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Union or not. He was a strong Union man and went there in- strueted to vote against secession, which he did to the bitter end, saying they might hang him, as they threatened to do, but he would never sign the ordinance. He was the only man in this convention who did not sign it. There were several of the West Virginia members, who did not sign, but they left at once for their homes within the Northern line. A hundred times the ordinanee was thrust into his face, but he invariably replied, "I will die first." That he was not killed seems almost a miracle. Many of the best and staunchest Union men gave way to the pressure and signed the ordinance. Samuel McDowel More was burned in effigy, Jubal A. Early was threatened with mob law, yet they both yielded to the overwhelming excitement. John F. Lewis alone remained at his post, true to the last to his firm conviction that to do so would bring trouble and ruin to his State. His integrity and honesty of purpose were so well known and so well appreciated that they seemed to be a shield to his open and often reckless Union utterances, and while others were imprisoned, or shot down on the roadside, he was sparcd to save his State from the internal strife which so long retarded the happiness and prosperity of many of the more southern states. In 1869 he was elected Lieutenant Governor, and in November of that year was elected to the United States Senate. To quote from Rev. O. S. Bunting, late of Petersburg, Va., and a dear friend : "From heel to erown he was every inch a man-brave; true, sin- cere, courteous in the truest sense, generous, positive. Agree with him some did not, but admire him all must. All over the State he was honoured as extremely few publie men ever were." He was born 1818. Married (October 26, 1842) Serena Helen Sheffey, b. 1823, daughter of the Hon. Daniel Sheffcy, of Staun- ton, Va. They had issue :
I. Daniel Sheffey Lewis6, b. Oct. 17, 1843. Married Isabella Botts, daughter of Hon. John Minor Botts, of Rich- mond, Va. Issue :
I. Minor Botts Lewis7.
II. John F. Lewis7.
III. Daniel Sheffey Lewis7.
IV. Beverley Lewis7.
V. Lunsford Lewis7. VI. Archie Lewis".
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II. Nannie Lewis", b. 1845. Married Hon. John Ambler Smith, of Dinwiddie Co., Va. Their deseendants are in Volume I, Chapters VI and VII.
III. Maria Hanson Lewis", b. 1848. Married Penrose N. Ions, of Fairfax, Va. No issue. Mr. Ions, agent Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn. They reside San Angelo, Texas.
IV. Serena Helen Lewis", b. 1850. Married Lewis Stuart Davis, of Greenbrier, W. Va. No issue.
V. Mary Louise Lewis", b. Sept. 16, 1857. Married Dr. Edwin Gibbs, of Lexington, Va. Issue :
I. John Lewis Gibbs™.
II. Nannie Lewis Gibbs7.
VI. John Franeis Lewis6, b. Sept. 6, 1860. Married (Jan. 10, 1883) Anna Harnsberger, b. Dee. 1, 1861. They re- side at Lynwood, Va., and have issue :
I. Helen Lewis™, b. Sept. 8, 1888.
II. Hanson Lewis7, b. May 11, 1893.
III. Anna Lewis™, b. May 4, 1896.
IV. Katherine Stuart Lewis7, b. April 26, 1898.
VII. Samuel Hanee Lewis®, b. Mareh 9, 1869. Married Editha Clay, of Lynchburg, Va. Issue :
I. Samuel Hance Lewis7.
Daniel Sheffey Lewis®, oldest son of the late Hon. John F. Lewis and Serena Helen Sheffey, his wife, b. October 17, 1843, graduated from the Law Department of the University of Vir- ginia in the year 1867. Married Isabella MeLaine, youngest daughter of the late Hon. John Minor Botts. In 1876 he was the Republiean candidate for Congress in the Fifth Congressional Distriet of Virginia and was defeated by the Hon. George G. Cabell, of Danville, Va. In 1882 was appointed by President Arthur United States Distriet Attorney for the Western Distriet of Virginia, which place Mr. Lewis held until President Cleve- land eame into office, when he was removed to make way for the Hon. H. C. Allen, of Woodstoek.
In 1886 he bought the Spirit of the Valley, a newspaper pub- lished in Harrisonburg, Va., which he has published up to the present date (1906). For sixteen years he held the position of treasurer of the town of Harrisonburg and was reeleeted on June 14, 1904.
