Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-30
FINE OLD cULPsPeR COUNTY.
Names OF Distinguished Men In II,
Honorable Roll.
Writer for the Dispatch.

| Writer for the Dlspatch.l
Attention having been called to an arti-
Gle which appeared in TIE RICHMOND DIS
PATCH of April 9th, speaking OF the men OF
Culpeper who had left an honorable re-
| cord, some of the most distinguished were
not included IN the honorable roll.
The name of Llehtfoot is one OF the most
respected. Colonel Charles Lightfoot. the
latest representative of this distinguished
| family Confederate colonel. subsequently,
became an educator of the sons of that
| county, paid and free. Governor Stone,
of Missouri, who was in attendance at the
| Convention of Southern Governors. is a
son of Culpeper. descended from ancestry
| upon whom there is no discount. Senator
John w. Palmer, of Illinois, is a descendant
Of the old families of TUFTS and Yancys, of
| Culpeper. Newspaper articles often fur
nish facts for historians. and when they are
published in part they are apt to mslead.
Among names most conspicuous for alb
sence from this roll is that OF Green. First
in the county. of the year 1000, came Ro-
| bert Green. of Liberty Hall. whose seuen
| sons Some of them emigrated TO South
and West. Norvin Green, of Western
Union. of direct descent from Kentucky
Greens; General Duff Green, General
Jackson's close friend and coworker.
whose descendants. Patrick and John G..
Calhoun, lineal descendants of John G..
Calhoun, of South Carolina. are also from
this stalwart stock of Culpeper. Or. Lewis
Green. father of Mrs. Adlai Stevenson,
wife OF our Vice-President, IS descendant
or Robert Green.
STILL OTHERS.
Then, of the defendants left in Gull
pepper como Judge John w. Green, first
Appeals. His eldest son, William Greer
Green, first of Culpeper, then Of Rich
mond, q man of vast legal repute and prac-
tiee. Then. DIR. Daniel Green, of United
States navy, then Confederate, having
charge of the fret hospital at Culpeper
after the battle OF Manassas. Then. John
g. Green, whose immense fiduciary trusts
evidenced the high regard in which he
was held by his people. Judge Thomas
Green, President OF Court Of Appeals
of West Virginia. whose Commemorative
power and rapid conception of legal facul-
ties enabled them to give more opinions
and correct ones-in his judicial work
than any judge Of his day. Then came
the last and Youngest of these lawyer sons
of Judge John w. Green, of Culpeper.
James w. Green, lawyer in full practice
at the beginning of the war, who raised q
company out OF his own private means.
in which he enlisted as a private, being
afterwards appointed as commissary OF
kemper's Brigade, of whom Colonel
Northrop said. had the Confederate army
commlssaries all been like him the supplies
of the army would not have been SO soon
exhausted. After the war was over be
returned and took up his large prac-
tice and fduciary trust, which were
most difficult, peculiar, and arduous.
all OF which duties he discharged most
nobly, falling in the prime of his manhood
q sacrifice. leaving noble example to his
county people and State. Thus il 10 seen
tributed as much. II not more. than anv
other names to make Oulpeper a fine old
county, and should be among the FIRST on
the roll OF honor. ADpxNpA.