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[. Charles Minn Thruston+, b. Nov. 6, 1738.
II. Elizabeth Thruston+, b. April 27, 1740. Married Col. Thomas Whiting, at Gloster; d. 1466.
III. Sarah Thruston+, b. April 27, 1743. Married John Thorn- ton, of Hanover. .
IV. Mary Thruston+, b. May 17, 1746. Married Hugh Walker, of Gloucester Co. Mary d. since this date.
V. John Thruston+, b. May 20, 1750; d. anno 1781.
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VI. Frances Thruston+, b. March 20, 1752. Married Col. William Hubbard, of Charlotte Co .; d. about 1780.
VII. Edward Thruston+, b. July 12, 1753; d. June 24, 1754.
VIII. Jemima Thruston+, b. Dec. 18, 1755; d. July 4, 1756.
IX. Mildred Thruston+, b. Oct. 2, 1756; d. Sept. 30, 1758.
X. Robert Thruston+, b. Jan. 14, 1759.
Sarah, relict of Col. John Thruston, d. May 12, 1786, aged sixty-nine.
IV. Charles Minn Thruston+ (John3, Edward?, Edward1), son of Col. John Thruston and Sarah Minn, his wife; b. 1738; d. 1812, in Gloucester Co., at the homestead, "Lansdowne," when only twenty years of age. Served as Lieutenant of Provincials under Gen'l Forbes and was sent by the Colonial Council to retrieve the disgraceful defeat of Gen'l Braddock, acting under the imme- diate command of Washington. He was a graduate of William and Mary College, where he not only received his classical education, but studied theology. He was ordained by the Bishop of London in 1765, returned to Gloucester Co., and took charge of the parish. In 1769 he removed to Frederick Co., Va., and settled on a beautiful plantation which he called Mt. Zion, lying about midway between the Shenandoah River and Green Court, the colonial home of Thomas, Lord Fairfax. He held services in the "Old Chapel," not far from Millwood, in what is now Clarke County, and old St. George's Church near Charles Town, the picturesque ruins of which still remain one of the landmarks of Jefferson Co., W. Va., Charles Minn Thruston+, clergyman and soldier, was of rare personality, and was well fitted to fill the role of successful pioneer in the turbulent times in which he lived.
His physical courage was remarkable and his readiness at all times to defend what he thought right has been demonstrated by many anecdotes. One told of him, before he laid aside his clerical dress for his regimentals, was extremely characteristic. A dis- agreement occurred between him and a neighbor, whose name was not above reproach, who said: "If it were not for your cloth, I would strike you." Instantly Mr. Thruston drew off his coat, and throwing it on the ground, exclaimed: "Lie there, divinity, while I thrash rascality," and thrash rascality he did. He was prominent in resisting the "Stamp Act," and at the very first outbreak of the Revolution he freely dedicated both his means and
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personal services to the cause of freedom and soon won for him- self the sobriquet of the "Fighting Parson." In the winter of 1776 he raised a company of volunteers, was chosen captain and marched at once to join Gen'l Washington, then in New Jersey. Early in the war, when attacking a British redoubt, Captain Thruston received a musket ball in his left arm, just above the elbow. He was attended by Gen'l Washington's surgeon who advised amputation, but the Captain objected, saying, "Doctor, I am a bad hand to have an arm cut off, I prefer death to mutila- tion." His arm was saved. When recovered from his wound, Gen'l Washington appointed him Colonel of one of the sixteen regiments which were ordered to be raised in Virginia. It was impossible to form so many, but he retained the rank to the close of the war. His health often interferred with active military duty, which sometimes annoyed him, and in a letter addressed to his Lieutenant Colonel he says, "What is to be done with us, are we to be thrown aside like old almanacks, no longer of use?"
From Col. Thruston's first settlement in Frederick County (now Clarke), he was much interested in public affairs. He was one of the first magistrates in Frederick Co., was County Judge, and was several times elected to the General Assembly.
Later, Col. Thruston met with heavy pecuniary losses, and having a large family of children and grandchildren he decided to remove to the Institute. He sold his land in Virginia in 1809 and moved first to "Southwest Point" in Tennessee. Two years later he descended the river and purchased a plantation below New Orleans, which afterwards was the battle ground on which Gen'l Jackson achieved his glorious victory over the British, January 8, 1815. Col. Thruston d. June, 1812, in his seventy-fourth year.
