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WASHINGTON COUNTY.

DR. CHRISTOPHER ALDERSON.

Dr. Alderson was born on the 15th of December, 1816, near Union,
Monroe county, (then) Virginia. He was a son of Davis Alderson, who
was born near Alderson, Monroe county, and came to Washington
county in 1823, and a grandson of Thomas Alderson, who was born in
Greenbrier county. His mother was also of a Virginia family, Miss
Catherine Thrasher, of Botetourt county.

At Lebanon, Russell county, Virginia, in 1841, Dr. Alderson married
Mary P. Gibson, the Rev. Samuel Gibson uniting them. The record of
their children is: Joseph, now a physician at Meadow View, Virginia;
Franklin M., killed on the Gettysburg campaign; Charles W., a farmer;
Henry C., an attorney-at-law of Tazewell C. H., Virginia; Mary C., now
Mrs. Buchanan; Martha A., now Mrs. Preston. The four sons were
all soldiers of Virginia in the late war, entering service at the respective
ages of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen years. One gave his life
to the cause; three were with Lee at the surrender.

Mrs. Alderson was born at Copper Creek, Russell county, on March
19, 1821, the daughter of William Gibson, Esq., whose father was Rev.
Samuel Gibson, of the M. E. Church. Her mother was a daughter of
George Peery, a prominent citizen of Tazewell county.

Dr. Alderson has been a successful practitioner of medicine for forty-eight
years, nineteen years in Russell county, twenty-nine years in
Washington county. He has had ten medical students, all of whom
have become successful practitioners, some distinguished in their chosen
profession.

CAPT. GEORGE W. ALDERSON

Is a son of Davis Alderson and Catharine Alderson, nee Thrasher, whose
family line is given in the record preceding this. He was born near
Union, Monroe county, (then) Virginia, January 7, 1820. Captain
Alderson has been twice married, and the father of nineteen children.
His first marriage was with Lydia, daughter of Rev. Andrew Patterson,
Baptist clergyman of Washington county, whose wife was Elizabeth
Cole, from Smyth county. Lydia Patterson was born December 17,
1824, became the wife of Captain Alderson, December 24, 1840, and
died on April 1, 1866. Secondly, Captain Alderson married Mary,
daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Reed, of Washington county, and
widow of John Ketron. This marriage was solemnized July 7, 1868, at
the home and birthplace of Mrs. Alderson, near Abingdon. The Reed
family are among the oldest in Washington county, Hugh Reed the son
of John Reed.

The children of Captain Alderson's first marriage are: Elizabeth K.,
now Mrs. S. P. Edmondson, of Friendship, Virginia, Davis, twice
wounded at Cedar Run, near Culpeper C. H., died of wounds at Flint
Hill, Virginia, September 17, 1864; two infants, died unnamed, Andrew,
who was also a soldier in the Confederate army at age of fourteen years,
and in battle of Saltville, now living in Texas, Ann E., now Mrs. T. J.
Tilson, of Hunt county, Texas, Thomas R., now a merchant at Campbell,
Hunt county, Texas. Virginia C., now Mrs. Henry Swift, of Hunt
county, Texas, Miriam M., now Mrs. John Minich, of Wood county,
Texas, George, deceased, Lydia J., now Mrs. John Roberts, of Washington
county, William K. H., now in Hunt county, Texas, Christopher
Dayton, now of Washington Territory. The children of the second
marriage are: Mary A., Davis, deceased, Maggie, John J., Martha
and George.

Captain Alderson filled the office of magistrate two years in Washington
county. He was some time captain of militia previous to the
war, and captain and commissary of subsistance at Abingdon during
the entire four years of that war. He had eight nephews in active service,
two of whom were killed, one falling on the Gettysburg campaign, the
other in battle at Winchester, fall of 1864. Captain Alderson resides on
the farm he cultivates, near Moab.

JOHN A. P. BAKER: M. D.

The subject of this sketch was born near Abingdon, March 4, 1841,
his family, both on paternal and maternal side, having been residents
of the county of Washington from its first settlement. His father was
John Baker, who lived four miles west of Abingdon, and his father's
father was Isaac Baker, also a farmer of the county. His mother was
Susannah, daughter of Abram Hortenstine, of Washington county.
His wife was born at Pleasant Hill, Smyth county, November 16, 1845,
and they were married near Abingdon, October 25, 1867. She is Sue
C., daughter of Hon. Joseph W. Davis and his wife Lucy, nee Armstrong.
Her father's residence was six miles north of Abingdon. He served in
the Virginia legislature a number of terms, both branches, Senate and
Lower House.

Nine children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Baker: Joseph H., Lucy S.,
Betsy, Charles A., Alexander D. (now deceased), Mary M., (deceased),
Pancost, John, Henry Hortenstine.

Dr. Baker volunteered his services to Virginia at the opening of the
war between the States, and served as assistant surgeon of the 1st Virginia
Cavalry through that war, taking part in all the engagements of
Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry. He had two brothers in service, Joseph H.,
killed at Spotsylvania C. H., and Isaac, wounded and lost arm at Vicksburg.

Dr. Baker is settled in practice in Abingdon.

REV. GEORGE R. BARR: D. D.

The subject of this sketch is the oldest son of Dr. William Barr, who
was born in Greenbrier county, (then) Virginia, and raised in Halifax
county, Virginia. The father of Dr. Wm. Barr was Isaac Barr, who
was born in Fairfax county, Virginia. When sixteen years of age, he
(Isaac Barr) volunteered as a private in the Revolutionary Army, and
continued in the service of his country till the war closed, and then received
an honorable discharge. He soon thereafter married a Miss
Foster, and removed to Greenbrier county. Dr. William Barr removed
from Halifax county, Virginia, to Stokes county, North Carolina, where
he married Rebecca Ray. The son, George R., was born in that county,
July 25, 1810. In November, 1823, the family made their home in Abingdon,
where Dr. William Barr died in 1858.

Rev. George R. Barr has been twice married, his first wife Sarah,
daughter of Jacob Rodefer, of Shenandoah county, Virginia. She was
born in that county, became the wife of Dr. Barr in Abingdon, October
25, 1831, and died on March 12, 1874. Eight living children are the
issue of this marriage: Mary E. C., Ann Maria, John W., Margaret J.,

William F., David, Lizzie P. and Henry C. John, David and Henry
gallantly represented this honored family in the army of the South,
during the late war. John now resides in Abingdon, David at Smithfield,
Virginia; Henry in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Barr married secondly
in New York, on June 7, 1877, Rev. Mr. Bailey officiating clergyman,
Martha J., daughter of Col. Augustine Sackett, of New York, born in
Canandaigua, that State, June 10, 1830.

The record of the public services of Dr. Barr shows a life devoted to
the service of humanity. He was ordained a minister in the Methodist
Protestant Church in 1842, was several years president of the Virginia
Conference of that church, a number of times representative to the
General Conference and to various conventions of the church. From
September 1, 1841, to February 13, 1873, he was associate editor and
proprietor of the Abingdon Virginian, Charles B. Cole associated with
him as senior editor. He has been twenty-two years consecutively secretary
of Waterman Lodge, No. 219, A. F. & A. M., and for the last
five years secretary of McCabe Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 56.

GEORGE M. BRIGHT,

Was born in Franklin county, Virginia, on February 20, 1852. He attended
school at Rocky Mount, Virginia, under the instructions of his
uncle, Judge Thomas H. Bernard, and later went to Philadelphia.
From that city he came to Abingdon December 1, 1886, and with his
brother-in-law, Robert M. Brice, established his present business, under
the firm name and style of "The Washington Hardware Co.," the largest
hardware establishment in the county, carrying on a general hardware
business. His father was Samuel G. Bright, who served through the
late war in Early's command, C. S. A., and was a prisoner at Fort
Delaware, the last nine months of the war. Michael Bright, uncle of
George M., was two years in service. Another uncle is Jesse D. Bright,
of Indiana, at one time governor of that State. The Hon. John M.
Bright, distinguished statesman of England, is another uncle of George
M.

MATHEW HAY BUCHANAN

Is a life-long resident of Washington county, where his ancestors settled
more than one hundred years ago, coming from Augusta county, Virginia.
He was born on March 9, 1817, on the family estate, about
twelve miles east of Abingdon, the son of William Buchanan, who was
the son of Mathew Buchanan (whose wife was Miss Elizabeth Edmondson),
who was the son of Andrew Buchanan (who married Joanna Hay).
His mother was Jean, daughter of Benjamin Keys, of this county, who
married Elizabeth Stuart.

At Saltville, October 31, 1851, M. H. Buchanan was married by Rev.
Joseph Haskew to Miss Elizabeth Goode, who was born in this county,
near the old Iron Works, December 1, 1824. The issue of this marriage
is two sons, Robert G., Thomas F., and three daughters, Bettie H.,
Margaret K., Rachel B. Mrs. Buchanan is the daughter of John Goode,
who was a son of William Goode, of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Her
mother was Ann, daughter of Conley Finley of Abingdon, who came to
Virginia from Ireland, about 1797.

Mr. Buchanan was exempted, on account of age, from field service in
the late war, but was an active member of the County Advisory Board.
He had one brother in service in the Reserve Troops, and one who served
in the 37th Virginia Regiment, and was severely wounded. Mr. Buchanan
has always followed farming as an occupation, and has ably
filled the office of sheriff four years, deputy sheriff twelve years.

JAMES H. BUTT.

The subject of this sketch, a farmer four miles north of Abingdon on
the Lebanon pike, was born on the 16th of October, 1828, in Franklin
county, Virginia. On the 29th of September, 1853, near Abingdon, he
was united in marriage to Mary E. G. Price, who was born in Abingdon,
on October 24, 1834. They have two daughters, Sarah Jane, now Mrs.
Wm. S. Fleenor, and Emma A. C.

Previous to the late war, Mr. Butt was a captain in the State militia;
and being subject to military duty was, in 1863, by order of the War
Department, Confederate States government, detailed to manufacture
hats for the army, at Rice Spring, Virginia, and so continued until the
close of the war. He had three brothers in the Confederate army, John
W., Henry C. and Joseph M., the first two with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,
the last-named serving in the Virginia Reserves. John W. was accidentally
killed in 1864, in Russell county, Virginia, by being thrown
from his horse. In 1867 or '68 Mr. Butt became a member of Abingdon
Lodge, No. 48, A. F. & A. M.; two brothers are also Master Masons.

Mr. Butt is a son of Rignal Butt, late of Berkeley county, Virginia,
whose father was Rignal Butt, late of that county, near Harpers Ferry,
and came of German ancestry. His mother was Sarah, daughter of
Jacob Bondurant, late of Franklin county, Virginia, and of French
descent, thought to have been Huguenots.

Mrs. Mary E. G. Butt is the daughter of Lodwick Price, late of
Abingdon, whose father was Edmond Price, late of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Her mother was Jane C. W., daughter of Patrick and Catharine
Lynch, who were among the earliest settlers of Abingdon; they were of
French extraction.

CAPT. JOHN BYARS,

Born on his father's estate, Brook Hall Farm, Washington county,
August 11, 1811, is a son of Col. William Byars, formerly of Louisa
county, Virginia, who married in Washington county, and settled here.
Colonel Byars' father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The
mother of John Byars was Elizabeth, daughter of William Beatty, a
pioneer of Washington county.

His wife, whom he married near Glade Springs, October 22, 1836,
was Jane B. Ryburn, born near Glade Springs Depot, June 6, 1819.
They have one daughter, Elizabeth M., now Mrs. Hall, residing near
them, and have buried one daughter, Sarah A. A., died in 1856. The
father of Mrs. Byars was Beatty Byburn, whose father, Matthew
Ryburn, came from Scotland to Washington county in early days of
the county. Her mother was also a Ryburn, Jane, daughter of William
Ryburn, who settled on the middle fork of the Holston before the
Indians had left the county.

Capt. John Byars has resided on Brook Hall Farm all his life, and
both he and his estimable wife have seen the county pass from the
hands of the Indian to its present state of development and comfort,
having borne their share of those pioneer hardships incident to such a
change. During the years of the war he was too old for military duty,
but had a younger brother, James M., who served from the beginning
to the close of that struggle.

REV. W. C. CARDEN,

Pastor in charge of the M. E. Church (South) at Abingdon, Washington
county, was born at Cleveland, Tennessee. He is a son of Leonard
Carden, of Tennessee, whose father, Robert Carden, was a Virginian,
and settled in Tennessee. His mother is of the old and honored Hale
family of Old Virginia, T. C., daughter of Lewis Hale of Grayson county.

In the Sequatchie Valley, March 5, 1875, Rev. W. C. Carden was united
in marriage with Martha Stewart, who was born in the Sequatchie
Valley, Tennessee. Their children are: Robert A., Leonard A., Frank
and Mary. Mrs. Carden is the daughter of James Stewart, granddaughter
of George Stewart, both of the Sequatchie valley, the founder of the
family coming there from Ireland. Her mother was Mary Kirklin, and
her mother's mother was the first white child born in the Sequatchie
valley.

At the time of the late war, Mr. Carden was a cadet in the Military
Institute at Marietta, Georgia, commanded by Major Capers. He was
called out to the defense of Atlanta, in 1864, and kept in front of Sherman's
army in its advance to the Sea through Georgia. At Savannah,

the troops with which he was fighting crossed the river, and moved to
Augusta, Georgia. He was paroled after General Johnston's surrender.

He has served as grand chaplain of the Knights of Honor of Tennessee,
and passed the Chapter and Council to the 11th degree in Masonry.

JOHN R. CARDWELL.

The subject of this sketch, born at Rutledge, Tennessee, on August
16, 1821, and raised in Knox county, Tennessee, was many years an
honored resident of Abingdon, Washington county, Virginia, and died
there. He was educated at Emory and Henry College, was married at
Abingdon, March 13, 1849, and entered into business there as merchant
tailor, which he followed until his death. Because of ill-health he was
unfit for field service during the late war, but was enrolled for service in
the Reserves. He was made prisoner during the Stoneman raid, but
released.

Daniel Cardwell, of Rutledge, Tennessee, the father of John R., was a
son of Perren Henry Cardwell, and came from England. He lived to the
age of 100 years. Among his illustrious connections in America was
Patrick Henry, who was his cousin. His wife, mother of John R., was
a Miss Abbot, of Massachusetts. John R. Cardwell wedded Mary Isabella
Lewark, who was born in Abingdon, December 16, 1826, where,
except for about two years, she has always resided. Their children
were: Martha L., David Wingfield, Joseph Wayland, John H., William
King (deceased), Mary Isabella, Laura Virginia (deceased), and Genio.

Mrs. Cardwell had one brother in the Confederate service through the
late war. She is a daughter of Joseph Lewark, who was born in Greensboro,
North Carolina, served in the war of 1812, removed to Washington
county. His father was John Lewark, who removed to Indiana
about 1841. The mother of Mrs. Cardwell was Jemima, daughter of
Honor Hutton, of Greensboro, North Carolina.

JOHN CARMACK

The founder of the Carmack family in Southwestern Virginia was
John Carmack, who, in colonial days entered between two and three
thousand acres of land in Washington county, Virginia, and Hawkins
county, Tennessee, nearly all of which land remains still in the possession
of his descendants. His son John was a soldier of the Revolutionary
war, and was wounded at Bunker Hill. Pleasant Carmack, son of
the soldier John, learned the trade of cabinet maker, then settled to
farming in Washington county. He married Hannah, daughter of
Captain William Gray, of Washington county. She was born in 1804,
and died in 1866, and for twenty years preceding her death was

afflicted with blindness. Her father was born on the ocean, while his parents
were voyaging to their new home in Virginia. He grew to manhood
in Washington county, where he became an extensive stockman.

John, son of Pleasant Carmack and his wife, Hannah, was born on
his father's estate, on the State line between Washington county, Virginia,
and Sullivan county, Tennessee, on June 13, 1836. He married
near Abingdon, May 4, 1861, Mary Hagy, born in Washington county.
Their children were born in the order named: Pleasant William,
Martin Hagy, John Thomas, Mary Lauretta, Sally Eliza, Samuel Vandellen,
Ada Texanna, Virginia Tennessee, Alexander Watson. The eldest
son now lives in Texas.

Mrs. Carmack is a daughter of Martin Hagy, a farmer living near
Abingdon, whose father, Jacob Hagy, came to Washington county
from Pittsylvania county. Her mother is Sally, daughter of James
Anderson, who came to Washington county from Ireland.

Mr. Carmack was exempt from service in the late war, on account of
physical disability. His farm was subjected to raids by the contending
armies from both sides. His brother William P. was in service
about a year, and a number of their relatives were in the Southern
army, among them a cousin, James Carmack, who was captured, and
died while a prisoner of war in Kentucky.

Mr. Carmack is a farmer and stockman, and is also United States
mail sub-contractor for his district.

JAMES CHIDDIX,

One of the most successful farmers and stockraisers in Southwestern
Virginia, comes of a family where the men have been farmers for several
generations. His grandfather was Eli Chiddix, who came from England
to Virginia, and his father was William Chiddix, of Saltville, who married
Nancy, daughter of James Lowder of Tazewell county, Virginia,
also a farmer, and one of the earliest settled in the county, of Irish
descent. James, subject of this sketch, was born in Tazewell county,
June 23, 1837. During the late war he served one year in the 45th
Virginia regiment, Company G, then until close of war in the 23d battalion,
a part of the Stonewall Brigade. He was a prisoner about
one-half hour, at Fishers Hill. His brother Leander served in a Texas
regiment, C. S. A. Another brother, Eli, was a member of the 29th
Virginia regiment, Pickett's division, and was killed in action May 14,
1864.

Near Saltville, February 28, 1866, James Chiddix married Sarah A.
Meadows, and their children are: Isabelle, William Huston, Eli S.,
John W., Susan V., James (deceased), George W. P., Charles, Pearl

(deceased). Mrs. Chiddix was born near Saltville, the daughter of
William T. Meadows, of Smyth county, who was the son of Joel
Meadows, who raised his family near Emory. Her mother was Miss
Susan MacCready.

Mr. Chiddix has been a zealous worker and able exhortor in the
Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday-school for thirty years, his
successful work abundantly shown by its fruits, and by the many letters
of approval and encouragement he has received, as well as by the
resolutions and votes of thanks passed by churches, Sunday-schools
and other religious societies he has assisted. His father was a Sunday-school
superintendent for over thirty-five years, and his father-in-law
filled the same position for a like number of years.

