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Cary, Colonel John B.
Colonel Cary was
born in Hampton, Virginia, in 1819, a son of Col.
Gill A. Cary, of Hampton, who was born March 18, 1783, and died in March,
1843; son of John Cary of Back River, Elizabeth City county, Virginia, born 1740, died 1795; son of Miles
Cary, "The Elder,'' owner of "Peartree Hall," Warwick County, Virginia, who died in 1766; son of Miles Cary
who died in 1724, who was a grandson of Miles Cary, "The Emigrant," who came
to Virginia from Bristol, England, in 1640, and
died in Warwick county, Virginia, 1667. His mother
was SarahE. S., daughter of Major James Baytop, of Gloucester County, Virginia, born September 18, 1789, died in
April, 1879. He was educated at Hampton Academy, and at William and Mary
College, graduating from that time honored institution July 4, 1839. For five
years he taught school, then was seventeen years principal of Hampton Academy,
which was disbanded April, 1861, on the secession of the State of Virginia.
He entered the
Confederate States' service as Major of Virginia
Volunteers; was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel after the fight at Bethel,
and assigned to the 32nd Virginia Regiment; was
subsequently appointed Assistant Adjutant and Inspector-General at the request
of Gen. JohnB. Magruder, and assigned to duty on his staff, serving through
the Peninsular Campaign, and the Seven Days' Fights around Richmond. After
Gen. Magruder's transfer to the Trans-Mississippi Department, Col. Cary was
transferred to the Paymaster's Department, in which he served until the close
of the war, on duty in Richmond.
After the evacuation
of Richmond, and the surrender at Appomatox C. H., he returned to Richmond,
and was paroled April 24, 1865. He farmed for one year: then in February,
1866, was elected General Agent of the Virginia
Penitentiary. He went into business also, as general commission
merchant, with the lute W. A. Armistead, of the firm of Armistead, Rice Cary
& Co., later Armistead & Cary.
Colonel Cary was
removed from his official position by the Commander of Military District No.
1, December 24, 1868. In January, 1869, he entered the Insurance business as
General Agent of the Piedmont Life Insurance Co.: after a few months, he went
to New York, as a member of the firm of Morriss & Cary, but soon
accepted an appointment as General Agent of the Piedmont
and Arlington Life Insurance Co., serving as such nearly two years. He was
then for several years associated with Gen. Harry Heth, as General Agent and
Manager of the Virginia Department of the Life Association of America, of which he
subsequently became sole manager, resigning this position at the close of
1887. In January, 1878, he was appointed General Agent for Virginia of the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Milwaukee; and in 1883, with his son (T. A.
Cary,) under the firm name of John B. Cary & Son, was appointed to
the position they still hold as General Agents of this Company for
Virginia and North
Carolina.
Colonel Gary served as Treasurer and Superintendent of the Democratic
City Committee, of Richmond, Virginia, for about
six years, to July, 1886, when he was appointed Superintendent of Schools for
the City of Richmond, which position he resigned in February, 1889. Himself
and family are members of the Seventh Street Christian Church,
Richmond.
At Seaford, Matthews County, Virginia, in
January, 1844, he married Columbia H. Hudgins, of that county. The record of their children is: Gilliena,
unmarried; John B., jr., died in August, 1861, aged thirteen years; Lizzie
E.,married Wm.T. Daniel, of Richmond; Elfie M.,married John L. White, of
Caroline county, Virginia; Sallie Campbell,
married Louis P. Knowles, of Pensacola, Florida; T. Archibald, married Maria
B. Abert, of Columbus, Mississippi.
[Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians - History of
Virginia and Viregina From Settlement of Jamestown to Close of the Civil War,
Volume 2 by Robert Alonzo Brock amd Virgil Anson Lewis, 1888 - Transcribed by
AFOFG]
DAVIS, Hon. Richard Beale
Was born in Norfolk County, Virginia, on
February 5, 1845, the son of William T. Davis, who was born in Gloucester
County, Virginia, February 6, 1817, and died July 17, 1888. His mother, born
inWestmoreland
County, Virginia, in 1815, died January 21, 1851,
was Elizabeth T. C. Beale. His wife, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, is
Nannie W., daughter of Charles H. Hall who was born in North Carolina, and
died in August, 1872. Her mother was Annie S. Duffey born in Alexandria Virginia now
living in Petersburg. Richard K, first-born of the
children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, died in 1877. Their remaining children are:
Nannie H., Charles H., Robert B. and John W.
At the age of
seventeen years, in May, 1862, Mr. Davis entered the Confederate States Army,
Company E, 12th Virginia Infantry, with which he served until the
close at Appomattox. He was slightly wounded the
battle of Seven Pines, and again wounded at Petersburg (battle of the Crater). Returning
home he resumed his studies, and took the academic course in the University of
Virginia, then studied
law in the same university, mid was graduated in June, 1870. He settled in
Petersburg, and has since been engaged in
practice in that city and adjoining counties. He was a member of Virginia legislature from Petersburg in
1875-1877.
