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*The knowledge that John1 Emmet, the immi- grant, was a first cousin of Robert Emmet, the Irish patriot, has been handed down in the family and there can be no reasonable doubt of it.
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"Early days in and around Stephens City" gives his name as belonging to the M. E. Sunday-school class, 1834.
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retiring sincere disposition, won and re- tained a large circle of friends and was known for his integrity of character and high sense of right. In March, 1862, he entered the Confederate army, becoming a member of Company D, Twentieth Virginia Artillery, J. D. Pierce captain, and although only twenty-one years old, he was soon made second lieutenant. He was at the bombardment of Drury's Bluff when the "Galena" and other Federal gunboats at- tempted to pass that point on their way to Richmond, Virginia, was also in the engage- ment in which General Dahlgren was killed on Brook Road, and when the evacuation was ordered, he was stationed on Chaffin's Farm, under command of General Ewell. He was captured at Sailor's Creek and taken to "Old Capitol" prison in Washington. After remaining there two weeks, he was taken, with a number of other Confederate officers, to Johnson's Island, Ohio, where he was confined in prison until June 18, 1865. He rendered distinguished service to the cause of the Confederacy, was always ready and prompt in answering the call of duty, and brave to a fault on the field of battle.
Mr. Pendleton Emett married, December 15, 1881, Rebecca Alice Pringle, daughter of Captain William Goode. and Cornelia R. (Wright) Pringle, granddaughter of Wil- liam Pringle, who served in war of 1812 and married Alice Goode Baskerville (see Bas- kerville, Goode, Pringle). Children of Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton Emett: I. Ethel Thorn- hill. 2. Ada Virginia.
(V) I. Ethel Thornhill Emett was born in Lynchburg and educated in the public schools of that city and Randolph-Macon Woman's College. She married, October 15, 1910, David Terry Edwards, of whom further, and has a daughter, Alice Churchill Edwards, born August 24, 19II.
2. Ada® Virginia Emett, born and edu- cated in Lynchburg, Virginia, married April 17, 1912, Robert Hurt, of New York City, of whom further, and has a son, Henry Charles Hurt.
With the marriage of the two daughters of Pendleton Emett, this Emett line in Vir- ginia ends.
Mr. David T. Edwards, who married Ethel Emett, is district manager for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Lynchburg. He descended from the old Edwards family of Surry county, who
came to Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century. The family is of Welsh lineage dating back from Tudor Trevor, Lord of Hereford, founder of the tribe of "The Marches." The name in Welsh was "Rhys-ap-Ednyfed" from which it re- solved into Edwards.
Burke, who goes back to the origin of the family in Wales gives the Edwards arms thus: "Gules-A chevron engirdled, between three tiger heads, erased, arg. Crest-On a wreath, a man's head, within a helmet, ppr; garnished, or. Motto: A vyno Deuv Clervid (Welsh) : What God has willed will be accomplished." There is, however, a Virginia armor for the family.
David T. Edwards is a son of James Ed- wards, grandson of Calohill Edwards and great-grandson of George A. Edwards and Rebecca Ellyson.
Mr. Robert Hurt, born October, 1884, in Halifax county, Virginia, and married Ada Virginia Emett, is connected with the New York Savings Bank of New York City. He is a great-great-grandson of Philemon Hurt, a Virginia Baptist minister, born October, 1758. Philemon Hurt married and had a son, John Robert Hurt, who was also a Baptist minister of Halifax county. John Robert Hurt married and had issue: Wil- liam Walker Hurt, born April 25, 1809, mar- ried Nancy Sims Linn, born November, 18II. Issue of William Walker and Nancy Sims (Linn) Hurt: Elizabeth, Colonel John L., state senator from Pittsylvania county ; Robert, Mary, General Henry Hays, state senator from Halifax county ; Jane, William Bailey, James Young, Stanhope S., Elvira and Eugene Charles, born November, 1855, of whom further.
Eugene Charles Hurt married Roxanna Williamson Spencer, of whom further ; they have the following children, all of whom were born in Halifax county : Sallie Sims, Henry Hays, of New York City, Robert, of New York City, married Ada Emett; Eph- riam Spencer, John L., Danville, Virginia ; Anna M., Eugene Charles, Jr., University of Virginia.
