the grape vine arbor are haunted with
that indefinable something which cannot be put in words or set
to music. Dora C. Jett in Historic Gardens of Virginia, from
which the foregoing is taken, says: "It was in the grape vine dell
probably that Patsy, the beautiful daughter and only child of
Battaile Fitzhugh, plighted her troth to Samuel Gordon, of
historic Kenmore. `I love you,' said Patsy, `but I cannot leave
Santee' and ever since that time the place has been owned and
occupied by members of the Gordon family. Today the grandson
of the late Robert V. Gordon holds sway over the old homestead."

Present House on The Neck Plantation

THE NECK

This estate was founded by William Buckner who married
Judith Aylett Hawes, widow of—Hawes, and daughter of
Wm. Aylett, of King William county. William Buckner was a
Justice in Caroline in 1768 and was succeeded in that office by
his son, William, Jr. There is a tradition, recorded in the History
of the Buckners of Virginia, by Crozier, that Judith Aylett
Hawes Buckner was a lady of ungovernable temper and great
family pride, and that she did not hesitate to horsewhip her coachman
when she thought the occasion demanded such treatment.
She was known as "Lady Buckner." Her dying request was that
she be buried beneath the pavement of the aisle of Rappahannock
church, which was occupied by the poor, "that those whom she
had regarded with contempt in life might walk over her dust."
The house shown in the accompanying picture occupies the site
of the old Buckner residence which was destroyed by Federal
gunboats in the Rappahannock.

Braynefield

BRAYNEFIELD

By his marriage to Dorothea Brayne McWilliams, widow of
Col. Wm. McWilliams, of Fredericksburg, Captain George Buckner
became the owner of "Braynefield" one of the finest estates in
Caroline. Captain George Buckner, son of George Buckner, was
born in 1750 and served in the War of the Revolution.

Lake Farm

LAKE FARM

This was originally the estate of Thomas Buckner (1771)
and was inherited by his son Thomas who married Lucy Fitzhugh,
daughter of Henry Fitzhugh and Elizabeth Stith, in the year
1800. See "The Buckners of Virginia" by William Armstrong
Crozier. The estate is now owned by Mr. J. W. Ayers.

THE ATHEY FAMILY

The family name of this ancient house has been spelled in
various ways—"Athy," "Athey," "Atha," "Athol," and "Athil."
From all these variations "Athey" has come to be the accepted
spelling of the name of the American branch of the house. The
family had its origin in Ireland where the name was originally
spelled "Daitha." Green in his history, "The Making of Ireland,"
says: "The family of Athy, officials of the town (Galway) from
father to son, were doubtless Irishmen who, in obedience to the
statute about taking English names, had taken the name of a
town." The family is of record in Ireland as early as 1313.
John de Athy was Marshall of Ireland in 1326. Many members

of this family were officials in the town of Galway early in the
fourteenth century.

The first of the family to come to America was George Athy
who was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1642 and came to Maryland
in 1674. He received from Lord Baltimore patents to lands in
Charles county. John Athy, Sr., son of George Athy, Jr., and
grandson of George Athy, the immigrant, was born in 1730
and being early orphaned, was, with his brother Robert, brought
up by an uncle in Caroline county. When forty-seven years of
age he enlisted in Captain Philip Richard Francis Lee's company,
Third Virginia Regiment, Continental Line and served the cause
of American Independence. He was with Washington at Valley
Forge. After the revolution he settled with his wife, Sarah Foster,
in Fairfax county, but, within a short time, removed to Caroline
county where his son, Elisha Athy was born July 23, 1782.

Elisha Athey was educated in the schools of Caroline and
afterward took commercial training in Baltimore. He emigrated
to Kentucky in early manhood and settled in Middletown. In
1825 he removed to Louisville and opened the first wholesale
drygoods house in that city. In 1840 he was reputed to be one
of the largest landed proprietors and slaveholders in the State.
He lost much of his fortune by endorsing for his friends. Elisha
Athey married Anne Roley White, daughter of William White,
of Westmoreland county, Va., who emigrated to Kentucky and
laid out the town of Middletown.

John William Athey, son of Elisha Athey and Anne White,
was born in 1812 and married Phoebe Yarnall, sister of Mordecai
Yarnall who was the first Signal Service officer of the United
States Government. He was secretary of the Jones McElway
Foundry Company at Holly Springs, Miss., which made the first
guns used by the Confederate Army. The Confederate Government
bought the foundry in 1862 and employed Athey as chemist
during the course of the war.

The Athey family is not now represented in Caroline county
but is well established and prominent in other parts of Virginia,
in Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin
and other mid-western States. Among the many descendants of
this ancient Caroline family may be named Alexander Athey,
Attorney-at-law, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin; Dr. Caleb Athey,
Baltimore, Md.; Raymond B. Dickey, attorney-at-law, Washington,

D. C.; Rev. S. M. Athey, Orleans, Va.; his son Rev. S. M.
Athey, Jr., Paris, Ky.; and C. W. Bransford, Owensboro, Ky.

The Athey coat of arms is described as follows:

Arms:

Checky; argent and gules, on chevron of the last three
etoiles or.

Crest:

Demi lion rampant.

Motto:

Ductus non coactus.

THE ARMISTEAD FAMILY

The name Armistead is derived from the name Darmstadt.
The family was originally of Teutonic origin, but were Englishmen
for many generations before coming to America in 1635.

William Armistead received a patent in 1636 from Captain
John West, Governor of Virginia, for 450 acres in Elizabeth City
county and here the seat of the elder line in Virginia was established
and called "Hesse." The family early became prominent in
Middlesex, Matthews, New Kent and surrounding counties.

The first member of this family to come to Caroline, so far
as authentic history records, was Henry Armistead, who was the
first representative of the county in the House of Burgesses
1727-35 and who was sworn county lieutenant in 1733.

John Armistead inherited much property in Caroline by the
will of Henry Armistead, and married Lucy Baylor, of "New
Market"—the ancient estate of the Baylors in Caroline. Lucy
Baylor was the daughter of John and Fanny (Walker) Baylor
and the sister of Col. George Baylor, Washington's chief of staff
and of Walker Baylor, who commanded the "Washington Life
Guards" at Germantown, Pa.

To John Armistead and Lucy Baylor his wife, were born seven
children—six sons and one daughter—one of whom, George
Armistead, may be numbered among the most noted men of
America.

George Armistead was born at "New Market," Caroline
county, April 10, 1780 and was appointed county lieutenant
January 8, 1799 and First Lieutenant in the Continental Army
in May 1800. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in
November 1806 and was made Major of Third Artillery in 1813.
He distinguished himself at the capture of Fort George, Upper
Canada, May, 1813, and became known as one of the bravest and
most resourceful men in the American Army. He was in command
at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, in 1814, and successfully defended
the city against the British attack under Admiral Cochrane.

Colonel George Armistead

For his gallant defence of Fort McHenry and the city of
Baltimore, he was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel and was hailed
throughout the country as "The Hero of Fort McHenry."

It was during his gallant defence of Fort McHenry that
Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star Spangled
Banner" which has since become the national anthem. The flag
which flew over the fort and which Key saw "by the dawn's
early light," was presented to Colonel Armistead by the Government,
who in turn presented it to his son-in-law, Mr. William
Somner Appleton, of Boston, as a wedding gift. The flag which
inspired the national anthem remained in the Appleton family for
many years, during which time Baltimore and Boston contended
with each other for its possession. Finally, at the suggestion of
of Mr. James B. Baylor, of "New Market," Caroline county, Va.,

the flag was presented by Mr. Appleton to the National Museum
at Washington, where the same is now preserved in a glass case
built especially for its keeping. In the same case with the flag
is the beautiful silver service which was presented to Colonel
Armistead by the city of Baltimore in recognition of his service
as savior of the city.

Colonel Armistead's five brothers served in the War of 1812,
three of them in the regular army and two in the militia.

THE BAYLOR FAMILY OF NEWMARKET

According to family records in the possession of James B.
Baylor, of "Newmarket" plantation and Washington, D. C.,

the first members of the Baylor family to settle permanently in
America were John and Robert Baylor who came to Virginia
toward the close of the seventeenth century. They were born in
Tiverton, Devonshire, England, John Baylor's birth date being
1650. Shortly after their emigration to Virginia they were
followed by their father, John Baylor, I, who had lived in Virginia
or owned property in the colony as early as 1650. The Lancaster
county records show that he was assessed in 1854 with three
tithables.

Fac simile of Statement of Account Between John Baylor and Edm. Pendleton

John Baylor, II, was married in 1696 to a widow, Mrs. O'Brien,
of New Kent, whose maiden name was Lucy Todd. He lived
first in Gloucester, which he represented in the House of Burgesses,
and afterward removed to King and Queen which he represented

in the House of Burgesses in 1718. He was a merchant as well
as a planter and employed a number of ships to bring in goods
for his stores in Gloucester, King and Queen and New Kent.
His principal warehouses were at a placed called "Baylor" on
the Mattaponi, between Walkerton and King and Queen Courthouse.

John Baylor, III, son of John and Lucy Todd O'Brien Baylor,
was born at Walkerton may 12, 1705 and was educated in
England at Putney rammar School and Caius College, Cambridge.
He was granted lands in King and Queen in 1726, upon
which he established his home calling the same "Newmarket."
The County of Caroline was formed the following year and the
plantation of "Newmarket" fell in the new county. John Baylor
III was Colonel in the Caroline Militia and was a Burgess for
Caroline from 1742 to 1765. He was also County Lieutenant
for Orange where he had been granted a vast tract of land upon
which he lived during the summer months. His commission as
Lieutenant is still preserved. He died April 16, 1772. Colonel
Baylor was noted as an importer and breeder of thoroughbred
horses. Among the famous horses which he brought to the
colony may be mentioned "Fearnaught" who cost him one
thousand guineas as the bill of sale, still in possession of the
Baylor family, will testify. In the New York Herald, of February
12, 1922, appeared the following:

"FEARNAUGHT'S IMPORTANCE AS A SIRE"

"The importance of the English horse Fearnaught, whose
offspring included Apollo and Regulus, two of the five topnotchers
of the Colonial turf mentioned by Judge DuVal, is thus
asserted by Patrick Nisbett Edgar in a footnote in his pioneer
stud book:

"Until the days of Fearnaught no other than quarter races
were run in Virginia. Speed had been the only quality sought
for. But his progeny were remarkable for their fine figure and
lasting bottom and introduced a taste (in imitation of the English)
for course racing, which led the Virginians to seek for race horses
of size and bottom."

Col. John Baylor, of Newmarket, in Caroline county, who
imported this great sire in 1764 and kept him until the turfman's
death in 1772, rivaled Col. John Tayloe, of Mt. Airy, as a breeder
of race horses. His stud included nearly one hundred horses

when his executor came to sell it. He was a man of wealth and
prominence in the colony and a personal friend of Washington.
Born in 1705, his name appears among the students at Cambridge
University in 1722. He was a Burgess from 1742 to 1765, and
was the father of Col. George Baylor, aid to Washington at the

Colonel George Baylor

outbreak of the Revolution, and later a cavalry leader to whom
Congress gave a charger in appreciation of his services at the
battle of Trenton.

While he was with Washington's Army at Tappan, N. Y.,
Col. George Baylor was shot through the lungs and captured by
the British. He afterward re-entered the service, but this wound
caused his death in 1784. In his "Blooded Horses of Colonial
Days" Francis Barnum Culver says the elder Baylor bequeathed

to his son George "his own riding mare, Jenny Dismal's colt
Godolphin, his gray mare Sprightly, and the young brown English-begotten
mare Stella," showing pretty clearly that the Revolutionary
hero inherited his father's love of blooded horses.

The importer of Fearnaught must have been on very intimate
terms with Washington, judging from an order sent to London
in 1759, just after the Colonel married the widow Custis and made
her mistress of Mount Vernon. This order was addressed to
Robert Cary & Co., and it directed them to procure for him
one-half dozen pairs of shoes, "to be made by one Didsbury, on Col.
Baylor's Last—but a little larger than his—and to have high heels."

To Col. John Baylor, III and Frances (Walker) Baylor were
born eight children: Courtney, Lucy, Frances, Elizabeth, John
IV, George, Walker and Robert. All of the daughters and several
of the sons were educated in England. Lucy married John
Armistead and became the mother of Colonel George Armistead,
"The Hero of Fort McHenry." (See Armistead Family).

George Baylor was born at "Newmarket" January 12, 1752,
and was educated by private tutors at Newmarket plantation
and in England. He was a member of the Caroline Committee
of Safety 1775-76 and entered the military service at the beginning
of the Revolution. He was Lieutenant-Colonel and
Aide-de-Camp to General Washington from August 15, 1775, to
January 9, 1777. He participated in several battles and carried
the news of the victory over the Hessians to Congress then sitting
in Baltimore. By order of Congress of January 1, 1777, it was
"Resolved, That a horse, properly caparisoned for service, be
presented to Lieutenant Colonel Baylor." He was also Colonel
of Third Continental Dragoons from January 9, 1777, to end of year.
In September 1777, his command was surprised near Tappan,
N. Y., at midnight, by a British force under General Grey, with
the loss of sixty-seven killed and the remainder captured. Colonel
Baylor himself received a bayonet thrust through the lungs from
which he never fully recovered,—although he later returned to
the service and commanded the First Continental Dragoons to
the close of the war. He was commissioned Brevet Brigadier-General
September 30, 1783. The would which he received in
his lungs near Tappan brought on pulmonary trouble and he
sought relief in the balmy climate of the West Indies, but in
vain. He died at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, W. I., in March, 1784,
and was buried in the church yard of St. Michael's Cathedral.

Walker Baylor was Lieutenant in Third Light Dragoons in
1777 and was promoted to a captaincy in February 1780. He was
disabled at Germantown by a ball which shattered his foot. He
married Jane, daughter of Joseph Bledsoe, of Caroline, and a
sister of Jesse Bledsoe who was United States Senator from
Kentucky.

Major Walker Baylor

Walker Baylor was the progenitor of the Baylor families of
Kentucky and Texas. One of his sons, Robert Emmett Bledsoe
Baylor, served in the War of 1812 under Colonel Boswell and
was in the battle which was fought near Fort Meigs. In 1819
he was elected to the Kentucky Legislature and the following
year he removed to Alabama where he became prominent in
politics, representing that State in the twenty-first Congress.
During the Creek War he commanded a regiment of Alabama

volunteers which rendered notable service. He removed to the
Republic of Texas in 1839 and was, almost immediately, elected
a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic. He was a member
of the Convention which framed the Constitution for the State
of Texas and was District Judge in the State for more than a
quarter of a century. In 1845, just before the State was admitted
into the Union, a charter for a Baptist college, to be located at
Independence, was granted by the Congress of Texas and to this
institution, which was named Baylor University, Judge Baylor
made large gifts of land and money. A county in Texas was
also named for him. Judge Baylor was the father of General
J. R. Baylor, C. S. A.

James Bowen Baylor, son of Dr. John Roy Baylor V, and
Anne Bowen, was born at "Mirador" the home of his maternal
grandfather, James Marshall Bowen, on May 30, 1849, and was
brought up at Newmarket plantation which he now owns.
Mirador later became the home of the Langhorne family and here
Lady Astor and her famous sisters were brought up. James Bowen
Baylor graduated with honors from Virginia Military Institute in
1865 and won B. S., and C. E. Degrees from the University of
Virginia in 1872. Baylor University conferred the degree of
Doctor of Laws on him in 1903, at which time he delivered before
the University a remarkable address on "Education in its Relation
to Production." He was married on January 5, 1881 to Miss
Ellen C. Bruce, of "Staunton Hill" Charlotte county, who was a
sister of William Cabell Bruce, author of "Life of Benjamin
Franklin," "Life of John Randolph, of Roanoke," and who is now
U. S. Senator from Maryland. She had one sister who became
the wife of the famous author, Thomas Nelson Page.

Dr. Baylor was appointed aid in U. S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey of 1874, after a competitive examination, and has been
Field Officer of this department since. He has determined the
elements of earth's magnetism from Canada to Mexico in almost
every State and has done hydrographic, astronomical and geodetic
work for surveys in various sections of the United States. The
"Baylor Survey" of the oyster grounds in Virginia is too well
known to Virginians to need comment here.

In 1900 the United States Supreme Court appointed Dr.
Baylor, Professor Buchanan, of Tennessee and W. C. Hotchkins,
of Massachusetts as Commissioners to settle the Virginia-Tennessee
boundary line dispute which had been in court for nearly one

hundred years. Dr. Baylor made the minority report defining
the boundary line along the middle of Main Street, Bristol, which
report the Supreme Court confirmed. He also served as boundary
engineer in establishing the Virginia-Maryland, New York-Pennsylvania
and United States-Canadian boundaries.

Having served with the cadet corps of Virginia Military
Institute during the last year of the Civil War, Dr. Baylor is a
member of the Confederate Veterans organization and frequently
attends the reunions of the men in grey. He is also a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati, the Philosophical Society of
Washington, The Cosmos, Metropolitan and Army and Navy
Clubs of Washington and of the Westmoreland Club of Richmond.
For a more detailed account of his life and activities
see Who's Who in America, issue of 1923.

JOHN ROY BAYLOR

John Roy Baylor, a brother of Captain James Bowen Baylor
and the seventh of the family to bear this name, was born in
1851 and began his education under the Rev. William Dinwiddie
at the Bookland School, Greenwood, Va. On completing his work
there he turned his steps toward the University of Virginia.
Here he remained several years, graduating with the degrees of
bachelor of arts and bachelor of literature.

Upon graduation he chose the profession of teaching as his
life work and entered upon the calling at the Mountain Spring
School at Trinity, Ala. He next served in the Miller Manual
Labor School, Albemarle, Va., which was an endowed institution
for the purpose of preparing orphans for vocational work. Prof.
Baylor's service at this school extended over a period of ten
years, from 1878 to 1888.

In 1889 Prof. Baylor moved to Savannah, Ga., and taught
in a school for boys in that city for two years, when he went
to Anniston, Ala., and took charge of the Noble Institute.

After this long service as a teacher of young men, Prof. Baylor
went to Chattanooga, Tenn., at the solicitation of Dr. Charles
W. Dabney, and there in May 1893, in conference with Messrs.
Robert Pritchard, Theodore Montague, H. S. Chamberlain and
L. M. Coleman in the home of Dr. J. W Bachman, he organized
The Baylor School which has become nationally known as one
of the greatest preparatory schools for young men in the entire
country.

The first location of the school was in the old McCallie homestead,
a landmark in the city. After six years here it was moved
to the corner of Vine and Palmetto Street where it remained until
1915.

In 1915, through the interest of J. T. Lupton and the alumni,
the school was removed to Baylor Station, its present site, and
the group of buildings which house the institution at present will
compare favorably with the best in the country.

Prof. Baylor is well known as a Greek and Latin scholar, but
he modestly gives the credit for his interest in the classics to his
old professors, who are nationally known figures. Colonel
Venable, one of his instructors, was chief of General Lee's Staff;
Dr. Gildersleeve, his professor of Greek, was considered the
greatest Greek scholar in the world; Col. William E. Peters, his
instructor in Latin, was a cavalry leader under General Jubal
Early; and Dr. Frank Smith, his teacher of Natural Philosophy,
was considered one of America's leading scientists.

Prof. Baylor married Miss Julia Howard, a lady of splendid
ancestry and active in the Society of Colonial Dames and other
similar organizations, and to this union was born a daughter—
Miss Eloise Baylor—who is regarded as one of the most talented
musicians in the entire South.

In June 1923, the University of the South bestowed upon Prof.
Baylor the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature in recognition
of his services to the educational world. He has also been included
in Who' Who In America. For a more complete biography
the reader is referred to The Chattanooga Times, of September
19, 1923, from which the foregoing has largely been taken.

Blanton Arms

THE BLANTONS OF CAROLINE

It is supposed upon good authority that the Blantons are
French Hugenots who fled to England before the year 1600.

A legal search of the records in England resulted in the following

statement: "In consideration of this matter a thorough
and exhaustive search has been made of all the available printed
and manuscript records of the County of Lancashire together
with a portion of the Counties of Cheshire and Yorkshire, but
without any discovery of the existence of the family, other than
the record of the arms about the middle of the sixteenth century.
Robert Grover, Somerset Herald, from 1571 to 1588 includes in
his ordinary of arms two coats for Blanton of Lancashire, and the
simplicity of the first coat points to great antiquity and it may
be assumed that the second coat is of later date and adopted by
a descendent of the family bearing the first coat.

Description of arms: Blanton (Lancashire) silver or white on
a bend sable three lions rampant out of the field.

The bearing of such coats of such a period clearly denotes that
the family then occupied a position of some consequence, as the
heralds of the day exercised great vigilance in preventing unauthorized
bearing of arms and possessed considerable powers
which they did not hesitate to employ as occasion required.

In the face of this, however, the name is not contained in any
of the miscellaneous records affording the only means of identification,
leading to the conclusion that the surviving members left
the county during the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
leaving no trace. A long list of authorities then given as being
`consultant,' shows that no other possible conclusion, other than
extinction, can be made."

There are two coats of arms, the first exactly like the second
except for the lions. It is believed that with the emigration from
Lancashire, England, the Blantons came to Stafford county, Va.,
thence to Caroline. From the records in the land office at
Richmond we find that one Thomas Blanton received grants of
land in old Rappahannock county, and that he also received
other grants in Caroline in 1682 and 1687. In 1783 William
Blanton received a grant of 400 acres (see page 228 book 14,
1775 and 1781.) In 1785 Thomas Blanton received 1,050 acres.
See book "O" pages 556 and 618. He married Jane Moore, of
Spotsylvania county. In 1749 William Blanton's name is again
mentioned. In 1742 John Blanton's name appears. In 1778
James Blanton's. In 1807 and 1816 James W. Blanton and
William Blanton are mentioned. In 1749 John Blanton who
married Hannah Anderson, both of Caroline, removed to Cumberland

county and settled near Brown's church. He was the
progenitor of the Cumberland Blantons.

The geneaology of the Caroline Blantons as known today is
as follows: There was a family, probably the children or grandchildren
of the above mentioned Thomas Blanton, whose several
names were John Blanton, Richard Blanton, William Blanton
and Polly Blanton.

The descendants of John Blanton were: James, Charles,
John, Eldridge, Richard, Augustus, Robert, Milton, Lewis,
Lucyella, Bettie, Sallie, Lina and Eliza Ann.

The descendants of James Blanton were: Judson, James,
Nannie and Jennie.

The descendants of Charles Blanton were: Etta, Ida, Mollie
and Alley.

John Blanton died without issue.

Eldridge Blanton had issue: Aubrey, Sallie, Asa, and Lee.

Richard Blanton had issue: Eugene, Julia and Ethel.

Augustus Blanton died without issue.

Robert Blanton had issue: Daisy and Grafton.

Milton Blanton died without issue.

Lewis Blanton had issue: Weldon, Lewis and Steward.

The descendants of Richard Blanton were: Charles, John
George, James and Mary.

Charles Blanton had issue: Nannie.

John Blanton had issue: Richard, Sallie, Mary, Archibald,
Tazewell, Ada and John.

Richard Blanton had issue: Emmett, Alfred, Arthur, Cecil,
William, Elizabeth, Lula, Ruth and Harry.

Archibald Blanton had issue: John, Herbert, Clarence, Thomas,
Linwood, Maud and Julia.

Tazewell Blanton had issue: Edwina and Ernest.

George W. Blanton had issue: George G., James, Betty,
Laura, Sallie, Isla, Mollie and Nettie.

George G. Blanton had issue: Clifton, Lonnie, Oscar, Lynwood,
George and Mellen.

James Blanton had issue: Clarice, Evelyn, Kate, Carrie,
James, Thomas, Louise and Christine.

Thomas Blanton was graduated from the Law Department
of the University of Virginia, m. Blanche Broaddus, dau. of
Eugene Broaddus and Blanche Ennis and has issue one daughter,
Jean Dulaney. He was elected Commonwealth's Attorney for

Caroline in 1923. This office was held by his wife's uncle, W. E.
Ennis, for several years.

James Blanton died without issue.

William Blanton had issue: John, Betty, Thomas, Letitia,
Jennie, Mollie, Lucy, Lawrence, Robert and Charles.

John Blanton had issue: Julian and Bettie Roy.

Julian Blanton had issue: Hampton, John, Leonard and Allie
Blanton.

Thomas Blanton had issue: Cora, Kate, Carrie, Robert,
Cedon, Wallie, Lula and Mamie.

Robert L. Blanton: No issue.

Cedon Blanton had issue: Audrey, Earl, Franklin, Reid and
Loise.

Lawrence Blanton died without issue.

Robert Blanton had issue: Annie, Grace, Eliza, Robbie,
Charles and Alvin.

Charles Blanton: No issue.

Alvin Blanton: No issue.

Earl Blanton married Lawrence Durrett.

Emmett m. Grace Blanton. Arthur m. Mrs. Massey. Wiliam
m. Miss Evans.

George G., m. Miss Sutton. James, m. Cora Blanton.

Bettie m. John Allen. Sallie m. W. L. Allen. Isla m. John
Arnold. Mollie m. R. E. Smith Nettie m. C. O. Allen.

Lawrence m. Miss Mattie Winn. Robert m. Miss Flippo.

Julian m. Miss Allen. Bettie Roy m. Broaddus Allen.

Cora m. James Blanton. Kate m. E. E. Burruss. Robert L.
m. Maud Hargrave. Cedon m. Ora Haley. Wallie m. J. W.
Allen. Lula m. A. J. Haley.

Grace m. Emmett Blanton. Eliza m. Harvey Durrett. Robbie
m. J. F. Davis and has issue: William Franklin.

THE BOUTWELL AND SMITH FAMILIES

The name Boutwell is derived from Bouteilles, a village near
Doeppe in Normandy. The first of the name to come to America
were three brothers who arrived at Port Royal, on the Rappahannock,
at the very beginning of the eighteenth century. One
of them settled on a large tract of land here in the Rappahannock
valley, which is still owned by a descendant, John Boutwell
Smith and the other two moved on farther North, where they
became the progenitors of large and influential families and

among whose descendants are Senators and Governors and other
makers and moulders of the Republic.

Birkenhead Hawkins Boutwell, descendant of the original
Boutwell settler, married Catherine Harrison Smith, daughter of
William Smith, of Revolutionary fame, granddaughter of Capt.
Joseph Smith and great-granddaughter of Sir William Sidney
Smith of England. A daughter of Capt. Joseph Smith m. a
Mr. Keith. She was an aunt of Chief Justice Marshall (See
W. and M. Quarterly, Mead's Old Virginia Families, Buck's
Eminent Virginians, Hardesty's Historical Encyclopaedia, &c.)

Birkenhead Hawkins Boutwell and his wife had issue: Dr.
Wm. S. Boutwell, Birkenhead H. Boutwell, Apollos Boutwell,
Walter J. Boutwell, Martha Smith Boutwell, Catherine Anne,
Elizabeth and Doniphan Boutwell. The last named daughter

was born April 27, 1823 and was married to William Chowning,
of Middlesex. Martha Smith Boutwell married James Madison
Smith, brother of Governor William Smith "(Extra Billy)" and her
cousin. Only one son of Birkenhead Boutwell ever married.
He was the eldest son, John F., who married Mary Smith
Blackford. They had issue three daughters. The last member
of the Boutwell name in Caroline was Apollos Boutwell who was
born in 1828 and died in 1917. He was the son of Birkenhead
H. Boutwell, who was considered a very rich man in his day
and is said to have kept his money in shot bags in the locker room
of his residence. He is also said to have kept three or four barrels
of whiskey and brandy in his cellar "for family use" and for
his friends.

James Madison Smith was twice married: First, to Mary Bell
by whom he had four children; Second, to Martha Smith Boutwell
by whom he had five children, John Boutwell, Kate Harrison,
Ida Birkenhead, Wm. Apollos, Camille Pauline. He died in

New Mexico while serving as Government Agent to the Indians.
He was a prominent lawyer in Washington.

John F. Boutwell, brother of Birkenhead H. Boutwell, was
a captain in the Confederate Army.

Miss Ida Birkenhead Smith wrote the author of this work as
follows: "During the Civil War my grandmother, Mrs. Birkenhead
Boutwell, lived at "Shady Grove" between Supply and
Brandywine. She turned her house into a hospital for wounded
and disabled soldiers until the fall of Richmond. Dr. Urquhart,
of Port Royal gave them medical attention. There were seven
left with her at the fall of Richmond, all of whom soon left save
one, whose health was so bad that he was unable to travel. She
fitted up the family school house which stood in the yard and
placed him in it that she might be able to look after him. We
children liked to go to his door to talk with him and hear him
sing. One morning he decided to leave and, of course, we gathered
around him. He fastened his little pack on his back and said,
"Good bye, purty gals, I am sorry to left you, but I am 'bliged
to went." We ran after him a little way then went back and
told grandma of his going. She was sorry she did not see him
to say "goodbye" and to give him some money as she had given
the other six who had gone some weeks before."

The Smith family aforementioned claim several Spanish
ancestors, the first being Don Iphan (afterward corrupted into
Doniphan by running the title and name together) who was
knighted by Isabella, of Spain, for gallantry during the war with
the Moors. When the Inquisition was introduced he was exiled
from Spain to save his life and so came to America. He married
a wealthy lady, a Miss Mott, and by this marriage had a daughter,
who married a member of the Sidney Smith family. A son
married into the Anderson family, later renowned in Caroline.
A descendant of these families is said to have passed through the
British lines at Charleston and returned with her skirts filled with
powder for the use of the Colonial troops.

THE BOULWARE FAMILY

There are several branches of this family in Caroline, all of
whom, according to family tradition, similarity of names, etc.,
came from the same ancestor, who came over from England and
settled at the place now known as Boulware's Wharf in Essex
county.

The first member of the family to come to Caroline was
Richard Boulware who, a few years prior to the Revolution,
purchased a section of Beverley's Chase from Robert Beverley,
of "Blandfield," in Essex, and established his home thereon.
This place became known as Boulware's Chase and a part of the
estate is now owned by the descendants of Richard Boulware.

Two sons of Richard Boulware and Frances, his wife—namely:
William and Mark, also settled in Caroline. Among the descendants
of William may be named Mrs. Mary Eliza Flippo,
wife of Dr. Flippo, a prominent physician of the county, and
Mrs. Maria Allensworth, wife of Captain Gibbons Allensworth
who represented Caroline in the Legislature. Mark Boulware
inherited Boulware's Chase and was twice married. By his
first marriage to Milly—, he had issue: Frank, b.
1780, d. 1870; Molly, b. 1781; Richard, b. 1783; Dorothy, b.
1785; Elizabeth, b. 1788. By his second marriage to Agatha
Saunders he had issue: Turner, b. 1792; Lucy, b. 1793; Elliott,
b. 1795; Judith, b. 1797; James, b. 1799; Ophelia, b. 1801; Battaile,
b. 1802. Mark Boulware d. February 22, 1811 and his widow
d. 1836.

The children of Mark Boulware married as follows: Lucy m.
—Long and among her descendants may be named
John C. Howlett, of South Boston; Mrs. Solon B. Woodfin, of
Ashland; Mrs. James W. Jeffries, of Warrenton and Miss Maude
Woodfin, of the faculty of the University of Richmond.

Judith m. David Evans, of Caroline, and removed to Shelbyville,
Tenn. She had issue a son, Dr. Robert Evans, who died a
few years since at an advanced age. Among her descendants
are David Evans Miller, prominent railway official of Atlanta,
Ga.; Mrs. Margaret Lyle, of Johnson City, Tenn., and Mrs.
Margaret Cooper, of Thomasville, Ga.

Ophelia m. James Harwood Broaddus and had issue: Caroline,
George and Agnes. These are named in the History of the
Broaddus Family. Of the descendants of Ophelia Boulware and
J. H. Broaddus may be named Mrs. Lillian Chockley, of Rockford,
Ill., and Mrs. Irene Fuller, of Bradford, Penn.

Turner Boulware, son of Mark, removed to Wood county,
Va., now W. Va., in 1810 and settled where Parkersburg now
stands. It was only a trading post then. Young Boulware
helped to erect the court house and the old Bell tavern, the first

brick houses in Parkersburg. He enlisted in the American Army
in 1812 under Col. John McConnell, of the First Virginia regiment
and marched to Sandusky, O., thence to Delaware, Ohio, thence
to Ft. Meigs on the Maumee river, which fort he helped to defend
against the British under General Proctor. For further details
see History of Wood County by A. F. Gibbons. After peace was
made Turner Boulware was discharged with the rank of sergeant
and returned to Parkersburg. He kept a journal while in the
army which is now deposited with other war relics in the Pioneers
Cabin in the city park of Parkersburg.