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Eminent Virginians - History of Virginia and Viregina From Settlement of
Jamestown to Close of the Civil War, Volume 2 by Robert Alonzo Brock amd
Virgil Anson Lewis, 1888 - Transcribed by
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JONES, Cary
W.
Son of William
W. Jones, sr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, on September 23, 1852. His father,
born in Gloucester County, Virginia, died in the fall of I860. His
mother, Ann E., a daughter of General R. E. Dabney, was born in Caroline
county, Virginia, and is now a resident in Richmond. His wife, born in Petersburg, is Annie F.,
daughter of William H. Tappey, whose family record appears on another page of
this book. They were married at Petersburg, November 12, 1884. Their son,
Cary W., Jr., was born September 11, 1885, and died on June 16, 1886, and they
have one daughter, Lucy Dabney.
Mr. Jones went
to school in Richmond, then to the academy at
Princeton, Kentucky, and later took a course in a business college
in Baltimore, Maryland. During the war he was for a time
clerk in the Winder Confederate hospital, Richmond. In 1869 he went to Norfolk, Virginia, where for a time he was engaged in
the wholesale clothing business. In 1874 he was connected with the Norfolk
Virginian, in 1878 with the Baltimore American. In 1881 he wrote and published
the work entitled "Norfolk as a Business Center," a work of considerable note,
and which gave much satisfaction, running through five editions. In October
1885 he made his home in Petersburg, becoming senior member of the firm
of Jones, Bain & Co., which was succeeded by the firm of Cary W. Jones
&Co., manufacturers of high grade fertilizers, which business he is still
successfully conducting. Mr. Jones is a member of the city council of
Petersburg.
His family connections by blood go back to the families of Sir Francis West
and Lord De La Ware. His brother is now holding a farm in King William County which was a part of the family
grant.
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Eminent Virginians - History of Virginia and Viregina From Settlement of
Jamestown to Close of the Civil War, Volume 2 by Robert Alonzo Brock amd
Virgil Anson Lewis, 1888 - Transcribed by
AFOFG]
LIGHTFOOT, John, was a son of John Lightfoot,
barrister-at-law, of Northampton County, England,
and with his brother Philip, came to Virginia and
settled in Gloucester County. On June 10, 1670,
Lightfoot received the King's grant as auditor-general of Virginia, in place of Thomas Stegge, then lately
deceased. On Dec. 17, 1671, his majesty, having learned that Gov. Berkeley had appointed Digges to the place prior to
his own letters patent to Lightfoot, and that Digges was "a person every way
fit for said office," directed Berkeley to suspend Lightfoot and substitute
Digges. Moryson in a letter to Lord Arlington said that Berkeley's commission
to Digges "bore date long before Captain Lightfoot did so much as sue for
his," and objects to Lightfoot on the grounds that at the time when he
received his commission he was not a member of the council or a resident of
Virginia, "so that
if he hath the place he must be forced to execute it by deputy, which is
contrary to law," and that he was reported to have "many great debts upon him,
one no less than a statute of £700." In 1681 reference is made to Lightfoot as
having married Anne, daughter of Thomas Goodrich, lieutenant-general in
Bacon's rebellion, and in 1692 we are told that John Lightfoot, "lately come into the country," was a councillor. It is probable
that he had lately returned from a visit to England. On Sept. 5, 1695, the
lords justices, on recommendation of the committee of trades and plantations,
directed that John Lightfoot be added to the Virginia council. In 1699 he was
collector for the country between James and York rivers, and in 1701 voted
with other councillors for the recall of Nicholson. He is also mentioned as
having been commander-in-chief of King and Queen County. He died May 28, 1707, leaving
issue.
[Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial
Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1915 – Transcribed by
AFOFG]
PAGE,
Matthew, of "Rosewell," Gloucester County,
was a son of Col. John Page, and was born in 1659. He was a member of
the House of Burgesses and a charter trustee of William and Mary College in
1692, and escheator for the district between the York and Rappahannock rivers
from 1699 to 1702. He was appointed to the council in 1700, probably to fill a
vacancy, and the appointment confirmed in 1702 by the Queen. He remained a
member until his death in 1703. He married Mary Mann, of Gloucester County, Virginia.