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T. Samuel Hanee Lewis5 (Samuel+, Charles3, Thomas', John1), third son of Gen. Samuel Hanee Lewis and Naney Lewis, his first wife. Married Louisa Dabney. Issue :
I. Luey Lewis6.
II. Sallie Lewis6.
III. Elizabeth Lewis".
IV. Ellen Lewis".
V. Samuel Hanee Lewis". Married (Dec. 20, 1900) Agnes
de Leon Moses. Issue :
I. Margaret Lynn Lewis7.
VI. John E. Walter Lewis".
VII. Charles Lewis6.
VIII. Harry Lewis6.
IX. Sue Lewis6.
V. Elizabeth Rachel Lewis5 (Samuel+, Charles3, Thomas2, John1), duaghter of Gen. Samuel Hanee Lewis and Nancy Lewis, his first wife. Married Rev. James Clinton Wheat. They have issue :
I. Dr. Samuel Lewis Wheat®, d. Dee., 1903. Married (1886) Ella Rutherford. She came from Seotland. Issue :
I. Elizabeth Lewis Wheat7, b. Oct. 27, 1887.
II. James Clinton Wheat7, b. Feb., 1888.
III. Frances Rutherford Wheat7, b. - , 1889.
II. John Wheat®.
III. Eleanor C. Wheat®. She lives at the old home of Gen. Samuel Hance Lewis, Lynwood, Roekingham Co., Va.
IV. James Clinton Wheat®. Married (June, 1895) Gertrude Ross, daughter of J. M. Ross, of U. S. A. Issue :
I. Clarenee Ross Wheat7. . Mr. Wheat resides in Atlanta, Ga.
Issue by second marriage, Anna Maria Lomax :
V. Charlotte Thornton Lewise, daughter of Gen. Samuel H. Lewis. Married Beverley B. Botts, son of Hon. John Minor Botts.
VI. Lunsford Lomax Lewis".
VII. Cornelia J. Lewis6, b. 1847; d. 1871.
VIII. Anna Maria Lewis®. Married Charles Maurice Smith, of Richmond, Va. (Descendants Volume I, Chapters VI and VII.)
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V. Charlotte Thornton Lewis (Samuel4, Charles3, Thomas2, John1), daughter of Gen. Samuel H. Lewis and Anna Maria Lomax, his second wife. Married Beverley B. Botts, son of Hon. John Minor Botts. They have issue :
I. Anna Lewis Botts6.
II. Mary Beverley Botts6, b. Nov. 7, 1869, Culpeper Co., Va. Married (June 28, 1899, in Washington, D. C.) John Minor Botts Hoxey, b. April 17, 1869, Pater- son, New Jersey. Issue :
I. John Minor Botts Hoxey7, Jr., b. April 25, 1900, Brook- lyn, N. Y.
II. Dorothea Douglas Hoxey, b. Jan. 26, 1903, Brooklyn, N. Y .; d. Feb. 6, 1903.
V. Judge Lunsford Lewis" (Samucl4, Charles3, Thomas2, John1), son of Gen. Samuel Hance Lewis and Anna Maria Lomax, his second wife; he was Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia during the fall of 1905. Married, first, Rose Botts, daughter of John Minor Botts; second, Miss Jane Looney, of Memphis, Tenn.
I met Mrs. Lewis in Richmond, Va., June, 1904. To her kind and gracious invitation I am indebted for spending a delightful cvening at the Woman's Club. I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Stonewall Jackson the same evening. I met Mrs. Lewis several times during my visit in Richmond, and she was always as courteous as any lady I had the pleasure of meeting at the Capital City of the Old Dominion.
At the Woman's Club I was introduced to Mrs. Willford. She pressed my hands and remarked: "You must be the daughter of Catherine Ambler Moncure. I visited her during my wedding tour in Paris, France, and remember seeing you as a child."
Judge Lunsford Lomax Lewis and Rose Botts, his first wife, have issue :
I. Minor Lewis6.
II. Mary Willer Lewis". I have had some very interesting letters from Miss Lewis.
III. Samuel Hance Lewis6.
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CHAPTER XIX
ARMISTEAD FAMILY.
The Armistead coat-of-arms is described in Burke's General Armoir, as follows :
The shield being plain or a heraldry, as silver, argent, a chevron gules (red depicted by perpendicular lines) between the points of spears Azure (blue depicted by horizontal lines), tasseled in the middle or. (gold known in uncolored drawing or engraving by dots or points).
