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Oct. Session 1788
Oct. Session 1791
Thomas Watkins
Oct. Session 1792
May Session 1813.
Sessions 1813 -14; 1841-2. .
October Session 1789
Henry E. Coleman
October Session 1791.
David Clark
October Session 1792.
November Session 1794. .... Thomas Roberts
George Watkins
October Session 1782.
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December Session 1799. Richard Howson
January Session, 1800 .. 1 December Session, 1800. .. January Session. 1801. . December Session, 1800. .. January Session, 1801. December Session, 1802. ..
John B. Scott
William Terry
January Session, 1803
Sessions, 1809-10 Sessions, 1810-11
William Terry
Sessions 1806-7.
Sessions 1808-9
Joseph Sandford
Sessions 1810-11
Sessions 1808-9
William B. Banks
Sessions 1809-10
Sessions 1824-25
Sessions 1812-13
Sessions 1813-14
John Hill
Sessions 1814-15
Sessions 1814-15
Sessions 1812-13
Sessions 1817-18.
Howson Clark
Sessions 1818-19
Sessions 1817-18
Sessions 1818-19.
Sessions 1820-21
James Sneed
Sessions 1822-23
Sessions 1834-35
Sessions 1820-21 Richard Logan
Sessions 1822-23 Clement R. Carrington Sessions 1823-24.
Sessions 1821-25
Sessions 1826-27
Sessions 1835-36.
John B. Carrington
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Melchizedeck Spraggins
Isaac Medley Williamson Price
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Sessions 1826-27
Sessions 1827-28
Sessions 1828-29
Sessions 1829-30.
John G. Chalmers
Henry E. Scott
It was in the Convention of 1829 that John Randolph of Roanoke made his famous remark, "Call them horned cattle," which did nothing to increase his popularity. John Randolph, William Leigh, Richard Logan, and Richard N. Venable were the delegates to that Convention from the Sth district, in which Halifax was then included. In the spring of 1827, Mr. Randolph made a great speech at Halifax Court House on the issues of the proposed convention. It was estimated that from six to ten thousand people had gathered to hear him .- " As the hour approached every countenance beamed with antic- ipation or was grave with anxiety, for the weather was a little inauspicious and Mr. Randolph's health was bad. It was known that he had reached Judge Leigh's, but fears were entertained that he might be deterred by the weather. About 10 o'clock, however, the thin clouds vanished, and about 11 o'clock news passed like an electric current through the vast multitude that he was coming. In an instant the crowd began moving slowly and noise- lessly towards the upper tavern. Scarcely had they reached the summit of the slope between the courthouse and the tavern when they saw him coming on horseback, his carriage in the rear, driven by one of his servants. As he drew near, the crowd simultaneously divided to each side of the street, making a broad avenue along which he passed, hat in hand, bowing to the right and to the left, until he reached the lower tavern. The people with uncovered heads silently returned the salutation. As he passed on to the lower tavern, the multitude followed in profound silence. Alighting and going in for a few mo-
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ments he soon reappeared, crossed the street, ascended the steps leading over to the court house, and began by asking: "Fellow citizens .- why in my feeble state am I here? Love of your liberty as well as my own compelled me to come."* And after the Convention Mr. Randolph returned to Halifax Court House, very feeble, to give an account of his stewardship. Judge William Leigh, of Halifax, was John Randolph's sole executor by his will of 1821. Judge Leigh and Henry St. George Tucker were the final executors by the will of 1832.
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After the Episcopal Church, the Baptist Church is the oldest in Halifax County. Baptist Churches were estab- lished in the county from 1773 to 1803 as follows:
Catawba, 1773; Buffaloe, 1776; Mayo, 1774; Wynn's Creek, 1773; Hunting Creek, 1775; Musterfield, 1779; Childrey, 1783; Millstone, 1787; Arbor, 1785; Polecat, 1790; Miry Creek, 1803; Liberty, 1802; Dan River, 1802; Twelve Corner, 1803 .;
Of these churches Catawba, in the northern part of the county, occupies the site of the original meeting house.
Buffaloe Church became extinct during the war. The meeting house was of stone, near Pannell's Bridge, almost on the Halifax-Pittsylvania line.
