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practice of the law, Captain Hope ac- Dr. Frank S. Hope received his early cepted the position of secretary to his education at the university of Virginia, graduating from there in June, 1876. After relative, Com. S. Barron, of the navy. Being transferred to the United States spending a year in Illinois he went to Phil- sloop-of-war "Cyanne" he made a cruise in adelphia, Penn., where he took a special the West Indies and subsequently, in 1850, course in medicine. Returning to Ports- mouth in 1879, he has since continued to practice his profession in that place. In 1885 he was elected health officer of went upon the field with J. Pembroke Jones, of Virginia, then a passed midship- man in the navy. At the first fire both fell, badly wounded. The difficulty was Portsmouth, and still holds that office. afterwards most honorably adjusted. In The doctor is a member of the American 1857 Captain Hope married Annie Bev- erly Whiting, of Hampton. In the year previous he had been elected common- Medical and Virginia State Medical soci- eties. He was married, in 1884, to Anna M. West, of Norfolk county, Va. They wealth's attorney for Elizabeth City have one child, Mary, who is the delight of their home.
JAMES BARRON HOPE
county, in which the town of Hampton, where the captain then resided, is situ- ated. On the 13th of May, 1847, he de. livered the poem at Jamestown, on the settlement of Virginia. At the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Washington,
(deceased) was born on the 23d of March, occasion of the 250th anniversary of the
1829, at the residence of his maternal grandfather, at that time commandant of the Norfolk (Va.) navy yard. He was by Crawford, on the capitol square in
the son of the late Wilton Hope, youngest Richmond, in 1858, Mr. Hope pronounced son of George Hope, of " Bethel," in Eliz- the metrical ode. Captain Hope served abeth City county, Va., and of Jane A., gallantly in the Confederate army, attain- eldest daughter of the late Commodore ing the rank of captain, and was pa- Barron, whose father organized the Vir- roled at the capitulation of the forces
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of General Joseph E. Johnston at Greens- as a Virginian and citizen, he was an ideal boro, N. C. After the war Capt. Hope type of both. He was the soul of honor. made Norfolk his home, and successively He was incapable of a dishonorable act, edited the Norfolk Day Book, under its or of a dishonorable thought. He was a democratic auspices, The Norfolk Vir- man of undaunted courage; and as true ginian, and in 1872 founded the Norfolk as steel to his friends. His heart over- Landmark, of which journal he was up to his death at the head. In 1881 Capt. Hope was selected by the Yorktown cen- flowed with kindness to all, and the needy never appealed to him in vain. As a husband and father he was indeed tennial congressional commission as the worthy of the love of a family that adored poet on that occasion, and the fitness of him. the selection was universally recognized. The poem he delivered was a master- DR. GUSTAVUS RICHARD BROWN HORNER piece, and will rank with the finest poetic was born in Warrenton, Va., June 18, productions. Capt. Hope was a delegate 1804, and was educated at the high school to the Chicago convention that nomin- taught by Rev. Wm. Williamson near Middleburg, Va., and at the Warrenton academy. He then went to Philadelphia, Pa., in October, 1822, and remained there until May, 1826, securing a medical edu- cation at the university of Pennsylvania. He was appointed assistant surgeon on board the frigate " Macedonian " and re- mained on board her two and a half years, when he was transferred to the frigate "Brandywine " as assistant sur- ferred to the sloop-of-war "John Adams," ated President Cleveland, and he was appointed by Gov. Lee superintendent of public schools of Norfolk, a position he filled with signal ability. It was through his efforts that the fine school buidling for the colored children was erected. On the organization of Pickett-Buchanan camp, C. V., Capt. Hope was first com- mander, and on the occasion of the first memorial services in Norfolk in honor of the Confederate dead, he delivered the geon for six months. He was next trans- poem. But a few days before his death, which occurred suddenly the evening of having been promoted to surgeon in 1831, September 15, 1887, of heart failure, he and went to the Mediterranean sea, which was invited, by Governor Lee, to deliver the poem at. the coming laying of the corner stone of the Lee monument at Richmond. His editorial work, his duties as school superintendent, and the work of preparing the poem for the occasion of the Lee monument, no doubt hastened his death. Captain Hope left a widow and two daughters, Mrs. R. A. Marr and cruise lasted until 1834. A second cruise to the Mediterranean followed, he serv- ing as surgeon on the frigate "United States," the cruise lasting until 1838. He was next detailed on shore duty until 1841, when he went to the coast of Brazil on the " Delaware," an eighty-nine-gun ship, as fleet-surgeon and remained there until 1843, and then again went to the Mrs. R. H. Baker, Jr., to mourn his loss. Mediterranean, remaining until 1844. As a gentleman he was irreproachable; as Then he went on the frigate "Savannah" an editor, he was brilliant, chivalric and as fleet-surgeon to California, and re- courteous; as a poet, he sang songs mained there eighteen months, and then as undying as Homer's great measures; came home by way of Panama in 1850
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His next active service was in 1856, when | Alexandria, for a short time, but located he served in the same capacity on the in Warrenton, Va., in 1786 and carried " Wabash" until 1858. Then he went out in 1861 on the flag frigate " Colorado," of the gulf blockading squadron, as fleet- surgeon, and went by the way of Key West to Fort Pickens; in 1862 he was transferred to the " Niagara," which was made the flag-ship, and, before the divis- ion of the gulf squadron into east and west squadrons, he was assigned to the "San Jacinto" as fleet-surgeon to the former. The yellow fever breaking out on the "San Jacinto," she was sent north, but before she left he was transferred to the "St. Lawrence," under Admiral Lardner, with whom he remained until June, 1863. He was then transferred to the marine rendezvous at Philadelphia, where he did good service until 1866, when he was placed on the retired list, although he did not really abandon active duty until 1867. He is at present one of the oldest officers in the United States navy and heads the list of medical directors.
