SAMUEL TYREE
Has been for more than half a century an honored resident of Lynchburg,
for more than thirty years one of the city aldermen. He was born in
Lynchburg, January 17, 1823, and was married on February 9, 1843,
when Bishop Thos. Atkinson joined him in wedlock with Marian F. C.
Henry, who was born in Campbell county, January 24, 1823. To
trace the family line of Mr. and Mrs. Tyree is to connect them with
names identified with the most honorable pages of the history of
Virginia. He is the son of Richard Tyree, born in New Kent county,
Virginia, and Mildred, daughter of Achilles Douglass, of Campbell
county. Both died at the age of 73 years, and are buried in Lynchburg.
The Tyree and the Douglass families were early seated in Virginia;
both of the Quaker faith. The father of Mrs. Samuel Tyree was
A. S. Henry, son of Patrick Henry, and her mother was Paulina J.,
daughter of Dr. Geo. Cabell. Her mother was buried in Campbell
county, and her father lies in the burial ground of the old residence of
Patrick Henry, in Charlotte county. Her ancestry is further traced in
preceding pages of "Eminent Virginians," by R. A. Brock. Mr. Tyree
is now filling the office of notary public.