JAMES H. CLARK

Was born on the Clark homestead, near Meadow View, where he still
resides, on December 13, 1839. He is a son of John S. Clark, who is a
son of Robert Clark, who was born in Scotland, in 1757, and came to
Washington county in 1817, locating a farm in the woods, which was
cleared under his supervision, and became the fruitful farm James H.
now cultivates.

Near Emory and Henry College, February 17, 1875, James H. Clark
married Sarah E. Horn. Their children are five sons: John, Henry
Marvin, David B., James B. and Chester L., and they have buried one
daughter, the youngest child, Helah F. Mrs. Clark was born near
Emory and Henry College, the daughter of John Horn, now of Glade
Spring, whose father, Henry Horn, came to this county from Wythe
county. Her mother is Mary, daughter of Andrew Fullen, of this county,
near Saltville.

James H. Clark was three years a soldier, from March, 1862, to the
close of the war, Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry. With this gallant
regiment he faced the enemy in all its many battles during his time of
service, was never wounded nor captured, and with it constantly except
for a short furlough in 1863.

WILLIAM D. CLARK.

Peter Clark, founder of this family in Virginia, came from Scotland
and settled in Washington county, near Glade Spring, at an early day.
Robert Clark, son of Peter, married Catharine, the daughter of William
Dixon, who came from Pennsylvania to Washington county. William
D., son of Robert and Catharine Clark, was born on the family estate,
near Glade Spring, July 9, 1830. This estate, descended to him, he is
still living on.

He married near Glade Spring, January 19, 1850, Caroline, daughter
of Granville Williams, and the issue of the marriage is nine children:
Sallie Kate, Cora B., Robert D., Nannie May, Joseph White, Viola J.,
William Winzell, Jesse Lawrence, Conley Frank. Mrs. Clark was born
in Smyth county, Virginia, where her father's and mother's families
were pioneer settlers. Granville Williams, her father, is a son of Levi
Williams, and her mother is Sallie, daughter of John James, Esq.

Mr. Clark was in service through the late war, the first year in Company
D, 37th Virginia Infantry, the remaining time in the famous 1st
Virginia Cavalry, with which he took part in almost every battle fought
by the renowned Army of Northern Virginia. Of his near and distant
relatives, hardly one able to bear arms was not in the same service.

CHRISTIAN M. COLLEY.

The farm on which Mr. Colley resides, and which he cultivates, three
and one-half miles east of Abingdon, was first settled by his maternal
grandfather, Jacob M. Morell, who came here from Shenandoah county,
Virginia, more than one hundred years ago. His daughter Mary
married Shadrach Colley, who was a son of Thomas Colley, the latter
coming to this country from France, and fighting for the Independence
of America under Washington. The subject of this sketch is the son of
Shadrach and Mary (Morell) Colley, and was born November 12, 1813,
on the farm where he still resides.

Near Abingdon, at the residence of the bride's father he married,
April 7, 1835, Mary, daughter of William McDaniel, born in 1811 on
the place where they were married. Her father came to the county
from Maryland, where he was born. Seven children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Colley. Letitia, Thomas W., Wm. Lewis, Mary Jane, Elizabeth
Catharine, Lierann, Sarah Susan. The first and last named of
these are now deceased. Thomas and Wm. Lewis were soldiers of
Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. Thomas was disabled by
the loss of a foot, in 1863; Lewis served till the close of the war. The
father served nine months with Gen. Floyd as wagon-master in Northwest
Virginia, but his age incapacitated him for field service.

THOMAS W. COLLEY.

The founder of this family in Virginia came to the colony from Wales,
and was the father of Thomas Colley, who was born in Pittsylvania
county, removed to Russell county, and was the father of Shadrach
Colley, whose son, Christian M. Colley, married Mary, daughter of William
McDaniel, who came to Washington county from Maryland. Thomas
W., subject of this sketch, son of Christian M. and Mary Colley, was born

near Abingdon, on November 30, 1837. On Christmas Day, 1872, h
married Ann Eliza Ryan, who was born near Abingdon, June 15, 185
Their children were born in the order named: James Lewis (deceased),
Daniel T., Fitzhugh Lee, Frank T., Mary L., Ella Ryan (deceased), Barbara
C., Sallie H. (deceased), John M. Mrs. Colley is a daughter
James Ryan, of Washington county, son of James Ryan, who came from
Ireland. Her mother was Barbara, daughter of John Morell, of Washington
county. The Morells were of French extraction, and came t
this country previous to 1760.

Mr. Colley entered service in the late war in April, 1861, in the Washington
Mounted Rifles. He was wounded August 12, 1862, in the battle
of Waterloo Bridge, again wounded at Kellys Ford, March 17, 1863
where he was shot through the body, and left on the field for dead,
third time wounded, and permanently disabled, May 28, 1864, nea
Cold Harbor, losing left foot. He cultivates a farm near Abingdon, an
has held public office, deputy sheriff from 1871 to 1875; superitenden
of the poor, 1879 to 1887.

JOHN D. COSBY.

The subject of this sketch was born in Buckingham county, Virginia
on the 8th of November, 1840. He is a son of Rev. Lewis F. Cosby
whose family record is in the sketch following this one. In April, 1861
he joined Company K, 37th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., and was one o
the first men from Washington county to mount the train that was to
carry the volunteers to the front. In August, 1861, he was disabled by
typhoid fever, at Garretts Ford, on Cheat river, Virginia, at the time
General Garnett was killed. Later he served two years in the 1st Virginia
Cavalry, and was in active service through the war, except when
disabled by sickness. On April 9, 1865, his command was outside of
the lines, and not included in Lee's surrender, the men returning to
their homes.

In 1871 John D. Cosby was elected sheriff of Washington county for
three years, and subsequently was twice re-elected, serving twelve years
as sheriff after having served three years as deputy sheriff. At "Panacella,"
on the 15th of December, 1875, he was united in marriage to
Miss Sue M. Litchfield, by Rev. W. E. Cunningham. She was born on
the 20th of July, 1843, at Abingdon, and is the daughter of George V.
Litchfield, who died in Abingdon on February 5, 1874. Her mother
was Rachel D., daughter of John Mitchell, Esq., of Saltville and Abingdon,
Virginia. One child, Mary Connally Cosby, blesses this union.

"Panacella," the beautiful home of Mr. Cosby, overlooking the town
of Abingdon, was formerly the country seat of old Judge Johnston,

the father of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Beverly R. Johnston, and Gen.
Peter C. Johnston. Near the house is the old family cemetery, where
now repose the bodies of Judge Johnston and his estimable wife, Beverly
R. Johnston and Gen. Peter C. Johnston, the graves tenderly cared
for by their distinguished son and brother, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

REV. LEWIS F. COSBY: D. D.

Was born in Staunton, Virginia, on the 14th day of January, 1807,
and died in Abingdon, Virginia, on the 6th day of July, 1883. Dr.
Cosby was a prominent minister in the Methodist Protestant church,
and was a man of deep and fervent piety, beloved by all. His parents
were Dabney and Frances D. Cosby, now deceased, whose remains rest
in the cemetery at Raleigh, North Carolina. He was married twice,
first to Miss Jane E. Bekem, of Abingdon, a lady of rare gifts and accomplishments.
By this marriage seven children were born, viz.:
Jane Frances, Virginia Eleanor, Charles Vincent, John Dabney, Lewis
Thomson, Sarah Elizabeth, William H. Cosby. Mrs. Cosby departed
this life June 13, 1853. All of said children have married. Jane
(now deceased), married Edward Zollickoffer, Virginia (now deceased)
married Dr. J. W. Miller, Charles (now deceased) married Mary E.
Hamilton; John, Miss Sue M. Litchfield, Lewis T., Miss Kate S. Mitchell,
Sally E., D. A. C. Webster, W. H., Miss Kate Hayden. Mrs. Zollickoffer
lett surviving her five children, Virginia, two, Charles, three.
Dr. Cosby married secondly Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, of Greene
county, Tennessee (a very excellent lady, beloved by all who know her),
who survives him.

Charles V. Cosby at the time of his death was a prominent merchant
of Shreveport, Louisiana. John D. Cosby has been connected with public
affairs in Washington county, having been sheriff of the same.
Lewis T. Cosby was clerk of the circuit court of said county for nearly
seventeen years, and is now a member of the Bar thereof. All of the
male members of the family (except William) participated actively in
the war between the States. Charles V. at the close of the war was a
staff officer in the Trans-Mississippi Department, with rank of major;
John D. and Lewis T. were in the cavalry of the Army of Northern
Virginia.

Among the maternal ancestors of these sons of Rev. Dr. Cosby were:
Lieutenant John Carson, their mother's uncle, who was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, and Charles S., his brother, who served in the war
of 1812. Charles S. Bekem, a brother of Mrs. Jane E. Cosby, was a
distinguished member of the Bar of Southwest Virginia, and was a
number of times elected to the Legislature, being voted for by both

parties. He departed this life on the 19th of August, 1875, aged seventy-three
years. The Cosbys, on the side of their father, are of Scotch
descent, and on their mother's side Irish.

ROBERT CRAIG,

Farmer and grape-culturist of Washington county, was born near
Tazewell C. H., Virginia, March 22, 1834. In 1861 he entered service,
Company F, 54th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A., and in 1863 was discharged
for disability. He had two brothers in service, James H., twice
wounded, served till Lee's surrender, and Dr. Thomas C., captured, held
a time at Fort Delaware, again in service after exchange until the surrender,
his regiment in the "Stonewall Brigade."

Robert Craig is a son of Dr. Robert M. Craig, of Pulaski county,
Tennessee, a self-made man, who rose to eminence, representing his
county in the State legislature. His father was David Craig of Montgomery
county, Virginia, whose father, Benjamin Craig, died on board
ship while coming to America from Scotland. The mother of Benjamin
Craig was a Gillespie, of Scotland. The mother of Robert Craig was
Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Law, of Pulaski county, Virginia.
Her mother was the daughter of Michael Cloyd and Elizabeth
Nealy, his wife, the latter a Campbell, her mother killed by Indians,
near Amsterdam, Virginia.

Robert Craig's first wife was Virginia Lee, born in Bedford county,
Virginia, April 2, 1853. They were married January 6, 1870, and she
died March 31, 1874, leaving two children, Lucy Lee and Robert V.
He married secondly, December 13, 1874, Sarah C. Walters, born in
1847, died August 18, 1887. Their children were Robert Thomas,
Elizabeth, Lillie, Sarah; Butler T., deceased; Chrysalis, deceased; David
T. deceased.

Mr. Craig married again, his wife Mary L., the daughter of Thomas E.
Noel of Bedford county, Virginia, son of Cornelius Noel, of that county.
Her mother is Ann S., daughter of William Saunders, who was a quartermaster,
war of 1812, and granddaugher of John Saunders, of New
Kent, Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier.

DR. ROBERT C. CRAIG.

The subject of this sketch was born near Abingdon, Washington
county, January 21, 1819, and his home has always been in this county,
where he has been in practice as physician and surgeon, and has also
given much time to the cultivation of his estate. He was magistrate
of the county under the old constitution for eight years, several years
post-master, first at Craigs Mills, then at Maple Grove. By reason of

civil appointments he was exempt from military duty during the late
war. He is an A. F. and A. M. of Abingdon Lodge, No. 48, and has filled
worthily every office in the lodge except Master. Near Abingdon, April
14, 1841, Dr. Craig married Margaret J. Parrott, born July 23, 1823.
Their children were born in the order named: Amanda P., Margaret
P. (now deceased), Virginia K. (now deceased), James Henry, Mary
Eliza, Sarah Harriet, Robert Claude.

Dr. Craig is a son of James Chambers Craig, who was long cashier of
banks at Nashville and Columbia, and who came from Baltimore, Maryland,
where his father, James Craig, settled on coming from Ireland.
The mother of Dr. Craig was born in Washington county, near Abingdon,
Amanda P., daughter of Captain Robert Craig, formerly of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, and an officer of the Revolutionary war, whose wife was
Jane Denny.

Dr. Craig's wife is a daughter of Henry Parrott, who came to Washington
county from Botetourt county, Virginia, having learned the
saddler's trade at Fincastle. Her mother was Margaret, daughter of
James Piper, an early settler in Washington county, whose grafting
originated the well-known "Piper Pear."

WARREN CRAWFORD,

Farmer of Washington county, was born in this county, on Smith
creek, June 29, 1841. From June, 1863 till December, 1864, he was
in service in Company I, 22d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. He had one
brother-in-law died in service, John A. Vance, in October, 1861. Another
brother-in-law, A. J. Cunningham, lost right arm in battle before
Richmond.

The father of Warren Crawford was Dr. John Crawford, born in
Rockbridge county, Virginia, raised in Washington county, married
Matilda Fleenor in 1834. She is a daughter of Solomon Fleenor, a
veteran of the war of 1812, whose father, Jasper Fleenor, was a pioneer
settler in Washington county.

D. C. CUMMINGS: JR,

Clerk of the county court of Washington county, was born in this
county at Abingdon, on June 23, 1861. He is the son of Col.
David Campbell Cummings, who was clerk of circuit court at
Abingdon, 1866-70, whose father was James Cummings, son
of Rev. Charles Cummings, who came from Scotland to Virginia
at an early day, and took charge of the Presbyterian church,
at Abingdon and other places. The mother of D. C. is Eliza, daughter

of James L. White of Abingdon, and granddaughter of Col. James White,
who came to Washington county about the beginning of the present
century, and amassed a fortune in the mercantile business, and as a
manufacturer of salt. From April, 1882, to July 1, 1887, D. C. Cummings,
jr. was deputy county clerk for Washington county. Since the
last-named date he has been filling his present office, to which he was
elected by the largest majority ever given to a candidate in Washington
county.

ARCHIMEDES DAVIS

Was born in Washington county, Virginia, in 1811, and died on his
estate near Abingdon, on October 22, 1865. He was a son of James
Davis, who was born on Walker Mount, this county, and Nancy, daughter
of Thomas and Lydia Smith, also of Washington county. In Granger
county, Tennessee, February 12, 1840, Archimedes Davis married Mary
Van Hook Fulkerson, who was born near Abingdon, September 24,
1820. The record of their children is: Margaret Nancy, now deceased;
Arabella, now deceased; James K., now of Missouri, Abram F., now of
Illinois; Archimedes, now of Arkansas; Mary Van Hook, residing in
Abingdon; Samuel W., now deceased; Griffith, deceased; Arthur C.,
deceased; Sarah, living now in Kentucky; Lydia Ann, Salina Fulkerson
and Robert Vance. James and Abram were in service in the late war,
Confederate States Army.

Mr. Davis was a lawyer by profession, engaged in practice many years.
He was several years constable. During the war he acted as Receiver
for the District where he lived, resuming practice at the close of the war,
his death ensuing in the same year.

Mrs. Davis is a daughter of Abraham Fulkerson, an honored resident
of Washington county through life, who served in the war of 1812, with
rank of captain, and was a colonel of Virginia militia. He was a son
of James Fulkerson, who came from Pennsylvania to make his home in
Washington county. The mother of Mrs. Davis was Margaret, daughter
of Samuel Vance. Samuel Vance came to Washington county in 1773,
from Frederick county, Virginia. In those early days he had many
bouts with hostile Indians. In 1780 he joined Colonel Campbell's regiment,
Continental army, and took part in the battle of Kings Mountain.
He was a man of scholarly attainments, particularly well informed in
ancient and modern history. He died in the eighty-ninth year of his
age, at his home near Abingdon, where he had lived for sixty-five years.
A brother of Abraham Fulkerson, Jacob, was killed by the Indians, in
1791.

DAVID E. DEBUSK

Merchant of Glade Spring, was born in Washington county, eight
miles south of the Springs, June 12, 1836. His father, Jacob Debusk,
and his grandfather, Elijah Debusk, were both born in Washington
county, and were lifelong residents here, wheelwrights and farmers.
The father of Elijah came to Washington county from Shenandoah
county. The mother of Daniel E. Debusk was a Gentry of Johnson
county, Tennessee, and related to Abraham Lincoln.

Near Glade Spring, October 25, 1866, David E. Debusk married
Harriet Widener, who was born near her husband's birthplace, August
19, 1841. She died at Glade Spring, June 12, 1887, and her remains
were laid to rest in the grounds of the Presbyterian Church, of which
she was a member. She was the daughter of Reuben Widener, whose
father settled in this county shortly after the war of 1776, and came of
old Revolutionary stock, one of the name and family with Washington
at the surrender of Cornwallis.

Mr. Debusk entered the Confederate service on July 25, 1861, Company
H, 37th Virginia regiment. At Kernstown, March 23, 1862, he
was wounded by a musket ball in shoulder; at Chancellorsville he was
wounded by grapeshot and again in same battle by bursting of a shell;
at Gettysburg he received musket ball wounds in arm and leg; and his
service in the field ended at Spotsylvania C. H., May, 1864, where he
was captured, and after that held thirteen months at Fort Delaware.

DR. WILLIAM L. DUNN

Was born near Glade Spring, Washington county, on September 15,
1844. He is a son of Dr. Samuel Dunn, of Glade Spring, now eighty-three
years of age, for sixty-one of these years an honored practitioner
of medicine. The father of Dr. Samuel Dunn was Lieutenant William
Dunn, of Old "Mad Anthony" Wayne's brigade, who came from Ireland
at the age of sixteen years, entered the war of the Revolution with the
battle of Bunker Hill, and fought in every battle of his brigade except
Germantown, up to the surrender at Yorktown. Dr. W. L. Dunn is a
greatgrandson of Major William Edmondson, who was second in command
at the battle of Kings Mountain, and whose wife was a sister of
Gen. Zebulon Montgomery of Revolutionary fame.

With such ancestral blood, it is natural that the subject of this
sketch should have made an honorable record in the late war. Entering
service in 1861, before he was seventeen years of age, he served one
year as a private in the 1st Virginia Cavalry, then one year on medical
staff at Richmond, and from that time to the close of the war as assistant

surgeon 43d Virginia Cavalry, better known in the annals of the
war as Col. John Mosby's Battalion of Partisan Rangers. Dr. Dunn
had one brother in service a year, in Col. Peters regiment. Gen. Wm.
E. Jones, killed at Piedmont, was his brother-in-law.

Near Glade Spring, October 12, 1868, Dr. William L. Dunn married
Fannie Beattie. She is a daughter of Absolom Beattie, who married
Eliza Davis, and was born near Glade Spring. Her father is a son of
Captain William Beattie, who fought at Kings Mountain, and was the
last survivor of that memorable battle.