Crest-A dexter arm, embossed (bowed or bent) proper, holding the butt end of a broken spear or. (gold).
Motto-"Suivez raison."
The following extract from Mr. C. P. Keith's account in "Descendants of Benjamin Harrison" gives all that can be relied upon regarding the early history of this interesting Virginia family :
There is a tradition that the Armisteads derive their name and origin from Darmstadt, and that the seat of the elder line in Virginia was called "Hesse." Without deciding when or whether in modern times they crossed the German Ocean, it is sufficient to say they were Englishmen for several generations before William Armistead came to America, the name, with varied spelling, frequently appearing in Yorkshire records of the time of Queen Elizabeth. The emigrant to America seems, from the names of his children, Anthony and Frances, to have been the son of . Anthony "Armistead," of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, and Frances Thomp- son, of the same place, who obtained a marriage license in the year 1608. On August 3, 1610, William, ye son of Anthony "Armistead, of Kirk, Deighton," was baptized in All Saints Church, the only church in the Parish.
Search for a few years later discloses the fact that this child, whom I suppose the emigrant, passed safely through the period of tender infancy ; at least, no burial can be found. His father continued to reside there, having other children, and a contemporary named Thomas Armistead, who also had a family. The emigrant's marriage did not take place there, if, as I assume, it was later than 1627, and prior to 1634. William Armis- tead received a patent in 1636 from Captain John West, Governor of Virginia, for four hundred and fifty acres in Elizabeth City County, lying
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southeast upon the land of Mr. Southall, northeast upon the land of John Branch, easterly upon the creek, westerly to the roads; among the persons he had transported to the Colony being his wife, Anne. The name is spelt "Armstead" in a patent of 1651.
Hence 1. Anthony Armistead, of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, and Franees Thompson, his wife of the same place, had issue :
2. William Armistead2, baptized, August 3, 1610, in All Saints' Church, the only church in the parish of Kirk Deighton. He emigrated to Virginia about 1635, and obtained large grants of land in Elizabeth City County, and subsequently Gloucester County. He died about 1660, as in that year, in the York County, Virginia, records his second son, John3, was heir of his elder brother William3, who died childless. He married Anne and had issue, as far as known:
3. William Armistead, who, in a deed recorded in Elizabeth City County, November 20, 1695, is named as his "sonne and heire," and who died without issue before 1660, when John Armistead, "as heyre" and one of the executors of Mr. William Armistead, made a power of attorney in York County.
4. Jolin Armistead4, the Couneillor, and ancestor of President Harrison.
5. Anthony Armistead, ancestor of President Tyler.
6. Franees Armistead. Married, first, Rev. Justinian Aylmer, of Jamestown; second, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Elliott, of Elizabeth City County and Middlesex County. She married, third, Col. Christopher Wormeley, and died May 25, 1685. (Middlesex Parish Register.)
In January, 1666, the will of Col. Elliott was admitted to record in Middlesex County. He names sons William, Thomas, Robert and makes son William and brother John Armistead executors. In November, 1666, probate was granted Mr. Christopher Wormeley in place of William Elliott and John Armistead, "as having mar- ried the reliet." In 1671 Captain Wormeley sued, as having married the reliet of Rev. Justinian Aylmer, of Jamestown. (General Court Records.) Aylmer, by his deposition in York County, was twenty-six in 1661. (See also "Hayden's Virginia Genealo- gies," Wormeley Family.)
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7. Probably Ralph, who in 1678 patented forty-eight aeres in Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, for transporting one person, was this Ralph, father of John Armistead, of Rappa- hannock County. Under the date of 1689 is this order: "Upon the information of Edward Thomas, that Mr. Dowell Read, minister of South Farnham Parish in this eounty, hath solemnized the rites of matrimony between John Armistead and Mary Brown, both of the same parish and county, contrary to the form of the aets of assembly," ete., "ordered," ete. Mr. Read is summoned to the next court to answer, but the ease was evi- dently dropped, as no further order appears. John Armistead's inventory was recorded in Essex County in 1703, and Franeis Moore was administrator. Aeross in Richmond County, former- ly part of old Rappahannock, is recorded the will of Franeis Armistead, of South Farnham Parish, proved in 1719. It names daughter Elizabeth, son John Armistead, wife Sarah, and in default of surviving issue gives his property to Franeis Armis- tead, son of Ralph Armistead. The register preserved in the court house shows that his daughter Elizabeth was born Mareh 28, 1716, and son John was born February 26, 1718. It is prob- able that from this souree, principally, come the Armisteads whose names appear in the register of Kingston Parish, Matthews County (formerly Gloucester). The entries are brought together here for convenience :
Anne, daughter of Robert and Catherine Armistead, b. Oet. 17, 1756.
