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John M. Lowry, who was a son of Robert Edmondson Lowry, of Wash- ington county. Her mother was Elizabeth, daughter of William . Graham, who was a son of John Graham of Washington county, and who married Isabella Buchanan.
Wm. B. Kelly entered the Confederate army in June, 1861, Company F, 37th Virginia regiment, and was wounded at Kernstown, March 23, 1862, while sergeant-major of his regiment. When able for duty he was transferred to the quartermaster's department, where he served until made prisoner at Sailors Creek, April 5, 1865. He was held at Point Lookout until July following. He had one brother in service. wounded at Kernstown also, and surrendered at Appomattox, where. as orderly sergeant, he was in command of his regiment. A cousin of Mr. Kelly died while a prisoner at Fort Delaware. Mr. Kelly is engaged in farming, and also in the nursery business.
MAJOR HENRY F. KENDRICK,
Born at Honakerville, Russell county, Virginia, on January 7, 1832. is the son of George H. Kendrick, of Scott connty, Virginia, whose father was George Kendrick, of Russell county, a soldier of the war of 1812. in which he held commission as captain. The Kendrick family are of Irish descent, settlers at an early date in Russell county. The wife of Henry F., whom he married at Glade Spring, Virginia, October 27, 1870. is Mary E. Price, born near Glade Spring, on June 30, 1843. Their children are five: George H., Grace Price, Margaret E., Ella Virginia and Price. Mrs. Kendrick is the daughter of John W. Price, of Russell county, one of the noted men of that county in his day. She has two brothers who are ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sonth. Her mother was Miss Mary Miller, of Smyth county, Virginia, of one of the oldest Virginia families.
Major Kendrick derives his title from service in the war between the States, when he was major of the 22d Virginia Cavalry, from August, 1862, to the close of the war. He was in constant field service from the time the regiment took the field until the battle of Monocacy, Maryland, July 9, 1864. In that battle he was wounded and made prisoner, and was not exchanged until March, 1865. His brother J. T. Kendrick served in the same regiment. Another brother, L. H. Kendrick, was in the Federal army, in a Kentucky or Ohio regiment, and visited him while he was held a prisoner of war. George H. Kendrick. Major Ken- driek's father, represented Scott county in the Virginia legislature many years. He was in the capitol building when it fell, in 1869.
Major Kendrick is now engaged in a mercantile business at Meadow View, where he has his home.
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REV. JOHN RUTLEDGE KING.
Four brothers named King emigrated from Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, to what is now Washington county, Virginia, and Sullivan county, Tennessee, in the earliest days of its settlement, or, about the year 1762. One of these was David King, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. David married a daughter of John Sharp, who is sup- posed to have been the first settler of what is now Sullivan county. Tennessee, and his son, John Sharp King, was the father of Rev. John Rutledge King. John Sharp King served in the war of 1812, at the age of seventeen years. He was at Mobile at the time of the battle of New Orleans, and, with a squad of soldiers, captured some British troops.
Rev. John Rutledge King was born in Roanoke county, Virginia. April 13, 1817. His ancestors on his mother's side were the Rutledges and Vanlears, of Roanoke, Virginia. He was educated for the ministry at Maryville Theological Seminary, Blount county, Tennessee. In 1843 he entered the ministry of the New School Presbyterian Church. The schools united in 1865, forming the Presbyterian Church, South. He has been engaged in the work of the ministry constantly since 1843, in Virginia and Tennessee.
Mr. King's first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Thomas, an early settler of Sullivan county, Tennessee. She was born in that county, May 21, 1811 ; they were married there, January 2, 1844, by the Rev. James King, living then where Bristol, Tennessee, now stands. She died August 23, 1876, leaving three children: Sarah S., now Mrs. Delaney, of Washington county, Virginia : John T. and Dr. James M. King, of Bristol. JJohm entered the Confederate States Army when only sixteen years of age, and is now a farmer in Sullivan county, Tennessee.