ADAM DUTTON.

About the close of the last century, Adam Dutton, for whom the subject
of this sketch is named, came from Germany to America, located in
Wythe county, married there, and reared a large family of children.
One of these was a son, George Dutton, who married Sarah, daughter
of Freidrich Copenhaver, also from Germany, and settled in Smyth
county. George Dutton made his home in Smyth county after marriage,
and his son Adam, subject of this sketch, was born in that county, near
Chilhowie, on December 26, 1832. He married in Smyth county, at the
residence and birthplace of his bride, March 18, 1858, Maria E. Robinson,
born in August, 1838. The farm where they now reside was her birthplace,
near Loves Mills, and she was a daughter of John Robinson, who
cleared and improved the farm, and was a son of Geamsey Robinson,
who died at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother of Mrs. Dutton
also died on this homestead, at the age of seventy-seven years. Her
maiden name was Sarah Allen.

Mr. Dutton was in service during the war, from June, 1861, to the
close, in Company D, 4th Virginia Infantry, a regiment in constant and
severe service, in the original "Stonewall" brigade, under General Lee in
the Army of Northern Virginia. He was slightly wounded a number of
times, receiving three of the wounds at Gettysburg. He had two
brothers in service, William R., who died from exposure, in Kentucky,
shortly after the battle of Fort Donelson, and James, severely wounded
in the neck in Chancellorsville battle.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dutton are seven living, two deceased:
Sarah Jane C., John Franklin (deceased), Mary N. R. F., George Lee,
William, Cordelia, James Rufus, Mertie May (deceased), Charles Claiborne.

WILLIAM W. EDWARDS: ESQ.

Born in Smyth county, Virginia, on the Edwards homestead where he
now resides, September 9, 1836, has always lived in Smyth county,

where he has filled with honor the office of magistrate for sixteen years,
serving before, during and since the war.

He married, near Chilhowie, December 27, 1865, Rachel Maria
Bonham, who was born on the 8th of November, 1839. Mrs. Edwards
is a daughter of Joseph P. Bonham, an early magistrate and high
sheriff of Smyth county, born in that county, the son of Hezekiah
Bonham. Her mother was Mary, daughter of Robert Gollohon, also
of Smyth county.

Mr. Edwards' father was John Edwards, who came to Smyth county
from Stokes county, North Carolina, where he was born, the son of
Isaac Edwards. John Edwards served in the war of 1812, and his
father had seven brothers in the Revolutionary war, who were in the
battle of Guilford C. H., North Carolina. The mother of William W.
was Elizabeth M., daughter of John N. Yanders, who came from Germany
to Pennsylvania, then to Southwestern Virginia, settling first in
Wythe county, then removing to Smyth county.

Many near friends and immediate relatives of Mr. Edwards were in
the army of the South during the late war, among them a brother-in-law
who served in King's Battery.

ABEL J. FLEENOR,

Born at Benham, Washington county, Virginia, September 15, 1847,
is living in his native county, engaged in farming. He married near
Benham, November 28, 1872, at the bride's residence and birthplace,
Mary Louisiana Sproles, who was born February 7, 1855. Their
children are four: Hugh James, Stephen D., Charles Somers and Mattie
Catharine.

Elisha Fleenor, farmer, born and raised in Washington county, is the
father of Abel J. His grandfather, Henry Fleenor, and his great grandfather,
Nicholas Fleenor, were pioneer settlers of the county, coming
from Pennsylvania. His mother is Rhoda C., daughter of George Lore,
who came to Catawba county, North Carolina, from Germany. Mrs.
Fleenor's father is a farmer near Benham, Thomas Sproles, son of
James Sproles, whose father, Samuel Sproles, was an early settler in
Washington county. Her mother was Elizabeth J., daughter of
Charles Mann, who came to this county from Eastern Virginia.

In September, 1864, at the age of seventeen years, Abel J. Fleenor
was conscripted into the Confederate Army, serving until the close of
the war, Company C, 6th Virginia Infantry. He was slightly wounded
by shell, in shoulder, in battle at Saltville, October 2, 1864. His father
served three months in the same company; was captured by Stoneman's
men in February, 1865, but escaped.

COL. J. H. FLEENOR.

Henry Fleenor, of German extraction, was one of the earlier settlers
in Rich Valley, Washington county. His son James was born in Scott
county, and in early manhood served in Virginia militia, rank of captain.
Later he became a minister, in the Lutheran faith, he is still living,
aged now eighty-two years. He married Catharine, daughter of
Anthony Horn, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, an early settler
in Washington county, and who died in 1863, aged eighty-two years.
J. H., son of Rev. James Fleenor and his wife Catharine, was born in
Scott county, Virginia, on the north folk of the Holston river, July
30, 1832.

He married in Scott county, December 2, 1852, Sarah A. Smith, who
was born in Washington county, and raised in Scott county. Their
children are eight living, Martin L., John H., Rachel C., Samuel M.,
Louisa V., Jas., R. E. Lee, Joel H. J. and Sarah A., and three now
deceased. William Jas., Mary Angeline, Simon P. Mrs. Fleenor is a
daughter of Samuel Smith, who was born in Rich Valley, and became
a leading farmer and stockman of Washington county. Her mother
was Rachel Stinson, raised near the Salt Works.

Col. Fleenor's business is farming, which he followed for many years
in Scott county before making his home in Washington county. In
Scott county he also filled various public offices constable nine years;
deputy sheriff two years, township clerk and treasurer one year, magistrate
six years, captain and lieutenant colonel of militia five years. In
Washington county he has been magistrate for five years, also.

He was one of four brothers in the army in the late war, two of whom
gave their life in service. He entered the army in August, 1862, and
was soon commissioned captain of Company D, 7th Virginia battalion,
Col. C. J. Prentiss commanding, and served until the close of the war.
His brother Amos, quartermaster of the 48th Virginia regiment, was
twice wounded in battle, captured April 6, 1865, held at Johnsons
Island, in Lake Erie, returned home in August, 1865. Simon Peter,
another brother, was killed at Frederick City, Maryland, during Lee's
invasion of that State. He also served in the 48th regiment, as did
the fourth brother, William H., who was captured, and died in the
Northern military prison at Elmira, New York, in 1863.

Colonel Fleenor is an A. F. & A. M., member of Lodge No. 174 at
Mendota, and Hon. member of Lodge No. 216, at Cove creek, Scott
county, Virginia. Past Master of both Lodges and member of the
Grand Lodge, also member of K. of H., Goodson Lodge, No. 2909, at
Bristol, Tennessee.

HON. ISAAC C. FOWLER,

Of Abingdon, Virginia, and clerk of the United States Circuit and District
Courts for the Western District of Virginia (at Abingdon), one of
the three proprietors of the Great Natural Bridge and Tunnel in Scott
county, Virginia, and since August, 1868, editor and proprietor of the
Bristol News, Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee, was born at Jeffersonville,
Tazewell county, Virginia, September 2, 1831. During the last
two years of the civil war, he served in the commissary department,
Breckenridge's division. He was five years mayor of Goodson, 1870-5,
was three times elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from Washington
county, in 1875, 1877 and 1881, and was Speaker of the House
during his last term, 1881-1882.

His father was Dr. Thomas Fowler, of Cocke county, Tennessee,
Tazewell county, Virginia and Monroe county, (now) West Virginia.
His grandfather was Dr. Thomas Fowler of Parrottsville, Tennessee
His greatgrandfather was Thomas Fowler of Virginia, South Carolina
and Tennessee, whose father came from England. The mother of Isaac
C. was Priscilla Breckenridge Chapman, daughter of Isaac Chapman of
Giles county, Virginia, who was a son of George Chapman, who came
to Giles county from Culpeper county, Virginia. She was born in Pearisburg,
Virginia, and died in December, 1881.

Isaac C. Fowler was married at Jeffersonville, Virginia, December 4,
1854, Rev. George W. G. Browner officiating clergyman, to Kezia McDonald
Chapman. She was a daughter of William Chapman of Giles
county, who was a son of Issac Chapman, before mentioned, and her
mother was Nancy, daughter of Edward McDonald of Wyoming county,
Virginia, where he removed from Botetourt county, Virginia. The
record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fowler is: Thomas C., deceased,
Nannie Belle, now the wife of Stuart F. Lindsey of Harrisonburg, Virginia,
and has one daughter, Dawn Fowler Lindsey; Don William, deceased,
Beirne, deceased, Mary Louise and Cilla Chapman, living.

Mr. Fowler had two brothers in service through the late war. Allen
Fowler, lieutenant of Lowry Battery, Army of Northern Virginia,
severely wounded at Fishers Hill, Elbert Fowler, served in cavalry,
captured at Moorefield, Virginia, September, 1864, imprisoned at Camp
Chase, Ohio, nine months, until, after the surrender. The former is now
a practicing physician of Salt Lake City. The latter was killed at Hinton,
West Virginia, March, 1884, leaving a widow and two sons, Bailey
and Elbert, at Griffin, Georgia.

C. E. FUQUA.

The subject of this sketch, one of the farming residents of Washington
county, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, on July 25, 1835.
He married, at Big Spring, Virginia, June 22, 1858, Lucy Gordon, who
was born near Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia, December 27, 1835.
The record of their children is: Mary F., married Charles B. Stone, of
Abingdon, on January 18, 1881, and died December 4, 1883, Frank
M., died November 11, 1861, aged ten months, Eolia S. and Gordon C.,
living at home.

The father of Mr. Fuqua was Hezekiah Fuqua, of Bedford county,
son of Joseph Fuqua, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and
in battles of Brandywine and Cowpens. His mother was Sarah, daughter
of Simon Noel, formerly of Bedford county. A number of the Noel
family served in the war of 1812. The Fuquas were Huguenots, emigrating
from France under religious persecution, settling first in South
Carolina. Mrs. C. E. Fuqua is a daughter of John Gordon, of Roanoke
county, whose father was Isaac Gordon, of Manchester, Virginia. The
Gordons of Virginia trace their ancestral line to a Gordon of Scotland,
made a Peer by King Malcolm for bravery, serving after as a trusted
guard of honor, near the person of the King. One branch of the Gordon
family emigrating from Scotland in colonial days, settled in Manchester,
another branch founded Gordonsville, Virginia. The mother of
Mrs. Fuqua was Eleanor, daughter of John Zircle, of Roanoke county,
the family coming from the Shenandoah valley.

C. E. Fuqua was six months in service in light artillery, C. S. A., in
1862, then discharged for disability, after that served as railroad supervisor.
His brother C. T. Fuqua was killed in battle of Seven Pines,
another brother was killed in the seven days fighting around Richmond,
still another was captured in 1865, and sent North as prisoner of war.

REV. THOMAS E. GARDNER

Was born, reared and married in Washington county, which has always
been his home. His birth occurred near old Glade Spring, on July 7,
1827, and he was married near Seven-mile Ford, May 20, 1856, Rev.
W. P. Bishop officiating clergyman, and Ellen E. Landsdowne his bride.
The children of the union are: Maggie, deceased, William Preston,
deceased, Anna Thomas, Edwin L., Hattie J., now Mrs. Dickerson,
Virginia S., Mary Emma, Thomas E., George M., and Graham Landsdowne.

Mr. Gardner is a son of Jeremiah C. Gardner, who was born at
Geneva, New York, and was the son of George Gardner, who came from

England, settled at Long Island, removed thence to Geneva, and later
to Saltville, Virginia. The mother of Thomas E. was Margaret, daughter
of Major Thomas Edmondson, who served with that rank in the
war of 1812, stationed for a time at Norfolk, Virginia. Major Edmondson's
father and two brothers were in the Continental Army, Revolutionary
war, and in battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Mr.
Gardner's maternal grandmother was a Buchanan, descended from the
Buchanan identified with the first settlements in Washington county.

His wife was born in Marion, Smyth county, Virginia, on Christmas
day, 1835, the daughter of George T. Landsdowne of Pittsylvania
county, Virginia, who is of the noble English family of that name, the
house of which the Earl of Landsdowne is the head. Her mother was
Anna Thomas, whose ancestors came to Virginia from Premboshire,
South Wales.

The subject of this sketch entered the Confederate States service in
1863, in King's Battery of Virginia Artillery, with which he served
till the close of the war. He had two brothers in the same service,
in Texas regiments, and most of his relatives were in service, many
killed, others wounded or otherwise injured. He is engaged in farming,
and is also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

His homestead is within one mile of Keywood, where Bishop Asbury
held the first M. E. Conference West of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in
May, 1788, the centennial of which event was celebrated May 13, 1888,
at Ma-ha-naim, near the old conference grounds, and near Mr. Gardner's
home.

CAPT. JACOB J. GIESLER.

The Geisler family is, as the name indicates, of German descent, and
the founder of the family in America settled in Pennsylvania. From
that State Adam Geisler, father of Jacob J., went to Sullivan county,
Tennessee, with his father, about 1810. In Tennessee he married Mary
M. Devault, whose father went from Pennsylvania to Tennessee about
1810, also. Jacob J., their son, was born near Piney Flats, Sullivan
county, Tennessee, February 19, 1833. He has been many years a resident
of Washington county, Virginia, engaged in farming and milling,
living at Meadow View. Since 1871 he has held the office of school
trustee. At the residence of the bride's parents, where she was born,
near Morrells Mills, this county, he married, December 10, 1856, Catharine
D. Morrell. Their children are two sons, Jacob M., William H., and
two daughters, Mary R., Nora E.

Mrs. Geisler is a daughter of Jacob Morrell, who was a native of
Augusta county, Virginia, and whose father came from France to Virginia
at an early date. In 1827 Jacob Morrell married Mary A. Droke,

of Sullivan county, Tennessee, bringing her to the Morrell home in
Washington county.

From April, 1862, to April, 1865, Capt. Geisler was in the Confederate
States Army, commanding Company F, 59th Tennessee Infantry. He
was under Pemberton at Vicksburg and Lee at Appomattox, and in
much gallant field service received several ball and sabre wounds. His
twin brother, Henry D., was major of the same regiment, and killed near
Abingdon, December, 1864, while resisting the advance of Stoneman's
cavalry, in their raid on the salt works.

WYNDHAM R. GILMER

Was born at Hansonville, Russell county, Virginia, May 6, 1843, and
is now one of the farming residents of Washington county. He is a
son of the late Hon. Charles H. Gilmer, who represented Russell county
in the Virginia legislature, in 1854, 1859, and 1861. He was a zealous
States Rights man, and supported the Ordinance of Secession,
passed during his last term in the Lower House. He also served a long
time in Russell county as commissioner of revenue and as magistrate.
His father was the Rev. Wm. Gilmer, of the M. E. Church, an extensive
land and slave owner, who at his death freed his slaves, and requested
that none of his children should ever own any. The father of Rev. Wm.
Gilmer came to America from Ireland, settling first in Pennsylvania,
then in Russell county, Virginia. The mother of Wyndham R. Gilmer
was Frances, daughter of George Gose, of Russell county, an early settler
there. Her grandmother was captured by Indians in that county.

The first wife of Wyndham R. Gilmer was Ellen, daughter of T. P.
Clapp, of Abingdon. She was born in 1842, they were married February
25, 1869, and she died March 18, 1873. Two children were born
of this union: Lou W. and Earl H., the latter now deceased.

In Pulaski county, Virginia, December 19, 1877, Mr. Gilmer married
Maggie Cecil, who was born in that county, October 18, 1857. Their
children were born in the order named. Howard C., Bessie May, Maggie
P., Robert C., John Baker, Fred. Garland, the latter now deceased.

T. K. Cecil, of Pulaski county, is the father of Mrs. Gilmer. He is a
son of Rev. John Cecil, of the M. E. Church, Holston conference. Her
mother is Priscilla, daughter of Rev. Richard Buckingham, of the M. E.
Church, Botetourt, in which church three of his sons are ministers, also.

Mr. Gilmer entered the Confederate Army in the fall of 1862, Company
G, 29th Virginia regiment, serving mostly in Virginia, wounded at
Five Forks, April 7, 1865, at that time sergeant-major of the regiment.
A brother, John W., served in the Confederate States Artillery, under
Gen. Joe Johnston, and another brother, Arnold P., was captain in the

Virginia Reserve forces. John W. was accidentally killed while hunting,
near home, in December, 1866.

JOHN G. GOBBLE,

Farmer and carpenter, of Washington county, Virginia, was born in
this county, on November 1, 1818. His father, who now lives with
him, is William Gobble, born in Washington county April 12, 1792, he
was a member of the Light Horse Cavalry, but not called into action,
in the war of 1812. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher
Gobble of Maryland, who served under Washington in the Revolutionary
war, and who was a half-brother of Frederick Gobble, who is
buried on the north fork of the Holston river. The paternal grandmother
of John G. Gobble, Jemima Linder, lived to be 102 years old,
died and was buried at Moccasin Gap. Her mother was a sister of
Isaac Newland, whose wife and children were captured by Indians on
the north fork of the Holston.

At Moccasin Gap, September 16, 1840, John G. Gobble married Sarah
Phelps, who was born there, November 17, 1824. Their children are
ten. Elizabeth, Martha J., M. P., Mary C., William C., Julia A., Robert
I., Sarah C., Eglantine T., George W. Mrs. Gobble is the daughter of
Martin Phelps, of Moccasin Gap, whose father was Samuel Phelps of
Russell county, Virginia. Her mother is Eda, daughter of Henry
Countis of Washington county, formerly of Eastern Virginia.

Mr. Gobble has held public office one term as magistrate, two years
constable. In 1863 he was conscripted, reported, and being over military
age was assigned to the enrolling officer's guard, where he served
eight months, then was discharged.

GARDNER GRANT

Gardner Grant, born in Washington county, near the present site of
Osceola, April 27, 1813, was a son of James Grant, who came to the
county from North Carolina, in 1796, and whose father, also named
James, was the son of the founder of the family in America, who came
from the Highlands of Scotland. The mother of Gardner was Jeanette,
daughter of Archibald McGinnis, who was born in Ireland, married Mary
Scott, in that country, and with her came to America.