[Encyclopedia of Virginia
Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1915 –
Transcribed by AFOFG]
PRYOR, Luke, lawyer, U. S. senator,
representative in congress, was born July 5, 1820, near Huntsville, Madison
County, and died August 6, 1900, at Athens; son of Luke and Anne Batte (Lane)
Pryor, the former a native of Virginia, who was first married to Martha Scott, sister of Gen. Winfield Scott, and who lived at
Petersburg, Va., until after his second marriage in 1808, when he moved to
Brunswick and later Nottoway Counties Va., and came to Alabama in 1820,
first locating in Madison County, near Huntsville, where he farmed and taught
school for a few years, and later moving to Limestone County, where he died in
June, 1851; grandson of John and Anne (Bland) Pryor, the former a native of
England, who came to America about 1700, and purchased land in Virginia, and
of Benjamin and Sylvia (Perry) Lane, natives of Virginia, who lived in
Brunswick County, Va.; great-grandson of Samuel and Prudence (Thornton) Pryor,
and of Richard and Ann (Poythress) Bland, who lived at Jordan's Point, Va.; great-great-grandson of Col. William
Thornton of Gloucester County, Va, Mr. Pryor received his early education at
Mooresville, Limestone County, and for a short time was a student at
Washington college, near Natchez, Miss. He began the study of law in 1841
under Judge Daniel Coleman, and received a license to practice in the local
courts the same year. He entered into a partnership with Robert C Brickell,
the late chief justice of the supreme court of Alabama, and continued that
association until 1843; was law partner of Col. Egbert Jones for a short time;
was appointed with Gen. Leroy Pope Walker as bank attorney at Decatur, 1844;
was re-appointed in 1845 with D. C Humphries as attorney for the same bank;
resigned that position later in the year, continuing the practice of law in
connection with farming at Athens; was elected to the State legislature in
1855, pledged to the work of securing authority to subscribe two hundred
thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Tennessee and Alabama central
railroad company, at Nashville and Decatur, and secured the bill raising that
tax, enacted over the veto of Gov. Winston; entered into a partnership with
George S. Houston in 1866, which lasted until 1874, when Mr. Houston was
elected governor; continued his practice alone until in December, 1879, when
he was appointed by Gov. Cobb to the U. S. senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr. Houston; served as senator from December 31, 1879, until
the legislature met in November, 1880, when he declined to be a candidate to
complete the unexpired term; abandoned the law and gave his attention to
farming, remaining in quiet life for two years, until in 1883, without his
knowledge, he was nominated for representative in congress from the eighth
district by acclamation at the convention assembled in Decatur. He was elected
and served 1883-1885, declining a second term.
Married: August 20,
1845, to Isabella Virginia Harris, born January 7, 1826, in Limestone County,
who died in June, 1889, daughter of John H. and Frances (Rowzee) Harris,
natives of Virginia, who lived in Albemarle County, Va., the former a captain
in the War of 1812; granddaughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Tate) Harris, and
of John and Isabella (Miller) Rowzee, of Essex County, Va.; greatgranddaughter
of William and Mary (Netherland) Harris; great-great-granddaughter of Matthew
and Elizabeth (Lee) Harris. Children: 1. Aurora, Athens, m. Robert A.
McClellan, deceased; 2. William Richard, deceased, m. Ida Harris, Harris; 3.
Memory, Athens, m. William Shirley Peebles, deceased; 4. Anne Batte Lane,
deceased, m. Maclin Sloss, Birmingham; 5. Frances Snow, Athens; 6. Isabella
Benjamin, d. in infancy; 7. Mary, m. Thomas Bass Leslie, West Point, Miss.; 8. Harriett Emily, deceased, m. Robert J.
Lowe (q. v.). Last residence: Athens.
[History of Alabama and dictionary of
Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead)
Owen, 1921 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
STUBBS, William Carter,
educator: b. Gloucester county, Va., Dec. 7, 1846. He is the son of Jefferson
W. Stubbs and Ann
Walker Carter. Student at William and Mary
College, 1860. Graduated at Randolph Macon College, 1862, University of
Virginia, 1867. In 1875 married Elizabeth Saunders Blair. Served during the
War of Secession in the Confederate cavalry. Professor of natural sciences
East Alabama College, 1869-72; professor of chemistry, Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Alabama, 1872-85; state chemist of Alabama, 1872-85;
state chemist of Louisiana since 1886. Director of three experimental stations
in charge of the Louisiana Geological Survey, state commissioner to the
World's Fair in St. Louis, 1904. Director Louisiana Experimental Station in
Audubon Park, New Orleans. Author of Sugar; The Descendants of Mordecai Cooke,
and other works on genealogy, as well as many bulletins issued from the state
experimental stations.
[Source:
THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Edited by James Curtis
Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society;
Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]
TALIAFERRO,
Edward Carrington
Stanard, M. D.