Anne, daughter of John and Anne Armistead, b. April 1, 1769.
Ralph, son of Richard and Elizabeth Armistead, b. June 10, 1769.
William, son of William and Mary Armistead, b. Oet. 26, 1769.
Franeis, son of Currill and Margaret Armistead, b. Dee. 8, 1772.
Katy, daughter of Riehard and Elizabeth Armistead, b. Jan. 21, 1775.
Dorothy Reade, daughter of George and Luey Armistead, b. May 23, 1775.
Sarah, daughter of Wm. Armistead, Esq., and Mary, his wife, b. Feb. 22, 1776.
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Mr. Starkey Armistead and Miss Mary Tabb were married June 19, 1773.
Isaac Davis and Rebecea Armistcad were married Jan. 9, 1771.
Robert Armistcad married Catherine Gwathney, Sept. 24, 1743. (Register, Gloucester County, Abingdon.)
John Armistead? (William2, John1) settled in Glouecster County, where his father had patented a considerable quantity of land. In 1697 he made a decd (which is on reeord in Elizabeth City County), in which styling himself "brother and heir" of William Armistead, deccased, and "son and heire" of Wm. Armis- tead, late of Elizabeth City County, Gent., he eonfirms to his brother Anthony all land on Back River, in said county, of which his father died seised. In 1680 he was lieutenant colonel of horse in Gloucester and one of the justiecs. On October 18, 1688, he was sworn one of the eouneil. (M. S. Couneil Journal.) His wife was Judith; but though ealled "brother" by Robert Beverley, it is impossible to say whether one married the other's sister or sister of the other's wifc. Major Robert Beverley mar- ried Mrs. Catherine Hone, in Gloucester, March 28, 1679, and in Mareh, 1681-2, Beverley was administrator of Major Honc, and not his daughter, as stated in the introduction to "Beverley's History of Virginia." His first wife was Mary. (Scc Va. Mag. Hist. and Biog.)
Issue of John Armistead and Judith, his wife:
5. Judith, married "Robert Carter." Her tombstone calls her "eldest daughter of the Hon. John Armistead, Esq., and Judith, his wife. She departed this life the 23d day of February, Anno 1699, in the - year of her age, and in the eleventh of her marriage, having borne to her husband five children and a son, whereof Sarah and Judith Carter died before and are buried with her." (See Keith; Carter Family, Chapter VII.)
6. Elizabeth Armistcad married, first (February 16, 1687), Ralph Wormelcy, Esq., secretary of the colony, whose will is dated February 20, 1700; and she married, second (October 5, 1703), William Churchill, Esq. (See Keith, Hayden; and Middlesex . Register.) William Churehill's will was proved March 6, 1700, and names as overseers of his will, "my brothers, Mr. William Armistead and Mr. Henry Armistcad; and friends, Mr. Nathaniel
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Burwell, Mr. John Holloway and Mr. John Clayton." Elizabeth Churchill died November 16, 1716, and her will was proved January 1, 1716. It names, "my brother, Mr. Henry Armistead." (For children, see Keith.)
7. William Armistead4.
8. Henry Armistead4.
7. William Armistead4 (John3, William2; Anthony1), b. 1671; d. at Eastmore River, in Matthews County, June 13, 1711, where his tomb still stands. Married Anne Lee, daughter of Hancock Lee and Mary, daughter of Wm. Kendall, of Northampton County. (Hening VI, p. 443.) They had issue :
9. I. John Armistead5.
10. II. Mary Armistead5. Married, first, James Burwell ; d. 1718 ; second, Philip Lightfoot, of the council.
11. III. Judith Armistead5. Married George Dudley.
12. IV. Anna Armistead5. Married (April 4, 1725) Anthony Walke; d. Feb. 14, 1732. (See Walke Chart Va. Mag., July, 1897.)
