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.