The second marriage of Rev. J. R. King was solemnized at Kingsport, Tennessee, by Rev. M. C. Willoughby, May 7, 1878, Maria C. Vance becoming his wife. She is a daughter of Dr. James Vance, of Kingsport. Her mother was a Sevier, a near relative to General Sevier of -King's Mountain " battle fame.
JOHN G. KREGER
Was born on his father's estate in Washington county, Virginia, twelve miles west of Abingdon. He is the son of Isaac Kreger, who was born in Wythe county, Virginia, and was a tanner, which occupation he fol- lowed in Abingdon and other parts of Washington county from his coming to the county, abont 1824, to 1853, in which year he removed to Tennessee, later to Arkansas. At Rock Springs, Washington county,
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Virginia, September 29, 1859, John G. Kreger married Mary E. Brad- ley, who was born in Mississippi in 1836. The issue of this marriage was nine children, of whom one, Nannie P., is now deceased. The living children all make their home in Washington county, the sons among the most active and progressive of the citizens of Abingdon. These eight children are named: Reuben B., John M., Lanrie B., Rosa Lee, Mary E., Margaret R. G., Sarah T. and George G. Mrs. Kreger's parents were Virginians, Reuben L. Bradley and Evelyn Gay, married in Washington county in 1835, and removing to Mississippi, where the father died in 1836. Some years after, Mrs. Bradley became the wife of Col. Thomas M. Preston, and she died in December, 1884. From July, 1858, to July, 1865, Mr. Kreger was clerk of the county court, Wash- ington county. In July, 1887, he was elected clerk of the circuit court. which position he is still ably filling.
MOSES H. LATHAM.
In the pioneer days of Washington county there settled in that coun- ty Moses Latham, who came from Pennsylvania, the family being of Scotch-Irish descent, that hardy stock nursed in the Presbyterian faith. James E. Latham, son of Moses, married in Washington county, Eliza- beth, daughter of Hugh McChesney, who settled in this countyfrom Ire- land. Their son Moses H. was born at Halls Bottom, Washington county, November 27, 1828. Near Abingdon, March 22, 1852, he mar- ried Ellen James, who was born November 11, 1831, at the place where her marriage was solenmized. The record of the children of the mar- riage is : James W., living now in Dennison county, Texas; DanielC., now deceased; Laura L., now the wife of Samuel Latham, of Washington county; four daughters now deceased, Margaret J., Fannie V., Sarah E. and Rhoda C .; Robert Emmett, livingat home; Hugh Anna, at home; Mary B., deceased; Abbie, deceased; Minnie Trigg, at home. Mrs. Latham is the daughter of Elisha James, now of Sullivan county, Ten- nessee, a son of Walter James, an early settler in Washington county from England. Her mother is Sarah, daughter of William Gray, who came to Washington county from Pennsylvania.
Mr. Latham is a farmer and stock raiser. He was in service in the late war, Company D, Ist Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., and was severely wounded twice at Waynesboro, Virginia, in arm and neck, September, 1864. His brother L. W. served through the war in the same company and regiment. He had three cousins killed in service, two serving from Virginia, one from Missouri. Another cousin, Dr. MeChesney, was severe- ly wounded.
