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Paul S. Carrington, son of Judge Paul (2) and Mildred H. (Coles) Carrington, was born in Charlotte county, Virginia, 1798, died at his residence, "Ridgeway," located on Staunton river, Charlotte county, Vir- ginia, July 9, 1866. He was a farmer by occupation. He married, March 10, 1826, Emma Catherine Cabell, born March 10, 1808, daughter of William H. and Agnes S. B. (Gamble) Cabell, granddaughter of Colonel Nicholas and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell, and great-granddaughter of Dr. Wil- liam Cabell, the founder, and his wife, Eliz- abeth (Banks) Cabell. Children: I. Isaac Howell, born March 7, 1827; married (first) Mary Coles, daughter of John Coles, of Pittsylvania, Virginia; she died in 1860; married (second) November 7, 1865, Anne Seddon Smith; four children by first wife,
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seven by second. 2. Robert G., born 1828, deceased ; married, 1861, Jane C. Spiller ; one child. 3. William A., born 1830, died July 17, 1866; married, October 21, 1863, Mildred C. Carrington. 4. Abram Cabell, of whom further. 5. Alexander Broadnax, of whom further. 6. Edgar W., born 1835, killed May 31, 1862, at "Seven Pines," in the Civil war. 7. Louisa Cabell, born April 30, 1837; married, November 8, 1860, Andrew Reid Venable; seven children. 8. Adeline Mayo.
Lieutenant Abram Cabell Carrington, son of Paul S. and Emma Catherine (Cabell) Carrington, was born October 15, 1831, in Charlotte, Virginia. He was educated at the Virginia Military Institute and at Frank- lin Minor's School, near Charlottesville. He was a member and elder in the Presbyterian church. He took an active part in the Civil war, serving as lieutenant of Company D, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, Confederate States army, and was killed while leading his company at Frasier's Farm, June 30, 1862. He married, July 7, 1852, Nannie Cabell, daughter of Clement and Ann (Wat- kins) Read, of Farmville, Virginia. She died in April, 1893. Children: I. William Cabell, born November 13, 1853; married Mrs. Wirt Turner, of Bristol, Tennessee. 2. Clement Read, born July 12, 1855 ; mar- ried, November 10, 1892, Eleanor Patton Crutchfield, of Fredericksburg, Virginia ; one son, Abram Cabell, born January 26, 1894. 3. Paul S., born October 1, 1857. 4. Alexander Broadnax, of whom further. 5. Anne Lee, born July 21, 1862 ; married, Oc- tober 30, 1888, Rev. William S. Campbell, of Richmond, Virginia ; children: Virginia Epps, born July 28, 1890, and Nannie Cabell, born September 10, 1901. Extracts from sermon of Rev. R. L. Dabney, D. D., com- memorative of the death of Lieutenant Abram Cabell Carrington preached in De- cember, 1862, at the request of the session of College Church, Hampden-Sidney, Vir- ginia :
To pass over such a Christian character as that of our brother (Abram Cabell Carrigton), and let his memory in silence without thanksgiving to Him who formed him to holiness, would be ingratitude to God and neglect of the instruction of His Church. For never have I known a man in whom grace bore more excellent fruit, in the short summer time, than in him. Under this ministry of the late venerable pastor, Dr. Rice, the sacred instructions of his childhood ripened into faith, and he devoted his
early manhood to God. From the very first, his modest, brave and honorable nature displayed the refining influence of grace; and he assumed at once the standing of a thorough Christian. His religion was of that type which, like Joshua's and Caleh's, followed the Lord fully. The result was that after two years, he was introduced into the elder- ship with the unanimous approval of the Church. In that office he was a model of fidelity, ever post- poning his private convenience to the calls and duties of the elder; firm in discipline, in purity of life an "example to the flock," and ready to assume any burden of labor or responsibility to which duty called him: so that, though of all men most modest and least pragmatical, he soon found the largest share of the Church's work resting on his shoul- ders. It was thus I came first as stated supply, and then pastor of this church, to know and love him. If I did not know that my estimate is warmly sus- tained by all who knew him best, I should suspect myself of a too partial affection, and put a con- straint upon my heart and lips; for truly I can say my soul was knit with his, as the souls of David and Jonathan. And now that I have lost him, I can find no words to express my personal bereavement bet- ter than those of David in the requiem of his princely friend: "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O, Jonathan, thou wast slain in thy high places: I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me."
