Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 11

Author: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, ed. cn
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 848

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officially and as a citizen of his adopted city has borne well his part.

Mr. Orchard returned to England in 1874 for his bride, Jane Elizabeth Pope, whom he married on January 14. of that year. She died in Danville, October 18, 1896. He married (second) Laura Ferrell, born in Halifax county, Virginia, daughter of Alex- ander Ferrell, deceased, a farmer of Hali- fax county. Children by first marriage : George Herbert, born July 8, 1875, now a druggist of Lynchburg, Virginia; Harry Edwin, born July 25, 1876, also a druggist of Lynchburg; Minnie Laura, born Septem- ber 8, 1878, married W. T. Wright, of Dan- ville. Children of second marriage : Charles, born October 18, 1900, now a student at Danville School for Boys; Alexandria Mary, born September 6, 1902.

William Claiborne Powell, M. D. Trac- ing in paternal line to a revolutionary an- cestor. Dr. William Claiborne Powell. prom- inent in medical circles in the city of Peters- burg, through the marriage of his grand- father, William Cole Powell, to Harriet Adeline Edmunds Claiborne, is a descend- ant of Colonel William Claiborne, of the famous Virginia family of Claiborne. Dr. William Claiborne Powell's great-great- grandfather was Dr. Thomas Powell, a sur- geon in the Continental army during the war for independence. Dr. Thomas Powell married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Digges, granddaughter of Cole Digges, and great-granddaughter of Edward Digges, governor of the colony of Virginia in 1655. The Powell family is of Welsh and English lineage, the early ancestors being among the first settlers at Jamestown and on the Peninsula.

From Dr. Thomas Powell the line de- scends through Cole Powell. born 1782, who died December 11. 1813, and his wife, Eliz- abeth Ann (Digges) Powell, who died in 1867: to William Cole Powell, born April 8, 1810, died August 21, 1880. William Cole Powell was a resident of Dinwiddie county. Virginia, a farmer, and married Harriet Adeline Edmunds Claiborne, of Brunswick county, Virginia, born in 1821, died in 1844. daughter of Dr. Devereau J. Claiborne, and seventh in descent from Colonel William Claiborne.

The line of Claiborne, traced to its union

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with that of Powell, is as follows: From Colonel William Claiborne, secretary of the colony of Virginia from 1621 to 1676, known to history as the "Evil Genius of Maryland," who married, about 1646, Elizabeth Boteler (or Butler) ; to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Claiborne, killed by Indians, October 7, 1683, who married Sarah Phinn, born in 1659; to Captain Thomas Claiborne, born in 1681, died in 1732, who was thrice mar- ried and is credited by tradition with twen- ty-seven children, his third wife Annie Fox, daughter of Henry Fox; to Bernard Clai- borne, who married Martha Ravenscroft, widow of Peter Poythress; to Colonel Thomas Claiborne, born in 1747, died in 1811, serving for thirty years in the national Congress, who married as his first wife Mary Clayton, who died in 1803; to Dr. Devereau J. Claiborne, born in 1785, died in 1871, who was five times married, his sec- ond wife Harriet Edmunds, of Charlotte county, Virginia.

Albert Theodore Powell, son of William Cole and Harriet Adeline Edmunds (Clai- borne) Powell, was born in 1842, at "Nor- born Hill," Nottoway county, Virginia, ad- joining Dinwiddie county, Virginia. He was a young man of eighteen years when he enlisted in the Confederate States army. He served as first lieutenant of Dinwiddie Greys, Third Virginia Infantry, for four months, resigned on account of ill health in July, 1861, and joined the Third Virginia Cavalry in November, 1861, and served to the end of the war. His military service was filled with exciting and thrilling incident ; he participated in all the important battles, was wounded in action, and was thrice taken prisoner by the enemy, but made his escape ; was shot in the leg and was invalided for six months. He attended Emory and Henry College and Randolph-Macon College, but did not graduate from either institution. He taught school in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, for several years, about twenty- five sessions, and later took up legal study, at the close of the war, and has since been active in professional practice, for more than twenty years filling the office of com- monwealth attorney of Dinwiddie county, completing his term about 1900, now re- siding at the family home in Dinwiddie county. He served as justice of the peace about ten years ; as sheriff for fifteen months ;

