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.