Need I commend his kindness as a neighbor when I see so many glistening eyes before me to attest it? Need I remind you of his public spirit, his inflex- ible integrity, his courage for the right in this com- munity? On the graces of his character as son, brother, husband, father, in the interior circles of his home, the sacredness of the grief which his loss has left behind forbid me to enlarge. Abram C. Carrington was the truest man with whose friend- ship it was ever my lot to be hlest. Let him but be convinced, in his clear and honest judgment, of the call of duty, and his effort to accomplish it was certain as the rising of the sun; and it was made at once, without a pause to consider whether the task was easy and pleasant or arduous and repulsive. Let him once bestow his friendship upon you, and he was yours in every trial, with fortune and hand and heart, and, if need be, lifeblood.
As a soldier his courage was of the truest temper. His comrades whom I see before me will remember how his body was prostrate with disease at the first battle of Manassas, but the energy of a determinate will seemed to be medicine for his weakness; so that instead of making it an excuse for going to the rear, as so many did, his spirit invigorated his fail- ing strength. In the battle of Gaines Mill, where is regiment had one man of every three struck, his gallantry was conspicuous; and on Monday, June 30, at Frazier's Farm, he was encouraging his men, when he fell with a hullet through his breast. His was the courage of the Christian. It was truly ex- hibited by his steady Christian example in camp and on the field. In a letter written on the morning he died while describing the carnage through which his company, the Friday before, had passed, he modestly says of himself: "Amidst it all I lifted up my heart to God for safety, and thanks to His holy name, He was pleased to hear me." In the same
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calm spirit he again commits himself to God in prayer and well-doing, with the bloody day before him.
Alexander Broadnax Carrington, son of Lieutenant Abram Cabell and Nannie Cabell (Read) Carrington, was born in Charlotte, Virginia, July 22, 1859. He received his education in the public schools of his native city and county. He entered business life at an early age, engaging in the railroad business, and after a few years spent in this line of work turned his attention to the fer- tilizing business. He removed to Lynch- burg, and with his brother, Clement Read Carrington, founded the Pocohontas Guano Company. On the death of the latter named he took over the business and has since con- ducted it on his own account. This busi- ness having grown extensively he is now erecting a larger plant to take care of his greatly increased trade. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and for a num- ber of years has served as deacon of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lynch- burg. Mr. Carrington married (first) Lucy Sanford Royal, of Lynchburg, Virginia, who bore him two children: Royal Read and Nannie Cabell. He married (second) Margaret Fleming Wilson, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret Wilson, who died in infancy.
Robert Hagedorn Bolling, M. D. The most noble, romantic and pathetic story found in history is that of the Indian Prin- cess, Pocohontas, daughter of Powhatan, the ruler of all the Indian tribes inhabiting Virginia at the advent of the English. In her marriage, April 5, 1614, to Captain John Rolf, of the ancient family of Rolf, of Heas- ham Hall, Norfolk county, England, first secretary and recorder-general of Virginia, and member of the governor's council, is found the most historic and closest approach of civilization and savagery ever recorded. Married to an English gentleman of old family, Pocohontas accompanied him to England, leaving the wigwam of a savage Indian chief to become the guest of the Queen of England. Little wonder that the wild flower of the forest drooped and died when brought into contact with the hot- house air of civilization, passing away in 1616, when about to return to Virginia in a vessel especially fitted up for her accom- modation by the Virginia Company. Thomas
Rolf, only son of John Rolf, the English- man, and his wife, Pocohontas, the Indian Princess, married Jane Poythress, daugh- ter of Lieutenant Francis Poythress, of Jamestown, Virginia, member of the house of burgesses for Charles City county, 1644, and left a daughter, Jane, who married, in 1675, Colonel Robert Bolling, founding the ancient and honorable Bolling family of Vir- ginia.
The Bolling family of England is a most ancient one. Robert Bolling, "Esquire," in . the reign of Edward IV. possessed and re- sided at Bolling Hall, near Bradford, in Yorkshire, England, where many genera- tions of his ancestors had lived. This Rob- ert Bolling died in 1485 and was buried in the family vault in Bradford Church, upon which is carved the Bolling arms: "Quar- terly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or and azure, on a chief sable, three amulets argent ; second and third, gules, five mascles in fesse argent within a bordure argent." Crest : "First, a lion's head erased ; second, on a mount a crescent therefrom issuing a rose slipped."