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C. T. LESTER,
Farmer and stockman of Washington county, Virginia, was born in Smyth county, Virginia, April 25, 1845. On May 1, 1861, he entered service, Confederate Army, in Company B, 4th Tennessee Infantry, He was three times wounded, twice with sabre, once by gunshot, first wound at Shiloh, second at Stone River, third at Woodbury, Tennessee. He was captured in April, 1863, and held at Camp Chase, Ohio, till the following August. Exchanged at City Point, he rejoined his regi- ment, with which he served until surrendered with Johnston's army. His relatives were all Unionists, many of them in the Federal army. His father, John Lester, of Smyth county, was a Union soldier from East Tennessee. The grandfather of C. T. Lester, was also named John Lester, and was of Smyth county. His mother was Sally Dickerson, born in North Carolina. He has been twice married, his first wife Emma, daughter of Samuel D. and Sallie (Dingmore) King, of Sullivan county, Tennessee. Samuel D. King, a son of Harvey King, served in the Confederate States army. Emma King was born August 15, 1846, they were married September 10, 1867, in Sullivan county. and she died January 26, 1873. He married secondly, in Sullivan county, Tennessee, Clarie E. King, sister of Emma. born in that county, August 15, 1856. Their children are eight : Susan E., Eliza Virginia, James S., Stephen H., William G., Thomas G., Charles Frank, Lizzie Ray.
GEORGE V. LITCHFIELD
Is a sou of George V. and Rachel Litchfield. who settled in Washington county about 1815, and reared a family of eight children. His mother was the daughter of John Mitchell. who married a daughter of William King, the elder, who discovered and developed the great salt works of Washington and Smyth counties. The subject of this sketch was born in Abingdon, on January 20, 1837, and was married in Wythe county, Virginia, November 20, 1867, Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham there joining him in wedlock with Elizabeth P. Pierce. The wife of Mr. Litchfield, born in Pulaski county, Virginia, is a daughter of James N. and Nancy Pierce. Her mother is of a family distinguished in the civil and mili- tary annals of Virginia, being the sister of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and a daughter of Judge Archibald Stuart, who married Elizabeth Pannill. Mr. and Mrs. Litchfield have five children: Annie S., Lizzie P., Mary, George Vietor and Belle, and have buried three: Rachel B., James P .. Flora S.
Mr. Litchfield served through the late war, an officer in Company D. 1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., from April, 1861, to April, 1865. He was wounded in engagement at Slaterville, and a second time at Waterloo
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Bridge by a sharpshooter, through the hand. He had two brothers in service, one of whom is now deceased. In 1879 Mr. Litchfield was mayor of Abingdon. He is a resident of that town, engaged in farming and as a manufacturer.
JAMES C. LOVE.
Near Loves Mills, Washington county, June 1, 1824, the subject of this sketel was born, and his home has always been in the county, his occupation farming. He is a son of Leonidas Love, who came to this county from Wythe county, the son of William Love of that county, formerly a resident of Eastern Virginia. The mother of James C., Free- love Cole, is a daughter of James Cole, of Smyth county, whose father, also named James Cole, was one of the first white children born in that county.
In Rye Valley, February 10, 1846, James C. Love married Cedelia James, who was born in Rye Valley, Smyth county, in 1826. Her parents were both born and raised in the Valley, and honored residents there through life, John James and Nancy, daughter of John Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Love have four children living: Perlina, John J., Josephine V. and Mollie, and have buried six : America, Nannie, William, two babes died unnamed, and Susan C.
In May, 1862, Mr. Love was detailed by the Confederate authorities in the manufacture of nitre at Loves Mills. He was enrolled in the Reserve troops through the years of the war, and took part in both battles at Saltville. He was at Christiansburg at the time of the sur- render, and there discharged. He had one brother and one brother-in- law in the Reserve troops, both in battles at Saltville, and one brother- in-law in the field, killed in the second year of the war; another brother, J. R. Love, was in the 48th Virginia regiment, served from the organiza- tion of the regiment to close of war: was slightly wounded (which still affects him) ; was captured in 1864, and held a prisoner until close of the war; another brother, Oscar, lives now in Tennessee: another brother, William, went into service from Arkansas, and has not been heard from since.