Mayo was once one of the largest churches in the old Roanoke Association. The meeting house was situated near Mayo, on the road leading from Carrington's Bridge to Clarksville, and about a mile from Mayo Creek. The church was absorbed by Black Walnut on one side and Bethel, in Person County, North Carolina, on the other.
*See, Home Reminiscences of John Randolph of Roancke, by Powhatan Bouldin.
tSee, Semple's History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia. Richmond, 1891.
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The congregation of Wynn's Creek Church worshipped at first in a meeting house situated two and a half miles north of Houston. Hunting Creek still flourishes and is situated in the northeastern section of Halifax. On the formation of the Baptist Church at Scottsburg, in 1884, Musterfield Church was dissolved. The church stood to the northeast of Houston, on the road to Scottsburg. The Childrey Church joined the Dan River Association in 1872 and is vigorous. Childrey is near Brookneal. The congregation of Millstone Church worships on the original „site-near Meadsville, on the road from Houston to Republican Grove. Arbor Church is active. Polecat Church declined. A new meeting house was erected in 1836 and the name changed to Mount Vernon, on the Moun- tain Road. Miry Creek and Liberty are now extinct. Miry Creek united with Arbor Church before 1840. Dan River Church is active today and on the original site, about three miles from South Boston. Twelve Corner derived its name from the log building of twelve corners in which the church long worshipped. June 2, 1510 the name of the church was changed to Republican Grove. Dr. A. B. Brown was for years the pastor of the Republican Grove Church.
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Dr. William W. Bennett's Memorials of Methodism in Virginia gives few facts in regard to the Methodist Church in Halifax County. Methodism grew rapidly in Virginia after 1775, when there were not as many Methodists south of the Potomac River (955) as there are in Halifax County today. In 1781 there were 3.239 Methodists reported in Virginia. Bishop Asbury, the father of the church in Virginia, must have ridden often through Halifax on his long circuits. Speaking of his rides through the country lying on the Meherrin River, he says, "In this country
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I have to lodge half my nights in lofts, where light may be seen through a hundred places; and the cold wind at the same time blowing through as many."
In 1784 Halifax was a part of the "South District of Virginia:" Halifax, Mecklenburg, Bedford, Cumberland, Amelia, Brunswick, Sussex, Greensville, Bertie, Camden, Portsmouth, Williamsburg, Hanover and Orange. In 1784 the official title Presiding Elder first occurs. At the first Council of the Methodist Church in Virginia, James O'Kelly sat for the South District. In 1792 O'Kelly began to be greatly antagonistic to Bishop Asbury, and by 1801 the O'Kellyan Schism had made such advances as to take a distinct name-"The Christian Church." It is not stated whether O'Kelly's Church was much recruited in the Halifax section of his District. It is to be regretted that Dr. Bennett's book gives so few local statis- tics. How difficult it is to remember that what everybody knows today is precisely what nobody will know to- morrow.
The Rev. Alexander Hay, of Scotland, was inducted into the parish of Antrim in 1790. After the Revolution measures were taken for the erection of churches. Several of the old ones had fallen upon evil times. In 1794 it was reported that one church had been converted into a dwelling because there was no title to the land; another, out of repair, had been made over into a Baptist Church; a third, which had been put to the double purpose of a stable and a tobacco barn, was demolished and the timbers used for a store; a fourth was burned. The Revolution left the Episcopal Church greatly crippled in Halifax as in most counties.