In Franklin county, Virginia, October 6, 1836, Gardner Grant married
Mary Holland, who was born in that county, September 24, 1816. Their
children were born in the order named. Peter Holland, Virginia Frances;
James Taliaferro, Sarah Lettie, Lucinda Jeanette (deceased), Mary Ann,
Robert G. Clayadell, Lucy Elizabeth, Mattie (deceased). The parents of

Mrs. Grant were both of Franklin county, Peter D. Holland and Fanny
(Hancock) Holland. She died July 15, 1888, and was buried in Bethel
Cemetery, near her old home.

Through the years that Virginia formed a part of the Confederate
States government, Mr. Grant was postmaster at Osceola. In 1873 he
was appointed to the same office, and is still so serving. His second
son, James Taliaferro, was seventeen months in service, Company H,
37th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., then in the 6th North Carolina cavalry
till the close of the war. Mr. Grant's nephew was captain of Company
H, 37th Virginia regiment, then in the 1st Virginia cavalry.

JOHN T. GRAY

The Gray family were early seated in Virginia, coming from Ireland.
James Gray, grandfather of John T., was born in Augusta county, and
later removed to Russell county, where his son John was born, the
father of John T. John Gray married Polly, daughter of Jacob and
Nancy Leece, who were of English descent and came from Baltimore to
Russell county. John T. was born in Lee county, Virginia, on January
9, 1838. At Lebanon, Russell county, July 26, 1864, he married Sallie
L. Fickle, born in that county, and their children are seven: Mary
Ellen, Jennie Bell, James Kent, Robert Wm., John T., Sallie L.,
George H.

Mrs. Gray is a daughter of John B. Fickle, of Lebanon, Virginia,
whose father was Isaac Fickle, of Baltimore, Maryland, the family coming
from Germany. Her mother is Mary M., daughter of William and
Mary Fields, of Scott county, Virginia. The Fields family have long
been residents of Virginia, the men of the family fighting in her battles
for three generations. The grandfather of Mrs. Fickle's mother was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, was wounded at Kings Mountain,
North Carolina, recovered from his wound, and died in Scott county at
the ripe old age of 105 years. Several of the name served in the war
of 1812.

John T. Gray entered the Confederate Army in April, 1861, in Company
C, 37th Virginia Infantry, one of the regiments of the original
"Stonewall Brigade." He was severely wounded in second Manassas
battle, and was captured near Farmville, April 6, 1865, and held until
June 12th following. He had four brothers in active service, two discharged
in 1862, one two years a prisoner, the fourth also several
months a prisoner.

While living in Russell county Mr. Gray was eight years superintendent
of the poor of that county. He is now farming in Washington
county, residence near Abingdon.

ROBERT EMMETT GRAY.

Robert Emmett, son of John Gray of Washington county, was born
six miles south of Abingdon, June 1, 1837. He married, near Abingdon,
March 17, 1863, Mary J. McChesney who was born near Abingdon,
May 2, 1841. Their children are seven. William Fred., Grace, Nellie,
David S., Kate S., Bessie A. and Robert McChesney.

The Gray family were early seated in Washington county, Capt.
William Gray, a pioneer, being the grandfather of the subject of this
sketch. John Gray, his father, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and
also fought at Saltville, in 1864. John Gray married Mary, daughter
of John Craig, of Wythe county, Virginia. Of this union were born six
sons who gave their services to Virginia in the war between the States.
Robert Emmett enlisted in 1861, Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry,
was slightly wounded at Dumfries, Virginia, captured on the Gettysburg
campaign, near Hagerstown, Maryland. He was sent a prisoner
to Baltimore, Maryland, thence to Point Lookout, from which place he
escaped after having been a prisoner about three months. He took
the field again, and served till the surrender of Lee. His regiment was
under Stuart, Jones, and "Fitz Lee," during service. His brother
William M. was quartermaster under General Floyd, then served in the
21st Virginia regiment until the surrender. Another brother was captain
in the 21st regiment, another lieutenant and quartermaster, still
another quartermaster with Floyd, and the sixth of the brothers was
assistant commissary of the 21st regiment.

Mrs. Gray is a daughter of Hugh A. McChesney, residing on the
Jonesboro road, Washington county. His father, Hugh McChesney,
settled in this county from Ireland. Her mother is Julia, daughter of
Thomas McChesney, whose father came from Ireland.

Mr. Gray is engaged in farming and stockraising, living on his estate
near King Mill.

REV. J. R. HARRISON

Is a son of Joseph Harrison, foreman of the Iron Works of Franklin
county, Virginia, and his wife, Lucy, daughter of Peter Kennett, a pioneer
of Floyd county, Virginia. The Harrison and Kennett families
were both of Irish extraction. The subject of this sketch was born in
Franklin county, Virginia, on September 21, 1832, and was married
near Roanoke, Virginia, Rev. P. Brown, of Franklin county, uniting
him in wedlock with Sallie E. Lunsford. The issue of this marriage is
five children: Elizabeth D., Lulu M., John Wm. (deceased), James K.
and Charles T. Mrs. Harrison was born May 6, 1832, in Bedford county,
Virginia, and was raised in Roanoke county. Her father was Thomas

Lunsford, of Northumberland county, Virginia, her mother Elizabeth
Nelms, of Bedford county, in which county the Nelms family were early
seated.

A number of the immediate family of Mr. Harrison were in the Confederate
States service, during the late war, including two brothers, a
brother-in-law who died in service of sickness, and three nephews, one
killed in battle of second Manassas, one killed at Gettysburg, and the
third severely wounded in battle before Richmond.

Mr. Harrison is pastor in charge of the Baptist church at Glade
Spring, Washington county, and is the originator and founder of the
justly celebrated Southwest Virginia Institute, of which he is present
financial manager. This Institute is now in prosperous condition, having
a full corps of able directors, facilities for 150 pupils, and property
valued at $20,000. Mr. Harrison is well-known in Virginia, and adjacent
States, as a most successful laborer in revival meetings. More than
twelve thousand persons have made a public profession of faith in Jesus
Christ in meetings conducted by him. A male academy has been foundered
by him at Glade Spring, and is doing a good work for the education
of boys.

L. N. HARWOOD,

Born in Sullivan county, Tennessee, May 18, 1852, was reared in Washington
county, Virginia, where his parents made their home when he
was about nine years of age. He married in this county, at the residence
of the bride, and her birthplace, near Meadow View, on July 15, 1885,
Sallie F. Clark, who was born August 15, 1862. They have two daughters,
Maggie Frances and Clara Victoria.

Mr. Harwood is a son of William L. Harwood, who was born in North
Carolina, married in Lincoln county, that State, to Frances Robinson
of Lincoln county, removed soon after to Sullivan county, Tennessee,
and about 1859 over the line into Washington county, just north of
Bristol, Tennessee. He was in service in the late war, a member of
Company C, 13th battalion Reserve Troops, took part in battle of Saltville,
was captured by the Stoneman raiders, December, 1864, near
Bristol, and held a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, till June 27, 1865.
He died at his home near Bristol. Joseph E. Harwood, elder brother
of L. N., served about three years in Company E, 63d Virginia regiment,
was captured in Georgia, in 1864, and held at Camp Douglas, Illinois,
eight months.

The wife of Mr. Harwood is of families long seated in Washington
county. Her father is Francis S. Clark, son of John B. Clark, and her
mother is Catharine, daughter of Robert White, all of Washington
county. Her father and mother were married in 1857, by Rev.

Dr. Wylie, of Emory and Henry College, and still live near Meadow
View.

Mr. Harwood is one of the most extensive dealers in lumber in Washington
county, residence, Meadow View.

THOMAS T. HAWKINS

Is a farmer and stockman of Washington county. He was born in
Wilkes county, North Carolina, September 22, 1829, where his family
had lived from colonial times. His father was Elisha Hawkins, of Wilkes
county, farmer and blacksmith, and his grandfather was Burton Hawkins,
who served in both the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812,
and who lived to the advanced age of one hundred and five years. The
mother of Thomas T. Hawkins was Isabel, daughter of Thomas Roberts,
of Wilkes county. The Hawkins family came to Virginia in 1844. During
the years of the civil war Mr. Hawkins followed his trade as blacksmith,
and also was engaged in school-teaching. He was thus exempt
from military duty, which he could not for conscientious reasons have
performed, as he was a strong and uncompromising Union man from
first to last. He had one brother in the Confederate army, in the 37th
Virginia regiment, Stonewall brigade, and many other relatives in the
army on both sides.

The first wife of Mr. Hawkins was Jane Combow, born in Russell
county, Virginia, the daughter of Isaiah Combow and his wife, Mary Ann,
nee Campbell. Isaiah Combow was a wagon-maker, a son of Samuel
Combow of Revolutionary fame, and a school-teacher by profession.
This marriage of Mr. Hawkins was solemnized near Lebanon, Virginia,
January 29, 1851, and the children of the union were: Maria E., George
W., Lafayette I., Thos. Jefferson, Charles Monroe Jasper Newton; and
Mary Jane, who died August 3, 1873.

Mr. Hawkins married secondly, Rachel, daughter of Henry Campbell,
farmer of Russell county, Virginia, whose father was Richard Campbell,
who came from Ireland, and was a soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Her mother was Cynthia, daughter of Samuel Elliott, a Kentuckian,
who settled in Russell county, Virginia, about 1809. The children of
Mr. Hawkins' second marriage are: Laura Virginia, Abraham Lincoln
and Ulysses Grant, twins, Henry Wilson, Victoria Isabella, Thomas
Edward, Margaret Ann, Joseph M. and Nancy Elizabeth.

JAS. CALVIN HAYTER,

Was born November 11, 1849, on the family estate where he still resides,
two miles east of Abingdon. He is a son of James E. Hayter, whose
father, James C. Hayter, was born in Washington county at an early
date. In colonial days the Hayter family, of Scotch-Irish descent, settled

in the Clinch Mountains, founding Hayters Gap, where the first
fort was erected for the protections of colonists from Indians. The family
records go back to 1754, when Israel Hayter was born. The mother
of Jas. Calvin Hayter was Louisa Bowen Thompson, of Tazewell
county, Virginia, a direct descendant of Lord Baltimore.

His wife was also born in Tazewell county, near Liberty Hill, Mary
Madison Ward, daughter of Dr. E. B. Ward, her grandfather of Irish
descent, one of the first settlers in Tazewell county, founding settlement
known as Ward's Cove. Her mother was a Miss Miller of Giles county,
Virginia, in which county the Miller family were early seated, and are
still honored. They were married by Rev. J. H. Alexander, in Smyth
county, Virginia, November 15, 1882, and have now four children
Eddie Blair, Lillie Grace, James Madison, and Louisa Bane.

The father of Mr. Hayter entered the Confederate States Army in 1863,
serving till close of war, his last service in Lynch's battery. He was
taken prisoner near Wytheville, and held a short time. Benton and
Samuel Thompson, maternal uncles of Mr. Hayter, were also in service.

REV. WILLIAM WARD HICKS,

Pastor in charge of the M. E. Church, South, in the East Abingdon
district, was born in Washington county, May 11, 1849. He married
in Tazewell county, Virginia, October 3, 1872, Mary A. Bane, who was
born in that county, October 10, 1850. The issue of this union is
seven children, born in the order named: Charles E., N. E. May, Maud,
William Bane, Marguerite A., Spiller, Ellen Stuart.

The father of William Ward Hicks is Rev. William Hicks, son of
William Hicks from Maryland, whose father came from England. His
mother is Elizabeth M., daughter of William Ward of Wythe county,
Virginia, whose father came from Ireland. William Ward, of Wythe
county, married a Miss Young of Tennessee.

Rev. William Hicks, pastor in the M. E. Church, South, was a prominent
member of the Holston conference, and several times a member of
the general conference. He was the Hayward county delegate to the
North Carolina convention at Raleigh that passed the ordinance of
secession, and during the war was chaplain of the 6th North Carolina
Infantry. Before the war he was editor of the Herald of Truth, subsequently
edited the Holston Advocate, in Virginia, also served as
superintendent of public schools in Bland county, Virginia.

The wife of Rev. William Ward Hicks is a daughter of William R.
Bane, Esq. of Tazewell county, whose father, Howard Bane, came from
Giles county to Tazewell county, the family of Scotch extraction. Her
mother was Nancy, daughter of Howard Haven, of Tazewell county.

MAJOR JOEL W. HORTENSTINE.

About the year 1778 Jacob Hortenstine came from Germany to
America, making his home first in Pennsylvania, and coming from that
State to Virginia, settling in Washington county. Here his son John
Hortenstine grew to manhood and married, his wife being Margaret,
daughter of James Wilson, of Washington county, whose wife was
Phebe Dryden, who had a brother killed at Kings Mt. battle. Joel W.,
son of John Hortenstine, and subject of this sketch, was born on the
old family homestead where he now lives. February 7, 1841. Before
the war he was lieutenant in the Virginia militia, and since the war has
held rank of major in the same organization. In March, 1862, he
went into service in Jeffries battery, which was in the campaigns of the
Confederate Army of the Tennessee, under Humphrey Marshall, Bragg,
Joe, Johnston, Hood, and others, and with which he remained until
the close of the war. He had one brother killed at Sharpsburg, during
Lee's invasion of Maryland, four cousins killed in service, one at Chancellorsville,
one at Spotsylvania C. H., one at Chickamauga, one in the
West.

Since the war Major Hortenstine has been fifteen years notary public,
and fifteen years surveyor, which office he is still filling. He married at
Maple Grove, Washington county, September 26, 1867, Mary V.
Campbell, born in this county, and they have ten children: Edwin C.,
Annie, Susan B., Margaret S., John, Bernard Todd, Henry R., James
W., Jacob L., Raleigh.

Mrs. Hortenstine is the daughter of James L. F. Campbell, an influential
farmer of Washington county, living near Abingdon, commissioner
of revenue and sheriff of the county. Her mother is Rosannah,
daughter of Abram McConnell, of this county.

GEORGE W. HUBBLE M. D.

Previous to the Revolutionary war, Joel Hubble, who was a son of
John Hubble a native of Scotland, came from New York to Southwestern
Virginia, and settled in Smyth county. His son John Hubble was
born at Chilhowie, raised in Smyth county, and married in this county,
his wife being Sarah L., daughter of Martin Jones, of Loves Mills.
Their son, George W., was born after they made their home in Missouri,
at Dayton, that State, April 24, 1844, but has now returned to the
home of his fathers, and is settled in practice in Chilhowie.

The maternal ancestors of Dr. Hubble moved to the west in early
times, and were men of note there. His grandfather, Martin Jones,
became a member of the Illinois legislature and served with honor a
number of years. William Jones, brother of Martin, was governor of

Illinois. Another brother was editor of a paper in St. Louis. A brother
of Martin Jones, John Jones, was a Baptist clergyman in Smyth and
Washington counties, Virginia, and died in 1834.

Martin Jones was born at Loves Mills, and was a son of John Jones,
an early settler there, who came from Wales.

The paternal grandmother of Dr. Hubble was Elizabeth, daughter
of Curtis Johnson, of Smyth county, and a first cousin to Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston.

In 1861, at the age of seventeen years, Dr. Hubble enlisted in Company
I, 3d Middle Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., Governor Brown's regiment.
He was captured at Fort Donelson, and held at Camp Douglas,
Illinois, seven months. After participation in the battles of Chickasaw
Bayou, Spring Dale, Raymond, and siege of Jackson, he was wounded
and disabled in battle of Chickamauga. In 1864 he served as deputy
postmaster at Seven-Mile Ford. From 1880 to 1884 he filled the office
of supervisor.

Dr. Hubble's wife, whom he married July 16, 1872, at her birth place
and father's residence near Seven-Mile Ford, is Mary Amanda F., daughter
of William Leonard, Esq.

STEPHEN ALONZO JACKSON

About 1762 Edward and John Jackson, brothers, left England for
America. They lived for a few years near New Castle, Delaware, but
having been with a scouting party to the little Kanawha, in Virginia,
and being deeply impressed with the fertility of the soil and the abundance
of game there, they concluded to remove to that region with their
families. Consequently they came to Virginia just prior to the revolution,
the families expecting to settle as neighbors. But upon arriving
at the "Old Field," in Hampshire (now Hardy) county, Elizabeth Cummings,
the wife of John Jackson, was for stopping there, and did stop,
her superior size being a sufficient reason with her much smaller husband.
She endeavored to pursuade Edward, and his wife Martha, to
remain there with their families, but Edward asserted his right to decide
for himself and those with him, and decided he was going on to Harrison
county, unless scalped in the attempt, and went on, settling about four
miles west of Clarksburg, where some of his descendants live to this day.

John Jackson, after a short residence near the present site of Moorefield,
moved his family to the Buckhannon river, in what is now Upshur
county, West Virginia, and only about a day's journey from where his
brother Edward had settled.

Both Edward and John Jackson served in the Revolutionary war,
and each had three sons in service, distinguished for bravery. One of
these was Capt. Stephen Jackson, wounded in battle of Yorktown. The

renowned and still lamented Confederate general, "Stonewall" Jackson,
third cousin to Stephen Alonzo, was of this stock, inheriting the gentleness
of his great grandfather, John, and the fire and bravery in time of
danger of his great grandfather's brother, Edward.

The line of descent of Stephen Alonzo Jackson from this Edward Jackson
is thus traced. Edward Jackson was the father of Captain Stephen
Jackson, who was born July 31, 1764, and married, February 14, 1787,
Elizabeth Pomeroy. Their son, Col. Stephen Pomeroy Jackson, was
born in January, 1789. He married Hannah Bailey (born November
7, 1793, died February 25, 1854), daughter of Minter and Nancy (Norris)
Bailey. Their son, Hon. Minter Jackson, was born September 20,
1824, and was twice married. His first wife was Mary K. Fell, born
August 28, 1830, died March 4, 1856. They had one son, Stephen
Alonzo, subject of this sketch, born September 22, 1851, in Glenville,
Gilmer county, (then) Virginia; and one daughter, Mary Scott, now
Mrs. Dunn, born September 25, 1855. The Hon. Minter Jackson married
secondly, August 10, 1864, Isabella Holt Beattie, a grand daughter
of Gen. John Beattie, who was a Comissary general under Gen. Washington
in the Revolutionary war. By this marriage were born two children:
Walter Beattie and Hannah Belle.

Minter Jackson espousing the cause of the South in the late war,
refugeed to Virginia with his parents and children, Stephen A. being
then about ten years old. The father, uncles and a host of the cousins
of Stephen A. were Confederate soldiers, while many of his maternal
relatives were in the Northern army.