13. V. Joyce Armistead5.
14. VI. Frances Armisteado.
(See will of James Burwell,* will of Mrs. Mary Lightfoot; William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. III, p. 107.)
In Barradall's Reports occurs the following suit :
April court, 1737, Robinson vs. Armistead, et als. John Armistead and Robert Beverley, deceased, jointly purchased 100 acres of land in Glou- cester County, which was conveyed to them by Decd January 17, 1680, for the cons. of 50£. That Beverley by his will August 20, 1680, devised his half part to his daughter Catherine in tail and soon after death. After which Armistead became solely possessed of the Premes, and died possessed. And after his death John Armistead, his eldest son and heir, entered and was possessed, after whose Death his son and heir John Armis- tead entered and died possessed, leaving the Defendant John Armistead his son and heir an infant. That the said Catherine at the Death of Beverley was an Infant and before 21 married John Robinson, Esq., the Plt's
*NOTE .- Will of James Burwell, proved September 15, 1718, at York- town, names wife Mary, daughter Lucy, son Nathaniel Bacon, sisters Mrs. Johannah Bassell, Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, and Mrs. Martha Armis- tead. Brother John Armistead, sister Martha Burwell, mother Mrs. Anne Armistead, sister Judith, wife of George Dudley, sister Elizabeth Armis- tead, sisters Ann, Joyce and Frances Armistead. Makes brothers Na- thaniel and Lewis Burwell and William Bassell executors.
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Father now living and died in 1726, leaving the Plt. her eldest son and heir, then an Infant, and sinee the death of Armistead the grandson the defts. Burwell, Armistead, and Dudley in right of the Defendant Armis- tead, an infant, have entered into the Premeses elaiming the whole by survivorship and refuse to make partition with the Plis. Praying, there- fore, that the defts. may answer premes and the Plt. be relieved aeeording to Equity, ete., ete.
A comparison of this ease with the will of James Burwell and the act in Henry VI, p. 403, makes it plain that Barradall was in error in the name of the eldest son of Col. John Armistead. His name was William and not John. According to this, the line ran, John3 Armistcad, the councillor (died before. 1705) ; William4, d. in 1711; John5, who made his will in 1734, and John®, who was under age in 1753. Mistakes of this kind by a jury or court are not infrequent in the records. The voluune of Barradall's Reports, preserved in the Law Library, is, however, only a copy of the original manuscript.
9. John5 Armistead (William4, John3, William2, Anthony1), Captain, etc., married, first, Elizabeth (Gill?), mentioned as sister of Elizabeth Armistead in the will of James Burwell ; and, sceond, Susanna, daughter of Thomas Meriwether, of Essex (William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 2, p. 100), who made his will in 1708, when Susanna was not then baptized. (Hening, VI, p. 405.) As Nicholas Meriwether, the uncle of Susanna Arimstead, had lived in New Kent, I feel certain that the Captain John Armi- stead was the husband of Susanna Meriwether. The New Kent John had sons John and William, and this last William had an only daughter, Susanna.
Issue by first wife, Elizabeth (Gill ?) :
15. Gill Armistead6.
Issue by second wife, Susanna Meriwether :
16. John Armistead".
17. William Armistead®, who was Major in 1772 and 1775, and a vestryman of Blissland Parish. (See vestry book.) Married Mary, widow of Baker, who kept ordinary at the Brick House for Bassett, the niece of James Nicholas, who left her £500 in event of the death of Abraham Nicholas, son of his brother Abraham Nicholas, as also a specific legacy of £1,000 (letter of
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William Nelson, 1769; see the Nelson Letter Book at Episcopal Seminary). He had issue of one daughter :
18. Susanna Armistead7. Married, first, Wm. Dandridge, son of Bartholomew Dandridge, the brother of Mrs. Washington; and, second (about 1805), David Dor- rington.
15. Gill Armistead® (John", William+, John3, William", Anthony1), lived in Blissland Parish, New Kent; sheriff in 1757; eolonel in 1758; d. 1762. (Vestry book.) On May 23, 1751, married Betty Allen (from her daughter's Bible), who married, second, John Lewis, of Williamsburg and had issue:
19. Betty7, b. March 9, 1752; d. April, 1833. Married (March 27, 1774, at Mr. John Lewis's in Williamsburg) Miles Selden, Jr. (Selden Family Bible.) (See Chapter IV, Cary and Selden Families.)
