WALTER L. MOON.
Henry Moon, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, now deceased, and
Jemima Bailey, also now deceased, were the parents of Walter L. Moon,
who was born in Halifax county, Virginia, on January 3, 1843. He has
been twice married, Mary H. Russell, of Halifax county, becoming his
wife in March, 1865, and dying in 1868, leaving him two children, Helen
V. and H. R. He married secondly in 1872, Eliza C. Carrington, and
their children are: Elizabeth, Walter, Annie, Mollie and Edward. In
April, 1861, Mr. Moon entered the Confederate States Army, in Company
A, 53d Virginia Infantry, private, promoted sergeant. In the second
year of the war he went to the Virginia Military Institute, where
he remained until early in 1864, when he again entered service in Company
G, 6th Virginia Cavalry. In the battle of the Wilderness, May,
1864, he received a shell wound, taking off his right arm, just below the
elbow. He was three weeks in Chimborazo hospital, Richmond, then
returned home. He engaged in farming for several years after the close
of the war, then was three years in the tobacco warehouse business at
South Boston until, in July, 1887, he was elected high sheriff of Halifax
county. In this office he is still serving.
