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war of 1861-65 broke out. was first employed recruiting and drilling troops, later taking the field and participating in many engage- ments and battles. He was taken prisoner at Five Forks and for four months held in confinement at Point Lookout. After the war he returned to his farming and so con- tinned until his death. His son, Anderson H., now cultivates the homestead. Captain Nelson married Ann Judson Overbey, born in Mecklenburg county, daughter of Ander- son and Sarah (Newton) Overbey. She died July 27, 1905, aged sixty-six years, and the remains of both are interred in the churchyard at Nelson. Children: 1. Mar- garet Ann, married R. A. Yancey, of Person county, North Carolina. 2. Sallie Howell, married W. L. Thomas, of Roxboro, North Carolina. 3. Lelia Beauregard, widow of Calvin Mitchell, of Person county, now re- siding at Nelson, Virginia. 4. Martha Berenice, died aged three years. 5. Mollie Jane, the first wife of W. L. Thomas, who married (second) her sister, Sallie H .; she died in 1908, leaving four children, one of thein, Dr. Nelson Thomas, now a success- ful physician of Oxford, North Carolina. 6. Anderson Henry, merchant, lumber dealer and farmer living at the old home in Nelson. 7. Haseltine Judson, married J. W. Winston, now residing in Nelson. 8. Thomas Baker, a merchant and farmer, of Nelson. 9. Wil- lie Lee, married Dr. G. S. Watkins, of Granville county, North Carolina, now practicing at Oxford, North Carolina. 10. Ida Bell, residing at Nelson, Virginia. II. Matthew Overbey, of whom further.
Ann Judson Overbey Nelson, the mother of the above named children, was a daugh- ter of Anderson Overbey, born in Mecklen- burg county, Virginia, 1797, died in 1875; a farmer and justice of the peace for forty years ; a man of wealth and prominence in his native county. He married Sarah, daughter of S. J. Newton ; she died in 1863, aged sixty years; children: Martha, the only survivor, married R. R. Chandler ; the dead are: Jane, married Richard Yancey ; Patrick, killed at Gettysburg, a Confederate soldier : Baker, also gave up his life in the same war; Ann Judson, married Captain Howell Stevens Nelson, of previous men- tion; Sarah, married S. P. Chandler, of Granville county, North Carolina.
Matthew Overbey Nelson, son of Captain Howell Stevens and Ann Judson (Overbey)
Nelson, was born on the Mecklenburg farm (Nelson) of his father, September 15, 1868. He attended the public schools, and worked on the farm, being his father's assistant until twenty-two years of age, having also during that period attended Horner's Mili- tary Academy at Henderson, North Caro- lina, and spent two years at school in Oak Ridge, North Carolina, there completing his studies. He married, at the age of twenty- two years, and for two years continued farming, locating in Danville, October 1, 1892, and beginning his long experience as a tobacco warehouseman. He was first en- gaged with Keeling & Corbin at the Cabell Warehouse for seven years, then began business for himself at the Liberty Ware- house, continuing four years. In 1903 he secured an interest in Acree's Warehouse and became assistant to E. F. Acree & Brother, now both deceased. At the death of the principal owner he was made head manager and is now the respon- sible head of this, the largest "bright" tobacco warehouse in the world. He is also president of the Hodnett-Chism Furniture Company, of Danville, one of the best ap- pointed and largest furniture stores in the state, director of the Union Drug Store Company, director of the Danville Co-oper- ative Warehouse Company, director of the Danville Fair Association, director of the Union Building and Loan Association, di- rector of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, and member of the Danville Com- mercial Association. Mr. Nelson is a mem- ber of the Moffett Baptist Church, which he serves as chairman of the board of deacons, chairman of the finance committee and sec- retary of the Men's Bible Class. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine. In political faith he is a Democrat.
Mr. Nelson married, December 24, 1890, in Summerfield, Guilford county, North Carolina, Ida Hoskins, born in Guilford county, November 6, 1873, daughter of George O. and Martha ( Brookbank) Hos- kins. George O. Hoskins, a successful farmer, died in May, 1905, aged sixty-five years. His widow Martha, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Brookbank, of Guilford county, now resides with her daughter, Ida (Hoskins) Nelson, in Danville, Virginia, her only child. Children of Matthew O. and Ida (Hoskins) Nelson: Matthew Oliver,
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born February 2, 1901; Martha Judson, November 20, 1905 ; John Hughes, February 4, 1909.