In 1816 a small church was built some three miles from the Court House, in which Mr. Hay preached a few times
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before his death in 1819. Here also Mr. Ravenscroft (later, first Bishop of North Carolina) occasionally preached. This church was afterwards converted into a Methodist Church. Evan Ragland died in 1814 leaving a large estate to the Episcopal Church. There was a cause in chancery, and by 1830 $2,000 was realized by the church. Mr. Steel preached at Mt. Laurel Church from 1825 to 1830. The church had been built largely by Episcopalians, but was free to others. The Rev. Charles Dresser became rector of the Church at Halifax Court House in 1828. He was succeeded in 1838 by the Rev. John Grammer. It is owing to Mr. Dresser's energetic interest that the facts contained in Bishop Meade's book have been preserved. Mr. Dresser went to Illinois and in that state became President of Jubilee College, Peoria .* It is an interesting fact that Mr. Dresser, while rector of a church at Spring- field, Illinois, officiated at the marriage of Abraham Lin- coln and Mary Todd, November 4, 1842. The house occupied by Mr. Dresser in Springfield was later bought by Mr. Lincoln and is often mentioned as the home of the President. Halifax County was made possible as a place of settlement by the thorough work of Nathaniel Bacon;
*Mr. Dresser was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. John Grammer, father of Dr. John Graminer, Captain of Company A, 53d Virginia Infantry. Dr. Grammer was rector until his death in 1870. Dr. O. A. Kinsolving suc- ceeded Dr. Grammer and served the parish until his death in 1994. Four of his sons became clergymen -- Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, Bishop of Texas; Rt. Rev. Lucius Lee Kinsolving, Bishop of Brazil; Rev. A. B. Kinsolving, D. D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Md., (and for some years rector of Christ Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.); Rev. Wythe I. Kinsolving, Rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Barton Heights, Virginia. Mr. Shackelford followed Dr. Kinsolving, and in 1900 the present Rector, the Rev. Flournoy Bouldin succeeded Mr. Shackel- ford. It is interesting to know the succession in the oldest church of the county, reckoning, that is, by the parish name.
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on the soil of Halifax the Surrender at Yorktown was fore- shadowed; Halifax supplied the clergyman who married Abraham Lincoln, and it has been thought that Lincoln would not have become President if he had failed in his suit for the hand of Miss Mary Todd of Kentucky .*
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1830-1865.
Martins' Gazetteer of Virginia is a valuable source of information about the State as it was before the war. The book was published in 1834 and its facts are therefore to be referred to 1830. The minuteness of Martin is wonder- ful. He writes about Halifax County: The county is well watered and has an excellent soil. Much first rate tobacco is raised. Taxes paid in 1832 on 5,769 horses, 20 studs, 78 coaches, Slocarryalls, 102 gigs. Expended on educating poor children in 1832, $704.21. Towns, villages, post offices, etc .- Barksdale, P. O: This village contains several dwelling houses, one Baptist house of public worship, one common school, a Sabbath School, a Missionary and Temperance Society, an apothecary, wheel- right, boot and shoe factory, and a blacksmith. The post office located at this place is perhaps the oldest establishment in the county. The land of the surrounding country is light and sandy, remarkably free and produc- tive. Banister: Post Village. Besides the usual county buildings, this village contains 25 dwelling houses with a number of outhouses, mechanics shops, etc., two spacious houses of public worship, one Episcopalian and the other Methodist, a large and handsome Masonic Hall (which has lately been erected of brick, in an elevated and advan-
*Sce, Abraham Lincoln, by John G. Nicolay, p. 69.
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tageous situation, about the middle of the village,) several handsome and commodious taverns, three general stores and one grocery. The mechanics are a saddler, coach maker, two wheelrights, three blacksmiths, two tailors, one cabinet maker, and two boot and shoe manufacturers. There are in this vicinity two extensive flour manufactur- ing mills, two saw mills, and two cotton gins. The face of the country on each side of the village is very much broken, which causes it to be very long and narrow, and the houses to be built in a scattering manner, except immediately around the court house where all the stores and mechanics shops are located. The village is remark- able for its health, being well elevated by a gradual ascent of three quarters of a mile from the river. It is situated on the main road from Fredericksburg to the South. Seven stages pass through weekly and eleven mails are received at the post office. There is a race course in the neighbor- hood over which races are run once a year .* Population, 250 persons, of whom three are attorneys and three physi- cians. County courts are held on the 4th Monday in every month. Quarterly, in March, June, August and November. Judge Leigh holds his Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery on the 1st of April and Septem- ber. Bennett's Store, P. O: 146 miles S. W. of Richmond and 236 from Washington {It has been suggested that this is Mayo.]-Bentleysville, P. O: 115 miles from Richmond and 230 from Washington. Black Walnut. Bloomsburgh: situated two miles south of Dan River, and eight miles from the North Carolina line, on the main S. W. stage road leading from Washington City to Salisbury, N. C., and Milledgeville, Georgia. There are located here a dwelling house and a mercantile store; and in the vicinity
*Imported Margrave, Imported Sarpedon, and Fly-by-Night were famous names in the county before the war.