At Brook Hall, Washington county, September 5, 1876, Rev. J. O.
Sullivan officiating, Stephen A. Jackson married Mary Cloyd Earnest,
who was born near Glade Spring, August 7, 1852. They have two children:
Earnest Alonzo, born August 13, 1877; Minter, jr., born December
25, 1880.

Mrs. Jackson is a daughter of Col. J. Henry Earnest and Amanda J.
Earnest, nee Byars. Her maternal grandmother was Elizabeth, daughter
of William Beattie, whose father was the Gen. John Beattie before
mentioned.

Mr. Jackson is a 32d-degree Mason and a Knight Templar, and past
W. G. M. of the Kappa-Sigma Fraternity.

MARSHALL M. JONES,

Born in Nelson county, Virginia, November 19, 1831, is a son of Coleman
Jones, of that county, formerly of Bedford county, Virginia, where his
father, Owen Jones, settled, coming from London, England. The mother
of Marshall M. was Sophia, daughter of Elijah Mays, of Nelson county,

Virginia, but formerly of King and Queen county, Virginia. Elijah
Mays and two of his sons were in service in the war of 1812. By reason
of disability Mr. Jones was exempt from military service during the late
war. He had five brothers in service, one of whom, Elijah C., was killed
in first battle at Manassas.

The first wife of Mr. Jones was Mary J., daughter of James L. Bradley,
of Washington county. She was born March 12, 1835, near Abingdon,
they were married December 22, 1854, and she died July 18, 1880. They
had three sons, James C. and Edward C., now deceased, and Charles I.,
now of Abingdon. Near Abingdon, October 5, 1882, Mr. Jones married
Ella J. Stevens, who was born at Oneida, New York, September 24, 1860.
She is a daughter of Amos W. Stevens, who came from New York to
Washington county in 1871, and is living near Abingdon. Zadock
Stevens, formerly of Oneida, was his father. Her mother, Betsy, daughter
of John Shaver, of Columbia county, New York, died near Abingdon,
April 1, 1887, aged seventy-two years.

Mr. Jones is a farmer, with residence near Abingdon.

JAMES KELLY

Was born February 2, 1824, on the old family homestead, where he
still resides, near Emory, Washington county. He is a son of James
and Nancy Kelly, his father the son of Ezekiel Kelly, who came from
Ireland and settled in Virginia near Harpers Ferry. His mother was
Nancy, daughter of Jonas Smith, who came to Washington county at
an early date, and settled near Emory.

In this county, November 15, 1854, Rev. George R. Barr, D. D., officiating
clergymen, he married Mahala Helton, and their children were born
in the order named: Alice M., Melinda F., James N., Milton F., Jefferson
D., Thomas C., William H., Jonas S. The two eldest, Alice and Melinda,
are now deceased; James is superintendent of a large and prosperous
school near Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Kelly was born in Floyd county,
Virginia, July 1, 1829, the daughter of Reuben Helton and Nancy Helton,
nee Burnette, who were raised in Floyd county, and later were residents
of Washington county.

Mr. Kelly ably filled the responsible office of magistrate for about
eight years, before and during the war. He had a number of near relatives
in active service during the war, among them a cousin, John H.
Smith, killed in battle at Saltville.

JAMES E. KELLY

About 1770 John Kelly came from Pennsylvania to the then wilds of
Washington county, where he founded the family that has since been
honorably identified with the growth of the county. He was a soldier
of the Continental army, Revolutionary war, and fought at Kings
Mountain. His son Andrew E. Kelly, married Joanna, daughter of
Major John Edmondson, another of the pioneers of the county, and
their son, James E., subject of this sketch, was born February 23, 1811,
at their home in the southeast part of this county. Near Osceola, September
29, 1836, he married Margaret Buchanan, who was there born
July 28, 1814. Her father, William Buchanan, Esq., was many years
high sheriff of Washington county, many years magistrate and overseer
of the poor. He was a son of Matthew Buchanan, and he married
Jane, daughter of Benjamin Keys, of this county.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Kelly are: William B., Andrew,
Elizabeth C. (deceased), Amanda L., Hay (deceased), John Walter and
Sally. The two eldest sons served through the late war in Company F,
37th Virginia regiment. Andrew, orderly sergeant of his company,
was wounded at Kernstown. William B., who was made sergeant-major
of the regiment, was twice wounded in the right arm, in the same
battle. Except when wounded, these brothers took part in every movement
of the 37th, and at the surrender Andrew was the only able-bodied
man left of the original eighty-five of the company, and was in command
of the fragment of the shattered regiment there, and as such
signed all papers relating to the surrender except the paroles.

James E. Kelly has always been engaged in the cultivation of his farm
in Washington county. He filled the office of deputy sheriff two years,
and of overseer of the poor six years.

WM. BUCHANAN KELLY

In colonial days, John Kelly, of Irish descent, came from Pennsylvania
to Washington county. His son Andrew was a farmer of Washington
county. James E. Kelly, son of Andrew, married Margaret,
daughter of William Buchanan, her mother Jean Keys, whose ancestors
came to America in the Mayflower. The subject of this sketch is a son
of James E. Kelly and his wife, Margaret, and was born January 18,
1838, near Kellys Chapel, Washington county.

He married in this county, near Abingdon, February 14, 1867, at
the residence of the bride's father, and her place of birth, Julia E.
Lowry. Their children are: Elizabeth Lowry, Margaret Buchanan,
Lowry Graham, Grace Bailie, James Montgomery, Julia Isabella, Robert
Wm. Also two infants died unnamed. Mrs. Kelly is a daughter of

John M. Lowry, who was a son, of Robert Edmondson Lowry, of Washington
county. Her mother was Elizabeth, daughter of William
Graham, who was a son of John Graham of Washington county, and
who married Isabella Buchanan.

Wm. B. Kelly entered the Confederate army in June, 1861, Company
F., 37th Virginia regiment, and was wounded at Kernstown, March 23,
1862, while sergeant-major of his regiment. When able for duty he
was transferred to the quartermaster's department, where he served
until made prisoner at Sailors Creek, April 5, 1865. He was held at
Point Lookout until July following. He had one brother in service,
wounded at Kernstown also, and surrendered at Appomattox, where,
as orderly sergeant, he was in command of his regiment. A cousin of
Mr. Kelly died while a prisoner at Fort Delaware. Mr. Kelly is engaged
in farming, and also in the nursery business.

MAJOR HENRY F. KENDRICK,

Born at Honakerville, Russell county, Virginia, on January 7, 1832, is
the son of George H. Kendrick, of Scott county, Virginia, whose father
was George Kendrick, of Russell county, a soldier of the war of 1812,
in which he held commission as captain. The Kendrick family are of
Irish descent, settlers at an early date in Russell county. The wife of
Henry F., whom he married at Glade Spring, Virginia, October 27, 1870,
is Mary E. Price, born near Glade Spring, on June 30, 1843. Their
children are five: George H., Grace Price, Margaret E., Ella Virginia
and Price. Mrs. Kendrick is the daughter of John W. Price, of Russell
county, one of the noted men of that county in his day. She has two
brothers who are ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Her mother was Miss Mary Miller, of Smyth county, Virginia, of one of
the oldest Virginia families.

Major Kendrick derives his title from service in the war between the
States, when he was major of the 22d Virginia Cavalry, from August,
1862, to the close of the war. He was in constant field service from the
time the regiment took the field until the battle of Monocacy, Maryland,
July 9, 1864. In that battle he was wounded and made prisoner, and
was not exchanged until March, 1865. His brother J. T. Kendrick
served in the same regiment. Another brother, L. H. Kendrick, was in
the Federal army, in a Kentucky or Ohio regiment, and visited him
while he was held a prisoner of war. George H. Kendrick, Major Kendrick's
father, represented Scott county in the Virginia legislature many
years. He was in the capitol building when it fell, in 1869.

Major Kendrick is now engaged in a mercantile business at Meadow
View, where he has his home.

REV. JOHN RUTLEDGE KING

Four brothers named King emigrated from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
to what is now Washington county, Virginia, and Sullivan
county, Tennessee, in the earliest days of its settlement, or, about the
year 1762. One of these was David King, grandfather of the subject of
this sketch. David married a daughter of John Sharp, who is supposed
to have been the first settler of what is now Sullivan county,
Tennessee, and his son, John Sharp King, was the father of Rev. John
Rutledge King. John Sharp King served in the war of 1812, at the age
of seventeen years. He was at Mobile at the time of the battle of
New Orleans, and, with a squad of soldiers, captured some British
troops.

Rev. John Rutledge King was born in Roanoke county, Virginia,
April 13, 1817. His ancestors on his mother's side were the Rutledges
and Vanlears, of Roanoke, Virginia. He was educated for the ministry
at Maryville Theological Seminary, Blount county, Tennessee. In 1843
he entered the ministry of the New School Presbyterian Church. The
schools united in 1865, forming the Presbyterian Church, South. He
has been engaged in the work of the ministry constantly since 1843, in
Virginia and Tennessee.

Mr. King's first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Thomas, an
early settler of Sullivan county, Tennessee. She was born in that
county, May 21, 1811; they were married there, January 2, 1844, by
the Rev. James King, living then where Bristol, Tennessee, now stands.
She died August 23, 1876, leaving three children. Sarah S., now Mrs.
Delaney, of Washington county, Virginia, John T. and Dr. James M.
King, of Bristol John entered the Confederate States Army when
only sixteen years of age, and is now a farmer in Sullivan county,
Tennessee.

The second marriage of Rev. J. R. King was solemnized at Kingsport,
Tennessee, by Rev. M. C. Willoughby, May 7, 1878, Maria C. Vance
becoming his wife. She is a daughter of Dr. James Vance, of Kingsport.
Her mother was a Sevier, a near relative to General Sevier of "King's
Mountain" battle fame.

JOHN G. KREGER

Was born on his father's estate in Washington county, Virginia, twelve
miles west of Abingdon. He is the son of Isaac Kreger, who was born
in Wythe county, Virginia, and was a tanner, which occupation he followed
in Abingdon and other parts of Washington county from his
coming to the county, about 1824, to 1853, in which year he removed
to Tennessee, later to Arkansas. At Rock Springs, Washington county,

Virginia, September 29, 1859, John G. Kreger married Mary E. Bradley,
who was born in Mississippi in 1836. The issue of this marriage
was nine children, of whom one, Nannie P., is now deceased. The living
children all make their home in Washington county, the sons among
the most active and progressive of the citizens of Abingdon. These
eight children are named. Reuben B., John M., Laurie B., Rosa Lee,
Mary E., Margaret R. G., Sarah T. and George G. Mrs. Kreger's
parents were Virginians, Reuben L. Bradley and Evelyn Gay, married
in Washington county in 1835, and removing to Mississippi, where the
father died in 1836. Some years after, Mrs. Bradley became the wife of
Col. Thomas M. Preston, and she died in December, 1884. From July,
1858, to July, 1865, Mr. Kreger was clerk of the county court, Washington
county. In July, 1887, he was elected clerk of the circuit court,
which position he is still ably filling.

MOSES H. LATHAM.

In the pioneer days of Washington county there settled in that county
Moses Latham, who came from Pennsylvania, the family being of
Scotch-Irish descent, that hardy stock nursed in the Presbyterian faith
James E. Latham, son of Moses, married in Washington county, Elizabeth,
daughter of Hugh McChesney, who settled in this county from Ireland.
Their son Moses H. was born at Halls Bottom, Washington
county, November 27, 1828. Near Abingdon, March 22, 1852, he married
Ellen James, who was born November 11, 1831, at the place where
her marriage was solemnized. The record of the children of the marriage
is: James W., living now in Dennison county, Texas, Daniel C., now
deceased; Laura L., now the wife of Samuel Latham, of Washington
county; four daughters now deceased, Margaret J., Fannie V., Sarah
E. and Rhoda C., Robert Emmett, living at home; Hugh Anna, at home;
Mary B., deceased, Abbie, deceased, Minnie Trigg, at home. Mrs.
Latham is the daughter of Elisha James, now of Sullivan county, Tennessee,
a son of Walter James, an early settler in Washington county
from England. Her mother is Sarah, daughter of William Gray, who
came to Washington county from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Latham is a farmer and stock raiser. He was in service in the
late war, Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., and was severely
wounded twice at Waynesboro, Virginia, in arm and neck, September,
1864. His brother L. W. served through the war in the same company
and regiment. He had three cousins killed in service, two serving from
Virginia, one from Missouri. Another cousin, Dr. McChesney, was severely
wounded.

C. T. LESTER,

Farmer and stockman of Washington county, Virginia, was born in
Smyth county, Virginia, April 25, 1845. On May 1, 1861, he entered
service, Confederate Army, in Company B, 4th Tennessee Infantry, He
was three times wounded, twice with sabre, once by gunshot, first
wound at Shiloh, second at Stone River, third at Woodbury, Tennessee.
He was captured in April, 1863, and held at Camp Chase, Ohio, till
the following August. Exchanged at City Point, he rejoined his regiment,
with which he served until surrendered with Johnston's army.
His relatives were all Unionists, many of them in the Federal army.
His father, John Lester, of Smyth county, was a Union soldier from
East Tennessee. The grandfather of C. T. Lester, was also named John
Lester, and was of Smyth county. His mother was Sally Dickerson,
born in North Carolina. He has been twice married, his first wife
Emma, daughter of Samuel D. and Sallie (Dingmore) King, of
Sullivan county, Tennessee. Samuel D. King, a son of Harvey King,
served in the Confederate States army. Emma King was born August
15, 1846, they were married September 10, 1867, in Sullivan county,
and she died January 26, 1873. He married secondly, in Sullivan
county, Tennessee, Clarie E. King, sister of Emma, born in that county,
August 15, 1856. Their children are eight: Susan E., Eliza Virginia,
James S., Stephen H., William G., Thomas G., Charles Frank, Lizzie
Ray.

GEORGE V. LITCHFIELD

Is a son of George V. and Rachel Litchfield, who settled in Washington
county about 1815, and reared a family of eight children. His mother
was the daughter of John Mitchell, who married a daughter of William
King, the elder, who discovered and developed the great salt works of
Washington and Smyth counties. The subject of this sketch was born
in Abingdon, on January 20, 1837, and was married in Wythe county,
Virginia, November 20, 1867, Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham there joining
him in wedlock with Elizabeth P. Pierce. The wife of Mr. Litchfield,
born in Pulaski county, Virginia, is a daughter of James N. and Nancy
Pierce. Her mother is of a family distinguished in the civil and military
annals of Virginia, being the sister of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and a
daughter of Judge Archibald Stuart, who married Elizabeth Pannill
Mr. and Mrs. Litchfield have five children: Annie S., Lizzie P., Mary,
George Victor and Belle, and have buried three Rachel B., James P.,
Flora S.

Mr. Litchfield served through the late war, an officer in Company D,
1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., from April, 1861, to April, 1865. He was
wounded in engagement at Slaterville, and a second time at Waterloo

Bridge by a sharpshooter, through the hand. He had two brothers in
service, one of whom is now deceased. In 1879 Mr. Litchfield was
mayor of Abingdon. He is a resident of that town, engaged in farming
and as a manufacturer.

JAMES C. LOVE.

Near Loves Mills, Washington county, June 1, 1824, the subject of
this sketch was born, and his home has always been in the county, his
occupation farming. He is a son of Leonidas Love, who came to this
county from Wythe county, the son of William Love of that county,
formerly a resident of Eastern Virginia. The mother of James C., Freelove
Cole, is a daughter of James Cole, of Smyth county, whose father,
also named James Cole, was one of the first white children born in that
county.

In Rye. Valley, February 10, 1846, James C. Love married Cedelia
James, who was born in Rye Valley, Smyth county, in 1826. Her parents
were both born and raised in the Valley, and honored residents there
through life, John James and Nancy, daughter of John Smith. Mr. and
Mrs. Love have four children living: Perlina, John J., Josephine V. and
Mollie, and have buried six. America, Nannie, William, two babes died
unnamed, and Susan C.

In May, 1862, Mr. Love was detailed by the Confederate authorities
in the manufacture of nitre at Loves Mills. He was enrolled in the
Reserve troops through the years of the war, and took part in both
battles at Saltville. He was at Christiansburg at the time of the surrender,
and there discharged. He had one brother and one brother-in-law
in the Reserve troops, both in battles at Saltville, and one brother-in-law
in the field, killed in the second year of the war; another brother,
J. R. Love, was in the 48th Virginia regiment, served from the organization
of the regiment to close of war, was slightly wounded (which still
affects him), was captured in 1864, and held a prisoner until close of
the war; another brother, Oscar, lives now in Tennessee, another
brother, William, went into service from Arkansas, and has not been
heard from since.

WILLIAM L. M'CHESNEY

Was born in Washington county, Virginia, near the Tennessee line, June
15, 1843. He is now a farmer of this county, living near the place of
his birth. He enlisted before his nineteenth birthday, in the spring of
1862, Company A, 63d Virginia regiment, and was commissioned second
lieutenant. He received a slight shell wound in arm, and was captured
in battle of Missionary Ridge, November, 1863. Sent as prisoner of
war to Johnsons Island, in Lake Erie, he was held there until after close

of war, till June, 1865. He had one brother in service, in the 1st Virginia
Cavalry, who was badly wounded in left hand near Warrenton,
Virginia, and who also came near being hung as a spy, after entering
the Yankee lines with a flag of truce, by proper authority.

The father of Mr. McChesney was Hugh A. McChesney of Washington
county, whose father was Hugh M. McChesney who came to the county
from Ireland with his little family about the year 1800. Mr. McChesney's
mother was Julia A., daughter of Thomas McChesney, who was
born in this county, and was sheriff of Washington county in early
times. His wife, whom he married in Washington county, December 12,
1873, was born in this county, May 1, 1856, Fannie J., daughter of
Joseph W. Rhea, a son of William Rhea, whose father came to Washington
county from Ireland when a boy. The mother of Mrs. McChesney
is Elizabeth P. C., daughter of Dr. F. W. Ivry, who came from Eastern
Virginia to Washington county, and married a Miss Preston. Mr. and
Mrs. McChesney have three children. Samuel Rhea, Joseph Hugh,
Mary Julia.

ROBERT T. M'QUOWN D. D. S.

