NATHANIEL W. LUMPKIN,
Son of Henry H. Lumpkin, born in Georgia, now deceased, was born
in Pittsylvania county, April 5, 1852. His mother, now living with
him, was born in Pittsylvania county, her maiden name Isabella G.
Wilson. Henry H. Lumpkin, elder brother of Nathaniel, was in the
Confederate States service with John Morgan, and was made a prisoner
on that general's daring invasion of Northern States, and held
eight months at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island. At Staunton,
Virginia, September 30, 1873, N. W. Lumpkin married Alice Hawkins,
who was born in Alabama, and their children are three sons and two
daughters: George H., Nathaniel W., jr., Allen S., Bessie V. and Alice
A., Mrs. Lumpkin is the daughter of Richard Hawkins, now deceased,
and Elizabeth (Black) Hawkins, now living at Staunton. Mr. Lumpkin
is the proprietor of the Lumpkin's Transfer Line Livery Stable, at
the corner of Patton and Lynn streets, Danville, a business which, from
its founding on a very small scale in 1879, has grown to cover practically
the entire transfer and livery business of Danville.
