JUDGE BEVERLEY R. WELLFORD: JR.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on
May 10, 1828. He was educated in Fredericksburg until he went to
college in Princeton in 1845. In 1847 he was graduated in the centennial
class of College of New Jersey. He studied law in Fredericksburg
under Hon. John Tayloe Lomax, and came to the Bar in September,
1849. He lived in Fredericksburg, practicing in the courts of adjoining
counties until December, 1854, when he removed to Richmond City,
where he has lived ever since and practiced law, with the interruption
of the war. He was elected in March, 1870, by the Legislature of Virginia,
Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Virginia; was re-elected
for additional term in 1875, and again re-elected in 1886, for the term
ending January 1, 1895.
Judge Wellford's father was Dr. Beverley R. Wellford, born in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, July 29, 1797, died in Richmond, December 24,
1870 (son of Dr. Robert Wellford and his wife Catharine, nee Yates, of
Fredericksburg), he was Professor of Materia Medica in Medical College
of Virginia from October, 1854, till about two years before his death,
was President of the National Medical Association in 1852. The
mother of Judge Wellford was Mary, youngest child of William Alexander
and Sarah Casson, his wife, of Snowden, Stafford county, Virginia.
She was born at Snowden, in October, 1803, was married in Fredericksburg
in February, 1824, and died in Richmond, in January, 1869, leaving
five sons and one daughter, viz:
i. Dr. John Spotswood Wellford, now living in Richmond, professor
in Medical College of Virginia; married Emmeline M. Tabb, formerly of
Gloucester county, Virginia. ii. Dr. Armistead N. Wellford, married
Elizabeth Landon Carter, daughter of Col. Robert W. Carter of "Sabine
Hall," Richmond county, Virginia; both now dead, left three sons. (1.
Robert Carter Wellford, now of "Sabine Hall," Richmond county, Virginia,
married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Wm. M. Harrison of
Richmond city. 2. Beverley Randolph Wellford, now practicing law in
Richmond, married Jane, daughter of Gen. James McDonald, adjutant
general of Virginia. 3. Armistead Landon Wellford, now practicing
medicine in Richmond.) iii. Beverley Randolph Wellford, jr., married
Susan S., daughter of the late Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro
and Leah Seddon, his wife, of Gloucester county, Virginia. iv.
Philip A. Wellford, now living in Richmond, married Miss Belle
Street, now dead. v. Charles Edward Wellford, now living in Richmond,
unmarried. vi. Mary Alexander, married James M. Marshall,
Esq., of Priestley, Fauquier county, Virginia, where she is now
living.
Dr. Beverley R. Wellford was twice married, his first wife being Betty
Burwell Page, daughter of Robert C. Page and Sally Nelson, his wife, of
King William county, and the issue of the union one daughter, now Mrs.
Sally Page Atkinson, wife of Rev. Joseph M. Atkinson, D. D., pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, North Carolina.
The father of Judge Wellford's wife was a son of Dr. William Taliaferro
and Mary Throckmorton, his wife, of Gloucester county, Virginia, born
in that county in 1802, died there in 1878; was a member of the Senate
of Virginia, 1865-67. Her mother was a daughter of Thomas Seddon
and his wife Susan Pierson, nee Alexander, born in Falmouth, Virginia,
in 1810, now living; elder sister of the late James A. Seddon, Confederate
States Secretary of War.
Judge Wellford's wife was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, and
they were married in that county, March 3, 1858. Of their eight children
only three are living, Fanny B., Edwin Taliaferro, Susan S. The
remaining five died in infancy Roberta C., Warner T., Mary Beverley,
Philip Alex. Taliaferro, John Spotswood.