Col. Charles Minn Thruston married (1760) Mary Buckner. daughter of Col. Samuel Buckner, of Gloucester Co., Va .; she d. August 18, 1765. He married, second (February, 1766), Ann, daughter of Col. Alexander, of Gloster.
Issue by first marriage :
I. John Thruston5, b. Oct. 15, 1761.
II. Buckner Thruston5, b. Feb. 9, 1764.
III. Charles Thruston5, b. Aug. 3, 1765.
Issue by second marriage :
IV. Sarah Alex. Thruston5, b. Dec. 15, 1766.
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V. Frederick Thruston5, b. March 15, 1770.
VI. Mary Buckner Thruston5. b. July 31, 1772.
VII. Francis Thruston", b. Feb. 3, 1724.
VIII. Eliza Minn Thruston5, b. April 6, 1775.
IX. Alfred Thruston5, b. May 14, 1248; surgeon in the 17th Regiment of La. Infantry; studied hospital work in London, Edinburgh and Paris: married, but left no descendants.
X. Eloise Thruston5, b. March 23, 1782.
XI. Sidney Ann Thruston5, b. May 2, 1783. Married Mr. Powell; d. Sept. 12, 1803.
XII. Edmund Taylor Thruston5, b. Oct. 24, 1785; was in the U. S. Army.
V. John Thruston5 (Charles+, John3, Edward2, Edward1), son of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Mary Buckner, his wife; b. October 15, 1761: d. February 19, 1802, about 11 o'clock in the day, in the forty-first year of his age. Married (October 13, 1782) his first cousin, Elizabeth Thruston Whiting, daughter of Col. Thomas Whiting of Gloster. Col. John Thruston was under Gen'l George Rogers Clarke in the Illinois campaign and was the John Thruston of Sans Souci, near Lonisville, Ky. Elizabeth Thruston Whiting was daughter of Elizabeth Thruston and Col. Thomas Whiting, of Gloucester County, Va. She married, second, Capt. Aaron Fontaine, of Louisville, Ky .; she d. July 2, 1822, a widow a second time. She had issue :
I. Mary Buckner Thruston", b. Aug. 14, 1783. Married (Nov. 14, 1799) Mr. Tho. January, of Lexington, Ky. II. Elizabeth Taylor Thruston6, b. Feb. 13, 1785. Married (Sept. 11, 1804) Worden Pope, of Louisville, Ky .; he d. May, 1837: Mrs. Pope d. March, 1838.
III. Thomas Whiting Thruston", b. Nov. 6, 1786.
IV. Sarah Thruston", b. Nov. 8, 1788.
V. Catharine Thruston", b. September 19, 1790:
VI. Charles Minn Thruston", b. Feb. 26, 1793.
VII. Fanny Badello Thruston", b. March 2, 1795.
VIII. Alfred Thruston", b. April 16, 1797.
IX. Lucius Falkland Thruston", b. July 18, 1299.
X. Algernon Sidney Thruston", b. May 19, 1801, at seven o'clock in the morning.
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V. Buckner Thruston3 ( Charles+, John3, Edward ?. Edward1), son of Charles Minn Thruston and Mary Buckner, his first wife: b. February 9, 1264. Married ( March, 1995) Jeanette January, daughter of Mr. Peter January, of Kentucky in 1988. He was judge in State Court for seventeen years, one of three commis- sioners in 1800 to settle dispute between Kentucky and Virginia as to the state line. He was elected U. S. Senator in 1804, and served until 1810, when Mr. Madison nominated him Judge of the United States Court for the District of Columbia, which office he held until his death.
Judge Buckner Thruston and Jeanette January had issue :
I. Robert Thruston", d. unmarried.
II. Thomas Lee Thruston". Married a daughter of Gen'l Thomas Ward, of Newark, New Jersey.
III. Charles Thruston", graduated at West Point, and was captain in the U. S. A .; resigned. Married Joanna Hughes, daughter of Christopher Hughes, Jr., at one time minister to Sweden. He has six children and is President of the Mineral Bank.
IV. Alfred Thruston", Inspector of Revenue at Mobile. Mar- ried Mrs. Frances Catherine Gordon, widow of Thomas G. Gordon and daughter of Col. Charles and Mary Buckner Magill.