WILLIAM L. M'CHESNEY
Was born in Washington county, Virginia, near the Tennessee line, June 15, 1843. He is now a farmer of this county, living near the place of his birth. He enlisted before his nineteenth birthday, in the spring of 1862, Company A, 63d Virginia regiment, and was commissioned second lieutenant. He received a slight shell wound in arm, and was captured in battle of Missionary Ridge, November, 1863. Sent as prisoner of war to Johnsons Island, in Lake Erie, he was held there until afterclose
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of war, till June, 1865. He had one brother in service, in the 1st Vir- ginia Cavalry, who was badly wounded in left hand near Warrenton, Virginia, and who also came near being hung as a spy, after entering the Yankee lines with a flag of truce, by proper authority.
The father of Mr. McChesney was Hugh A. McChesney of Washington county, whose father was Hugh M. McChesney who came to the county from Ireland with his little family about the year 1800. Mr. McChes- ney's mother was Julia A., daughter of Thomas McChesney, who was born in this county, and was sheriff of Washington county in early times. His wife, whom he married in Washington county, December 12, 1873, was born in this county, May 1, 1856, Fannie J., daughter of Joseph W. Rhea, a son of William Rhea, whose father came to Washing- ton county from Ireland when a boy. The mother of Mrs. McChesney is Elizabeth P. C., daughter of Dr. F. W. Ivry, who came from Eastern Virginia to Washington county, and married a Miss Preston. Mr. and Mrs. McChesney have three children: Samuel Rhea, Joseph Hugh, Mary JJulia.
ROBERT T. M'QUOWN: D. D. S.
Isaac McQuown, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Scotland, in 1772, and came to Pennsylvania inearly childhood. In 1790 he removed to Washington county, Virginia. He was twice mar- ried. In 1795 Ann Orr became his wife. and they had seven children : John Ryburg, Ellen, Ann, Arthur Orr, Jane Branson, Elizabeth, Rebecca. He married secondly, on August 21, 1817, Mrs. Margaret Hope, and they had one son, Isaac 1., born August 30, 1819. This son Isaac, father of Robert T., was educated at the Abingdon Male Acad- emy, and taught school and farmed, many years. He was in the Con- federate States army in 1863, and in 1864 was elected county sur- veyor, which office he so ably filled that he was retained in it umtil his death, which occurred on February 9, 1887.
Isaac A. MeQuown was twice married. His first wife was Nancy K. Berry, whom he married December 23, 1841, and they had eight chil- dren : Sarah Virginia, Columbus, David Nathaniel, James Ferdinand (in service last year of the war), Mary Margaret, Isaac Walter, William Parker, and Robert T. Isaac A. MeQuown married secondly, January 28, 1879, Kate MeGinniss, who survives him.
Mrs. Margaret MeQuown, the grandmother of Robert T., was born in Northern Virginia, February 25, 1776. His mother was born in Washington county in 1817, the daughter of one of its honored residents, Robert Berry.
Robert T. MeQuown was born near Osceola, Washington county, October 13, 1860. He received his academical education at Liberty
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Hall Academy, then attended the University of Maryland, where he graduated with degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1885. In the same year he located in Abingdon, where he is engaged in practice.
JOHN HENRY MARTIN
Is a son of Thomas Martin, who camefrom Ireland to Virginia, settling in Bedford county, serving in the war of 1812. Thomas Martin mar- ried Elizabeth Swain, whose father served in the Revolutionary war, and settled in Bedford county some time in 1800. The subject ofthissketch was born in Bedford county, near Fancy Grove, May 12, 1824. His first wife was Nancy Eliza Hagy, whom he married June 25, 1857. They resided in Bristol, Tennessee, until her death, which occurred March 20, 1860. The issue of this marriage was one daughter. Second- ly Mr. Martin married, in Washington county, Virginia, Melinda Lewis. their marriage solemnized on January 30, 1868. She is the daughter of John Lewis, born in Louisa county, Virginia, who married Sallie Lynch. The Lewis and Lynch families were from Ireland, and early settlers in Washington county.