Isaac McQuown, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Scotland, in 1772, and came to Pennsylvania in early childhood. In
1790 he removed to Washington county, Virginia. He was twice married.
In 1795 Ann Orr became his wife, and they had seven children.
John Ryburg, Ellen, Ann, Arthur Orr, Jane Branson, Elizabeth,
Rebecca. He married secondly, on August 21, 1817, Mrs. Margaret
Hope, and they had one son, Isaac A., born August 30, 1819. This
son Isaac, father of Robert T., was educated at the Abingdon Male Academy,
and taught school and farmed, many years. He was in the Confederate
States army in 1863, and in 1864 was elected county surveyor,
which office he so ably filled that he was retained in it until his
death, which occurred on February 9, 1887.

Isaac A. McQuown was twice married. His first wife was Nancy K.
Berry, whom he married December 23, 1841, and they had eight children
Sarah Virginia, Columbus, David Nathaniel, James Ferdinand
(in service last year of the war), Mary Margaret, Isaac Walter,
William Parker, and Robert T. Isaac A. McQuown married secondly,
January 28, 1879, Kate McGinniss, who survives him.

Mrs. Margaret McQuown, the grandmother of Robert T., was born
in Northern Virginia, February 25, 1776. His mother was born in
Washington county in 1817, the daughter of one of its honored residents,
Robert Berry.

Robert T. McQuown was born near Osceola, Washington county,
October 13, 1860. He received his academical education at Liberty

Hall Academy, then attended the University of Maryland, where he
graduated with degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1885. In the
same year he located in Abingdon, where he is engaged in practice.

JOHN HENRY MARTIN

Is a son of Thomas Martin, who came from Ireland to Virginia, settling
in Bedford county, serving in the war of 1812. Thomas Martin married
Elizabeth Swain, whose father served in the Revolutionary war, and
settled in Bedford county some time in 1800. The subject of this sketch
was born in Bedford county, near Fancy Grove, May 12, 1824. His
first wife was Nancy Eliza Hagy, whom he married June 25, 1857.
They resided in Bristol, Tennessee, until her death, which occurred
March 20, 1860. The issue of this marriage was one daughter. Secondly
Mr. Martin married, in Washington county, Virginia, Melinda Lewis,
their marriage solemnized on January 30, 1868. She is the daughter
of John Lewis, born in Louisa county, Virginia, who married Sallie
Lynch. The Lewis and Lynch families were from Ireland, and early
settlers in Washington county.

Many of the Martin family and their near relatives were in military
service, under the Confederate government. Four of Mr. Martin's
brothers were in the army, two died in service, another was severely
wounded. His own service was first as a government employee and contractor,
but in 1863 he took the field, a member of Company K,
64th Virginia Mounted Infantry, with which he served till the close of
the war. He is now engaged in farming, residing at Meadow View.

C. E. METCALFE,

Dealer in general merchandise at Wallace Switch, Washington county,
was born near Abingdon, March 27, 1864. He is a son of Rev. S. P.
Metcalfe, clergyman of the Christian Baptist Church in Washington
county, who was born in McMinn county, Tennessee, in May, 1834. The
father of Rev. S. P. Metcalfe was Charles Metcalfe, who was a soldier of
the war of 1812, and during the late war was proprietor of the cotton
mills near Athens, Tennessee, which were burned out twice during the
war. Gen. Thomas Metcalfe of Kentucky is a brother of Charles Metcalfe.

The mother of C. E. Metcalfe was Miss M. H. Mongle, daughter of
Abram Mongle, of Mongles Springs, Virginia, many years sheriff of
Washington county. His father was Jacob Mongle, one of the eminent
pioneers of Southwestern Virginia, proprietor of Mongles Springs, and
a veteran of the war of 1812.

FELIX G. MILLER

Was born near Saltville, Virginia, on September 23, 1843. He is a son
of Humberson Miller, of Washington county, and a grandson of Hon.
Joseph Miller, member of the Legislature about 1840. The mother of
Felix G. is Catharine E., daughter of Henry Stavely, of Smyth county,
who formerly kept the hotel twelve miles east of Marion. Humberson
Miller, who is a farmer, was captain in the Virginia militia before the
war. He had two sons in the army. Felix G., who volunteered in 1862,
at Abingdon, and served till the close of the war in the 29th Virginia
regiment, in Picketts division, Army of Northern Virginia. The other
son served in a Texas regiment, was twice wounded in battle, then
made prisoner and held for a time at Camp Chase, Ohio.

Near Abingdon, January 17, 1867, Felix G. Miller married Lizzie P.
Dennison, born near Abingdon, daughter of Robert P. Dennison, her
mother Mary, daughter of John Gray, of Washington county. Her
father's father was Andrew Dennison, who came from Ireland to Southwest
Virginia at the time the Prestons came. Alice J., first-born of the
children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, is now deceased, and they have buried
their two youngest, Grover C. and Ethel May. Their living children
are three sons. Robert H., Alexander B., Peter E. Mr. Miller is a
farmer and lumberman.

WILLIAM H. MILLER,

Is a son of Hon. Joseph Miller, of Washington county, former representative
of the county in the legislature, and for many years senior magistrate
of the county, one of its eminent citizens, who died in 1845. His
mother was Catharine, daughter of Abram Fuller, of Russell county,
Virginia. He was born in the east part of Washington county, March
14, 1830. His marriage was solemnized at Bristol, Tennessee, June 8,
1859. He married Melissa, daughter of John Burke, of Elk Garden,
Russell county, and his wife Margaret Burke, nee Dyre. The children of
Mr. and Mrs. Miller were born in the order named: Maggie A., Robert
L., John E., Elbert S., William Pitt, Mary C., Joseph J., George I.

Mr. Miller has held public office, as school commissioner and tax
assessor in Tennessee, and constable of Washington county. He enlisted
in April, 1861, Company F, 37th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A., and
was in active service until captured at Spottsylvania C. H., May 12,
1864. From that time until June 1, 1865, he was held prisoner of war
at Fort Delaware. He had one brother in service in King's battery,
one nephew died in service, and a number of cousins died or were killed
in service. Farming is Mr. Miller's occupation.

ISAAC BAKER MOORE

Is a son of Thomas Moore, a prosperous farmer of Washington county,
whose father was Martin Moore, also a farmer of this county, his father
Richard Moore, who built the first mill in Washington county. Lettie
Lutitia, daughter of Nicholas Fleenor, of Washington county, was the
mother of Isaac B. He was born on the family homestead on the head
waters of Beaver Creek, near Walker Mt. May 14, 1852. At Bristol,
Tennessee, December 14, 1880, he married Cynthia M. Haley, who was
born in Pulaski county, Virginia, December 24, 1855, the daughter of
John T. Haley of that county, her mother a Miss Welton. Mr. Moore
is engaged in farming, his land lying in Washington county.

MARION M. MORRISS

The family line of Mr. Morriss, Virginians through several generations,
is thus traced. Isaac Morriss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, married
Ann Thompson, of Amelia county, this State. Their son, William
A. Morriss of Pittsylvania county, married Winifred Quesenbury. A
son born to them, named William L., living also in Pittsylvania county,
married Ann Earp, and Marion M. Morriss is their son. He was
born in Pittsylvania county, on March 4, 1843.

Before he was nineteen years of age he had entered the Southern army,
and he served from February, 1862, to the close of the war as orderly
sergeant of the Ringgold Battery. Since the war his home has been in
Washington county, where he has been identified with the best interests
of the county. For ten years he was a magistrate of the county. He
has been, from its beginning, intimately connected with the Southwest
Virginia Institute, and chairman of its board of trustees since organization.
He carries on an estate, and is also a merchant of Glade
Spring.

Mr. Morriss has been twice married. His first wife, who died February
17, 1882, was Elizabeth A., daughter of James W. McSpadden of
this county. Their children are: William S., Walker M., Nina B., John
T., Benham, Mary (deceased), Dabney, Judson and Marion M. Secondly
Mr. Morriss married Evie Hunter, of Appomattox county, Virginia,
and their only son bears the name of her family, Hunter. She is of
well-known Virginia families, Benjamin and Sarah Hunter, nee Williams,
of Appomattox county her parents, and her paternal grandfather Benjamin
Hunter who married Sarah Arrington, of Campbell county,
Virginia.

EZRA S. NEFF

Is the third of the fourteen children of Jacob Neff and his wife Mary
Neff, nee Copenhaver, and was born near Abingdon, July 17, 1849. His
father, born in Wythe county, but raised in Smyth county, is a son of
Peter Neff, of Smyth county. His mother is a daughter of Christly
Copenhaver, of Smyth county, where he settled from Pennsylvania.
Jacob Neff served, during the war, in Capt. John Barr's artillery company,
stationed at Richmond, and was there at the time of the evacuation.
He had one son, Andrew M., in active service, Company F, 37th
Virginia regiment, which he entered at the age of sixteen years; twice
slightly wounded.

In Smyth county, Virginia, February 21, 1883, Ezra S. Neff married
Ellen Virginia Umbarger, who was born in that county, near Holston
Mills. They have two children, Mary Pauline and William Newton, and
have buried three sons: Joseph Andrew L., George Arthur, and Jacob
Anson. Mrs. Neff's father, Lafayette Umbarger of Smyth county, a
soldier of the late war, is a son of George Umbarger, who came to Smyth
from Wythe county. Her mother is Paulina, daughter of John Scott,
of Rye Valley, Smyth county.

Ezra S. Neff is a merchant at St. Clair Bottom. He was five or six
years postmaster, St. Clairs P. O., and registrar of the St. Clair district
for three years.

FRANCIS PRESTON.

The distinguished lineage of the Preston family has been referred to
many times in previous pages of this work. The subject of the present
sketch traces his connection with the family through his father, who was
Col. John Preston of Walnut Grove, and his mother, who was Margaret
B., daughter of Col. William Preston of Montgomery county, Virginia.
Francis Preston was born at the family homestead at Walnut Grove,
March 26, 1822. At Waverly, Loudon county, Virginia, he married Virginia
Moffett, who was born at Waverly, the daughter of Robert Moffett,
of Loudon county, her mother a daughter of William Mead, of that
county. Of this marriage four sons were born: Francis E. and William
A., now deceased; Robert M., now an officer in the People's National
Bank at Leesburg, Virginia; John C., now a practicing physician at
Dade City, Florida.

Francis Preston married secondly Martha Powell Fulton, and there
were two children of this marriage, Charles Fulton (deceased) and Mary
Taylor. Mrs. Preston is the daughter of Rev. Creed Fulton, an eminent
divine of the Holston conference, the principal founder of Emory and

Henry College in Washington county, Master Mason. Her mother is
Mary, daughter of Major James Taylor, grandniece of Gen. Wm. Campbell[1]
of Kings Mountain fame.

HENRY PRESTON,

Farmer and stockman, was born November 20, 1828, on the old homestead
farm known as "Walnut Grove Farm," Washington county. He
was married at Redlands, Albemarle county, Virginia, to Anne C. Carter,
September 7, 1852. She was born near Charlottesville, Virginia,
April 19, 1833. They have ten children: Mary Coles, Margaret B.,
Ellen B., Elizabeth M., Anne Cary, Henry, jr., Jane C., Isuetta R., Eugene
F. and Thomas Percy.

Mr. Preston had three brothers in service in the late war: Col. Thos.
W. Preston, of Memphis, Tennessee, killed at Shiloh; Walter E., served
unharmed through the war: and Col. Jas. T. Preston, who commanded
the reserve forces in both battles at Saltville. He is a son of the late
Col. John Preston of Walnut Grove farm, who served with rank of
lieutenant-colonel in the war of 1812, and was a long time colonel of
militia, several years chief magistrate in Washington county, a man of
wealth, influence and scholarly attainments. He was a graduate of
Dickerson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and of the law school of
William and Mary College at Williamsburg. He married in 1800, Margaret
B. Preston, a distant relative, of Montgomery county, Virginia.
She was the youngest daughter of Col. William Preston, and the sister
of Gov. Jas. P. Preston, of Virginia, of Gen. Francis Preston, and of
Col. John Preston, long state treasurer of Virginia. Col. John Preston,
father of Henry, was a son of Col. Robert Preston, who settled the Walnut
Grove farm, and was surveyor in Washington county over fifty
years, a man of sterling worth and invincible integrity. He came to
this country from Ireland in early manhood, and by industry, energy
and ability accumulated great wealth.

Anne C., wife of Henry Preston, was raised at Charlottesville, the
daughter of Capt. John C. Carter, of Albemarle county, who was a lineal
descendant of Robert Carter, whose history is given in Volume I of
this work. Her mother was Ellen Bankhead, related to Gen. Bankhead,
formerly of the U. S. Army, and the great grand-daughter of Thomas
Jefferson.

THOMAS M. PRESTON.

Thomas M., son of Colonel Thomas M. Preston, was born in Washington
county, on the family estate where his father was born, near
Rock Spring Church, October 27, 1847 the date of his birth. He is a
grandson of Samuel Preston, who was born in this county, four miles
east of Bristol. His mother, formerly Miss Evaline Gray, of an old
Scotch-Irish family, was raised in Washington county. Near Cedarville,
this county, at the home of her father, Mr. Preston married, October
21, 1874, Mattie A., daughter of Dr. Christ. C. Alderson. She was born
at Lebanon, Russell county, Virginia, her father coming from Russell
county in the first year of the war, and settling on Eleven-Mile creek.
In 1863 he moved to his present place of residence, Walnut Grove. He
is the son of Davis Alderson, who came to Washington county in 1823.
Mrs. Preston's mother was Mary Gibson before marriage, of the Russell
county family of Gibsons.

Mr. Preston entered the Confederate service one month before reaching
the age of seventeen, in September, 1864, Company D, 1st Virginia
Cavalry, with which he served till the close of the war. An elder brother,
R. B. Preston, served three years in the same company. A half-brother,
John M. Preston, was four years in the field, quartermaster of the 37th
Virginia regiment, and many other relatives and friends were in service
through the war.

Mr. Preston is a farmer, his beautiful home standing on the west bank
of Eleven-Mile creek, near its confluence with the middle fork of the
Holston river, one of the finest sites in Washington county.

HON. MESHACK S. RATCLIFF,

A farmer of Washington county, was born in Tazewell county, Virginia,
March 20, 1834. He was married in that county, June 5, 1850,
to Lucinda Ratcliff of Tazewell county. The fruit of the union is twelve
children: Shadrack W., John R., Lydia Jane (now deceased), Mary
Elizabeth, James Muncy, George W., Maggie Z. (deceased), Augustus
Floyd, Eliza R., Sylvester, Vadney V., Louisa M. Richard Ratcliff of
Tazewell county, son of Richard Ratcliff of Montgomery county, was
the father of Meshack S. His mother is Lydia, daughter of John Ratcliff

of Jackson county, Missouri, in which county he died. Lucinda,
wife of Mr. Ratcliff, is a daughter of Shadrack Ratcliff, of Tazewell
county, whose father, John Ratcliff, died in Jackson county, Missouri.
Her mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Brooks Matnet, of Tazewell
county.

Mr. Ratcliff was a resident of Buchanan county previous to his coming
to Washington county, and has worthily filled a number of public
offices. He represented Buchanan and Wise counties in the Virginia
legislature; was two years postmaster in Buchanan county, and two
years commissioner of revenue in that county. In 1861 he went into
service, captain Company G, 10th Kentucky Cavalry, and so served
through the war. His brother Abednego served in the same company;
his brother John S. was captain Company I, same regiment, was captured
in 1863, at Cynthiana, Kentucky, and held at Johnsons Island,
Lake Erie, till June 27, 1865. Four brothers of Mrs. Ratcliff were in
service, one, John M., lieutenant Company G, 10th Kentucky Cavalry,
wounded and captured at Cynthiana, Kentucky, in 1863, held at Johnsons
Island till June, 1865, the other three served in Derrick's battalion
of Virginia Infantry. Five cousins bearing the name of Ratcliff were
in service, two of them in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry; two commanding
companies, rank of captain.

HARVEY M. RECTOR

Was born near Chilhowie, Sulphur Springs, Smyth county, Virginia,
May 4, 1830, and is still a resident of that county, engaged in farming,
near Seven-Mile Ford. He married near Chilhowie, July 13, 1854, Lockey
S. Walker, who was born near Chilhowie, and the issue of their union
was eleven children, all but one of whom are living. Lewis Walton,
Unity Bell, Thomas Brown, Susan Elizabeth (deceased), Fannie Virginia,
Margaret Catharine, James Harvey, Narcissus Aker, Mary Alexander,
John B. Floyd and Charles Preston.

Mr. Rector was exempted from military service at the beginning of the
late war, as manager of the salt works at Saltville, where he remained
until after the first battle there. He was then enrolled in King's Battery,
stationed for three months at Richmond, then at Saltville a time, then
ordered east again, and at Christiansburg at the close of the war, disbanding
there. He had one brother in service, who died of camp fever
after return home. He is a son of Moses Rector of Smyth county, many
years a class leader of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose father
was Benjamin Rector, who came from Fauquier county, Virginia, to
Grayson county. The mother of Harvey M. is Susan, daughter of William
Humphrey, who came from Fluvanna county, Virginia, to Smyth
county in middle life.

Mrs. Rector is the daughter of Daniel Walker, of Wythe and Smyth
counties, who was a soldier of the war of 1812. Her mother was Unity
Bates Bell, daughter of James Bell of Wythe county, superintendent
of the Saltville works, and of the Wythe county lead mines.

DAVID B. REED

Some time previous to 1790 John Reed of Scotch-Irish descent, came
from Pennsylvania to Washington county. His son Arthur was born
in Pennsylvania, and married Lucretia, daughter of Benjamin Kees, of
Washington county, Virginia. Their son David B. was born near Lodi,
this county, September 13, 1827. December 26, 1850, at the home and
birthplace of the bride, he married Margaret B. Edmondson, born January
20, 1824, near Osceola, this county. She was a daughter of Col.
James Edmondson, of this county, who served in the war 1812 with
rank of captain, and who was a son of Captain Robert Edmondson, who
commanded a company in Colonel Campbell's regiment during the Revolutionary
war, and fought at Kings Mountain. Her mother was Jane
Buchanan, daughter of Matthew Buck, who was a son of Andy Buck,
who came to this county in early times. The children of Mr. and Mrs.
Reed are four, born: James E., September 22, 1851; Lucretia K., May
27, 1853; Elizabeth I. V., April 4, 1858; Arthur Wm., August 1, 1866.

