The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-19
f.. T.. WIS (ContinuedD


j.. f. V. No 5, like f. +. V. No 3,
has to be treated in sections. No. had
two sections, certainly. and probably
three. No. has three, Lupo. Willoughby
and Gray all came over in 1910. and left
enough descendants to entitle them to
the honor of being called Founders
of Families" and this 1910" crowd
are +. +. VS. No. ,. We will treat
them alphabetically.
distinguished jurist OF this city
who is not too eruditc to read the
genealogical column, met the first
| genealogist OF Virginia In the stree,
the other day; the +. G. V. mind you
not the F. +. ". The d. j. asked tho
r. G.. V. who was writing these articles.
My friends! Did you ever hear of the
little old woman of Town Topics?"
Many OF those who feel themselves
the announcements in that peculiarly
personal sheet often demand redress for
their grievances. They are always re-
fcrred TO 4 queer old woman. with
whom they have not the heart to
quarrel. But when one wishes to know
anything about the writer OF these
genealogies. one can't even hnd the
little old woman. queer. isn't 1t? But
not the only queer thing about our
Virginia newspapers or our Virginia
genealogies either. However, the d.
j. (now don't forge what these let
ters stand forD proceeded TO inquire
of the Il. G.. V. remember what these
letters stand forD why the genoa
logical editor had neglected his friend,
John Layton. 1t is an awful pity
about John Laydon. The genealogical
editor loves him--he was so romantic.
so human. But John had only daugh-
tiers, and If they had husbands we
can't find them; the search for these
elusive creatures reminds us OF q
Gloucester County story:
few years ago n lady of Glouces-
ter went into her kitchen and in
formed her cook that Caroline Dixon
icolored) had killed her husband.
Kilt her husband. Miss Lizzic?" asked
the cook, very much excited. you
must be foolish! Caroline done kilt her
husband-hard as husbands is to git?"
John Laydon's daughters were as
queer as Caroline; they deliberately
lost their husbands, il indeed they ever
had nny-"as hard as husbands were
to git" These Layton girls We're the
first Virginia babies of +. V. BIS, If
you please. and in order to preserve
historic harmony. they should be the
grandmothers OF the suffra gists. but
we can't find any descendants. owing
TO their elusive husbands: and If an
early settler had no descendants which
have reached the present day, h. is
not entitled TO place in these col
umns.
we, strange rs IT may seem. are
writing for the benefit OF the quick
more than for the dead We mourn
the loss OF the husbands OF the Lay
don girls. and regret exceedingly that
we cannot prove them TO be, each and
al hnt Of Of liyt,
folk, and especially OF the suffra-
gettes. Surely the +. V. BIS should be
the ancestors of the f.. S. V. But to
please the D. j. we are going to tell
all we know about John Laydon, even
If the record of his daughters is UNI
known.
John came over in 1907 in the Susan.
He was twenty-s six years OF age. His
wife came OYER in zoos AZ nurse for
Mrs Thomas Forrast Her name was
Anne Burrls. Whether the fact OF
Johns being in Virginia induced Ammo
to sail with Mrs. Forrast. or whether
they met for the first time on Eir-
ginia soil is not known: but Anne was
only thirteen years old. just half the
age OF her husband. In 1924 they had
four MISUNDERSTANDING the first
Observation-Disclosures child; Alice, Knth-
eryn and Margerett. Katheryn Laydon
WIS LIVING Win HlIS. Aialy MADISON
ut Shirley Hundred in 1924. aged seven
years therefore She was born in 1917.
All honor to John Laydon for hav-
ing been the very first man to take.
unto himself a wife in Virginia! His
child Virginia was the first child born
OF parents whose marriage took place
in Virginia. But Notwithstanding all,
this. John Laydon can't enter tho.
sacred precincts OF these papers, be.
cause his daughters either never mar
ried or III they did. their husbands and
children are forever lost I'm the thick
fog OF the seventeenth century We
hope the u. j. will believe that we. too
have rGsl affection for John Layton
fhe first Virginia father md husband
l.upO.
y. T. VS. 5. No. O. This strange
Italianesaue name appeared In 1910,
and Lieutenant ,.Albino Lupo. OF Ken