The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-29

ried Mr. Williams In Sampson county,
y. c., Rebecca. Nancy. married Mr..
House: Lidia. married Mr.. Bufinstoo.
John Harrlss wife. Miss Lewis. had q
brother named Zebulon and another
named Benjamin Lewis ali from CIR.
ginia. -
Parents desired of Bethany Odunt.
Dorm 1870. married Ben1amine Harris
1855 She had three brothers. named
Elkanha, Halatia and Deldatha odum
fehlamin Harris enlisted In tho Re-
Volutionary War from North Carolina
and afterwards moved to Edgefe1d
District. South Carolina, thon to
Georgia, where ne died In Madison
county.
Who was the wife and parents of
Jacob Hammond. who came from Fred
erick county, Maryland, to August.
county, Virginia, in IT'S, and bought
land. Later he and his family, or u
part went to Wilkes county, Georgia. i
His son John married Barbara Ann.
bought land and took out a head right
between 1887 and 1893. John Ham =
mord and Barbara AIMS ,cbildren
were Abraham, born 1888; Jacob.
Isaac. born 1883; John and three girls
Winnie, Peggy and Betsy.
S1RS j. Ii. ItARDW
Cleveland. Tenn.
"wallcr.'
Mrs. Glass. in her reply to the query
of waller" concerning his parterna1
ancestors of the Waller and Quarles
families, says: There Is a mistake In
regard to Mary, daughter of Benjaminc
Waller, marrying Quarles," and
further says. Judge Benjumine wal
ler's eight children married as follows
lot - .t..
Their says. Judge Benjanine walters
brother Tom married Sarah Dabney.
and their children were as follows
(giving the names of Toms six chill
dren): that the sixth. Dortha, married
----- Quarles, and concludes her re-
ply rs follows: II am under the in
preston this is the Quarles your cor
respondent is trying to trace.
| waller is thankful to Mrs Glass
for her information, but may sho not
be mistaken? 1t looks so from the
following statement from "Hardesty'sH
| Encyclopaedia" page S73: The i'm
| mediate ancestor of the Walters of
Virginia was Edmond Waller. who came
from England near the close of the
seventeenth century and settled in
: Spotsylvania county. He had thrae
sons, William, Johu and Benjam!ne
the last of the text (born lT16) and
1 settled in Williamsburg" ''ue married
: Martha Hall, of North Carolina, nnd
had issue ten children" (Note that
Mrs, Glass says. He had brother
Tom and eight children"). The fore
going extract says his brothers were
John and William and the children
numbered ten"
| We are all liable to mistakes and
! should be ready to correct them WHOM
In our power to do so. 1 am sure Mrs
Glass will fully agree with me as to
this.
! Waller" is seeking information as
to his ancestors of the Quarles and
f, Waller families. Whether they he OF
/ patrician or plchcian origin does not
go much concern him.
Walters baptsmal or Christian
I name is John Waller -; his faith
crs, Robert Waller -; his faith
er's only brothers. James ouarIes
------; three OF his fathers sisters
were named respectively, Martha,
Mary and Asncss OF the grandsons
OF his grandmother-Ann or Anna
there is John Waller
Thomas Waller ---. William Wal
Ter ---- Waller --- and
a Benjamine or her grand
daughters are: Maiys Marthas, and
other names found in tho families OF
| the Quarles ami Walters. her people.
| Waller" has now in his possession
copy OF the marriage license OF his
grandfather and grandmother. sent
him by the clerk OF the court issuing
| it, to which appears the name of
| Aaron ouarles, her father
waller is now eighty -four year.
old. and he and his people have ever
understood that his grandmother,
! Anna nee Quarles. was a granddaughter
OF Judge Benjahine Waller at whose
Z home she passed many happy days
of her childhood.
1t has been understood by all tho
relatives of waller and by him ana
his father as we'll. that Littleton WAL
| Ter Tazwell was a first cousin of his
! paternal grandmother.
WALLER
Williamsburg va,
October 16. 1911.
Elitor Genealogy Column:
| Permit me TO help straighten out til.
tanrie of Waller" IN Sundays Dis
patch.
1 have copies or abstracts of about
! dozen Waller Wills. Colonel Johu