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Rh council, and subsequently held the office of mayor two years. He has served more than four years as commander of his camp. Since his retirement from trade he has served as teller of the bank of Hampton, of which he is a director, and he is connected with the Phoebus loan and trust company. He was married in 1868 to Annie, daughter of Hon. Samuel W. Wood, who served in the Virginia legislature and was for many years president of the Virginia pilot association. She died in 1874, and in 1876 he married Emma V., daughter of Robert Wood, a well-known pilot. Mr. Richardson has five children living.

R. E. Riddick, M. D., a prominent physician of Nansemond county, Va., served in his youth as a Confederate soldier, and shared the honorable record of Pickett's brigade and division until the winter of 1863. He was born in Nansemond county in 1843, the son of Edward C. Riddick, a farmer and patriotic citizen of that county. At the outbreak of the war he was a student at Graham college, but promptly left his studies to become a private in Company F of the Third Virginia infantry regiment, which until March, 1862, was stationed at Camp Pemberton, near Smithfield. The regiment was then transferred to the forces under Magruder at Yorktown, and fought against McClellan at Dam No. 2. In these operations and the following battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Savage Station and Frayser's Farm, Private Riddick took part with his command, and was slightly wounded. He fought at Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, took part in the Suffolk campaign, and at Gettysburg was one of the participants in the famous assault of Pickett's division upon Cemetery ridge. In the spring of 1864 he was detailed in the medical department, and he served in various hospitals as an assistant to the surgeons until later in the year, when being at home on furlough he was betrayed, and being taken prisoner, was confined at Point Lookout until a short time before the surrender of Lee's army. With the restoration of peace he continued his studies for the medical profession at the university of Virginia and the Baltimore medical college, receiving the degree of doctor of medicine at the latter institution in 1869. Since then he has been engaged in the practice in Nansemond county and North Carolina, since 1888 making his home at Whaleyville, Va. He has met with deserved success in his profession and is popular both professionally and socially. In 1874 he was married to Miss Alice O. Brinkley, and they have one son, E. Floyd.

Colonel Stark Armistead Righton, a gallant North Carolinian, took an active part in the work of putting the military strength of that State in the field in 1861. He organized a company from Chowan, and, accompanying it to Virginia, was taken prisoner and confined at Fort Norfolk. After suffering indescribable hardships he became paralyzed and was then exchanged and honorably discharged. He was a kinsman of the family of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. His wife, Susan Augusta Moore, was a granddaughter of Charles Moore, who represented Perquimans county in the provincial congress which met at Halifax, N. C., April 4, 1776. Her father, Augustus Moore, judge of the superior court in 1848, married Susan Jordan Armistead, and had several children who