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"Here lies the HONOURABLE WILLIAM RANDOLPH, Esqr., oldest son of Colonel Wil- liam Randolph of this place, and of Mary his wife, who was of the ancient and estimable family of Ishams of Northamptonshire; having been easily introduced into business, and passed through many inferior offices of Government, with great reputa- tion and eminent capacity. He was at last, by his Majesty's happy choice and the universal approha- tion of his Country, advanced to the Council. His experience in men and business, the native gravity of his person and behaviour, his attachments to the interests of his Country, knowledge of the laws in general, and of the laws and constitution of his Colony in particular, his integrity above all calumny or suspicion, the acuteness of his parts and the extensiveness of his genius together with the solidity of sense or judgment in all that he said or did, rendered him not only equal but an ornament to the high office he bore, and have made him uni- versally lamented as a most able and impartial Judge and as an upright and useful magistrate in all other respects. Neither was he less conspicuous for a certain majestic plainness of sense and honour which carried him through all parts of private life with an equal dignity of reputation; and deservedly gained him the character of the just good man in all the several duties and relations of life.
Natus November 1681 Mortuus Oct. 19th 1741 Anno Aetatis 61."
Peter Randolph, son of William (2) or Councillor Randolph, was the great-grand- father of Bishop Randolph, and was born on Turkey Island about 1708, afterward moving to Chatsworth, also in Ilenrico county. He married Lucy, daughter of Robert Bolling, and had William, Beverly. Colonel Robert, grandfather of Bishop Randolph. and Anne. Beverly Randolph succeeded Edmund Randolph, of his family, as governor of Virginia, and was in turn followed in that office by General Henry Lee (Light Horse Harry), of revolutionary fame.
Colonel Robert Randolph was commander of a cavalry regiment in the war for inde- pendence, and married Elizabeth Carter, a sister of Anne Carter, mother of the illtis- trious Robert E. Lee.
Robert Lee Randolph, son of Colonel Robert Randolph and father of Bishop Ran- dolph, married Mary Buckner Thurston Magill, and passed. his life at his home, "Eastern View." Fauquier county, Virginia.
Children of Robert Lee and Mary Buckner Thurston ( Magill ) Randolph: William Fitzhugh, married a cousin, Nanny Carter ; Mary Magill, married a cousin, Edward C. Turner; Alfred Magill, of whom further ; Beverly, resides unmarried at Montrose, Virginia; Buckner Magill, a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church, married Mary Hoxton.
Rt. Rev. Alfred Magill Randolph, son of Robert Lee and Mary Buckner Thurston (Magill) Randolph, was born at the "Mead- ows." the home of the Magills, near Win- chester. Virginia, and received his early educational training in his home under a private tutor. subsequently attending Wil- liam and Mary College, Williamsburg. Virginia, where he graduated in 1855. He prepared for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church at the Virginia Theologi- cal Seminary, near Alexandria, and was graduated in divinity after a three years' course, in July, 1858, being ordained a deacon in the chapel of the seminary. He first became assistant to Dr. Maguire at St. George's Church, Dr. Maguire suffering a fatal stroke of apoplexy two weeks after the installation of his assistant, so that Rev. Mr. Randolph took full charge of the par- ish until a choice of his successor should be made. Five months afterward he was appointed the regular rector of St. George's. being at this time but twenty-two years old, an exceedingly youthful age for such weighty responsibility. In 1862 he and his family were ordered from their home in Fredericksburg because of the movements of the armies in that vicinity and the im- minent danger of bombardment, and at this time Rev. Mr. Randolph became a post chaplain in the Confederate States army. lle subsequently continued his clerical work in Halifax county, Virginia, until the fall of 1866, in which year he became rector of Old Christ Church, at Alexandria. Virginia, in 1867 assuming charge of Immanuel Church, Baltimore, Maryland.
Rev. Dr. Randolph continued in charge of this parish until his election to the high office of the church as assistant bishop of Virginia in 1883, and his consecration as such. Richmond, Virginia, as a central point in the diocese. then became his place of residence, and there he remained until the growth of the church and the expansion of its activities made advisable the erection
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of a new diocese, Virginia being divided into a northern and a southern diocese. In 1893 the Rt. Rev. Dr. Randolph took charge of the Southern Virginia Diocese, and fills that position at this time. His diocesan organization is a strong one ; its constituent churches well able to stand alone and en- gaged in active work, and in the almost quarter of a century that he has labored in this field, he has seen his efforts bear good fruit. To educational work in this district he has especially devoted himself with beneficial effect, and he is now president of the Bishop Payne Divinity School, at Pe- tersburg, Virginia ; president of the board of trustees of St. Paul's Normal and Industrial School (Colored), at Lawrenceville, Vir- ginia ; president of the board of trustees of the Sweet Briar Institute, at Amherst, Vir- ginia.