on merchandising for about forty years, when he retired. He was a member of the Fauquier county court, and high sheriff of Fauquier county. He was married in 1789 to Mary Edmonds, daughter of Col. William Edmonds of Fauquier county, Va., who commanded a regiment in the Revo- lutionary war. To this union were born ten children, of whom eight grew to ma- turity, as follows: Inman ( deceased in 1860); he married twice; first to Mary Henderson of Dumfries, Va., and second to Anna Peace. William Edmonds Hor- ner ( deceased in 1853), professor of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania from 1831 to his death; he married Eliza- beth Welsh of Philadelphia; her brother, John Welsh, was minister to England under President Hayes; Robert Richard Horner ( deceased in 1831 ) ; he was mar- ried first to Miss Mary A. Tyler, of Prince William county, Va., and second to Mary Baylor. Mary Edmonds Horner died in 1872, unmarried, Dr. G. R. B. Horner of Dr. Horner was married in the fall of 1858 to Mary Agnes Teresa Byrne, daugh- ter of Dr. Charles Byrne, of Jacksonville, Fla., one of the electors of President Pierce. To this marriage there were born four children, of whom one died in in- fancy, and three grew to maturity as fol- lows: Alfred Byrne Horner, who is in the office of Superintendent Thom Wil- liamson of the state war and navy depart- ments; Emmeline Byrne Horner, wife of J. W. Belt of Prince George's county, of Warrenton, Va .; Alfred Horner (de- ceased in 1881); he married Elizabeth White of Philadelphia, Pa .; for twenty- seven years he was secretary and treas- urer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railway company. Joseph Horner (deceased in 1886) ; he was an attorney at law. He married Eliza Bay- lor, of Fauquier county, Va. Her grand- father Baylor contributed freely in money and equipping troops for the Revolution- ary war, and after the war congress Md .; and Charles Gustavus Horner. granted his widow $30,000 to reimburse Dr. Horner's wife, his companion for over her. Joseph Horner married for his sec- ond wife Miss Lucy Chapman, daughter of George Chapman, but to this marriage there were born no children. Benjamin a quarter of a century, died in 1884. Wil- liam Horner, father of the doctor, was born in Charles county, Md., in 1766. He was a merchant in Charles county and in Franklin Horner, who married Caroline
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C. Gray, daughter of Nathaniel Gray, Sr., ningham, daughter of Lieut .- Gov. Chris- of Fauquier county, but they had no chil- dren, and she died in February 1888. He died June 24, 1892. The doctor's father died in 1841 and his mother in 1837. Dr. Horner's grandfather was Robert Hor- ner, who was born in Yorkshire, England, about 1730, and came to America in his early manhood. He was a shipping mer- chant at Port Tobacco, Md., for many years, and died in 1772. He married Anna Brown, widow of Rev. Samuel Cleggett, youngest daughter of Dr. Gus-
topher Codrington of Antigua; and was seated at Carrington's St. Philips parish, Barbadoes, W. I., whose fifth son, Col. George Carrington (1711-1785), emigrated from the said island to Virginia, about 1723, and married, on the 26th of June, 1732, Anne, a daughter of Major William and Frances (Gold) Mayo, of the Wilt- shire family, England, armiger. Major Mayo has memorable connection with the history of Virginia, as having been one of the surveyors who ran the dividing line tavus Brown, of Port Tobacco, Md., whose between Virginia and North Carolina, in daughters were known as the " nine Miss Browns." To this union were born sev- eral children. After the doctor's grand- father's death his widow married for her third husband Samuel Hanson, whose brother was at one time speaker of the United States house of congress. Her son by her first husband ( Rev. S. Cleg- gett ) was surgeon in the Revolutionary army. 1728, and was assisted by said Col. George Carrington in running the same, who laid off, for Col. William Byrd, in 1737, the beginning of the present city of Richmond. The Carringtons and the Mayos in suc- ceeding generations have made the names historic. The mother of P. R. Carrington, daughter of Powhatan and Sydney Frances (Rodes) Jones, of Buckingham county, Va., was, it is stated, of royal lineage - the grandmother of her father, Lady Ara- PEYTON RODES CARRINGTON, bella Stuart Hughes, being fourth in de- scent from Charles II of England. P. R. Carrington received a classical education from private tutors and at Hampden-Sid-
son of Col. Joseph Littlebury and Adaline Sydney (Jones) Carrington, was born at Cartersville, Cumberland county, Va., January 9th, 1834. Col. Carrington is ney college; commenced life as a civil engi- extendedly and warmly remembered as neer, serving for a time under his kinsman, the accomplished late proprietor of the the late R. E. Rodes, major-general of leading hotels of Richmond, Va .- the the Confederate States army, and aiding Exchange and the Ballard.