John Newton Moore. John Newton Moore, member of an old Virginia fam- ily, is a native of that state, born in Albe- marle county, October 27, 1881, son of Frank Dean and Lydia Lewis (Brown) Moore. The father, in early life a clergy- man, became an attorney, and resided in New York City. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1848, died in 1883. While attending school in Richmond he was one of the students called upon to help protect the townspeople and served in one battle in the Civil war. His wife was a daughter of Andrew Brown and was descended from several old Virginia families who held hon- orable places in the Old Dominion. The line of one of these, the Lewis family, is given in succeeding paragraphs.
General Robert Lewis, a lawyer by pro- fession, was a resident of Becon, Wales, and removed thence to London. He and his wife Elizabeth came to Virginia before 1645, locating in Gloucester county. In 1666 his son John (who was born in England), mar- ried Isabella, daughter of Captain Augustine Warner, also a Welshman, and member of the house of burgesses from York county in 1652 and from Gloucester county in 1658-59. He was member of the royal council in 1659-60. Captain Augustine and Mary Warner had a son, Augustine, who was also a member of the house of burgesses and of the King's council, and the latter was called Speaker Warner, to distinguish him from his father. He married Mildred, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Martian) Reade. George Reade married a daughter of Nicho- las Martian, a French Huguenot, who was born about 1591, came to Virginia in 1620, served in the house of burgesses and other offices, and left no male issue. Augustine and Mildred (Reade) Warner had a daugh- ter Elizabeth, who married her cousin, John (2) Lewis, son of John (I) and Isabella (Warner) Lewis. John and Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis had three sons, one of whom was known as Robert, of Belvoir.
Robert Lewis, son of John and Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis, was born in Warner Hall, in 1704. He later became known as Robert Lewis, of Belvoir. He married Jane, daugh- ter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Crawford) Meriwether, in 1725, and their second son,
Nicholas Lewis, was born in 1728. The latter married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mildred (Thornton) Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia. In 1776 he served in an expedition against the Cher- okee Indians. His son, Thomas Walker Lewis, was born in 1763, died in 1807. He married Elizabeth Meriwether, of Clover Fields, daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Douglas) Meriwether, and their third daughter was Lydia Laurie Lewis, born February 15, 1795. She married Samuel Overton Minor and had eleven children. She died at Charlottesville, August 8, 1833, and he died in 1838. The Minors were prominent in early Virginia history. The youngest daughter of Samuel O. Minor and wife, Elizabeth Lewis Minor, was born Sep- tember 12, 1825, and on July 18, 1843, mar- ried Andrew J. Brown. They had the fol- lowing children : Betty O., Susan T., Lydia Lewis, James H., Louis M., Margaret D., Andrew A., Charles A. W., Annie Cornelia and William T. Their third daughter, Lydia Lewis Brown, married Rev. Frank D. Moore, and their children were: Eliza- beth Minor, born in Nashville, Tennessee, March 26, 1878; Frank Dean, born in Cov- ington, Kentucky, in December, 1879, un- married ; John Newton, whose name heads this sketch. The mother of these children resides in New York City. The daughter, who is the wife of Cassius Marshall Sand- ford, resides in New York City.
John Newton Moore studied under private tutors and in Horace Jones' private school at Charlottesville, where he prepared for college. In 1897 he entered William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Virginia, remaining there two years. He then decided to embark in business life and for a year was connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company. In the fall of 1900 he entered the employ of Patterson, Sargent & Company, at New York. This firm is one of the largest manufacturers of paints, oils, varnishes, colors, and similar goods, in the country, and their factory is located at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Moore has developed great business acumen and foresight and has risen rapidly in the estimation and con- fidence of his employers. He now holds the position of general sales manager of the marine department for the company, having jurisdiction over this department for their entire American business. His able efforts
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have added greatly to the success of the concern, for no department of business is more important to the general progress of an organization than the one he has taken charge of. He is a recognized authority along the line of his work and has from time to time prepared and read papers on trade questions before conventions of the com- pany's employees in various parts of the country. He is regarded as a man of strict business integrity and his ability as an ag- gressive salesman is well known. He keeps abreast of the times in his line and general business methods and has good executive ability. In politics he is Independent. He is affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal church. He is a member of the Maritime Association of New York City, Southern Society of New York City, The Virginians and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
On September 15, 1910, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Grace Allease Peters, daughter of Frank Moyer and Mary Louise (Mason) Peters. The old Peters homestead, where Frank M. Peters formerly lived, stood on the present site of the City Hill in Newark, New Jersey. Mrs. Moore was born in Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1885. One child has blessed this union, Frank Peters Moore, born in New York City, June 15, 19II.