V. Sidney Thruston". Married William A. Bradley, late Mayor of Washington City and President of the Patriotic Bank.
VI. Jeanette Thruston6. Married her cousin, Levin Powell, Admiral in the U. S. Navy and son of Sidney, née Thruston, and Alfred Powell.
VII. William Thruston".
VIII. Charles Thruston".
IX. John Thruston", d. 1803, leaving many children, some of them are:
I. Charles Thruston, a lawyer in Louisville, Ky.
Il. Alfred Thruston?, cashier in a bank in Louisville, Ky.
III. Alexander Thruston ?. Married Worden Pope, lawyer and County Clerk in Jefferson, Ky.
V. Charles Thruston5 ( Charles+, John2, Edward", Edward1), son of Charles Minn Thruston and Mary Buckner, his first wife;
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b. August 3, 1765. Married (January 20, 1796) Frances O'Fallon, relict of Dr. James O'Fallon and daughter of Mr. John Clarke, of Kentucky, and sister of the distinguished Gen'l George Rogers Clark and Gov. William Clark, of Missouri. Issue :
I. Son Thruston6, living in Louisville, Ky.
V. Sarah Alexander Thruston5 (Charles+, John3, Edward2, Edward1), daughter of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Ann Alexander, his second wife; b. December 15, 1766; married, Dec. 17, 1784, George Floerden Norton, of Virginia. Issue :
I. John Norton", late marshal of his State.
II. Charles Norton6, Midshipman on the Frigate, Chesapeake, when attacked by the British Ship, Leopard.
III. Courtenay Norton6, d. unmarried.
The descendants of John and Charles Norton have intermarried with the Jilson-Paynes, Harrisons, Shepherds, Browns, etc., etc. John Chilton, William Hale Dameron and Prof. James Abbot Harrison, LL. D., of the University of Va., are direct descendants. V. Mary Buckner Thruston5 (Charles+, John3, Edward2, Edward1), daughter of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Ann Alexander, his second wife, b. July 31, 1772; married, 1792, Charles Magill, attorney-at-law, Winchester, Va.
V. Frances Thruston5 (Charles+, John3, Edward?, Edward1), daughter of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Ann Alexander, his second wife, b. Feb. 3, 1774; married, 1793, Frederick Conrad, of Winchester, Va. Issue :
I. Frederick Conrad6, a wealthy planter near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
II. Charles Conrad6, lawyer in New Orleans; Secretary of War, under President Fillmore'; also Secretary of War, under the Confederacy. Married Angela, daughter of Laurence Lewis, a nephew of Gen'l Washington (Lewis, Volume II, Chapter XVIII). Mr. Conrad and Angela, his wife, were both buried at Mt. Vernon, in the enclosure round the vault containing the remains of Gen'l Washington and his wife.
III. Ann Conrad6 (called Nancy). Married, first, Mr. Weeks ; issue, several children, names unknown ; married, second, Judge Moore.
IV. Elizabeth Conrad6. Married Mr. Harding. Issue: names unknown.
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V. Daughter Conrad6. Married Mr. Palfrey. Issue: names unknown.
VI. Frank Conrad6. Married Miss Duncan.
VII. Alfred Conrade. Married Miss Duncan.
V. Eliza Minn Thruston", "Elizabeth" (Charles+, John3, Edl- ward2, Edward1), daughter of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Ann Alexander, his second wife; b. April 6, 1775; married, August 10, 1994, William Henry Dangerfield. He was Secretary of the Territory of Mississippi before it became a state; d. there. In 1804, his widow was living near Natchez, Miss. Issue :
I. Daughter Dangerfield6. Married Gen'l Felix Houston, of the Texas Army.
V. Eloise Thruston5 (Charles+, John3, Edward", Edward1). daughter of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Ann Alexander, his second wife; b. March 23, 1782; married Captain Edmund Hanes Taylor, of Kentucky. Mrs. Taylor d. at the residence of her son. Charles M. Taylor, of Henderson, Ky. Issue :
I. Charles Minn Tavlor6.
II. Mary E. Taylor6. Married Mr. Poyles, of Murfreesboro. Tenn.
V. Sidney Thruston5 (Charles+, John3, Edward2, Edward1). daughter of Col. Charles Minn Thruston and Ann Alexander, his second wife; b. May 2, 1783; d. September 12, 1803; married Alfred Powell, of Loudoun Co., Va .; was a lawyer of eminence. and member of Congress, from Winchester District. Issue :
I. Levin Powell6, Admiral U. S. Army. Married Jeanette Thruston, daughter of Judge Buckner Thruston. No issue.
There are other branches of this Thruston family it would be interesting to follow, but neither time nor space can allow. Mrs. Julius Thruston, of Baltimore, a charming writer, says: "With the death of the third Charles Minn Thruston, ended the male representatives of this branch."