Bishop Randolph's lifelong association with religious work in Virginia has made his name one well-known and loved throughout the state. He is not only the head of the church in his diocese, but the leader in its works, the eagerly sought ad- viser of the clergy, and the beloved friend of the laity. Pastor and people alike revere him for his works, and their respect walks hand in hand with their love.
Bishop Randolph married, April 27, 1859, Sallie Griffith Hoxton, born January 25, 1840, daughter of Dr. William W. Hoxton, United States army, and his wife, Eliza Llewellyn Griffith, of Alexandria, Virginia. Children of Bishop Randolph and his wife, Sallie Griffith Hoxton: I. Robert Lee, M. D., born December 1, 1860, now a member of the staff of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, married Phoebe Waite Eliot, and has Alfred Magill (2), Anne Stuart, Robert Lee, Jr., Phoebe Waite, Dorothea Winslow, and Middleton Eliot. 2. Eliza Llewellyn, born November 18, 1862, died August 9, 1910; married, January 12, 1886, James M. Ambler, and had Sallie H. and Virginia M. 3. Mary Thur- ston, born July 6, 1865, died October 3, 1873. 4. Alfred Magill, Jr., born March 27, 1868, married Elizabeth C. Pace, and has Alfred Pace and Virginia Carter. 5. Sallie Winslow, born February 9, 1870, died in 1891. 6. Evelyn Barton, married April 7, 1910. James F. Wright, and has Eliza Llewellyn Randolph, born September 26, IgII. 7. Eleanor Colville, born July 1, 1875,
married Theodore Stanford Garnett, and has Theodore, Eleanor, and Alfred Randolph. 8. Frances Hoxton, born January 7, 1878, married Richard Cornelius Taylor, Jr.
Richard Cassius Lee Moncure. Since 1710, when John Moncure came to Virginia from Scotland, the name Moncure has been prominent in Virginia annals. He settled in the parish of Cleremont, Stafford county, established an estate and founded a family which has been of prominence in each suc- ceeding generation. He married Frances, daughter of Dr. Gustavus Brown, of Charles county, Maryland; distinguished descend- ants were Rev. John Moncure, an eminent minister of the Established church; Judge Richard Cassius Lee Moncure, of the Vir- ginia court of appeals ; Major Thomas Jef- ferson Moncure, a brave officer of the Con- federacy, who charged with Pickett at Gettysburg and performed other valiant service for the cause, and many, many others in every walk of life. Those named were great-great-grandfather, maternal grand- father and father of Richard Cassius Lee Moncure, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, a present day worthy descendant of worthy sires. Richard Cassius Lee Moncure is a son of Thomas Jefferson Moncure, and a grandson of William Augustus Moncure, born in Stafford county, Virginia, who served in the Virginia senate from Caroline county and was the second auditor. He married Lucy Gatewood, of Caroline county, also of a distinguished Virginia family, who bore him ten children, one of whom was Major Thomas Jefferson Mon- cure.
Major Thomas Jefferson Moncure was born in Caroline county, Virginia, Novem- ber 12, 1832, lived an honored and useful life of eighty years that was accidently ter- minated August 28, 1912. He was a grad- uate of Virginia Military Institute, class of 1853, and for two years thereafter taught in Fredericksburg schools. He then entered upon his long and successful career as a civil engineer, a profession he followed, save for military service, until his retire- ment in 1892. His first work as an engi- neer was in the location and construction of the Orange and Fredericksburg Railroad, extending from Fredericksburg to Orange Court House. He was next engaged on government work in.the northwest until the
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outbreak of the war between the states, when he returned to Virginia and entered the Confederate army. After the war he resumed the pursuit of his profession and was in turn chief engineer of the Seaboard Air Line and engineer in charge of the Rich- inond & Danville Railroad. In 1892 he re- tired from active professional life.