Many of the Martin family and their near relatives were in military service, under the Confederate goverment. Four of Mr. Martin's brothers were in the army, two died in service, another was severely wounded. His own service was first as agovernment employee and con- tractor, but in 1863 he took the field, a member of Company K. 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry, with which he served till the close of the war. He is now engaged in farming, residing at Meadow View.
C. E. METCALFE,
Dealer in general merchandise at Wallace Switch, Washington county. was born near Abingdon, March 27, 1864. He is a son of Rev. S. P. Metcalfe, elergyman of the Christian Baptist Church in Washington county, who was born in MeMinncounty, Tennessee, in May, 1834. The father of Rev. S. P. Metcalfe was Charles Metcalfe, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, and during the late war was proprietor of the cotton mills near Athens, Tennessee, which were burned out twice during the war. Gen. Thomas Metealfe of Kentucky is a brother of Charles Met- calfe.
The mother of C. E. Metealfe was Miss M. H. Mongle, daughter of Abram Mongle, of Mongles Springs, Virginia, many years sheriff of Washington county. His father was Jacob Mongle, one of the eminent pioneers of Southwestern Virginia, proprietor of Mongles Springs, and a veteran of the war of 1812.
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FELIX G. MILLER
Was born near Saltville, Virginia, on September 23, 1843. He is a son . of Humberson Miller, of Washington county, and a grandson of Hon. Joseph Miller, member of the Legislature about 1840. The mother of Felix G. is Catharine E., daughter of Henry Stavely, of Smyth county, who formerly kept the hotel twelve miles east of Marion. Humberson Miller, who is a farmer, was captain in the Virginia militia before the war. He had two sons in the army: Felix G., who volunteered in 1862, at Abingdon, and served till the close of the war in the 29th Virginia regiment, in Picketts division, Army of Northern Virginia. The other son served in a Texas regiment, was twice wounded in battle, then made prisoner and held for a time at Camp Chase, Ohio.
Near Abingdon, January 17, 1867, Felix G. Miller married Lizzie P. Dennison, born near Abingdon, daughter of Robert P. Dennison, her mother Mary, daughter of John Gray, of Washington county. Her father's father was Andrew Dennison, who came from Ireland to South- west Virginia at the time the Prestons came. Alice J., first-born of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, is now deceased, and they have buried their two youngest, Grover C. and Ethel May. Their living children are three sons: Robert H., Alexander B., Peter E. Mr. Miller is a farmer and lumberman.
WILLIAM H. MILLER,
Is a son of Hon. Joseph Miller, of Washington county, former represen- tative of the county in the legislature, and for many years senior mag- istrate of the county, one of its eminent citizens, who died in 1845. His mother was Catharine, daughter of Abram Fuller, of Russell county, Virginia. He was born in the east part of Washington county, March 14, 1830. His marriage was solemnized at Bristol, Tennessee, June 8. 1859. He married Melissa, daughter of John Burke, of Elk Garden, Russell county, and his wife Margaret Burke, nee Dyre. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller were born in the order named: Maggie 1., Robert L., John E., Elbert S., William Pitt, Mary C., Joseph J., George I.
Mr. Miller has held public office, as school commissioner and tax assessor in Tennessee, and constable of Washington county. He en- listed in April, 1861, Company F, 37th Virginia Regiment. C. S. A., and was in active service until captured at Spottsylvania C. H., May 12, 1864. From that time until June 1, 1865, he was held prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. He had one brother in service in King's battery, one nephew died in service, and a mimber of cousins died or were killed in service. Farming is Mr. Miller's occupation.
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ISAAC BAKER MOORE
Is a son of Thomas Moore, a prosperous farmer of Washington county. whose father was Martin Moore, also a farmer of this county, his father Richard Moore, who built the first mill in Washington county. Lettie Lutitia, daughter of Nicholas Fleenor, of Washington county, was the mother of Isaac B. He was born on the family homestead on the head waters of Beaver Creek, near Walker Mt. May 14, 1852. At Bristol. Tennessee, December 14, 1880, he married Cynthia M. Haley, who was born in Pulaski county, Virginia, December 24, 1855, the daughter of John T. Haley of that county, her mother a Miss Welton. Mr. Moore is engaged in farming, his land lying in Washington county.