Turner Boulware

Born October 4, 1792. Died while visiting his old home in Caroline in 1872.

Turner Boulware m. Mary Ann Creel, dau. of George Creel
and Clara Buckner and had issue: Mark, James, Elizabeth, Agnes,
John, Maria, George, Lucy, and Clara.

Mark, son of Turner, removed to Kansas in 1862 and married
Paulina Brockman, of Illinois. He died in 1902 leaving three
daughters, namely: Mrs. Mary Atkisson and Mrs. Nannie Waddel,
of Blue Mound, Kans., and Mrs. Calista Atkisson, of Coalinga,
Cal., and one son, George Boulware, of Kansas. Two of Mark
Boulware's grandsons, John Atkisson and Mark Atkisson served
in the World War.

James Boulware, son of Turner, b. 1832, came to Caroline
after the death of his bachelor uncle, Elliott Boulware and resided
with three of his father's maiden sisters. He enlisted in the

Confederate Army in 1861 and was made first lieutenant of
Company B; 9th Virginia Cavalry. He was in many engagements,
and he and a soldier named —Martin were the
last ten men to cross Falmouth bridge after firing it to keep the
Northern troops from crossing the Rappahannock. When peace
came he returned to Caroline from prison at Fort Delaware and
on December 14, 1865, married Caroline Broaddus, daughter of
James H. Broaddus. Four children were born to this union:
Eugene, b. 1866, d. 1872; Clara, who m. Harry J. Motley; Allie,
who m. T. S. Jones, of Orange; and Linwood, who now lives in
the old home. Mrs. Caroline Broaddus Boulware died on August
21, 1913 and her husband, James Boulware, died on March 15,
1915, being the third member of his family to die on March 15th.

Elizabeth Boulware died unmarried at Freeport, W. Va.,
March 18, 1912.

Agnes Boulware m. Thomas Gilmer, lawyer, and had issue
eleven children of whom four are now living, namely: Mrs. Benton
Jackson, of Parkersburg, W. Va.; A. L. Gilmer, of W. Va.; Mrs.
Bessie McClintock, of Ardmore, Okla., and Miss Barbara Gilmer,
of W. Va.

John Boulware, fifth child of Turner Boulware, removed to
California where he was killed in a skirmish in 1862.

Maria Boulware m. Edwin Dean and died in 1906, survived
by two sons: Julius and James, and one daughter, Mrs. Mary
Cooper, of Harrisburg, W. Va.

George Boulware married Miss Malana Cain and died at
Parkersburg without issue.

Lucy F. Boulware, b. 1846, m. Levi Morgan in 1874. He
died in 1919.

Clara, youngest child of Turner Boulware, m. George Lockhart
and had issue six children, five of whom are now living,
namely: Mrs. Laura Smith, of Spencer, W. Va.; Mrs. Lena Pribble,
of Parkersburg; Cleveland, Garland and Benjamin, all of Wirt
county, W. Va. Mrs. Lockhart died in 1915 and her husband in
1917. In addition to five children, twenty-one grand children
survived them.

Turner Boulware was a charter member of the first Masonic
Lodge chartered in Parkersburg, W. Va. Of his nine children
Mrs. Lucy Morgan, of Parkersburg is the sole survivor. Turner
Boulware died while visiting his only surviving sister Mrs. Lucy

Long at the home of her son-in-law, Robert B. Wright, and was
buried on the old family estate on his 80th birthday. See History
of Wood County, W. Va.

THE BOWIE FAMILY

In the year 1742, or thereabout, two brothers—Scots—bearing
the names of John and James Bowie, obtained a grant of land
in Caroline county, near Port Royal, on the Rappahannock, and
here settled. The estate of James Bowie, who was never married,
was named "Braehead," and the estate of John Bowie was called
"The Hill."

Bowie Arms

John Bowie married Judith Catlett, daughter of Col. John
Catlett and Mary Grayson and had issue (1) James Bowie who
m. Catherine Miller; (2) Catherine Bowie who m. James Pendleton;
(3) Elizabeth Bowie who m. James Smith; (4) Judith Bowie
who m. a Mr. Noel; (5) Eleanor Bowie who died unmarried;
(6) Mary Bowie who m. a Mr. Timberlake; (7) Janette Bowie
who m. Joseph Duerson.

James Bowie, only son of John Bowie and Judith Catlett,
married, first, Catherine Miller, a niece of the wife of Robert
Gilchrist and had issue: (1) John Catlett Bowie who served in the
War of 1812.

John Catlett Bowie m. first, Jane Timberlake and had issue:

(1) Lucy Anne Bowie, who m. John L. Quesenberry. John L.
Quesenberry and Lucy Anne Bowie had issue: (1) John James
Quesenberry; (2) William Bowie Quesenberry. William Bowie
Quesenberry m. Emma Fitzhugh and had issue: (1) Mary Brockenbrough
Quesenberry and (2) William Fitzhugh Quesenberry.
John Catlett Bowie m. second, Sarah Cox and had issue: (1)
Allen Brockenbrough Bowie; (2) James Livingstone Bowie; (3)
Catherine Miller Bowie.

Allen Brockenbrough Bowie enlisted in the Caroline Artillery,
commanded by Captain T. R. Thornton, but on account of ill
health was transferred to the Commissary Department and
served in South Carolina under General Drayten. Allen Brockenbrough
Bowie married Elizabeth Lovell Duncanson, a descendant
of Col. James Duncanson, of Revolutionary fame and had issue:
(1) Mary Alphonsa Bowie; (2) John William Bowie; (3) Allen
H. Bowie; (4) James G. Bowie.

Julia Duncanson Bowie married Capelle H. Archer, a prominent
real estate dealer of Richmond and had issue: (1) Elsie V. Archer;
(2) Allene B. Archer; (3) Mary Randolph Archer; (4) Katherine
Bowie Archer.

John Wm. Bowie settled in Covington, Va., operating a drug
establishment.

Allen H. Bowie served in the Spanish-American War and was
hospital sergeant in the McGuire Unit during the World War,
being stationed at Toul, France. He married Ella Mae Womble
and has issue: (1) John W. Bowie, (2) Allen Morris Bowie and
(3) Robert Duncanson Bowie.

James Livingstone Bowie, second son of John Catlett Bowie
and Sarah Cox, served as Lieutenant in the Caroline Artillery
during the Civil War and afterward settled in Louisville, Ky.,
where he became auditor for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
He married Alice Duncanson and had issue: (1) Catherine Bowie,
(2) Livingstone Bowie, a broker; (3) Alice M. Bowie, an attorney
and (4) James L. Bowie, business man of Louisville, Ky.

Catherine Miller Bowie, only daughter of John Catlett Bowie
by his second wife, Sarah Cox, and an unusually brilliant woman,
married John Henry Martin, a descendant of Colonel John
Martin who was prominent in the life of Caroline from its very
beginning as a county and who represented the county in the
House of Burgesses 1738-1741. A large section of the county
now known as "The Chase" was originally owned by this Colonel

John Martin of pre-Revolutionary fame. Many of his descendants
are now to be found in Orange county, seven or eight
miles east of the courthouse, where they first settled upon removing
from Caroline.

John Henry Martin and Catherine Miller Bowie had issue:
(1) Julian Bowie Martin, well known educator, who m. Ruby
Snead, of Fluvanna county and had issue: Julian Bowie Martin
II, and Catherine Isabel Martin.

(2) Sallie Martin who married Dr. Arthur Lewis Martin, of
Naulakla, Caroline county, descendant of Warner Lewis, and who
has three daughters, Pattie Livingstone Martin, Mary Bowie
Martin and Garnett Lewis Martin.

(3) Henry Miller Martin, A. B., A. M., Ph. D., is Professor of
Spanish in the University of Illinois. He was a Fellow of John
Hopkins University, from which he received his Ph. D. He studied
abroad for several years.

(4) Judith H. Martin, of "Clay Hill" Caroline county.

Walter Bowie, son of James Bowie and Catherine Miller, was
twice married: First, to Julia A. Spindle by whom he had issue:
(1) Catherine N. Bowie, who m. a Mr. Chewning; (2) James
Barbour Bowie, who m. Anna Forbes; (3) Walter Bowie, C. S. A.
veteran and Professor of Mathematics in V. M. I., and who
married First a Mrs. Miller and Second, Eugenia Miller, of
Caroline. Walter Bowie lived on his estate—"Kernan"—in
Westmoreland. His grandson, Gordon Forbes Bowie, was a
prominent physician. His second wife was Mary S. Todd by
whom he had the following children: (4) Walter Bowie, II, who m.
Gillie Jones; (5) Sarah, who m. T. M. Murphy; (6) Mary; (7)
Margaret, who m. Col. R. S. Lawrence; (8) Edwin, (9) Ella who
m. Judge J. T. Pendleton.

Walter Bowie, II, married Gillie Jones and had issue: (1)
Walter Russell Bowie, III. Walter Russell Bowie, III, married
Elizabeth Branch, of Richmond and had issue: (1) The Rev. Dr.
Walter Russell Bowie, IV, former Rector of St. Paul's church
(Episcopal) Richmond and at present (1923) Rector of Grace
church, New York City; (2) Martha S. P. Bowie, who married
her cousin Melville Campbell Branch, well known banker of
Richmond.

William Miller Bowie, son of Robert Bowie and Catherine
Miller, was married first, to Elizabeth Farrish, no issue and, second,

to Nannie Jessie by whom he had issue: (1) Charles Bowie, (2)
Eugene Bowie

Charles Bowie, son of William Bowie and Nannie Jessie,
married First, Sarah Jones, no issue; Second, to Fannie Catlett
by whom he had issue: (1) William D. Bowie, (2) Nannie Bowie,
(3) Walter Nelson Bowie and (4) Frank E. Bowie. Charles
Bowie lives at "Midway" near Woodford in Caroline county.
"Midway" is named for its geographical location in the county.
The water from one side of the roof flows to the Mattaponi and
from the other side it flows to the Rappahannock. The town
of Midway, Ky., was named for this old Catlett estate. Charles
Bowie was married a third time to Miss Boulware, daughter of
George Boulware.

Eugene Bowie, son of William Bowie and Nannie Jessie,
married First, Julia White, of "Mt. Zephyr" in Caroline, now
owned by Mr. R. L. Brooks and had issue: (1) Eugene Bowie,
II, (2) Margaret Anne (Madge) Bowie, who married Dr. W. A.
Shepherd, a prominent physician of Richmond, by whom she
has three sons, William, Bowie and Daniel. Eugene Bowie
married Second, Sophia Corbin, of Caroline and had issue: (3)
Willing Bowie, lawyer and commonwealth's attorney for Caroline
for eight years; (4) Eugene Bowie, named for deceased half
brother; (5) Charles Bowie, who m. Elizabeth Wirt Washington;
(6) Lulie, died infant; (7) Mary Jessie Bowie m. Ira Muse, of "Oak
Grove" Westmoreland county; (8) Catherine Nelson Bowie; (9)
Garnett Bowie and (10) Corbin Bowie, who m. O'Neal Broaddus.

The Times-Dispatch, of Richmond, of January 8, 1911, carried
an obituary notice of the death of Eugene Bowie, which is, in
part, as follows:

"On December 3, 1910, Eugene Bowie, aged fifty-six years,
died at his home, "Mica," in Caroline county, Va. Mr. Bowie was
twice married, his first wife being Julia Campbell White, of
Caroline, from which union there was one son Eugene, who died
in his seventh year, and one daughter, Margaret B. Shepherd,
wife of Dr. Wm. A. Shepherd, of Richmond. His second wife
was Sophia Corbin, of Caroline, to whom he was married in
August 1888. From this marriage seven children and the widow
survive.

"Mr. Bowie possessed such qualities of character and exerted
such influences in his county that his death deserves more than
a passing notice. He was of the true type of old Virginia gentleman.

Open hospitality held sway in his home. Friend and
stranger were welcomed and his generosity extended to all. Perhaps
he helped more of his friends to succeed than did any other man
in the community. His success in business and the means resulting
from his industry enabled him to gratify his desire to help others.
Deep sorrow throughout the community is felt on his passing,
for he will be greatly missed."

Broaddus Arms

THE BROADDUS FAMILY

The name Broaddus is a contraction of Broadhurst and corresponds
to Whitehurst, Deerhurst, Penhurst and many other
kindred names, the "hurst," denoting a knoll or wooded hill.
The family is of Anglo-Saxon origin and for centuries has been
prominent in British life, having given to the Empire many statesmen,
among whom may be mentioned Henry Broadhurst, a member
of Gladstone's government and for many years a member of
Parliament. The family name in America is written by a few
with one "d" but by the majority with two. The arms of the
family are thus described:

Arms:

Quarterly, az. and or, fretty, raguly counterchanged.

Crest:

A swan erm. swimming, charged on the breast with an
estoile sa. wings expanded or, fretty, raguly az.

Edward Broaddus, the first of the family in America of whom
anything is definitely known, emigrated from Wales and settled
on Gwynn's Island in Virginia. From Gwynn's Island he removed
to the lower part of Caroline—then King and Queen—
in 1715, where he resided till his death at about seventy years
of age. He was twice married and had by his first wife two
sons and two daughters and by his second marriage five sons.

His eldest son, Thomas, married Ann Redd by whom he had
seven sons. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and
died in Caroline at an advanced age. The History of the Broaddus
Family, by Rev. Andrew Broaddus, II, of Sparta, Va., (Central
Baptist Print, St. Louis 1888) traces the descent of various branches
of the family through Thomas Broaddus, son of Edward the
emigrant and his daughter Catherine who m. Edwin Motley and
through Robin Broaddus, seventh son of Edward the emigrant.

Edwin Broaddus, son of Thomas, I, and grandson of Edward
the emigrant, removed to Kentucky at an early day, being the
first member of the family to leave Virginia. He became the
progenitor of the Broaddus family in Kentucky and other midwestern
States. His youngest son, Andrew Broaddus, removed
to Missouri and married there. While living in Missouri he
made a trip to Santa Fe with Kit Carson, and while on this trip
accidently shot himself in the hand making an amputation of the
arm necessary. This operation was performed by his companions
with a butcher knife, using the instrument first to cut
through the flesh and afterwards converting it into a saw, by
hacking the edge, for cutting the bone. The wound was cauterized
by a red hot king-bolt from one of the wagons. He returned to
Kentucky where he died at an advanced age, leaving forty-two
grandchildren and fifty-five great grandchildren.

Eldridge J. Broaddus, son of Andrew of Missouri and Kentucky,
was elected Circuit Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial
District of Missouri in 1874 and served six years. He was for
many years attorney for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad.

The Broaddus family has been prominent in the life of Caroline
from the formation of the county to the present. Hardly a
Legislative Petition from Caroline is to be found without the
Broaddus name. The family has been no less prominent in the
history of the Baptist church, having given more ministers to that
denomination than any other one family in America.

Burke Arms

THE BURKE FAMILY

The name Burke, Burk, Bourke or Bourck, as it is variously
spelt, was originally written De Burgh and under that form is
an ancient name, traceable back to the fourteenth century.
The family is of Norman origin and is prominent in Irish and
English history. The first person of the name, of record, in
America was Richard Burke, of Sudbury, Mass., of whom nothing
is known previous to his marriage in Sudbury in 1670. Connecting
his appearance with the fact that less than twenty years
prior to 1670, Michael de Burgh, Earl of Clauricarde, was driven
from his country, his estate sequestered and his home broken
up, we are led to wonder whether in the consequent dispersion of
his retainers, one of his relatives, or possibly himself, did not
find passage to the new world to start life anew, under less
oppressive circumstances. Major John Burke was born at
Hatfield, Mass., November 28, 1717 and died at Deerfield, October
27, 1786. Richard Burke, a descendant of the Burkes of Massachusetts,
came to Virginia, it is supposed, about 1775. He
had issue: John, Henry and William. John Muse Burke, his son,
married Frances Sophia Woolfolk, of "Shepherd's Hill," in
Caroline, May 31, 1817 and had issue: Thos. George, John,
Jourdan, Bettie Ann, Cordelia, Maria Louise, Margaret, Fanny
and Mary Ellen. Thomas George Burke m. Isabella Garnett
and had issue: Betty W., John Muse, Thos. George, Robt. Hampton,
Sallie M., Belle Garnett. John Muse m. Sarah Grineck
and had issue: Daniel G. Burke. Thos. George m. Nannie Beazley
and had issue: Charles, Leslie, Harry, Mabel, Earle, Thomas,
Grace. Robert Hampton m. Agnes Lowe and had issue: James,
Isabella and Robert. Bettie W., m. James M. Jesse and had
issue: Fannie, Corra and Annie. Sallie M. died unmarried.

Belle Garnett m. Robt. Emmett Collins, son of Capt. Charles
Collins of War of 1812 and had issue: Mary Lou, Emmett Burke,
Sarah Muse, George Waverly, Thomas Maury, Belle Hampton,
Margaret Catherine, Samuel Dickinson and Ione Bertrand
Mary Lou m. Wm. A. Beazley and had issue: Robert Hampton,
William Ashby, Thos. Collins and Emmett Garnett. Emmett
Burke, unmarried. George Waverly, unmarried. Thomas Maury,
unmarried. Sam'l Dickinson, unmarried. Sarah Muse m. Thos.
Orin Hyatt, no issue. Belle Hampton m. Elwood Dunn Davies
and has issue: Elwood Dunn, Jr., Dickinson Maury and Lou
Belle. Ione Bertrand m. David C. Glascock, no issue. For
further Burke genealogy see History of Burke Family, 239 pages,
and also Woolfolk genealogy elsewhere in this volume.

Campbell Arms

THE CAMPBELL FAMILY

The Campbell family received the name de Campo Bello
during the period of the Norman Conquest, which name was
soon anglicised to Campbell. Among those knighted by the

Conquerer was one of the name Campo Bello, who received as a
reward for his services that territory in Scotland known as
Argylshire. The Campbells of Argylshire have always been
regarded as the head of all the several branches of the family
scattered throughout the English speaking world. The Argyle
Campbells were early among the nobility, among the first, if not
the very first, being Baron Campbell, whose son was made Duke
of Argyle and married Isabella Stuart, Princess of Scotland.
Title after title has been added to this dukedom until the present
Duke of Argyle holds almost as many titles as the King of
England.

When Mary Stuart was in prison she naturally expected aid
from her cousin, the Duke of Argyle, who was in a number of
conspiracies to effect her release. When Elizabeth signed the bill
permitting the execution of Mary she also signed another banishing
certain noblemen, among them the Duke of Argyle. He took
up residence in France and was here many years before he was
permitted to return to Scotland. While in France one of his sons
fought a duel with a Frenchman and, killing his antagonist, was
compelled to flee the country. England being closed to him, he
came to the Colony of Virginia, arriving at Jamestown about
1650. He married and removed from Jamestown to a settlement
in Accomack thence recrossed the bay to Gloucester where he
died. His family later came to King and Queen and of this
family one son, James, came to Caroline and established himself
at "Poplar Grove" near Golansville. Later the Caroline family
acquired Aspen Hill near Milford, now owned by Mr. and Mrs.
John U. Henderson, and are now strongly established in both
Caroline and Hanover counties.

THE CHANDLER FAMILY

The Order Books of Caroline county show that the Chandler
family was prominent in the life of the county as early as 1734.
In Order Book, No. 1, (1732-1740) page 149, mention is made
of the deeds of lands of Timothy Chandler and Justin, his wife.
On page 518 of the same book is recorded an order "That Robert
Woolfolk, Timothy Chandler and Moses Hart (or Hurt) lay off
the most convenient road from the Mattaponi River across
Polecat Swamp to Chesterfield church."

There is a tradition, with much historical color, that three
men of the name Chandler came from Essex, England to Roxbury,

Mass., in 1637 and one of these, William Chandler, settled at
Roxbury; one, Timothy Chandler, came to Maryland; and one,
Robert Chandler, came still farther south and settled in Virginia.

Chandler Arms

It is significant that the Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia
families bear the same arms, of which the following is a description:

Arms:

Chequy argent and azure, on a bend engrailed sable,
three lions passant or.

Crest:

A pelican sable, in her piety, vert.

Motto:

Ad mortem fidelis.

Robert Chandler died circa 1803 and his will, according to
Caroline Order Books, was probated that year. He left four
sons and four daughter. (1) Henry, (2) William, (3) Edmund,
(4) Robert, (5) Molly who m. — Bibb, (6) Fanny who m.
—Hackett, (7) Sally who m. — Jones and (8) Lucy.

Robert Chandler was evidently a churchman for his name is
found on one of the early Legislative Petitions from Caroline,
praying that body to continue the establishment. The petition
was drawn by Edmund Pendleton whose name heads the list,
and the name of Chandler is second.

William Chandler, second son of Robert, I, married Ann
(sometimes called Nancy) Coleman and had issue: (1) Lucy
who m. James Smith, (2) Elizabeth who m. Benjamin Coleman,
(3) Rebecca who m. John Smith, (4) Thomas Coleman who m.
Clemantine Alsop, of Spotsylvania county.

Clemantine Alsop was the daughter of Samuel Alsop, a wealthy
planter of Spotsylvania, whose will is of record in that county
and was probated in 1859. This will names his old and infirm
slaves and provides that they must not be sold, but cared for
"at the expense of my estate."

The mother of Clementine Alsop was Dorothea Campbell of
Caroline. This Campbell family has its seat at "Poplar Grove"
near Golansville. Dorothea Campbell had brothers, Matthew,
Elliott and William; and one sister, Mary, who married a Mr.
Henderson. These Campbells were of the Duke of Argyle clan.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson had a daughter who married one Mr.
Reynolds and whose descendants live in Richmond.

Members of the foregoing branch of the Chandler family
have intermarried with members of the Kay, Campbell, Tompkins,
Coleman and other families and have numerous descendants in Virginia
and elsewhere. Thomas Kay Chandler, who died in Newport
News in 1920, was a son of Thomas Coleman Chandler who
married Miss Alsop. He (Thomas Kay Chandler) married the
daughter of Dr. Benjamin Anderson, who was a brother of Henry
Tompkins Anderson, the famous educator and translator. Thos.
K. Chandler and his wife had issue: (1) Boyd D. Chandler, who
m. Miss Jennie Frazer, of "Coventry" in Spotsylvania and had
issue one daughter, Anne Boyd, who m. J. H. Rives, attorney of
Richmond; (2) Roberta, who m. J. E. Warren, of Newport News
and had issue one son, Bankhead Warren.

One of Thomas Coleman Chandler's brothers, Dr. Joseph A.
Chandler, married Emuella Josephine White by whom he had
several children, among them two sons, Julian Alvin Carroll
Chandler and Campbell Chandler. J. A. C. Chandler, m. Lenore
Burton Duke, of Churchlands, Va., and had issue three sons.
Campbell Chandler, m. Annie Beasley, daughter of Chas. E.
Beasley and Mary Jane Chandler, and had issue one son and
one daughter, Charles and Jane Campbell. Campbell Chandler
died in 1918 and his widow and two children reside at "Idlewild"
near Guinea, which was built by Dr. Joseph Chandler. Dr.
Chandler also built "Spring Grove" near Guinea which is now
owned and occupied by his nephew, Cutler Beasley. Thomas
Coleman Chandler, father of Dr. Joseph A. Chandler owned
"Fairfield" near Guinea, when Stonewall Jackson died there.

"Burton Hall" stands on a beautiful knoll a few hundred yards
from "Idlewild" and is owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Flippo. Mrs. Flippo is a sister of Mrs. Campbell
Chandler, who owns "Idlewild." "Burton Hall" was built by
President J. A. C. Chandler, of William and Mary College, and
named for his wife, Lenore Burton Duke. These two homes
are among the most beautiful in Caroline, and within their walls

the Old Virginia spirit and hospitality still survive in all their
glory.

Rev. Richard Woolfolk Chandler was born circa 1730, and
married Sarah Tompkins and had issue several children, among
them being Timothy Chandler and Robert Chandler, who is
mentioned in the foregoing as a co-petitioner with Edmund
Pendleton. Rev. Richard Woolfolk Chandler is buried at "Broomfield"
in Caroline.

Timothy Chandler, son of Rev. Richard Woolfolk Chandler,
was born September 29, 1761, and was married circa, 1788, to
Lucy Temple, daughter of Captain Samuel Temple and Fanny
Redd, of Caroline. Captain Temple was sworn into service in
the Revolutionary War in November, 1777, according to McAlister's
Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, page 333.
See also Virginia Magazine (published by Virginia Historical
Society) Vol. 7, p. 20. Militia section No. 223, p. 165; also No.
257 of Caroline and Virginia Library Report, vol. 1912, p. 431.
Captain Samuel Temple, of Caroline, is listed in Auditor's Accounts
of 1779, p. 155, and in Council Journals of 1782-3, pps. 125-209.

The children of Timothy Chandler and Lucy Temple were:
Samuel Temple, Norborne E., Frances R., Leroy, John, Hugh,
and Timothy, Jr. The last named died young. Norborne E.
Chandler removed to Mobile, Ala., and there married Miss
Rebecca B. Wiggins. Hon. A. B. Chandler at one time owned
portraits of this couple, representing the wife as a very beautiful
woman, and the husband as a man of strong intellect and character.
He was shown with the old goose quill pen in hand and full ruffled
shirt bosom, and she with the quaint dress and coiffure of that
period. Samuel Temple Chandler, married a Miss Todd and
settled in Rockbridge county, Va., and had two sons, Samuel
Temple, Jr., a doctor of medicine, and Norborne E., and one
daughter, Maria, who married Madison L. Effinger, of Rockbridge.
Both sons married daughters of one Grigsby family, of
Rockbridge.

The widow of Samuel Temple Chandler and a number of his
children removed to St. Louis, Mo., where they and their descendants
became prominent. The children of Norborne E.
Chandler went to Chicago where they became wealthy and
prominent men. Frances R. married Fleming James, a prosperous
merchant of Richmond. Leroy Chandler removed to
Missouri, where his descendants are numerous and prominent

today. He was twice married. Hugh Chandler married Miss
Virginia Wyatt, of Caroline, and by her had William Timothy
Chandler who married Alice E. Scott, daughter of Francis W.
Scott, of Caroline. Mrs. Alice Scott Chandler founded Bowling
Green Female Seminary, which is now located at Beuna Vista,
Va., under the name of Southern Seminary. William Timothy
Chandler, her husband, practiced law in Bowling Green. John
Chandler married Miss Ella Cook, of Norfolk or Portsmouth, and
had no issue.

John Chandler, son of Timothy Chandler and Lucy Temple,
was born in November, 1801. He was married on November
26, 1836, to Lucy Ann Coleman, the daughter of Benjamin Coleman
and Elizabeth Chandler, of Caroline. To this union were born
two children: Betty Ann in 1837, who married Dr. Samuel Dickenson,
and Algernon Bertrand Chandler, in 1843. A very fine portrait
of John Chandler is now owned by his grandson, Algernon
Bertrand Chandler, Jr., President of the State Teacher's College
at Fredericksburg, Va.

Algernon Bertrand Chandler, Sr., son of John Chandler and
Lucy Ann Coleman, was born at "Woodlawn" in Caroline county,
August 16, 1843, and educated at Washington and Lee University.
He was married on September 10, 1867, to Julia Yates
Callaghan, of Fincastle, Va. To this union were born nine
children: (1) W. Temple, who was drowned at age of 14; (2)
Algernon Bertrand, Jr., (3) John Washington, who lived and
died in Houston, Tex.; (4) Ferdinand Wiley, attorney in Bowling
Green; (5) Julia Yeatts, (6) Charles Guy, (7) Lucy and (8)
Landon Spencer, twins; and (9) Edith Temple.

Leroy Chandler, son of Timothy Chandler and Lucy Temple,
who has already been mentioned, was twice married—first, to
Elvira Copeland in Richmond, Va., on October 8, 1817, and, second,
to Sarah Ann Quarles, of Belmont, Louisa county, on April 21, 1825.

To Leroy Chandler and Elvira Copeland were born three
daughters: (1) Frances Eliza, b. August 28, 1818; (2) Lucy Temple,
b. January 20, 1820; (3) Virginia Ann, b. December 2, 1821.
Frances Eliza married John W. Conner at Glen Burnie, Mo.,
June 6, 1838. Lucy Temple married James R. Payne at Glen
Burnie, Mo., December 5, 1837. Virginia Ann married—first,
Dr. John Field at Belmont, October 29, 1851; second, Jacob
Keiser, of Woodlandville, Mo., on February 22, 1855.

To Leroy Chandler and Sarah Ann Quarles, his second wife,

were born thirteen children: (1) Charles Quarles, (2) Timothy,
(3) Elvira Copeland, (4) Margaret Mills, (5) Mary Lewis, (6)
John, (7) James (John and James twins), (8) Maria Louisa,
(9) Sarah Ann, (10) Susan Henry, (11) Florence M., (12) Robert
Leroy, (13) Kelly R.

Charles Quarles Chandler, eldest son of Leroy, was born
January 26, 1826, at Belmont (or Belle Mont), Missouri. He
married Ann Elizabeth Woods on October 10, 1861, and had
issue: C. Q. Chandler, Jr., banker at Wichita, Kansas, and Mattie
Leroy Chandler, who married H. J. Hammond, banker, and who
for many years lived at Clayton, N. M.

Timothy Chandler, son of Leroy and Sarah Ann Quarles,
married Louisa Temple, daughter of Dr. Peter Temple, and
made his home at Lexington, Mo.

Elvira Copeland Chandler, dau. of Leroy, married Dr. Francis
Carr in 1852 and had issue Frank E., John H., and Nannie.
Frank E., a banker at Wellington, Kans., married and had four
sons. John married and lived in St. Louis, Mo. He had two
children. Nannie married Dr. — Ridgeway and removed to
Seattle, Washington. They had two daughters.

Margaret Miles Chandler, dau. of Leroy, m. Augustus Goodman,
of Gordonsville, Va., and had issue three daughters and
two sons.

Mary Lewis Chandler, dau. of Leroy, m. Oren Tucker and
had issue three daughters and two sons, all of whom live in St.
Louis, Mo.

John and James Chandler were twin sons of Leroy. John
was twice married and left at his death one daughter by his
first wife and an infant son by his second. James left at his
death one son who married and removed to Kansas City, Mo.

Mary Louisa, dau. of Leroy, m. Henry McPherson and had
issue one daughter and two sons.

Sarah Ann, dau. of Leroy, m. Thomas L. Tucker and had
issue ten children, all of whom reside in Cooper county, Miss.

Susan Henry, dau. of Leroy, m., first, James Wallace by whom
she had a son and daughter, and, second, to a Mr. Collins, of
Kansas City, Mo.

Florence M. Chandler, dau. of Leroy, m. a Mr. Ferguson
and lived in Booneville, Mo.

Robert Leroy Chandler, son of Leroy, died at age of 28 unmarried.

Kelly R. Chandler, son of Leroy, m. Sarah Bowles and had
issue one son. They lived in St. Louis, Mo.

At the opening of the twentieth century there were six
children of Leroy Chandler living—one by his first wife and
five by the last. They were: Mrs. Virginia Keiser (by the first
wife), Woodlandsville, Mo.; Mrs. Mary L. Tucker, St. Louis,
Mo.; Mrs. Maria L. McPherson, Booneville, Mo.; Mrs. Susan
H. Collins, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Florence M. Ferguson,
Booneville, Mo., and Kelly R. Chandler, St. Louis, Mo.

Further light on the Chandler family and on Caroline county
is given by the following:

REMINISCENSES OF A. B. CHANDLER

"About nine miles southwest of Bowling Green is Woodlawn,
the present home of Dr. E. C. Cobb. This farm was owned by my
grandfather, Benjamin Coleman, in 1843, and here I was born
August 16, 1843, and lived her four years until my father, John
Chandler, bought Elson Green, two miles north of Page's Bridge.
At Elson Green I lived during my boyhood days until my father
sold in 1863, and loaned the proceeds to the Confederate Government.
He was a Whig and voted for Bell and Everett for President
and Vice-President in 1860. He was, however, an ardent secessionist,
and believing that if the United States Government could
liberate the slaves contrary to the constitution, it could also
confiscate our lands, and, therefore, he would risk all he had in
the success of the Confederate cause. He did so and lost all.