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two houses of public worship, one Baptist and the other Presbyterian. The country around is densely settled, and the land fertile, producing in abundance wheat, Indian corn, tobacco, etc. Brooklyn: Post Village. Contains 21 dwelling houses, one mercantile store, one druggist shop, one tanyard, one boot and shoe factory, one coach and wagon maker, one tailor, two blacksmith shops, and one house carpenter. The situation is high and healthy. Population 60 persons; one of whom is a physician.
Centreton P. O: Plainly Centerville. Meadsville: situ- ated at the head of navigation on Banister River. Con- tains 12 dwelling houses, two general stores, one tobacco warehouse, one iron foundry and plow manufactory, one cabinet maker, one tanyard, one blacksmith, two extensive flour manufacturing mills, a wool carding machine, and a cotton gin. Population 70 persons; of whom one is a physician. Mount Laurel, P. O. Republican Grove. Scottsburg: Post Village, contains several dwelling houses' one tavern, one mercantile store, and one smith's shop. Population 40. Warren's Store P. O: 115 miles S. W. by W. of Richmond and 205 miles from Washington, situated in the western part of the county.
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The population of Halifax* in 1830 was 28.034: in 1840, 25,936; in 1850, 25,962; and in 1860, 26, 520. From 1830 to 1860 there was much emigration from Virginia to the West and the Southwest, and Falifax certainly contributed its share, as will be seen by an inspection of the figures. Hence Martin's summary for 1830 probably holds good for the thirty years preceding the war-an agricultural
*In 1790) the population was 14,722; 1500, 19,377; 1810, 22,133; 1820, 19,060. Pittsylvania was set off from Halifax in. 1767; Henry from Pittsylvania in 1777; and Franklin from Henry (with a part of Bedford) in 1784
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county and one of the best. For that very reason Halifax suffered extremely by the war. Where there was an industrial life before the war activity could be more readily resumed. Therefore the county's achievement since the war has been all the more remarkable. Halifax did not . produce many general offices from '61 to '65. But the county furnished companies to all three arms of the service, as many as thirty-three it has lately been guessed, certainly twenty companies. Twenty companies from an arms bearing population of not much beyond 2000 is to say the least, a good showing. What is given here on the historical side professes to be merely a sketch through- out. It must be less than that for the war period. Bureau methods were distasteful to the Southerner. There was little of the speculative in his fighting. It has generally been admitted that he fought. Card catalogues are used now. We have learned that commercialism is war. The records are being collected and will after a time be pub- lished.
The Infantry roll is long:
1. Sth Regiment, Company G. Capt. James Thrift and Capt. J. O. Berry.
2. 14th Regiment-Company K. Capt. D. A. Claiborne, "Dan River Company."
3. 17th Regiment-Company D. Capt. Wm. H. Dulany. "Halifax Rifles."
4. 38th Reigment-Company T-Capt. Jonathan Carter and Capt. Lafayette Jennings.
5. 53d Regiment-Company A-{Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division.] Capt. John Grammer. "Halifax Light Infantry Blues."
Lieutenants: P. C. Edmunds, Ransom B. Moon, Thomas F. Barksdale, H. A. Edmondson, James D. Clay, Evan J. Ragland, A. B. Willingham. Orderly Sergeant: A. R. Green.
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This company was mustered in service on the 24th of April 1861. Ninety-four men and officers passed inspec- tion. Captain Grammer was advanced to the Coloneley of a West Virginia regiment (Breckinridge's Brigade). Later he was wounded and afterwards acted as a surgeon.
6. The Brooklyn Grays-Capt William Haymes.
7. Capt. John C. Coleman's Company. [Dr. Cole- man.] This company, under Garnett, was captured in the Luray Valley and disbanded. The men joined other Com- panies.
S. Captain Richard Logan's Company -- Lieutenant, Charles Bruce.
9. Captain W. S. Penick's Company.
10. Captain Young's Company-[Dr. Young.]
11. Captain D. B. Easley's Company.
12. Captain West's Company.
13. Captain William B. Hurt's Company-[Reserves.]
At least four companies of artillery were made up of Halifax men, to which must be added the Staunton Artil- lery, half from Halifax.
1. 4th Regiment, Heavy Artillery-Battery F. Capt. Richard H. Edmondson.
