JAMES M. BOOKER
Is of a family early seated in Cumberland county, Virginia, where his
grandfather, William Booker, was born and died. He is the son of
Richard A. and Eliza (Davis) Booker, both now deceased, and was born
in Cumberland county on February 3, 1830. He removed to Lynchburg
in 1850, and was three years engaged in the dry goods business,
then went into the tobacco business, in which he still continues. He
was magistrate of Lynchburg eight years, member of the council two
years: trustee of the Miller Female Orphan Asylum since 1878; and is
now vice-president of the First National Bank of Lynchburg.
In Lynchburg, December 14, 1852, Rev. C. R. Vaughn officiating, he
married Mrs. S. M., daughter of Jesse Hare Selden, who died in Lynchburg,
in 1881, aged 57 years. The record of their children is: James
M., jr., married Mazie F., daughter of Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, of
Lynchburg; Claudine, now the wife of Judge Wingfield Griffin, of Salem,
Virginia; Ernestine, now the wife of C. S. Hutter, Esq., of Lynchburg;
Jesse H., died in 1881, at the age of 20 years.
