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The father of Dr. Skelton, Dr. Ennion W. Skelton, was born in Prince- ton, New Jersey, September 12, 1779, lived at Genito, Powhatan county, Virginia, after 1802, practiced medicine until his death, on November 4, 1836. He was a son of Josiah Skelton, of Princeton, who came to Pow- hatan county and there died in 1821, aged eighty years, and who wasa son of John Skelton, Esq., who resided near Princeton during the reign of George III., of England. Catharine W. Gifford, mother of Dr. J. G. Skelton, was born in Princeton also, on March 2, 1780, married Dr. E. W. Skelton in 1803, and resided in Powhatan county, Virginia, umtil her death, January 16, 1869. In 1841, Dr. John Gifford Skelton mar- ried Charlotte F., daughter of Peyton Randolph. Esq., of Richmond : she died in 1843. In 1846 he married Marianne O., daughter of B. L. Meade, Esq., of Richmond; she died in 1869.
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W. DELLIE SUTHERLAND,
Was born in the city of Richmond, on June 11, 1855. He married in that city, January 16, 1878, Mary E. Hardgrove, who was born in Richmond. Their children were born in the order named. Martha Leigh, Wm. Henry, Mary B. and Ruth Adalaide. Martha died at the age of nine and a half months; Wm. Henry died in his third year. Mr. Sutherland is a son of Wm. H. Sutherland, who was born in King Will- iam county, Virginia, and a grandson of James Sutherland, who came from Scotland to Virginia. ITis mother, whose maiden name was Martha J. Ladd, lives now in Richmond. His father died in October, 1886, aged fifty-six years. Mrs. Sutherland is a daughter of Wm. H. Hardgrove, deceased, and S. E. Hardgrove, of Richmond.
Mr. Sutherland was educated in Richmond, and started in business life as clerk for his father in the livery business, in 1869. In 1878 he went into business with his father and his brother as partners, livery and undertaking. Since 1884 he has been conducting his present busi- ness, the Lafayette Stables, and Parcel and Baggage Express. Mr. Sutherland is a member of St. Johns Lodge, No. 36, A. F. & A. M .; himself and wife are members of the Second Baptist Church, Richmond.
LUCIEN BROOKING TATUM,
Born in Virginia in 1846, was educated in Richmond, Virginia, and served in the Confederate States Army as a private in the Second Company. Richmond Howitzers ; was captured at battle of Sailors Creek, Virginia. April 6, 1865, and imprisoned at Newport News until June 20th follow- ing, then released on parole. Hereturned to Richmond, and soon became agent for the James River Steamboat Company. In 1878 he organized the Virginia Steamboat Company and was elected its vice-president, which is his present position.
His father, Henry Augustus Tatum, M. D., bornat " Woodlawn Hill" on the Appomattox river, Chesterfield county, Virginia, practiced medi- cine in Richmond forty years, and was surgeon in charge of Clopton Hospital on Franklin Street, at time of death; died in Richmond city, 1862. Ile was a son of Henry Tatum and Dorathea Claiborne, his wife, of Chesterfield county; said Dorathea Claiborne was the daughter of Daniel Claiborne and Mary Maury, his wife; who was the daughter of Matthew Maury and Mary Ann Fontaine, and the sister of Rov. James Maury of Huguenot fame.
The mother of Uncien Brooking Tatum, Amelia Sherwin Tatum, was boru at " Bellevue," on Falling Crook, Chesterfield county, Virginia, in 1.804, and died in Richmond in 1865. She wasa daughter of Col. Thomas
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Vivion Brooking, and Mary Massie Sherwin, his wife, of Chesterfield county, Virginia.
In 1882 Lucien Brooking Tatum married Mary Selden, daughter of Richard Herbert Tatum, M. D., who was born at "Longwood," on the Appomattox, in Chesterfield county; a son of Henry Walker Tatum, and Mary Goode, of that county. Her mother, now living, is Lily, the daughter of Charles Selden, late Judge of Powhatan county, Virginia, and Sarah Skelton, a sister of Dr. John G. Skelton of Richmond. Charles Selden was a grandson of Rev. Miles Selden, colonial pastor of St. Johns church, Richmond; commonly known as " Parson Selden" (see his records in Volume 1).