Roxanna (Spencer) Hurt, wife of Eugene Charles Hurt, Sr., is a great-granddaughter of Gideon Spencer, who was lieutenant-colo- nel Twenty-sixth Virginia Regiment in the revolutionary war. Gideon Spencer married Catherine Clements, September 5, 1796; issue: Thomas Flournoy.
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Thomas Flournoy Spencer married Sallie Bouldin, January 10, 1822; issue: Ephraim Bouldin, M. D.
Dr. Ephraim Bouldin Spencer, of Halifax county, married, August 6, 1851, Sallie Fleming, daughter of Beverly Fleming, of Prince Edward county. They had several children, among them was Roxanna W., who married Eugene Charles Hurt, afore- mentioned.
(English Descent from 1266).
I. Sir John de Baskervyle, Kt., grandee of Old Withington, Cheshire, who married Matilda -, 1266.
2. John2 de Baskervyle, of Old Withing- ton, married Nichola - -, records 1298- 1334.
3. John3 de Baskervile, of Old Withing- ton, records 1315-1345.
4. Thomas' de Baskervyle, of Old With- ington, married Idonea Blurton, records 1 366-1386.
5. William5 Baskervyle, of Old Withing- ton, records 1420-1446.
6. William" Baskervyle, of Old Withing- ton, 1464-1480.
7. Randle Baskervile, of Old Withington, married Agnes Bostock, records 1477-1483.
8. William> Baskerville, of Old Withing- ton, records 1482-1513.
9. William" Baskerville, of Old Withing- ton, married Agnes Mainwaring, records 1483-1503.
IO. George Baskervile, of Old Withing- ton, married Cecily de Bradford, records 1517-1542.
II. William11 Baskervile, of Old Withing- ton, married Elizabeth Henshaw, records 1579.
12. Thomas12 Baskervile, of Old Withing- ton, married Margaret Kinsey, died 1588.
13. Thomas13 Baskervyle, of Old With- ington, married Dorothy Adderly, born 1566, died 1625.
14. John" Baskervyle, of Old Withington, married Madaline Hope, born 1599, died 1662. Descendants of his son, Thomas13 .15 are still living on the family estate in England.
15. John" and first of Virginia, Basker- vyle, fifth son of last, born 1637, died 1679, emigrated to Virginia about 1662, married Mary Barber.
16. Georgeª Baskervyle*, of York county,
*This descent up to this point was obtained from Genealogy of the Baskerville Family by Mr. P. H. Baskerville.
Virginia, married Elizabeth Norwell, born about 1675.
17 John3 Baskervyle, of York (1738) and Cumberland counties.
18. Richard' Baskerville of Cumberland and Halifax counties, married Martha Goode, October 9, 1770.
19. Alice Goode" Baskerville, born in Cumberland county, August 23, 1792, mar- ried William Pringle, records Halifax county.
20. William Goode Pringle, married Cor- nelia Wright, December 28, 1854, record Halifax county.
21. Rebecca Alice Pringle, married Pendle- ton Emett, December 15, 1881, recorded in Campbell county.
22. Ethel Thornhill Emett, married David Terry Edwards, October 15, 1910.
23. Alice Churchill Edwards.
Note-I have written this English Descent out for my own use, but since deciding to have this geneal- ogy published I would like it to precede the Bask- erville line.
(Baskerville-Goode-Pringle).
R. Alice ( Pringle) Emett, wife of Pendle- ton Emett has, through her grandmother, Alice Goode (Baskerville) Pringle, an inter- esting lineage, tracing her ancestry in an unbroken line, into England twenty-one generations to Sir John de Baskervyle, Kt., grandee of Old Withington, Cheshire, Eng- land, A. D. 1266 .*
Burke tells us in his "Landed Gentry" the family of Baskerville is one of the most an- cient and honorable in England. "The fam- ily is of noble Norman origin, and came from the parish of Baskerville, on the Eng- lish Channel. It has ever maintained the highest rank among the gentry, and can boast of the blood of the Plantagenets. The head of the family, Martels de Baskerville was in the battle of Hastings in 1066, as one of the leaders of the army of William the Conqueror, with whom he had come over."t
The coat-of-arms of the Baskerville fam- ily is: Argent, a chevron Gules between three hurts. This is the same as the one found at Dives, France, and on Battle Abbey Roll.