The Taliaferro family early settled in Virginia, where
they were land and slave owners. The will of Charles Taliaferro of St. Mary's
parish, Caroline county, Virginia, dated March 2, 1734, gives to wife Mary,
three hundred acres of the tract on which they lived, with seven slaves,
household goods and live stock. To granddaughters he also bequeathed lands and
slaves. Richard Taliaferro was an early settler of Gloucester county, where
his daughter Martha married, in 1711, Thomas Turner, the first of this line in
Virginia. Taliaferros served with distinction in the revolution and the family
have ever been prominent in Virginia, and eminent in the professions. Edward
C. S. Taliaferro was born in Gloucester, Virginia, December 17, 1874, son of
General William Booth and Sally (Lyons) Taliaferro.
TALIAFERRO, General William Booth, was
born in Belleville, Gloucester county, Virginia, December 28, 1822, son of Warner T. and Fanny (Booth) Taliaferro,
and a descendant of Robert Taliaferro, gent., first of the name in Virginia, in 1655, who married a daughter of
Rev. Charles Grymes.
William Booth Taliaferro was liberally educated, being a
student at Harvard University, then at the college of William and Mary, from
which he was graduated in 1841. He studied law, but was soon drawn to a
military career. On April 9, 1847, he was appointed captain in the Eleventh
Regiment United States Infantry, for service during the Mexican war. On August
12, same year, he was promoted to major and assigned to the Ninth Infantry. On
August 26, 1848, he was mustered out of service, the war being over, and
resumed the practice of his profession, in which he was successfully engaged
until again drawn to military life. In May, 1861, within a few days after the
beginning of the war between the states, he was commissioned colonel in the
provisional army of Virginia, and was placed in command of the troops at
Gloucester Point, Virginia. He took part in the battle of Carrick's Ford,
Virginia, July 13, 1861. On March 4, 1862, he was promoted to
brigadier-general, and served in the army of northern Virginia until March,
1863, when he was placed in command of the district of Savannah, Georgia. He
was among the most active of the defenders of Charleston and its dependencies,
commanding the first division, first military district, during the siege;
commanding the garrison of Morris Island in July, 1863, and the garrison on
James Island in the following month. In February, 1864, he commanded a
division in Florida; the seventh military district of South Carolina in May,
1864, and the entire district of South Carolina, December, 1864. He was
promoted to major-general, January 1, 1865, and commanded a division until
peace was restored.
After this brilliant military
career, General Taliaferro resumed his law practice. He was active in
political and educational affairs and wielded a potent influence throughout
the state. He was an efficient member of the state assembly and a presidential
elector, elected to both positions as a Democrat. In 1892 he was chosen judge
of Gloucester county, and until his death displayed signal ability as a
jurist. He was president of the board of visitors of William and Mary College,
president of Fairview Normal School, and also a member of the board of
directors of the Virginia Military Institute. In 1876-1877 he was grandmaster
of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Virginia. General Taliaferro
died in Belleville, Virginia, February 27, 1898.
General Taliaferro married, in 1856, Sally Lyons, of
Richmond, Virginia, born in 1825, died in 1899. Children: Leah Sedden; Judge
James Lyons, of Gloucester, Virginia; Warner Throgmorton Langbon, professor in
Agricultural College, College Park, Maryland, married Emily Johnson; George
Withe Booth; Fannie, died aged twelve years; Mary Heningham Lyons, married
Harry Osborne Sanders; William Churchill Lyons, married Mabel Scleter, and has
children: Mary S. and William L.; Edward C. S., of whom further.
TALIAFERRO, Dr. Edward C. S.
was early educated and prepared for
college under private tutors. He then entered the historic William and Mary
College, whence he was graduated with the class of 1895. Having chosen
medicine as his profession he entered the Medical College of Virginia,
receiving his degree M. D. with the class of 1898. After serving a term as
interne [sic] at St. Vincent's Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, he engaged in
private practice until 1902, after which he went abroad and spent a year in
Vienna, taking post-graduate courses in surgery. He then returned to Norfolk
and resumed practice. Dr. Taliaferro has a large general practice, but prefers
surgery and so far as possible makes that line of practice a specialty. He is
chief of the Medical Clinic of St. Vincent's Hospital; was for four years
assistant health commissioner of the city of Norfolk; president of the Norfolk
County Medical Society; member of the American Medical Association, and
formerly belonged to many of the social clubs of the city. His skill as a
surgeon is fully recognized and his large practice in both medicine and
surgery fully occupies his time to the exclusion of other interests. He is
very popular and a warm friend of the children, who in turn are his devoted
friends. He is prominent in the Masonic Order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter,
Council, Commandery and Shrine, and is an Elk. In religious faith he is an
Episcopalian and has served as vestryman of St. Paul's Church. In politics he
is a Democrat.
Dr. Taliaferro married, November 10, 1908, Alice Serpell, daughter of Goldsborough and Georgianna (Clark) Serpell,
of Maryland. Children: Georgianna, born August 24, 1909; William Booth (2), born December 2, 1910; Alice Serpell,
born February 5, 1912.
[Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. IV Transcribed by Chris Davis]