On August 1, 1862, Mr. Reed entered Company E, 30th battalion
Virginia Infantry, and served with that battalion in the armies commanded
by Early, Longstreet and Breckinridge, through Virginia and
East Tennessee, and a short time in Maryland. He was made prisoner
at Waynesboro, Virginia, March 2, 1865, and was held at Fort
Delaware until June 20, 1865. He had one brother in service as quartermaster,
with rank of captain, with General Floyd about eighteen
months, was then discharged for disability, and died in 1866. Farming
is Mr. Reed's occupation, his estate that on which his mother was
born.

CAPT. E. D. RICKETTS

The greatgrandfather of Capt. Ricketts was Dillard Ricketts, who
came from Scotland in colonial days, and settled at Flint Hill, Culpeper
county, Virginia, where he married, and had issue three sons. The
eldest, George, settled in Hamilton county, Ohio, where he reared a large
family, and left numerous descendants. The second son remained on
the homestead in Culpeper county, and his descendants have held
worthily many enviable positions in public life. The third son, Zachariah,
emigrated to Marion county, Kentucky, as a Methodist Episcopal
minister, where he married and had three sons, the youngest, D. C.

Ricketts, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was born at Bradfordsville,
Marion county, Kentucky, May 22, 1834. His mother was
Sallie, daughter of Abel Weatherford, of Bradfordsville. Abel Weatherford
was of Scotch descent, and his father and mother lived to extreme
old age, the mother dying in June, 1849, aged 103 years, and the father
dying the next day, aged 104 years, buried in the grave with his wife.
He had been a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and wore his uniform
with a just pride, up to the day of his death.

Captain Ricketts has been three times married. His first wife was
Missouri Forman, born in Nelson county, Kentucky, in 1838, whom he
married at Louisville, Kentucky, May 25, 1852, and who died leaving
issue one daughter, Mary Frances. Secondly he married, in Jefferson
county, Kentucky, November 1, 1851, Lizzie Stivers, born in that
county, February 6, 1844, who died March 9, 1866, having been the
mother of four children: William M., now superintendent of public
schools at Abingdon; James B., now deceased, a babe died unnamed;
and John E., killed in a railroad accident at Indianapolis, Indiana, in
February, 1885. The third marriage of Capt. Ricketts was solemnized
near Abingdon, Virginia, when Eliza D. Galliher became his wife.

Captain Ricketts represented Jefferson county, Kentucky in the Kentucky
State legislature which passed the ordinance of secession at
Russellville, but was also in military service through the war. He volunteered
in April, 1861, and received commission of captain from President
Davis, recruited nearly 300 men in Louisville, and took the field
as captain of Company B, 6th Kentucky (Confederate) Infantry. His
field service ended with Shiloh battle, where he was shot through both
legs, after which he served as brigade quartermaster until in 1863, then
commanded the 6th Regular Battalion, C. S. A., till the close of the
war. Since that time he has been a contractor on railroads, and a
lumber merchant and shipper. For the last few years he has been settled
on his farm in Washington county, near Abingdon.

Capt. R. B. Ricketts, a distinguished soldier, and late Democratic
candidate for lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania, is his cousin.

HON. JOHN ROBERTS.

In the days of the early settlement of Washington county, Richard
Roberts came to the county from North Carolina. His son Henry
Roberts grew to manhood, and became one of the most influential citizens
of the county, a captain in the militia, and many years a magistrate.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Basil Warren, of Washington county,
her mother a Miss Clark, whose father, Peter Clark, settled near Emory
previous to 1800, coming from Scotland. John, son of Henry Roberts

and his wife Elizabeth, was born five miles north of Abingdon, on
December 9, 1834. Coming of a family whose representatives served in
the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812, he was early interested in
military matters, and previous to the late war was several years captain
in the militia service. He entered the Confederate States service in
April, 1862, lieutenant in Company I, 48th Virginia regiment, and took
part in all its engagements to Chancellorsville, including battles of McDowell,
Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, the seven days fighting
around Richmond, Cedar Run, second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg.
At Chancellorsville he lost left leg above knee. He had one
brother, David, killed in battle of Gettysburg, while serving under Gen.
Ewell, near Culps Hill. Another brother, Henry B., was in service before
eighteen years of age, commissioned captain in the Reserve Troops,
engaged in battle of Saltville.

Captain Roberts is a farmer and miller. He has been a notary public
for the last eight years, and is the present representative from Washington
county in the legislature.

His first wife was Margaret, daughter of John Chapman of Washington
county, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Stephen and Margaret Lyon,
also of this county. The issue of this union was one son, John Henry
Roberts. Secondly Captain Roberts married Susan, daughter of William
Rhea of Washington county, her mother a Miss Carmick. She died without
issue. Near Abingdon, in October, 1882, he married Mary H. Balzell,
who was born in this county, the daughter of David Balzell, whose
father, Lawrence Balzell, came to Washington county from France.
Her mother's maiden name was Sallie Hanby.

JAMES A. ROBINSON

Was born near Old Glade Spring, Washington county, December 9,
1839. His father, Owen Robinson, of Wythe county, was a son of Benjamin
Robinson, formerly of Wythe county, later of Missouri. His mother
was Caroline Wyatt, born in North Carolina, raised in Washington
county, Virginia. He has been twice married, his first wife
Sallie, daughter of Thomas Sadler, formerly of Brunswick county, Virginia.
They were married in Russell county, Virginia, December 19, 1867,
and she died near Emory and Henry College, May 12, 1875, having
been the mother of four children, Tillie M., Cora Lee, Seldon R. (now deceased)
and James S. Secondly Mr. Robinson married in Lee county,
Virginia, July 8, 1877, Ellen C. Miller, born near Montgomery, Virginia.
They have one son Benjamin F. Mrs. Robinson is the daughter of John
Miller, of Washington county, whose father, also named John Miller,
came from Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. Her mother is

Mary, daughter of Peter Minick, now of Washington county, who came
from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Robinson entered the army in April, 1861, Company B, 37th Virginia
Infantry. He was severely wounded inbattle at Kernstown, Virginia,
March, 1862, was captured at Spotsylvania C. H. May, 1864, and
held at Fort Delaware thirteen months, till the close of the war. His
regiment was a part of the famous "Stonewall Brigade," and he took
part in every movement of that brigade except when wounded or a
prisoner. Farming is Mr. Robinson's occupation.

WYNDHAM B. ROBERTSON.

Wyndham B. Robertson, youngest son of Hon. Wyndham Robertson,
governor of Virginia, 1836, married Florence Henderson in Lynchburg,
in 1871.

The following interesting pedigree of the descent of Rev. James Henderson,
grandfather of Mrs. Robertson, is furnished by Mr. Alexander
Brown, of Nelson, a relative of the family, to whom it was sent by
Michael-John Shaw-Stewart, after it had been verified by the late R. R.
Stodart, Lyon clerk in Edinburg.

Archibald Fleming, merchant in Glasgow, Scotland, married Elizabeth
Lennox. Their son, William Fleming, burgess of Glasgow and
clerk of the commissariat, married, and died September, 1636. His
son, Sir Archibald Fleming of Ferme Park and Catgill, advocate commissary
of Glasgow and Rector of the University, was created a baronet
in 1661, he married in 1637 Agnes, daughter and heir of David Gibson,
notary and burgess of Glasgow, died January, 1662. His son, Sir
William Fleming, second baronet, also commissary, married Margaret,
daughter of Archibald Stewart, of Scotland; he died in February, 1707.
His son, Sir Archibald Fleming, third baronet, married in 1692, Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of Sir George Hamilton, baronet of Binny; died
April 14, 1714, leaving issue two sons, and ten daughters. One of
these daughters married Lord Elphinstone's eldest son, but died without
issue, another married Mr. Maschet; a third married a Mr. Henderson,
and their son is Rev. James Henderson, who came to Virginia,
the grandfather of Mrs. Robertson. Margaret, wife of the first Sir
William Fleming, was the daughter of Archibald Stewart, who was the
second son of Sir Archibald Stewart, Knight, of Blackhall (by his first
wife, Margaret, daughter of Bryce Blair). Sir Archibald descended
from Robert III of Scotland, and was ancestor of the present Sir
Michael-Robert Shaw-Stewart, baronet of Greenock and Blackhall, M.
P. for Renfrewshire, etc. Rev. James Henderson was long an honored
professor at William and Mary College, his first wife Miss Blair, his

second, Mrs. Hosbourger, nee Peter. The living children of Wyndham
B. Robertson and wife are four: Eliza Holcombe, Wyndham Bolling,
Mary Smith, and Walter Henderson, and they have buried three, William,
Chas. Edward and John Rolfe. It will be seen these children are,
on the maternal side, of descent from Robert III of Scotland, on their
father's side they descend from King Duncan; while, as an eminent
writer has said, "We must not forget the royal blood of the Princess
Pocahontas." (See pp. 171-5, Volume I, Virginia and Virginians, for
the records of Mr. Robertson's family.)

J. ALEX. RODEFER,

Born at Abingdon, on December 10, 1839, is a son of William Rodefer,
of Abingdon, formerly of Shenandoah and Botetourt counties, Virginia,
who was a contractor and carpenter from 1827 to the opening of the
war, and was post quartermaster at Abingdon during the war. The
mother of J. Alex was Ara, daughter of John Butt, Esq., of Berkeley
county, (then) Virginia.

Before the war J. Alex. Rodefer was captain of militia and deputy
postmaster. In the spring of 1861 he joined Company D, 1st Virginia
Cavalry, with which he served until transferred to Company B, 37th
infantry regiment, from which he was discharged in 1863. After that
served as chief clerk in the conscription office of his district. He is a
carpenter and farmer by occupation, is an A. F. & A. M., Abingdon
Lodge, No. 48, past master and member of the Grand Lodge.

At Lynchburg, Virginia, October 12, 1864, he married Anna Lee
Johnson, who was born in Hanover county, Virginia, March 10, 1845.
Their children were born in the order named: Lula F., William E.,
Francis R., John W., T. Preston, Sallie F., Robert W. Mrs. Rodefer is
a daughter of William H. Johnson, of Hanover county and of Lynchburg,
her mother Louisa A., daughter of William Taylor of Caroline
county, Virginia.

FRANCIS SMITH,

Born in County Monahan, Ireland, on September 30, 1815, is a son of
Andrew Smith, who came from Ireland to Virginia about 1816, settled
in Fluvanna county, removed in 1832 to Botetourt county, and died
there aged sixty-nine years. His mother was Phebe, daughter of John
McEntire, Esq., of County Monahan, born in Ireland, came to Virginia
with her husband. Francis Smith married at Holston Springs, Scott
county, Virginia, September 20, 1842, Eliza B. Grim, who was born at
Abingdon, September 9, 1824. Ten children were born to them. Susan,
Wm. Andrew, Charles H., David, D. F., Emma, Milton H., Mary C.,

Robt. E. Lee, Paul N. Wm. Andrew was killed by accident while at
home during the late war. David, Emma and Milton are now deceased.

The wife of Mr. Smith is of the Grim and Nulton families, both of
German extraction, and long settled in Virginia. Her father was William
Grim, of Abingdon, formerly of Winchester, where most of the Grim
family reside, and who served under Gen. Harrison in the war of 1812,
and was present at Detroit at Hull's surrender. Her mother was Susan
Nulton of Winchester.

Mr. Smith is a farmer, contractor and builder of Abingdon. He was
assistant commissary of subsistance with Captain Alderson at Abingdon
during the war, and the last two years of the war was a member of the
advisory board.

COL. JOHN C. SUMMERS,

Is commonwealth attorney for Washington county, and a resident of
Abingdon. He is a son of Col. Andrew Summers who married Olivia W.
Hawkins, of Gallia county, Ohio. Col. John C. Summers, born in 1841
west of the Blue Ridge, in what is now West Virginia, was a refugee from
that section when that State was created. At Abingdon, in 1867, Rev.
James McChain officiating, he married Nannie M., daughter of John F.
Preston of Abingdon. Their children are ten: John F. Preston, Lewis
P., Olivia Wirt, Robert James, Jennie Pinckney, Nannie May, Sallie
Morgan (or Fannie Rhea), Sunshine Andrew, Von Moltke and John C.

At the outbreak of the war between the States, John C. Summers entered
service in the provisional army of Virginia, captain of Company
A, 3d regiment, Wise's Legion, the regiment later becoming the 60th
Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. He was with his command, in constant and
active service, receiving successive promotions, major, lieutenant-colonel,
and colonel, until captured in the second battle of Winchester. From
that time till the close of the war he was held prisoner at Camp Chase,
Ohio.

JACOB O. SUSONG

Was born on October 16, 1863, in that part of Washington county,
Virginia, lying near Bristol, Tennessee, where he has made his home
ever since, and is now farming. M. S. Susong, now of Bristol, Tennessee,
a successful farmer, is his father, and his grandfather was Jacob
Susong, formerly of Rockbridge county, Virginia, who came to Washington
county many years ago. The father of this Jacob Susong was
the founder of the family in Virginia, Andy Susong, who came to America
from France, settling first in Pennsylvania, and removing thence to
Virginia. The mother of Jacob O. is Mary Ellen, daughter of James
Buchanan, of Washington county, who married a Miss Ryburn of
Glade Spring.

WILLIAM C. TADLOCK,

Now one of the farming residents of Washington county, Virginia, his
home near Abingdon, is a native of Tennessee, born in Green county,
that State, October 7, 1827. His parents were Sevier and Mary Tadlock,
the former the son of Lewis Tadlock who came from England to
Tucaho, Virginia, in colonial days, and the latter a daughter of John
Blair of Washington county, Tennessee, the Blair family also of English
extraction.

The first wife of William C. Tadlock was born in East Tennessee, July
23, 1826, Emily S., daughter of Samuel Miller, of Washington county,
Tennessee, who married Mary Hornbarger, of the same county. She
became the wife of Mr. Tadlock at Jonesboro, Tennessee, April 11, 1850,
and departed this life on April 2, 1864, having been the mother of seven
children. Of these two are now deceased, Mary E. and Samuel A. The
living children are: James W., Sevier N., Laura A., William A., John
B. February 22, 1866, Mr. Tadlock married Catharine E., daughter of
Henry and Catharine Snavely, of Smyth county, Virginia, and widow
of Umberson Miller.

Mr. Tadlock entered the Confederate States army in August, 1862, in
the 61st East Tennessee regiment. In June, 1863, he was transferred
to the 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. The following October he was made
prisoner, but paroled in a short time, and discharged for disability in
March, 1864. He had two brothers in service, one an enrolling officer,
the other in the Reserves.

ROBERT L. TALBERT

The subject of this sketch was born in Smyth county, Virginia, in
1860, and is now a resident of Washington county, engaged in farming.
He was married at Saltville, December 15, 1887, the Rev. Tyler
Frazier joining him in wedlock with Corinna Bailey. The bride was
born at Montrealla, Washington county, and is of the Bailey and
White families, early seated in Washington county. Her father was
James A. Bailey, whose father came to Washington county from New
York, his father coming to America from England. The mother of Mrs.
Talbert was Harriet, daughter of Joseph White of Saltville. During
the war between the States Mrs. Talbert had four brothers in the Confederate
States service, three of whom gave their life for the Lost Cause:
William, died of sickness in service, Walter, killed in the Gettysburg
campaign, Thomas, killed in Washington county, March 15, 1864.
Oscar, the surviving brother, served through the war, and now resides
in Dunklin county, Missouri.

LORENZO TANNER.

The subject of this sketch is a native of New York State, but has
been many years a resident of Washington county, Virginia, owning
and cultivating a fine estate in the vicinity of Abingdon. He was born
in Oneida county, New York, July 2, 1840, the son of Lorenzo Tanner,
of that county, the family of Scotch-Irish extraction. His mother was
Melissa, daughter of William Dunbar, of Oneida county, her mother a
daughter of Baron Steuben, of New York. The wife of Mr. Tanner was
born in Oneida county, New York, August 8, 1844, Fidelia, daughter of
Philander Munney, whose father was Joseph Munney, of Oneida county.
Her mother was Louisa, daughter of Robert Burk, of Oneida county,
who married Polly Carlisle, the latter, still living in Erie county, New
York, now over ninety years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Tanner were married
at Rome, New York, December 9, 1859, and have now ten children
Emma J., Louisa A., Robert B., Clara E., Frederick L., Jennie A.,
George P., Grace E., Pearl and Eula M.

VINT. H. THOMAS

Was born at Holstein Mills, Smyth county, Virginia, on February 9,
1840, a son of John Thomas and Elizabeth S. Thomas, nee Morgan.
John Thomas, of Scotch descent, great grandfather of Vint. H., had two
sons, Abijah and Thomas. The former married Martha McReynolds, of
Irish descent, and was the father of John Thomas, who was born and
raised in Smyth county, Virginia, and removed to Tazewell county when
Vint. H. was four years old, lived at Burks Garden, and died on February
29, 1864. The maternal great great grandfather of Vint H. Thomas
was Haynes Morgan, who with an only sister was brought from Wales
to America when both were children. Their parents died soon after and
their uncle raised them. Gen. Daniel Morgan of Revolutionary fame
is believed to have been of this family. A son of this Haynes Morgan
served in the French and Indian wars, also in the Revolutionary war,
where he received the title of colonel, married Mary Thompson, sister
of Col. Billy Thompson—the Thompsons a Virginia family. Haynes
Morgan, son of—Morgan and his wife Mary, was born at Williamsburg,
Virginia, in the time of the Revolution; was raised in Pittsylvania
county, married a Miss Shelton, daughter of Vinton Shelton of Virginia,
her mother a Robertson, who lived near Richmond, Virginia. Haynes
Morgan moved to Roanoke county, North Carolina, in 1818, and raised
his family there; he was a successful farmer. His daughter, Elizabeth
Shelton, mother of Vint. H. Thomas, was born in 1811; is living now
in Tazewell county, Virginia.

At the commencement of the civil war, Vint. H. Thomas had six
brothers and one sister. Four of these brothers: Haynes M., Abijah
M., William M. and John L. went into the Confederate service in 1861,
as did Vint H. and the sister's husband, Capt. F. W. Kelly. The three
oldest brothers in the order named died in service. The father and the
sister died during the war. John L. was made prisoner and held in
Fort Delaware until July after the surrender. Samuel M., next to the
youngest of these brothers, joined the army as soon as old enough, and
was at the surrender at Appomattox C. H. The youngest, D. T., was
not old enough to enter service when the war ended. Vint H. was first
lieutenant Company C, 50th Virginia regiment. In 1863 he was forced
to resign on account of disability, and he was at home in Tazewell
county, badly broken down, at the time of the surrender. He is now a
farmer and stockraiser of Washington county, near Saltville.

