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1068 line and died at Leesburg while en route to join Washington's army at the North. The Parker family held a prominent position in England before the settlement of some of its members in Virginia. Dr. and Mrs. Nash have two daughters, Elizabeth Parker and Mary Louisa. Dr. Nash is both by hereditary proclivity and conviction an adherent of the Protestant Episcopal church and has been for years a vestryman of old St. Paul's church, erected in 1739.

John L. Nash, of Norfolk, a veteran of the Fifteenth Virginia cavalry, was born in Norfolk county, March 4, 1840. Early in 1861 he abandoned his studies for the legal profession to become a member of a company known as the Chesapeake light cavalry, under command of Capt. Edgar Burroughs, who was subsequently promoted major of the battalion to which his company was assigned. During the occupation of Norfolk this battalion did picket duty on the Virginia coast, and Mr. Nash was in charge of the posts from Lynnhaven to Cape Henry, though not a commissioned officer. A few days previous to the evacuation, he was called to headquarters at Sewell's Point, and on the day of evacuation, acting as courier to General Mahone, he was probably the last man to leave Norfolk, overtaking his company at Suffolk. The battalion served throughout the Seven Days' campaign attached to the North Carolina brigade of General Daniel, and at a later date, after serving in the vicinity of Richmond, was merged in the Fifteenth regiment Virginia cavalry, Col. William B. Ball. On the evening previous to the battle of Fredericksburg, Colonel Ball delayed the enemy's, advance for some time by driving the caissons of a battery to and fro at full speed upon a plank road, creating the impression of heavy reinforcements arriving. After Chancellorsville Mr. Nash served with his regiment on guard along the Rappahannock, and participated in a number of minor engagements. He took part in the campaigns from the Rapidan to the James, in 1864, was near General Stuart when he fell at Yellow Tavern, and fought with Rosser in the Shenandoah valley. Three brothers of Mr. Nash, C. A., Cincinnatus and Henry E., were members of the Sixty-first Virginia infantry, Mahone's brigade. Since the war Mr. Nash has been a prominent citizen of Norfolk, serving as magistrate about sixteen years, and as a member of the general assembly two terms. He has two sons and two daughters living. One son, Frank Fitzhugh, is associated in business with his uncle, C. A. The other, LeRoy T. Nash, M. D., born in Kempville, Princess Anne county, June 15, 1868, is a prominent physician at Norfolk. He was professionally educated in the college of physicians and surgeons at Baltimore, and was graduated with honorable mention, by that institution, in 1889, after two years' attendance. During the following month he passed the examination of the Virginia State board and immediately embarked in the practice at Norfolk, where he has already attained a high standing in the profession, and in the estimation of the community. He holds membership in the State medical society, the Seaboard medical association of eastern Virginia and North Carolina, and the Norfolk medical society, which he has served as secretary and treasurer; also is a member of the Norfolk military association. In the State militia service he has received the honor of appointment as assistant surgeon, with rank of captain, in Battery B (Norfolk Light Artillery Blues), First battalion of artillery.