The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17
n burgess for Lancaster county, Va, for
Ia .,n..e 1 fhh COS nNd 1 1nI. I. - -.-.-.Lll

| the years 1866, 1868 aud 1702.
The father of Col. Joseph Ball was
Col. William Bail. born 1915 In London,
nnd died at NIcllcnbuck Lancaster cotln-
Is. VA, 1850. Married 1895 Hannah
Otherold. Their children wcrc-R richard
died m infant; William, born 1641, died
| 1904; Joseph, born 1919, died 1711: Han
nah. born 1850 married 1910 Captain
David FOX. Col. Joseph Ball lived and
died at Tipping Forest, Lancaster coun-
ty. Va. Ills wife, Elizabeth Romney, was
tho daughter OF William Ron,ney, OF
! was Mary Johnson. n widow OF Lancas-
ter county Va; their children were by
| first marriage:
| 1'rnvers. f.tSs hi
Second. Elizabeth. who married Rev.
John Carnegie.
Third. Esther, who married Raleigh
! China
Fourth. Anne, who married Col. Edwin
l1ifth. Joseph, who married Frances
! Ravencroft.
by tho second MARRIAGE: -
| Sixth. Mary, born 1707-S died 17S9,
! aged So She married March 6, 1880 81,
Augustine Washington.
I'VE gather the above facts from the
| April number, 1905 Of the William ana
|
/ ether data procured by DR.. Lyon o..
TYLER, OF williamsburg. which has been
sent us by a member of the family.
l we propose to touch again on the
/ Gnsklns and Pinkard families Us connect
(. cd particularly with the Broun and Con-
!, ways whom we here, trace direct TO the
! English peerage.
or tho present descendants OF the
Broun family mono stand more prom
Z l., A. H., r.,
i Cnnrlcstun w. Va, who was born III
| Ioudo,ln county, Va He graduated III
! law at University of Virginia, 1S4S and
! was admitted to tho bar 1852. Entered
! the Confederate service as private III
i s1ianawha Riflomen, and was soon after
l promoted to major in tho Third Virginia
4 regiment. Wise Legion. He was severe
/ ly wounded at the battle 81 Cloyd .
Mountain. After tho war Major Brown
took his old place as president o. 51 1M
! Navigation Company, of Charleston. w
| Va, which he still holds. During 1S66-I0,
lust after the war, he praotleed law for
| awhile in New York city. He Is now
J largely Identified In the Coal River de-
yelopment of the State which of late
has become so prosperous
Also IS to be mentioned Or. William
Leroy Broun, Of Alabama, who was also
born in Loudoun county Va, 1921: grad
!
/ M. 1850; st. Johns College, Md LID,
1874 and University OF Georgia 1892.
| He married Miss Sal1ie>.J. Fleming, Of
! I1anovcr county, Vn..1s59; was professor
in college OF Mississippi, 1s%2-4; professor
| OF the University of Georgia, 1Sbi-o6; on
| tered Confederate army as lieutenant OF
| artillery, 1861. afterwards as Leutenal1t>
| Colonel Of Ordnance Department After
! the war he was president Of tie Georgia
| Agriculture and Mechanical College,
| 1s72-5; Prof in Vanderbilt University.
1889; president Of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College Of Alabama. 1882, and
professor of mathematics In tho univer-
| sity OF Texas, 1894, since which time he
| has been president of tho Alabama Poly
| technic Institute, Auburn, Ala
| The arms we give were created Tor
| Baron George Broun, 1855, being as lol-
| lows: Arms-Cu. three fleur-de-lis, or,
Crest-A lion rampant. holding In the
dexter paw feure-di-lis; or.
| Supporters-On each side lion, arg.
Euardant. having q paw charged as In
| the crest
Motto-"Florat Magestas '-Let Ma
| jesty flourish.
tonshire; and Thorndykc Castle, Bruins
| wickshire.
Present scat olstoun Park. Lochma-
ben, Dumfrieshire, North Britain,
| i. M c.
4 Captain Catlctt Conway, WHO, tho read
er Will see in our article Of the 10th, mar
ried susannal Titzhngh, being fifth In
descent from Col. Edwin the emgrant.
was Of 'Hnwfeld." Orange county, Va
He was born December 25, 1851, dietl
September s, 1927. lie married Janu-
airy s, l773, susnnnah I'ltzhugh "Haw-
field" tho old family place, Is now own
ed by VIM. G. Crenshaw, formerly OF
Richmond. Va.
Tho children Of Capt, Conway and
lett, Rheuben, John, susannah, Eliza
beth and Henry. (See Hayden Geneal-
ogy. p. POD Catlett Conway, Jr.. sor
of the above. was born May q. 1885, died
July %, 1889, at his residence, Spring
Hill" Greene county. Vn. lie married
first Nerinda TalIaferro, Of Rose HILL.
Orange county Va. on September q
1910. His second wife was Harriet T.
Taylor of Orange county, May Z, 1916
ITho children by this union We're; by
nrst Wife William Henry, Battailo, Fit%
hugh Taliafcrrn. lIvelosia r.. BY sccont
wIio, one daughter, Julia, who never mar
ricd
William Henry. son OF Cntlett Conway
by his first wife, born August 9. ISL
| died May 3d. 1852; married, first, Mario,
1
brother Of Andrew Glassell COR Glassele)
! scotch, who came to Fredericksburg Ions
before the Revolution, being large mer
chant, having stores there, and IN GU
| pepper and FauQuIcr, bcroHlng very rich
lie returned to Scotland before th'
| Revolution
The first marriage OF William llcnr!
Conway was October 7eh, 1884 and ha'
| children. Louise Brown. Elizabeth Bat
ta!lo I'itzhugh, Margaret Cilassell, Charlie
catictt and Fanny; By his second wife
Jane A. Foushee. who was married Az
gust 9Th, 1850, We're two children. william
Fiousncc ana William Henry, both Q
whom died IN infancy.
Bnttaiie t1tzhugh Henry Conway. so
of William Henry Conway. born Septen
BE-, l4!h ISL died July l5th 1897; .! ma.
| Wallace" Madison county, Va. July l5ti
1871 Married, second, cornelia Buchana,
March y, 1914. Children by first marriag
Ellen Sommerville, Cntlett. Robert !.
By second marriage, William buchanan
llcnr! Wallace, Eyerlina r., John CIV
prn*,. Cora Eattaile, Henry. Clay, Eye
Ina Taylor Conway daughter of Cattle
conway and Nerlnda Taliaferro boz