"In my boyhood days up to 1858, I went to school in the `old
field schools,' as they were called, schools taught by a single
teacher, in a log cabin of one room, built convenient for the
neighborhood and by the patrons of the school, of pine logs
chinked and daubed, with daubed wood chimneys, with one
window and plain blank benches with no backs, generally made
out of a slab from a saw-mill log. My teachers of those days,
whose memory I recall with great pleasure, were Henry A. Ware,
Henry C. Peatross and Wm. G. Taliaferro, father of our present
W. G. Taliaferro. These were all fine men of old Virginia stock,
intelligent, faithful and efficient. I wish I had space to give a
short biographical sketch of each. While these schools were
located as conviently as possible, I had to walk from two to five
miles twice daily to reach them. Mosquitoes were superabundent
in the bottoms of Caroline, and unmercifully innoculated us with

malaria, though we did not know that malaria came from this
source. Malaria, more than any other thing, interferred with the
educational progress of that day. These schools were good
schools, the teachers earnest and unremitting in their labors.
The school hours were from 8:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M., with one
hour for recess at noon. The discipline was exacting, and, on
occasion, the hickory was not spared. Children were taught
spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, history,
and some Latin. In the fifties the weather was much more severe
than in later years. It was but the usual thing to see the highways
so covered with snow and ice that they were used for continuous
sleighing for months at a time. In 1856 and 1857 we
had two snows five or six feet deep, and in one of these years the
public did not use the highways for months; not until spring
weather melted the snow. In some cuts the snow was ten feet
deep. The period of which I am writing was the period of slavery
and the South's highest civilization. In no period of time, in
no country of earth, did civilization and culture reach that of the
South as it was immediately preceding our war between the
States. I make no apology for African slavery; I am sorry it
ever existed in Virginia. I never owned a slave, but my father
owned many. This culture, I have spoken of, however, was
based largely upon slavery. Every owner of a large plantation
was lord of all he surveyed. He had ample leisure for reading the
best literature of the day, and so had his family. The ladies of
the house had only to direct the management of the household,
with an ample supply of highly-trained servants. The young
men spent their leisure time in neighborhood social gatherings
and shooting partridges, frequently a single huntsman killing
twenty or more birds a day. There were large neighborhood
dinings, held first at one mansion and then at another, at which
all the familes of the neighborhood gathered, and the tables groaned
under the superabundance of all things tempting the appetite
of man. The sons and daughters of this class of whom I am now
writing were sent, after finishing their `old field school' training,
to the very best colleges and universities to properly equip them
to maintain their station in life. The sons either succeeded their
fathers as owners of the old homestead or filled the learned
professions, generally law and medicine.

"Upon the principle of suggestio falsi suppressio veri (a
suggestion of falsehood is suppression of truth), I trust the present

generation of Caroline may not be shocked when I record that,
at these neighborhood feasts not only were there abundant solids,
but there were placed on the sideboards an abundance of crushed
loaf sugar and ice, mint, and several varieties of old Bourbon
and rye. A peculiarity of our people of that generation was
that, whenever one citizen became offended with another they
rarely adjusted their differences at that time, but adjourned the
matter until the next court day, then when they met they would
fight it out on the court green. I remember witnessing a man
on the court green going up to another very upright and peaceful
citizen, and putting his fist under his nose, gave the nose a very
severe punch upward. The citizen punched did not resent the
very severe intrusion on his nose, which brought the blood, but
simply took out his large bandanna handkerchief and wiped off
the blood. Thus culture and degredation, virtue and vice seem
to move on together through the ages. * * * 

"I arrived home at my grandmother's in June, 1865, too late
to do more than to sow some wild oats during the remainder of
that year. The next year, 1866, I rented land and made a crop,
sold the crop in the fall, sold my horse (all I had saved from the
war), and borrowed $100.00 from a friend and started in the fall
for Washington and Lee University to study law under Judge
Brockenbrough, who had a private law school in Lexington,
which was absorbed by the university that year. In June, 1867,
I came home to Caroline with my diploma, certifying that I was
a Bachelor of Law, and I did more than this, I also brought
home with me in the same year my wife. Studying law and
desperately loving at the same time do not usually run smoothly
together. I succeeded in both simply because the love disease
did not violently seize me until near the end of my collegiate
term. This brings me to the fall of 1867, when I came to Bowling
Green to live and start the battle of life.

"Before proceeding from this date I wish to go back to the
fifties and call attention to the fact that, in a few of those years
there were in Caroline and Virginia, literally millions of wild
pigeons in the fall. They were so numerous that they went
in great flocks, and darkened the sky in their flight. They fed
on acrons, and thousands upon thousands of them were shot
and trapped. They were a little smaller than our domestic
pigeons, and of solid slate color. They have now almost disappeared,
there being only a few in one county in New Jersey,

and an effort is being made to protect these by law. The robin,
too, was very numerous in those days. The highways were lined
with cedars full of berries, and thousands of robins during the
entire winter were in these trees, and thousands were shot. This
bird, while it continues to be with us, is now very scarce and we
see but few of them, and these only in the spring of the year. It
is wonderful how various species of both animals and birds disappear
altogether from age to age and other species take their place.
Man yet remains, although many races have degenerated and been
blotted out, while other races have advanced and developed in
body and soul nearer their Creator. It all depends upon the
degree of success they attained in living up to and practising
the tenets of life as laid in Christ's Sermon on the Mount.

"The period of time from 1867 into the seventies was the period
of reconstructing the South. We were fought by the North
on the theory that we could not secede from the Union, but when
we were `frazzled out,' then we were considered out of the union
and had to be brought back. The negroes were given the right
of suffrage by constitutional amendment, and the Southern States
were forced to ratify this amendment as a condition precedent
to their re-admission to the Union. A constitutional convention
was called in Virginia, while it was Military District No. 1, ruled
by Gen. Canby of the Federal army. This convention sat in Richmond,
composed largely of `gentlemen' of pure African descent,
half breeds, carpetbaggers and scalawags, which framed a constitution
disfranchising a very large portion of the best white
people of the State for participating in the rebellion. General
Grant was President and permitted the people to vote for the
constitution, and at the same time vote against the clause of
the same which disfranchised our white people. At the same time
that we voted on the constitution we voted for a governor and
members of the legislature. This was in 1869, and politics were
at red heat. The whites were linked up solidly on one side and the
blacks on the other. The result of the election was that the
constitution was ratified with the disfranchising clause stricken
out. Caroline elected Capt. J. M. Hudgin and Maj. R. O.
Peatross to the House of Delegates by 170 majority over Tukey
and Crockett, the latter colored. Thus we got back into the
union. The political contest between the whites and blacks kept
up many years, and all kinds of means and devices were employed
to keep the State from negro domination. Frederick S. Tukey,

a Massachusetts Yankee, was sent to Caroline as head of the
Freedmen's bureau. He was personally a kind dispositioned man,
but a South hater, and while the whites tried to conciliate the
blacks and induce them to vote with us, since their interests
were identified with ours, Tukey invariably told them to first
find out how the whites were going to vote and then they must
vote directly opposite. The blacks, with their new acquired
freedom, and the belief instilled into them that the South was
responsible for their slavery, and that they owed their freedom
to the North, were easily led and consolidated against the whites.
Some few of them always voted with the whites but if it was
discovered they were ostracised and otherwise ill treated by their
color. The people of Virginia and the South saw that their civilization
was in peril, that under no circumstances could they afford
to see ignorant black men holding positions as magistrates,
legislators and judges, and hence every means was resorted to
to prevent these catastrophies.

"I was young and full of spizzerinktum, hence soon found
myself deep in politics. Whether the end justified the means I
need not at this late day discuss. It was so deemed by our
people, and no means available were omitted to have the offices of
the State filled by white people. The colored people on election
day would choose a ticket holder, and he put all the ballots intended
for the negroes in a bag folded, and each voter was instructed
to get his ballot from this ticket holder. On a certain
occasion two gentlemen, the night before election, met in an
office in Bowling Green to determine what had better be done
to make safe the election of the next day. They got hold of a
colored man, whom they thought they could trust, and paid
him to take $5.00 to a distant precinct, and fifty Democratic
ballots, and to give both the five dollars and the fifty ballots to
the negro ticket holder of that precinct for use the next day.
The scheme worked and this far-off precinct, which usually gave
75 Republican majority gave 50 Democratic majority. The
negroes were greatly puzzled; they knew something had happened
but just how the thing was done they did not know.

"Since I am speaking of the relationship between the races
I will say that I have always found the negro kind and friendly,
courteous and respectful, ready to lend a helping hand to one
in need, and as reliable in the performance of their engagement
as other people. Many of them are among our very best citizens.

"When I located at Bowling Green, the first of October, 1867,
to enter upon the practice of my profession (this was my purpose
but I had no clients) I stuck up my shingle. Having a wife to
support, as well as myself, I could not wait for clients. There
being no common schools at that date, I rented a portion of the
building now owned by Dr. Butler and secured patrons enough
to give me a good school and taught this for one session and a
half when I relinquished the school and gave my time to the
practice of my profession. When I came to the bar, it was a
large and eminent one. From the City of Richmond came James
Lyons, Travis Daniel, Chastain White, of Holladay, Bailey and
White, Mr. Griswold, and from Fredericksburg came John L.
Marye, Jr., with whom was associated shortly afterwards St.
Geo. R. Fitzhugh, Braxton and Wallace (Elliott M. Braxton and
Wistar Wallace), A. W. Wallace, Wm. A. Little and W. S. Barton
and occasionally others from that city. Mr. John L. Marye, the
father of John L. Mayre, Jr., was then an old man and retiring
from the practice, though he usually came down to enjoy himself
and be with the fraternity. He was a bright and jovial man,
full of anecdote and wit and could tell a good joke and enjoy
it as much as any man I ever knew, expressing his joy in hearty
laughter. The Caroline resident bar embraced John Washington,
Scott & Chandler, (F. W. Scott and W. T. Chandler), E. C.
Moncure, Walter G. Hudgin, John M. Hudgin, T. N. Welch and
R. O. Peatross. These were practicing attorneys when the
War between the States commenced. This was the Bar when
I joined it in 1867. When the new constitution for the State
became effective after the war, and the County Court was created
with a single judge, Walter G. Hudgin was elected Judge and
presided over the Court for several terms, being succeeded by
T. N. Welch when the re-adjusters (so called) in combination
with the Republicans captured the State. Welch (as Congressman
Harris said) was a `Re-adjuster in the cool.' We lived under
this motley judicial reign until this combination was overthrown
when E. C. Moncure succeeded Judge Welch as Judge of the
County Court and held the position until the County Court
was abolished. Judge John Critcher was Judge of the Circuit
Court when I came to the bar and was succeeded by Judge Wm.
S. Barton (venerrabile et clarissimo nomen), of Fredericksburg.
This order was true, except for a short period during reconstruction
when Virginia was in a military district ruled over by General

Canby, who removed Judge Critcher and appointed a man named
Thompson.

"The old bar was composed of men of exalted conceptions
of the dignity and honor of their profession and the
most genial and sociable of men. Many of the men I have
named were profound in learning and eloquent in debate. In
those days the Circuit Court, which had jurisdiction in most
civil and criminal cases, met only twice a year, and usually continued
in session from two to three weeks. Most of the attorneys
put up at the Lawn Hotel, and at nights would meet in social
intercourse, and have a most enjoyable time, telling anecdotes
and discussing the intricate problems of law. We had many
strong men at the bar. James Lyons was tall and well proportioned,
and while not quite as forceful in debate as Mr. Daniel,
was one of the most suave and polished men I ever knew. Chastain
White, with a large, bald head, was a good, all round, forceful
man, and continued to practice law in Caroline longer than any
of the Richmond lawyers. George Ridgely Dorsey, father of our
present County Treasurer, came to us from Maryland. Having
been a Confederate soldier he found a more congenial atmosphere
in Caroline than in his native State. I would name him as the
most brilliant member of the old Caroline bar. Certainly no
one of equal intellectuality has succeeded him. The ethics of
the profession were very high and scrupulously maintained. I
am sorry I can not affirm same to be true of all men who have
joined the profession since that time. Next to the ministry the
bar has the power to be of the greatest good to mankind,
but it all depends upon whether or not they use their great offices
in allaying or fomenting strife.

"In speaking of the bar I can not omit to say a word about
our most excellent sheriff of that day. A lawyer cannot prosper
very much without a good sheriff. Mr. Geo. W. Marshall was
sheriff and no one could possibly have discharged the duties of
the office better than he did. The sheriff not only attended to
the law business of the bar, but he also collected the public revenue.
Having the public revenue to collect, the sheriff was thus the
better enabled to collect money on executions by combining the
two collections. Mr. Marshall was very fine at this and, in
many instances, I have had him collect money for me when it
could not have been made by forceful proceedings. He was
exceedingly genial, sociable and polite, and a universal favorite
with the bar and the public."

THE CHAPMAN FAMILY

The name Chapman is of Saxon origin. The Saxon word
chapman means a chapman, marketman, merchant, monger or
cheapner. The several American branches of this family had
their origin in England where the family has long been prominent,
letters of nobility having been granted as early as the fifteenth
century. In 1854 it was estimated that more than twenty members
of this family were clergymen in the Established Church in
England.

The Royal Book of Crests (London 1863) shows the crests
of ten different branches of the Chapman family. The different
families have, however, the same coat of arms which is described,
as follows:

Arms:

Per chev. argent and gu. in the centre a crescent counterchanged.

Crest:

Arm embowered in armour holding a broken spear
encircled with a wreath.

Motto:

Crescit sub pondere virtus.

The first members of this family to come to Virginia were
Richard and Thomas Chapman who arrived on the ship "Tryali"
in 1610. Other members of the family came on the ship "Bonaventure"
April 3, 1635 and from this date to the present the
family of Chapman has had unbroken representation in Virginia.

The family is not largely represented in Caroline today, but
in the past has been one of the largest, wealthiest and most
influential. Of the Caroline house, now residing out of the
county, there are known to the author Professor William Robert
Chapman, of Lois, Fairfax county, son of the late Orville Claud
Chapman and Lucy Ann Green. Professor Chapman was born
in 1872 and is a great nephew of Reuben Chapman who was the
eleventh Governor of Alabama. Mrs. Lillian Chapman Hudson,
of Alameda, California, published the genealogy of the Chapmans
in 1894, and to this work the reader is referred for more complete
genealogical data.

Reuben Chapman, eleventh Governor of Alabama, was born
in Caroline county, near Bowling Green, and was the son of
Colonel Reuben Chapman and Anne Reynolds. His father was
a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His mother was a native
of Essex county, Va. He was educated in Caroline and in 1824
removed to Alabama, making the journey on horseback. He

settled in Huntsville and read law in the office of his brother
Judge Samuel Chapman who had preceded him to Alabama by
several years. On his admission to the Bar, Reuben Chapman
established himself at Somerville, Morgan county. In 1832 he
was elected to the State Senate, and in 1835 he was elected to
Congress by a large majority over R. T. Scott, of Jackson, and
William H. Glascock, of Madison. Two years later he was reelected
over Governor Gabriel Moore, his majority being six
thousand three hundred.

In the four succeeding elections he had no opposition save in
1841, when the Hon. John T. Rather, of Morgan county, was a
candidate on the Whig ticket. Among the questions voted on
during his term of office was the issue of Treasury notes, which
he favored.

He was elected Governor of Alabama in 1847, his opponent
being Hon. Nicholas Davis, of Limestone county. It was said
that he received the nomination entirely without solicitation,
and in order to remove him from his apparently life-time contract
with the people of his district to represent them in Congress.
His inauguration was rendered remarkable in a social way by a
public reception given by him at Montgomery on a scale of
extraordinary liberality and hospitality. When he was inducted
into the office of Governor, Alabama was financially embarassed
because of the mismanagement of the affairs of the State Bank
and its trustees. He had the good fortune to be able to remedy
the difficulty and relieve the Treasury. His term was characterized
by wisdom and devotion to duty, as was acknowledged by all.
In the Convention which chose his successor he received a majority
of votes but yielded to the "two-thirds rule." which he believed
to be right. He then withdrew from political life and devoted
himself to the care of a handsome estate until 1855, when, on the
demand of the Democratic party, he consented to become a
candidate for a seat in the State Legislature in opposition to the
Hon. Jeremiah Clemens, who represented what was then known
as the American Party. This was his last political experience
except that he was several times a delegate in the National Conventions
of his party.

Soon after retiring from official service he went with his
family to Europe, and was residing in France when the Civil
War began. He then came home and attended the Baltimore
Convention, held in the interest of peace, doing his best to bring

about reconciliation between the Northern and Southern representatives,
and nearly succeeding. During the Civil War he
was imprisoned, and his home and property were destroyed by
Federal troops.

During the career of Mr. Chapman in Congress many questions
of vital importance to the country came up for consideration,
and it was said that few statesmen ever exercised more sagacity
with reference to the interests of his country, or exhibited greater
familiarity with its political history.

In the community where he lived it was said of him that,
"his worth and weight could not be measured, for in all matters
requiring manhood, judgement and honor, personal or political,
he stood forth as an exemplar and a sage."

Governor Chapman was a man of splendid figure and proportion,
erect in his carriage, handsome in feature and frank in
expression. He was married in 1839 to Felicia Steptoe, daughter
of Colonel Steptoe and Sarah Chilton Pickett, of Faquier county,
Va., but then residing in Limestone county, Ala. They had
two daughters and two sons, one of whom was killed in battle
during the Civil War. Governor Chapman died in Huntsville,
Ala., on May 17, 1882, at the age of nearly four score years.
For a more detailed biography the reader is referred to the
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.

THE CARTER FAMILY

According to the Carter MSS of 1858, by Colonel Norborne
Sutton, which are liberally quoted in the book—The Descendants
of Capt. Thomas Carter—by Dr. Joseph Lyon Miller, of Thomas,
W. Va., the first Carter to settle in Caroline was John Carter,
son of Thomas, of Lancaster. He was married on November 21,
1798, to Frances Ball, eldest daughter of Col. Joseph Ball, and
a sister of Mary, the mother of Washington. Upon his marriage
to Miss Ball he settled in territory which became Caroline county
in 1727, and here his youthful bride died on September 3d of the
following year. He married 2d a Miss Payne, by whom he had
several daughters. Upon her death he married 3d on January
4, 1714, to Miss Margaret Todd, daughter of Wm. Todd, of
"Toddsbury" Gloucester county. By this third marriage he
had issue: John Carter II, James, Robert and William.

John Carter II, of "Nomini Hall" was born in 1715 in that
part of King and Queen which in 1727 became Caroline, and was
a Captain in the Revolutionary War. He married 1st Elizabeth
Armistead, b. 1716, daughter of Francis and Sarah Armistead, of
Richmond county, and had issue: William, John III, Robert,
Mrs. Hillman, Mrs. Nancy Bayliss, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs.
Sarah Sutton, who was the grandmother of Col. Norborne Sutton.
John Carter II, m. the second time to Hannah Chew, daughter
of John Chew, Justice of the Peace in Spotsylvania county, and
Margaret Beverly, of "Newlands" Spotsylvania. By this second
marriage he had issue: Mary, Lucy, Margaret, Judith, Elizabeth
and Robert. Seven of his daughters and two of his sons left
descendants in Caroline, King and Queen and King William
counties.

Sarah Carter, daughter of John Carter, II, by his first marriage,
m. William Sutton, of Caroline and had issue: Bettie Sutton,
Sarah Sutton and John Carter Sutton.

Bettie Sutton, daughter of William Sutton and Sarah Carter,
m. a Mr. Chapman and had issue three sons and two daughters:
James, Reuben, Robert, Martha and Lucy. Her son Reuben was
the father of the eleventh Governor of Alabama, Reuben Chapman,
of whom see Chapman Family. Sarah Sutton, daughter of
William Sutton and Sarah Carter, m. Robert Lewis, of Spotsylvania.
He was the son of Dr. John Lewis and the brother of
Doctors Zachariah and John Lewis. John Carter Sutton, of
"Pine Forest" on the Mattaponi, son of William Sutton and
Sarah Carter, m. 1st, his cousin, Maria Chew Sutton, daughter
of Joseph Sutton and Judith Carter, and by this marriage had
one son, John Oliver Sutton.

John Carter Sutton m. 2d, Elizabeth Page Pendleton, only
child of Edmund Pendleton III, great nephew of the famous
jurist Edmund Pendleton. This Edmund Pendleton, great
nephew of the jurist, m. Jane Burwell Page, daughter of John
Byrd Page and lived at "Edmundton" in Caroline, which had
been given to him by his great uncle, Judge Edmund Pendleton.
His father, a nephew of the great jurist, was also named Edmund
and lived at "White Plains" in Caroline, now owned by Rev.
Andrew Broaddus III. This Edmund Pendleton II, of "White
Plains" was the son of the Hon. John Pendleton, of whom Rev.
Philip Slaughter wrote in his "St. Mark's Parish" as follows:

"John, 4th son of Henry Pendleton and Mary Taylor, was

born in 1719 and died in 1799. He held various offices of trust
and honor in the Colony and in the Senate. He was appointed
by a Convention of Delegates of the Counties and Corp. of Virginia
at Richmond on Monday, July 17, 1775, to sign a large issue of
Treasury notes. The issue was about 350,000 pounds, and the
Ordinance read: `Of the notes to be issued 50,000 shall be of the
denomination of one shilling and shall be signed by John Pendleton,
Jr., Gentleman, which notes shall be on the best paper.'
Later he was appointed by the Governor of Virginia a Judge of
the County Court. He was a grandson of Philip Pendleton who
was born in England in 1650 and came to Virginia in 1676."

John Carter Sutton and Elizabeth Page Pendleton had issue:
(1) Edmund Pendleton Sutton, (2) William Carter Sutton, (3)
Hugh Carter Sutton, (4) Norborne E. Sutton, (of whom see
biography elsewhere in this volume) (5) John Carter Sutton,
(6) Robert W. Sutton, (7) Patrick H. Sutton, (8) Sarah Jane
Sutton, (9) Lucy Carter Sutton, (10) Anne Lewis Sutton and
(11) Betty Burwell Sutton.

William Carter, who was named for his grandfather William
Todd, settled on the family estate in Caroline. His name appears
in the old Order Books of Caroline in connection with various
suits between 1745 and 1770. Norborne Sutton's MSS of the
Carters of Spotsylvania states that William Carter left descendants
in Caroline.

George Carter, of Christ Church Parish, Lancaster, was born in
1725, married a Miss Beale, of Westmoreland and settled in Caroline
in 1750. His children were: Charles, Edward, John, Richard,
Thompson, Spencer, George, Presley, Betsy, Peggy, Sally. He
received grants of land in Halifax county in 1766 and 1768, and
not long thereafter removed to that county with all his family
save John who married in Caroline and remained in the county,
where he kept a tavern. The Caroline Order Books covering the
period 1795-1798 mentions his "Ordinary Bond." His children,
according to the Caroline marriage register, married as follows:
Thompson Carter, m. Polly Farmer, December 22, 1814; Spencer
Carter, m. Sarah Fletcher, March 24, 1815; Charles Carter, m.
Matilda Hans, December 18, 1818; George Carter, m. Anne
Shackelford, December 18, 1818.

Owen and Griffin Carter (probably brothers) of the Essex
family, settled in Caroline about 1745 and established homes and
became the heads of families.

John Carter, of "Nomini Hall" inherited "North Wales"
an estate of nearly ten thousand acres lying along Pamunkey
and North Anna Rivers, on the southern border of Caroline.
This land had been granted to one of his ancestors some time
before by the British Crown, and the estate remained in possession
of the Carter family for nearly two centuries, passing into other
hands in 1896. The original manor house, a very imposing
structure of early colonial type, was burned many years ago,
but a number of the houses of the "quarters" and the overseers
house, are still standing.

The Carters of "North Wales" were connected with the Todd,
Chew, Bell, Sutton, Chapman, Lewis, Pendleton, Taylor and Lee
families. It is said General Lee visited "North Wales" shortly
before his death. The plantation is now owned by Messrs.
Frederick and Adolph Usinger, of Milwaukee.

It appears that the present Carter families of Caroline are
descended from William Carter, son of John Carter and Margaret
Todd. Philip Carter, grandson of William Carter, m. a Miss
Hackney in 1807 and had issue four sons and one daughter.
His son Peter Carter married Sarah Hill and settled at "Mt.
Gideon" near "North Wales," and had issue: Edward, Hill, James
and Mattie.

John Carter, Armistead Carter, Captain John Carter, of
Caroline, served in the War of the Revolution. And in the War
of 1812 the 30th Regiment, from Caroline, had seven Carters
on its roll, namely: James Carter, James B. Carter, Vicman
Carter, Joseph Carter, Spencer M. Carter, Philip Carter and
Charles Carter. The Voters List for 1923 shows that Caroline
had forty-one white voters bearing the name Carter.

The Carter arms were granted many hundred years ago. It
is said that the name, as well as the arms, was derived from their
occupation as carters, indicated by the four wheels on the
escutcheon. Some authorities say that the original Carter was,
if we may use such an espression, Master of Transportation for
one of the Kings of England. In ancient days when rivalry for
the crown made violent deeds of frequent occurrence, the King,
owing to the vicissitudes of war, had to move frequently and
sometimes very quickly. The carter was an important man in
his retinue, as the only means of transportation in those days was
by cart or wagon.

THE COGHILL FAMILY

The earliest ancestors of the Coghill family had their home in
York, England, and can be traced back in a direct line to Knaresborough,
1378, on the paternal side, and to 1135, on the maternal—
the Slingsbys of Scriven Hall.

The origin of the name Coghill, says Playfair in his British
Family Antiquary, volume 7, page 226, was probably derived from
a place anciently called Cockle-Hall, now Coghill Hall, in Yorkshire;
or perhaps from the residence of one of the family on a hill
near the river Cocke, which runs through the country.

The first ancestor, according to records in the Castle of
Knaresborough, was John Coghill, or Cockhill, of "Cockhill" who
resided in the county of York in the reign of Henry IV (1378-1413).
From John Coghill, of "Cockhill" the American branch
of the family is descended. (See The Family of Coghill, by James
Henry Coghill, which was published by The Riverside Press
(Cambridge) in 1879).

The first member of the Coghill family to reside in America,
so far as the record goes, was Samuel Coghill, who under date of
February 20, 1662, was granted four hundred acres of land lying
on the north side of the Rappahannock River in Farnham Parish
in what is now Richmond county. The patent was never recorded,
which fact led the family historian above mentioned to conclude
that he failed to take possession. The name is not found again
and it is presumed that he died in the colony soon after his arrival
or else returned to England.

The progenitor of the Coghills, of Caroline, who have played
so important a part in the life of the county, was James Coghill.
He received three patents to land for the transportation of
persons to the colony, which patents and deeds are of record
in the Land Office. The first is dated March 24, 1664, and is
for 246 acres lying in Essex, that part which afterward became
Caroline, and is for the transportation of five persons. The
second patent bears date of April 17, 1667, and is for one
thousand and fifty acres lying in old Rappahannock county.
The third patent is dated April 17, 1667, and is for six hundred
acres in old Rappahannock county.

The Coghill family has given many great men to England,
among whom may be mentioned Sir John Jocelyn Coghill, Bart.
of Glen Barrahane, Castle Townsend; Marmaduke Coghill, LL. D.,

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Privy Counsellor and member of
Parliament; Lieutenant Nevill J. A. Coghill; John Coghill, of
London, and Sir Thomas Coghill, Knight, of Blechingdon.

Probably no family has had a larger place in the life of Caroline
county during the past two hundred years than the family
of Coghill. Among the many members of this family now active
in the affairs of the county may be mentioned E. R. Coghill,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for many years, and one of the best
loved men who has ever lived in the county; his son, E. S. Coghill,
Deputy Clerk, and Major T. D. Coghill, brother of E. R., and
for many years Sheriff of the county and otherwise prominent
in public life. R. A. Coghill, son of Major Coghill, has long been
a prominent merchant in Bowling Green.

The Coghill arms are thus described:

Gules on a chevron; argent, three pellets, a chief, sable.

Crest:

On a mount, vert, a cock, wings expanded or.

Motto:

Non dormit qui custodit.

THE COLEMAN FAMILY

Explanatory Notes—A, B, C, and etc., denotes generations.;
1, 2, 3, and etc., denotes order, according to birth; X denotes
one of direct line from whom descent is traced; ½ added to a
number denotes person who married into the family; C C or B B
mean contemporary generations of C or B of collateral lines.

(a) John Coleman, 1st, son of Sir James Coleman of Braxton,
Mango, Essex county, England, settled in Fairfax county, Va.,
in 1640, and married a Miss Hawes of King William county, Va.
ISSUE:

(b 1) James Coleman, 1st.

(b 2) Hawes Coleman, 1st.

(b 3) John Coleman 2d.

(b 4) June Coleman.

(b 5) Robert Coleman, 1st.

(b 5) Robert Coleman, married Elizbeth Lindsay, and had
issue as follows:

(c 1) Wyatt Coleman.

(c 2) Samuel Coleman, 1st.

(c 3) Robert Coleman, 2d.

(c 4) Thomas Coleman.

(c 5) John Coleman 3d, b. 1723, d. 1763. Married Eunice
Hawes, b. 1725, d. 1807.

(c 6) Richard Coleman.

(c 7) Spilsby Coleman.

(c 5) John Coleman, 3d, who married Nicie Hawes, had issue
as follows:

(d 1) Samuel Coleman 2d, married Sarah Coleman.

(d 2) John Coleman 4th, married Molly Coleman.

(d 3) Hawes Coleman, Jr., b. 1757, d. 1840. Married Anne
Harris, b. 1756, d. 1809.

(d 4) Frances Coleman, m. Joseph Graves.

(d 5) Mary Anne Coleman, m. William Blades.

(d 6) Spencer Coleman, married Miss Goodwin. He died 1830.

(d 3) Hawes Coleman, Jr., who m. Anne Harris, had issue as
follows:

(e 1) William Harris Coleman, b. 1787, d. 1842; m. Anne
Hawes, b. 1793, d. 1852.

(e 2) Hawes Netherland Coleman, b. 1788, d. 1876.

(e 3) Mary Coleman, b. 1790, d. 1824; m. John Warner
Harris, in 1811.

(e 4) John Joy Coleman, b. 1797, d. 1869; m. in 1819,
Catherine Walker Hawes, b. 1800, d. 1876.

In the Genealogical Column of the Times-Dispatch (Richmond),
of March 29, 1908, appeared the following item concerning the
Coleman family:

"In the Spotsylvania County Records of 1738 mention is
made of William Coleman, of St. John's Parish in King William
county, son and heir of Darby Coleman, deceased, of King and
Queen county. In 1732 James Coleman is a legatee in the will
of Ambrose Madison. In 1744 there is a deed of Edward Coleman
and Lucrea, his wife. In 1795 is a will of Edward Coleman
mentioning his wife, Sarah, and sons James and Thomas; grandson
James (son of Robert Edward Coleman) and other children,
Caty Waggoner, Phoebe Hutcherson, Henry, James and William.

"It appears from the will of Spilsby Coleman, 1757, that
`Robert Coleman, Gent., of Drysdale Parish' in Caroline county
had five sons: Thomas, Robert, John, Richard, and the said
Spilsby; and a daughter, the wife of William Daniel. In 1745
this Robert Coleman of Caroline deeded lands to his son John,
of Spotsylvania, and the deed is witnessed by Leonard Wyatt,

Samuel Hawes, Thomas and Wyatt Coleman. In the same year
the said Robert deeded land to his son Robert, of Spotsylvania.
In 1745 Robert Coleman and Sarah, his wife, living in Spotsylvania
on the land given him by his father, Robert Coleman. This
second Robert Coleman had a son named Robert who lived in
Orange and later in Culpeper, as appears from deeds of 1748 and
1761, in one of which he mentions lands he patented in Spotsylvania
in 1744. Besides his son Robert, of Orange and Culpeper,
he had sons, James, of Orange; Reuben, Lindsey, Caleb, Joseph
and Clayton; and daughters: Sally and Molly, who married,
respectively, their cousins Samuel and John Coleman, sons of
the John aforementioned. This John Coleman's wife was Nicie
Hawes whose name appears in the foregoing table.