20. Susanna Armistead7. Married Col. John Cary.
21. Mary or Molly Armistead7, d. 1825. Married Thaeker Burwell.
22. Franees Arimstead7. Married Col. John Ambler. (See . Volume I, Chapter IV.)
23. Martha Armistead7. Married Colonel Green and had issue :
I. Abraham Green8.
II. Elizabeth Green8.
24. Gill Armistead1. (Selden, et als. v. Armistead's Admr., 7 Grattan Reports, p. 264.)
16. John Armistead® (John5, William+, John3, William2, Anthony1), was a resident of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent, colonel of militia and State Senator from New Kent, in the first Senate of Virginia. Col. John Armistead departed this life May 2, 1779. (Register.)
Issue by first wife, Agnes :
25. William Armistead7, b. June 5, 1754.
By his second wife, Mary Burbage, whose mother is said to have been a Dandridge, he had issue :
26. Robert Burbage Armistead7, administrator of his mother, who died 1792.
27. Luey B. Armistead7. Married (Dee. 24, 1801) Aylett Waller; and removed to Tennessee. (See Waller v. Armistead, 2 Leigh's Reports.)
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25. William Armistead7 (John", John", William+, John3. William2, Anthony1), son of Col. John Armisteads, of New Kent. "was agent of the State for providing arms, elothing, and other necessaries" during the revolution (Hening, XII, p. 420) ; d. June, 1793, leaving a son :
28. William Armistead8, living in 1813.
26. Robert Burbage Armistead™ (John", John", William', John3, William2, Anthony1), son of Col. John Armistead. Married Mary Semple, sister of Judge James Semple; d. 1811, leaving. issue :
29. John Dandridge Armistcad8, d. aged seventeen, while a student of William and Mary College.
30. William Armistead8.
30. William Armistead® (Robert B.", John6, John3, William+, John3, William2, Anthony1), son of Robert Burbage Armistead and Mary Semple, his wife; b. New Kent in 1797; attended William and Mary College in 1816. Married Luey Boyd, and, with lis family, removed to Alabama in 1833; d. 1856, leaving issue :
31. I. Robert Armistead", educated at William and Mary College, where he studied law under Judge N. B. Tueker, major of the twenty-second Alabama regiment; killed at the battle of Shiloh. He has children living in Texas.
32. II. William B. Armistead®, student at William and Mary College. Married Mrs. Eliza Knox and had issue :
I. Elliott Knox Armistead.
II. George Knox Armistead.
33. III. Rosalie Virginia Armistead". Married Elmore G. Fitzpatrick ; both dead, leaving issue.
34. IV. Mary Armistead". Married Philip Gayle, of Mont- gomery, Alabama, and has issue.
35. V. Lizzie Rowe Armistead9. Married Paul Tueker Sayre, and had issue.
36. VI. Herbert Armistead9, lieutenant colonel of the twenty- seeond Alabama regiment, mortally wounded at the battle of Franklin, Tenn.
37. VII. Luey Boyd Armisteadº. Married Riehard Gold- thwaite, and had issue.
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The following letter is a worthy tribute to the gallantry of Robert Armistead, major of the twenty-second Alabama regiment :
Near Corinth, Miss., April 11, 1862.
MY DEAR MRS. FITZPATRICK :- You have doubtless heard of your sad loss in the death of your brother, Major Armistead. I write to claim the privilege of a friend of his and yours: that of sharing in your sorrow. I was with him, after he was wounded, for some time, giving him all the attention in my power. He was struck by a grape shot in the right side, the shot passing through to the surface on the opposite side. He was conscious that his wound was mortal, but was calm and resigned. Feeling assured that he could survive but a short time, I asked him if he wished me to do anything for him. He said nothing except: "Tell my dear sisters how I loved them, and that my last hours are spent in thoughts of them. I know how they will suffer, when they hear this."
He frequently reverted to this, and it seemed to be the only thought that troubled him. When the surgeon came to him, he said: "Doctor, 1 have great confidence in your opinion. Examine my wound and give me a candid answer. I do not fear death. I know I must die, but I wish to know how long I have to live."
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