The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24

carriers Creek and the Page tomhs at |
Roosevelt They are fit FOR princes.
and those whom they memorable are
the ancestors OF host OF people Who'll
probably do not know that these
tolnhs exist. They are broken--falling
to pieces-and not inciosed. TO fix
thcm as they once were would be fine !
patriotic work. Probably William
Randolph is the ancestor of more dig
tinguished people than any other vir-
Ginian. His tomb. his wife's tomb |
and the tomb of his son and
his daughters lie uncared for at |
Turkey Island, William Randolph's !
homo on the James. Although there /
are many patriotic societies. there Is |
crying need for ono more---"l society |
for the preservation OF historic tombs."
Who VIII arise and be IL promoter
for this necessary organization. The |
isandolphs. the Burwcls. tho Carriers. |
the Pages and many another family
should bo ashamed to permit their
splendid toinbs 10 remain In their pres
cnt dilapldated condition.
Hughes Family.
We have been asked for an account
OF tho Hughes family of Goochland.
and take pleasure in giving what we
can find,
The first Hughes will In Goochland
is that of Sarah widow, whose Will
was proved in that>county, May 10.
1890 She mentions children: Robert
60, stephen co, Ashford ca. Sarah At
kinson ts). Elizabeth Lilies co, Mary
Hughes (e) and Isaac Hughes cd
Robert te) Hughes in his will dated
July IL, 1850. names wife Martha
daughter Sarah, who married Tucker
Woodson. Mary, wife of George Wal
ton; Martha walton Temperance. wife
! OF Henry watkins, and sons, Abraham
and Robert
1 stephen ca Hughes in his Will,
| made in 1919. mentions wife Elizabeth
and children Judith Cox. John. Joseph
and Elizabeth. who married sanburne
| Woodson.
/ It is our opinion that william
Hughes, the father of the late Stephen
/ Hughes. OF Richmond. descends either
! from John or Joseph, because a mem
Der of his family asserts that he al
ways said that stephen Hughes was
/ his grandfather ana Tor him he named
i his son.
William Hughes married, tirst, a
I Miss Bowles-we fail to find her--and
had a son, John, and a. daughter. Anne,
I who married a Mr.. Perkins. Second he
| married Martha BRONSON (parentage
unknown). and had Meritte. Sarah and
Charles Wesley. Meritte was a
] Confederate soldier, killed in battle.
I Sarah married also Perkins, brother
/ to her half-sister's husband. Charles
! Wesley married Mary Davis and had
Martha Jane, Sarah Virginia and W
! liam Merritte. Martha Jane married
George Milton cambridge. and had
| Charles Edmond, Nettie B.. Halla Eva
and Gilbert Merritte. The Oldest
daughter Nettie b.. graduated in
medicine and married her classmate.
Albert Eugene Powell. They have two
children, Emily and Edmund.
Sarah Virginia married Samuel NJ
Graham. and had Jesse Hughes and
married Jane c. Youtz. and had
| Charles Wesley, Virginia and Marie.
William Hughes married, thirdly,
Miss Nancy Grayson Blackwell daugh-
ter Of Colonel Joseph Blackwell, ON
Ger In Revolutionary War, and had
Susan, who married Vest; Martha
Ann. Mary Ann, Virginia Elizabeth.
Stephen Hughes and George Pannin
Hughes. Stephen hughes named for
his great-grandfather, married
Miss Hodgson, and had no children.
George Pannill Hughes married Miss
| Georgiana Gardner and had Mrs
Harwood, of Lynchburg; Mrs. Baxter
Wilson, of Richmond, and Burnley
/ Hughes. who represents the last male
! line or his family The descendants OF
william Hughes by his third wife
/ have Revolutionary ancestry through
! Colonel Joseph Blackwell.
Editor of Genealogical Column.
Replying TO query of Mrs. ]. r."
Goldsboro, n. c., Will state that am
a descendant of Ann Anderson, of
Hanover county. who married David
/ Crawford, 1927. and moved to Amherst
I county, 1850. Ann Anderson was the
grandmother or VIM. f. Crawford, of
/ Georgia. who was my grandfather II
Mrs j. r." will write me. can give
her full information of the descend
ants OF this Anderson.
Respectfully yours.
! G. H.. CRAWFORD.
Burkeville, Va, April II, 1910.
| Editor Genealogical Column:
/ Dear Sir,--I desire some information.
| regarding my ancestry. and thought
] some of your readers might help me.
| My great-grandfather. VIM. Strother,
born In Virginia. married Ruth Ran
dolph before 1900 and Went to HarrI-
son county. Indiana. Supposed to have
married in Virginia. but may have
been in Kentucky or Indiana Wm