Colonel Robert Bolling, born December 26, 1646, was the son of John and Mary Bolling, of All Hallows, Barkin Parish, Tower Street, London, England, a descend- ant of the Bollings of Bolling Hall. Colo- nel Robert Bolling came to Virginia, Octo- ber 2, 1660, when not yet fifteen years of age. He was a member of the house of bur- gesses for Charles City county from 1701 to 1704. He attained fortune and prominence, living at "Kippax" (sometimes called Farm- ingdale), Prince George county, a fine estate on the James river below Petersburg, now in ruins, where he died July 17, 1709, and was there buried. In 1858 his remains were moved to a mausoleum erected by his great- grandson in Blandford cemetery. Colonel Robert Bolling married (first) in 1675, Jane Rolf, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Poy- thress) Rolf, and granddaughter of the In- dian Princess, Pocohontas. He married (second) Anne Stith, daughter of Major John Stith. By his first marriage he had a son, Colonel John Bolling, born January 27, 1676, of "Cobbs," also member of the house of burgesses. By his second marriage he had seven children.
Robert (2) Bolling, eldest son of Colonel Robert (1) and Anne (Stith) Bolling, was born January 25, 1682, died in 1747. He
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was a member of the house of burgesses from Prince George county, 1723, 1736 and 1744. He married, January 27, 1706, Anne Cocke, who bore him eight children.
Robert (3) Bolling, eighth child and only son of Robert (2) and Anne (Cocke) Bol- ling, was born June 12, 1730, died February 24, 1775. His estate was "Bollingbrook," at Petersburg. He was a member of the house of burgesses from Prince George and Din- widdie from 1758 to 1774, and a member of the convention of 1774. He married (first) Martha Banister, sister of Colonel John Banister, of "Battersea," member of con- gress. He married (second) April 11, 1758. Mary Marshall, only daughter of Colonel Thomas Tabb, of "Clay Hill," Amelia coun- ty, Virginia.
Robert (4) Bolling, eldest of the five chil- dren of Robert (3) Bolling, of "Bolling- brook," and his second wife, Mary Marshall (Tabb) Bolling, was born at "Bollingbrook," March 3, 1759. He resided at "Centre Hill." He was frequently a member of the legisla- ture of Virginia. He married (first) a rela- tive, Mary Burton Augusta, only daughter of Colonel Robert Bolling, of "Chellowe;" married (second) Catherine, daughter of Buckner Stith, of "Rockspring," Brunswick county, Virginia ; married (third) Sally, daughter of Lawrence and Eliza Washing- ton : married (fourth) November 23. 1797, Anne Dade, daughter of Buckner and Anne Stith. He had issue by all wives, but the third.
Robert Buckner Bolling, third child and eldest son of Robert (4) Bolling, of "Centre Hill." and his fourth wife, Anne Dade (Stith ) Bolling, was born at "West Hill." Petersburg, Virginia, March 28, 1805, died at Staunton, Virginia, June 28, 1881. He was a graduate of Princeton College, class of 1825. studied law at Winchester, but did not practice, the care of the large paternal estates being his life work. He married Sarah Melville, only daughter of John and Sarah S. Minge, of "Sandy Point," Charles City county, Virginia. She was born at "Farmers' Rest," Charles City county, Virginia, September 10, 1813, died at Petersburg, Virginia, in July, 1854.
Dr. Robert (5) Bolling, eldest son of Rob- ert Buckner and Sarah Melville (Minge) Bolling, was born at "Sandy Point," Charles City county, Virginia, December 11, 1832, died in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, May 12, 1903. He was one of the members of the Quiz class and summer school of Bolling, Hutchinson & Hodge, for- merly Bolling & Darby. He was a gradu- ate of the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, receiving his de- gree, Doctor of Medicine, with the class of 1855. He also spent several years abroad in medical study and investigation, was con- nected with Paris hospitals in professional capacity, and became one of the eminent men of his profession. On his return to the United States in 1861 he located in Phila- delphia, in the Chestnut Hill section, and during the war between the states was as- sistant surgeon of the United States army. He was a resident physician of Eastern Penitentiary, assistant executive officer of the Mower United States Army Hospital, was demonstrator for Dr. D. Hayes Agnew. and resident physician of St. Joseph's Hos- pital, Philadelphia, 1855-56. He was a mem- ber of the American and Pennsylvania Med- ical associations, member of the College of Physicians, member of the Academy of Nat- ural Science, and member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons. He was highly regarded by his professional brethren. Dr. Bolling married, June 5, 1866, Leontine Car- oline Helene Hagedorn, daughter of Ed- ward Theobald and Alvina Agnes Clemen- tina (Bohlen) Hagedorn, of Bremen, Ger- many.
