The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-27
In The Knppahnnnocle Country.

Ia The iappahnnnOcl1 Country.
In upper King George county. ad-
Joining the stafford line and north
Of the Northern Neck Road. lived q
family of Hooes Two OF the sons OF
this house were noted as gallant and
dashing officers OF the United States
Navy, the elder bearing the ancestral
name of George Mason. the sage OF
sGunston Hall, and the other that OF
the romantic Irish patriot. Robert En-
met. One OF their sisters became the
wife of General Daniel RugGles, OF the
Confederate Army. Had Mason or
Emmett lived to hear the call OF their
imperiled mother State In 1851. none
who knew then, ever doubted that In
the forefront OF her defenders they
would have written their names hish
on the roll of honor Of our illustrious
and yenerated Confederate dead.
These uooes were very interesting
and were prominent citizens from the
time that their ancestor, Rice Eiooe.
settled in Charles City county.
He was Burgess from Shirley Hun
dred in 1929. the year OF the fearful
massacre. He had one child. Rice I'd.
who married and had ono child Rice
(S). The recurrence Of the name Rice
suggests that the mother of tho emil
grant may have borne the name. the
second Rico Hooe married. probably.
Catherine Taliaferro. Rice go Hooe
lived IN King George county on tho
Potomac River. In 1715 he pullt q
splendid brick mansion and carved MS
name over tho door. Here his 90
scendant, DR.. Abraham Barnes Hooe.
lived in 1861. In midwtnter OF this
YEAR Federal soldiers set fire to the
\ nd n
ground In the dead of night. and the
family barely escaped with their lives
Rice (a) Hooe mar ricd first Miss How
son, daughter OF Robert Howson. sec
ond Frances Town hend Dade, widow
OF Francis Date, and daughter OF Col.
Robert Townshend. He had ono son.
1Iowson az, by his first marriage. and
nv his second marriage John "a.
Gerard (4) and Sarah az, who mar
ricd Philip Alexander. Three sons We
ind in this generation, Howson 90
Iooe married Frances Bernard. and
had Howson (5), William CD. Bernard
(5). John (5) and Harris (b).
Howson (5). married a Miss Dade
this cousin, and had Henry CD How
son (6). Robert Howson COS Dade5 l6),
Ann (6), who married John RoWz'e
Peyton; Elizabeth CO., who married
John Wallace, and Mary (6), who mar
ricd Thomas Wallace. THIS was q
good big family! 49,
William (5l Hooe. Of King George
county. married Miss Pratt. and % nag nag
nathaniel %, William ID, and q
daughter, who married VIM. Bernard.
\ Of Mannsfleld. Bernard 90 IIooe mar
ried Margaret Pratt. lived in Prince
| William county and was killed in a
duel by William Kemp. He had Thorn
al (6) Pratt (who married Miss Opia
ana had one daughter. Sally COZ.
Lucy (6) married Arlo Buckner, and
sElizu (6) Thnckcr married James
Hewitt Hooe,
John (5) Hooemarried ct Is sup
Snosed1 Anne, daughter OF Chandler
rowkc, ana had Susannah co, W1l-
liam {6), Bernard (6), Sarah Burdett
(6), Ann (6), and another daughter go
who married Throcknorton, Har-
4 ris (5l. Hooe married a Miss Hewitt
ana had Robert Howson co. James
IIewett (6). Harris 60. Frances le,.
Polly (6). Patsy 6 a
James (6) Hewitt Iooei married his
1 first cousin, Eliza Thacker 1909. VINO
had q daughter. Eliza ~ Thacker,
\ VINO married w, III. FoWlo, of AleNan-
drla. 4. I, Y y
John (4) Hove (Rico (3). Rico (aG
Rice as ) married Anne Alexander and
had one son. Richard CD. married
Anne ireland and had Catherine 2lel'
iraliaferro (who married MN. Winter,
OF Maryland). Gerard (6) and sey-
mour (6).
Gerard as nooe married Sarah.
daughter OF Richard and Penelopo
Barnes, ana gave his wife'a maiden
4 name to his ancestral ucres-calling
the handsome home on one Of the
broadcast reaches OF the Kappa hammock
..Farnesneld." IIe had IN only child,
4 Abran CO.. Barnes IIooe, who was was
.|$glyen to marriage. His first wife !. was .'a
4 Lucy 1yltxHugl. Iirymes, % asle's
4 Nest secondly he married Sarah n.
i JohnsAon. OF MARYLAND, and thirdly
\ I.olrtsa conway FltzFI ugll, Of Bedford
HIS eldest son. Abra ham fa)8 Barnes
Il iFitzHugh, inherited Barnostleld its
I was educated B at lillian and Mary
4 College, married. 9lizaheth Mason
u eswyRne, and had Ma yis Rarnes who ,lN,
\ ,narre,l vi Levi ii on and sl we'd s q
Il r1na n ~ ii IA most