"Reuben Coleman, son of Robert, 2d, died in Georgia in 1797,
and in that year is recorded a power of attorney to John Waller,
of Georgia and John Coleman, of Amherst county, to secure for
the following their rights in the Reuben Coleman estate: (1)
Robert, Samuel, Clayton, Rebecca, Nancy, Frances, and Nicie
Coleman, children of Samuel Coleman, of Caroline county, whose
late wife, Sally, was sister of Reuben Coleman deceased; (2)
George, Lindsey, John and Hawes Coleman, children of John
Coleman, of Caroline county, whose late wife, Molly, was also a
sister of said Reuben; (3) Thomas (then of age), Wilson, James,
Elizabeth, Sally, Nancy, Polly and Catherine Coleman, children
of James Coleman, deceased, of Orange county and brother of
said Reuben; and (4) Lindsey, Caleb, Joseph and Clayton Coleman,
brothers of the said Reuben Coleman, deceased. Witnesses
to this paper were Robert Coleman, Farish Coleman and Farish
Coleman, Jr.

"The Rev. Mr. Slaughter in his St. Mark's Parish says that
this Robert Coleman 3d, was the first of the name in Culpeper
and that he m. Sarah Ann Saunders and had one son, Robert, and
eight daughters, of whom Gilly, m. General Edward Stevens, of
Revolutionary fame; Anne m. Samuel Clayton, her cousin;
Lucy, m. the Hon. French Strother, of Culpeper; and the others
m. respectively, Francis Slaughter, Col. John Slaughter; —
Foster, — Yancey, — Crutcher. Philip Clayton was
executor of the will of Robert Coleman of Culpeper."

John Joy Coleman, whose name is the last mentioned in the
foregoing table, m. Catherine Walker Hawes on June 17, 1819,
and had, among other issue, Dr. Hawes Nicholas Coleman (the

Nicholas in this name comes from the Nicholas Spencer family
with which the Coleman-Hawes family was connected) who was
born at Wintergreen, Nelson county, September 18, 1825, and
m. Nannie Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Dr. Daniel E. Watson,
of Albemarle, in 1863. Dr. Hawes Nicholas Coleman was a
member of the House of Delegates 1861-63.

The children of Dr. Hawes Nicholas Coleman and Nannie
Elizabeth Watson are as follows: The late J. Tinsley Coleman,
of Lynchburg, lawyer and member of the House of Delegates
1889-90, died 1916; Daniel Edward Coleman, merchant of Lynchburg,
died 1899; Aylett B. Coleman, Lawyer, of Roanoke, Va.,
and member of the House of Delegates 1904-06; Maury Joy
Coleman, lawyer, of Roanoke, died 1898; Charles O. Coleman,
Pennsylvania Railway official, home on Long Island, N. Y.;
Mrs. Arthur T. Ewing, of "Elk Hill" Nelson county; and Mrs.
J. Fulton Williams, of Charlottesville. To Mrs. Williams the
author is greatly indebted for much of the foregoing material.

Other members of the Coleman family whose names merit a
permanent place in this work are:

Samuel Coleman, of Caroline, Ensign 8th Virginia, 1776; 2d
Lieutenant, February, 1777; 1st Lieutenant in 1st Continental
Artillery, June 15, 1778; killed at Camden, August 16, 1780.

Richard Coleman, of Caroline, Ensign in 7th Virginia; transferred
to 5th on September 14, 1778; 1st Lieutenant in 1780.

John Coleman, Ensign 2d Virginia, July 4, 1779.

McAllister's Virginia Militia of Revolutionary War, Section 257,
page 193, shows Samuel Coleman, of Caroline county, was commissioned
a captain of Militia in January, 1779.

Samuel Coleman, m. Sarah Coleman (daughter of his uncle,
Robert Coleman, and Elizabeth Lindsay) and had issue, four
daughters and three sons: (1) Rebecca, m. Mr. Bosher; (2) Frances,
m. John Gatewood; (3) Nancy, unmarried; (4) Eunice Hawes,
m. Major Wm. Harris Diggs and lived in Nelson county; (5)
Robert, unmarried; (6) Clayton, m. Elizabeth Cross, of Hanover
county, Va., whose mother was a Miss Harris and her mother
was Miss Nelson, of Hanover county, Va.; (7) Samuel lived at
"Marl Hill," near Penola, Caroline county and died in 1862 at
Bowling Green. He m. first, Ann DeJarnette in 1804. His
second wife, was Mary Withers (niece of first wife and daughter
of Edward Withers and Mary DeJarnette). Issue by second

marriage: Charles, Robert and Edward, unmarried; Samuel, m.
Emma Jordan; Waller, m. Sallie Duerson; Rebecca, first wife of
George Keith Taylor; Cornelia, m. Arthur Lewis; Susan, m.
Luther Wright (Captain Confederate Army); Mary Z., m. John
Ware, (Captain Confederate Army); Ottawa, m. James Wright;
Huldah, m. Boyd Brooks, Washington, D. C.; Hawes second wife
of George Keith Taylor.

Corbin Arms

THE CORBIN FAMILY

The name Corbin has been associated with the history of
Virginia since the earliest colonial times. The Hon. Henry
Corbin came to the colony in 1650 and resided, first, in Stratton
Major Parish in King and Queen county, and afterward at
Buckingham House where he died in 1676. He was a member
of the King's Council and a burgess from Lancaster. His portrait,
in his robes of office as Councillor of State of England may still
be seen at "Mt. Airy" the estate of the Tayloe family in Richmond
county.

Major Richard Corbin, a descendant of the Hon. Henry
Corbin, owned the estate called "Moss Neck" in Caroline county,
and commanded a company of artillery in the War of 1812.

The Hon. Francis Corbin, of "The Reeds" in Caroline county
was the son of Col. Richard Corbin and Elizabeth Tayloe. He

was born in 1760 and educated at Cambridge, England, and the
Temple, London. He m. Anna Munford Beverly, daughter of
Colonel Robert Beverly, of "Blandfield," in Essex.

Robert Beverly, son of Colonel Robert, of "Blandfield"
came into possession of "The Reeds" in Caroline, which had
been the home of his sister, Mrs. Francis Corbin. He m., first
Rebecca Sims, of Philadelphia, and second, Mary Mills, of
Richmond. His children assumed their mother's maiden name,
and one of them, Nicholas Mills, M. D., was living unmarried
at "The Reeds" as late as 1809.

The Hon. John Corbin, of "Port Tobago" in Caroline was
the second son of the Hon. Gawin Corbin, of "Peckatone" and
"Lanesville" in King and Queen county. He was born in 1710,
educated in England, and m. his cousin, Letitia Lee, of London.

Gawin Corbin, son of the Hon. John Corbin, of "Port Tobago"
inherited the estate and m. Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Thomas
Jones, of Northumberland.

George Lee Corbin, son of Gawin, of "Port Tobago" was
one of the most prominent men of Caroline in his day.

The Corbin arms are thus described:

Arms:

Sable on a chief or, three ravens of the first, all proper.

Motto:

Probitas vertus honos.

THE DEW FAMILY

Thomas R. Dew, the son of William, who came from England
and settled in King and Queen in the opening years of the
eighteenth century, was born in 1765 and died in 1849. He m.
Lucy Gatewood, of Caroline and had issue six sons and three
daughters: Dr. William Dew, Thomas R. Dew, President of
William and Mary College; Philip Dew, John W. Dew, Benjamin
F. Dew, L. Calvin Dew, Mrs. Hudgins, of Mathews; Mrs. Thomas
Gresham and Mrs. Temple.

He was a large land and slave owner in King and Queen,
(near the Caroline line) and served with distinction as a captain
in the War of 1812. Tradition has it that Captain Dew was
descended from Oliver Cromwell.

Dr. William Dew, eldest son of Captain Thomas R. Dew,
located in King and Queen county, m. Miss Susan Jones by
whom he had issue three sons and five daughters: Thomas R.
Dew, II; William Dew, Jr., Benjamin F. Dew, Mrs. Hord, Mrs.

Robert Gresham, Mrs. Hilliard, Mrs. Gregory and Miss Lucy
Dew. His fame as a practitioner of medicine was not confined
to King and Queen.

Of the children of Dr. William Dew many pages might be
written. His son, Thomas R. Dew, II, removed to Wytheville,
where he became prominent; H. W. Dew, the son of Thomas R.
Dew, II, and grandson of Dr. William Dew, became a prominent
physician in Lynchburg and another son, W. B. Dew, became
prominent in Arizona.

Philip Dew, son of Captain Thomas R. Dew, m. Lucy DeJarnette,
of Caroline and settled at "Windsor" in the same county.
This estate belonged in Colonial times to one Major Woodford,
the father of General William Woodford, and here the General
was born. Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, says that when
visiting Major Woodford at "Windsor" he "surprised Mrs.
Woodford in her housewifery in the meathouse, at which she
blushed as if it had been a sin."

The children of Philip Dew and Lucy DeJarnette were Thomas
Roderick Dew, III, Dr. Philip A. Dew, II, and Mrs. Welch,
wife of Judge Welch, of Caroline. Dr. Philip A. Dew, m. Fannie
McCoy, and settled at "Marl Hill," an old Coleman estate,
near Penola, and had issue as follows: Philip A. Dew, III, who
m. Miss Mary Holladay, of Spotsylvania; Roderick Dew, who
m. Sallie B. Dew and settled near Welch, where he practices the
profession of medicine, as did his father before him. He has one
daughter, Ellen Byrd Dew.

Miss Mary Dew, who lives with her mother and brother at
"Marl Hill," Fannie Dew, who m. James Swann; Gertie Dew,
who m. a Mr. Reynolds, and Lucy Dew who m. Dudley Davis,
of Goochland and now lives at Milford.

The children of Philip Dew, III, and Mary Holladay are
Philip A., Linton M., and Sallie G. Dew.

John W. Dew, son of Capt. Thomas R. Dew, m. a Miss Pendleton,
of Caroline, and had issue three children: Mary, who m.
Judge A. B. Evans, of Middlesex; Roderick Dew, of Plain Dealing,
and Alice, who also married Judge Evans.

Benjamin F. Dew, son of Capt. Thomas R., graduated from
the College of William and Mary, taught school, practiced law
and conducted the affairs of his farm. He was m. first, to Miss
Mary Susan Garnett, and second, to Miss Bettie Quesenberry.

His oldest son, Dr. J. Harvie Dew, graduated from the University
of Virginia and, in 1868, settled in New York City in the
practice of his profession. John G. Dew, second son of Benjamin
F., graduated from the Law Department of the University of
Virginia, settled in King and Queen and practiced law for a
number of years. He was Judge of the County Court for sixteen
years, and for some time was Second Auditor of the State of
Virginia. He married Lelia Fauntleroy, daughter of Dr. Samuel
G. Fauntleroy, of King and Queen.

L. Calvin Dew, son of Capt. Thomas. R., m a Miss Boulware,
of Caroline and died while still young, leaving four children:
Mrs Thomas B Henley, Mrs. A. C. Acree, Robert S. Dew and
D. B. Dew, who was killed in the first engagement after joining
the Ninth Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War.

Of the three daughters of Capt. Thomas R. Dew, Mrs. Hudgins
was the mother of Col. Wm. P. Hudgins, who became prominent
in railway circles in Texas; Mrs. Temple left no children, and
Mrs. Gresham had five sons, Rev. Edward Gresham, Col. T.
Robert Gresham, Wm. D. Gresham, Dr. Henry Gresham and
Dr. Charles Gresham, all of whom were prominent men.

The Dew arms are thus described:

Gu. a chev. ar. betw. nine plates, five and four.

THE DEJARNETTE FAMILY

The earliest ancestors of this ancient family to come to
America were Samuel and Joseph DeJarnette (originally DeJarnatt)
who were among the Hugenots that fled from LaRochelle
when the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, banished
from France so many of her most intelligent and useful citizens.

The DeJarnettes first settled in South Carolina where they
intermarried with the famous Hampton family and others of the
best blood of that State. Joseph DeJarnette m. Mary Hampton,
and came to Virginia and settled about the end of the seventeenth
century in what afterward became Caroline. He was the progenitor
of the DeJarnette family of Virginia. One of the most
beautiful homes in Caroline is "Hampton" which was built by
one of the descendants of Joseph DeJarnette and named for the
family of his maternal ancestor. The name Hampton has
descended in the DeJarnette family through several generations.

"Spring Grove" which is located about six miles south of
Bowling Green is another beautiful DeJarnette estate. This
home was built about the middle of the nineteenth century by
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette who was one of the most highly
cultured men of his time. He was a scholar of the first rank, and
was prominent in political life. He served in the House of Delegates

and was afterward elected as an anti-Administration
Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress. He was re-elected to
the Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States but declined
to take his seat and was soon thereafter elected to represent
Virginia in the Confederate States Congress. He was re-elected
a member of the Confederate Congress and served. He died
at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., on August 18, 1881. His
son, Daniel Coleman DeJarnette who m. Miss Nancy Willis, of
Richmond, Ky., owns and lives at "Spring Grove." They have
one son, Joseph Willis DeJarnette, a young business man of
Bowling Green, who m. Alice Richards, daughter of James T.
Richards and Nettie Rowe.

THE DICKINSON (OR DICKERSON) FAMILY

In Caroline Marriage Bonds, elsewhere in this volume, is
recorded the marriage of Jonathan Dickerson and Croshe Sizer
which occurred on February 9, 1792. They had issue: John,
Woodson, Henry, Charles, Nancy, Sizer, Elizabeth, Martha,
Flower, and Lucretia. John d. young. Woodson, m. Sarah

Liggon and had residence in Salem, Va.; James Woodson, son of
Woodson and Sarah Liggon, m. Elizabeth Craig and had res.
in Lynchburg, Va., until his death in 1901. Henry, m. Martha
Mills and settled in Richmond where he d. in 1839, leaving three
children. Charles, no record. Nancy, m. Benj. Howard and
lived in Richmond, a dau., Belle, m. — Duesberry. Elizabeth,
m. Geo. Howard and had res. in Richmond. Martha, m.
— Bowers and lived in Roanoke, Va. Flower, m Adam
Miller and lived in Richmond. Lucretia, m. — Buckner and
lived at Louis C. H.

Chestnut Valley, Old Home of the Dickinson Family of Caroline

Courtesy Mr. W. D. Buckner.

James Woodson Dickerson and Elizabeth Craig had issue:
Woodson W., who m. Miss Hardenberger; Julia, m. Emil Berger;
Irmya, m. Geo. Palmer, of Newport News; James Warren, m.
Lucile Trout, of Lynchburg; Robert, m. Miss Jones and has res.
in Lynchburg; Margaret, m. Harry Mays, res. Lynchburg.

Henry Dickerson and Martha Mills had issue: John H., who
m. Virginia Jacobs in 1858; Joseph Coleman, who m. Rebecca
Garrison, and Virginia, who m. Joseph Heath.

John H. Dickerson and Virginia Jacobs had issue: John H.,
Jr., who m. Sarah DeHart; Joseph E., who m. Byrd Bennett and

lives in Asheville; Charles, who d. unmarried; Mary, who is
unmarried; Fanny, m. Henry Moore and had one son, Franklin;
Annie, who m. James Drinard in 1896 and has res. in Richmond.

Joseph Coleman Dickerson and Rebecca Garrison had issue:
Henry G., who m. Fannie Dickie in 1894; James E., who m.
Florence Glenn in 1895; Camilla, unmarried; Martha, m. Rev.
W. P. A. Haynes in 1917; Joseph G., m. Annie Coleman, of Charles
City county, in 1905, and has res. in Richmond; Colin R., m.
Margaret McGehee in 1907 and has res. in Richmond; Russell
H., m. Nonia Powell, of Norfolk and has res. at Toana; Rebecca
who d. unmarried 1917; and Robert who d. unmarried in 1906.

Henry G. Dickerson and Fannie Dickie have issue: Ethel L.,
m. J. Floyd Bradley in 1915, res. Richmond; Elizabeth, m.
Hunter Wagner in 1917, res. Richmond; Henry W., unmarried,
res. Richmond; Robert T., unmarried, res. Richmond.

THE DORSEY FAMILY

The Dorsey family of Caroline is descended from the Dorsey,
and Ridgely families, of Maryland, than whom there are no more
prominent families in that commonwealth. The complete genealogy
of these two famous old families appeared in The Sun
(Baltimore) of January 12, 1908, et seq, from the pen of Emily
Emerson Lantz.

The first member of this ancient family to settle in Caroline
was Charles Ridgely Dorsey. He was born at "Spring Hill"
the ancestral estate of his family, which is located about two
miles from Ellicott City, Howard county, Md. He attended
school at Ellicott City and afterward was graduated from Princeton
University.

At the outbreak of the War Between the States, he and his
brothers, John W., and Samuel, joined the Confederate forces,
enlisting in the Fifth Maryland Regiment, commanded by Colonel
George R. Gaither, their brother-in-law. Later in the war they
joined Mosby's command and served with it until the end of the
war.

Before enlisting, Charles Ridgely Dorsey, his brothers, and
two of their friends, burned the bridge over the Patapsico river,
at Ellicott City, to keep back the Federal troops and upon their
return home after the war they were tried by a Federal Court
and sent to Cuba. Returning to Maryland, Charles Ridgely
Dorsey stopped with a family named Reynolds who lived at
the Union tavern about two miles from Penola, at the junction

of the Penola road with the Stage road, and this family employed
him to teach school. He lodged here for a considerable period
and while here married Catherine Collins, daughter of George
T. Collins. She bore him two children, Charles Ridgely and
Mary Comfort, (twins) both of whom died when they were about
two years old. His wife died shortly afterward and he married
Margaret Ann Collins, his first wife's sister, in 1872. By this
marriage he had issue: George Ridgely Dorsey. Charles Ridgely
Dorsey practiced law in Caroline and adjoining counties until
his death in 1874. Of him the Hon. A. B. Chandler said: "I
would name him as the most brilliant of all the Caroline Bar.
No one, I think, his equal intellectually has taken his place."

George Ridgely Dorsey, son of Charles Ridgely Dorsey and
Margaret Ann Collins, was born, November 18, 1874. He
m. Estelle Marie Shuman on June 20, 1904 and had issue:
Margaret Comfort Worthington, b. April 27, 1905 and Ridgely
Corbin, b. January 15, 1907. George Ridgely Dorsey was elected
Treasurer of Caroline county in 1923.

THE GARRETT FAMILY

The Garrett family, of Caroline is sprung from ancestors who
have been honored in many lands for many centuries. The family
is of Teutonic origin, "Ger," the root of the name, meaning "firm
spear." The family, or a branch of it, came over to Britain with
William the Conquerer, and there the root "Ger" became "Gar."
A number of this family were ennobled by the English kings and
Queens from time to time and a coat of arms granted to them.
Some of them became high church officials in the Church of
England, and others became Quakers. A number of the members
of this family went to Ireland and purchased the sequestered
lands of the Irish gentry after the Conquest. Many of the
Garretts, of England and Ireland bear noble titles to this day.
The Caroline Garretts are descended from ancestors who came
to Virginia from Leicestershire England in 1684. Sir William
Garrett, of London, was one of the charter members of the first
Virginia colony, and it is believed that he was one of its first
Chairmen. The Garretts of Caroline have been, for the most
part, planters, but several have held public office, among them
W. R. W. Garrett, Treasurer of the county, and C. W. Garrett,
his son, postmaster at the county seat.

The Garrett arms are thus described:

Arms:

Ar. on a fesse sa. a lion pass. betw. two flanches sa.

Crest:

A lion pass. erm. resting the dexter paw on a fleur-de-lis or.

THE GATEWOOD AND MONCURE FAMILIES

Three brothers by the name of Gatewood came from England
to Virginia about 1745, or 1750, and received grants of land in
the Colony. The Gatewood brothers were: Thomas, who never
married; William, who took up land in Norfolk county, where
the city now stands, and from whom descended the Kemp,
Burruss, Kent, Capp and other Virginia families; James, who
received a large grant of land in Caroline county extending from
White Chimneys tavern on the south toward the Spotsylvania
line on the north.

James Gatewood, m. Amelia Peatross, of a nearby estate and
left issue: (1) John (d. unmarried); (2) Jane m. Wm. W. Dickinson,
of Golansville, and left issue: (3) Maria m. — Walden and
left issue; (4) Amelia, m. Terrell, left issue. (The Terrells were
Quakers); (5) Betsy, m. Richard Boulware, and left issue; (6)
William m. —; (7) James, m. Anna George, daughter
of Reuben George and Mildred Rogers, who was descended from
Col. Wm. Byrd, of Westover on her father's side and from John
Rogers (the Martyr), on her mother's. James Gatewood fought
in the War of 1812, was made captain and fitted out his own
company. The old roster of his company is now in existence,
and shows many names familiar to Caroline county. He m.
Anna George in 1800 and brought her, a bride, to "Ellerslie"
his home, a part of the original grant of land, which at this date
(1924) is still in the family of his direct descendants. The children
of James Gatewood and Anna George his wife, were (1)
Thomas Jefferson, (2) Reuben George, (3) Philip, m. Catherine
Gentry, and removed to Richmond, left issue; (4) Lucy Anne, m.
Wm. A. Moncure. Her descendants are still in Caroline county;
(5) Amelia Peatross, m. Terrell Cobb; (6) Cassandra, m. Hiram
Oliver (her cousin).

The name Moncure is derived from the French words "Mon
Coeur," meaning "my heart." The first of the family to come
to Virginia was the Rev. John Moncure, who came from Kincardineshire,
Scotland and settled in Stafford county at the
beginning of the eighteenth century. He married Frances Brown,
of Charles county, Md., June 18, 1741. He d. in 1764 and was
buried under the Chancel of Aquia church in Stafford county.
His will, which was probated July 9, 1764, is quoted in Du
Bellet's Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. II, and is very interesting.

William A. Moncure, great grandson of Rev. John Moncure,
was born at "Somerset" in Stafford county in 1805. He was the
third son of John Moncure III, and Alcey Peachy Gascoigne.
He came to Caroline county in 1825 and m. Lucy Anne Gatewood
on March 4, 1827. He bought a home on the Cedar Fork road,
called "Wilton." He afterward bought "Chesterfield" farm, and
later "Ellerslie," the old Gatewood homestead. Soon after his
marriage he became County Surveyor, later he was a member of
the House of Delegates of Virginia, and State Senator for
a good many terms. In 1856 or 1857 he became Second Auditor
of Virginia, a position he held until his death in 1861. His
children born and brought up in Caroline county were: (1) John
James, m. Anne Deckard, and lived in Texas, left issue; (2)
William Cassius, m. Allenia Cottrell, lived in Richmond; (3)
Anna Gatewood, m. Daniel Norment, lived in Texas, left issue;
(4) Thomas Jefferson, m. Margaret Moncure, lived in Stafford
county, left issue; (5) St. Leger Landon, m. Lucy G. Oliver and
lived in Caroline county, left issue; (6) Eustace Conway, m.
Fanny Irby, lived in Caroline county, left issue; (7) Mary Alice,
m. Samuel Burke, lived in Burkeville, Va.; (8) Rubynetta Burnes,
m. Wm. Henry Glascock, lived in Burkeville, Va.; (9) Cassandra
Oliver, m. William H. Lyne, has issue living in Orange county;
(10) Richard Travers, m. Anna James Gascoigne, lives in Richmond.

The Moncures living in Caroline county were St. Leger Landon
and Eustace Conway. Children of St. L. L. Moncure and Lucy
Oliver, his wife were: (1) Frances Belle, (2) Elizabeth Cabell,
(3) Anna George, (4) Philip St. Leger, (5) Alice Burke, (6) Orlando
Shay, (7) Grace Eloise, (8) Clarinda Byrd. Anna G.
Moncure, m. D. L. Bibb, lives in Richmond; Clarinda Byrd
Moncure, m. Munson B. Conine, and removed to Hanover county.
They have a daughter, Margaret Byrd; Orlanda Shay Moncure,
m. Gertrude Wells and has two sons, John Philip and William
Orlando, and a daughter, Mary Bush; Philip St. Leger Moncure,
m. Grace Fortescue Terry and lives in Norfolk.

Philip St. L. Moncure graduated from the Medical College
of Virginia in 1898, winning three prizes. He was appointed
interne at St. Vincent's Hospital. Later he became house physician
and head surgeon in this institution. In 1915 Dr Philip St. L.
Moncure was President of the Congress of American Surgeons,
which met in London. He is a member of the Board of Medical

Examiners of Virginia, and of the faculty of the Medical College
of Virginia. He is a 32d Degree Mason and instructor in his
Lodge in Norfolk.

Orlando Shay Moncure, graduated in Law from the University
of Richmond, securing the prize for the best examination
in 1900. He lives at his place "Idlewild," near Ruther Glen
and is in government service.

Judge Eustace Conway Moncure

The children of Eustace Conway Moncure and Fanny Irby
his wife are: (1) Anne Lilbourne, m. Pinkney Gravatt, left one
son, Wm. Moncure Gravatt, (2) Eustace Conway, m. Fanny
Norment, and has two sons, and a daughter, who live in Texas;
(3) William Augustus, m. Margaret Tinsley, lives in Richmond
has issue; Wm. A., Jr., Margaret, Tinsley, Rutherford, Eustace
Conway, Martha and John. He graduated from the Virginia
Military Institute, winning the Jackson Hope Medal. Returning
home, he was made principal of the Bowling Green public schools.
Later he took a law course at the University of Virginia, went to
Richmond, and opened a law office, became a member of the law
firm of Gordon, Smith and Moncure, and afterward became
Judge of the Chancery Court of Richmond.

Eustace Conway Moncure, son of William A. Moncure and
Lucy Gatewood, was a scout in the Civil War, on the Confederate
side, and was later made Lieutenant. After the war he studied
law and opened a law office at Bowling Green, Va. He was soon
elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Caroline county and later
became Judge of the county in which capacity he served with
honor for many years. In 1905 he was elected to the House of
Representatives of the State. He was a Mason and a member
of the Kilwinning Crosse Lodge. His death occurred August,
1921. He is buried in Lakewood Cemetery at Bowling Green.
His wife died the 26th of May, 1923 and rests by his side. (4)
Maria Roper Moncure, m. Elmer Moore and lives in Norfolk,
Va., has issue: Lucy, Ruby, Moncure, Fanny, Elmer; (5) Irby
Moncure, m. Martha Eppes and has issue: Anne Lilbourne, m.
— Nelson, Eustace C., Eppes, Fanny; (6) Lucy Alexander
m. T. B. Gill, Sheriff of Caroline and lives in Bowling Green;
(7) Richard Gascoigne, m. Cordelia Lee Winston, had issue:
Richard Gascoigne, Cordelia Lee and Elizabeth.

The Moncure Arms are thus described:

Gu. on a chief ar. three hearts of the first.

Motto:

Virtuti non armis fido.

THE GEORGE FAMILY

The history of the George family in Virginia dates back almost
to the beginning of the seventeenth century, when Henry George
came over from England in the good ship Assurance. Lieutenant-Colonel
John George, a son of Henry George the immigrant, was
granted a large tract of land on Bagley's Creek in Isle of Wight
county prior to 1640 and respresented Isle of Wight in the House
of Burgesses in 1653. A grandson of Colonel George—also
named John, m. Ursula Dudley, a daughter of John Dudley, of
Middlesex and Ursula Beverly. Ursula Beverley was the daughter
of Robert Beverly and Ursula Byrd, daughter of Colonel William
Byrd, of Westover.

John Dudley George, son of John George and Ursula Dudley,
died at Williamsburg about 1790, leaving one son, Lewis George,
who was born in 1779. Lewis George, m. Agnes Wilson and to
this union were born three sons and two daughters.

Captain Henry Hortensius George, son of Lewis George and
Agnes Wilson, was born at "Fairford," near Penola, Va., in 1824,

and m. Ellen Woolfolk Samuel, daughter of Colonel Archibald
Samuel and Ann Woolfolk. To this union were born five sons
and four daughters. Capt. George, when quite a young man,
built "Thornberry" near Penola, making the bricks for the
house on the premises, and sawing the timbers by the old "pit
and whipsaw" method, using one man in the pit below the log,
and one man on the scaffold above the pit. "Thornberry" at the

Thornberry

present time belongs to H. H. George, II., of Richmond, Va., a
prominent railroad contractor. Lewis Dudley George lives at
"Rose Hill" near Penola, and is engaged in the lumber business,
being President of the Rose Hill Lumber Company. Ellen
Maude George, the eldest sister, m. James Horace Blackley, to
whom were born ten children. Mr. and Mrs. Blackley live at
Thornsburg. Catherine Wilson George, a younger sister, m.
Clarence E. Wright, son of James C. Wright and grandson of
Dr. Wesley Wright, of Palestine, Caroline county. Archibald
Samuel George died unmarried and is buried at "Fairford."

A very brief genealogical table of the George family follows:

(1) Robert George, Sr., d. 1734, Middlesex county, Va.:
Children: John, Richard, Suzanna, Catherine and two other
daughters.

(2) John George, Sr., b. 1704, d. 1784. Children: (first wife,
Mary Jordan) Reuben, John, James, Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah,
Mary and two other daughters. (Second wife, Ursula Dudley)
John Dudley, Catherine, Patsy.

Ursula Dudley was the daughter of John Dudley, of Middlesex
county, Va., and Ursula Beverly, who was the daughter of Robert
Beverly, Jr., and Ursula Byrd, who was the daughter of Col.
William Byrd, of Westover.

Robert Beverly, Jr., was the son of Robert Beverly, of Beverly,
England, and Catherine Hone, of Jamestown, Va.

(3) John Dudley George d. in 1781 at Williamsburg, Va.;
m. Miss Lucy Dickinson, daughter of David Dickinson. Children:
Lewis George.

(4) Lewis George, b. 1779, d. 1847; m. Agnes Wilson,
daughter of Zachariah Wilson and Catherine Pickett, daughter
of John Pickett and Agnes Woolfolk, daughter of Robert Woolfolk
and Ann George, who was a daughter of John George, Sr., mentioned
above. Children: Henry Hortensius George, Lewis Melville
George, Oscar, Louisa and Virginia.

(5) Henry H. George, Sr., b. at Fairford, Caroline county,
Va., in 1824, d. at Thornberry, Caroline county, Va., June 26,
1902; m. Ellen Woolfolk Samuel, b. October 22, 1823, d. April
20, 1905 at Thornberry, she was a daughter of Archibald Samuel
and Ann Woolfolk, daughter of Paul Woolfolk and Sarah Terry.

Archibald Samuel was the son of Phillip Samuel, Sr., and
Elizabeth Pickett, the daughter of John Pickett and Agnes
Woolfolk. Children: Henry, Philip Samuel, Jr., Paul, T., Arthur
S., Elizabeth, Ellen and Ann.

Children of Henry H. George, Sr.: Ellen Maude, Archibald
Samuel, Henry H. George, Jr., Lewis Dudley and Catharine
Wilson. (Annie, Oscar, Ashby and Irene, four children that
died under ten years of age.)

(6) Henry Hortensius George, Jr., b. April 15, 1858, m.
Lillian Wright, daughter of Capt. Luther Wright and Susan Withers
Coleman. Married on the 9th day of February, 1887. Children:
Henry H. George, 3d, b. April 12, 1888, at Moss-Side, Va.; Luther
Wright George, b. August 28, 1891 at Moss-Side, Henrico county,

Va., d. at Gloucester Point, Va., September 3, 1908, buried in
Hollywood, Va.; Suzanne Withers Wright, b. June 24, 1895, in
Richmond, d. August 28, 1898, buried in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Va.; Helen Lillian George, b. in Richmond, November
28, 1901, Thanksgiving Day; Lewis Dudley George, 2d, b. in
Richmond, February 14, 1905, Valentine Day; Anne Beverly
George, b. in Richmond, Va., September 5, 1910, Labor Day.

Archibald Samuel George, b. June 25, 1856, d. August 1,
1913, at Thornberry, Va., and was buried at "Fairford," Caroline
county, Va.

Lewis Dudley George, 1st, b. December 8, 1859, m. December
9, 1886 Carrie Lee Carson, daughter of Cyrus Carson and Lydia
A. Swann, daughter of S. Amery Swann, and sister of Col. Samuel
A. Swann. Lydia Swann's mother was Caroline Lowery whose
whose mother was Nancy Tompkins.

Ellen Maud George was born at Thornberry, November, 1854
and was m. to James Horace Blackley, December 1, 1875. Children:
Irene and Inez (twins), b. January 5, 1877; Henry George,
b. January 25, 1879; James Horace, b. May, 1882, and Lillian
Hortense, b. June 28, 1887. (Five other children died in infancy.)