Mr. Tatum and wife are members of St. James P. E. Church, Rich- mond; and Mr. Tatum is a director in several of the banking and other business institutions of Richmond city.
ROBERT LEE TRAYLOR
Was born at Midway Mills, Nelson county, Virginia, on September 23, 1864. His father's family had been for several generations seated in Amelia county, Virginia, his father being Albert W. Traylor, born in Amelia county, May 5th, 1822, son of Tincheon P. Traylor of Amelia county, son of Mial Traylor of that county. Albert W. Traylor, now a resident of Richmond, served in thelate war in Terry's brigade, C. S. A., Co. E, 21st Virginia Regiment; was captured before Petersburg, March 15, 1865, and held at Point Lookout eighty-four days. The mother of Robert Lee Traylor, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, May 3rd, 1828, died May 6, 1888, was Mary E., daughter of Richard Adams, of Chesterfield county. His wife, whom he married at Memphis, Tennessee, November 16, 1887, was Annie Gavin, of Memphis, and they have now one son, Robert Gavin Traylor, born September 11th, 1888.
Mr. Traylor was educated at Richmond College. In 1881 he entered railway service as rodman on engineer corps, Richmond & Alleghany R. R. He has since served in various positions with the Georgia Pacific Railway Company, at Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama ; the Memphis, Birmingham & Atlantic R. R. Co .; and the Tennessee Mid- land Railway Company, at Memphis, Tennessee, and is now secretary and a director for the last-named company, headquarters at Richmond.
DR. JOHN N. UPSHUR
Was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 14, 1848, and received his first education at the Norfolk Military Academy and the Virginia Mili- tary Institute. He served in C company, Cadet Corps, in the battle of New Market, May 15, 1861, and was severely wounded in the right log.
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After the war he studied medicine at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Medical College, graduating from the last-named school March 5, 1868. He commenced practice in Richmond, on April 1, 1869, after having been resident physician at Howard's Grove hospital, near the city, for the year succeeding graduation, and has been in practice con- tinuously ever since. In June, 1884, he was elected professor of Mate- ria Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Upshur is a member of the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
His father was Dr. George L. Upshur, late of Norfolk, born in North- ampton county, Virginia, died September 19, 1855, aged thirty-three years. Dr. George L. Upshur was a son of John Evans Nottingham, of Northampton county, and had his name changed by act of legislature to his mother's maiden name, to prevent extinction of the Upshur name. The mother of Dr. John N. is Sarah Andrews, daughter of Dr. J. G. Parker, of Northampton county, still living in that county.
Dr. Upshur has been twice married, his first wife Lucy T., daughter of Bishop F. M. Whittle. She died August 7, 1876, at age of twenty-seven years, leaving him one son, Francis. He married secondly, in Rich- mond, December 11, 1879, Elizabeth S. Peterkin, born in Baltimore. They have three children, William P., Elizabeth N., Alfred P. Dr. and Mrs. Upshur are members of the St. James P. E. Church, of Richmond. Mrs. Upshur is a daughter of Wm. S. Peterkin, of Baltimore. Her mother died on January 23, 1879.
CHARLES WATKINS.
Charles, son of Samuel Watkins, and his wife Elizabeth, formerly of Halifax county, Virginia, was born in Milton, North Carolina, on July 24, 1847. The Watkins family were residents of Virginia for several generations. Thomas Watkins, grandfather of Charles, was a justice of the peace of Halifax county, and by virtue of being the senior justice of the county was high sheriff. The father of Charles, Samuel Watkins, was born in Halifax county in 1800, and died in 1868. His mother was Elizabeth F., daughter of Thomas Stamps, of Halifax county, whose wife was also of that county, Elizabeth Ragland. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Watkins, born in 1813, is now living at Milton, North Carolina. The wife of Charles Watkins, whom he married June 1, 1876, in her native city, Baltimore, Maryland, is Virginia R., daughter of Gustavus and Rebecca G. ( Kettlewell) Ober. Her mother is living in Baltimore: her father, son of Robert Ober of Maryland, was born in Montgomery county, that State, and died in January, 1881, aged sixty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watkins have two daughters, Rebecca G. and Elizabeth F., and one son, Charles, jr.
