The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26


!. GARLAND FAMILY.
A There were in England three Gar.
A land families entitled to bear coat
\ OF arms -one in York. one in Lincoln
4 shire, and one in Sussex. Family ira
dition says that the Sussex branch
moved Into Wales. Their common an
8ccstor was a warden OF the Clnque
Ports, and as such was lord, entitled
risdiction. civil. military and naval
over the five ports and lived In Dover
4 Castle. The history OF this dtstin-
guished family IN America dates far
back to colonial times, beginning about
the year 1850. Their descendants have
wrought we'll, filling positions OF honor
and trust in the history of both church
and State. They have intermarrted
with the old families of the Common
| wealth. Charles Kingsley is said to
| have resigned his professorship OF his
I tory ut Oxford because he considered
tall history as largely a lie" Errors
! and inaccuracies are liable to creep
| into everything of human origin, but
lin the lighter field OF genealogical re-
/ search. family history. etc, where
faithful effort has been maintained to
/ keep reliable record. trustworthy
statements and definiteness of detail are
more easily available. It will not be
attempted in this article to trace each
| and every branch of tile Garland fam
| LILY. In all of its ramifications. but
rather to touch upon the issue of each
| branch, tracing several representative
branches of the original parent stock
Ito their ultimate development.
The Garlands were in New Kent
Il 49,, 20
records of New Kent county are mostly
destroyed, but there is one parish reg
istor preserved, and in II Is record OF
| Edward son OF Edward Garland, born
May goth. baptized July 9Th. 100. This
4 Ibaby Edward was most probably the
father OF John Garland (s) who lived
4 at Garland's Neck, Hanover county
| Va. more recently called BiaclswelEs
| Neck. His children were. In the order
who Inherited the Neck by the law
isof primogeniture. and founded the
Goochland branch: Edward ca, Robert
as{49, FOUNDER of the Louisa branch:
James t41, John N), Lucy CD, ana
Peter {4). u, S8 !.
The third son of John (s) Garland
was the progenitor of men who did
much In their day and generation.
James (4) married Mary Rice, OF
Hanover county. whose mother was q
Hewlett and soon thereafter moved
to Albemarle. He was associated IN
various business enterprises With Cow
ernor Nelson, and accumulated a for-
tune The Issue OF this union Were:
William COY !, born 1746, married Ann
Shepherd; Mamie (5). born HAS, mar
ried Lucas; Nathaniel CD. born 800,
married Rhodes; John %, born 1871,
died of camp fever In the Revolution
| trTy.. r. Trnprried
Anna Wingfield, whose mother was a
Hudson; he was. an officer in the Rev
olutionary War, and was killed acci-
dcntally by a sentinel: had four CHILE
dren-Hudson (6), Henrietta (6>,
Spottswood (6) and James (6).
Charles Hudson, the grandfather OF
Anna Wingfeld, tho wife of James (5)
Garland, was also of Hanover, but was
too, one OF the earliest patenfees OF
Albenarle county. This patent was
FOR 1000 acres. and to this he mates
rally added Mount Air. was one OF
the seats of the Hudson family,
Charles Hudson never lived In Abe
ma rle5 He married presumably a Roy
all, and his daughter, Mary, married y!
Jot,n -Wingtield, and their daughter,
Anna, married James 60 Garland
Hudson (b) Garland vas the father
of Judge James (7) Garland. a lawyer
of note In his day, and member OF Con-l
gress during the administration OF
P 5 asia Andrew Jack son. The writer
has before him at tits moment. bound
ins book form, the speeches OF Judge
James Garland and Daniel " ebster,
delivered In Congress in 1855, for and
against the subtrcasury bill. He was
for many years Judge Of the LYNCH
burg Corporation Court. He died in or
about 1855, Mt ninety-four years OF age.
Hudson (6) Garland was also the
father Of Hudson Nd Martin Garland,
who Is called a .sprightly man, liz
4erary man. a poet: spoke vel. but did
not succeed very well in life":: also &of
General John I'D Garland, whit se
daughter married General Lon gstreet.
and or Spotswood (7) Garland. IIud-
son (6) Garland repre- scented Amherst
county In the House of d elegates,2W was /.
captain in tho War OF 1912. and intt-l
mate friend OF Andrew y &C ksoll, wins nc
fragment Il, Of tho Constitution. and.
what was more valuable. a lucrative
Office, which he held until Tyler's ad-
sG,sl
spotswood Garland married Lucinda.ii
daughter of Colonel Hugh Rose and
Caroline Jordan. nnd had Hugh "A. who |
married Anna Powell R ~ c. ! ro {.
line married Maurice TT. Garland Ian :
don Cabell, who married Louisa II. ar
land. aud I4nndon C. Garland, IL. ( ..
was president OF Randolph-M Macon Col-
lege, president Of the University Or |
Alabama, and chancellor OF Vanderblt
University fora quarterNof a century.
His sister. Caroline. married Maurice
II n Garland, whose son. was General
samuel Garland. of Confederate War
fame ]; Hugh Is. Garland was author Of
the life OF John Randolph. of Roanoke.
The next&ln order of tho children OF /
Ialnes (Sl Garland and Mary Rice wers
Sally. born ia; Edward, born 4 T58 I