Catherine Wilson George, b. at Thornberry, April 12, 1865, m.
May 20, 1891, to Clarence E. Wright, son of James C. Wright,
who was a son of Dr. Wesley Wright, of Palestine, Caroline
county, Va., Catherine Wilson Wright, d. August 1, 1911, at
Ashland, Va., and was buried there by the side of her son, James
Calvin Wright. Children of Catherine Wilson Wright: Ellen, b.
March 31, 1892; James Calvin, b. March 28, 1893, d. January
6, 1906, in Ashland, buried there; Agnes, b. June, 1895; Lillian,
b. June, 189—.

Agnes Wright, m. J. Manning Potts, December 23, 1920;
Lillian George Wright, m. to Arthur Price Morton, November
26, 1921.

(7) Henry H. George, 3d, m. Louise Richardson, daughter of
Judge David C. Richardson, of Richmond, Va. He (Henry H.
George, 3d) was a Captain of Engineers in the 105th Regiment,
30th Division, U. S. Reserves, and served in the World War.
He went across to England and France, and fought against the
Germans, his regiment being brigaded with the British, fighting in
France and Belgium. He received his commission in 1917, went
to Europe in 1918 and returned to the United States in 1919,
when he was honorably discharged.

CHILDREN OF ISAAC GEORGE

John George, 1710, m. Ursula Dudley.

Robert George, 1715, m. Clara Daniel in 1746.

James George, 1730, m. Mary Swift in 1767.

Enoch George, of Staunton, m. — 1767.

Agatha George, m. George Payne, of Goochland county.

Susannah George, m. G. Holland.

INCOMPLETE GENEALOGICAL DATA

Isaac George, b. 1680.

Henry George came to America in ship "Assurance." Exact
date unknown to author.

Lieutenant Colonel John George, b. 1610, m. Jane —.

Major John George, b. 1670, m. Frances —, in 1700.

John George, of Caroline, b. 1704, m. 1st, Mary Jordan, 2d
Ursula Dudley.

Katherine George, sister of John, of Caroline, m. William
Mansfield, of Louisa.

Robert Mansfield, m. Mourning Clark, dau. Micajah Clark,
of Louisa and Albemarle.

Rev. Joseph Allen Mansfield, m. Susan Ann Lindsay, of Orange.

Mary Lindsay Mansfield, m. Jackson L. Thornton, of Orange
and Greene.

Lelia Thornton, m. James C. Gentry, of Gordonsville. Home,
Atlanta, Ga.

Arms:

Ar. on a fesse gu. betw. three falcons, rising, az beaked,
legged, and belled or, as many bezants, each charged with a
lion's head sa.; on a canton vert a harp, gold, stringed of the first.

Crest:

A falcon as in the arms.

Motto:

"Magna est veritas et prevalebit."

THE GLASSEL FAMILY

The Glassel family is said to be of French descent. Tradition
has it that the first of the name went from Poisters, France, to
Scotland with Mary, Queen of Scots, on her return to her native
land in 1550. The name is supposed to have been "Glassele"
originally.

John and Andrew Glassel, brothers, were born in Galloway,
Scotland, at the beginning of the eighteenth century and emigrated
to Virginia in 1738. John settled near Fredericksburg,

but later returned to Scotland, and Andrew settled in that section
of Culpeper which in 1792, became Madison county. Here he
built "Torthowald" after the pattern of the old home in Scotland.
The workmen who erected the house were brought from Scotland.

John Glassel, son of Andrew, of "Torthowald" was born at
"Torthowald" October 29, 1780, and m. (1) Louisa Richie Brown,
of Prince Edward county, on September 11, 1806, and had issue
as follows: Andrew McMillan, Fanny, Louisa and Marion; (2)
to Mrs. Margaret Scott Lee by whom he had two children, the
Rev. John Glassel and Mildred; (3) to Sarah Ashton by whom
he had no children. There is a true story touching the religious
life of John Glassel to the effect that he traveled from "Torthowald"
to Fredericksburg—a distance of sixty miles—four times
annually to attend the communion services in the Presbyterian
church. He was educated in Scotland.

The Rev. John Glassel, son of John by his second marriage,
was born August 16, 1828, and educated in Princeton. He
received the Degrees of M. A. and M. D., and practiced medicine
for a short time. He was an officer in the Confederate Army and
was prominent as a clergyman. His descendants are prominent
in Louisiana

Andrew McMillan Glassel, son of John Glassel, by his first
marriage, was born in 1807 and was educated in the University
of Pennsylvania. He removed to Bowling Green in 1834 and
practiced medicine there until his death in 1888. He was m. to
Miss Frances A. Downing, of Caroline county shortly after his
removal to Bowling Green and had issue as follows: John, Fannie,
Eugenia, Ada, Andrew, William, Robert, Louisa and Marion.

Dr. Robert T. Glassel, son of Dr. Andrew, was born in Bowling
Green and educated in Baltimore, and succeeded to his father's
practice. He was m. to Miss Russell Williams, of Essex, and
had issue as follows: Frances, Louisa and Marion Walker. Frances
was m. to Col. R. L. Beale, of Bowling Green, attorney-at-law
and former representative in the House of Delegates, and has one
son, R. L., Jr.

A prominent member of the Glassel family was Commander
William T. Glassel, U. S. Navy, 1845-1861, C. S. N., 1861-1864.
He designed and constructed the first submarine—"The David"
and commanded it in the attack on the "New Tromider" Both
ships were disabled—"The David" so seriously that the crew
had to swim for safety Commander Glassell was captured

after an hour in the water and held prisoner for one year, and
exchanged. He commanded "The Fredericksburg" until he had
to blow it up to prevent capture. His descendants are numerous
and prominent in California.

THE GRAVATT FAMILY

The Gravatts are lineally descended from Colonel Miles Cary,
of Warwick county, Va., who came over from England about
1645, and who, during Berkeley's administration, was escheator-general
of Virginia.

John James Gravatt, M. D., was born at Port Royal, Caroline
county, November 27, 1817. His grandfathers, Col. Larkin
Smith, of King and Queen and Col. John Ambler, of Jamestown,
were both distinguished soldiers in the War of the Revolution.
Doctor Gravatt graduated with distinction from William and
Mary College in 1838 and won the degree of M. D. from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1842. Upon graduation he married
Eliza Ambler Smith and settled in his home town and entered
upon the practice of medicine. He so devoted himself to his
profession that he soon secured the confidence of all classes of
people and built up a large practice.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War he gave up his
practice in Caroline and assumed the responsible position of
head of the large receiving hospital at Richmond, and here, as
in Caroline, he soon distinguished himself as one of the most
skilful surgeons in the service. Amid the trying scences of that
eventful period, his skill and Christian kindness won for him
not only the confidence and love of the many thousands of
sufferers under his medical care, but of every subaltern and
dependent under his command. At the close of the war the
surgeon-general said, "I have never known Dr. Gravatt to make
a mistake in diagnosis."

John James Gravatt II, son of Dr. John James Gravatt and
Eliza Ambler Smith, was born at Port Royal, Caroline county,
May 14, 1853. He attended schools at Port Royal conducted
by George Fitzhugh and Carter Page and later went to the
preparatory school conducted in connection with the Protestant
Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. He graduated
from the Theological Seminary in 1876, and upon receiving his
degree, went to Hampton as rector of St. John's, the oldest parish

in the country having a continuous life dating back to 1610.
While at Hampton the Rev. Dr. Gravatt, m. Miss India Wray
Jones by whom he had issue: J. J. Gravatt, III, now rector of
Trinity church, Staunton, Va., and Mrs. R. A. Goodwyn, whose
husband was at one time rector of St. John's, Richmond, and
afterward missionary to China.

The Rev. Dr. J. J. Gravatt, II, came from Hampton to Moore
Memorial Episcopal church, Richmond, on October 1, 1893.
Work had just been started on a new church edifice, but under
the leadership of Dr. Gravatt a new architect was called in,
new plans were drawn, and a building was erected wholly different
from that originally planned. When completed it was called
Holy Trinity instead of Moore Memorial, but was a memorial to
Bishop Moore.

On September 30, 1923, J. Mark Lutz, writing in the Times-Dispatch,
Richmond, said in part as follows: "With the close of
services in Holy Trinity today will come the conclusion of thirty
years of work in that church by the Rev. J. J. Gravatt, D. D.
During this period the church has grown from a membership of
150 to 1,289. A new church and parish house have been built,
and the building which Dr. Gravatt saw begun in 1894 he saw
completed in 1901, and consecrated in 1907, on the day before
the General Convention opened in the building, at which opening
service the Bishop of London preached. Dr. Gravatt has been
identified with a number of civic and fraternal organizations of
Richmond, having served as president of the Richmond Ministerial
Union, Richmond Clericus, Richmond Convocation, Deputy to
General Convention, Trustee of Stuart Hall, Member of Council
of Defense in World War, Chairman of Richmond Vice Commission,
Chaplain of Travelers Protective Association, Master of
Strict Observance Lodge of Masons, and Orator in the Scottish
Rite Bodies of Richmond of which he is a Thirty-Third Degree
member."

Charles Urquhart Gravatt, son of Dr. John James Gravatt I,
and Eliza Ambler Smith, was born at Port Royal, June, 1849.
After attending the preparatory schools of Port Royal he entered
medical college in Baltimore from which he was graduated with
high honors. He at once entered the U. S. Navy as Assistant
Surgeon where his unusual talents were quickly recognized and
rewarded. He became Full Surgeon, Fleet Surgeon and at last
Medical Director. After the Spanish-American War his eyes

were so affected that he was told by specialists that he would
become blind unless he entered upon some mode of life which
would remove him from artificial light, and so he retired; but
the Navy Department, recognizing his splendid services, retired
and pensioned him. He then returned to Port Royal, settled at
the old home place, and after a few years was elected to represent
Caroline, Hanover, and King William counties in the State Senate.
He was serving in this office at the time of his death in 1921. He
left one son, Marshall Gravatt who resides in North Carolina.

At a mass meeting held in Bowling Green on January 8, 1923,
for the purpose of electing delegates to a convention to be held
in Ashland, Va., on January 18th for nominating a successor to
Dr. Gravatt, the Hon. J. W. Guerrant, formerly a member of the
House, offered the following resolutions which were unanimously
adopted, and published in The Caroline Progress and The Free Lance:

"Whereas, Dr. Charles U. Gravatt, a noble and honorable
son of this county, has departed this life, and

"Whereas, he did faithfully, and with honor, represent us
for nearly sixteen years in the Senate of Virginia, and

"Whereas, we meet today in connection with choosing his
successor with the memories of his fine qualities of mind and
heart fresh in our thoughts, now therefore be it,

"Resolved, by the Democrats of Caroline in mass meeting
assembled, that we express our admiration for his integrity and
intellect, gratitude for his valiant services, sorrow for his departure,
and sympathy for his son who survives him."

William Loyall Gravatt, son of J. J. Gravatt, I, and Eliza
Ambler Smith, was born at Port Royal, December 15, 1857.
After attending the local schools he entered Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. He taught school a few years and then entered the
Theological Seminary at Alexandria. Upon graduation he became
assistant rector to Dr. Minnigerode at St. Paul's church,
Richmond. After a year or two he accepted St. Peter's church,
Norfolk, from which he went to Zion's church, Charleston, W.
Va. While rector here he was elected Bishop Coadjuator of
West Virginia—1899—and became Bishop of the diocese upon
the death of Bishop Peterkin.

He m. Miss Sidney Peyton, of Richmond, and has three children,
one son and two daughters, William Loyall, Jr., Cary and Mary.

The Gravatt arms are thus described:

Az. a fesse embattled erm. betw. three wolves heads erased ar.

Crest:

A wolf pass. per pale erminois and ar.

THE HAWES FAMILY

The Hawes family in America dates back to 1635, at which time
Richard and Edward Hawes, presumably brothers, emigrated to
New England and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
From this point several members of the family removed to Virginia
about half century later.

The name is derived from the old Saxon word "Hawe" which
means thorn hedge. From this name came the names, Hawley,
Haworth, Haughton, Howe and Hawes, the last two being the
oldest and the most widely scattered.

The following brief and partial record of the Caroline-King
and Queen family will serve to show how it was connected with
other prominent families early in the eighteenth century, and
also serve as a starting point for the genealogist:

Samuel Hawes 1st m. Anne Spencer about 1712, and had
issue: (1) Isaac Hawes, (2) Marye Hawes, who m. Elijah Daniel;
(3) Elizabeth Hawes, who m. Thomas Coghill; (4) Nicie Hawes,
b. 1723, who m. John Coleman, III; (5) Samuel Hawes, II, b. 1727,
m. Anne Walker in 1751.

Samuel Hawes, II, and Anne Walker had issue: (1) Samuel
Hawes III, b. 1754; (2) Walker Hawes I, b. 1755; (3) Anne
Hawes, b. 1758, m. Henry Washington in 1775; (4) Elizabeth
Hawes, b. 1759, m. Thomas Buckner; (5) Benjamin Hawes, b.
1782; (6) Mary Hawes, b. 1764, m. Robert Buckner; (7) Charlotte
Hawes, b. 1765, m. 1st, to Richard Buckner in 1782, 2d to William
Buckner in 1797; (8) Aylett Hawes, b. 1768, m. 1795; (9) Richard
Hawes, b. 1772, m. Clary Walker, 1792, d. 1848; (10) Walker
Hawes II, named for older brother who died, was born 1776, m.
1797 and died in 1828.

Samuel Hawes, I, was commissioned Captain 2d Virginia
Regiment February 19, 1776; Major 10th Virginia Regiment,
October 4, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1, 1778; Lieutenant-Colonel,
6th Virginia Regiment, September 14, 1778; transferred
to 5th Virginia Regiment, January 1, 1783, and served
until November 13, 1783. There is preserved in the State
Papers of Virginia his discharge or certificate of service, with a
large red wax seal attached, of which the following is a copy:

"I do certify that Sam'l Hawes was appointed an officer
in the 7th Virginia Continental Regiment in the winter of 1775'76,

and continued in service till the close of the war at which
time he ranked as Lieutenant-Colonel.

"Given under my hand this 27th of June 1807.

"Th. Posey, Late Lt. Col. in the Va. Line on
Continental Establishment."

Samuel Hawes II, or Samuel Hawes, Jr., as he is called in the
records, represented Caroline county in the Virginia House of
Delegates in the year 1784-5, 1785-6, 1786-7 and 1787-8.

Both Samuel Hawes and Samuel Hawes, Jr., were members
of the Caroline Committee of Safety in 1774-1775. Samuel
Hawes, Jr., was Clerk of that body. See chapter on Committee
of Safety elsewhere in this volume.

A road branching off from the old Stage Road just a few yards
north of the town limits of Bowling Green, and leading to Paige,
bears the name Hawes' Lane, in honor of this ancient family.

Arms:

Azure a fesse wavy between three lions rampant or.

Crest:

Out of a mural coronet azure a lion's head or.

THE HURT FAMILY

Arms:

Sa. a fesse betw. three cinquefoils or.

Crest:

A hart pass. ppr. horned, membered and hurt in haunch
with arrow or feathered ar.

Motto:

Mane praedam vesperi spolium.

Benjamin, Moses, and Philemon Hurt, who were brothers,
came from England to America probably in the early part of
the eighteenth century. They settled on the Rappahannock
River in St. Margaret's Parish, near Port Royal, Caroline county,
Va. Some of the descendants of Moses Hurt went to Fauquier
county, Va., and a Colonel Moses Hurt was living on his plantation
near the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs just prior to the
Civil War. Some of the descendants of Philemon Hurt settled
in Nottoway county, Va., and intermarried with the Turners
of that county. Other descendants of the Caroline Hurts went
early to Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, and probably to
Mississippi. Complete data of this family are not obtainable,
as many of the Court records of Caroline were destroyed or lost
during the Civil War.

An old deed, however, shows that Benjamin Hurt, the grandfather
of Thomas Hurt, of the "Thornhill" plantation mentioned

below, bought land from James Murry, in St. Margaret's Parish,
on April 13, 1764. He was an officer in the commissary department
of the American Army during the Revolutionary War, and
the steel-yard and quinine scales used by him in this capacity are
now in the possession of his great-great-granddaughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth Rowland Hurt Louthan. He had two sons, Benjamin
and William Hurt, the latter went south, probably to Alabama.

Benjamin Hurt, the son of the Revolutionary soldier, m.
Frances Richerson about 1793, and lived on his plantation near
Sparta in Caroline. They left the following children: Benjamin,
Thomas, James and Jane. James and Benjamin grew to manhood,
but never married. Jane, m. a Mr. Stuart, leaving one
daughter, Frances, who m. a Mr. Chapman. They had two sons,
Scott Chapman, who m. a Miss Sinclair, and had two sons, and
a daughter named Narcissa. Scott Chapman's brother, Robert
Henry Chapman, was a successful business man, but never
married. These last two generations of the Chapman's lived at
Ripley, Tenn.

Thomas Hurt, the second son of Benjamin Hurt and Frances
Richerson, his wife, was born September 13, 1798. On December
24, 1829, Thomas Hurt, m. Mrs. Mary Margaret Croughton
Peatross. She was the daughter of Charles Croughton and
Margaret Hudson, his wife, who were married in Durham Parish,
Charles county, Md., on July 29, 1799. Their daughter, Mary
Margaret Croughton, was born at "Woodend," her father's
plantation near Falmouth, Stafford county, Va., on December
30, 1804. Charles Croughton was a native of London,
England, and his wife, Margaret Hudson, was born February
15, 1777 at Whitehaven in the shire of Cumberland, England.
Their daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hurt, was taken from Virginia,
when a girl, by her father to the home of her grandmother
Croughton in England and was educated at Spark Hill, at that
time a suburb of London.

Thomas Hurt and his wife, nee Mary Margaret Croughton,
lived at "Thornhill," a plantation which joined "Needwood"
and "White Chimneys" plantations, near the present postoffice
of Lorne in Caroline. Thomas Hurt was a successful business
man, and prior to the Civil War his estate consisted of fifteen
hundred acres of land, about one hundrd slaves, and many real
estate mortgages. His entire property is estimated to have been
worth something over a half million dollars. He and his family

frequently spent the summer at The Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs, the noted all-South resort in the mountains of Virginia,
taking their private coach and a certain number of slaves with
them. They had three children, who reached their majority:
Elizabeth Young Hurt, b. December 2, 1830; Charles Benjamin
Hurt, b. February 6, 1833; and James Thomas Hurt, b. December
31, 1842. Thomas Hurt died at "Thornhill" full of years and
of honors, on February 16, 1870, and is buried there with his
brothers, James and Benjamin, and with his wife, who died on
July 10, 1888.

Elizabeth Young Hurt was m. on November 23, 1856 to
Joseph M. Seay, who about this time was High Sheriff and
Treasurer of Caroline county. After the Civil War they made
their home on the "Greenwood" farm, a part of the "Thornhill"
plantation. Here Mr. Seay engaged successfully in merchandising
and farming, until his death in September, 1891. Mrs. Elizabeth
Young Hurt Seay was a fine business woman and took an especial
interest in Concord Baptist church, of which her father and
mother, and brothers had also been members. She exercised a
wide influence for good, had a large circle of friends, and dispensed
a bountiful hospitality at "Greenwood." There on
September 9, 1911, surrounded by relatives and friends, she
passed to her reward, and was laid to rest among her dearest
kin at "Thornhill." Charles Benjamin Hurt was educated by
private tutors and at Richmond College. He was at the latter
institution from about 1853 to 1856. He died on July 12, 1871,
never having married.

James Thomas Hurt was educated at a neighboring plantation
school at "Alan Gowan," under a master of arts from
Harvard, and at Ellington Academy in Hanover county. The
war prevented his receiving a college training. During the last
months of the Civil War, he was a member of Colonel John S.
Mosby's Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army. On
July 14, 1870, he was m. to Ann Eliza Ewing Thomas, a daughter
of Ira Lomax Thomas and Mary Jones Morgan Thomas, of
"Vernon," Caroline county, Va. James Thomas Hurt and his
wife lived for several years after their marriage at "Thornhill,"
where their daughter, Elizabeth Rowland Hurt, was b. on January
3, 1874. On March, 1874, he and his wife went to Detroit, Mich.,
where a son, Ira Thomas Hurt, was b. on August 12, 1876, but
d. on December 24, 1881. Mr. Hurt was a forceful speaker and

a good debater. He was in business in Detroit until his death on
August 17, 1895, when his wife and daughter returned to
Virginia.

Elizabeth Rowland Hurt was born in Virginia, but was reared
and educated in Detroit, Mich. She visited her aunts in Caroline
and King William counties, Va., practically every year of her
girlhood days. On March 25, 1903, she was m. to Henry Thompson
Louthan, at "Retreat," the home of her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Greene Tyler, in the northern part of
King William county, Va. Mr. Louthan at this time was pastor
of the Baptist church in Williamsburg, Va., and that fall became
a professor in the College of William and Mary. There in
Williamsburg were born their two children, Mary Tyler Louthan,
on May 9, 1904; and Carter Thomas Louthan, on July 23, 1906.
The "Greenwood" farm, a part of the "Thornhill" plantation,
is now owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland Hurt Louthan.

Martin Arms

THE MARTIN FAMILY

The Caroline members of this ancient family are descended
from Col. John Martin, of "The Park[1] ," who represented Caroline
in the House of Delegates and who late in life removed to
King William and represented that county in the same body. He
m. Martha Burwell, daughter of Col. Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester
county. At Clifton, an old Martin estate about seven
miles from Bowling Green, is an old gravestone with the following

inscription: "Interred beneath this stone lies the body of Mrs.
Martha Martin, wife of Col John Martin, of Caroline and daughter
of Lewis Burwell, Esq., of Gloucester county, who departed this
life, 27th day of May, 1738, in the 36th year of her age, and left
three sons and four daughters." (See Robert DeJarnette in
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 11). In the William and Mary
Quarterly, Vol. 12, is reproduced an advertisement in which
John and Samuel Martin offer for sale 2,700 acres of the estate
of their late father, Col. John Martin. John Martin, son of
Col. John, is supposed to have been the John Martin, of "The
Park," in King and Queen county, who is frequently mentioned
in various Colonial records. He m. Haley Jones, of King
William, and has issue, of whom was Younger Martin.

Younger Martin, m. Elizabeth Boulware and had issue: John
B. Martin, Thomas C. Martin, Younger Martin, Jr., Catherine
and Frances.

John B. Martin, of the "Hermitage" in Caroline county,
eldest son of Younger Martin, m. Mary Saunders and had issue:
Samuel, Cornelius, Alex., and Ernest. Samuel, a Civil War
veteran, married in Texas and had two daughter, Catherine and
Ruth. His three brothers were killed in the Civil War.

Thomas C. Martin, of "The Park," in King and Queen county,
and second son of Younger Martin and Elizabeth Boulware, m.
Matilda Clark and had issue: (1) John Younger, m. — (2)
Frances, m. — Ramsay; (3) Emma, m. — Hundley;
(4) Elizabeth, m. Samuel; (5) Margaret, (6) Lee, (7) Hamilton.
The two last named—Lee and Hamilton—were killed in the
Civil War. Emma Martin, who m. Hundley and had issue
Thomas M. Hundley and Mary Hundley, of Richmond.

Catherine Ann, daughter of Younger Martin and Elizabeth
Boulware, m. Thomas Motley, of King and Queen county and
had issue: Thomas Judson Motley, Civil War veteran and member
of Pickett's Division.

Younger Martin, Jr., of Clay Hill in Caroline, m. Sarah Motley,
of King and Queen and had issue: Catherine and John Henry
Martin. John Henry Martin was educated at Columbian University,
of Washington, D. C. He m. Catherine Miller Bowie
and had issue: Julian Bowie, Sally Brockenbrough, Judith H.,
and Henry M.

Julian Bowie Martin, son of John Henry Martin and Sarah
Motley, was educated in Richmond College, now University of

Richmond, and for many years was principal of Fork Union
Academy. He m. Ruby Snead, of Fluvanna county and had
issue: Julian Bowie and Isabelle.

Sally Brockenbrough, dau. of John Henry Martin and Sarah
Motley, was educated in Bowling Green Female Seminary and
m. Dr. Arthur Lewis Martin. Issue: Mary Bowie, Patty Livingstone,
Garnett Lewis and Arthur Lewis, Jr.

Judith H., dau. of John Henry Martin and Sarah Motley,
educated in Woman's College of Richmond. Unmarried and
resides at "Clay Hill."

Henry M., son of John Henry Martin and Sarah Motley,
educated in Richmond College, (A. B., A. M.) John Hopkins
University (Ph. D.) and is Professor of Spanish in the University
of Illinois. He is a Fellow of Johns Hopkins and studied abroad
several years.

John Younger Martin, of "Marengo" in Caroline, eldest son
of Thomas C. Martin and Matilda Clark, was educated in Richmond
College and Columbian University. He m. Rebecca Warner
Lewis and had issue: (1) Olive Lee, (2) Ruth Lewis, (3) Isabel
M., (4) Ethel E., and (5) Arthur Lewis.

Olive Lee Martin, m. J. C. Wiltshire, of West Virginia.

Ruth Lewis Martin, m. Dr. J. T. Harris, of West Virginia,
and had issue: George Hunter, lawyer of Parkersburg; Thomas
Lewis, prominent surgeon of Parkersburg; and Mildred Warner,
who m. Thomas Thornbury Tyler, nephew of President Tyler.

Isabel M. Martin, m. Rev. B. M. Foreman, of South Carolina
and had issue one son, Arthur Ashley Foreman, who m. Mary
Cassell. They have one child, Arthur Lewis Foreman.

Ethel E. Martin, m. (1st) J. B. Hare, of South Carolina; (2d)
Townsend D. Wolfe. By the first marriage she had issue: one
daughter, Olive Warner Hare, who m. George Timmons; and by
the second marriage she had one son, Christian Townsend Wolfe,
who is engaged in banking.

Arthur Lewis Martin received his medical education in the
University of Maryland and is a practising physician in Caroline.
He m. Sally Brockenbrough Martin and had issue: Mary Bowie,
graduate University of Richmond; Patty Livingstone, graduate
University of Richmond; Garnett Lewis, and one son, Arthur
Lewis, Jr., who died in infancy.

John Buckler Martin, of Horatio, Arkansas, writing to Mrs.
Arthur Lewis Martin under date of January 11, 1924, says:

"My grandparents were William Martin and Ann Brumley.
My parents were Thomas Brumley Martin and Frances Ann
Boulware. They were married in Caroline on December 23,
1834. My mother was the daughter of Muscoe Boulware and
Elizabeth Spindle and was born in Caroline county on October
14, 1814. My father was born in Caroline on December 15,
1807. My parents removed to Winterham, near Acquinton
church in King William county, about 1843, where they died.
My father had two brothers, William and Frank, who lived in
King and Queen and King William counties respectively. I was
boarding with Uncle William at King and Queen Courthouse,
and attending Stevensville Academy, when the town was burnt
by Federal troops in 1863."

The arms of the Martin family are thus described:

Arms:

A chevron betw. three crescents.

Crest:

Ar. a dexter hand brandishing a sabre trenchant ppr
hilt gold.

Motto:

Auxilium ab alto.

THE MINORS OF "TOPPING CASTLE"

Doodes Minor, m. Elizabeth Cocke, issue: Garret Minor, b.
1679, d. February 20, 1720, m. Diana Vivian (October 17, 1706).
She d. April 16, 1718.

Issue: John Minor, b. June 22, 1707, d. August 2, 1755, m.
Sarah Carr (November 14, 1732); she was the dau. of Major
Thomas Carr, of Caroline county, and Mary Dabney.

Issue: (1) Major John Minor, of "Topping Castle" Caroline
county, Va., b. November 18, 1735, d. March 21, 1800, m. Elizabeth
Cosby (dau. of David Cosby and Mary Garland Overton).
(2) William Minor (nothing known of him); (3) Thomas Minor,
b. August 5, 1740, d. February 16, 1816, m. Mary Dabney,
March 10, 1763; (4) Mary Ann Minor, b. March 7, 1742, d. 1818,
m. Joseph Herndon, August 15, 1765. They were the ancestors
of Mrs. Mathew Maury, of Fredericksburg, Va., and Mrs. Carter
Blasingame, of Ashland, Va.; (5) Col. Garret Minor, b. March
14, 1744, d. June 25, 1799; m. Mary Overton Terrell, dau. of
Richmond Terrell and Nancy Overton, ancestors of Mrs. C. P.
Cardwell nee Bessie Lee, of Hanover county, and Mrs. Laurie
Smith, nee Mary H. Tyler, of Gwathmey, Va.

Issue: (1) Samuel Overton, m. Lydia L. Lewis; (2) Patsy

Minor, b. 1770, m. 1st, Robert Quarles, 2d Mr. Hall; (3) Garrett
Minor, Jr., b. December 25, 1776, d. June 30, 1832, m. Eliza
McWilliams, 1802, d. August 20, 1832; (4) Sally Minor, b. 1780,
d. 1849, m. David Watson, of Green Spring, Louisa county, 1801;
(5) Mary B. Minor, b. 1781, m. Garland Anderson; (6) Peter
Minor, b. 1730, m. Lucy Gilmer, 1806; (7) Rebecca Minor, b.
1772, m. John Quarles; (8) Dr. James Minor, b. 1785, m. Polly
Watson, 1813; (9) Elizabeth L. Minor, b. 1773, m. Col. Stapleton
Crutchfield, of Caroline county, Va.; (10) Nancy Minor, b.
1771, m. Thomas Meriwether, 1791; (11) Louisa Minor, b. 1787,
m. Hutchinson.

(6) James Minor, b. February 18, 1745, d. June 7, 1791, m.
Mary Carr, June 20, 1773. She was b. September 14, 1756, d.
July 7, 1797; (7) Diana Minor, b. February 28, 1747, d. March
28, 1748; (8) Dabney Minor, b. June 11, 1749, d. November 7,
1799, m. Ann Anderson, October 12, 1773, she was b. January
30, 1751, d. March 27, 1831; (9) Capt. Vivian Minor, b. November
4, 1740, d. October 15, 1798, m. 1st, Barbara Overton
Cosby, June 15, 1773, she was b. February 11, 1752, d. September
21, 1778; m. 2d, Elizabeth Dick, March 31, 1780; (10) Elizabeth
Minor, b. August 3, 1752, d. 1786, m. Col. James Lewis, of "Laurel
Hill."; (11) Peter Minor, b. August 16, 1754, d. 1773, m. Miss
Jones.

Major John Minor, of "Topping Castle," Caroline county,
Va., m. Elizabeth Cosby, sister of his brother Vivian's wife. First
of the Cosby girls, m. Richard Tompkins and one m. Harry
Collis, they are the ancestors of Judge William J. Leake, of
Ashland and the Keans of Goochland and Louisa counties, also
of Mrs. Margaret Berry, of Washington.

Major John Minor of "Topping Castle" had issue: (1) Thomas
Carr Minor, m. Ann Redd, of "Cedar Vale," Caroline county,
Va., she the dau. of Samuel Redd and Lucy Rogers, m. in 1779;
(2) William Minor, of "Topping Castle," m. Mildred Gregory
Lewis, dau. of Capt. John Lewis and Lucy Thornton; (3) Gen.
John Minor, lived at "Hazel Hill," Fredericksburg, Va., m. 1st,
Mary Berkley; m. 2d, Lucy Landon Carter, December 12, 1793.
They were the ancestors of Lucius Minor, of "Edgewood,"
and Mrs. Blackford; (4) Lancelot Minor, m. his cousin, Mary
Overton Tompkins in 1792. They were the ancestors of Prof.
John B. Minor, of the University of Virginia; (5) Diana
Minor, m. Richard Maury, the father of Commodore Mathew

Fontaine Maury; (6) Sarah Minor, m. Harwood Goodwin,
in 1798, of "Oakley," Caroline county, Va.; (7) Charles
Minor, took his degree of M. D. at Edinburg, Scotland, d. in
1806; (8) Elizabeth Minor, m. Humphrey Hill in 1820. He lived
at "Mount Airy," Caroline county, Va.; (9) Barbara Cosby Minor,
d. in 1849, m. William Kemp Gatewood (March 19, 1807), of
Middlesex county.

Capt. Vivian Minor, of "Springfield," Caroline county, Va.,
son of John Minor and Sarah Carr, m. 1st, Barbara Overton Cosby.

Issue: (a) Mary Overton Minor, m. John McLaughlin, son
of John McLaughlin and Sarah Mackie, of Scotland; (b) Ann
Minor; (c) George Minor.

