JUDGE H. W. FLOURNOY.
Judge Flournoy was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1846. He
is a son of Thomas S. Flournoy, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia,
December 14, 1811, died in Halifax county, March, 1883, and a
grandson of John James Flournoy, born in Prince Edward county in
1780. At Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, June 8, 1871, he
married Rosa Buena, daughter of Henry Wood, Esq., of that county.
They have an only son, H. W. Flournoy, jr. Mrs. Flournoy's father,
born in Amelia county, Virginia, in 1812, practiced law many years
in Mecklenburg and adjoining counties, and died in Clarksville in 1882.
Judge Flournoy attended school at the Samuel Davis Institute, Halifax
county; T. T. Bouldin's, Charlotte county; John H. Powell's, Halifax
county, and the Pike Powers school at Mt. Laurel, Halifax county. In
January, 1862, not then sixteen years of age, he entered the Confederate
States army. He served as a private in Company G, 6th Virginia
Cavalry, until wounded at Tom's Brook, Virginia, October 8, 1864.
In November following he was enrolled in the Third Company, Richmond
Howitzers, with which he remained until the surrender at Appomattox.
In September, 1867, Judge Flournoy began the practice of
law, in Danville, Virginia. He was elected Judge of the Corporation
Court of Danville in June, 1870, and re-elected in 1876. Resigning this
office on January 1, 1878, he resumed practice in Halifax county. In
1881 he settled in Washington county, in 1883 was elected to the office
he is now ably filling, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, reelected
in 1885, and again in 1887.