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Mr. Watkins was educated at Milton and Hillsboro, North Carolina. In September, 1865, he went into business with his father and brother in Milton, firm of Samuel Watkins & Sons, merchants. In 1870 he went into the leaf tobacco business with his brother in Milton; in 1875 opened a dry goods house with his nephew at Henderson, under firm name of S. & C. Watkins, and in the following year added leaf tobacco to the business. Moved to Richmond in January, 1878, and became a partner in the house of Hill, Skenker & Watkins, general commission merchants: in May, 1882, purchased his partners' interest, and now continues the same business under the name of Charles Watkins & Co. He is still full partner in the business at Milton, now carried on under the firm name and style of M. W. & C. Watkins, and in the business at Henderson, the firm of S. & C. Watkins. He was President of the Richmond Tobacco Trade from October, 1886 to October, 1888.
During the last two years of the civil war, Mr. Watkins served as a cadet at the Hillsboro (N. C.) Military Academy, and was with that body called into State military service in February, 1865, by the gov- ernor.
DR. ARMISTEAD L. WELLFORD
Was born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on July 8, 1857. He was a scholar at the University school, Richmond, 1872-76; student at the University of Virginia, academie course, 1876-77, and 1877-78: student of medicine at the Virginia Medical College, 1878-79, 1879-80, grad- uating March 20, 1880; studied medicine at the University of City of New York, 1880-81, 1881-82, graduating March, 1882. He has been'a practitioner of medicine in Richmond city since 1882; was Adjunet Professor of Anatomy Prosector, Virginia Medical College, 1883-85: Adjunct Professor of Diseases of Women and Children, 1885-89; Pro- fessor of Obstetrics, summer school, 1884 and 1885.
The father of Dr. Wellford was Dr. Armistead N. Wellford, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, died in July, 1884, aged fifty-two years. His paternal grandparents were Dr. Beverley R. Wellford and Mary Alex- ander, his wife. Dr. Robert Wellford, of England, who married a Miss Yates, of Fredericksburg. Virginia, was his paternal great grandfather. His mother was Elizabeth Landon Carter, born at "Sabine Hall," Richmond county, Virginia, died in Angust, 1858, aged twenty-eight years. His maternal grandparents were Robert W. Carter, Esq., and Elizabeth Taylor, his wife, and hisgreat grandfather was Landon Carter. Esq. Dr. A. L. Wellford is a member of the First Presbyterianchurch of Richmond.
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JUDGE BEVERLEY R. WELLFORD : JR.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on May 10, 1828. He was educated in Fredericksburg until he went to college in Princeton in 1845. In 1847 he was graduated in the centen- nial class of College of New Jersey. He studied law in Fredericksburg under Hon. John Tayloe Lomax, and came to the Bar in September, 1849. He lived in Fredericksburg, practicing in the courts of adjoining counties until December, 1854, when he removed to Richmond City, where he has lived ever since and practiced law, with the interruption of the war. He was elected in March, 1870, by the Legislature of Vir- ginia, Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Virginia; was re-elected for additional term in 1875, and again re-elected in 1886, for the term ending January 1, 1895.
Judge Wellford's father was Dr. Beverley R. Wellford, born in Fred- ericksburg, Virginia, July 29, 1797, died in Richmond, December 24. 1870 (son of Dr. Robert Wellford and his wife Catharine, nee Yates, of Fredericksburg); he was Professor of Materia Medica in Medical College of Virginia from October, 1854, till about two years before his death : was President of the National Medical Association in 1852. The mother of Judge Wellford was Mary, youngest child of William Alexan- der and Sarah Casson, his wife, of Snowden, Stafford county, Virginia. She was born at Snowden, in October, 1803, was married in Fredericks- burg in February, 1824, and died in Richmond, in January, 1869, leav- ing five sons and one daughter, viz :
i. Dr. John Spotswood Wellford, now living in Richmond, professor in Medical College of Virginia; married Emmeline M. Tabb, formerly of Gloucester county, Virginia. ii. Dr. Armistead N. Wellford. married Elizabeth Landon Carter, daughter of Col. Robert W. Carter of Sabine Hall," Richmond county, Virginia; both now dead, left threesons. (1. Robert Carter Wellford, now of "Sabine Hall," Richmond county, Vir- ginia, married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Wm. M. Harrison of Richmond city. 2. Beverley Randolph Wellford, now practicing law in Richmond, married Jane, daughter of Gen. James McDonald, adjutant general of Virginia. 3. Armistead Landon Wellford, now practicing medicine in Richmond.) iii. Beverley Randolph Wellford, jr., married Susan S., daughter of the late Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro and Leah Seddon, his wife, of Gloucester county, Virginia. iv. Philip A. Wellford, now living in Richmond, married Miss Bolle Street, now dead. v. Charles Edward Wellford, now living in Rich- mond, unmarried. vi. Mary Alexander, married James M. Mar- shall, Esq., of Priestley, Fauquier county, Virginia, where she is now living.