Capt. Vivian Minor, m. 2d, Elizabeth Dick.

Issue: (a) Joseph Minor, (b) Lewis Minor, (c) Alfred Minor,
(d) Archibald Minor, b. May 12, 1781, m. Ann W. Rawlins;
(e) Susan B. Minor, m. Wm. Wyatt, of Caroline county, Va.,
November 11, 1813; (f) Matilda Minor, m. Robert Coleman, of
Caroline county, Va. They were the ancestors of Col. Lewis
Minor Coleman, who m. Miss Mary Ambler Marshall, of Fauquier
county, Va., and Mrs. Edward Watts Morris, of Claremont,
Hanover county, Va., also of Miss Willie Schooler, dau. of Prof.
Samuel Schooler, who m. the Rev. Frank Page, of "Oakland,"
Hanover county, Va.

Mary Overton Minor, dau. of Capt. Vivian Minor and Barbara
Overton Cosby, m. John McLaughlin, son of John McLaughlin.
Issue: (a) Harriet McLaughlin, m. Dr. Thomas Bates Anderson;
(b) Barbara McLaughlin, d. July 23, 1820; (c) John Vivian,
d. in 1844, m. Miss Johnston, of Tennessee. No issue; (d)
Thomas McLaughlin, d. 1838; (e) Cornelia M. McLaughlin, b.
December 2, 1810, d. April 12, 1889, m. Samuel Redd, the son of
Samuel and Elizabeth Taylor, of "Cedar Vale," Caroline county,
Va. Their issue is given in the "Cedar Vale" Redds.

George McLaughlin, son of John McLaughlin and Mary O.
Minor, m. Mildred Duke, dau. of Burnley.

Issue: James, m. his cousin, Miss Duke.

His issue: Ridgeway McLaughlin, of Huntington, W. Va.,
and Mrs. Harrison, of Ohio; Mary Overton McLaughlin, m.
her cousin, Mr. Smith, of Kentucky, and lived in Texas.

FURTHER NOTES ON THE MINORS OF "TOPPING CASTLE"

John Minor, I, was born in 1707 and on November 14, 1732
was m. to Sarah Carr, dau. of Thomas Carr and Mary Dabney,
of Caroline county. He received as a gift from his father-in-law
the estate known as "Topping Castle," which was situated
on the north bank of the North Anna River in Caroline. He
served the county as a Justice, was a man of superior intellect, and
had a prominent place in the life of colonial Caroline.

Of the eleven children of John Minor and Sarah Carr the eldest
was John Minor, II, better known as "Major John, of Topping
Castle." Major John Minor was b. November 13, 1735, m.
Elizabeth Cosby in 1755, and d. March 21, 1800. He was one
of the most prominent and successful men in Caroline in his
day. Unlike his father, he never held public office of any kind.
He was a successful planter, and, in addition to the care of his
own extensive plantations, he managed the affairs of General
Thomas Nelson while that gentleman was engaged in affairs of
State. He visited the plantations of the General monthly and
saw that the several overseers were properly attending to their
duties. There is a story to the effect that when on these rounds
which covered many miles, the plantations being widely separated,
Major Minor always rode a bob tailed black cob of great endurance,
and never slower than a brisk canter. If he met any
one who wished to talk to him, the person had to turn, take the
Major's gait, and ride on with him until the conversation was
finished.

Among Major Minor's children was a daughter, Diana Minor,
who m. Richard Maury and was the mother of Commodore
Matthew Fontaine Maury. There is a tradition that in a bath
tub at "Topping Castle" young Matthew F. Maury demonstrated
that a boat could be built which would function under water,
thus forecasting the submarine which came into service many
years later. Other children of Major John Minor were Lancelot
Minor, father of John B., and Lucian, who were professors of
law at the University of Virginia and the College of William
and Mary respectively; and Dr. Charles Minor, an eminent physician,
of Charlottesville.

The third child of Major Minor, was John Minor, III, who,
like his father, was born at "Topping Castle," in Caroline in 1761,
and who, with his wife, is buried in the old Masonic burying ground

in Fredericksburg, where a red marble mausoleum marks the grave.
He entered the Revolutionary Army when a mere boy and was
with his distinguished father, Major Minor, at the siege and
surrender of Yorktown. After peace was declared he studied
law under George Wythe and settled in Fredericksburg where he
achieved reputation both for his knowledge of law and his
eloquence. He was m. 1st, to Mary Berkely, of "Airwell,"
Hanover county, in 1790, who died a few months after their
marriage; and 2d to Lucy Landon Carter, of "Cleve," King
George county. She was a dau. of Landon Carter and Mildred
Washington Willis, of Fredericksburg. When the War of 1812
broke out John Minor, III, was made a General in the Virginia
line and was stationed in and around Norfolk. At the close of
the war he returned to the practice of law. While trying a famous
case at Culpeper General Minor was so impressed by the clear
and intelligent testimony of a lad who appeared in court as a
witness, that he afterward sought out the boy and asked him to
go back to Fredericksburg with him and attend school there.
The lad accepted the offer, went to Fredericksburg, lived with
John Minor, received his academic training, studied law, and
became famous in after years as Benjamin Botts, counsel for
Aaron Burr, when Burr was tried for high treason. Botts named
his eldest son John Minor in honor of his benefactor. General
Minor also befriended William Wirt at Culpeper Court House
when Wirt as a young lawyer was struggling with an adverse
bench in the county court. Wirt related the incident afterward
and added, "There was never a more finished and engaging
gentleman nor one of a more warm, honest and affectionate
heart. He was a most excellent lawyer, with a persuasive flow
of eloquence, simple, natural, graceful and most affecting where
there was room for pathos of the true sort which flows from a
feeling heart and a noble mind."

General Minor was a member of the House of Delegates in
1790 and introduced two bills looking to the emancipation of
slaves, the first providing for the gradual emancipation, and the
second for transportation and colonization, and although both
bills had the approval of Thomas Jefferson, no action was taken
on them by the House. He was an intimate friend of President
Monroe and was one of the Electoral College which cast the vote
of the State of Virginia for Monroe on his second election to
the Presidency. The Electoral College met as usual in Richmond

and the citizens of the city tendered them a public dinner
in the State Capitol. General Minor was designated to speak
on this occasion, and while doing so in his usual eloquent manner,
was stricken with apoplexy and was carried into one of the
committee rooms where he died in a few moments, at about 11:00
P. M. At the same evening there were gathered around the
parlor fire at "Cleve" in King George a number of the members
of the family of General Minor's wife, among them her brother-in-law,
Mr. William McFarland, a lawyer and poet. At eleven
o'clock he left the company to retire, but in a moment returned in
a somewhat alarmed condition and declared that he had seen
General Minor in the gallery upstairs—yet he was sure it was
only his ghost. He was laughed at and told that it was only
his impressionable fancy, so he started up again, but soon returned
with the same story, whereupon the whole company went
with him, but, not being so impressionable as Mr. McFarland, the
ghost was not seen. Early next day they learned that at the very
moment Mr. McFarland had seen the ghost of General Minor
upstairs the General had died in Richmond, and afterward Mr.
McFarland's fancies were more esteemed. This story is well
authenticated in the Minor family records and leads one to
believe that there are minds so peculiarly sensitive that impressions
may be made on them by occurrences at a distance,
to which the average mind is wholly oblivious.

General Minor retained the ancestral estate, "Topping Castle,"
in Caroline, until his death, using it as his summer home. His
town home, "Hazel Hill," at the lower end of Fredericksburg is
said to have been one of the finest places in or around the city.
The house was surrounded by beautiful grounds some fifty acres
in extent, and here General Minor lived in grand style and dispensed
hospitality with a lavish hand. "Hazel Hill" was a
strategic point during the Civil War and at the battle of Fredericksburg
the house was riddled by shells.

General Minor had seven children: Mary Beverly who m.
William M. Blackford and became the mother of Charles M.
Blackford, of Lynchburg, from whose story of the Minors in the
Virginia Magazine the foregoing is taken: (2) Lewis Willis, who
distinguished himself in the United States Navy; (3) Rev. Launcelot
Byrd Minor, who was a famous missionary to Africa from the
Episcopal church; (4) Charles Landon Carter Minor, of the
United States Army; (5) James Monroe Minor, of the United

States Navy; (6) Lucius H. Minor, of Hanover, and (7) John
Minor, IV.

The only daughter died in 1896 at the home of her son, Professor
Launcelot Minor Blackford, Principal of the Episcopal
High School, of Alexandria, in the ninety-third year of her age.
John Minor, IV, being born at "Hazel Hill" and therefore not a
native of Caroline, as were his forefathers, does not come within
the scope of this work. Suffice it to say that he maintained the
high standards and traditions of his family, was a man of
superior education, a lawyer, a writer of ability, a lover of children
and a benefactor to struggling young men. Among his
many proteges were two well-known artists, Leutze who painted
"Washington Crossing the Delaware," and "Westward the Star
of Empire Takes its Way," and Elder who painted "The Battle
of the Crater." John Minor, IV, died unmarried in Fredericksburg
on January 12, 1862.

THE MOTLEY FAMILY

This family, which is of English origin, came to Virginia
about the close of the seventeenth century and settled in that
section of the State which was included in King and Queen,
Essex, and Caroline, when these counties were formed. In the
Clerk's office of Essex county is recorded a Motley will in which
certain moneys are left to his son "to pay for the surveying of
his land at the foot of the mountains." This son, John Motley,
was the progenitor of the Motleys, of Pittsylvania and Henry
counties, and it was in the former county that the "land at the
foot of the mountains" was situated.

Among the early members of this family in the Rappahannock
Valley was Henry Motley, who m. — and had issue: (1)
Nathaniel, (2) Thomas Hugh, (3) Henry, (4) Sally, and (5)
Elizabeth.

Nathaniel, m. Lucy Broaddus, sister of Judge Andrew Broaddus
who emigrated westward, and had issue: (1) John Leland, m.
Maria Broaddus, (2) Elizabeth, m. Garland Samuel, (3) Christina,
who m. Woodson Broaddus, (4) Sally, who m. Richard Green,
(5) Polly, who m. George Marshall; (6) Louisa, who m. John
Broaddus; (7) Alice, who m. Dr. C. C. Broaddus; (8) Victoria,
who m. Frank Gouldin, and (9) Virginia, who m. — Green.

Thomas Hugh Motley, m. Catherine Martin, of Caroline and

had issue: (1) Thomas Judson, who m. Martha Samuel and had
issue: (1) Henry Judson, (2) Nannie, (3) Ida, (4) Govan, (5)
Bowie and (6) Nellie.

Sally Motley, m. Younger Martin, of Caroline and had issue:
(1) John Henry, (2) Eliza. Eliza, m. Philip Green and had
issue: (1) Henry, (2) Elizabeth, (3) Nellie, (4) Nola, and (5)
Lillie.

Elizabeth, m. Andrew Pitts and had issue: (1) Chester, (2)
Eugene, (3) Jefferson, (4) George H., (5) Andrew.

Other early members of this family were Andrew Motley,
Col. Thomas Motley, Harry Motley, Robert S. Motley, Lunsford
Motley, Nathaniel Motley, Edward Motley, Silas Motley,
Richard Motley and Polly Motley. The homes of the greater
number of these were in King and Queen, although a number lived
in Caroline and Essex. Polly Motley, sister of Col. Thos. Motley,
m. — Henshaw, and was the grandmother of Rev. M. E.
Broaddus, M. G. Broaddus, W. R. Broaddus, Manley Broaddus,
R. F. Broaddus and Mrs. Effie Brownley.

Several members of this family emigrated to the Pittsylvania
county, as heretofore noted, and established the Motley family
of the South Piedmont section of the State

John Motley, son of John, one of the emigrants before named,
m. Geddie Jones and had issue: (1) Betty, who m. Robt. Blackwell;
(2) Mary, who m. Wm. Hall; (3) Catherine, who m. John
Allen; (4) Anne, who m. Wm. Allen; (5) Susan, who m. William
Motley; (6) Sally, who m. — Yeatts; (7) Martha, who m.
— Yeatts; (8) Amelie, who m. Nathan Riddell; (9) George,
who m. 1st, Martha McGuire, and 2d, Missouri Lawrence Woodall,
widow of — Woodall.

William Motley, who m. Susan Motley, had four brothers:
(1) Samuel P., (2) John (commonly called Jack); (3) James and
(4) Daniel.

William Motley and Susan Motley had issue: (1) John A.,
(2) Wm. G., (3) Josiah, (4) Richard, (5) David, (6) Scroggs, (7)
Daniel W., (8) Malinda, (9) Polly, (10) Ella, (11) Lucy, (12)
Geddie, (13) Catherine. Richard (see 4) was a Disciple minister.

John A., m. Minnie Fowler and had issue: (1) Beatrice, (2)
Leonard, (3) Carrie, (4) Mary, (5) Earle, (6) Hugh, (7) Ruth,
(8) Joe, (9) Averett and (10) Lester.

William G., m. Pinckney Shelton and had issue: (1) Edna Elizabeth,
(2) Ruby Frances and (3) Mary Wills.

Josiah C., m. Nellie Bennett and had issue: (1) Viola, (2)
Voyls, (3) Virgil, (4) Douglas, (5) Anderson, (6) Regina, (7)
Rebecca, (8) Bennett, (9) Wesley, (10) Catherine.

Richard Motley, m. Nellie Williams, of Giles county, and had
issue: (1) Lucile, (2) Ruth, (3) Langhorne, (4) Richard, Jr.,
(5) Ralph.

Malinda Motley, m. Bedford Motley, and had issue: (1) Sally,
(2) Charles, (3) Daniel, (4) George, (5) Ernest, (6) Lindsay,
(7) Betty Sue. After the death of Malinda Motley, Bedford
Motley, m. 2d, Lydia Atkinson and had issue: (8) Hattie, (9)
Mary, (10) Reed, (11) Eloise, (12) Martin and (13) Hale. Daniel
Motley (see 3) became a minister in the Church of Disciples of
Christ.

Polly Motley, m J. T. Hodges; Ella Motley, m. J. W. Bradner;
Lucy Motley, m. W. J. Horner, Jr., of California; Geddie Motley,
m. W L. Lewis.

Anne Motley, sister of Wm. and dau. of John Motley and
Geddie Jones, m. William Allen and had issue: (1) Sally, (2)
Lavinia, (3) Fanny, (4) Robert, (5) Lena and (6) Emma

Sally Allen, dau. of Anne Motley and Wm. Allen, m. James
Motley and had issue: (1) Rawley, (2) Edwin, (3) Ernest, and
(4) Mercer. Ernest is a minister in the Disciples church, and
Mercer is a tobacconist in Danville.

George Motley

George Motley, son of John Motley and Geddie Jones, m. 1st,
Martha McGuire, and 2d, Missouri Lawrence Woodall, and had
issue, by the first marriage: (1) Fanny, (2) Mary, (3) Martha,
(4) John Fontaine, (5) Joel, (6) LaFayette; and by the second
marriage he had issue: (7) Henry Clay, (8) Virginia, and (9)
Benjamin.

Fanny, m. Daniel J. Motley; Mary, m. Ephraim Hundley;
Martha, m. Wm Woodall; John Fontaine, m Nannie S. Martin,
dau. of Chas. Martin, Joel, d. unmarried; LaFayette, m. Lula
Gilbert; Henry Clay, m. Mary Fuller; Virginia, m. William Terry;
Benjamin, m. Ola Brandon.

John Fontaine Motley

John Fontaine Motley and Nannie S. Martin had issue: (1)
Sally, m. Frank Amos; (2) Henry George, m. 1st, Leanna Reynolds,
2d, Lou Arrington; (3) Mary, m. Tazewell Tarleton Wingfield;
Martha, m. 1st, W. F. Mills, 2d, J J. Okes; (5) John L., m. Kate
Reynolds; (6) Nannie, m. John Blackwell.

George Motley, son of John and Geddie Jones, ran away to
sea when a lad of thirteen and did not return until he was past
thirty years of age. During his seafaring days he visited practically
every country of the world and had a remarkable fund of
knowledge and experience. He was an enthusiastic Mason,
possibly initiated in some foreign port. He rode horseback
across Turkey Cock mountain to old Snow Creek Lodge in Franklin
county every month as long as he lived. His son, John
Fontaine Motley, was prominent in the political life of Henry
county. George Motley and his son John Fontaine, were maternal
great-grandfather and grandfather respectively of the author of
this volume.

THE PEATROSS FAMILY

The Peatross family is of Welch and Scotch descent. Robert
Peatross, the first of the name in Virginia, came from Wales to
Caroline during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He
had five sons and three daughters. Of the sons, Robert was a
local preacher in the Methodist church. He m. Ann Scott, of
Caroline, by whom he had six sons and four daughters. One of
the sons, Richard Peatross was the third generation in America,
of his name. He resided at "The Glebe," near Needwood
Precinct, in Caroline county. He was the father of nine children:
M. D. Peatross, J. W. Peatross, Richard Peatross, Robert
Sale Peatross, William E. Peatross, Sally E. Peatross, Frances
Peatross, Clarissa Peatross and Malindia Peatross. Taking the
daughters first: Sally E., m. Warner M. Mason, she being his
second wife; Frances, m. Warner M. Mason, she being his first
wife; Clarissa, m. Richard Turner, Matilda, m. Samuel Lawrence;
Sally E., d. without issue; Frances had four children: Cornelius,
Kate, Jennie, and Margaret. Cornelius was killed in the Civil
War at Sharpsburg; Jennie, m. Walter Scott Peatross, and is
survived by several children now living in Richmond. Margaret
never married; Clarissa, wife of Richard Turner, had issue:
Richard, Agnes, Daniel, Reuben, Mary, Rebecca and Sally;
Matilda, wife of Samuel Lawrence, had issue: Richard, Clarissa,
Mary, James, William and Samuel. Taking the sons of Richard
Peatross: M. D. Peatross had a dau. named Adelaide, who m.
James Munday and has descendants residing in Maryland; J. W.
Peatross had children: Maria Ann, Richard, Francis and Sally.
Richard Peatross had a dau. named Fanny. William E. Peatross,
died without issue; Robert Sale Peatross, m. Elizabeth Scott,
sister of Samuel Soctt, a prominent lawyer of Caroline county,
who represented the district in Congress at one time. She had
another brother, Thomas Scott, a physician, who resided near
Ruther Glen. The children surviving Robert Sale Peatross were:
Annie C., who m. Charles T. Wortham, of Richmond and is
survived by a son, Coleman Wortham, a prominent business
man of Richmond. Mary F., who m. Dr. Robert T. Wortham,
who resided at "The Grove" in the lower end of Caroline county
and is survived by several children, still living at the family
residence. Ella, who m. Thomas C. Williams, of Richmond and
is survived by three children, Thomas C., Jr.; Adolphus D., both

of Richmond and Mrs. Sue Massie, of Albemarle county. Walter
Scott, a farmer, who resided in the lower end of Caroline county,
died about 1910 and is survived by several children, living in
Richmond. He m. Jennie Mason and their descendents are referred
to above. Richard Warner, who practiced law in Danville,
was prominent in legal and educational circles, was the founder
of Randolph-Macon Institute, of Danville, a member of the
Board of Trustees of Randolph-Macon College and at the time
of his death, about 1919, was judge of the Corporation Court of
Danville. He is survived by four children, Richard Warner, Jr.,
a mining engineer, of Waco, Texas; Garnett, who resides in
Danville; Hunter, who resides in New York City and Bessie Lee,
who resides in Danville. Robert Olin Peatross, resided in
Caroline county, where he practiced law up to the date of his
death in 1905. R. O. Peatross, R W Peatross and W. S.
Peatross served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
R. O. Peatross was Major of the Thirtieth Virginia Regiment,
Caroline Volunteers and participated in a number of the battles
of the Civil War, including Drewry's Bluff and Sharpsburg.
He was twice wounded. R. W. Peatross was a captain of
engineers. W. S. Peatross was a private in the Thirtieth Virginia
Regiment and was severely wounded in the battle of Sharpsburg.
Major Robert Olin Peatross left surviving him six children, all
of whom are now living—two daughters, Bessie and Alice, and
four sons, Cecil G., Archibald Samuel, Louis Ashby and Richard
Warner. Cecil is a farmer in the lower end of Caroline county,
Archibald Samuel is division manager of R. G. Dunn Mercantile
Agency, with headquarters at El Paso, Texas; Louis Ashby,
an Episcopal minister, resides at 738 Bedford Place, Columbus,
O., and is assistant rector of a church there. He is married and
has two children. Robert Olin Peatross, m. Julia Archibald
Samuel, daughter of Col. Archibald Samuel, of Bath, in Caroline
county. Richard Warner Peatross was married in 1905 to Mary
Newman, daughter of C. S. Newman, of Knoxville, Tenn. Her
ancestors for several generations lived in Orange county, Va., at
"Hilton," adjoining "Montpelier." They have one daughter,
Miss Katherine Hazen Peatross, now a student at Mary Baldwin
Seminary in Staunton.

Richard Warner Peatross received his academic education at
the graded school in Bowling Green and at Randolph-Macon
College. He studied law while teaching school at the University

School, Knoxville, Tenn., an institution preparatory to the
University of Tennessee, and was admitted to the bar in Tennessee
in 1899 and has been practicing in Norfolk since 1900. He has
been City Attorney of Norfolk since September 1, 1918. He is
an elder in the Presbyterian church. He was a member of the
Charter Commission in 1917, which drafted the Norfolk Charter
of 1918 under which the City Manager plan of government was
made effective in Norfolk.

The Peatross Arms (also Peat) are thus described:

Arms:

Per pale wavy, ar. and gules barry of six counterchanged.

Crest:

A deer's head ppr.

Motto:

Prospere si propere.

THE PRATT FAMILY

The Pratt Family came to America from England. There is
a tradition that a son of Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden and
Chief Justice of England, had a difficulty with a fellow-student
at Oxford and on account of this difficulty came to America
rather than embarrass his father. He settled in King George
county and was soon followed by a younger brother who decided
to cast his lot in the new country. These brothers acquired
estates, married and became heads of large families.

John Pratt came from King George to Caroline in 1790,
married a widow, Mrs. Dixon, of Port Royal. He bought a large
tract of land on the Rappahannock, below Port Royal, from the
Micou and Lomax families and built the first Camden house.
This house was of the long colonial type. In 1858 William
Pratt razed the original Camden house and built the present
structure, which is of the Italian Villa type, with very large
rooms and porches.

Camden

During the Civil War, when the community was in the hands
of the Confederate Army, this house was the scene of many dances
and other festivities, and many are the stories told of the brilliant
functions held here. But when the tide turned and the Federal
troops came in all was different and the house was as solemn
and quiet as the burying ground hard by. The Northern troops
threatened to burn the house several times and once fired on it
from gunboats on the Rappahannock, but did very little damage.

The house stands near the bank of the Rappahannock, on a
bluff overlooking the broad expanse of the river which here
resembles a lake. It is surrounded by an unusually large lawn
which is covered with many beautiful old trees. The Camden
farm consists of about 1,400 acres on which is one of the finest
apple orchards in Tidewater Virginia. The place is managed by
the Hon. Richard T. Pratt, a lineal descendant of this ancient
family, who for a time represented Caroline in the House of
Delegates. Mr. Pratt m. Miss Courtney Crump, daughter of
Judge Beverly Crump, of Richmond His brother William T
Pratt, m 1st Miss Marshall and 2d Miss Mary Custis Lee, of
Stafford, and lives in Fredericksburg, Va.

Messrs. William and Richard Pratt have two sisters: Mrs.
Ida Vivian Funsten, widow of the late Bishop James Bowen
Funsten, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Miss Maggie
Pratt, who lives with her mother at "Camden."

Arms:

Sa. on a fesse betw. three elephants heads erased ar.
as many mullets of the first.

Crest:

An elephant's head erased ar.

Supporters:

Dexter, a griffin sa. beak and forelegs gu.; Sinister,
a lion ramp. or, each gorged with a collar ar. charged with three
mullets sa.

Motto:

Judicium parium aut lex terrae.

THE REDDS OF "CEDAR VALE."

James Redd, m. Miss Eastham, Issue: Samuel Redd, of
"Cedar Vale," Caroline county, Va., b. 1729, m. 1755, Lucy
Rogers, b. 1731. She was the daughter of John Rogers, of King
and Queen county, Va., and Mary Byrd and the aunt of Gen.
George Rogers Clarke and Gens. William and Jonathan Clarke;
also the sister of John and Byrd Rogers, of Albemarle county, Va

Their issue: seven children—

1. Fannie Redd, m. Col. Samuel Temple, of King and Queen
county, Va. Issue: six children: John Temple, m. Mary Latane;
Fannie, m. Rev. Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline county, Va.;
Lucy, m. Timothy Chandler, of Caroline county, Va.; Mr. Hugh
Davis, from Norfolk is descended from them.; Ann, m. Henry
Cocke. There were other sons.

2. William Redd, son of Samuel Redd and Lucy Rogers, of
"Cedar Vale," Caroline county, Va., m. Miss Tyler, of Caroline
county, Va.

(The Moncures, of Ruther Glen, Mr. Clarence Tompkins, of
"Ormesby," Caroline county, Va., and Fitzgerald Tompkins, of
Ind., are their descendants.)

3 Jessie Redd, son of Samuel Redd and Lucy Rogers, of "Cedar
Vale," m Miss Mary Woodson, of Goochland county, Va.

4. Lucy Redd, dau. of Samuel Redd and Lucy Rogers, of
"Cedar Vale," m. John Fitzhugh, of King George county, Va.
Issue:

Judge Dennis Fitzhugh, of Louisville, Ky., m his cousin, the
sister of Gen. George Rogers Clarke; Samuel Temple Fitzhugh,
m. Miss Fitzhugh, from near Baltimore; Lucy Fitzhugh, m. Dr.

Benjamin Harrison Hall, in 1825, or '30, and lived in Louisville,
Ky.; Phillip Fitzhugh, m. Mary Macon Aylett, of King William
county, Va. He was the father of Maj. Patrick and Dr. Fitzhugh,
Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. John Robinson Redd, of "Cedar Vale."

5. Ann Redd, dau. of Samuel Redd and Lucy Rogers, of
"Cedar Vale," m. Thomas Carr Minor, of "Topping Castle,"
son of Major John Minor and Elizabeth Cosby.

Issue: Eleven children: Judge Henry Minor, m. Frances
Throckmorton Barbour (September 14, 1809, in Petersburg,
Va.); left many descendants.; Ann Redd Minor, m. her cousin,
Dr. William Tompkins Minor, brother of Prof. John B. Minor,
of the University of Virginia. She left issue: Dr. Minor, m.
2d, Miss Washington.

6. Samuel Redd, of "Cedar Vale," b. March 19, 1764, m.
March 2, 1797, Elizabeth Taylor, of Taylorsville, Hanover county,
Va. (the dau. of Edmund Taylor and Ann Day). She was b.
March 31, 1776, d. at "Cedar Vale," November 5, 1858. Issue:
Lucy Anne Redd, b. December 15, 1797, m. February 28, 1822,
Dr. Littleton Goodwin Coleman, son of Harry Coleman of Caroline
county, by his 1st wife, Miss Goodwin.

Edmund, b. November 19, 1799, m. 1825, Sophia Pleasants
Burton—they were the ancestors of Crawford Redd, of Ginter
Park; Mrs. James Redd, of Churchland, Va., and Paul Redd, of
Highland Park and William P. Redd, of Richmond, Va.

Elizabeth Taylor Redd, of "Cedar Vale, m. Williamson
Talley on October 26, 1820, the ancestors of Mary Louisa Talley
who m. her cousin, Edmund Carter Taylor. (He the son of
Walker Taylor, of Taylorsville and Elizabeth Berkeley, of "Edgewood,"
Hanover county, Va.) They left many descendants.

Samuel Redd, of "Cedar Vale," son of Samuel Redd and
Elizabeth Taylor, b. March 10, 1804, m. December 12, 1827,
Cornelia M. McLaughlin, (dau. of John McLaughlin and Mary
Overton Minor, of "Springfield," Caroline county, Va.) d. March
5, 1889. Cornelia McLaughlin, b. December 2, 1810, d. at
"Hybla," Hanover county, Va., April 12, 1889.

Issue: Addison Lewis Redd, of "Hybla," d. 1901, unmarried;
Edmund Taylor Redd, m. 1st Betty Sanford, of
Brunswick county, Va., m. 2d Bertha Southworth. Issue:
Claudia Minor Redd, who has a large school in Lansdown,
Pa.; Mary Taylor Redd, m. Charles Green Fergusson, of N. C.;
Beatrice Redd, m. Mr. Gates, no issue; Dr. John T. Redd (son

of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin) m. in 1866, Miss
Kate Shields, dau. of Major G. B. Shields, of Natchez, Miss.
Issue: Benoist Shields Redd, of New York City. He m. in 1897
Marie Castegnier, of N. Y. City. Issue: John Redd.

Judge Samuel C. Redd, son of Samuel Redd and Cornelia
McLaughlin, of "Hybla," m. Nannie Carter, of "North River,"
Hanover county, Va., dau. of Mr. Henry Rose Carter and Emma
Coleman, dau. of Henry Coleman and his second wife, Miss
Mason, of Caroline county. Issue:

1. Hill Carter Redd, m. Virginia Campbell, of "Glen Cairn,"
Hanover county, Va., June 26, 1901. Issue: William Hugh Redd
and Emma Coleman Redd.

2. John Champe Redd, (son of Samuel Redd and Ann Carter)
m. Sallie Williams, of Brunswick county, Va. Issue: Champe
Carter, John Hampden and Mary Gordon Redd.

3. Samuel Coleman Redd, m. Minnie Morcatelle, of Arizona,
July, 1914.

Sarah Elizabeth, (dau. of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin)
d. at "Hybla," February 21, 1917.

Clarence Meriwether Redd, son of Samuel Redd and Cornelia
McLaughlin of "Hybla," d. March 21, 1922, unmarried.

Eugene M. Redd, (son of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin,
of "Hybla,") m. Jane Rose Claiborne, of "Geddes,"
Amherst county, Va., dau. of Charles Buller Claiborne and
Sallie Coleman, s. of Mrs. Henry Carter, of "Landora," Caroline
county, Va.

Issue: (a) Sallie Claiborne Redd, m. H. P. Porter, of Albemarle
county, Va; (b) Mary Minor Redd, (dau. of Eugene Redd
and Jane Claiborne), d. in infancy; (c) Eugene M. Redd, (son
of Eugene Redd and Jane Claiborne), m. 1st Miss Shelton, of
Nelson county, Va., m. 2d his cousin, Marie Gantt, October 28,
1916, at "Roseland," Nelson county, Va.; (d) Harry Coleman
Redd, (son of Eugene Redd and Jane Claiborne) of "Bellevette,"
Nelson county, Va., m. Carrie Brent; (e) Cornelia McLaughlin,
(dau. of Eugene and Jane Claiborne Redd, of Nelson county) m.
Joe Edwards; (f) Bessie Overton, (dau. of Eugene Redd and
Jane Claiborne, of Nelson county), m. Harry Massie, of "Roseland";
(g) James Mason Redd (son of Eugene M. Redd and Jane
Rose Claiborne), m. Ethel Tompkins, September, 1923, Arrington,
Va.

Barbara M. Redd, (dau. of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin,
of "Hybla," d. December 8, 1922, unmarried.

Emily H. Redd, (dau. of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin,
of "Hybla,") m. Hill Carter (son of Ann Carter, who
m. Judge Redd). Issue:

Dr. Henry Rose Carter, of Ashland, Va., m. Mary Washington
Pendleton, of Louisa county, Va.; (b) Samuel Redd Carter, (son
of Hill Carter and Emily Redd, of Ashland), m. Bessie Dozier
Lee, of Sumter, S. C., on January 7, 1903; (c) Hill Carter, Jr., m.
Bessie LaDew, of Cumberland, Md.; (d) Clarence Minor Carter,
unmarried; (e) Charles Harrison Carter, m. Catherine Ogie
Skelton, of Richmond, Va.; (f) Shirley Carter, unmarried.

James Cary Redd, (son of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin,
of "Hybla," Hanover county, Va.), m. his cousin,
Jane Taylor Pearce and lived at "Sligo," Hanover county, Va.