The crest of the Cheshire branch (Alice Goode ( Baskerville) Pringle's branch) is:
On a wreath, a forester vert, edged or,
*See Baskerville Family, Pages 1, 2, 3, Table A, Virginia Descent, by P. H. Baskerville.
¡Dictionary of Family Names, P. 20.
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holding over the right shoulder a cross- bow or, and with the other hand in a leash, a hound-passant argent.
(I) The Virginia Baskervilles all de- scended from John1 Baskerville, who emi- grated about 1662 from Old Withington, Cheshire, England, to York county, Vir- ginia, where he was made clerk of the court February 24, 1664. John1 Baskerville, born 1637-died 1669, married Mary Barber, daughter of Colonel William Barber, who was justice of peace in York county in 1652, a colonel of militia of York and probably adjoining counties, member of house of bur- gesses, 1663-1669. This being the "Long Assembly" which Governor Sir William Berkeley liked so well that he would not dissolve. From this marriage we have record of six children, among them George2 Baskerville, born about 1676, and married Elizabeth Norvell, daughter of Hugh Nor- vell, of James City county.
(II) George® and Elizabeth (Norvell) Baskerville had five children, of these George® and John3 married and left issue. The descendants of George3 form the Meck- lenburg branch and John3 is the progenitor of the Cumberland branch.
(III) John3 is on record as having lived in York county in 1738, but in 1742, he bought a tract of land in Cumberland county and settled. Here we find records of his having been vestryman in the Episco- pal church in 1748 and 1755. He had seven children-third among them was Richard' Baskerville.
(IV) Richard‘ Baskerville married Octo- ber 9, 1770, Martha Goode, of Cumberland county, where the marriage bond is still on file.+ She was a daughter of Bennet Goode* who married about 1740, Martha Jefferson of "Osbornes," aunt of Thomas Jefferson, of Monticello. Bennet Goode was a son of John Goode of "Falls Plantation," Chesterfield county, who was a son of John Goode, of Whitby.§ the immigrant.
This Martha Jefferson was of Welsh de- scent. She was a sister of Peter Jefferson, who was the father of President Thomas Jefferson.
Martha Jefferson descended from Peter1
Jefferson, the emigrant, who represented Flowerdieu Hundred in the first assembly, 1619.
Peter1 Jefferson's son, Thomas2, married Mary Branch.
Thomas® and Mary Branch Jefferson had a son Thomas®, who married Mary Field, daughter of Major Peter Field and Judith Randolph, who was a daughter of Henry Randolph and his wife Judith Soane, daugh- ter of Speaker Soane, of the first house of burgesses, 1619.
Among the children of Thomas® and Mary Field Jefferson were Peter Jefferson and Martha‘ Jefferson.
Peter' Jefferson married Jane Randolph and was the father of President Thomas" Jefferson.
Martha' Jefferson married Bennet Goode and her descendants are here traced through the Baskerville, Pringle, Emett and Ed- wards families.
Richard' and Martha (Goode) Basker- ville had issue: I. Alice Goode', born in Cumberland county, August 23, 1792, died June 30, 1872; married William Pringle, of whom further. 2. Thomas", died uninar- ried. 3. Major John Barber“, settled in Car- roll county, near Hillsville, where he owned a large tract of land, including Grayson Sulphur Springs. He died unmarried. 4. A daughter, married a Mr. Steele. 5. Fran- ces, married a Mr. Seat.
(V) Alice' Goode Baskerville married June 1, 1814 or 15, William Pringle (of whom further), in Halifax county. Among her treasures, which Alice Goode (Basker- ville) Pringle used to show her grandchil- dren was a pink and white silk dress, which her mother, Martha (Goode) Baskerville, wore to a ball given by Thomas Jefferson. When Alice Goode Baskerville was very small her parents moved to Buckingham county and lived between Bent Creek and James river, opposite Monticello, where they remained fifteen or twenty years, dur- ing which time they enjoyed the friendship and repeated calls of Thomas Jefferson. Children of William and Alice Goode (Bas- kerville) Pringle: 1. Mahala Jefferson, mar- ried Elbert Owen. 2. John Allen. 3. Wil- liam Goode, married Cornelia R. Wright. 4. Martha, married James Davis. 5. Mary, married J. A. Mitchell, of Halifax county ; issue : Judge John R. Olympia, Washing- ton; Dr. Joseph, Dilwyn, Virginia; G. E.,
+William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. XX, Page 28. *Virginia Cousins.