The delightfully quaint old diary, from which we have quoted, was found by Dr. Thruston, among his family papers, and has been published in full in the William and Mary College Quarterly. At present it is owned by a Virginia lady.
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The name Thruston still survives in England. Sir Charles Thruston represented his country in some important diplomatic relations, between England and America.
While in this country, he formed some warm friendships with his American cousins, and has since entertained them at his country place in Wales, which is a famous estate of about 1,000 acres of land, and a charming old homestead, a part of which boasts the age of five hundred years.
FAUNTLEROY FAMILY.
Fauntleroy coat-of-arms is described :
On a wreath of the same colour, a fleur-de-lis ar, between two angels' wings, displayed azure. Shields three infants' heads coupled. argent, cringed or.
Motto: "Enfant du sor."
The first known of the name of Fanntleroy was living in Dorset, England, in 1421. An undying tradition ascribes the paternity of the family to John, King of Frances, who was a captive at Windsor Castle, from 1356 to 1364, by a morganatic marriage with Catherine Grandeson, Countess of Salisbury, a member of the Courtenay family.
The first from whom an unbroken line was traced was John Fauntleroy, who married Joanna Whalley, of Purbick. Issue :
I. John Fauntleroy2. Married Elizabeth Wadham.
II. William Fauntleroy2. D. D., of Oxford.
III. Elizabeth Fauntleroy2, Abbess of Almsbury.
IV. Agnes Fauntleroy2. Married Lord Stourton.
V. Tristam Fauntleroy2. Married Joan, daughter of William, second Lord Stourton. His will was dated 1639. By the marriage of Tustam Fauntleroy and Joan Stourton, the family descends from the titled families of Stourton and Berkeley, as follows :
Robert Fitz Hardinge received Berkeley Castle by forfeiture, 1170, from Roger de Berkeley. Issue :
Maurice Hardinge, b. 1120, married Alice Berkeley, the daughter of the vested owner. He had Thomas of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, married Joan Saumasey, d. 1243. Issne.
Maurice Berkeley married Isabelle Crown, daughter of an En- glish baron and his wife, Isabel de Valence (or Valem), half
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maternal sister to Henry the Third, by the second marriage of his mother, Isabelle, with William de Lusignan, ninth count de la Marche.
Miss Strickland traces her lineage through the Courtenay family to Louis le Gros. He had issue :
I. Thomas Berkeley, first Lord, who married, 1264, Joan Ferras, daughter of William de Ferras, Earl of Derby. Their daughter, Alice, married Ralph de Stourton, in 1300. Issue :
I. William de Stourton. Married Joan, daughter of Sir William Vernon.
II. John Stourton. Married a daughter of Lord Bassett.
III. William Stourton. Married Elizabeth Moigne, in 1402. daughter of Sir John Moigne. (Sir John was created baron, 1448; married Margarite, daughter of Sir John Wadham.)
IV. William Stourton. Married Margaret Chiddock, daughter of Sir John Chiddock.
V. Joan Stourton. Married Tristam Fauntleroy, in 1539. Issue :
I. John Fauntleroy, of Crondall, d. 1598. Married -
II. William Fauntleroy, d. 1625. Married Frances
III. John Fauntleroy. Married Phoebe Wilkinson, in 1609.
IV. Moore Fauntleroy, came to Virginia in 1642, built
Maylor's Hold, Richmond Co., Va .; member of the House of Burgesses in 1644 to 1659; married Mary Hill. From this marriage, all of the name in Virginia descended. They have intermarried with the Turners, of Kinlock, and Walsingham, the Beverleys, the Paynes of Warrenton, and some branches of the Carters (Carter Family, Chapter VII, Volume II). Landon Carter of Pittsylvania married Judith Fauntleroy.