Dr. Robert (6th) Hagedorn Bolling, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, June 20, 1867. son of Dr. Robert (5) and Leontine Caroline Helene (Hagedorn ) Bolling. In early boy- hood he attended private schools at Chestnut Hill, and from the age of twelve to seven- teen years was a student in the Classical Institute of Dr. Faries ( Master), of Penn- sylvania. It was his father's wish that after this thorough preparatory study he should enter the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, which he did. and was graduated Doctor of Medicine, May I, 1889. For the two following years he per- formed interne duty. first at St. Luke's Hos- pital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, then at the Germantown Hospital, Pennsylvania. Since 1892 Dr. Bolling has been engaged in gen- eral medical and surgical practice, begin- ning his professional career in association with his honored father. Dr. Bolling is at this time a member of the medical staffs of
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St. Joseph's Infirmary, Chestnut Hill, and the Surgical Dispensary Polyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia. He is a member of the Phila- delphia County Medical Society, Pennsyl- vania State Medical Society, American Med- ical Association, the Philadelphia Cricket Club and of Hiram Lodge, No. 81, Free and Accepted Masons, of Chestnut Hill. Second of the old Virginia family to make Philadel- phia the scene of his professional labors, he is also the second to achieve worthy place in that profession, and the records of father and son do credit to the individuals and to their distinguished name. He is a com- municant of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Dr. Bolling married, in Philadelphia, Jan- uary 31, 1893, Julia Campbell, born in Wash- ington, D. C., March 13, 1871, daughter of Rear-Admiral Alexander Wilson and Julia (Campbell) Russell. Rear-Admiral Alex- ander Wilson Russell served in the United States navy continuously from 1861 until his retirement in 1888. He was appointed paymaster, February 28, 1861 ; pay inspector, March 3, 1871 ; pay director, February 23, 1877, and was placed upon the retired list, February 4, 1888. His services on land and sea were most meritorious during the days of our wooden navy, and two generations of his descendants have felt the inspiration of his example. His son, Alexander Wilson Russell, was an ensign in the navy during the Spanish-American war, serving until honorably discharged, while the grandson of Rear-Admiral Russell, Alexander Rus- sell Bolling, is now a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis by personal appointment of President Wil- son, in recognition of the distinguished serv- ice of his grandfather, Rear-Admiral Rus- sell, whose service in detail follows: Served in the sloop-of war, Saratoga, off the coast of Africa, 1842-44; as captain's clerk, and was in operations under Commodore Perry in 1843; served in Company C (Captain Samuel H. Walker, Texan Rangers), Mount- ed Rifle Regiment, in Mexican war; clerk of naval affairs committee, United States senate, 1858-61 ; nominated paymaster in the navy from the District of Columbia and con- firmed, February 14, 1861 ; attached to steam- er, Pocohontas, April and May, 1861 ; sloop, Savannah, in blockading squadron and in Savannah river; steam frigate, Colorado, on Mississippi river and at the capture of New
Orleans; iron clad steamer, New Ironsides, special service, 1862; South Atlantic squad- ron, 1863-64, when he received special thanks of Commodore Rowan in his official dispatches "for great zeal and ability in command of the powder and shell division" during the twenty-seven engagements with forts and batteries in Charleston harbor ; steamer, Chattanooga, special service, 1866; steamer, Sacramento, special service, until wrecked in the Bay of Bengal, India. in 1867; inspector of clothing and provisions in navy yard, Washington, 1868-70; navy pay office, Philadelphia, 1870-73; promoted pay inspector, March 3, 1871 ; inspector of clothing and provisions, navy yard, Phila- delphia, from October, 1873, to January 15, 1874; navy pay office, 1874-77; promoted pay director, February 23, 1877; navy pay office, Baltimore, Maryland, March 31, 1877, to 1882; navy pay office, Philadelphia, from 1882 until his retirement, February 4, 1888. He was promoted a rear-admiral by special bill through congress. He was vice-com- mander and ex-treasurer of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, commander of Military Order of Foreign Wars, member of the Sons of the Revolution, Colonial Wars, St. Andrew's Society, Union League Club of Philadelphia and president of the Coloni- zation Society.
Dr. Bolling and his wife, Julia Campbell (Russell) Bolling, are the parents of one son, Alexander Russell, born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, August 28, 1895, edu- cated in the Chestnut Hill Academy and North East High School of Philadelphia. As previously stated, on June 14, 1914, he received the personal appointment of Presi- dent Wilson to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, his appointment fur- ther recognition of the valuable services of his grandfather, Rear-Admiral Russell, and is now a student in that institution.