Thomas Joel Barlow. Thomas Joel Bar- low, a successful business man and retired farmer, of Portsmouth, Virginia, has shown his worth in every position of life to which he has been called. The spirit of work was born with him, and no lessons of actual experience were necessary to inspire him with the purpose to excel. In busi- ness enterprise, in private charities, in help extended to struggling youth he has shown a noble spirit and a liberal hand. The Bar- lows are an ancient family of England, and a number of the branches have been granted coats-of-arms. The family has produced many men of distinction, both in this coun- try and in England.
John Holdsworth Barlow was born in 1809, and died in 1885. For a long period of time he conducted a general store in Williamsburg, and served as presiding magistrate of York county for many years. He also served as mayor of Williamsburg. He married, in 1832, Margaret Nelson Bel- lett, and had children : 1. John Holdsworth,
Jr., who married Marian De Neufville, and had children: Netta, who married John Daniel ; and Emma Lou. 2. Thomas Joel, whose name heads this sketch. 3. Emma Cecelia, who married W. L. Jones, and had children : Henley, Thomas, Daniel and Margaret. 4. Louise, who was married to Galba Vaiden, and has one child, Louisanna.
Thomas Joel Barlow, son of John Holds- worth and Margaret Nelson (Bellett) Bar- low, was born in Williamsburg, June 26, 1842. His elementary and college prepara- tory education was acquired in private schools in his native town, and he then matriculated at William and Mary College, which he attended in 1859-60 and 1861. April 19, 1861, he enlisted in the Junior Guards, later Company C, Thirty-second Virginia Infantry, Pickett's division. He was soon advanced to the rank of quarter- master-sergeant of the regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was made prisoner at Sharpsburg and at Appomattox Court House. Returning to Williamsburg, he opened a general store there after his marriage, and conducted this for a period of two years, and removed to Portsmouth in 1867. For thirty years he was engaged in the grocery business, having a well estab- lished store in a good location. In 1892 he commenced a trucking business on a farm of three hundred acres, later sold this farm and purchased one hundred and sixty acres near the city limits, and has been success- fully identified with this enterprise, retiring from his store business in 1895. Mr. Barlow is director in the Merchants and Farmers Bank. Has been a member of the city coun- cil, police board, school board, etc. He is a member of Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, and was formerly a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He is Democratic in his political opinions, and a member of the Baptist church.
Mr. Barlow married Annie Matsin Cox, a daughter of Richard Cox, of New Jersey, who came to Virginia in 1843, and was the pioneer in the trucking business. Children: I. Margaret Wardel, born November 22, 1866, died February 14, 1873. 2. Matilda Cecelia, born May 20, 1869, died June 4, 1887. 3. Annie Cox, born November 2, 1872. 4. Richard C., born May 2, 1875, died Janu- ary 27, 1904; was a graduate of William and
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Mary College and of the University of Vir- ginia ; he became commonwealth attorney as soon as he was admitted to the bar, and bade fair to become one of the leading attor- neys of the state. 5. Charles Holdsworth, born in Portsmouth, August 20, 1877; his elementary education was acquired in public and private schools, and then continued his education at William and Mary College, from which he was graduated in 1895; hav- ing become a student at the University of Virginia, he was graduated from this in- stitution in the class of 1900 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Four years were spent in practical work in New York hos- pitals-Bellevue, Lying-In, Polyclinic and Kings County ; he established himself in the general practice of medicine in Portsmouth in 1904, making a specialty of surgery and obstetrics ; he is a member of the American Medical Association; Virginia Medical As- sociation ; Norfolk and Portsmouth Medical associations ; Seaboard Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; a trustee of the Baptist church, and a member of the Democratic party. 6. Carrie Young, born March 13, 1880; married, January 22, 1913, John F. Benson, and had one child, John F., Jr., born December 1, 1913. 7. Thomas Joel, Jr., born November 30, 1886, died in 1887.
