LUCIEN BROOKING TATUM,
Born in Virginia in 1846, was educated in Richmond, Virginia, and served
in the Confederate States Army as a private in the Second Company,
Richmond Howitzers; was captured at battle of Sailors Creek, Virginia,
April 6, 1865, and imprisoned at Newport News until June 20th following,
then released on parole. He returned to Richmond, and soon became
agent for the James River Steamboat Company. In 1878 he organized
the Virginia Steamboat Company and was elected its vice-president, which
is his present position.
His father, Henry Augustus Tatum, M. D., born at "Woodlawn Hill"
on the Appomattox river, Chesterfield county, Virginia, practiced medicine
in Richmond forty years, and was surgeon in charge of Clopton
Hospital on Franklin Street, at time of death, died in Richmond
city, 1862. He was a son of Henry Tatum and Dorathea Claiborne, his
wife, of Chesterfield county; said Dorathea Claiborne was the daughter
of Daniel Claiborne and Mary Maury, his wife; who was the daughter
of Matthew Maury and Mary Ann Fontaine, and the sister of Rev.
James Maury of Huguenot fame.
The mother of Lucien Brooking Tatum, Amelia Sherwin Tatum, was
born at "Bellevue," on Falling Creek, Chesterfield county, Virginia, in
1804, and died in Richmond in 1865. She was a daughter of Col. Thomas
Vivion Brooking, and Mary Massie Sherwin, his wife, of Chesterfield
county, Virginia.
In 1882 Lucien Brooking Tatum married Mary Selden, daughter of
Richard Herbert Tatum, M. D., who was born at "Longwood," on the
Appomattox, in Chesterfield county; a son of Henry Walker Tatum,
and Mary Goode, of that county. Her mother, now living, is Lily, the
daughter of Charles Selden, late Judge of Powhatan county, Virginia,
and Sarah Skelton, a sister of Dr. John G. Skelton of Richmond. Charles
Selden was a grandson of Rev. Miles Selden, colonial pastor of St.
Johns church, Richmond; commonly known as "Parson Selden" (see
his records in Volume 1).
Mr. Tatum and wife are members of St. James P. E. Church, Richmond;
and Mr. Tatum is a director in several of the banking and other
business institutions of Richmond city.
