CAPT. CHARLES B. TREVILIAN.
John Trevilian, a Huguenot refugee from France, came to the colony
of Virginia and founded the family in the Old Commonwealth. His son
John was the father of Col. John M. Trevilian, who was born in Goochland
county, Virginia, and who died in 1873, aged seventy-three years.
Colonel Trevilian married Mary C. Argyle, who died in 1878, aged
seventy years. Capt. Charles B. Trevilian is their son, and was born in
Goochland county, September 15, 1838.
He received his education in Hampden-Sidney College and in the
University of Virginia. He entered the Confederate States army in
1861, Company F, 4th Virginia Cavalry, and was promoted captain of
the company. At Gettysburg he was wounded and made prisoner, and
was held twenty-two months on Johnsons Island, Lake Erie. After
release he rejoined his command, and was again wounded, at High
Bridge, in the retreat to Appomattox. Captain Trevilian held the
office of collector of revenue in New Kent county, Virginia, one year,
and for the last two years has filled the position he is now holding in
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, Williamsburg, that of supervisor.
He married in Rockbridge county, Virginia, March 1, 1865, Mary S.
Houston, who was born in that county, the daughter of Dr. David S.
Houston, who died in 1864, and Nancy (Dix) Houston, who died in
1887. Nannie H., eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Trevilian, is now deceased;
their living children are three: Mary R., Blanche E. and
Gardner H.