His military service began with the first call for men, he joining an infantry com- pany known as the Jefferson Guards of Richmond, of which he was elected captain. When this company became part of a regi- ment he was elected and commissioned major. His regiment was assigned to duty at the iron works at Richmond engaged in making guns and munitions of war, but de- siring field duty Major Moncure was at his own request relieved of this duty and ap- pointed assistant commandant at Fort Lee where troops were being drilled and organ- ized for active duty. After serving in this capacity for six months he applied for a still more active assignment and was appointed engineer officer. first serving with the engi- neers' corps, later as engineer officer on General Magruder's staff. He was superb in the face of danger, his courage being manifested on many fields of battle. He was in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, and under General Lee's special directions had charge of the countermining after the Crater explosion at Petersburg. He fought at Cold Harbor and Fredericksburg, Gettys- burg and Petersburg and many other of the historic battles of the war. His map of the battlefield of Fredericksburg is part of the government official records at Washington. He passed all perils of war unscathed, and in after life served his state in legislative halls. His last public service was as mem- ber of the constitutional convention of 1902 to which he was elected without opposition from the legislative district composed of Stafford and King George counties.
Major Moncure might well be classed as one of nature's noblemen. His kindly genial nature expanded in the society of relatives and friends and he was one of the most generous and hospitable of hosts. Ilis great nature took in all those in need and his charity was boundless. A Christian gentle- man, baptized in the Episcopal church, he was steadfast and unmovable, always abounding in good works. Those who knew him best have the comfortable assurance
that his labor was not in vain and that when without warning the end suddenly came he presented his soul spotless before Him who gave it.
Major Moncure married (first) Fannie Washington Moncure, daughter of Judge R. C. L. Moncure, of the Virginia court of appeals. He married (second) Marguerite Elizabeth Moncure, sister of his first wife, their mother being Mary Butler Washing- ten (Conway) Moncure. Marguerite Eliza- beth Moncure was born January 16. 1839, died February 26, 1897. She was the mother of four children : Mary Adrian, deceased. aged nineteen years ; William Augustus. of Philadelphia, connected with the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. married Caroline Ashe Pemberton, of Albemarle, North Carolina : Richard Cassius Lee, of whom further ; Robinson, an eminent lawyer of Alexandria, Virginia, a member of the Virginia house of delegates, married Ida Grigg, of Alexan- dria, Virginia.
Richard Cassius Lee Moncure, son of Major Thomas Jefferson Moncure and his second wife, Marguerite Elizabeth (Mon- cure) Moncure, was born in Stafford, Vir- ginia, February 5. 1872, his birthplace the old Moncure homestead. His early educa- tion was obtained in local schools, later he attended Locustdale Academy and Freder- icksburg private schools. He then entered William and Mary College. He began business life with a Pennsylvania Railroad engineering corps, then spent a year in West Virginia on a coal land survey, then established a factory in Falmouth, Stafford county, Virginia, for the making of pickles. under the firm name Wallace & Mon- cure. Mr. Moncure was in full control of the business and yet retains an active inter- est in this prosperous enterprise. He is also owner of a fine estate of seven hundred acres in Stafford county. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Moncure has served in legis- lative districts (Stafford and King George counties), three terms in the house of dele- gates, and one term as state senator. filling these offices with dignity and honor. On March 21, 1914, he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Eastern Vir- ginia district, a choice meeting with the approval of the district affected. Mr. Mon- cure is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America, the hall in which the local lodge meets, known as "Moncure Hall," having
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been built by the residents of that locality and named in his honor. In religious faith he is a Baptist, although the family faith is Episcopalian.
Mr. Moncure married, December 3, 1913, Mary Ashby Wallace, born in Stafford county. Virginia, daughter of Dr. Gustavus Michael Wallace, of Stafford county, a lead- ing physician and a state senator, and his wife, Dora Ashby (Green) Wallace, and a granddaughter of Gustavus B. and Emily Travis (Daniel) Wallace, and of George and Bettie (Ashby) Green. This branch of the Wallace family in the United States de- scends from Dr. Michael Wallace, who came from Scotland to "Ellerslie," Stafford county, Virginia, in 1734, and married, April 27, 1747, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Gus- tavus Brown, of Charles county, Maryland. Mrs. Mary Ashby (Wallace) Moncure was born at this old Wallace homestead, "Eller- slie," May 9, 1874.
Luther Pannett. The Pannett family was founded first in Maryland, by the immigra- tion of William Pannett, of Yorkshire, Eng- land, and since 1835 the home of the family of which Luther Pannett, sheriff of Freder- ick county, Virginia, is a representative, has been in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. William Pannett settled first in Baltimore, Maryland, having come to the United States in 1816, and nineteen years later moved to Virginia, his home until his death in 1880. His son, also a William, married and among his sons were John, a farmer, and William, of whom further.