Charles M. Patrick. Charles M. Patrick. a prominent citizen of Waynesboro, Virginia, is a member of a family which has resided in that state since before the revolutionary war, and which came to America originally from Ireland. The founder of the family in this country was Robert Patrick, who emigrated from Tyrone county, Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania in 1744. Three years later, in 1747, he removed to Virginia and there bought of Robert Beverley the land still owned by the present representatives of the family. The estate of Robert Beverly was one of the earliest of the Virginian patents and was known as the Beverley Grant. Rob- ert Patrick married Rachel Campbell, of Pennsylvania, and to them Charles M. Pat- rick can trace directly his descent. William Patrick, a grandson of the original Robert I'atrick, took part in the revolution at the age of seventeen and was in the Yorktown campaign. This William Patrick was the grandfather of Charles M. Patrick and to him, on December 12, 1822, was born a son, William, who became a prominent man in
the community and distinguished himself highly in the Civil war. At an early age he was deputy sheriff of Angusta county, and upon the breaking out of hostilities between the states enlisted in the Augusta county troop of cavalry. He was made captain of this body, which formed Company E, of the First Virginia Cavalry, and he was after- wards promoted to the rank of major in command of the Seventeenth Battalion of Cavalry for bravery on the field. He was killed at the second battle of Manassas and was afterwards mentioned in dispatches of Generals "Stonewall" Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart. "Stonewall" Jackson said of him:
At a later period Major Patrick, of the cavalry, who was by General Stuart intrusted with guarding the train, was attacked, and though it was promptly and effectually repulsed, it was not without the loss of that intrepid officer who fell in the attack while setting an example of gallantry to his men well worthy of mention.
General Stuart's tribute was :
He lived long enough to witness the triumph of our arms and expired thus in the arms of victory. The sacrifice was noble, but the loss to us irrepa- rable.
William Patrick married Esther Massie, a daughter of Nathaniel Massie, of Waynes- boro, Augusta county, Virginia, where he was a prominent man and a successful mer- chant. He served on the board of magis- trates for many years and was a member of the Virginia house of delegates before the war. The Massie family have long been prominent in the state as educators, men of affairs and soldiers. To Major William Patrick and his wife were born five chil- dren : Charles M., of whom further; Wil- liam, of whom further ; Mary W., died un- married ; Isabella C., married R. W. Moffett, and is now deceased ; Anna M., married Dr. D. Arbuckle, now a widow, residing in Waynesboro.
Charles M. Patrick was born December 2, 1850. He was educated at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute at Lexington, Virginia. He completed his course of studies there in 1870 and since that time has conducted the Pat- rick estate near Waynesboro. He has been fairly active in politics in the community, being a member of the Democratic party, and has served his fellow citizens in the capacity of commissioner of roads and as county supervisor. He is unmarried.
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William Patrick, the younger brother of Charles M. Patrick, was before his death in June, 1909, a prominent man in the com- munity. His youth was spent on his father's farm, where in order to establish the physi- cal health and vigor of a constitution origi- nally somewhat delicate, he did the ordinary work of a farm hand. His education was obtained at a boys' classical school in Waynesboro which was presided over by the Rev. W. T. Richardson and C. H. With- row, and later at the Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, from which he graduated with the class of 1873, taking the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Upon the completion of his studies, he established himself in the practice of his profession at Staunton, Virginia, where he remained throughout his life. His law practice was highly successful, both before the lower courts and the supreme court and the Federal courts in the state and his clientage included many of the important corporations in his region. He entered into partnership, under the firm name of Patrick & Gordon, with Armistead Churchill Gordon, the eminent Virginian author, editor and lawyer. He held in his earlier years the office of commissioner in chancery and was president and director of the Augusta National Bank of Staunton. He was a wide reader, particularly in the litera- ture of finance, and in this connection it may be remarked that despite his membership in the Democratic party he voted for Mckinley as against Bryan for president on the money question. He married, February 14. 1883, Annie Montgomery Hendren, a daughter of Judge John N. Hendren, of Augusta county, who was treasurer of the Confederate States and for many years judge of the county court of Augusta. To Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick was born one daughter, Annie Hen- dren Patrick.