2. Light Artillery-{Poague's Battalion.] Capt. Lewis (Milton, N. C.), and Capt. Nathan Penick.
1st Lieutenant .- Armistead Barksdale.
2d Lieutenant .- James Cobbs.
3. Captain Sam. Wright's Battery.
4. Captain H. H. Hurt's Battery.
After one year's service this company was formed into an infantry company [Wise's Brigade.].
5. Staunton Artillery-6 Gun Battery. Capt. Charles Bruce and Capt. A. B. Paris.
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Lieutenants: Thomas Tucker, Wood Bouldin, Jr., R. V. Gaines, C. A. Hamner, Flavius Gregory, Thomas E. Mar- shall.
Orderly Sergeants: C. C. Read, H. A. Walker, T. C. Watkins, John Fore, Wyatt Paris, George Bruce, William Walker, J. A. Roberts.
Halifax was a racing region before the war. The County furnished its quota to the Cavalry-
1. 3d Regiment-Troop C. "Black Walnut Cavalry." Capt. William Easley, Capt. J. O. Chappell, and Capt. Thomas II. Owen.
Subalterns at the first organization: 1st Lieutenant, Thomas II. Owen; 2d Lieutenant, J. W. Hall;
Lieutenants: J. M. Jordan, Thomas Hall.
Sergeant: Thomas Traynham.
Captain Owen was advanced to a coloneley, and just before the close of the war received a commission as Brigadier General.
2. 3d Regiment-Troop H. Capt. William Collins, "Catawba Cavalry." [The 3d Regiment was in Wickham's and Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade, Stuart's Division.]
3. Captain Thomas S. Flournoy's Troop. Captain Flournoy later became Colonel of the 6th Cavalry.
4. Captain Mustain's Company. A part of this com- pany was from Halifax, whether in the infantry or the cavalry the writer is uncertain.
Company A. 53d Va. Infantry, Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division, may serve as a typical Halifax Com- pany. This was an organized company before the war, ' and was the first to be mustered in from the county. The company fought from North Carolina to Pennsylvania: at Bethel Church; Seven Pines; the Seven Days (includ- ing Malvern Hill); Second Manassas; Harper's Ferry;
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Sharpsburg; Fredericksburg; Suffolk; Gettysburg (where Gen. Armistead was killed); Newbern, N. C .; Drewry's Bluff; Fort Harrison (here Captain Henry Edinunds was greatly distinguished, June 18, 1864)* the Petersburg- Richmond lines; the Howlett House; Five Forks; Say- ler's Creek; Appomattox Court House, where Capt. Edmunds, as Senior Captain was in command of the regi- . ment. A letter written by a membert of the Company after Fort Harrison gives a notion of what war meant to the Halifax soldier: "Sandy (orderly sergeant Green) carried us on night picket duty through the battlefield of the day before, over dead bodies of men and horses and within a hundred yards of the main fort. We were placed at a spot where there had been a cabin, and when the lightning flashed I could see all around me as plainly as if it was day. There was a fearful cloud rising. I took a seat on the remains of an old chimney and as I looked over, there stood, within ten feet, two Yankees on the same errand as ourselves. Sandy gave me orders not to fire unless there was an advance in force. These Yankees heard my orders and after a while one of them said, "John- ny, don't shoot. If you do, we will all be killed. Both armies will fire and we have no way to protect ourselves." "Agreed. I shall not fire unless you all advance." We chatted for some time, until an officer came around and stopped them. * * * Our orders were to come in at daybreak. We started as soon as the camp mules began to bray, but just before we reached our works, that had been built that night, our artillery opened on the fort and
*The Confederate Monument at Randolph, on the Halifax side, in the form of the breastworks there, is a relic of July 1864, when the boy General Polk Jennings, checked Stoneman's advance. A brisk skirmish. The Confederate forces were old men and boys.
¡Capt. W. G. Morton of Clover, Halifax County.