William Pannett, third of his line to bear that name, was born in Maryland, in 1829, died in 1906. His lifelong calling was agri- culture, in which he met with success and profit, and he held a position of honor and respect among his fellows. He married Mary Catherine Chapman, born in Freder- ick county, Virginia, in 1836, died in 1906, the year of the death of her husband, daugh- ter of Thomas Chapman. One of the daughters of Thomas Chapman, Jeanette, married William Jones, a soldier of the Confederate army, who met his death in battle at Winchester, Virginia, in 1864. Children of William and Mary Catherine (Chapman) Pannett: I. Robert Lee, born in Frederick county, Virginia, November 19, 1869; a farmer ; married Rosa Richard. 2. William F., born in Frederick county,
Virginia, December 5, 1877; married Edith V. Massey, and has a daughter, Virginia. 3. William F., deceased, was a soldier in the Sixth Regiment, United States Cavalry, in the Spanish war. 4. Mary Watts, born July 13, 1874; married H. C. Kline, and has Hilda, Mabel Lee, Mary C., and Evans. 5. Luther, of whom further. 6. Miles W., born September 5, 1879; a farmer.
Luther Pannett, son of William and Mary Catherine (Chapman) Pannett, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, February 23, 1876. He was educated in the public schools, his course including high school training. His education completed he worked on his father's farm, and when a young man of twenty-two years was appointed by the court of Frederick county, Virginia, to the position of magistrate in that county, an office that he held for twelve years. His present office in the public service is that of sheriff, to which he was elected at a special election held in 1912, for a term of four years. In the two years that have passed since he took up the reins of office he has capably performed his duties and has successfully solved every problem that has arisen to trouble him. Mr. Pannett's ap- pointment to the magistracy of Frederick county at his youthful age was an expres- sion of confidence in his judgment and abil- ity that his long and uniformly successful continuance in the office fully vindicated, and upon which efficient service was predicated his elevation to the position of sheriff. Mr. Pannett's political principles are in accord with those of the Democratic party, with which he has ever been identified. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 21, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Winchester, Virginia.
Stanley Hope Graves, M. D. Captain Thomas Graves, American progenitor of the family of which Dr. Stanley Hope Graves, of Norfolk, is a member in the ninth Amer- ican generation, was born in England and came to Virginia in the ship "Mary and Margaret" in 1607. He was the representa- tive of Smyth's Hundred in the first legis- lature that convened at Jamestown, Vir- ginia, July 30, 1619, and in 1624 was a resi- dent of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. In 1631 Captain Thomas Graves was a justice in Accomac county, and four years later his name appears as a vestryman of the parish,
Sandy H. Grants.
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while in 1630-32 he was one of the commis- sioners appointed for the building of a fort at Point Comfort. His wife, Catherine (Croshor) Graves, he probably married be- fore his immigration to Virginia.
The line continues through his son, John Graves, born at Smyth's Hundred, Virginia, who married a Miss Perrin and settled in Elizabeth City county, where on May 15, 1638, he was granted two hundred acres, and on May 20, 1639, one hundred and fifty acres. His son, Ralph, married Rachel, daughter of Major Joseph Croshor, and had a son, Richard Graves, born about 1665. This Richard Graves had a son, John, born December 10, 1712, married, November 22, 1732, Susan Dicken, born June 14, 1714. After his death she married again, her sec- ond husband being Richard Childs.
Isaac Graves, of the sixth American gen- eration of his family, son of John and Susan (Dicken) Graves, was born September 2, 1741. He married (first) a Miss Williams, who died a year after their marriage at the birth of a child that did not survive infancy. He married (second) Elizabeth Cowherd, born November 28, 1751, died in 1790. He married (third) Jemima, born May 29, 1754. died February 5, 1836, daughter of Joseph Holladay. Lewis Holladay Graves, son of the third marriage of Isaac Graves, was born September 16, 1793, died May 30, 1868; married, February 18, 1819, Frances White, born November 14, 1799, died August 27, 1882, daughter of Captain Richard White.