Issue: (a) Burnley Redd, m. William E. Tyler, of "Blenheim,"
Caroline county, Va., youngest son of Julia Minor Magruder, of
Albemarle county, Va., and Henry Tyler, of "Blenheim"
(William Tyler is half-brother of Gov. Hoge Tyler, of Virginia);
(b) James Pearce Redd (son of Cary Redd and Jane
Taylor Pearce, of "Sligo,"), m. Miss Sullivan, of Kentucky. No
issue; (c) Hardenia Taylor Redd, (dau. of Cary Redd and Jane
Taylor Pearce, of "Sligo"), m. her cousin, Claude Hunter (son of
Taliaferro Hunter, of Ruther Glen, Caroline county, Va., and
Miss Coleman, of Alabama.)

Loula C. Redd, (dau. of Samuel Redd and Cornelia McLaughlin,
of "Hybla," unmarried.

Charles Overton Redd, (son of Samuel Redd and Cornelia
McLaughlin, of "Hybla," Hanover county, Va.) m. Virginia
Dickinson, of Louisa county, Va., d. in 1890.

Issue: Clarence Overton Redd, of New Jersey.

Emily Harris Redd, (dau. of Samuel Redd and Elizabeth
Taylor, of "Cedar Vale," m. February 11, 1830, Mr. S. Gouldin,
lived in Goochland county.

Sarah Taylor, dau. of Samuel Redd and Elizabeth Taylor, of
"Cedar Vale," d. unmarried.

John Robinson Redd (son of Samuel Redd and Elizabeth
Taylor, of "Cedar Vale"), b. September 7, 1810, m 1st, April 24,
1838, to his cousin, Lucy Aylett Fitzhugh, m. 2d, Ann Hill,
sister of Mr. Lewis Hill, of Richmond, Va.

Issue 1st marriage: Lucy Fitzhugh, m. Jaquelin Holliday,

Indianapolis, Ind.; their issue: Annie Holliday, m. Harry Burnett;
Jacquelin, m. Florence Baker; Lucy F., m. George Hume.

Issue: 2d marriage: Ann Redd, m. Fitzgerald Tompkins

James Temple Redd, son of Samuel Redd and Elizabeth
Taylor, of "Cedar Vale," m. May 10, 1838, Tomasia Anderson,
dau. of Dr. Thomas Anderson, of "Providence," Caroline county
and Harriet McLaughlin, of Caroline county.

Louisa Redd, dau. of Samuel Redd and Elizabeth Taylor,
of "Cedar Vale," b. December 12, 1817, m. December 5, 1839,
to Dr. Thomas Waring Gouldin.

Mrs. Duncan Holliday, of Ind., Mrs. Alvin Rowe, of Fredericksburg,
Va., and Mr. Rob Goulding, of Caroline county, Va., are
descended from Dr. Gouldin.

THE SCOTT FAMILY

The Scott family is of ancient origin. Sir Richard Le Scott,
ancestor of the Virginia branch of this family, was a person of
distinction in the reign of Alexander, III, of Scotland about 1280.
Sir David Scott, of Brauxholm sat in the Parliament of James,
III in 1487. Sir Walter Scott is described in history as a man of
valour. Sir Walter's grandson of the same name was a person
of rare attainments. He died in 1574. Another Walter Scott
was knighted in 1590 and elevated to the peerage in 1606 as Lord
Scott, of Buccleuch. His son was created Lord Whitchester and
Eskdale and Earl of Buccleuch, in 1619. A related branch of
this family produced Sir Walter Scott, the illustrious author.

The younger son of one of the Lairds of Scott aided the young
Pretender in 1746 and was forced to seek refuge in America. He
came to Virginia and married and entered upon the practice of
law. His son, William, married a Miss Anna Mason and died
in 1791. His grandson was the celebrated General Wingfield
Scott, hero of the Mexican War.

Francis Woolfolk Scott, III, of Middlesex, writes: "My great-grandfather
emigrated with his brother from Scotland some time
in the 18th century and served in the Revolutionary army." Dr.
James Scott, of St. Louis, writes: "My grandfather was called
Captain Jack Scott. He fitted out a company to defend Washington
against the British, but saw the city burning before he
reached there."

Captain Jack Scott, m. Elizabeth Brumskill, dau. of an Episcopal
rector and had issue: Samuel, Robert, John, Harrod, Richard,

Emily, Anne and Francis. Francis, m. Martha Woolfolk. Robert
Scott, son of Captain Jack and Elizabeth, was the father of Dr.
Thomas Llewellyn Scott, of Caroline. Francis Woolfolk Scott,
m. 1st, Miss — Coles and had issue: John Walter Scott and
Willmonia; 2d, Mrs. Joel Blake, of Mathews county, sister of
Colonels Wm. B. and Robert Davis, of Millers Tavern; 3d, Miss
Ann Maria Minor, dau. of Col. Thos. Minor, of Spotsylvania
and had issue: (1) Alice Taylor, who m. W. T. Chandler; (2)
Mary Emma, who m. Rev. E. H. Rowe; (3) Maria Louise, who m.
Prof. C. B. Stuart; (4) Francis Woolfolk Scott, who m. 1st, Julia
Mann, 2d Caroline Blake.

Alice Taylor Scott and W. T. Chandler died without issue.

Mary Emma Scott and Rev. E. H. Rowe had issue one son,
Scott Rowe, who m. Miss Alle Hunter, sister of his father's third
wife, and lives at "Holly Hill." They have two children—Mary
Frances and Emma Jane.

Maria Louise Scott and Prof. C. B. Stuart had issue: (1)
Francis Woolfolk, (2) James and (3) Alice.

Francis Woolfolk Scott, m. Julia Isabel Mann in 1866 and
had issue eight children, four of whom lived to maturity. (1)
Llewellyn Davis, (2) Francis Woolfolk, (3) Emma, (4) Bessie.
Francis Woolfolk, m. his second wife, Caroline Matilda Blake
in 1882 and had issue five children: (1) Walter Carroll, (2) Minor
Blake, (3) Robert Preston, (4) Virginia Lee, (5) Alice Louise.

John Walter Scott and Gabrielle Bosher had issue: (1)
Gabrielle, (2) Mary, (3) Rosa and (4) John Walter, Jr. This
family lived in King William.

Llewellyn Davis Scott, son of F. W. Scott and Julia Mann,
m. 1st, Lelia Wyatt Lovelace, of Marion, Ala., and had issue:
(1) Llewellyn, Jr., d. in infancy; (2) Francis W., of Huttig, Ark.;
(3) Kendrick Lovelace, lawyer; L. D. Scott, m. 2d, Josephine
Lovelace, sister of his 1st wife and had issue: (1) Alice Chandler,
(2) Josephine Lovelace, (3) Mary Wyatt.

Minor Blake Scott, son of F. W. Scott and Caroline Blake,
m. Ruth Wilson and lives at Kinder, La. Robert Preston Scott
son of F. W. Scott and Caroline Blake, m. Irene Bloomfield, of
Houston, Texas, and had issue: Robert, Irene, and Virginia Lee,
who m. Laurens Cook Pierce and lives at Ft. Oglethorpe.
Alice Louise Scott, another dau. of F. W. Scott and Caroline
Blake, is associated with her half-brother, Prof. L. D. Scott,
in the Washington Female Seminary, of Atlanta.

John Scott, m. Caroline Skinker and had issue three children.
They removed to Missouri and opened a boys' school there.

James Murphy Scott, son of Harrod and grandson of Captain
Jack Scott, removed with his parents to Missouri when a lad
and attended a private school presided over by his uncle John
Scott. He was graduated from the Medical School, of St. Louis
University, practiced in St. Louis and was professor in Medical
College of Washington University. Married Estelle Kirker,
granddaughter of Thomas Kirker, second Governor of Ohio.
Their daughter, Stella, lives unmarried in Huttig, Ark.

Emily Ann Scott, dau. of Captain Jack, m. her cousin, Drury
Christian, of Virginia and had issue: (1) Stephen, (2) James, (3)
Sarah and (4) Ann.

Richard Scott, son of Captain Jack Scott, was a lieutenant
in Col. Miller's Regiment at the Battle of Lundy's Lane. The
killing of Lieutenant Scott and his party is said to have brought
on the Seminole War. Reference to this will be found in Henry
Clay's speech as given in "Eloquence of the United States."

Richard Brumskill Scott, son of Robert Scott and grandson of
Captain Jack, was a Methodist minister and a member of the
Virginia Conference. His son Richard is also a member of the
Virginia Conference.

Ann Scott, dau. of Captain Jack Scott, m. Nathaniel Ware, of
Caroline, and had issue: John H. John H. Ware m. Mary
Z., daughter of Samuel Coleman, of "Marl Hill," and had
issue: (1) Nathaniel, deceased; (2) Herbert W., (3) Coleman,
(4) Ottawa Ann, (5) John H., (6) Daisy Scott.

Herbert W. Ware, m. Jennie L. Henderson, of Orange county,
and had issue: Virginia Irving, m. Rev. Goodwin Frazer, now of
Charles Town, W. Va., and has issue, Frances Scott and Caroline
H.; John H., who died at V. M. I., in 1918; Susie H., who m.
David Branch, and has issue, David Ware; Henry M., of Richmond,
Va. Herbert W. Ware is now Vice-President of Trevvett,
Christian & Co., the publishers of this work.

Coleman Ware, m. Dora Frickey, of Springfield, Mo., and
had issue: Scott.

Ottawa Ann Ware, m. John Hundley, of Hanover county,
and had issue Harrold, Byrel W., Loice, Waller, John, George,
Mary, Ann.

John H. Ware, m. Lula Covington, of Covington, Va., and
had issue: (1) Martha, (2) Marion.

Daisy Scott Ware, m. Albert W. Hankins, of Louisa county,
Va., and had issue: Albert W., and Mary Coleman.

Elizabeth Scott, sister of Congressman Samuel Scott and
Dr. Thomas Scott, m. Robert Sale Peatross. See genealogy of
Peatross family elsewhere in this book.

Sarah Scott, m. Charles Farish, of Caroline.

Emily Scott resided with Francis Woolfolk Scott, I. Died
unmarried.

Samuel Scott, son of Robert, m. a Miss Flippo, of Caroline,
removed to a western State.

Nannie Scott, m — Fitzgerald, of Nottoway county and
had issue Scott Fitzgerald, who with his aunt, Mary Eliza Scott,
owns valuable Scott family records.

Martha Frances Scott m. the Hon. W. R. B. Wyatt, on September
5, 1832. Upon her death, her sister, Isabelle Adelaide
Scott, became the second wife of Mr. Wyatt. For dates see
Wyatt Genealogy eleswhere in this volume. Ellen Scott, sister
of Martha and Isabelle, died unmarried.

Harrod Brumskill Scott, son of Captain Jack Scott and Elizabeth
Brumskill, m. Sarah Jordan Christian and had issue: (1)
Martha Elizabeth, (2) Emily Ann, (3) James Murphy, (4) John,
(5) Richard, (6) Charles Robert.

Martha Scott, m. Thomas Carter Johnson and had issue:
(1) Thomas Watts, who became a physician and practiced in
Missouri; (2) Edward Scott Johnson, who m. Miss Gillie Orrick,
a niece of Bishop Otey, of Virginia. Res. Butte, Montana.
They have six children, Mrs. Samuel Griffith, of Montana; (2)
Mrs. Wolcott Allison, of Chicago; (3) Mrs. Wm. Parkinson, of
Montana; (4) Mrs. Patty Naff, of Los Angeles; (5) Edward
Johnson, of Montana and (6) James Johnson, of Washington
State. Thomas Carter Johnson, m. 2d a cousin of his first wife
who bore exactly the same name. They had issue: (1) Elizabeth,
who lived in St. Louis, unmarried; (2) Robert, who m. Miss Jessie
W. Wells, of Mississippi. Robert Johnson and Jessie Wells had
issue: (1) Ida Wells Johnson, (2) Sidney Carter Johnson. The
latter lived in St Louis until his death a few years ago, and was
General Auditor of the Cotton Belt Railroad. He m. Mary
Waller, of Virginia, and has issue: T. C. Johnson, Jr., (3) Thomasia
Carter Johnson, m. Davis Stuart, of Marshall Texas. Issue:
Martha Johnson ("Patty") on faculty of Teachers' College,
Albany, N. Y.

Description of Scott Arms—

Arms:

Or. on a bend azure, a mullet of six points between two
crescents argent.

Crest:

A dexter hand proper holding a broken lance.

Motto:

Armor patria.

THE SUTTON FAMILY

Colonel Norborne E. Sutton, son of John Carter Sutton and
Elizabeth Page Pendleton, was born at the "Old Mansion,"
Bowling Green, Va., in the year 1798. His ancestors came to
Caroline from Manor House, Oxfordshire, England, in the early
years of the eighteenth century—before Caroline had been formed
of Essex, King William and King and Queen.

Colonel Sutton was first m. to Dorothea Washington, dau.
of George and Elizabeth Washington, of "Woodpecker," Caroline
county. By this marriage there were six children: Braxton,
Courts, Hugh, Daniel and Norborne and one daughter, Georgianna.
The second marriage was to Mary Jane Hutchinson, of "Chantilly"
Henrico county. Miss Hutchinson's mother, Mildred Woolfolk
Brown, was said to have descended directly through the royal
family of King George, of England. She was the granddaughter
of Ursula George who was a granddaughter of William Byrd, of
Westover. To Colonel Sutton and Mary Hutchinson were born
four children: Ida, Mary, William and Marion

Colonel Sutton was an attorney and practiced his profession
in Bowling Green. He was postmaster of the town in 1834 and
in 1845 represented Caroline in the State Senate. He served as
a private in the War of 1812 under Captain Armistead Hoomes,
of "Old Mansion."

During the Polk-Tyler campaigns Colonel Sutton had built
on his estate at Bowling Green a log cabin. It was drawn
by twenty horses, each led by his own groom. In the door of
the cabin sat an old colored man playing a banjo. This was the
chief object of interest in the election parade in Richmond. It
was afterward carried from county to county and many speeches
were made from its platform. During the Mexican War Colonel
Sutton was one of twelve men who volunteered to help draw the
cannon up the hill to bombard the city of Montaguna. Late in
life he removed to Red River Texas where he died.

THE TALIAFERRO FAMILY

Arms:

Hand and arm holding dagger cutting bar.

Motto:

Fortis et firmis.

Of all family legends and traditions none is more ancient,
or more interesting, than that of the Taliaferro Family, which
carries one back to Julius Caesar and his campaign in Gaul.

This tradition has it that Caesar, while inspecting camp at
twilight, was surrounded by Gallic warriors who were bent upon
taking his life. In the midst of this imminent peril, Caesar so
bravely comported himself that he won the admiration of the
leader of the band, who refused to allow him to be slain. In the
course of the campaign Caesar's captors became his captives and
recognizing the man who had spared his life, Caesar made him
one of his personal attendants and permitted him to bear arms—
a privilege not allowed to any but Roman soldiers—and thus
the name Taliaferro originated from the Latin "telum"—a
dart—and "ferro"—to bear.

A branch of this family wandered to Normandy, thence
to England with William the Conquerer. A member of the
family—Baron Taliaferro—fought with the Conquerer and became
known to history as "The Hero of Hastings." After William
the Conquerer won the English throne he made large grants of
land to Baron Taliaferro in county Kent, and Taliaferro and his
descendants who possessed these lands were known as Earls of
Pinnington.

After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, two brothers—
James and John—came to America and purchased an estate on
the James. John Taliaferro afterward settled near Williamsburg
and established "Powhatan" and became the progenitor of the
Taliaferro family in Caroline and in Virginia. "Hay" in King
George county is also an old Taliaferro estate.

The family has given many useful men to the State and
nation, among whom may be mentioned John Taliaferro, (1768-1853)
member of Congress, Presidential Elector, Librarian of
Treasury Department at Washington. John Wishart Taliaferro,
Surgeon on the Bon Homme Richard under John Paul Jones.
Lawrence Taliaferro, Major in the United States Army; Walker
Taliaferro, member of the House of Burgesses from Caroline,
1766-1768 and James Monroe Taliaferro, god-son of President
Monroe and class-mate of Robert E. Lee.

THE TAYLOR FAMILY

The Taylor family is one of historic interest and dignity and
has been closely associated with the development of this country
from its earliest colonial struggles. Among the English gentry
who established homes in Tidewater Virginia was James Taylor,
called "James the First," who was born in 1635 in Carlisle,
England and in 1665 settled in that part of Virginia which became
Caroline county in 1727. He m. 1st, Frances — and, 2d,
Mary Gregory and had issue: Ann, Mary, Edmund, Elizabeth,
James and John. John Taylor, the last named of the issue of
James, m. Catherine Pendleton and was the father of the eminent
John Taylor, of Caroline whose biography appears elsewhere in
this volume.

James Taylor, II, m. Martha Thompson (or Tompkins)
about the year 1800 and became the progenitor of the Taylors
of Orange and of the Valley of Virginia. He was one of the
first Surveyors of Virginia and established the lines between
Hanover, Spotsylvania and Orange counties. In August, 1736,
the House of Burgesses ordered these counties to pay to Martha
Taylor, his widow, sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco for his
services in establishing these lines. Of the nine children of
James Taylor and Martha Thompson two became grandparents
of Presidents of the United States, namely, Frances Taylor, who
m. Ambrose Madison, and Zachary Taylor, who m. Elizabeth
Lee. Martha Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, II, m. Thos.
Chew, of Spotsylvania and James Taylor, III, m. Alice Thornton
Catlett, of Caroline. James Taylor, I, was a large land owner
and prominent in the colony. A seal ring which belonged to
him and which bore the crest and motto of the Taylor Arms, has
been handed down to the present generation, and with this seal
ring has also descended a legend to the effect that on a certain
occasion the King of England was enjoying a chase in one of the
royal forests when a wild boar, hard driven, turned upon the
royal huntsman, whereupon there sprang to his defense one of
his knights who slew the boar. The king out of gratitude gave this
knight a crest, the distinguishing mark of which was an uplifted
arm with lance in hand, accompanied by the motto: "Consequitur
quod cunque petit."

THE THOMAS FAMILY.

Two brothers, Robert and William Thomas, emigrated from
Wales to Virginia in the seventeenth century and received large
grants of land in the Province. Tradition makes them of the
family seated at "Pwllyrach" in Glamorganshire. William
Thomas received a patent to lands in Lancaster county, Va., on
July 13, 1653.

Robert Thomas received a land grant, November 20, 1654.
He m. — Massie and had a son, Edward, b. 1643. Edward
Thomas became High Sheriff of Essex county, Va., June 10,
1696; received patents for 8,880 acres of land in Essex, Middlesex
and Rappahannock counties; resided at "Thomas' Neck,"
on the Rappahannock River in Essex and had a son William, born
about 1683, who was a large contributor in 1730 to the building
of St. Anne's Parish church (called Vawters) in Essex county.
The bricks were stamped with the contributors' names and
"Thomas" may still be read on some of them. He sold 1,000
acres of "Thomas' Neck" to a Mr. Layton. His wife's first
name was Elizabeth and they had one son, William, Jr., born
about 1716.

William Thomas, Jr., m. Susannah Boulware, a dau. of John
Boulware and heiress in 1739, at the death of her brother John
and sisters Mary and Elizabeth, of her father's estate, six hundred
acres in Essex. They had six children: (1) Lewis, b. 1759, m.
Margery Noel. Their son, Captain William Thomas sold "Thomas'
Neck," in 1818, to R. Payne Waring for $17,300 and moved to
Fall River, Mass.; (2) Edward, b. 1760, died young.; (3) Susan,
b. 1761, m. Joseph Cropp, of Stafford county, Va.; (4) Catherine,
b. 1763, m. Captain William White, of Hanover county, Va.
She is said to have lived to the age of 105 years. Their descendants
went to Kentucky; (5) James, b. at "Thomas' Neck,"
in Essex county, on March 2, 1765, of whom see below; (6) Elizabeth,
b. 1776, m. Joseph Brame of Caroline county, Va.

James Thomas, the third son of William Thomas, Jr., and
Susannah Boulware Thomas, m. January 9, 1793, Elizabeth
Andrews, a daughter of Joshua Andrews and Joyce Garnett, his
wife, of "Elmwood," Essex county, Va. Elizabeth Andrews,
who was born November 28, 1768 and lived until May 5, 1848
had two brothers, who were Revolutionary soldiers in the Body
Guard of Gen. George Washington, the purpose of which company

was to give special protection to the commander-in-chief of the
American Army in camp, on the march and during battle.
James Thomas bought a plantation called "Low Grounds,"
in the northwestern part of King William county, but later
moved to his "Vernon" plantation, near Point Eastern in
Caroline. He donated the land upon which the present Vernon
church is built. Here he had a large estate with many slaves
to till it; and here he lived until his death on February 29, 1852.
To him and his wife, Elizabeth Andrews Thomas, there were
born nine children: (1) Nancy, b. November 3, 1793; d. July
30, 1795; (2) Archibald, b. March 28, 1796, m. Catherine Puller;
(3) Susannah, b. August 12, 1798, m. Thomas Patterson. Dr.
R. A. Patterson, a son of this marriage, founded the famous
R. A. Patterson Tobacco Company, of Richmond, Va., and his
son, Archie W. Patterson, is now President of the Board of
Trustees of the University of Richmond; (4) James, b. January
1, 1800, d. in infancy; (5 and 6) Ira Lomax and Emeline, b. May
13, 1803, twins; (7 and 8) James and William, twins, b. February
8, 1806, the latter died 1827; (9) Elizabeth Garnett, b. November
11, 1811.

Ira Lomax Thomas, the third son of James Thomas and
Elizabeth Andrews Thomas, m. on December 15, 1825, Mary
Jones Morgan, who was b. on May 7, 1805. She was a dau. of
Dr. John Morgan and Hannah Jones, his wife, both of Philadelphia.
Dr. Morgan was a member of the Medical Society of
Philadelphia, also of Maryland and of the Royal Society of
London. His son, Dr. Daniel S. Morgan, graduated in medicine
at the University of Virginia on July 17, 1830.

Ira Lomax Thomas and Mary Jones Morgan, his wife, first
settled in Richmond, Va., where he conducted a classical school.
He later moved to Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Va., where
he engaged in the manufacture of tobacco. About 1843, when his
father had grown to be an old man, in order to care for him in
his declining years, he removed with his family to "Vernon"
plantation in Caroline. They had ten children: (1) James Morgan
Thomas, b. October 23, 1826, received a classical education in
Clarksville and Richmond, Va., being in business in the latter
city for a number of years. On July 3, 1857, he m. Robertine
Sterrett Hodge, of Augusta county, Va. When the Civil War
came on, he served first in an artillery Company under Stonewall
Jackson. Later he became a member of Company C., First

Virginia Infantry, Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's
Corps. He was mortally wounded in Pickett's famous
charge at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and died the following day.
His body now rests in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, near the
tomb of General Pickett.

2. Emily Thomas, who was born January 8, 1829, m. James
R. MacTyre, of Chesterfield county, Va., on March 16, 1871.
After the death of her husband, she made her home with her
sisters, Mrs. Rowland Greene Tyler and Miss Isabelle Morgan
Thomas, at "Retreat," King William county, Va., where she
died April 4, 1920.

(3) Daniel, (4) Hannah, and (5) Ira, all three died in infancy.
(6) Archibald Roanoke, was b. September 25, 1836 and d. August
23, 1856.

(7) Mary Hannah Elizabeth Thomas was b. May 28, 1839.
On September 27, 1870, she was m. to Rowland Greene Tyler,
of Detroit, Mich., where they made their home until 1888. They
then came back to Virginia and settled at their "Retreat"
plantation, in the northwestern part of King William county.
Mrs. Tyler died there on November 21, 1903. Mr. Tyler continued
to make his home there until his death on October 13, 1915.
He was a native of Griswold, Conn., and was a brother of Dr.
Moses Coit Tyler, who for some time was professor at the
University of Michigan and at Cornell University and author
of "A History of American Literature" and other works.

The next three children were daughters: Isabella Morgan
Thomas, Alice Virginia Thomas, and Ann Eliza Ewing Thomas,
all three of whom were educated at Hollins Institute, Va. The
first two of these sisters never married. Ann Eliza Ewing Thomas,
m. James Thomas Hurt, of "Thornhill," Caroline county, Va.,
on July 14, 1870, and, after 1874, made their home in Detroit,
Mich. James Thomas Hurt died in Detroit, August 17, 1895
and is buried at "Thornhill." They had one child, who grew
to maturity, Elizabeth Rowland Hurt, b. at "Thornhill," Caroline
county, Va., on January 3, 1874, but was reared and educated
in Detroit.

Elizabeth Rowland Hurt, dau. of Ann Eliza Ewing Thomas
and James Thomas Hurt, is the last surviving grandchild of
Ira Lomax Thomas, of "Vernon" and of Thomas Hurt, of
"Thornhill" in Caroline. Elizabeth Rowland Hurt on March
25, 1903, m. Henry Thompson Louthan, a son of Carter McKim

Louthan, of Clarke county, Va., and his wife, Mary Ella Brown,
of Rappahannock county, Va. Henry Thompson Louthan and
Elizabeth Rowland Hurt, his wife, have two children: Mary
Tyler Louthan, b. May 9, 1904 and Carter Thomas Louthan,
b. July 23, 1906.

James Thomas, Jr., son of James and Elizabeth Andrews
Thomas, was born, February 8, 1806, at "Vernon," in Caroline
and settled early in Richmond. By his first wife, Mary Cornick
Puller, he had two children: William D Thomas, D. D., for
many years Professor of Philosophy in Richmond College; and
Mary Ella Thomas who m. Dr. William D. Quesenberry, of
Caroline. James Thomas, Jr., m. second, Mary Woolfolk Wortham,
of Richmond and died, 1882. Among the children of this
marriage: Mary Wortham Thomas, m. in 1867, Dr. J. L. M. Curry,
of Alabama, who was United States Minister to Spain under
President Cleveland's administration; Kate Cornick Thomas, m.
Calderon Carlisle, of Washington, D. C.; and Gabrielle Thomas,
m. Richmond Pearson, at one time United States Minister to
Persia.

Crest:

A paschal lamb.

Motto:

Nil Desperandum Christo Duce.

THE THORNTONS, OF "ORMESBY"

The Thorntons came from Yorkshire, England and settled in
York and Gloucester counties, and their descendants were soon
found in Caroline, Essex and adjacent counties. York county
records show that this family was represented there as early
as 1646.

When Caroline was formed the Thorntons were already
established within the territory of the new county. The first
member of the family to become actively identified with Caroline
is referred to in Slaughter's "St. Mark's Parish," as "Francis
Thornton, of Caroline, Gentleman." Records in the Clerk's
Office of Spotsylvania dated 1736 and Orange 1737 refer to
"Francis Thornton, of St. Mary's Parish in Caroline."

Francis Thornton had several daughters of whom one married
William Buckner, one General William Woodford and one James
Taylor who represented Caroline in the House of Burgesses for
several terms.

Reuben Thornton, of Drysdale Parish in Caroline was b.
—, and d. in 1768. He m. the widow of Henry Willis,

of Spotsylvania. His will which was proved in Caroline court
in May, 1768, devised his property to his nieces Mary Woodford,
Lucy Gilmer, Mildred Washington and his nephews, James
Taylor, Richard Buckner, Thornton Washington and others.
Thornton Washington was the son of Samuel Washington and
the nephew of George Washington. Dr. Hugh Mercer also shared

Ormesby

in this estate. The will was witnessed by William Buckner,
Matthew Gale, Anthony Thornton and George Todd. William
Woodford was named one of the executors.

John Thornton, of Caroline m. Mildred Gregory, by whom
he had four daughters: Mildred, Mary, Elizabeth and Lucy.
Mildred, m. Samuel Washington, brother of George Washington;
Mary m. General William Woodford; Elizabeth m. John Taliaferro,
of "Dissington," in King George county; and Lucy m. John
Lewis, of Spotsylvania.

Anthony Thornton built "Ormesby" about the year 1715.
He brought to this new estate his bride who was the daughter of
Colonel John Presley, of "Northumberland House" in Northumberland
county. Upon the death of Anthony Thornton, I, his

son Anthony, II, inherited the estate and made it his home.
Anthony, II, was Sheriff of Caroline. When he died "Ormesby"
passed into the hands of his son, Anthony, III, who was county
lieutenant of Caroline, and who held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in 1777. He commanded the militia of Caroline county
at the siege of Yorktown. At the close of the War of the Revolution,
Colonel Thornton sold "Ormesby" to his brother, Thomas
Griffin Thornton and removed to Kentucky. Thomas Griffin
Thornton was probably the most famous fox-hunter of his day
and files of the old sporting magazines of the period contain
many stories of his hounds. He was murdered, while Sheriff,
by a man against whom he had a writ.

James Bankhead Thornton was born in 1770 and died in 1843.
He lived at "Mt. Zephyr," but whether it was built by him is not
definitely known. He was Justice of the Peace in Caroline in
1802. He married a daughter of Colonel Anthony Thornton.
"Mt. Zephyr" was advertised for sale in 1845 and passed into
the hands of the White Family. It is now owned by Mr Brooks.

The Calendar of State Papers (Virginia) contains several
letters to and from Colonel Anthony Thornton. From one of
these we learn that at the time it was written there were 644
Caroline men under arms. Governor Nelson writes Colonel
Thornton to have all the flour he can get in Caroline shipped from
Port Royal round into the Piankatank with all possible dispatch.
Col. Thornton writes Colonel Davies under date of May 1, 1782,
that "clothing for the army, due from Caroline, has been ready
at Bowling Green for some months."

Charles Thornton, of "North Garden," was a captain of
militia in the War of 1812. He m. Sarah Fitzhugh, of "Bellair,"
Stafford county and removed to Oldham county, Ky.

George Thornton was born in Caroline November 18, 1752.
He m. on June 9, 1774, to Margaret Stanley, the daughter of Moses
Stanley and removed to that territory which afterward became
Greene county, Va. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution
and afterward received a pension. He died on August
30, 1853, at the age of 101 years. Mrs. J. C. Gentry, of Atlanta
is one of his many descendants.

Robert Horsley Thornton, another one of his descendants, m.
Louisa, dau. of Rev. Charles Wingfield, of Albemarle.

For more complete genealogy see Thornton Excursus by W. G.
Standard in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.

THE TERRELL AND RICKS FAMILIES

Alfred Ricks, a native of Southampton county, Va., m. Mary
Ann Terrell, of Caroline county on April 14, 1822. They lived
in Southampton county for a number of years and then removed
to the old Terrell home in Caroline. This place is located on
the north banks of North Anna River (the house is actually about
three-quarters of a miles from the river on a high hill, but the
farm borders the river), and was owned by the family for over 100
years until R. A. Ricks sold it in 1905. The house was built
about 1780.

Mary Ann Terrell was the daughter of Samuel Terrell and
Elizabeth Harris, both of Caroline county, who were married,
May 7, 1800. Her brothers and sisters were: Samuel, Walter,
James P., Henry O., and George Fox Terrell. George F. was a
physician. He lived at the old Terrell home and practiced
medicine in Caroline and adjoining counties. He died at the
early age of 37, but it is said that he had already endeared himself
to the people by his devotion and skill as a physician.

Dr. Terrell, his mother and father and other members of the
family are buried at Golansville, Caroline county, in the little
burying ground which adjoined the Quaker Meeting House that
formerly stood there.

Richard Arnold Ricks was the fifth of ten children. The
others were: Joseph, Julia W., Samuel T., Elizabeth H., Robert
B., Mary W., Deborah, Walter A., and Samuella, who m. John
C. Winston, of the John C. Winston Publishing Company, of
Philadelphia, and who is the sole survivor of her generation.

Richard A. Ricks was 1st m. in 1873, to Mary Susan Whitlock.
There was one child born of this marriage, who died at birth.
The mother also died at the same time.

On June 23, 1881, R. A. Ricks, m. Eliza Catherine Crenshaw,
of Richmond, Va. To them were born four children: Julian W.,
who died in infancy; Katherine C., who is now librarian at
Guilford College, N. C.; Richard A., Jr., who is now engaged in
real estate business in Richmond and James Hoge Ricks, of
Richmond.

James Hoge Ricks was born at the old home "Prospect Hill,"
in Caroline county, July 14, 1886. His mother was the dau.
of John Bacon Crenshaw, of Henrico county, and Richmond,
and Rachel Hoge, of Loudon county. John Bacon Crenshaw

was a Friends, or Quaker minister. All his ancestors on both
sides for several generations were Friends (Quakers), and the
Judge is still of that religious faith.

R. A. Ricks was interested and active in the affairs of Caroline
and held various offices, among others that of delegate to the
General Assembly for one session. He died in Richmond,
January 4, 1911.