in the construction of various important improvements in Virginia and Texas until 1858, when he associated himself with his J. Carrington, in the conduct of the Bolling- Brooke hotel, Petersburg, Va., under the firm name of J. L. Carrington
The lineage of P. R. Carrington com- bines some of the most worthy of the families of the Old Dominion. He is father and his brother, the late Samuel fifth in descent from Dr. Paul Carrington (of the ancient family seated at Carring- ton's Cheshire, England, whose arms are: Sa. on a bend ar. 3 lozenges of the field; & Sons. In 1859 he made the tour of Crest-out of a ducal coronet or. a uni- Europe; returning, here-entered business corn's head, armed and crined or .; Motto with his father as proprietors of the - Deus meumque jus) who married Hen- American hotel, Richmond, Va .; May 12,
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1861, he entered the Confederate States army as a member of the Petersburg cavalry, of which he became orderly sergeant; his health giving way, he served for a time in the quartermaster's depart- ment at Richmond; returning to the field he participated in a number of engage- ments in the vicinity of Richmond, Peters- burg, and the big cattle raid in Grant's rear. In 1864 he was transferred to the engineer corps and served as an assistant to Lieut. Dade in the construction of various roads which were a military necessity. He also, for a time, served as aid to Gen. Robert Ransom. On the evacuation of Richmond, April 3, 1865, he left the city with Commissary-General I. M. St. John (his brother-in-law) and Gen. John C. Breckinridge, secretary of war, whom he accompanied to Danville. He was paroled at Farmville, Va., April 25, 1865, and returned to Richmond; he was a merchant until 1880, when (his health, always delicate, giving way) he engaged in farming in Henrico county. For the past four years he has followed, with increasing success, that branch of chancery practice known as abstracter of titles. He is a gentleman of culture, refined instincts, and antiquarian tastes, with a special bias for historical research.
In faith Mr. Carrington is an Episco- palian, and served for years as senior warden of St. John's church - a historic colonial church. He is a Mason of the thirty-third degree; a member of the Virginia Historical society ;. of the Vir- ginia branch of the Cincinnati; of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion - his claims being thus published: "Grandson of William and Martha Povall Carrington; great-grandson of Joseph (1741-1802) and Theodosia Mosby Carrington. Capt. Joseph Carrington
organized, by his father's aid, a company of minute men from Cumberland county, in service in North Carolina and lower Virginia in 1775, and was with his brothers Edward, Mayo, and Nathaniel; a member of the Cumberland committee of safety; great-great-grandson of Col. George Carrington of 'Boston Hill,' Cumberland county; member of the house of burgesses and chairman of the Cumberland company committee of safety; county lieutenant; county sur- veyor, and a member of the general assembly of Virginia, as were his said sons for many years. Four of his eight sons were officers in the Revolution, viz: Captain Joseph Carrington, Judge Paul Carrington (1733-1818) of 'Mulberry Hill,' Charlotte county; member of the Virginia convention, and state committee of safety (whose three sons were distin- guished officers in the continental line) ; Col. Edward Carrington (1749-1810) and Major Mayo Carrington (1753-1803)- the last two original members of the society of the Cincinnati, and who served for seven years each in the Revolution), and Col. William Cabell and Col. Nicholas Cabell were his sons-in- law; great-grandson of Charles and Martha Goode Povall; great-great-grand- son of Bennett and Martha Jefferson Goode, of ' Fine Creek,' Powhatan county, whose nephew was Thomas Jefferson, author of the declaration of independ- ence; great-great-grandson of John Goode of ' Falls Plantation,' killed in the early Indian wars, son of John Goode of ' Whitby,' a soldier under Bacon in the Rebellion of 1676," and of various phil- anthropic bodies. He married January 23, 1866, his fourth cousin, Sarah Jane, daughter of Col. George Mayo Carring- ton, and his wife Margaret Adams, grand-
Role. Hughes
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daughter of Col. Richard Adams and his wife Elizabeth, sister of Hon. Cyrus
Robert W. Hughes married, June 4th, 1850, in the governor's mansion, Rich- Griffin, whose wife was Lady Christine mond, Va., Miss Eliza M. Johnston, Stuart, daughter of the Baron Fohquair daughter of Hon. Charles C. Johnston, of Scotland.