Thomas Edward Graves, son of Lewis Holladay and Frances (White) Graves, was born in Virginia, January 9, 1834, died in 1905. He married, November 26, 1867, Louisa Brockman, daughter of Samuel Brockman. Louisa Brockman was born November 20, 1837, and was the mother of: Walter R .; Lizzie Brockman, married Alexander Green, of Warrenton, Virginia, and has children : William Thomas and Helen Page; Stanley Hopc, of whom further; Channing Page, married Natalie Burruss, of Orange county, Virginia, and has children: Alice, aged five years, and Thomas Edward, aged two years.
Dr. Stanley Hope Graves, son of Thomas Edward and Louisa ( Brockman) Graves, was born in Orange county, Virginia, May 20, 1872. The public and private schools furnished him with his primary education,
and in 1880 he matriculated at William and Mary College, completing his academic course in 1892. He immediately began pro- fessional study at the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia, receiving his M. 1). from that institution in 1894, and after his graduation he was for one year interne in a Richmond hospital, and later in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, and then in New York. Since 1905 Dr. Graves has been a practitioner of Norfolk, Virginia, from 1906 until 1910 an associate in the practice of medicine in the firm of Leigh & Graves. Dr. Southgate Leigh the other member of the association. Dr. Graves was medical su- perintendent of the Sarah Leigh Hospital during this association. In the latter year the two physicians dissolved this relationship and Dr. Graves has continued in private prac- tice. In surgery, as in general practice, he has gained wide reputation, and has en- joyed a successful professional career, car- ing for the needs of a large clientele. Dr. Graves is chief surgeon of the Virginia Rail- way & Power Company; assistant surgeon of the Norfolk & Western and New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railway companies; attending surgeon of the Norfolk Protestant Hospital ; president of the Board of Quaran- tine Commissioners for Elizabeth River and Hampton Roads; ex-member of the State Board of Health ; medical examiner for the Home Life and Germania of New York In- surance companies. Dr. Graves' medical associations are the Norfolk County, Sea- board and Virginia State, while fraternally he is a Mason, completing the York Rite to a Knight Templar and the shrine. His so- cial connections are with the Borough Club.
Dr. Stanley Hope Graves married Etta Vernon, daughter of Dr. Vernon Grant and Etta Franklin (Borum) Culpepper.
Foushee Overton Mooklar, D. D. S. Two southern branches of the family of Mooklar were settled at the same time, three Scotch immigrants founding their families in New York, Kentucky and Virginia. It is of the latter line that Foushee Overton Mooklar a dental practitioner of Richmond, is repre- sentative, Richmond having been the fam- ily home at different times for many years.
Dr. Foushee O. Mooklar is a great-grand- son of William Mooklar, who married. in Westmoreland county, Virginia, December
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20, 1791, Sally Atwell, and among their chil- dren was William, of whom further.
William Mooklar, son of William and Sally (Atwell) Mooklar, was a native of Virginia, and died in Essex county, Vir- ginia, while visiting in that locality. He was a pedagogue by profession, and at his death was the head of a well attended and flourishing school, taught by himself. He married Susan Tebbs, daughter of Captain Foushee C. Tebbs, a sketch of whose family is given below, and they were the parents of five children : The eldest son went west, and his death occurred in Kentucky in 1842 ; Sarah; Martha ; Atwell Tebbs, of whom fur- ther ; Foushee Bladon, died in childhood.
Atwell Tebbs Mooklar, son of William and Susan (Tebbs) Mooklar, was born in Richmond county, Virginia, February 7, 1827, died in King William county, Virginia, February 1, 1901, retired. For many years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Mangohick, King William county, Vir- ginia, in connection with farming, and was popular and well known throughout the locality. In politics and public life he was active to an unusual degree, and there were but two elective county offices in which the popular vote did not place him at some time in his career, commonwealth attorney and clerk. With these two exceptions all offices, from constable to representative, were oc- cupied by him, and in all he served accept- ably, for twenty years holding the chair- manship of the board of supervisors. Until ten years prior to his death he was active in both business and public service, but at that time he retired and lived free from arduous responsibility during his remain- ing years. He carried with him, to add to the peaceful enjoyment of his closing years, a sense of many duties well performed and the assurance of the gratitude and appre- ciation of those for whom and with whom he labored. His business associaties ever found him the soul of honor, ready in the meeting of all obligations, careful in all things, but never grasping or harsh, and this uprightness and fairness was conspicu- ously noticeable in all of his dealings with his fellows. He was a man to whom pa- triotism and a strong sense of right were inherent qualities, and his strong belief in the Confederate cause led him to take up arms in its defence in the years from 1861 to 1865. He held a first lieutenancy in the
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