Patrick Henry Boisseau. The Boisseau family of which Patrick Henry Boisseau, of Danville, Virginia, is a representative, has long been seated in Virginia. Of French ancestry. the emigrant Boisseau brought to his new home the healthy habits of his race, and here prospered, founding a family of importance.
Patrick Henry Boisseau is a grandson of David Boisseau, born in Petersburg, Vir- ginia, who was a tobacco warehouseman,
and died there at the age of sixty years. He married Tabitha Hatcher, born in Chester- field county, Virginia. Their children were : William E., Annie, Mary E., Adeline, Pat- rick, Henry, Benjamin Hatcher, mentioned further.
Benjamin Hatcher Boisseau, son of David and Tabitha (Hatcher) Boisseau, was born at Petersburg, Virginia, October 10, 1818. He was a farmer of the old homestead his entire life, and died there February 26, 1881. He married Matilda Ann Gregg, born in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, May 10, 1820, died December 31, 1861. She was a daugh- ter of Edmund Gregg, and second cousin of General Gregg, of Sheridan's Cavalry divis- ion of the United States army. Edmund Gregg was born in Dinwiddie county, was a farmer and a miller, and died at the age of seventy years. His wife, Mary E. (Gregory) Gregg, of Gates county, North Carolina, bore him seven children: Baker, Thomas, Franklin, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Matilda Ann, the latter the wife of Benja- min Hatcher Boisseau. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Boisseau: Patrick Henry, of further mention ; Thomas Franklin, a farmer and speculator of Dinwiddie county, Virginia ; William Edward; Benjamin Hatcher (2) ; David Gregory; Mary E., married E. H. Babbitt, of North Carolina ; Richard Alonzo and Rosa Matilda ; all are deceased except Patrick Henry and Thomas Franklin.
Patrick Henry Boisseau, son of Benjamin Hatcher and Matilda Ann (Gregg) Bois- seau, was born at the old Boisseau home- stead in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, Octo- ber 17, 1850. He was educated in the public schools and Wingfield Academy, finishing his studies under the teaching of General W. Gordon McCabe, and at the University School for Boys at Petersburg, Virginia. After leaving school he was chief clerk in the store of which Colonel John Price, of Sussex county, Virginia, was the proprietor, and while there made his home with his em- ployer. On July 1, 1870, he began his resi- dence in Danville, Virginia, becoming deputy sergeant under his brother, William E. Boisseau, and continuing in that position until 1888. In the latter year he was elected sergeant of the city of Danville and has held that office continuously through successive re-elections, his present term expiring in January, 1918. He is a member of Roman Eagle Lodge, No. 122, Ancient Free and
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Accepted Masons, of Danville; a noble of the Mystic Shrine, and a thirty-second de- gree Mason of the Ancient Accepted Scot- tish Rite. He is a communicant of Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
Mr. Boisseau married, December 14, 1881, in Louisville, Kentucky, Susie Dean Wicks, born in that city, September 18, 1862. She is a daughter of George W. Wicks, born in Indiana, now deceased, formerly conducted a cotton and tobacco factory. He married Mary Dean, born in Richmond, Kentucky, now residing in Danville, Virginia, aged eighty years. Children of Patrick Henry Boisseau : Richard Bagby, died in infancy, September 22, 1882; Edna Virginia, born April 2, 1884, married Benjamin Boisseau Babbitt, of Long Branch, New Jersey, editor of the "Long Branch Record;" Mary Wicks, born October 16, 1889, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, ranking second in the class of 1913; she is a soloist of a high order, and engaged as vocal instructor in Danville.
William Camp. A love of the soil seems to be implanted in the average man, and when released from business necessities, a home in the country seems to be the one thing desired. Men, city bred, are foremost in their love for a country home, and in Mr. Camp's case a farm and stock breeding fol- lowed his years of active city business life.
He is the son of William Sewall and Mary (Bonsall) Camp, of Norfolk, his father a native born son of that city and educated in her schools. The career of William S. Camp was a notable one, inasmuch as start- ing as a clerk he became a partner, and as head of a large grocery house, Camp & Bon- sall, transacted a very extensive business. He never accepted public office, yet was deeply interested in political affairs and wielded a strong influence in behalf of his party and friends of the Democracy. He was a member of the Episcopal church, a man of high character, universally esteemed. He married Mary Bonsall, who bore him two children : Ellen B., married Charles Pontier ; William, of further mention.
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