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.