and as acting justice of the peace for three years. Since 1867 he has been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, serving as filer, junior warden, senior warden and now worshipful master. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. Albert Theodore Powell married (first) October 12, 1869, Louisa Jones Thweatt, born in 1843, daughter of Archi- bald and Sarah C. Thweatt and grand- daughter of Thomas Thweatt and Francis Fitzgerald, the latter named having been clerk of Nottoway county for more than half a century. Children: I. Dr. William Claiborne, of whom further. 2. Eugene Hume, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal church, now pastor of Benns Church, Isle of Wight county, Virginia. 3. Adeline Claiborne, lives at home with her parents in Dinwiddie county. 4. Percy T., a mer- chant of Petersburg, Virginia. 5. Sallie Louisa, married Arthur G. Ferguson, of Dinwiddie county, and has eight children. 6. Lillian Estelle, married Bernard T. Doyle, of McKenney, Dinwiddie county, mother of four children. 7. Alberta May, married Marshall Tucker, of Dinwiddie county ; two children. 8. Rinaldo John, a farmer of Brunswick county, Virginia; he married Nellie Jones, daughter of James Jones, of Brunswick county, Virginia. Albert Theo- dore Powell married (second) in February, 1909, Miss E. D. Zehmer, daughter of Dr. Charles G. Zehmer.

Dr. William Claiborne Powell, son of Al- bert Theodore and Louisa Jones (Thweatt) Powell, was born in Dinwiddie county, Vir- ginia, August 23, 1870. Preliminary to be- ginning professional study he pursued courses in the public schools and William and Mary College, attending the latter insti- tution during the terms of 1895 and 1896. For two years thereafter he taught school in the county of his birth, then matriculated at the Medical College of Virginia, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine, May 9, 1901. In December of that year he passed the examination of the medical examiners' board of Virginia, and since that date has been continuously in professional practice, which he first took up at Chesterfield Court House, Virginia. One year later Dr. Powell removed to Petersburg, which place he has since made the scene of his professional labors, which have broadened and increased

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with the passing years. He is a successful practitioner, and has to his credit attain- ment and position of worthy order.

Dr. Powell is associated with numerous professional associations, among those with which he has been identified being the Ches- erfield County Medical Society, of which le was elected a member in 1902 (January ). n October of the same year being voted an onorary member of the society ; the Med- cal Society of Virginia, of which he was lected a fellow, October 18, 1904; the Petersburg Medical Faculty, to which he was elected April 15, 1905; the Southside Virginia Medical Association, of which he vas elected a fellow in 1907: the American Medical Association, of which was elected fellow in 1908, and the Dinwiddie County Medical Society and the Southern Medical Association, with both of which he became affiliated in 1914, being elected charter presi- lent of Dinwiddie County Medical Society ind president of Petersburg Medical Faculty. Dr. Powell has contributed nu- nerous articles to the medical journals and as enriched the literature of his profession by his writings, which contain the results of deep study and particular investigation, mong the best known of his papers being 'Etiology of Pneumonia," "Monstrosity." 'Gonorrhea in the Female," and "Some Re- marks on Obstetrics." All of these were cad before the various societies of which he is a member and in whose deliberations ind activities he takes prominent part. Dr. Powell has been medical examiner for sev- ral insurance companies, in April, 1905, accepted this position with the Mutual Life insurance Company of New York, in July, 904. with the Southern Mutual Aid Asso- iation of Birmingham, Alabama, in May, 905, with the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ca, in September, 1906, with the Philadel- phia Life Insurance Company, and also of the Modern Woodmen of the World. He s a member of the Alumni Society of the Medical College of Virginia, fraternizes with the Masonic order and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and s a communicant of the Protestant Epis- copal church.

Dr. William Claiborne Powell married, n Lynchburg, Virginia, October 5. 1909, Sarah Breckenridge Early, born in Camp- bell county, Virginia, daughter of Leverett

S. and Jennie B. ( Moon) Early, member of the family to which General Jubal B. Early belonged. Leverett S. Early was born 111 Campbell county, Virginia, in 1842, fol- lowed agriculture all of his life, served in the Confederate States army during the four years of the war, and died July 3. 1914.

G. Funston Lucado. Thomas Edwin Lu- cado, the first representative of the line here considered of whom we have definite infor- mation, was a planter of Buckingham coun- ty, Virginia, and he served with distinction in a Virginia regiment during the war of 1812. He married Lucy Walker. also of Buckingham county, Virginia, and by her had the following children: Nancy, mar- ried C. Johnson ; James, married Betty Mor- gan, and went west ; Edwin, married a Miss Poindexter : Josephine, unmarried ; William, married Margaret Palmer ; Mary, married James Mathias; Jeannette, married Pow- hatan Haynes; Lucy, married William James ; Leonard Fretwell, see forward.