THE TRIGG FAMILY.

The Trigg family of Virginia are descendants of Abraham Trigg (who
was the progenitor of the family in America), who emigrated from Cornwall,
England, very early in the 18th century—about 1710. Of his five
sons Abram, the eldest, was colonel of a regiment in the Revolutionary
army, and representative in Congress, 1797-1809. The second son,
Stephen, went to Kentucky as a member of the court of land commissioners,
in 1779. He, also, was colonel of a regiment, Revolutionary
war, and was killed in the battle of Blue Licks, while bravely leading his
men to a charge. His name is on the Frankfort monument, and Trigg
county, Kentucky, is named in his honor. John, third son of Abraham,
was a major in the Revolutionary army, an officer of artillery, was
present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and represented Virginia in the
5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Congresses of the United States. William, fourth
son, from whom the Virginia branch of the family descended, was also
a man of prominence and ability, as was the fifth son, Daniel. Tradition
tells us that the old generation of Triggs were "Cultivated people
of remarkably fine personal appearance, and endowed with social qualities
far above the average."

William, fourth son of Abraham, married Mary Johns, and their son
Daniel, through whom this branch of the family continues, was born
August 14, 1749. His first wife was Anne Smith, born February 20,
1755, and the record of their children is: Guy Smith, married Fanny
Jackson; John Johns, married Elsie King; Daniel; Mary; married
William King; Ann Smith; William, married Rachel Findlay; Stephen;
Abram, married Mary Mitchell; Elizabeth, married Calvin Morgan;
James, married Anne King; Joseph and Rhoda, twins, Joseph marrying
Elizabeth Findlay, Rhoda marrying Edward Campbell.

William, sixth of these children, and fourth son, removed in early
manhood from what is now known as Montgomery county, Virginia, to
Abingdon, Washington county. His removal, and that of the other
sons and daughters of Daniel Trigg and his first wife, Anne Smith, was
brought about by the marriage of the eldest daughter, Mary, to William
King, proprietor of the Kings Salt Works, this sister having filled
a mother's place to the younger children when they were deprived of
that parent.

William married (1806) Rachel Findlay, a niece of Mr. King, and
died August 4, 1813, leaving four sons; William King Trigg, Daniel
Trigg, Connally Findlay Trigg, Lilburn Henderson Trigg.

William King Trigg, the eldest of these sons, married Miss Susan
Hickman of Kentucky. He removed to Missouri (near Lexington) in
his early married life. His descendants, two sons, Frank Smith Trigg
and William King Trigg, survive him; his daughter intermarried with
the LeSeur and Sheilds families; his eldest son Daniel, who was killed
in the Confederate Army, also married a Miss Anna Sheilds and leaves
descendants.

Daniel, second son, born September 7, 1808, studied medicine, was
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and became a physician
of prominence. He married Anna Munford Thompkins, March
14, 1838, the greatgranddaughter of Col. Wm. Byrd, of Westover
(see Volume I, Virginia and Virginians), and daughter of Alexander
Thompkins, of Lynchburg. Dr. Daniel Trigg departed this life February
2, 1853, leaving five children, as follows: Nannie Byrd, who married
James C. Greenway, of Abingdon, William King Trigg, who
entered the Confederate States Army, 11th Virginia regiment, and
died in Richmond, Virginia, July 21, 1862, of wounds received at battle
of Fraziers Farm, in the seven days fight before Richmond.

Daniel Trigg, who married Louisa Bowen Johnston, daughter of Hon.
J. W. Johnston; Connally Findlay Trigg, who married Pocahontas
Robertson, daughter of Hon. Wyndham Robertson; Thomas Preston
Trigg, who married Bettie Wilson White, daughter of Wm. Y. C. White.

Hon. Connally F. Trigg, third son of William Trigg, married Mary
Trigg Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell of Halls Bottom. (See
vol. 1, of Virginia and Virginians.) He removed to Tennessee, was,
until his death and for many years previous, a prominent and respected
Judge of United States District Court, an able and impartial jurist, beloved
by all who knew him. He died in 1879; his descendants reside in
Texas.

Lilburn Henderson Trigg, the fourth son of William, married Barbara
Colquohoun. He was a lawyer, graduate of the University of Virginia.
He died in 1854. Two children survive him, Mrs. E. D. Myers, of
Richmond, and William Robertson Trigg, of Richmond.

ABRAM BYRD TRIGG

Was the eighth child of Daniel Trigg, and his first wife Anne Smith, the
record of the family found in the pages immediately preceding this. He
was born October 12, 1788, and his first wife was Margaret Findlay,
their children Guy F., Elizabeth F. and Mary Anne. He married secondly
Mary Mitchell, June 18, 1818, and their children were: Joseph E. C.,
now living, married Rachel Branch, who died July 22, 1888; John D. M.,
who died aged thirty-six years; Frances S., living; Rachel L., died aged
forty-three years; Sallie M., living; Windham R., living, married Nanme
Hurst, Abram Byrd, jr., married Sue P. White; Anna D., living;
Thomas K., living; married M. E. Jackson; James, died aged sixteen
years. Of these the four surviving sons were all in the Confederate service;
two receiving wounds, both belonging to the old original "Stonewall"
Division, surrendered at Appomattox.

Abram Byrd, jr., lost his life by remaining in the city of Greenville,
Mississippi, (of which he was the honored and beloved mayor), during
the fatal yellow fever epidemic of 1878. Though entreated to leave the
city, he remained to die for what he believed to be his duty to the home
of his adoption and to the unfortunate citizens whom it was in his
power thus to serve. He left one child, Mary Byrd.

Hon. Wyndham R. Trigg is Chancellor of the 4th District of Mississippi,
an able and prominent lawyer and popular judge. His children
are; Ellen G., Sue, Pelham, Byrd C., Mary Hurst and Thomas K.

The children of Joseph E. C. Trigg were three: Lilburn, married Sallie
Thompson, died July 24, 1888, leaving four children, P. Branch, died
November 12, 1881; and Abram Byrd, living.

HON. DANIEL TRIGG,

Born in Abingdon, March 12, 1843, is a son of Daniel Trigg, son of
William, son of Daniel (born August 14, 1749), son of William, son of
Abraham, who came about 1710 from Cornwall, England, to the colony
of Virginia, settling in Bedford county. His mother was Anna Munford
Tompkins, daughter of Alexander Tompkins, whose wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Otway Byrd. Further record of the progenitors of the
Trigg family has already been given. The wife of Hon. Daniel Trigg,
whom he married at Abingdon, January 9, 1872, is Louisa Bowen

Johnston, born in Tazewell county, Virginia, January 17, 1846. Their
children are: Nannie Greenway, John W. Johnston, Daniel. Miriam
Hartford, Evelyn Byrd, George Benjamin and Anna Munford, all living
at home; and two deceased: Nicketti Floyd and Louisa Smith.

Mrs. Trigg is descended from families honorably identified with the
annals of Virginia. Her father is John Warfield Johnston, ex. Senator
United States from Virginia, son of Dr. John Warfield Johnston,
who was a son of Judge Peter Johnston. Her mother was Nicketti
Floyd, daughter of Gov. John Floyd, of Virginia.

The Hon. Daniel Trigg was acting midshipman, U. S. Naval Academy,
from 1858 to 1861. He resigned upon the secession of Virginia, and
entered the Virginia Provisional Navy, from which he was transferred
to the Confederate States Navy. In this he gave continuous and honorable
service, receiving rank of lieutenant, until captured in April, 1865.
He was held first in the Old Capitol Prison, at Washington, then at
Johnsons Island, Lake Erie, whence he was released after the close of
the war. Soon after he went to Chili, then at war with Spain, in the
service of that country, and was offered, but declined, a commission in
the Chilian Navy. Was present at the bombardment of Calao by the
Spanish fleet in the spring of 1866. He was a member of the Virginia
Legislature, sessions of 1883-4, and in 1880 was a member of
the National Democratic Convention nominating General Hancock. He
is now engaged in practice, as attorney-at-law, in Abingdon.

JUDGE GEORGE W. WARD JR.,

Is a son of George W. Ward, who was born in Culpeper county, Virginia,
and is living now at Winchester, Virginia. His mother, born in
Clarke county, Virginia, was Julia A., daughter of Oliver Funsten and
Margaret, his wife, who were natives of Ireland. She died in Winchester,
in January, 1884. Judge Ward was born near Winchester, July
31, 1847. He was a cadet of the Virginia Military Institute, 1864-5,
and took part in the battle of New Market, then was in the Confederate
Service to close of war.

He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and of the University
of Virginia. After leaving the latter, he studied law at the
Winchester Law School (formerly Judge Tucker's), and practiced law
in Winchester, Virginia, and Springfield, Missouri. In 1874 moved to
Abingdon, Virginia, and there entered upon practice of law and as editor
of the Abingdon Virginian; afterwards started the South West Examiner.
In the canvass of 1883-4, was elected with Capt. Page McCarthy
by Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Virginia,
editor of its Campaign organ, The Democratic Campaign, published at

Lynchburg, Virginia. He was twice appointed a visitor of the Virginia
Military Institute. In 1880 he was elected county judge of Washington
county, but resigned in 1881. He was commonwealth's attorney of
the county, 1884-7, and in April, 1887, he resigned having been reelected
to the office he is still filling, judge of the county.

He was married at Knoxville, Tennessee, by Rev. Thomas W. Humes,
D. D., President of University of Tennessee, December 10, 1878, and
his wife is L. A. C. Preston, born in New York City. They have two
children: George and Rosalie Garnett. Mrs. Ward is the daughter of
Walter Preston, who married A. Garnett Peyton, and died in 1867.
Her mother, who was the daughter of William M. Peyton, of Roanoke,
Virginia, is now living in New York City.

JOHN W. WINGFIELD

Was born at Woodland, Albemarle county, Virginia, on June 28, 1831,
now a resident of Saltville, engaged in business there as book-keeper. At
Lynchburg, Virginia, Rev. John L. Pritchard officiating clergyman, he
married, December 21, 1855, Custine Cary Nelson, who was born at "Glen
Cary," Campbell county, Virginia, September 24, 1830. The record of
the children of their union is: Edgar Cary, born October 4, 1856, resides
now at Birmingham, Alabama, Mary Page, born March 26, 1858,
lives at Saltville, John Lawrence, born January 10, 1861, lives now at
Staunton; Charles Waller, born December 22, 1862, died October 16,
1863, Walter, born November 7, 1864, died November 1, 1865.

The genealogy of the families of Mr. and Mrs. Wingfield show them to
be the descendants of families of renown, the names of Wingfield, Nicholas,
Cary, and Nelson eminent in the annals of Virginia. Charles
Wingfield, father of John W., was born in Hanover county, Virginia, and
died in 1864, at Woodland, Albemarle county. He was a son of Thomas
Wingfield, who was born in Hanover county, and died there, and Ann
Wingfield, nee Davis, born in Hanover county, in 1754, died in that
county in 1831. The mother of John M. was Cary Ann Nicholas, born
at "Alta Vista," Albemarle county, Virginia, died in 1835 at Woodland.
She was a daughter of Valentine Nicholas, who was born in Albemarle
county, and died at "Oakland," that county, in 1834. Her mother
was a Miss Harris, born in Albemarle county in 1756, died at "Alta
Vista," that county, in 1820.

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Wingfield, Valentine Nicholas, was a
brother of Wilson Cary Nicholas, governor of Virginia, 1815-6 (see Volume
I, of this work). Valentine Nicholas was one of the wealthiest
proprietors in Albemarle county at one time, his estate valued at $1,500,000,
and his home, "Alta Vista," a palatial residence. He unfortunately

endorsed, to an unlimited extent, for a younger brother, who
was a reckless speculator in Kentucky, and the endorsements culminated
in his financial ruin, his magnificent estate and all his earthly possessions
being sold at vendue, even down to his gold snuff-box, presented
to him by an English friend. This sudden and complete ruin
wrecked the mind of his young wife, who died a maniac. Being yet in
the prime of life, of iron constitution, possessed of his integrity and a
man of ability, he rallied from this disaster, and accumulated a handsome
estate, and at his death left his children in comfortable circumstances.

The wife of John M. Wingfield is a daughter of Peter C. Nelson, born
in Hanover county, February 2, 1794, died in that county in 1852. He
was a son of Peter Nelson, who was born and died in Hanover county,
and who was an Episcopalian clergyman in early life, later a Baptist
minister. The wife of Peter Nelson was Ann Lawrence, born and died
in Hanover county. Mrs. Wingfield's mother was Sallie Cary, born in
Norfolk county, Virginia, November 6, 1806, died in Lynchburg,
November 11, 1848. Sally Cary was a daughter of Miles Cary, born in
Norfolk county, March 8, 1773, died in Lynchburg in 1850. His wife
was Elizabeth King, born in Norfolk county in 1778, died in Lynchburg
in 1855. Captain Miles Cary, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Wingfield,
was the eldest descendant of the Cary who came with two brothers to
the colony of Virginia from England. He had at his death the "Court
of Arms," of England, which is still in the possession of his descendants.
It is said there are many millions of dollars in the vaults of the Bank of
England belonging to the Cary family.

The earliest seated in Virginia of the Wingfield family was Edward M.
Wingfield, first President of the Council of Virginia (see pp. 8 and 14, of
Volume I). Of many other illustrious names connected with this family,
or of it, may be mentioned J. Richard Wingfield, cousin to John W.,
former senator to the Virginia legislature, now consul to Costa Rica,
residence at San Jose. Judge Gustavus Wingfield, of the circuit court of
Franklin county; Bishop Wingfield, of the Episcopal church, Virginia;
and Henry Clay, the orator and statesman of Kentucky. Of the same
family as the last-named was Henry Clay, of "The Slashes," Hanover
county, who was first cousin to Mr. Wingfield's father.

The so-called "Winfield" Scott, general U. S. A., was a Wingfield by
maternal descent. From some foolish freak or foolish pride he petitioned
the Legislature to permit him to drop the "g" from the name
his mother had given him, she being a Miss Wingfield, which request
was granted, he thus becoming "Winfield" Scott.

M. L. WITHERS: M. D.

Dr. Withers was born in Washington county, Virginia on January
30, 1850. He was educated at the University of Virginia, and took
his diploma in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at
Baltimore, Maryland, since which time he has been settled in practice
in his native county, in and around Wallace Switch. He married here,
November 20, 1878, Annie S. Teeter, who was born at Mountain Field,
Washington county. They have two children: Mary Brandon and
Edwin Teeter.

Dr. Wither's father was M. W. Withers, Esq., who was connected with
Salmon Miles of Philadelphia, in the interest of the works of Martin
Luther. His mother was Mary A., daughter of John Bayliss, of Washington
county, Tennessee, and his mother's mother was Mary Hawkins,
of Hawkins county, Tennessee. In the late war three half-brothers of
Dr. Withers were in the Southern army: Salmon Withers, in a Virginia
regiment; James J. Williams, first lieutenant under Gen. Mosby, captured
on the Gettysburg campaign, and exchanged; and Thomas J.
Williams, serving in the Stonewall brigade, captured on Gettysburg
campaign, exchanged, serving for a time with Gen. John Morgan, then
with Gen. Joe Johnston until his surrender.

Mrs. Withers is a daughter of Dr. Edwin C. Teeters, who was a graduate
of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, served as surgeon in
the late war, and whose father was Jacob Teeter of Mt. Prospect, Virginia.
Her mother was Frances, daughter of Rev. J. Houston Wallace,
of Virginia and Tennessee, and whose mother was Esther Houston,
youngest child of John Houston who came to this country at the age
of nine years with his father from Ireland, in 1785. Of the same family
is Rev. Samuel Houston of Virginia, and Gen. Sam. Houston, of Texas.
The Speeces, Letchers and Earlys are also connected with this family.

SALMON M. WITHERS.

Michael Wilson Withers, father of Salmon M., was born in Gaston
county, North Carolina, in 1812, married in Washington county, Virginia,
in February, 1842, Ann Catherine Teeter (born 1817, died
1845), and died in this county, May 11, 1863. Salmon M. was born
in Washington county, January 30, 1843. Near Lexington, Rockbridge
county, Virginia, October 15, 1878, he married Lillias Payne
Smith, who was born at Leesburg, Virginia, September 17, 1850.
The children of this union were born: Nannie Payne, September 19,
1879; Robert Spotswood, July 18, 1881; Fannie Teeter, January
29, 1883; Henry Wilson, September 10, 1884; Alfred Miles, October

24, 1886. Rev. Henry R. Smith, father of Mrs. Withers, was born in
Otsego county, New York, and married Nannie B. Payne, near Lynchburg,
Virginia, May 3d, 1849.

Mr. Withers is treasurer of Washington county, to which office he
was elected in May, 1887. His occupation is farming; his residence,
Abingdon.

RUSH FLOYD YOUNG: M. D.

Dr. Young was born on his father's estate, at Mouth of Wilson,
Grayson county, Virginia, on May 4, 1855. He is a son of Col. Wiley
G. Young, and a grandson of William Young, whose father was Timothy
Young, a pioneer settler of Grayson county, coming from Eastern
Virginia. His mother is Elizabeth, daughter of Shadrach Greer,
of Grayson county, whose father, Moses Greer, came to that county
from Pittsylvania county. The father of Dr. Young was lieutenant-colonel
of Virginia militia before the war, and in the Confederate service,
1862-5, in the 8th Virginia Cavalry. Shadrach, elder brother of
Dr. Young, in service in the 53d Virginia regiment, died on Floyd's
retreat from Kanawha Falls. An uncle, Jonathan B. Young, 8th
Virginia Cavalry, was killed in Carter county, Tennessee, in 1864,
and most of the male relatives of Dr. Young, of military age, were
in service.

The wife of Dr. Young is Florence Beattie, daughter of Josiah B.
Cole. She was born on the Cole homestead, in Washington county,
and they were married there, June 5, 1884. The issue of the union
is three children: Neil, Agnes Josephine, and Fannie. Mrs. Young's
father was killed in the service of the South, in the late war, battle
of Morristown, Tennessee. He was a son of James Cole, of Smyth
county, the purchaser of the St. Clair Bottoms. Her mother is Sally,
daughter of Joseph Brown of Smyth county, whose father came from
Germany.

After the usual preliminary education, Dr. Young entered the University
of Virginia, and completed his medical studies in the University
of New York. He has now an extensive practice in and around
Loves Mills.