Miss Betsey Fauntleroy, a granddaughter of Moore Fauntleroy, the emigrant, was one of the lady-loves of Gen'l George Wash- ington. She did not smile on him, however, but married Dr. William Broekenbrough, of Tappahannock. She was grandmother of Judge William Brockenbrough, of the Court of Appeals, Richmond, Va. The house of President Jefferson Davis, during
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the Civil War, now the Confederate Museum, in Richmond, Va., was built and owned by him. (Volume I, Chapter VIII.)
Gen'l Thomas Turner Fanntleroy, another distinguished de- scendant of Moore Fauntleroy and Mary Hill : b. Richmond Co., Va., October 6, 1796; d. September 12, 1883. He was Colonel of the first Reg. U. S. Dragoons. As soon as Virginia seceded he promptly resigned, and offered himself to the Confederacy; he was made General. Of all the officers who resigned from the U. S. Army and came south, he held the highest rank. Married Ann Magdelin Magill, youngest child of Col. Charles Magill, and his second wife, Mary Buckner, née Thruston. Issue :
I. Charles Magill Fauntleroy, b. August 21, 1822; d. July 29, 1889.
II. Thomas Turner Fauntleroy.
III. Alfred Fauntleroy, d. in childhood.
IV. Mary Fauntleroy. Married Mr. Barnes.
V. Catherine Fauntleroy. Married Col. Whittlery.
VI. Archibald Magill Fauntleroy, b. July 8, 1836; d. 1886
I. Charles Magill Fauntleroy, b. 1822, entered U. S. Navy, but resigned in 1861, and entered the Confederate S. Army, and was appointed Inspector General, under Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston ; married three times: first, Janet Knox of Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Va., in 1847; dying, she left one child :
I. Janet Fauntleroy. Married Powell Harrison, of Loudoun Co., Va.
NOTE .- Col. Fauntleroy's wife, Janet, was a woman of remarkable love- liness of both character and person. An old letter from Gen'l William Payne says: "How well do I remember Charles Fauntleroy's wedding to Janet Knox. He appeared a model of perfect manhood, and she the very queen of beauty. Col. Fauntleroy was on the staff of Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston, and was by his side in all his operations from Winchester to Seven Pines. He acted as Inspector General of the South and West, until ordered to New Orleans to supervise the construction of ironclads at that place and at Shreveport, when he was sent by Gen'l Kirby Smith to England on secret service, which being accomplished, he was assigned by Commissioners Mason and Slidell to the command of the Confederate steamer Rappahannock in the port of Calais, France.
While in Paris, Col. Fauntleroy married a second time. The lady was Sally Suter, of Fredericksburg, Va. They made a bridal trip to Italy, where she took fever and died. Some years later he married a third wife,
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Mary Elgee Chambers, daughter of Joshua Chambers, of Louisiana. They had three daughters. Col. Fauntleroy died in Leesburg, the home of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Janet Harrison. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Thomas Turner Fauntleroy, second son of Gen'l Fauntleroy and Mary Buckner Thruston, his wife, practiced law in Winchester, and was junior member of the law firm of Barton & Williams. After the close of the Civil War, he was appointed Judge of the Va. Court of Appeals, which office he held for twelve years, during which time he lived in Richmond; later he removed with his family to St. Louis, where he now resides.
Judge Thomas T. Fauntleroy married, in Winchester, Va., in 1851. Ann Hite Williams, daughter of Philip Williams, a leading lawyer of the State, and Ann Maury, nee Hite. One year later she died, leaving a babe of only a few weeks, called Philip Williams Fanntleroy, who was most affectionately raised by his stepmother, Williams. He first studied law, later for the Protestant Episcopal Ministry. He has had charge of a church in St. Louis for many years ; married Miss Battle, and has several children.
Judge Thomas Turner Fauntleroy married, second, Elizabeth Smith Hite, daughter of Cornelius Baldwin Hite, Sr .. of Belle Grove, and Augusta Elizabeth, née Smith, daughter of Col. Augustin Charles Smith, of Winchester, Va. Issue will be given elsewhere.