Charles Walker Maury. Charles Walker Maury, of New York City, was born at Washington, District of Columbia, Novem- ber 23, 1858, and belongs to Huguenot stock. that settled in America in colonial times. Jean de la Fontaine had a younger son, Jacques, born in 1550, and died in 1633. The Rev. James de la Fontaine, descendant of this Jacques, married, February 6, 1686, Ann Elizabeth Boursiquot. To them were born five children: Peter, Francis, Elizabeth,
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John, Mary Ann, born 1690. died 1755, mar- ried in Dublin, Ireland, 1716, Matthew Maury, a Huguenot. They came to Virginia in 1718, where Matthew Maury died in 1752.
The father of Charles Walker Maury was William Lewis Maury, born at Bowling Green, Caroline county, Virginia, and died November, 1878. He married Anne Fon- taine Maury, a distant cousin, and daughter of William Maury, who was the son of James Maury. This James Maury, the ma- ternal great-grandfather of Charles Walker Maury, was United States consul at Liver- pool, England, having been appointed by President George Washington, holding the position about thirty years.
The mother of Anne Fontaine (Maury) Maury, and grandmother of Charles Walker Maury, was Sarah Mytton (Hughes) Maury, of Liverpool, England. The father of Charles Walker Maury, William Maury, was appointed a midshipman in the United States navy. At the breaking out of the Civil war he was a lieutenant in the United States navy. He resigned his commission and became a captain in the Confederate navy. The mother of Charles Walker Maury was the second wife of his father. His brothers were four: Henry Tobin Maury, born in New York City, in 1868; William Lewis Maury, deceased ; Leonard Turner Maury, deceased ; Rutson Maury, deceased. Charles Walker Maury has also two half-sisters: Jane Elizabeth, who mar- ried George Gordon Richmond; and Mary Lewis, who married Windham Kempp, of Gloucester county, Virginia.
Mr. Maury was educated in the public and private schools of Long Island and New York, and after leaving school became a clerk in a commission house. He has been practically in the commission and stock ex- change business since he was sixteen years of age. In politics Mr. Maury is independ- ent, and belongs to the Protestant Episco- pal church. He is a member of the Union Club of New York City, the Southern So- ciety of New York City, the Church Club of New York City, and the Raquet and Tennis Club of New York. He married, June 4, 1901, Emily Louise, daughter of William and Emily Louise (Brown) Fland- ers, of Boston, Massachusetts. Children : Anne Fontaine, born at Noroton, Connecti- cut, 1902, and Virginia Walker, born at Noroton, Connecticut, in 1903.
Hudson Snowden Marshall. United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York, Hudson S. Mar- shall, is a descendant of an old Virginia family, which has many branches in the Old Dominion. Many of its descendants re- moved to Kentucky in the early settlement of that state. Among the most distin- guished representatives of this name was Chief Justice John Marshall, of John Adam's administration. Many branches of this family cannot be accurately traced, through the absence of vital or other records. The name seems to be of a common origin with cther families in this country, being traced to William Mareschall, who was of French origin and figured in the early history of England. The name was originally derived from an occupation or office, and has doubled in meaning in a peculiar fashion. An ancient authority says that Mares-Chal applies either to the marshal of a kingdom 01 camp, and also to a farrier or one who cares for horses. The latter meaning grew in dignity until applied to a master of cavalry : hence, under the ancient regime, we had the grand marshals of France, governors of provinces, as well as the Earl-Marshal of England and Lord Marischal of Scotland. The earl of Pembroke is of the Marshall family of England, and few names are more generally scattered through the kingdom or more numerous. There are no less than six- ty-seven coats-of-arms of the Marshall fam- ily in Burke's General Armory. The more distinguished branches of the family are scattered through the counties of Berks, Derby, Devon, Durham, Huntington, Es- sex, Hants, Lincoln, Middlesex, Notting- ham, York, Northumberland and Surrey; also in Ireland. The coat-of-arms in general use (that ilk) is: Argent, a bishop's pall, sable, between three dock leaves, vert.
Captain John Marshall, who was born and reared in Ireland, commanded at the battle of Edgehill, during the reign of Charles I. He was an ardent Episcopalian, and upon the accession of Cromwell removed to America, about 1650, and settled at James- town, later removing to Westmoreland county, Virginia. He was distinguished in the Indian wars. His son, Thomas Mar- shall, born about 1655, was a farmer in Washington parish, of that county, a promi- nent Episcopalian, and died in May, 1704. His wife's name was Martha, and their son,
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