§ Mrs. Ethel Emett Edwards descends from John Goode of Whitby on her mother's side through Ben- net Goode and Martha Jefferson, and on her father's side through Martha Goode, who married Colonel William Megginson. (See Horsely).
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Halifax county; Alice, married Samuel Adams ; Mary, married John Owen, of South Boston, Virginia.
(VI) William Goode Pringle, son of William and Alice Goode (Baskerville) Pringle, was born in Halifax county, April 18. 1819, died October 12, 1890, married. December 28, 1854. Cornelia R. Wright, of whom further.
William Goode Pringle was a man of fine mind, well educated, deeply pious, of strik- ing personality-a Virginia gentleman. He was in the Confederate States army, being lieutenant in the Washington Artillery un- der Captain Samuel T. Wright, his brother- in-law.
He was a descendant of William Pringle who emigrated from near London, England, just previous to the revolutionary war and settled in Cumberland county, Virginia. After the death of the immigrant his heirs converted his estate into money and moved to Halifax county, Virginia. From this county two of the Pringles went south, one to Georgia and the other to South Caro- lina. William1 Pringle had issue: Oliver2 and others.
Oliver® Pringle married a Miss Brumfield. Issue : William3 and others.
William3 Pringle, born January 25, 1784, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and married Alice Goode Baskerville (see Baskerville IV). He died in Halifax, January 29, 1857, leaving a large estate.
William' Goode, son of William3 Pringle and Alice Goode Baskerville, married Cor- nelia Wright ; issue : Rebecca Alice, married Pendleton Emett. aforementioned ; William ; Samuella, married Thomas Elmore ; John J., married Jessie Croil, of Canada; Richard Baskerville, married Daisy Lawson; Ada; died young ; Mary C., married Cabell Car- rington Scott, a son of Patrick Henry Scott, who was a son of Alexander Scott and Sarah (Henry) Scott. Sarah Henry was a daugh- ter of Patrick Henry and Dorothea Dan- dridge. She first married a Mr. Campbell, who lost his life when the Ford's Theatre in Richmond was burned. She then married Alexander Scott.
Cornelia R. (Wright) Pringle, was a daughter of William D Wright and Rebecca Wade (Acree) Wright, both of Lynchburg, Virginia.
William D. Wright was the son of Wil- liam Wright, the immigrant, who came from
Scotland to Virginia, married and settled in Petersburg. He returned to Scotland on a visit. The ship was wrecked, and he was lost at sea. He had three children: Wil- liam D., aforementioned : Henry, died with- out issue, and a daughter, unmarried.
Rebecca Wade (Acree) Wright, mother of Cornelia (Wright) Pringle, was a daughter of a Mr. Acree and Rhoda Thurman, both of Lynchburg.
Rhoda Thurman was a daughter of Rich- ard Thurman and Ann Brown. Other chil- dren of this marriage, besides Rhoda, who married Mr. Acree: 2. Nancy, married Na- than Schoolfield. 3. Sallie, married John Schoolfield. 4. Nathan B., married Martha WV. Marshall.
Richard Thurman, who came to Virginia from Kentucky, was a soldier in the revolu- tionary war, Holcomb's regiment, Donthats command. His name is in the muster roll of officers and men, who met in Richmond, Virginia, October 26, 1824, to welcome La- Fayette upon his visit to America.
The father of Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, was a brother of Richard Thurman.
(The Pendleton Line).
The arms of the Pendleton family of Vir- ginia are as follows : Gules, an inescutcheon, argent, between four escallops, or. Crest: On a cap of maintenance gules, turned up, ermine, a dragon, or, wings inverted, hold- ing in its paw an escallop, argent. Motto: Manens qualis manebam (Staying just as I am).