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Dr. Beverley R. Wellford was twice married, his first wife being Betty Burwell Page, daughter of Robert C. Page and Sally Nelson, his wife, of King William county, and the issue of the union one daughter, now Mrs. Sally Page Atkinson, wife of Rev. Joseph M. Atkinson, D. D., pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, North Carolina.
The father of Judge Wellford's wife was a son of Dr. William Taliaferro and Mary Throckmorton, his wife, of Gloucester county, Virginia, born in that county in 1802, died there in 1878; was a member of the Senate of Virginia, 1865-67. Her mother was a danghter of Thomas Seddon and his wife Susan Pierson, nee Alexander, born in Falmouth, Virginia, in 1810, now living; elder sister of the late James A. Seddon, Confeder- ate States Secretary of War.
Judge Wellford's wife was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, and they were married in thatcounty, March 3, 1858. Of their eight children only three are living, Faimy B., Edwin Taliaferro, Susan S. The remaining five died in infancy : Roberta C., Warner T., Mary Beverley, Philip Alex. Taliaferro, John Spotswood.
DR. JOHN S. WELLFORD.
Dr. Robert Wellford, of England, and surgeon in the English army during the Revolutionary war, settled in Virginia at its close at Fredericksburg. He married Catharine Yates, of Fredericksburg. Their son, Dr. Beverley R. Wellford, born in Fredericksburg, in June, 1797, died in 1870, married Mary, daughter of William Alexander, of Stafford county, Virginia. She was born in that county in 1802, and died in 1869. Of their union was born the subject of this sketch, in Fredericks- burg, January 4, 1825. He was educated at Fredericksburg, studied medicine with his father, graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1846, and from that time to 1860 practiced in Freder- icksburg. In 1860 he went to Europe, and attended hospitals therefor a year, returning to Virginia at the outbreak of the war. In 1861 he entered service as brigade surgeon, Armistead's brigade, C. S. A., later was assigned as division surgeon to Jackson's Hospital, Richmond, and remained there until six weeks after the surrender, one of the last physi- cians in army hospital service. Since that time he has been engaged con- tinuously in practice in Richmond. In 1868 he was elected professor in the Medical College of Virginia, and has served continuously in that position ever since. He has been four years city alderman; member of the city council two years.
In Richmond, April 8, 1858, Dr. John S. Wellford and Emmeline Tabb were united in marriage. Mrs. Wellford was born in Gloucestercounty, Virginia, the daughter of Philip E. Tabb, Esq., formerly of that county,
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now deceased. Dr. Wellford and his wife are members of the Presbyter- ian Church of Richmond. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.
ISAIAH H. WHITE: M. D.
Dr. White was born in AAccomack county, Virginia, on July 24, 1838. He attended school at Onancock, that county, then, in 1854-55, a school at Alexandria, Virginia; William and Mary College. 1855-58: the Medical College of Virginia, 1859-61, graduating with degree of. Doctor of Medicine in 1861. He entered the Confederate States army in April, 1862, as assistant surgeon, assigned to duty at Chimborazo hospital; in July. 1862, was promoted surgeon, and assigned to duty with the 14th Louisiana Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia; in Feb- ruary, 1864, was assigned as surgeon in charge of military prison at Andersonville, and in the summer of 1864 was made chief surgeon of all military prisons east of the Mississippi, so serving until the close of the war. Settling in Richmond, at the close of the war, and entering into practice there, Dr. White was, in the fall of 1865, chosen demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical College of Virginia, which position he filled ten years. In 1868 he assumed charge of the infirmary of the college. which he conducted as a private hospital for three years. In March. 1886, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Marine Hospi- tal service, a position he still holds. He is a member of the Southern Surgical and Gynecologiel Association, and of the Richmond Academy of Medicine; an ex-president of the last-named society.
