The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-02

Issue. of this second union I cannot say
Two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, were
certainly born to David and Catherine
recorded enormously as the daughters Of
| William F'auntleroy "a @
Mrs. Catherine Gwynn, mother to Moore,
the, autumn oi It's. and her viii was
probated on November 9Th Of that year.
She had lived to see her daughter Eliza
oeth married to John Taylor. the founder
children gathered around her knee. Her
eldest son had married Margaret Nlicon,
daughter OF a Huguenot settler on the
Kappa hammock in Essex. Her son Grif-
nm mad married Ann, the orphan daugh-
ter. OF Richard Bushrod, Of Northum-
bertrand; Her son William, The inheritor
OF MAYORS Hole, had married Apphia,
daughter of Colonel John Bushrod, OF
Bushaeld. Westmoreland county, a young
woman who was destined to transmit her
name and her virtues to numerous and
long line of fair descendants. a
It was, perhaps, IN l12 that William
her parental home, near the Potomac, to
his seat, at MAYORS. Several of their.
children died In Infancy and three sons
and i've ma daughters atta9ed to their ma.
that name), Moore and John, and tho
daughters, Hannah, Apphia, Mary, Ann
and Catherine
William Fauntleroy, the father Of this
NV. SSlAA4E 6IOup EOl 3CUllQTGn, LOOK an
affairs Of Richmond county and his
home el was a. no less prominent in the social
life Of his day. Els estate, largely In
creased by q legacy left to him by tho
will OF Colonel Samuel Griffin. was stead
ny augmented during his long life. He
propaply planned and reared the commo-
dious brick mansion which sheltered his
family and many of his aescendants t Hin
succeeding generations. 3g He died in 1867
at the age OF sevcnty-three.
His daughters lent attraction and charm
TO- his fospitable home, and the hand
caused GO Sc! wedding, bells to ring quite often
IN MAYORS Hole. Hannah changed hor
name for hat OF Robinson. Apphia be-
Of Essex. Mary married Robert bert fHII:
Ann became Mrs. Pellett and Catherine,
having become the bride Of Robert Lewis,
Ment to g reside south of Dan River. In
VIII William n Fauntleroy, son Of William and
Apphlq Bushrod, succeeded to the occu-
Pnacy Of MAYORS Hole at the decease Of
x Mss .atner, but probably spent the early
becoming It's sole proprlstor. lie reached
his majority in 1884. and about that time
, naaI q young lady whose name no
r my 80 OF me family that has fallen under
young couple was brief, hut crowned
With the gift OF a daughter. named Eliza
n PEN; VINO San developed into q maiden Of
'''SN bSoutJ -IHully .alIIaCLlOOS, IL
cure D. Conway, inspired the poetic
acrostic written by George Washington,
ana t !, was she whose charms klndled his
youthful devotion, and became tho Low
land Beauty" of his dreams. She chose
the hand of another. and was married
to {. one Of the Adams family. so long
eea ie Of R fs sony a bss w hna
Eauntleroy married secondly Miss Muir
dock, OF King George. and she bore him
seyen sons SOL "a, and three daughters; The
Eauntleroy, Who 'd died shortly ss "a after t aom
pleting his education in Edinburgh An
Other, son was Dr. Moore Fountleroy, OF
Charleston. s. g., Griffin Murdoch, an
known as Mars Hill, In Richmond coInty,
The other sons were John. Joseph (who
married Elizabeth Foushee Fauntleroy,
and an !, waa father to Colonel Thomas i,
who was killed In the Revolutionary
army on the anniversary of his birth,
June %, IT'S and Robert, who succeeded
his father IN the ownership of MAYORS
or the two daughters, Jane was mar
rIed, to Thomas Turner. who lived noar
LeedstoWn, and left many we'll known
George, and Apphia became wlfeto Cap
tain John Champe Carter. of the RevO-
luton. who afterwards resided In Plttsyl-
Yanla county.
Robert Fauntleroy, Of the firth genera
ton, resident In this ancient seat, mar
red IN 1871 Carriage bond dated April p.
Sarah, The second OF the daughters born
to James Ball, Of Bcwdy. by his second
marriage with Letlce Lee. This marriage
oclcurred two years before his fathers
death, whose will (prohated December 8.
1899, bequeathed to him his putrmonlal
homo.
Tho offspring OF this Fauntleroy-Eall
union WAS not numerous. daughter,
Letice Lee was married. May 4, 1858, 1t
would seem, at the age OF Sweet six
teen.n To DIR. Auslin Brpckeubruuxh. OF