Judge Rick's mother was very active in temperance work in
Caroline and at one time was president of the county W. C.
T. U. She died in Richmond, May 30, 1909.

For several years R. A. Ricks had a teacher in the home for
his children. The younger children, however, attended the
little one-room country school, which was located about half way
between their home and the station—Ruther Glen. Miss Janie
Wortham was teacher of the school at that time.

For half a session Judge Ricks, with his brother, attended
Corinth Academy, a Quaker school, in Southampton county.
In the fall of 1902, they entered Guilford College, N. C. Their
sister graduated at Guilford in 1904, Judge Ricks graduated in
1905, and his brother in 1906. In the summer of 1905, Judge
Ricks took a stenographic course at Massey Business College
and in the fall of that year took a position as a stenographer
in the office of Cutchins & Cutchins, lawyers. This position he
held for three years, taking the law course at Richmond College
in the meantime. He graduated in law in 1908. During college
days he was a member of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta
at Richmond College. He spent the year 1908-1909 at the
University of Virginia, taking a special course in law and English.
In the summer of 1909 he took the Bar examination and was
admitted to the practice of law. During the years 1909-1910
he was associated with ex-Attorney General William A. Anderson,
who at that time, had a law office in Richmond, but later removed
to his old home at Lexington, Va.

Judge Ricks practiced law from 1909 to 1912. In April,
1912, Police Justice John J. Crutchfield appointed him as the
Clerk and Probation Officer of the Juvenile Division of the Police
Court which was at that time established for the hearing of
children's cases. He served in this capacity for three years and
a half. In the fall of 1915, the City Council provided for the
establishment of a new court to be known as the Juvenile and

Domestic Relations Court. He was elected Justice of that
Court and has held the office since January 1, 1915.

On September 22, 1914 he m. Anne Elizabeth Ryland, dau.
of Rev. Charles Hill Ryland and Alice M. Garnett, of King
and Queen county. Dr. Ryland was for many years treasurer
and librarian of Richmond College. They have one child—
James Hoge, Jr., b. January 1, 1916.

In 1921, Governor Westmoreland Davis named him as a
member of the Children's Code Commission, which he appointed
at the instance of the League of Women Voters, to codify and
revise the existing laws relating to children and to suggest such
legislation as the Commission might deem necessary. He was
elected chairman of that Commission. In the report of this
Commission 26 bills were recommended, 18 of which, with amendments,
were enacted into law by the General Assembly of 1922.

From 1920, to 1922, inclusive, Judge Ricks served as a member
of the Executive Committee of the National Conference of
Social Work. In 1923, he was elected Third Vice-President of
that Conference, which was held in Washington, D. C. At the
same time he was elected President of the National Probation
Association, an organization composed of judges and probation
officers from practically every State in the Union.

THE WALLER FAMILY

The family of Waller is one of the most ancient and distinguished
among English ancestry. There is an unbroken
male line from William the Conquerer down to the present time.
An English genealogist claims to have traced the name back to
the sixth century.

The English speaking branch of the Wallers was founded by
two brothers, John Henry David de Waller and Alfred de Waller,
Normans, who came into England with William the Conquerer
the year 1066 and fought with him at Hastings. John Henry
David was given lands in Nottingham county, Alfred in the
county of Kent. The American branch traces descent from Alfred
de Waller, of Kent, who died in 1083 (Domesday Book.)

David de Waller was Master of Rolls to Edward, III, for
thirty years. He dropped the "de."

Sir Richard Waller, of Speldhurst, Greenbridge, Kent, High
Sheriff of Kent, distinguished himself at the battle of Agincourt
1415, and Prince Charles, Duke of Orleans, detained him at

Greenbridge, Kent for twenty-four years, a strong friendship
growing up between them. He was a benefactor to the Church at
Speldhurst, where his Arms still remain cut in the stone work
over the entrance. The arms of this ancient family are thus
described:

Arms:

Sa. three walnut leaves or, betw. two bendlets ar.

Crest:

On a mount vert a walnut tree, ppr.; on the sinister
side an escutcheon pendent charged with the Arms of France,
with a label of three points ar.

Motto:

"Hic est fructus virtutis."

John Waller, gentleman, 1617-1688, a prominent citizen of
Newport Paganel, Buckinghamshire, younger brother of the Poet
m. Mary Key, or Kay, obtained a grant of land and emigrated
to Virginia in 1635. Settled in Gloucester county. "A wild
young fellow packed off to the colony of Virginia, there to take
his chances, rather than stay in England, where temptations
surrounded him."

John Waller, b. in 1673, gent., the 2d, third son of the immigrant,
m. Dorothy King. He was Sheriff of King and Queen
county 1702, represented King William county in House of
Burgesses, 1719-1721, first Clerk St. George's Parish, one of the
founders of Fredericksburg and organizers of Spotsylvania county.
He lived on his estate "Newport" in Spotsylvania, d. in 1754,
both he and his wife, Dorothy King, are buried at "Newport."
His tombstone bears the following inscription: "Sacred to the
memory of Col. John Waller, Gentleman, third son of John
Waller and Mary Key, who settled in Virginia in 1635, from
Newport Paganel, Buckinghamshire, England." Silver seal, suit
of horse arms, silver cap pistols, silver hilted sword and prayer
book of Col. Waller are still in existence, but in possession of a
family not of the name Waller (records show that all of the Wallers
belonged to the Church of England).

Issue of Col. John Waller, gent., of "Newport," Spotsylvania
in order of birth: Mary, who m. Zachary Lewis, a near relative
of Fielding Lewis, who m. Betty Washington; Edmund, 1st son,
m. Mary Pendleton of Caroline county. He was 2d clerk of
Spotsylvania county, 1742-1751. He is the ancestor of the late
Judge R. E. Waller, of Spotsylvania; the late Dr. Judson Cary
Waller, of Albemarle; the late Samuel Gardner Waller, of Front
Royal, his only son is Gen. Samuel Gardner Waller, of the Virginia

National Guards. The only daughter of Edmund, 1st, m.
George Mason.

William Waller, 2d son, 1714-1760, m. Ann Becker or Beuckie,
3d clerk of Spotsylvania county, 1751-1759, was a prominent
lawyer and business man of his day, buried at "Newport."

Col. John Waller, 3d son, founder of "Cedar Point," on the
Pamunkey, now called North Anna river, in Spotsylvania county,
4th clerk of Spotsylvania, 1760-1774, m. Agnes Carr, dau. of
Thomas Carr, of "Bears Castle," Louisa county, brother of
Hon. Dabney Carr, who m. sister of Thomas Jefferson. John
Waller, 3d, died in 1774, buried at "Cedar Point."

Thomas Waller, 4th son of John Waller, gent., of "Newport,"
is the ancestor of the Wallers of Stafford county, among whom
may be mentioned the late Col. Thomas Waller, of Stafford,
C. S. A.; Col. 9th Virginia Cavalry at the end of the Civil war.
He strongly resembled Col. John Mercer Waller, of "Cedar
Point," and they were often mistaken for each other, although
cousins four generations removed.

Benjamin Waller, 5th son, was a prominent lawyer, and while
a young man he moved to Williamsburg and later became a celebrated
Judge. He served as clerk of the Council, Burgess from
James City county, 1744-1761, member of the Convention, 17751776,
judge of the General Court, 1779 to his death, 1788, m.
Martha Hall, of Bermuda, N. C. He is the ancestor of Major-General
Littleton Waller, U. S. Marine Corps and Page Waller,
of Norfolk, who m. a dau. of General J. E. B. Stuart.

Thomas Carr Waller, 1732-1788, son of Col. John Waller,
founder of "Cedar Point, m. Sarah Dabney, lived and died at
"Cedar Point." Succeeded by, Dabney Waller, 1772-1849, m.
Elizabeth Minor, lived and died at "Cedar Point."

Sons of Dabney Waller in order of birth: Thomas Carr Waller,
1799-1872, lived at Woodland, one of the farms composing
"Cedar Point," served as treasurer and Sheriff of Spotsylvania.

Cap. Dabney Washington Waller, 1804-1880, m. Caroline
Pleasants, dau. of Jordan Pleasants and Elizabeth Tyler, who was
a sister of Henry Tyler and great aunt of Ex-Governor James
Hoge Tyler. Jordan Pleasants was first cousin of the late James
Pleasants, Governor of Virginia, 1822, and brother of John
Hampden Pleasants, Editor of the old Richmond Whig, who was
killed in a duel by Ritchie, Editor of the Richmond Enquirer.

Col. John Mercer Waller, 1814-1876, lived and died at "Cedar
Point," and was the last of the name of Waller to own "Cedar
Point." At his death the estate was sold, and bought by Col.
Bigger, of the General Assembly of Virginia.

Col. John Mercer Waller was a prominent business man and
sportsman and one of the few practical farmers of his
day, a large slave owner and under his management "Cedar
Point" reached a high state of cultivation, was especially noted
for its splendid crops of wheat and clover. He also took an
active part in Spotsylvania politics, held several offices, was for
a long time Colonel of the Spotsylvania Militia. Married three
times and had three sons: Capt. William, C. S. A.; John Mercer,
Jr., Pvt. 9th Virginia Cavalry, killed in skirmish at Lebanon
church, Caroline county, age 18, buried at "Cedar Point, Spotsylvania
county. Thomas Carr Waller, moved to Missouri.

Capt. Dabney Washington Waller, son of Dabney Waller and
Elizabeth Minor, was born at "Cedar Point," Spotsylvania
county, January, 1804, received his early education from private
tutors at "Cedar Point," later graduated from Humanity Hall
Academy, Hanover county, had made preparations to enter the
University, when he was taken with the roving fever and decided
to go West. Accompanied by a servant, he rode as far as the
Mississippi River and was made several splendid offers to locate
out there, but returned to Virginia and on March 6, 1827, m.
Miss Caroline Pleasants. For the next nine years he rented the
"Red House," on the Pamunky river, an estate then belonging
to the De Jarnette family and conducted a private school for
young men. In 1837, he bought from a Mr. Wright, the Walnut
Hill Farm, located in Caroline county, western edge. At Walnut
Hill he opened a school known as Waller's or Walnut Hill
Acadmey, which he conducted for nearly fifty years and gained
quite a reputation as an educator. He was known as one of the
best grounded Latin and Greek scholar of his time; an expert
mathematican and surveyor, large slave owner and farmer, Capt.
in Caroline Militia, member of Rehoboth M. E. church, and known
far and wide for his truthful and upright character. Died at
Walnut Hill, Caroline county, August 16, 1880.

Capt. Dabney Washington Waller was succeeded by Dabney
Jordan, who was b. at Walnut Hill, June 29, 1841, educated at
Walnut Hill Academy and Randolph-Macon College, m. 1st,
Ann Catherine Waddy, dau. of Garland T. Waddy and Sophia

Ann Pleasants, of "Oak Hill," Louisa county, m. 2d, Alice Caroline
Lee, dau. of Robert Baker Lee, of "Laxfield Hall," Linstead
Magna, Suffolk county, England.

Walnut Hill farm is situated on the extreme western edge of
Caroline, lying partly in Spotsylvania, on the main road that
leads from Goodloes to Blantons, about half way between the
two places. Little is known of its early history. Dabney Washington
Waller purchased it in 1837, from a Mr. Wright, who
moved West. The old house was burned in 1880, it was a large
rambling frame house of the two and a half story type, with basement,
shed rooms in the rear and a large porch in front. There are
signs of a very old brick settlement. An ancient Goodloe family
was supposed to have lived there, the old Goodloe burying ground
being near by. Also from the number of relics that are found,
there must once have been an Indian village here. Arrow heads,
broken pottery, etc., were found. A few years ago, in digging a
ditch an Indian tomahak, stone hammer, part of a clay vessel
were found.

Descendants of John Waller, gent., of "Newport," Spotsylvania,
of the name Waller married into the following families:
Lightfoot, Carson, Breckenridge, Bibb, Aylett, Curtis, Custis,
Pritchett, Rowzie, Terrell, Waddy, Goodloe, Swann, Cowherd,
Pollard, Wheeler, Pettitt, Hancock, Carter, Crump, Harrison,
Carr, Marshall, Langhorne, Ware, Gresham, Alexander, Shelton,
Jennings, DeJarnette, Dew, Gordon, Knowles, McGruder,
Armstead, Buckner, Towles, Granville, Taylor, Page, Payne,
Tazewell, Smith, Greenshaw, Montague, Barrett, Barnett,
Johnson, Corbin, Griffin, Garland, DuVal, Caldwell, Coles,
Rutherford, Cabell, Moore, Littleton, Tunstall, Barkley, Lee,
Dabney, Minor, Tyler, Pleasants, Hart, Bently, Mann, Duerson,
Anderson and many others. (Records of the Waller Family.)

Dorothy Waller, of Williamsburg, became the wife of Henry
Tazewell and was the mother of Littleton Waller Tazewell,
1784-1860, U. S. Senator, Com. under Florida Treaty, Governor
of Virginia, 1834-1836. Governor Tazewell writing in 1823,
says of his maternal grandfather, Judge Benj. Waller, of Williamsburg,
son of Col. John Waller, gent., of "Newport," Spotsylvania:
"He was descended from Sir Edmund Waller, the Poet and traced
his lineage to the days of William, of Normandy. He often
spoke of the antiquity and respectability of his descent, saying
that one of his ancestors greatly distinguished himself at the

battle of Agincourt, where he made prisoner one of the peers
of France and that, in testimony of this, Henry, V, gave as a
crest the Arms of France, suspended on an English oak with the
motto, `Haec fructus virtutis,' which armorial insignia was suspended
in his great hall."

THE WASHINGTONS, OF "SPRING HILL" AND "WOODPECKER"

John Washington, nephew of George Washington, was m.
in 1770 to Elizabeth Buckner, sister of Captain George Buckner,
of "Braynefield." To this union were born two sons: John
Washington in 1772 and George Washington in 1775. The eldest
son died unmarried. George Washington, m. Elizabeth, dau of
Dr John Coates, of Maryland and had issue: Catherine, (1796),
George, (1798), John, (1800), Susan Elizabeth, (1802), Ann, (1802),
Selina, (1806), Dorothea, (1808), William, (1810), Elizabeth, (1812),
and Caroline (1814).

Washington Arms

Catherine Washington, m Robert Sutton in 1811 and had
issue three sons and two daughters; George Washington died at
the age of seventeen, unmarried; John Washington, m. Ann
Hawes and had issue a son, whom they named George; Susan
Elizabeth Washington was m in 1821 to Thomas Henry Burke
and had issue three sons and one daughter; Ann Washington was
m. in 1825 to Ezekiel D. Withers and had issue two sons and
two daughters; Selina Washington, m. Daniel Payne and had
issue two daughters, the eldest of who m. Dr. William Wirt, a
son of the famous attorney William Wirt, of "Wirtland"; Dorothea
Washington, m. Norborne E. Sutton and had issue six children:
Braxton, Coutts, Hugh, Daniel, Norborne and Georgianna;

William Washington, m. a Mrs. Vass, of King William; Elizabeth
Washington, m. William Taliaferro; Caroline Washington died in
childhood.

George Washington, son of Colonel John Washington and
Anne Hawes, m. Mildred Chandler, sister of Dr. Joseph A.
Chandler and had issue: (1) Thomas, (2) John, (3) George, (4)
Cora, (5) William, (6) Clement, (7) Henry.

Spring Hill

John Washington, second son of George Washington and
Mildred Chandler, m. Byrd Boyd, of Essex county, and established
"Spring Hill," and practiced law in partnership with A. B.
Chandler until his death, which occurred suddenly in Bethel
church while attending the morning worship. His children
were: (1) Boyd, (2) Mary, (3) Walker Hawes, (4) Dollie Buckner,
(5) Fannie Pryor, (6) Eugene and (7) Roberta Boyd.

Boyd Washington, son of John Washington and Byrd Boyd,
m. Minnie Dew, of "Windsor" and has issue one son, Thomas
Boyd, a physician and one daughter, Catherine.

THE WOOLFOLK FAMILY

The Woolfolk family is of Welsh extraction. Robert and
Richard Woolfolk, brothers, emigrated to Virginia in the early
part of the eighteenth century. Richard established "Holly
Hill" and Robert "Shepherd's Hill" near Bowling Green, in
Caroline county. Of the descendants of Richard but little is
definitely known. Robert Woolfolk, the emigrant, is said to
have married a Miss Lee, by whom he had several children.

Robert Woolfolk, II, m. Ann George and had issue eleven
children, of whom eight removed to Kentucky and three remained
in Virginia.

(1) John George Woolfolk was born October 1, 1750. He m.
Elizabeth Powers Broadnax in 1790, and established the estate
known as "Mulberry Place" which is still in the possession of
his grandchildren. He was a man of considerable affairs and was
granted by the State a charter to operate transportation service
from points north and east of Richmond. His family Bible may
still be seen at "Mulberry Place."

(2) Achilles Woolfolk, son of Robert Woolfolk and Ann
George, settled near Ruther Glen. He served in the Revolutionary
Army and was the ancestor of the late Robert Woolfolk, who m.
Virginia White, dau. of Hugh White, by whom he had three
sons, William, Richard and Lucian and one daughter, who m.
— Stevens.

(3) Francis Woolfolk, son of Robert Woolfolk and Ann
George, remained in Caroline. The obituary of his wife in an old
Richmond newspaper is the only available data concerning this
member of the family.

(4) William Woolfolk, m. a Miss Noden. He was an ensign
in the Revolutionary Army. Emigrated to Kentucky and was
the progenitor of the Kentucky Woolfolks.

(5) Robert Woolfolk, III, was born April, 1756. He m.
Jane Peay and later removed to Kentucky. He was orderly
sergeant under Colonel Holt Richardson in 1780-81 and died
in Louisville, Ky., August 18, 1854. His son, John Allen, was the
first settler at Troy, Lincoln county, Mo.

(6) Edmund Woolfolk, m. Agnes Peay and emigrated to
Kentucky.

Mulberry Place

(7) Elliott Woolfolk died in 1821. His obituary appears in
the Richmond Enquirer, of January 23, 1821.

(8) Richard Woolfolk, m. a Miss Taylor, according to tradition
a sister of President Taylor. He was a member of the
firm of Coleman and Woolfolk in Richmond. He died in 1820
and his obituary appears in the Richmond Enquirer, of May 30,
1820.

(9) Mary Woolfolk, b. in 1759, m. Thomas Coleman.

(10) Martha Woolfolk, m Francis Scott.

(11) Nancy Woolfolk, m. — Campbell and removed to
Illinois.

John George Woolfolk, the eldest of the foregoing eleven
children, m. Elizabeth Powers Broadnax and had issue seven
children: (1) Maria, b. October 28, 1790; (2) Ann Hoomes, b.
March 17 1793; (3) Jourdan, b. July 23, 1796; (4) Sophia Frances,
b. January 12, 1799; (5) Still born boy; (6) Charles, b. September
20, 1802; (7) John, b. July 7, 1805. These married as follows:
Maria, m. Hawes Coleman, January 5, 1809; Ann Hoomes, m.
Wm. Grymes Maury, July 14, 1808; Jourdan, m. Elizabeth
Taylor Winston, November 9, 1820; Sophia Frances, m. John
M. Burke, May 21, 1817 and John, m. Louisa F. Scott, on January
10, 1850.

The obituary of John George Woolfolk appears in the

Richmond Enquirer, of April 23, 1819. He is referred to as "a
sedulous and respected citizen" who had "accumulated a handsome
and independent fortune," "a man of indefatigable perseverance,
great integrity of soul, benevolent manners, humane
feelings, generous and charitable."

Jourdan Woolfolk and Elizabeth Taylor Winston had issue:
(1) Betsy Carr, (2) John Wm., (3) Ann Terrell, (4) Sarah Winston,
(5) Ellen Broadnax, (6) Mary.

Betsy Carr Woolfolk, m. Dr. Wm. W. Roper and had issue:
(1) Jourdan, who m. Miss — Gowan; (2) Sallie, who m.
W. W. Rains; and (3) George who is unmarried.

John Wm. Woolfolk, m. Lucy Trevillian Winston and had
issue: (1) John, who m. Miss Lucy Marshall; (2) Edmund Winston,
who m. Miss Emma Blackerby, of Kentucky; (3) Sally
Winston, who m. J. L. Jordan; (4) Jourdan, (5) Elizabeth Taylor,
(6) William Roper, (7) Mary Morris, (8) Anne Barton and (9)
Lucy Marshall.

John Woolfolk and Lucy Marshall had issue: (1) George, who
m. Grace Cunningham; (2) Sallie Elizabeth, unmarried; (3)
Andrew, unmarried; (4) Edmund Winston, m. Alice Ware; (5)
Jourdan, (6) Barton and (7) John.

Edmund Winston Woolfolk, son of John Wm., and Lucy
Trevillian Winston, m. Emma Blackerby and had issue: (1)
Roper Blackerby, (2) Pearl Buckner and (3) Edmund.

Sallie Winston Woolfolk and J. L. Jordan had issue: (1) Lucy
Winston, who m. B. M. Skinker and has one son, B. M., Jr.,
and (2) Elizabeth, who is unmarried.

Sophia Frances Woolfolk, dau. of John George Woolfolk
and Elizabeth Powers Broadnax, m. John M. Burke and had
issue: (1) Cordelia, who m. Robt. DeJarnette; (2) Margaret, also
m. Robt. DeJarnette (his 2d wife); (3) Thomas, m. Isabelle
Garnett; (4) John, m. 1st, Miss Thompson, 2d, Miss Trist; (5)
Frances, m. Robert Spindle; (6) Betsy Ann, m. Paul Blackburn
and (7) Maria, who m. James Maury.

Anne Ferrell Woolfolk, dau. of Jourdan and granddaughter
of John George Woolfolk, m. Dr. B. W. Morris and had issue:
(1) Chas. Dabney, m. Miss Willis; (2) Ellen, m. Thos. Bernard
Doswell; (3) Jourdan, m. Pauline Castleman; (4) Barton, m.
1st, Miss Frances Peatross, 2d, Miss Bessie Gordon; (5) Lelia,
m. John P. Downing; and (6) Edmund Taylor, m. Miss Grace
Smith.

THE WYATT FAMILY

The Wyatt family of Virginia descends from the distinguished
English line of Sir Thomas Wyatt, courtier and poet. Just
preceding the Revolution, Richard Wyatt, (1720-1803), at his
home in Caroline county, becoming incensed at the Mother
Country, tore the family Coat of Arms from the wall, and, hacking
it from the frame with his sword, threw it on the blazing logs in
the fireplace. It was rescued by his daughter, Nancy, who later
became the second wife of Colonel Anthony New. When they
removed to Kentucky, the treasured painting went with them.
In the year 1830, a descendant seeing the old relic in their
Kentucky home made a little sketch of the design. Though
blackened by fire and smoke, there were still to be plainly seen
bands of boar's heads on the shield similar to the Arms of Sir
Thomas Wyatt, of England. The painting was later totally
destroyed by fire, but the little sketch is still in the family.

The first of the Wyatt name on record in Caroline is John
Wyatt, called in Bible records "Captain John Wyatt." Born
in 1684, he was m. in 1711 to Jane Pamplin. He is mentioned as
Church Warden of St. Margaret's Parish in 1737. On August
30, 1740, John Wyatt took the oath as Member of Commission of
the Peace. His will was proved in November 1750, and his
wife, Jane, was also deceased at that time.

The earliest known Wyatt home in Caroline county, called
"Plain Dealing," was on the North Anna River, five or six
miles from its junction with the South Anna, and in old papers
and letters is spoken of as the ancestral seat. No doubt earlier
members of this branch lived in this locality before Caroline
county was formed.

John and Jane (Pamplin) Wyatt had issue:

(1) William, b. 1713, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and
Ann (Pettus) Eggleston. The will of William Wyatt was proved
April, 1772.

(2) John, d. aged seventeen.

(3) Anne, m. John Starke on May 25, 1735. They had thirteen
children.

(4) Richard, b. May 20, 1720, d. at "Plain Dealing" in
November, 1803. His first wife was Elizabeth Streshley, who died
at the birth of her first child. The child was born in 1744, m.
John Starke, of Hanover and died in 1830. Mr. Wyatt then
married on November 17, 1752, Amy, dau. of Walter Chiles,

a descendant of the immigrant, Walter Chiles, who respresented
Charles City county in the General Assembly, was Speaker and
member of the James City Council.

(5) Mary, m. Captain Henry Gilbert.

(6 and 7) Thomas and Henry, died unmarried.

(8) Lucy, m. Captain Mills of Greene county.

(9) John, m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Ballard Smith,
of Louisa and had issue, Francis, John and Thomas Ballard
Wyatt. His second wife was Anne Stark.

Richard and Amy (Chiles) Wyatt lived at "Plain Dealing"
and there the following children were born to them:

(1) Mary, m. William Peatross, great-uncle of the late Major
R. O. Peatross, of Bowling Green. Ten children were born to
them.

(2) Sarah, m. 1st, Mathew Thompson, and 2d, Austin McGhee.
She died in Washington county, Va.

(3) Lucy, m. James Hawkins, of Kentucky.

(4) Nancy. On August 3, 1782, became the 2d wife of Colonet
Anthony New. She died in 1833.

(5) Joseph, died in his seventh year.

(6) Richard, b. January 1, 1763, d. June 12, 1845. He m.
Nancy, dau. of Captain John and Ann (Harrison) Ware, of
Goochland county in 1796. He served with credit in the Revolution,
leaving an Academy in Caroline to enter. He took the
oath as Ensign in Caroline county, on January 8, 1778. Later
he settled in Louisa county.

(7) Walter, m. Elizabeth Brame and 2d, Mrs. Bliss. He
removed to Kentucky and later to Illinois where he died.

(8) Major John, b. 1769, d. September 11, 1846. He m.
Lucy Richardson and 2d, Mrs. Patsy Harris, widow of Overton
Harris, of "Cedar Hill," Hanover county. He served with
Harrison in the Indian Wars.

(9) Barbara, (1773-1804), m. Overton Harris, of "Cedar Hill,"
Hanover county.

(10) William Streshley, b. August 29, 1775, d. January 24,
1839. Little can be learned of his life, though what can be gleaned
from a few old letters goes to show he was a man of affairs. On
November 12, 1801 he m. Polly, dau. of Colonel Anthony New
and 1st wife, Ann Anderson, dau. of Robert Anderson, III, of
"Goldmine," Hanover county, whose wife was Elizabeth Clough.
Anthony New was prominent in Caroline county affairs. He

Silhouette of Colonel Anthony New.

was Colonel in the Revolution, served in the Virginia Legislature,
was appointed as Trustee to clear and improve the Mattaponi
River, was Congressman from Virginia, 1793-1805, and member
of Congress from Kentucky, 1811, 1823. He died at "Dunheath,"
his home in Kentucky, in 1833. Anthony New was born in
Gloucester county, but when an infant his mother, the widow
New, m. Dr. John Baynham and came to Caroline county to
live. The quaint little house, one of the first to be built in the
county, is standing today on the place now owned by Mr. Doggett,
near White Chimneys. Here Anthony New was raised and
here his half-brother, Dr. William Baynham, the eminent surgeon,
was born.

William Streshley Wyatt and wife, Polly New, had one daughter
and two sons:

(1) Virginia Anderson, b. September 25, 1805 and m. Hugh
Chandler, September 25, 1827.

(2) William Richard Baynham Wyatt, b. January 16, 1809
and d. May 29, 1878. He m. Martha Frances Scott, September

5, 1832, and after her death m. her sister, Isabelle Adelaide,
August 22, 1848.

(3) Joseph Anthony New, died in infancy.

Polly (New) Wyatt, d. December 3, 1812 and William
Streshley Wyatt, m. Susan Minor, dau. of Vivian and Elizabeth
Minor.

William S. and Susan (Minor) Wyatt had:

(1) John Vivian, (1816-1889), who m. Emma Burton Doggett
in 1859 and lived at "Sunnyside" in Hanover county. Their
children were: Mattie Susan, m. Douglass Doswell and lives in
Ashland, Va.; John and Barton (a daughter), both unmarried
and living in Washington, D. C.

(2) Mary Elizabeth, b. in 1814, m. John G. Coleman and
resided at "Pebble Hill."

William Streshley Wyatt, died suddenly on January 24, 1839
at his home, "Plain Dealing," and is buried in the old Wyatt
graveyard there.

William Richard Baynham Wyatt, after an education in the
county schools, studied law. He was a man of fine intellect
and a great student. Books and candles were always put beside
his bed that he might work in the early hours. Though urged
by friends, he never became a licensed lawyer, but he practiced
law repeatedly throughout the county, and it was often said he
knew more law than many lawyers. He was an authority on
land titles and claims, and administrator of many estates. Mr.
Wyatt was Notary Public, Justice of the Peace, and chosen presiding
Justice of his Court. He was presiding when the news
came that Stonewall Jackson had been killed, and immediately
adjourned. Mr. Wyatt served in the Legislature 1865-66,
1866-67.

William Richard Baynham Wyatt and his wife, Martha Frances,
dau. of Robert and Ann (Coleman) Scott, lived at "Edgewood,"
on the North Anna River, where the following children were born:
Richard Watson, Joseph Marion, Ann Eliza and Thomas Barton.

Richard Watson, b. June 27, 1833, and d. at his home in
Middlesex county, April 30, 1881. He m. November 14, 1865,
Elizabeth Eubank, of Middlesex county. They had two children,
a son and a daughter, both born in Caroline, but removed to
Middlesex county when quite small. They were:

(1) Charles Russell Wyatt, who after graduating in law at the
University of Virginia, practiced his profession very successfully

in Huntington, W. Va., where he located. His tragic death,
which occurred there August 7, 1913, cast a gloom of sorrow
over the whole city. His wife was Sarah Paisley Sloan, dau.
of Colonel John and Morton (Wortham) Sloan. Their three
children were: (a) Charles Russell, Jr., (b) Morton, who m. September
19, 1923; Lieut. Ransom Kirby Davis, of San Diego,
Cal.; (c) Joseph Willard, a student at Harvard.

Edgewood

(2) Belle Leighton, m. September 16, 1891 to Joseph E. Willard,
recent Ambassador to Spain. They now reside in New York
City. Their children are: (1) Belle Wyatt, m. June 10, 1914, to
Kermit, second son of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
children are: Kermit, Jr., Willard and Belle; (2) Elizabeth, m.
Merwyn Herbert, of England, a brother of the Earl of Carnarvon,
who died before completing his Egyptian explorations.

Joseph Marion, son of William R. B. Wyatt, and wife,
Martha Frances, was b. April 24, 1838 at "Edgewood." He
attended Emory and Henry College. Enlisting in the Confederate
service, he went through the entire war. He was in Pickett's
Division, but luckily was held in reserve during the Gettysburg
attack. He m. his third cousin, Ida May Wyatt, of Albemarle
county. His high traits of character and genuine, cordial manner
made everyone his friend. His sudden death occurred August
20, 1891. Their four children, all born at "Edgewood," were:

(1) Harriet James, who m. Henry St. Clair Washington, of
Richmond, Va. They have a daughter, Harriet Wyatt Washington
and reside in Huntington, W. Va.

(2) Martha Isabelle, m. William Edwin Williams, Shop Engineer
of the American Car and Foundry Company, Berwick,
Penn., where they reside. They have one son, Wyatt Edwin,
b. November 19, 1906, a Senior in the Berwick High School.

(3) Ida Marion, Assistant to the Superintendent in Huntington
Public Schools.

(4) William R. B. Wyatt, Jr., m. Geneva Niles. They have one
son (Joseph Marion, Jr., b. in 1916) and reside at Vidalia, Ga.,
where Mr. Wyatt is in the lumber business.

Ann Eliza, dau. of William R. B. Wyatt, died unmarried
at her home in Huntington, W. Va., after a long and painful
illness which she bore with great fortitude.

Thomas Barton, b. 1846, m. Anna Leake, of North Carolina,
where he is now living. Their children are: Dr. James
Augustus Leake, Ann Eliza (Mrs. Dibble), Dr. Wortham and
Junius Pembroke.

William Richard Baynham Wyatt and his second wife, Isabelle
Scott, beloved throughout her entire life by all with whom she
came in contact, had three daughters:

Virginia Ellen, who died unmarried in April, 1916, at
Huntington, W. Va., where she had endeared herself to all by
her life of sweet unselfishness.

Wilhemina, died aged four years.

Margaret Baynham, living in Huntington, W. Va., where
she has been prominently identified with the educational life
of the city.