III. Mary Fauntleroy, eldest daughter of Gen'l Fauntleroy, and Ann Magdalen Magill, his wife; married Dr. Joseph Barnes, U. S. Army, Surgeon General. of Washington. Issue :
I. Joseph Barnes, Jr.
II. Anna Barnes.
IV. Katharine (called Kate) Fauntleroy, daughter of Gen'l Thomas T. Fauntleroy, married Major Whittlesey, U. S. A., for some years in charge of the "Soldier's Home," near Washington, D. C. Afterwards, was sent to a post in Washington Territory (now a State), where he died, leaving a widow and two sons. Mrs. Whittlesey has since died, her obituary appearing in a Winchester paper :
WINCHESTER, VA., May 28, 1906 .- A telegram was received here to-day from Seattle, Wash., announcing the death of Mrs. Katharine Whittlesey, widow of Major J. H. Whittlesey, of the United States Army, and member of an old and distinguished Virginia family. her father being General Thomas T. Fauntleroy, of this eity. Two sons and one sister. Mrs. Barnes. of Washington, survive.
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I. Charles Whittlesey. Married -, and lives in Tacoma, Washington.
II. William Whittlesey. Married Washington.
-. and lives in Seattle.
V. Dr. Archibald Magill Fauntleroy, youngest son of Gen'l Thomas T. Fauntleroy, and Ann Magdalen, nee Magill, resigned from the U. S. Army, and was appointed Medical Director and Surgeon on the staff of Gen'l Johnston: married Sally Conrad. the beautiful daughter of Robert L. Conrad, an eminent lawyer in Winchester, Va .: died leaving a widow and many children.
IV. Archibald Magill, son of Col. Charles Magill and Mary Buckner Thruston, his wife, married Mary Jane Page, of Bosewell, Gloucester Co., Va .: daughter of Mann Page, and Elizabeth Nelson. and granddaughter of Gov. Page and Gov. Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Magill lived at "Barley Wood." a few miles from Winchester, Va. No issue.
V. John Samuel Magill, son of Col. Charles Magill and Mary Buckner Thruston, married Mary Ann Glass. They lived at the "Meadows," a handsome estate near Winchester. He was a lawyer, and represented Frederick Co .. in the Legislature, several years. He had one child :
I. Mary Elizabeth Magill. d. in childhood.
VI. Alfred Thruston Magill, son of Col. Charles Magill and Mary Buckner Thruston, was Professor of Medicine in the Uni- versity of Va .: at the time, his wife's father, Judge Henry St. George Tucker, was Professor of Law there. Dr. Magill was not only distinguished in his profession, but honored and loved for his high character: d. June 12, 1837, aged 33 years. Married Ann Evelina Hunter Tucker, daughter of Judge Henry St. George Tucker. of the Court of Appeals of Va., brother of Judge Beverley Tucker, and half brother of John Randolph of Roanoke. Issue :
I. Fanny Bland Magill. b. December 17, 1828; d. May 13, 1901. Married Rev. James Robert Graham, October 3, 1853. He was in charge of the Presbyterian Church, in Winchester, which position he occupied until his death. He left one daughter, Evelina Tucker Magill, and five sons. Three of the latter are Presbyterian min- isters, one a physician, and one a druggist, in St. Louis.
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II. Mary Tucker Magill was a woman of culture, and wrote several books.
III. Evelina Magill. Married William Levin Powell, son of Mr. Humphrey Powell, of Loudoun Co., Va., and brother of Mrs. Randolph Tucker: she d. 1901, leaving one son :
I. Levin Powell, who graduated at the University of Va. in 1901.
IV. Virginia Magill. Married Maj. Edwards, C. S. Army. After the war, they settled in Atlanta, Ga. No issue.
VII. Henry Dangerfield Magill, son of Col. Charles Magill, and Mary Buckner Thruston, his wife, married Ann Elizabeth Mason, daughter of Temple Mason, of "Temple Hall," Loudoun Co., Va. On May 15, 1847, Dr. Henry D. Magill was instantly killed by a fall from his horse, while on his round of professional duties. A friend wrote of him-"A noble and almost perfect specimen of a man, in mind, person and character, a successful and accomplished physician, descended on both sides from the best Revolutionary stock, but, above all, was his constant walk in the footsteps of Christ." Bishop Meade, in his "Old Churches and Families," speaks of the loveliness of Dr. Magill's character. Issue :
I. Thomas Henry Magill. Married -, and lives in Lonisiana.
II. Ann Magill. Married Mr. Sparrow, son of Dr. Sparrow. who for many years was Professor at the Episcopal Theological Seminary, near Alexandria, Va. She d. 1895, without issue. One of Mrs. Ann (Magill) Sparrow's ancestors was Col. George Mason, member of Parliament, in the reign of Charles I, of England, and first of his family in America. (Mason Family. Volume II, Chapter XVII.)
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