The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-06
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hUu IUU Potomac
River has the old-tlmo and even now
accepted histcric panlo OF the NORTH.
ern Neck or Virginia. Even at Fred.
ericksburg 1t is barely Ten miles in
width. and oil down its eastern de-
scent to the sea Is rarely wider, and
TO great extent Is even narrower.
In the old-time designation OF couu.
~ linea. thu ridgcland between the
rivers was the accepted divisional dc.
narration. Thus for a short time pre-
yious 10 tho Revolution. this narrow
peninsula was divided ut Frcdericks.
burg between the two counties uf
King George and Stafford.
In 1877. the town OF F'rt5erieksburg
was established in spotsyivan!a coun.
~. IN the same act OF Assembly co..
tabl!shins tho town OF Falmouth, I'M.
mediately opposite. In the county Of
King George.
The approach from tho north Ito tn.
south side was In earlier days by q
bridge at Falmouth, Just below tho
falls, and q. mile or two lower by what
was known AZ tho Chatham Bridge.
then owned by Mrs Judge Coalter.
living on the hills In Stafford on the
well-known estate OF Chatham, OF
which we wrote on October "a, 1909.
This bridge was originally built, 1 bo.
lieve. by Colonel GABRIEL Jones, a Revo.
lutionary officer. and childless bach
eior, from whom 1t descended TO his
brother. Colonel William Jones, who
lived and died at very advanced age
on HIS estate in Orange county, Just
over Wilderness Run. q conduit TO tho
Rapidan River.
Colonel William Jones was a widow
IA r{N oil a ~. q
when she married Judge John Coalter.
az Augusta county, then Judge OF The
Court OF Appeals, who married for his
third wife daughter Of old ST. George
Tucker. and sister OF Judge Hurry
ST. George and of Judge Beverly
Tucker. lalf-sister or John Fan.
doiph OF Roanoke. Judge Coalter
dled at Chatham In 1898. The source
OF this information remembers h,s
burial In snow storm In tho GENE.
tery attached to the only Episcopal
church then In Fredericksburg
Ionn Coalter was tho son OF aiichao oil
Ioalter, pioneer, who settled I'm
augusta county. He was born north.
OF New Providence Church. In what is
no" Rockbridge county. Judge Coal.
Ter az young lawyer lived near
stanton. at place called Elm
- ASS"i9 q A-Isch, max a lnlla
east of tile town.
He showed remarkable force and
energy. even in his very carly life.
looking after his domestic affairs he.
Tore he started on foot to tho ysrious
courts. When he reached the hilton
OF honor and success he referred "a
those primitive days and their crucial
hardships as the very happiest OF his
life.
A.. .vc,.sx ..,,. ~ .,
for Gaze and elegance asserted itself,
md he bought splendid Chatham
and there his useful life closed He
married four times. His first wife
was q Miss Rinf, and his second Miss
Davenport. Both died ciildicss. Ffis
third wife was Ann Frances Bland
Tucker. with whose beautiful portrait
most OF us are familiar. His children
Were Frances Leila, Elizabeth Tucker.
Frances Davenport (named evidently
for the second Wife,. John, and st.
George Tucker He had no children
by his fourth wife. the widow who
owned Chatham Bridge.
Elizabeth Tucker married John
randolph Bryan, OF Eagle Point. in
Gioucester county.
The children OF this worthy couple
arc TOO well known TO be mentioned.
The daughters intermarrled with Page,
Grinnan and Carmichael, the latter
one OF the best known names OF our
Rappahannock country.
John CD Coalter married Hannah
Harrison Williamson: st. George (3) r.
Coalter married Judy Harrison. daugh-
ter of John Walker Tomlin (son OF
Major Walker Tomiinl. and had two
SONG. who died without issue. Fanny
a. Bland, married II. Peronnean Brown.
of -'Joy Cliff" Bedford county AMI
had John Thompson Brown, who mar,
ried Cassie Tucker. and lives still at
his beautiful ancestral home. Vir-
ginia "a Coalter, daughter OF St.
George II. Coalter and Judy Tonlin,
married DR.. William p Braxton, OF
King William county, and had several
sons and one daughter. Mrs. George
West. of Richmond. st. George (i)
Tucker, son OF ST. George T. Coalter
and Judy Toml!n. married Amelia
Drewry, sister OF Major Drewry. of
"Westover." and had Drcwry (5l Coal
ter. who Will be long remembered. as
one of the most genial young men OF
Charles City county. ST. George
fuckers Coalter married. secondly, Miss
Terrell. and had Henry st. John, RAN
dolph Tucker and Amelia Drewry.
John Walker Tomlin married Mar
garet CD Williamson Ball daughter
of Williamson ca Ball. of "Cohhnm
Hail. Lancaster county. and Priscilla
Churchill, his wife. Williamson Ball
was son of George CD Ball and Judith
Payne. George CD Ball inherited I'M
mense tracts Of land from his father,
William (2) Ball, who married Hannah
Beale. William (a) was son OF VIII
liam "a Ball, the cmigrant ancestor
Of Beorge Washington.
Colonel William Jones. the father OF
Mrs. Coalter. married second time
when ho was seventy-stS years
a young maiden of sixteen years, and
by her was the father of one daugh-
ter, who afterwards married j. Horace
Lacy, and was the mother of tho wife
of Rev. James P. Smith. D. D. now
living at tho Theological Seminary
near Richmond city.
Once upon time the main line o.
travel from the North to the south
was by steamboat from Washington
to the mouth Of Potomac Creek, few
miles lower down tho Potomac tlan
Auuia Greek, for many years after tho
building OF tho railroad the Southern
terminus Of the steamboats, on the 20.
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