(I) George Pendleton, the first ancestor of the line here under consideration, was a resident of Manchester and Norwich, Eng- land. He married and was the father of Henry, of whom further.
(II) Henry Pendleton, son of George Pendleton, was a resident of Norwich, Eng- land. He married and was the father of two sons: Nathaniel, a minister of the Church of England, who died without issue; Philip, of whom further.
(III) Philip Pendleton, son of Henry Pendleton, was born in England, 1650, died 1721. He came to this country in 1674 and settled in that part of New Kent county, Virginia, which now forms Caroline county. He visited England, 1680, but shortly after- ward returned to Virginia. He married, 1682, Isabella Hurt or Hart. The children of this marriage were: I. Elizabeth, mar-
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ried Samuel Clayton. 2. Rachel, married John Vass. 3. Catherine, married John Taylor. 4. Henry, of whom further. 5. Isabella, married (first) Richard Thomas, (second) a Mr. Barboni. 6. John, born 1691, married a Miss Tinsley. 7. Philip, married Elizabeth Pollard.
(IV) Henry2 Pendleton, son of Philip Pendleton, was born in 1683, died in May, 1721. He married, 1701, Mary Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, of Carlisle, Eng- land, and after his death she married (sec- ond) Edward Watkins. Children: 1. James, born 1702, died 1761 ; married and had chil- dren : James, Henry, Philip, Anne, married a Mr. Taylor. 2. Philip, of whom further. 3. Nathaniel, born 1715, died 1794; married a daughter of Philip Clayton. Among the children of Nathaniel was Philip, born 1752, whose daughter, Maria, married John R. Cooke and had two sons: Philip Pendleton and John Esten Cooke. 4. John, born 1719, died 1799; married and left several daugh- ters. 5. Edmund, the distinguished states- man and patriot, whose name is indissolubly connected with the noblest acts of the revo- lutionary period. He was born 1721, died 1803; married (first) 1741, Elizabeth Roy ; (second) 1743, Sarah Pollard. 6. Mary, married James Gaines. 7. Isabella, married William H. Gaines.
(V) Philip® Pendleton, son of Henry2 Pendleton, died in 1778. He married and left fifteen children, the youngest of whom was Micajah, of whom further.
(VI) Micajah4 Pendleton, son of Philip Pendleton, died at a great age loved, hon- ored and wealthy, although he began life as a poor man, he was persevering, indus- trious and thrifty. He was founder of the first temperance society in America. He married Mary Cabell Horsley, daughter of William and Martha (Megginson) Horsley and lived in Amherst county, Virginia. Chil- dren: 1. Martha, unmarried. 2. Edward, unmarried. 3. Edna, married Dabney P. Gooch (related to Sir William Gooch, gov- ernor of Virginia, 1727 to 1749. 4. Joseph, unmarried. 5. Letitia Breckinridge, married Hudson Martin Garland, Jr., a literary man and poet. 6. Elizabeth, married Thomas Truxton Emett (see Emett III). 7. Robert, married Mary Taliaferro of Amherst county, and had one daughter, Jane Rose.
William Horsley, aforementioned, was born about the year 1745, son of William
and Mary (Cabell) Horsley, the latter named a daughter of Dr. William Cabell, a surgeon in the British navy and founder of the Cabell family in Virginia. (A full ac- count of him and the Cabell family may be found in Dr. Alexander Brown's book, "The Cabells and Their Kin"). William Horsley, Jr., was one of his majesty's justices from Amherst from 1770 to 1775; one of the justices under the commonwealth in 1776; a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, 1778 to 1781, inclusive ; sheriff of Amherst, 1788. He married January 3, 1768*, Martha, daughter of Colonel William Megginson, of "Clover Plains," Amherst county, who was a justice of the peace of Goochland, 1741 ; a captain prior to 1743, when he "laid the levies" in the upper part of St. Anne's par- ish; afterwards a justice of the peace for Albemarle ; purchased five hundred and eighty acres of land from Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell in 1739, on the south side of the James river at Greenway Station, to which he afterwards added over two thousand acres, and called the estate "Clover Plains ;" after the year 1761 his lands were in Buck- ingham county; his wife, Martha (Goode) Megginson, was a daughter of John Goode, of "Falls Plantation, Chesterfield county, Virginia, who was born about 1675 at Whit- by," and killed by the Indians about 1725. His father, John Goode, the emigrant, was born in Cornwall, England, emigrated to the Barbadoes, and from thence to Virginia prior to 1660. The will of William Horsley, Jr., was dated April 15, 1791, and proved September 5, 1791. His wife survived him only a few years.
