The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-29
SOME VIRGINIA FAMILIES
Who Trace Their Lineage to thu
 SovereiKns of Europe.

S0VSrSdkuS OI GuTOpO.
 A very interesting study for the stu dent of history whose fancy has turn ed to the details of gensaloSy Is the. re. marlSablc extent to which the blood of European sovereigns Is to be traced in the veins of their descendants in demo- ise Timss. N'"e' '' -"
 At irst glance one would think that here and there some persons might pc found whose line of descent could be pean thrones, but very few. The very considerable number of those in America, and especially in Virginia, which can lay claim to such lineage is indeed note-
 Out of a goodly number 1t will be in- teresting to note few names picked here and there at random.
 Richmond, it is said, was founded by Colonel William Byrd of Westover. His fun length portrait aderns the walls of the city's Council Chamber. His beau- tiful daughter, Miss Evelyn Byrd, vas been the heroine of many chsrmlngly written romance. On her tomb at Vest over is this inscription: The belle of two continents. she died of a broken
 Probably no family in colonial or later Virginia could trace their descent back through so many lines of royal descent as the Fyias oS Westover. one line went to land and aneifler to Henry I. of France. And many of the Byrds and Pages and their descent from the Byrds of Westover.
 Pryor, Lee and Ewell.
 The descent of that well-known Vir- gtnia gentleman, formerly General, now Judge Roger A. Pryor of New York, fs very remarkable. In his veins flows inc fifth century, of Rollo the Dane. of Otto the Great, of Germany, and of Hugh Ga. pet of France Mrs Pryor is a descend ant of Adelis the Great of Sweden. Mary Randolph Custis, were both delH scenaed from William the conuusror. the former through Governor Spotswood of Virginia and Robert Bruce of Scot
 General R. g. Ewell of the Confederate army. had in his veins the bloSd of AL
 MT. Edmund Runin of Hanover. who Fort Sumter. was descendant of Char lemagne.
 Of the well known Virginia families the Fauntleroys trace back to Henry Pages to Louis Vf1IT of France, the Da- sEiels to ChaTlemagne and Powhatan, worthy warriors to ningle their blood after centuries; the Msaass tS tps Ro,,n1s Ean, many of them. to Pocahontas; the Kan dolphs to Robert III of Scotland; the Clatbornes to Louis VIII or france ana Malcolm IT of Scotland: the Munfords, sherrards. Beverleys and Rutherfords to
 The Rev. Moncure D. Conway of a well known Virginia family, Is de- scendRnt of the Plantagnets.
 Nathaniel Bacons Descent.
 Nathaniel Bacon, virsinia's first rebel, after whom Bacon's Quartet Branch is carried in his veins the blood of Charles Campbell. the Virginia .histo- -ian. and Helen Keller, the blind girl, trace back to Robert II of Scotland, by the same line.
 Of ladies well known in Richmond. Mrs. Ann Beverly Munford's descent traces to that of Mrs. R. A. Gibson md her sister, Mrs. Mcclure, to the Kings of England, and that of Mrs. R. Taylor Scott to Rollo the Dane, King of Normandy, in the tenth  The late S. W. venabIe of Petersburg. l md the late Jeeeph Winner of Culpepper. traced to Henry III of England by the
 Nr. and Mrs. Henry Fairfax of Vac luse." are of royal Aeseept, the former