(II) Captain Leonard Fretwell Lucado. son of Thomas Edwin and Lucy (Walker ) Lucado, was born in Bedford county, Vir- ginia, August 28, 1832, died July 5, 1901. He received a fair education in the schools of his native county and at Lynchburg. to which city he came at an early age. For some time he filled the position of clerk for his uncle. James Fretwell, a well known merchant and prominent citizen of Lynch- burg at that time. From the very com- mencement of his active business career, Captain Lucado evinced those qualities of energy and progressiveness that character- ized him throughout his long and useful life.

After various employments he became an operator of canal boats on the old James river and Kanawha canal and in this line of business met with signal success, and he also engaged for a short period of time in the tobacco business. When the oll canal was sold to the Richmond & Alleghany railroad, he entered the wholesale grocery business, the firm name being Lucado & Urquhart. In January, 1883. his son, G. Funston Lucado, entered the firm as a part- ner. purchasing the interest of Mr. Urqu- hart. Throughout Virginia and neighbor- ing states this business was conducted with great success, and the firm of Lucado & Sons became known among the leaders of

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the Lynchburg jobbing interests. In 1899 the senior Mr. Lucado retired from active pursuits, closing up his business.

Captain Lucado entered the Confederate army, April 24, 1861, in Company G, Elev- enth Virginia Regiment. He was commis- sioned captain of commissary department in the field, August 8, 1861, and shortly afterward assigned to General Longstreet's brigade headquarters, regimental commis- sary. While serving in this capacity he was present at the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Frazier's Farm (where he was wounded), Second Manassas, Brownboro, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Dranesville, Cold Harbor. After June 12, 1864, he was with General Early and at all the battles in which his troops engaged until after Cedar Creek, among them Hanover Junction, where he was again wounded. He surrendered at Appomattox, having been in constant serv- ice throughout the war, and was a member of the Home Guard.

Captain Lucado married (first) Ammen Hamner, (second) Belle Pettygrew, daugh- ter of James W. and Mary (Newell) Petty- grew, who bore him two sons: G. Funston, see forward, and Albert Walker.

(III) G. Funston Lucado, son of Captain Leonard Fretwell and Belle (Pettygrew) Lucado, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, November 12, 1861, died July 24, 1904. He received his education in the public schools of his native city and at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute, Lexington, Virginia, from which institution he was graduated. He gained his first business experience by asso- ciating with his father in the wholesale mer- cantile business, under the firm title of Lu- cado & Sons. While prosecuting this busi- ness, G. Funston Lucado was attracted to the possibilities of coal development in West Virginia, and by judicious invest- ments made almost at the inception of the coal operations in that field, he was largely and prominently identified with the coal mining industry. His prescience and prac- tical knowledge of the business in every de- tail are best attested by the fact that at the time of his death he was president of the Raleigh Coal & Coke Company, of Raleigh county, West Virginia ; of the Gilliam Coal & Coke Company ; of the Arlington Coal & Coke Company; of the Shawnee Coal & Coke Company, all of McDowell county,

West Virginia; of the Glen Allen Coal & Coke Company, of Mingo county, West Vir- ginia; secretary and treasurer of the Lee Coal & Coke Company, Virginia, and Coal & Coke Company of Virginia, and a director of the Lynchburg National Bank. Among his associates in the coal field Mr. Lucado was highly regarded as a man of exceptional capacity and tireless enterprise, whose char- acter won confidence and whose discretion overcame difficulties. He was not only liked and respected by the operators, but was implicitly trusted by the employees of every company with which he was identified.

Whether the elements of success in life are innate attributes of the individual, or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine, yet the study of a suc- cessful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of the same uncertainty. A man who measured up to moderu requirements was the late G. Funston Lucado, in whose death the com- munity lost not only a singularly success- ful man, but a most worthy and honored citizen. He was not only successful him- self, but was largely influential in the suc- cess of others, and he has left to posterity that priceless heritage, an honored name.

Mr. Lucado married Margaret Sandford Glass, daughter of Major Robert Henry and Meta (Sanford) Glass (see Glass II). Child : Margaret Funston.

(The Glass Line).

