Mother: Dice |
_John ALVIS Sr.______+ | (1739 - 1805) m 1760 _Robert ALVIS _______| | (1769 - 1830) m 1795| | |_Elizabeth STANLEY? _+ | (1749 - ....) m 1760 _Garland ALVIS ______| | (1807 - 1860) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Polly CRITTENTON ___| | (1774 - ....) m 1795| | |_____________________ | | |--Cornelius ALVIS | (1856 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Dice________________| (1815 - 1860) | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: Elizabeth CHARMELL |
in April, 1861, he entered the C. S. A., as a private in the
"Kanawha Riflemen," Capt. George S. Patton's Co., which became
the nucleus for the 22nd Va. Reg. of Inf.; promoted in Aug.,
1861 to Major of the 2rd Reg. Wise's Legion, subsequently known
as the 6oth Reg. Va. Inf. From Jan., 1862, to May 9, 1864, he
was stationed at Dublin Depot, Pulaski Co., Va., as Post
Commandant and Major Quartermaster; he next served as volunteer
aid-de-camp on the staff of Col. Beuhring Jones, of the 60th
Va., formerly the 3rd Va., Wise's Legion. In the battles that
followed he rendered distinguished services; was seriously
wounded, causing his disability for the remainder of that year.
In Jan., 1865, while convalescent he was ordered to Wilmington,
N. C., to take charge of the paper mills in Carolina and
Georgia, which were supplying the government printing
established at Columbia, S. C.; this duty he discharged until
the occupancy of that territory by Sherman's Army, after which
he proceeded to Richmond.
After the surrender, he returned to Charleston, W. Va., and was
re-elected to the position of president of the Coal River
Navigation Co., but as Confederate [p.438] soldiers were at that
time disbarred from the practice of law in West Virginia, he
removed to New York City, where he practiced his profession from
June, 1866, to Nov., 1870, making a specialty of West Virginia,
law and land titles. In 1870 the Legislature removed political
disabilities from Confederate Soldiers, and lawyers who had
served in the C. S. service were thereafter permitted to
practice in West Virginia. He is a staunch and liberal supporter
of the Episcopal Church. He m. June 7, 1866, in Richmond, Va.,
Mary Morris Fontaine, dau. of Col. Edmund Fontaine, of Hanover
Co., Va., first President of the C. and O. Ry. Issue:
8--1. Louise Fontaine, m. Hon. Malcolm Jackson, of Charleston,
W. Va.
8--2. Ann Conway, m. Philip S. Powers, of Richmond, Va.
8--3. Fontaine, of Charleston, W. Va., educated at the
University of Virginia; a distinguished lawyer. (The descendants
of Susan (Pickett) Brady-Channell are zealous and liberal
supporters of the Episcopal Church, and many of them are
Vestrymen; and have filled positions of honor and trust, both of
Church and State.
Major Thomas Lee Broun was the owner of Gen Robert E. Lee's
famous war horse "Traveler," which he sold to Gen. Lee in Feb.,
1862).
Pickett Arms as taken from seal, of Col. James C. Pickett, of
"Mill Glen," Mason Co., Ky., and now owned by his gr.-dau. Miss
Ellen Desha Pickett, of Chicago, Ill.
ARMS--Sable, three Pickaxes argent, proper.
CREST A dexter arm embowed, vested argent, cuff vert, the arm
charged with two wavy bars of the second, hand holding a pickax
proper of the first.
Martin Arms as taken from old spoon of George and Ida (Martin)
Pickett, of Westmoreland Co., Va., spoon is also marked "I. M.
P." and is now owned by their great, great, great, great
gr.-dau. Miss Stella Pickett Hardy, of Batesville, Ark.
ARMS--Gules, a cheveron between three crescents, argent.
CREST A martlet argent, proper.
__________________________ | _____________________| | | | |__________________________ | _Edwin Conway BROUN _| | (1781 - 1839) m 1819| | | __________________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__________________________ | | |--Thomas Lee BROUN C.S.A. | (1823 - ....) | __________________________ | | | _James CHARMELL _____| | | m 1801 | | | |__________________________ | | |_Elizabeth CHARMELL _| (1803 - 1838) m 1819| | _William Sanford PICKETT _+ | | (1740 - 1798) m 1756 |_Susan PICKETT ______| (1773 - ....) m 1801| |_Elizabeth METCALFE ______ (1740 - 1775) m 1756
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Mother: Sarah Nancy HARMON |
Washington County, VA Survey records abstracts 1781-1797 Part 5
of 5 (pages 401-500) Page 408 - Thomas Frost, Jr., assignee of
Thomas Frost, Sr. - 102 ac - on Logans Creek, the waters of
Smiths Creek which is the waters of the north fork of Holstein
River - treasury warrant #19218 - February 8, 1793
_Wright FROST _______ | (1676 - 1738) _Joseph FROST Sr.____| | (1710 - ....) | | |_Mary UNDERHILL _____ | (1676 - 1751) _Thomas FROST Sr.____| | (1735 - 1807) m 1760| | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Thomas FROST Jr. | (1773 - 1806) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Sarah Nancy HARMON _| (1740 - 1776) m 1760| | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
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Amanda Patience Morgan (Wife) b. 20 Jun 1838
Rose Tally (Wife) b. About 1844
Children:
Peter J Scales b. 1864
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