Thomas Randolph Keith. The Keith fam- ily is supposed to derive its origin from one Robert, a chieftain among the Catti, a Saxon tribe, from which it is said came the surname of Keith. At the battle of Panbridge, in 1006, he slew with his own hands Camus, general of the Danes, and King Malcolm, perceiving this achievement, dipped his fingers in Cam- us' blood, and drew red strokes, or pales, on the top of Robert's shield, which have ever since been the armorial bearing of his de- scendants. In 1010 he was made hereditary mareschal of Scotland, and was rewarded with a barony in East Lothian, which was called Keith Mareschal, after his own name. The island of Inchkeith, in the Firth of
*D. A. R. Magazine, Vol. XLV. No. 6.
Thomaskkeik
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Forth, was also bestowed on him. His de- in 1759, died in 1857, daughter of Joseph scendant, Sir William, who married a and Lucy Blackwell, and had children : Marshall, Harriet, Mary Isham, Susan, Tarleton Fleming, Peter Grant, James, and Isham, of whom further. daughter of the Earl of Crawford, had a son, William, who was created Earl Mareschal before June, 1458. The fifth earl was George, founder of the Mareschal College, Aberdeen, in 1593.
The progenitor of the Keiths of Virginia was the Rev. James Keith, known as Par- son Keith, who came to Virginia from Scot- land some time after the Stuart uprising in 1715, in which he took part, and the tradi- tion is that he was wounded at the battle of Sheriff Muir. He had been educated for the church, and from 1730 to 1733 he was rector of Henrico parish. Later he removed to what is now Fauquier county (it was then Prince William county), where he lived the remainder of his life, and was rector of Hamilton parish, included in which was the old Elk Run Church. For a while, also, he served as rector of Truro parish. He married Mary Isham Randolph, daugh- ter of Thomas Randolph, of "Tuckahoe." Many of his descendants still live in Fau- quier county, Virginia, and some of them own the old "Woodbourne" homestead, which is near Warrenton, Virginia. Chil- dren of James and Mary Isham (Randolph) Keith : James, John, Thomas, of whom fur- ther ; Alexander, Isham, Mary, Elizabeth and Judith. Mary Keith married Thomas Marshall, and was the mother of Chief Jus- tice John Marshall.
Thomas Keith, Alexander Keith and Isham Keith, sons of James and Mary Isham (Randolph) Keith, served in the American revolutionary army, and Thomas Keith, who attained the rank of captain, is thus mentioned in the report of the con- gressional committee on revolutionary pen- sions, submitted January 16, 1846: "The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, have, according to order, had under con- sideration the petition of Mrs. Judith Keith, asking an increase of her pension for the services of her deceased husband, the late Captain Thomas Keith, a commissary in the Virginia line in the continental establish- ment and submit the following report: 'It appears that the said Captain Keith was engaged in the military service at the earli- est period of the Revolution ; that he was a Captain and afterwards a Commissary until the surrender of Cornwallis'." Captain Thomas Keith married, in 1774, Judith, born
Isham Keith, son of Captain Thomas and Judith (Blackwell) Keith, married Juliet Chilton, granddaughter of Captain John Chilton, who was killed at the battle of Brandywine, and had children, only two of whom survived childhood : Isham, of whom further, and James, who entered the Con- federate States army in the Black Horse Cavalry Company, gaining the rank of lieu- tenant and later adjutant of the Fourth Vir- ginia Cavalry; a member of the Virginia legislature; judge of the circuit court for the eleventh judicial circuit of Virginia, from 1870 to 1895, and president of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia since January 1, 1895. He was twice married, first, to Lilias Gordon Morson, and his sec- ond wife was her sister, Frances Barksdale Morson, who died June 9. 1908. Children of the latter marriage: Juliet Chilton and A. A. Morson.
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