(I) Thomas Glass, the first member of the family of whom we have information, was born in Fluvanna county, Virginia. Later he removed to Amherst county, Vir- ginia, where he purchased land and followed agricultural pursuits. continuing along this line throughout the active years of his life. He became prominent in his community and served a number of years as captain of a militia company. He married Lavinia Cauthorne, daughter of Richard and Ann (Williamson) Cauthorne, the latter named having been an accomplished and very beau- tiful woman, whose death occurred in 1842. Mrs. Glass died in 1852. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Glass: Robert Henry, see for- ward ; Horatio, died young in Florida ; John, moved to Missouri, married. and died there ; Langhorne, died young; Louisa, married a

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Mr. See and had one daughter, Georgianna, married J. Laidain and had two daughters, Ada and -; Thomas, died young.

(II) Major Robert Henry Glass, son of Thomas and Lavinia (Cauthorne) Glass, was born at Balcony Falls, Amherst county, Virginia, February, 1822, died in Lynch- burg, Virginia, May 6, 1896. His business career was devoted to newspaper work, and at the time of his death was one of the lead- ing newspaper men in Virginia, being known as the "veteran editor." He was for many years editor and proprietor of the "Daily Republican" of Lynchburg, and also edited and owned papers in Petersburg and Danville, and when his pen was laid aside for the last time it was the pen of one of the ablest and best known of Virginia edi- tors. He was serving in that capacity when many of the well known editors of the state at the present time were boys, and at the time when the editorial department of a paper was the paper itself, and only a brave and true man could be respected in that position. While always a fearless writer, he was the last man in the world to do any- one an injustice, and he was especially kind to the young men of the press and always ready to give them a word of encourage- ment and a helping hand. He also served as postmaster of Lynchburg for many years, both before the civil war and during that struggle, and at the close of the war, so highly were his services valued, he was offered a reappointment by President Lin- coln, but could not see his way clear to ac- cept a favor from the North at a time when the hostile feeling between the states ran so high. During a portion of the war he served the Confederacy on General Floyd's staff with the rank of major. During the many years he so efficiently filled the office of postmaster he still found time to attend to newspaper work, and continued his edi- torial labors on the "Daily Republican," of which he retained a part ownership. Major Glass was a man of indomitable will power and great energy, and even when in his latter years his health, greatly impaired dur- ing the war, began to fail he still kept at his editorial work in the office of the "Lynchburg News" until forced to retire by the seriousness of his illness.

With thorough training, true journalistic instinct, broad knowledge of affairs and inti- mate acquaintance with leaders in his

chosen profession, Major Glass reflected honor upon his vocation, and in his conduct of the various newspapers with which he was connected made them the exponents of the highest interests of the community. the state and the nation. Though nearly two decades have gone by since his demise, his memory, both in the newspaper world and among the older citizens of Lynchburg has been kept green, and he is still spoken of with admiration and esteem. His work was widely extended, and will be felt and recog- nized for many years, and his example is well worthy of emulation by the rising gen- eration.

Major Glass married (first) Elizabeth Christian, born in 1826, died January 15. 1860, daughter of Judge Samuel Christian, and granddaughter of Captain Henry Chris- tian, an officer in the war of the revolution. Major Glass married (second) Meta Sand- ford, of North Carolina, daughter of John W. and Margaret ( Halladay) Sandford, of Philadelphia. Children of first wife : 1. Rob- ert Henry Jr., married Beatrice Daugherty ; one daughter, Beatrice. 2. Edward Chris- tian, married Susan Carter ; children: Ed- ward Christian Jr., May C., Robert C., Ilenry B., Nannie D., Elizabeth C., Susan, Virginia, Shirley. Irvine Clark, the three last named deceased. 3. Carter, married Aurelia Caldwell ; children : Paulus Howell, Carter Jr., Mary Archer, Augusta Christian, Claiborne, deceased. 4. Nannie Patterson. Children of second wife : 5. Margaret Sand- ford, married G. Funston Lucado (see Lu- cado III). 6. Erskine Douglas, married Jennie Darby : children : John Sandford. Jennie Darby. 7. John Sandford, deceased : married Elizabeth Pollard ; children: John S., Elizabeth. 8. Marian Langhorne, mar- ried Blair Bannister: daughter, Margaret. 9. Louise Augusta, married F. D. Johnston Jr. : children: Robert, Louise. 10. Cora Fontaine, died young. 11. Meta, unmarried.

James Sclater, a son of James Selater and grandson of William Shellon Selater. James Sclater passed his business life in connec- tion with the interests of Hampton. Vir- ginia, identified in his operations with his brother, Lemuel Selater. His grandfather. William Sheldon Selater, was a plantation owner and mar of large business affairs of York county. Virginia, his home near Land's End. He was the father of John. James.