MARION M. MORRISS.
The family line of Mr. Morriss, Virginians through several genera- tions, is thus traced : Isaac Morriss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, mar- ried Ann Thompson, of Amelia county, this State. Their son. William A. Morriss of Pittsylvania county, married Winifred Quesenbury. A son born to them, named William L., living also in Pittsylvania coun- ty, married Ann Earp, and Marion M. Morriss is their son. He was born in Pittsylvania county, on March 4, 1843.
Before he was nineteen years of age he had entered the Southernarmy, and he served from February, 1862, to the close of the war as orderly sergeant of the Ringgold Battery. Since the war his home has been in Washington county, where he has been identified with the best interests of the county. For ten years he was a magistrate of the county. He has been, from its beginning, intimately connected with the Southwest Virginia Institute, and chairman of its board of trustees since organi- zation. He carries on an estate, and is also a merchant of Glade Spring.
Mr. Morriss has been twice married. His first wife, who died Febru- ary 17, 1882, was Elizabeth A., daughter of James W. MeSpadden of this county. Their children are: William S., Walker M., Nina B., John T., Benham, Mary (deceased ), Dabney, Judson and Marion M. Second- ly Mr. Morriss married Evie Hunter, of Appomattox county, Virginia. and their only son bears the name of her family, Hunter. She is of well-known Virginia families, Benjamin and Sarah Hunter, nee Williams, of Appomattox county her parents, and her paternal grandfather Bon- jamin Hunter who married Sarah Arrington, of Campbell county, Virginia.
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EZRA S. NEFF
Is the third of the fourteen children of Jacob Neff and his wife Mary Neff, nee Copenhaver, and was born near Abingdon, July 17, 1849. His father, born in Wythe county, but raised in Smyth county, is a son of Peter Neff, of Smyth county. His mother is a daughter of Christly Copenhaver, of Smyth county, where he settled from Pennsylvania. Jacob Neff served, during the war, in Capt. JJohn Barr's artillery com- pany, stationed at Richmond, and was there at the time of the evacua- tion. He had one son, Andrew M., in active service, Company F, 37th Virginia regiment, which he entered at the age of sixteen years; twice slightly wounded.
In Smyth county, Virginia, February 21, 1883, Ezra S. Neff married Ellen Virginia Umbarger, who was born in that county, near Holston Mills. They have two children, Mary Pauline and William Newton, and have buried three sons : Joseph Andrew L., George Arthur, and Jacob Anson. Mrs. Neff's father, Lafayette Umbarger of Smyth county. a soldier of the late war, is a son of George Umbarger, who came to Smyth from Wythe county. Her mother is Paulina, daughter of John Scott, of Rye Valley, Smyth county.
Ezra S. Neff is a merchant at St. Clair Bottom. He was five or six years postmaster, St. Clairs P. O., and registrar of the St. Clair district for three years.
FRANCIS PRESTON.
The distinguished lineage of the Preston family has been referred to many times in previous pages of this work. The subject of the present sketch traces his connection with the family through his father, who was Col. John Preston of Walnut Grove, and his mother, who was Margaret B., daughter of Col. William Preston of Montgomery county, Virginia. Francis Preston was born at the family homestead at Walnut Grove, March 26, 1822. At Waverly, Loudon county, Virginia, he married Vir- ginia Moffett, who was born at Waverly, the daughter of Robert Moffett. of Loudon county, her mother a daughter of William Mead, of that county. Of this marriage four sons were born : Francis E. and William A., now deceased; Robert M., now an officer in the People's National Bank at Leesburg, Virginia; JJohn C., now a practicing physician at Dade City, Florida.
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