Dr. White's father was Samuel C. White, born in Accomack county in 1799, died in February, 1888. His mother, Mary E., daughter of Mitchell Chandler, of Accomack county, died in Angust, 1881, in her seventy-fifth year. His wife, whom he married in Richmond, April 11. 1871, is Caroline W., daughter of Daniel Kern of Germany, deceased. She was born in New York State.
COL. THOMAS WHITEHEAD.
Colonel Whitehead was born in Nelson county, Virginia, December 27. 1825. He went to school in Lovingston, at Lynchburg and at Now Glasgow. At theage of nineteen, he went into his father's mercantile and tobacco establishment, and also served as deputy sheriff under his father two and a half years. He was then in business one year in Now Glas- gow, merchandise and tobacco, after that studied law at Amherst (. 11 .. with Robert M. Brown. Admitted to the Bar in March, 1849, hoformed a partnership with his former teacher, and the two practiced together until 1855. From 1855 until the beginning of the war, Colonel White-
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head practiced individually, was a Master Commissioner in Chancery, and was also engaged in farming. In April, 1861, he made up the com- pany known as the " Amherst Rangers," of which he was elected first lieutenant, and which was assigned in service as Company E, 2d Virginia Cavalry. In 1862 he was elected captain, and after having been twice wounded was promoted major of the same regiment. His first wound was received at Stevensburg, in the left knee, from a ricochetting cannon ball; the second, gunshot in the left arm, at Trevilian Depot, disabled him for active service, and from that time till the close of the war he was, by order of General Lee, detailed on a Military Board.
Since the close of the war Colonel Whitehead has been engaged in farming, in merchandising, in the practice of law, in journalism, and in public life. In 1865 he was elected to the Virginia legislature by the district composed of Amherst, Nelson and Buckingham counties. This legislature never assembled, the election having been set aside by mili- tary authority. In 1866 he was elected commonwealth attorney for Amherst county, but removed by military orders. Re-elected to this office in 1869 he served until, in 1872, he was elected to the Forty-Third Congress from the Sixth Congressional District. At this time he was editing and publishing the Amherst Enterprise. In June, 1876, he be- came editor of the Lynchburg Daily News; in 1880 established and edited the Lynchburg Daily Advance ; in 1885 established Whitehead's Democrat, a weekly, at Lynchburg, which paper he removed in 1887 to Amherst C. H. and discontinued in December, 1888. In December, 1887, he was elected commissioner of agriculture for the State of Virginia. and is still serving.
Colonel Whitehead is a member of the M. E. church (South), which he joined in 1854. He is a Mason, into which Order he was admitted in 1848; in 1849 he joined the Sons of Temperance; in 1885 the Good Templars. His father was John Whitehead, born in Amherst county in 1787, died in Lynchburg in 1856, a son of Burcher Whitehead who mar- ried Nancy Camden, and who was a son of John Whitehead, born in New Kent county, removed to Amherst county before the Revolu- tion. The mother of Colonel Whitehead was Anna, daughter of Dennis Mahony, born in Philadelphia, brought to Virginia in childhood. His first wife, who died in January, 1853, aged twenty years, was Mary K. Irving. At Amherst C. H., June 14, 1854, he married Martha Henry Garland of Amherst county. Their children were born in the order named: John, Millie P., Thos., jr., David G., Mary 1., Irving P., Mattie G., Essie, Nellie G., Robert C.
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CHARLES EVANS WINGO,
Born, reared and educated in the county of Amelia, Virginia, came to Richmond in 1859, and engaged in business as derk in the wholesale. grocery house of Eggleston & Fitzgerald; then doing a large busines- on 14th street. He remained with this firm one year, when he was offered a sitnation with Samuel M. Price & Co., a large retail dry goods house, doing business on Main street, as entry clerk and cashier, which he accepted. In 1861, as soon as the news of the battle of Bull Run reached Richmond, he surrendered his situation, and enlisted as a pri- vate in the First Company of Richmond Howitzers, Col. John C. Shields commanding, stationed at Centreville, Virginia. He remained with this company until severely wounded in the battle of Sharpsburg, Sep- tember 17, 1862, his wounds disabling him for further field service. He was placed on the retired list of the C. S. army, but was later as- signed to duty as enrolling officer of the county of Amelia. He joined General Lee's army on the retreat, and surrendered with it at Appo- mattox. He has an only brother who was in service, and also sur- rendered at Appomattox.
