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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.
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.
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.
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