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William Sheldon (2), and Catherine Fran- ces. James Sclater, father of James Sclater, was born in York county, Virginia. He sup- ported the Confederate cause in the field during the war between the states, and was thrice married, his children by his second wife, Jane Hoskins, being: Lemuel, Mary Jane, William Sheldon (3), John M., Francis Howard, James, of whom further, and Laura Virginia.

James Sclater was born December 8, 1851, died July 14, 1909. He was educated in the schools of Hampton and at other places in Elizabeth City county, as a young man be- coming associated in business with his brother, Lemuel Hoskins, in drug dealings. Their first establishment was at the location on North Queen street now occupied by the Lee-Patterson Hardware Company, and they were subsequently situated at the pres- ent site of the Booker Hardware establish- ment. A line of hardware was in time added to the drug business conducted by them, and a pleasant and profitable association was continued until the retirement of the elder partner in 1892. James Sclater was a director of the Merchants' Bank of Hamp- ton, and occupied a position among the reli- able, substantial business men of the city. He was a communicant of St. John's Prot- estant Episcopal Church, a man of upright character, good works, and recognized high standing.

He married, May 11, 1904, Mollie Mara- ble, born December 8, 1881, daughter of Isaac Christian Marable. The Marable fam- ily has been long in Virginia, one of its early members belonging to the Virginia house of burgesses, and Isaac Christian Marable was a son of Major Marable and his wife, Christiana (Taylor) Marable. Isaac Chris- tian Marable was born in 1853, and was a farmer of Charles City county, Virginia. He married, in 1875. Elizabeth James Davis, daughter of Archibald and Mary Ann Davis, of Charles City county, and had issue: Beulah, married Clinton Simonson, and has Wise, Winnie, Pearl and Elizabeth ; Pearl; Mollie, of previous mention, married James Sclater, and now resides in Hampton, Vir- ginia; Davis, married Leone Powell, and has Edward and Aubrey ; Alma ; Samuel.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Alfred Magill Randolph. No family belongs more distinctively to Virginia than does that of Randolph, for the

records of the Old Dominion, whether they be of church or state, bear testimony to careers of brilliance and usefulness credited to those of the name, descendants of Colonel William Randolph, of Turkey Island, in the James river, Henrico county, Virginia. Rt. Rev. Alfred Magill Randolph, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, belongs to this line, and is one of two of the four sons of Robert Lee Ran-

dolph, of "Eastern View," who entered the ministry of the Episcopal church, the other bring Rev. Buckner Magill Randolph. More than half a century has passed since Bishop Randolph's entrance into ecclesiastical cir- cles, and in that time, whether as rector of a parish, chaplain in the army, or diocesan official, he has given of his best to the cause of the church, to the glory of God and the realization of His kingdom.

Colonel William Randolph, American an- ccstor of the family, was a son of Richard Randolph, born February 22, 1627, died in Dublin, Ireland, in 1671, who married Eliz- abeth, daughter of Richard Ryland, and set- tled at "Morton Hall," Warwickshire, Eng- land ; grandson of William Randolph, born in 1572, died in 1660, married (second) Dorothy Lane ; and great-grandson of Rob- ert Randolph, of Hams. county Sussex, England, Gent., married Rose Roberts, of Hawkhurst, county Kent, England. The arms that belonged to the family in its Eng- lish home were: Gules, a cross fleury, ar- gent. bearing five mullets pierced, sable. Crest-An antelope erased, holding in the mouth a baton. Motto-"Fari quae sentiat (To speak what he thinks)."

Colonel William Randolph was born in Yorkshire, England. about 1651, moved to Warwickshire, and from there came to the province of Virginia in 1674. He was clerk of Henrico county, Virginia, from 1683 to 1711, member of the house of burgesses from 1685 to 1699 and from 1703 to 1705 and again in 1710, speaker of the house in 1690, clerk of the house in 1702, attorney general in 1696, and member of the Royal Council. His death occurred April 11, 1711. He married, in March, 1680, Mary Isham, daughter of Henry Isham, of Bermuda Hundred, and his wife, Catherine, and was the father of nine children.

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county, in 1681. died October 19, 1741. He inherited Turkey Island and is there buried, his grave, near that of his father, marked with a stone bearing the following inscrip- tion :

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Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 11

Author: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, ed. cn Publication date: 1915 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 848

Author: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, ed. cn
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 848