M. C., and Eliza Mary (née) Preston, and niece of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Mrs. Hughes was born July 3, 1825. Both of her parents having died in her child- hood, she had been adopted and reared
Col. Adams served as a member of the house of burgesses of Virginia, conven- tion of 1775, and as colonel of Virginia troops in the Revolution. He was a prominent and enterprising citizen of by two first cousins of her mother, Gov. Richmond (and his sons were like use- John B. Floyd and his wife, Sally
ful)- an addition in its plan, and a street bearing his name. The surviving issue
B. (née) Preston, who were childless. Through her mother, Mrs. Hughes is of Mr. P. R. Carrington is one son, Pey- granddaughter of Gen. John Preston, ton Rodes, Jr., born February 21, 1871, who assists his father in his present busi- ness.
JUDGE ROBERT WILLIAM HUGHES,
who resides at Norfolk, Va., was born in Powhatan county, Va., June 6, 1821. He was educated at Caldwell institute, Greensboro, N. C .; was tutor (1840-3) in Bingham's high school, Hillsboro, N. C .; was a practicing lawyer in Richmond, 1846-1853; was editor of the Richmond (Va.) Examiner, 1850-7, and joint editor of that journal from May, 1861, till April, 1865; editor of the Richmond Republic, 1865-6; editor of the Richmond State Journal, 1869-70; was United States at- torney for the western district of Virginia, 1873; republican condidate for governor of Virginia, 1873; appointed United States Robert W. Hughes is the second son of Jesse Hughes and Elizabeth Woodson, née Norton. Jesse Hughes, of Muddy Creek plantation, Powhatan county, Va., was born September 22, 1788, was married in 1812, and died in March, 1822. He was a lawyer, and a captain in the war of 1812. His wife, Elizabeth Woodson Hughes, was born September 25, 1793, and died July 12, 1822. One of the children of children, was John Morton Hughes, who judge for the eastern district of Virginia, January 14, 1874, and still holds that office; he is the author of biographies of Gen. John B. Floyd and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, published in " Lee and his Lieu- tenants," 1867; of a volume entitled, " The Currency Question," 1879; of a vol- ume entitled, "The American Dollar," 1885; and of five volumes of United States circuit and district court reports, entitled, these two, who lived to marry and have " Hughes's Reports," 1879-85.