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we sought shelter in an old rifle pit some 100 yards in front of the works and there we spent the greater part if not the whole day, without water or food, between the fires of the opposing batteries. Pieces of brimstone would fall in our pit from the schrapnel of the enemy and the dirt in our front would be knocked on our heads. We moved out just about dark and joined our Company in time to be marched nearly all night, and early next morning I went with Major Fairfax on a reconnoissance to find the enemy. The loss of sleep for two nights nearly wore me out. but I lived on excitement and went into the fight as cheerfully. as I ever did. I remember going to Henry Southall's that night, and we slept in a feather bed, the first time in two years under a roof and in a bed. Mrs. Southall filled our haversacks and we returned to the Company next morning and then moved to our former lines between the Appomat- tox and the James. "*
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The haversack, that was the trouble. Not every kind lady in 1864 could fill a visiting soldier's haversack. And in 1865, how extremely scarce the provender was. Quotations for the cereal coffees, the long sweetening and such articles of commerce stood at a high figure. The money market was brisk. But as Mark Twain proved, when you have little but money. no matter how good the money is, it does you mighty little good. People had barrels of money and nothing to eat. The great produc- tiveness of our soils was in itself a handicap. Three-fourths
*There is but one Cump of Veterans in the county .- Halifax Camp., South Boston. Commander: Henry Easley. Adjutant. E. N. Hardy. +Population: 1870, 27,828; 1880, 33,5SS; 1890, 34,424; 1900. 37,197.
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of the land had been going without any proper attention and was sending up natural growths everywhere. The soldiers got back home to find, what? It was as if in a night-for the war scemed a bad dream-some devil had been let loose to change the order of the universe.
That same devil, or one very like him, kept on hanging around for a good ten years. If the war was partial paraly- sis, reconstruction was coma. The old timers turned their faces to the wall and died. The younger men, dazed as they were by the general feeling of insecurity, worked . as they could and gradually effected some system in the chaos. During the past ten years the South at large has been able to go forward in a geometrical progression because during the years immediately following the war the younger men of the South despised not the day of small things.
Fortunately for Halifax County there was a remnant of capital left in the county after the war. This was used sagaciously in the up-building of the town of South Boston which has done so much for the financial well-being of the county. From nothing in 1870 but a store and a station at the end of a bridge, (to the bridge also must be ascribed a share in the rise of South Boston), the town grew to be important enough for incorporation in 1884. In 1SS5 the first bank was established. The finances of the county were organized and what the organizers have accomplished in a brief space is a matter of record elsewhere. The okl town of Banister was incorporated in 1874,* changing its style to Houston at the approach of a railway. Virgilina and Clover were incorporated in 1899 and 1900 respec- tively. God made the country and the country makes the town. Halifax could not to-day be one of the wealthiest
*First Trustees: Heary H. Edmondson, N. T. Green, James E. Johnson, J. M. Carrington, George C. Holt, Edwin Grubbs, W. W Willingham.
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counties in Virginia and the third county of the State in non-urban population, unless its natural endowment was excellent.
Some of the ablest men of Halifax have sat as delegates from the county to the several State Conventions:
Convention of 1774 Nathaniel Terry and Isaac Coles, or Micajah Watkins. Convention of 1775 (March 20) Nathaniel Terry and Micajah Watkins.
Convention of 1775 (July 17) Micajah Watkins.
Convention of 1775 (December 1) Nathaniel Terry and · Micajah Watkins.
Convention of 1776 (May 6) Nathaniel Terry and Micajah Watkins.
Convention of 1788 Isaac Coles and George Carrington.
Convention of 1829-30. [From the 8th District] John Randolph, William Leigh, Richard Logan. Richard N. Venable.
Convention of 1850-51. . [From Halifax, Pittsylvania and Mecklenburg.] William M. Tred- way, John R. Edmunds, James M. Whittle, William O. Goode, George W. Perkins.
Convention of 1861 Thomas S. Flournoy.
Convention of 1867 William L. Owen and David Canada. Convention of 1901-1902 Wood Bouldin and Joseph Stebbins .*
Character and conduct make greatness. Halifax County has produced such men as the elder Richard Logan, Judge
*For sketches of the Clerks of the County: See, Johnson's Virginia Clerks.
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William Leigh, John R. Edmunds,* Thomas S. Flournoy, William L. Owen, Paul C. Edmunds, James Bruce. Judge John W. Riely, Henry Edmunds.
*John R. Edmunds, among other conspicuous services, built for the · Confederate Government that section of the Southern Railway lying between Danville and Greensboro.
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