The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-19

Palmer, who was a soldier IN the
Revolutionary War. James Palmer In
the year 1857, in King william coun-
ty. Va, married hun or Anna, daught-
e. OF Aaron Quarlos ana Dorothy (nee
Waller) Qunrloa. Dorothy Waller
'suaries vas a daughter OF Thomss
Waller and Elizabeth (nce--) Quarles
u wish this blank could be aued).
This Thomas Waller waa the second
son of Colonel John Waller; az Judge
| Benjainino Waller his brother, was the
fourth, as stated b. IS. O." your cor
respondent.
In "Hardesty's Encyclopedia" and uu-
der Eminent Virginians," page 1913, |
/ copy tho following: srhc wife OF
Henry Tazewcil was Doratbca Eliza.
/ beth, daughter OF Judge BenIamine Wal
lcre at whose residence in Williams
burg, Va Il long low, wooden build
ing. the subject of this sketch. Little
I ton Waller Taaewcll. war born Deem
Dor u, i7Ii. His mother, who died
three years after his birth, was
! lovely woman, and her name. which.
from The distastcful abbroviatIon oil
Dolly, has gone out of vogue. was q
popular one in the last century. :
Tho foot note 20 to the above OK
tract Is as follows;
"'Tho prosonitor of the family in
! England, according to its record, was
Alured de Waller. who came from Nor
mandy with William the Copqueror.
settled III the county of Kent, and died
y. D. llS2 Richard Waller, OF this
family, distinguished himself at the
! battle of Asincourt. where no took
prisoner the Duke or Orleans. com
| inander-in chief OF the French army,
and received from uenry v, OF
England. In honor of his heroic ser
vices. crest OF the arms OF France
hanging by lsblo from an oak, with
| tho motto: Hooc functus virtutis The
ancient arms of the family were, and
| are: 4 shield sable, three walnut
. loaves. or. between two bandlets. ar.
The crest granted as above being: \
an escutcheon pendent, charged will!
tile arms of France (three ncurs-dc-
lis) with label OF three points. white.
OF this family was tho famous poet
Laureate Benjamine Waller The i'm
mediate ancestors of the Walters, OF
Virginia, was Edmund Waller, who
came from England near the close of
The seventeenth century and settled in
the county OF Spotsylvania. Iio was
!
! House of BurSesses. lie had three
sons, William, John and Benlamire.
The last, of the text (born 1870. who
settled in Williamsburg, and was, for
series of years. an assistant OF
Thomas Nelson, secretary OF the Coun-
ell OF Virginia, and finally a Judge OF
the Court OF Admiralty. He was Il
member of the House of Bureesses and
OF the patriot convention of 1915 and
l716. lie married Martha Han, of
North Carolina, and had Issue, ten
childrcn-his descendants being repre-
scented in the names OF Tazewell. Tay-
lor Corbin, Bush, Travis. Byrd, Aylett.
Cabell. Claiborn, Speed. Young. Mer-
Ger. Tucker, Langhorne, Garland, Mas
sic. Duval, Robertson. Brockenbrough,
and others equally worthy"
IT may be proper to state that no
motive othe" than love and duty
prompts the writer to prepare record
OF his paternal ancestors OF the Wal
Ter and Quarles families. He would be
most thankful II some one. or more of
/ each family, would carefully prepare
and mail to him. at Port Republic, Va,
a list OF the descendants of Colonel
John Waller and Aaron Quarles, thor
sons and daughters, and to whom they
! married. The great grandchildren OF
each could by suclI record. place
tneir living children and their de-
scendants in connecting limo with
satisfaction and pleasure to them.
The writor expects to have printed
in book form such obtained informa-
tiOn with the names of those who con-
tributed the desired information.
WALLER"