of Montgomery county, Va., who was the head of the very large family of Prestons living chiefly in Virginia and Kentucky. The father of Mrs. Hughes, Charles C. Johnston, was a member of congress from Virginia, when he lost his wife by drowning, at Alexandria, Va., June 18, 1832. He was a son of Judge Peter Johnston, of Abingdon, Va., and of his wife, Mary (née) Wood, daughter of Valentine and Lucy Wood, the latter one of the sisters of Patrick Henry. Robert W. and Eliza M. Hughes have two living children, viz .: Robert M. Hughes and Floyd Hughes, who are lawyers now residing in Norfolk, Va. Let us now trace the genealogy of the judge as far as its most ancient source in America:
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was born February 20, 1813, and who Chesley Daniel and Judith (Christian) died in Mobile, Ala., where he lived, Sep- Daniel. David Hughes was a captain in the Revolutionary war. His eldest son, Robert (fourth of the name), died un- married. His second son was Jesse, above mentioned. His third child was Anne Hartwell, who died unmarried. tember 20, 1865, leaving one surviving child, William Morton Hughes, a drug- gist in Baltimore, Md. Another child was Elizabeth Jessie Hughes, who mar- ried Samuel G. Hughes, of Orange county, N. C .; another and younger child, was The great-grandfather of Judge R. W. Hughes was the second Robert Hughes of Hughes creek, Powhatan county, Va., who married Anne Hartwell of New Kent county, Va. They had three sons, Jesse, Robert, and David; and one daughter, Fanny. Jesse Hughes was a pioneer and explorer of the mountains in what is now (1892) West Virginia. He was a hunter and Indian fighter, and was never married. (See De Hass' Indian wars.) Hughes river, a branch of the Little Kanawha, was named after him, His brother, the third Robert Hughes, inherited the Hughes Creek plantation. which was the original seat of the family, by the law of primogeniture. This Robert Hughes had born to him daughters only, one of whom had surviving descendants. This one married Francis Goode, and thus the family seat passed to the name of Goode. Their daughter, Fanny, mar- ried Rev. John Williams, and went to North Carolina, where they left a numer- ous offspring. Robert W. Hughes, the fifth Robert Hughes, whose name heads this sketch. Elizabeth Woodson (Morton) Hughes, wife of the above Jesse Hughes, was the daughter of Hezekiah Morton, of Prince Edward county, Va., and of his wife Phæbe Moseley. Capt. 'Kiah Morton served throughout the whole period of the Revolutionary war; in the latter part of it as captain in the campaigns of Generals Gates and Greene, in the Caro- linas. He was descended in this wise from Dr. John Woodson, of Dorsetshire, England, who came over as surgeon of Sir John Harvey's command, and settled in Virginia in 1625; and whose grandson, Richard, married Anna Smith. Richard and Anna Woodson had, beside six other children, a daughter Elizabeth, who mar- ried Thomas Morton. This pair had, among other children, a son, John Mor- ton, who was in middle life at the begin- ning of the Revolutionary war, and who formed a company of infantry, embracing four of his own grown and nearly grown sons. His wife was Miss Anderson, daughter of a successful English mer- chant who lived in Prince Edward county, Va. One of the sons, thus en- listed in the patriot cause, was the above named Captain Hezekiah Morton, father
The great-great-grandfather of Judge R. W. Hughes was Robert Hughes, the first one of that name, of Hughes creek, Powhatan county, Va. He married and left sons and daughters, but no list of them and of their marriages is now ex- tant, except as to Robert Hughes, the of Elizabeth Woodson (Morton) Hughes. second of the name above mentioned.
The grandparents of Robert W. Hughes The great-great-great-grandfather of the judge was David Hughes, of Hughes creek, Powhatan county, Va. Records were David Hughes, of Muddy Creek plantation, Powhatan county, Va., and Judith Daniel, his wife, daughter of exist only of the facts respecting Robert
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Hughes (first) and of the family of his eral of them in the first two gen- descendant, Robert Hughes (second). erations of the offspring of the immigrants.
Jesse Hughes, a Huguenot immigrant, Of the offspring of the first of these inter- who came into Virginia with his Hugue- marriages was Major David Hughes, who not wife about 1695 to 1700, took up the married Nancy Merriwether and went to Kentucky, where they reared twenty-four children. Another descendant from an intermarriage is Gen. Bela M. Hughes, of Denver, Col., and so are his relations in the trans-Mississippi, west. It will thus be seen that Judge Robert WV. Hughes is a descendant of one of the oldest and most highly respected families of the noble old commonwealth of Virginia, and that talents of an unusual order have been possessed by the members of each generation.
plantation in Powhatan county, Va., then part of Goochland county, on the south side of James river, called afterward and to this day the Hughes Creek plan- tation, taking its name from a bold stream flowing into the James. The tradition con- cerning Jesse Hughes, the immigrant, is that he escaped in a boat from Rochelle, France, at the age of fourteen, disguised and alone, and was fortunate enough to reach England. After remaining some years in England and marrying a Hugue- not refugee, the two came to Virginia, and settled across the James river from Mana- ROBERT M. T. HUNTER kin town, where a large company of Huguenots had settled on lands granted them by the English crown. One of his sons married Sallie Tarlton, and had, amongst other children, a daughter, Martha Hughes, who married George Walton, the uncle and educator of the Walton of North Carolina that signed the declaration of independence. The family of Hughes intermarried with another family of Hughes, of Welsh blood, who were among the colonizers of Powhatan county, Va. The original immigrant of this Welsh family was Stephen Hughes, who was born in Caernarvonshire, Wales (some say Glamorganshire), near the river Taafe, east of Cardiff. Stephen Hughes married Elizabeth Tarlton, who was born in 1696 and lived till 1785, dying at the age of eighty-nine years. No records are extant showing the intermarriages between the Welsh family of Hughes possessing the Tarlton blood fied by access to a small but well-chosen and name, and the Huguenot family of Hughes creek, but there were sev-
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