After the close of the war, Mr. Wingo returned to Richmond, and en- gaged in the mercantile business, first with John C. Miller & Co., dry goods, afterwards with Gardner & Carlton, boots and shoes. In 1870 he founded the business in which he is senior partner, the firm of Wingo. Ellett & Crump, wholesale boot and shoes.
Mr. Wingo is a son of William A. Wingo, who was born in Amelia county in 1818, and died in 1846, and who was a son of Allen Wingo. of the same county. His mother, born in Amelia county in 1820, and still living, is Sarah Jane, daughter of Jolm and Mary A. Johnson, Bre Wooldridge, both of Amelia county. On December 17, 1878, he mar- ried Sallie Belle Knight, who is a daughter of Col. William Carter Knight, and a granddaughter of John Howell Knight, of Nottoway county, Virginia. Her mother is Mrs. Cleverena T. Knight of Richmond. Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Wingo are members of the First Baptist church of Richmond. Their children are four, Janie Belle, Charles E., William Wythe and John Trovilian.
PHILIP P. WINSTON
Was born in Hanover county, Virginia, May 20, 1828, theson of Henry and Jane (Doswell) Winston, of that county, both now deceased. His father died a few months before Philip's birth, in 1827, aged fifty-five years. Until he was seventeen years of age the subject of this sketch attended school in his native county. He then clerked for eighteen months in that county, since which time his home has been in Richmond.
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He was two years deputy sheriff under Richard Adams, of Richmond, when, under the provisions of the old constitution, the senior magistrate was the sheriff, and he has been connected with the sheriff's office since 1847 continuously except for a few years and during the war. Heis now deputy sheriff. His second son, Lewis P., has been high sheriff of Rich- mond, Virginia, since February, 1884.
In 1862 Philip P. Winston entered the Confederate States army, Company B, 15th Virginia Infantry, private. He was wounded and made prisoner at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17. 1862, held on the battlefield three weeks, then exchanged. Returning to Richmond he was appointed clerk in the comptroller's office, C. S. A., and so served until the close of the war, returning then to the sheriff's office as deputy under John W. Wright.
In Hanover county, Virginia, May 14, 1857, he married Maria Louisa McGee, born in that county, the daughter of Edward and Marietta (Lipscombe) McGee, both now deceased. The fruit of this union is six children, born in the order named: Edward H., Lewis P., Wesley M .. Mary W., Lizzie W. and John G.
JUDGE SAMUEL B. WITT.
The subject of this sketch was born in Prince Edward county, Vir- ginia, on September 6, 1850. After the usual academic training he en- tered Richmond College, where in 1873 he was graduated in law under Mr. Wm. Green and Judge Holyburton. In 1874 he began practice in Richmond, in which he was continuously engaged until he took his seat on the Bench. In 1879 he was elected member of the Virginia legisla- ture from the city of Richmond; in 1880 was appointed commonwealth attorney for the city, to serve out the unexpired term of Geo. D. Wise. and he was re-elected to that position at each ensuing election until elected Judge of the Hustings Court of Richmond, on the duties of which office he entered January 1, 1889. Judge Witt is a member of the Commandery of St. Andrew, K. T .; of Temple Lodge, No. 9, 1. F. & A. M .; Richmond Lodge, Elks; Stonewall Grove, Druids.
At Marshall, Fauquier county, Virginia, November 12, 1884, he mar- ried Mariana, daughter of Thomas R. Foster, of that place. Her mother, Mary (Smith) Foster, is now deceased. Judge Witt is a son of Daniel Witt, who was a son of David Witt, and was born in Bedford county, Virginia, 1801, died in Prince Edward county, 1870. His mother is Mary Ellen, daughter of Edward Garlick, of King William county, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Witt have two daughters, Mary Brent and Ellen Carkie Witt.
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