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716 paymaster. On May 19, 1852, he was married to Mary M. Moran, a native of County Wexford, Ireland, and daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Cheevers) Moran. She is the great niece of William Moran, known at Norfolk as William Plume, who came from Ireland with his kinsman. Commodore John Barry, became a conspicuous figure in the early history of Norfolk, and dying in 1807, was interred in St. Mary's churchyard. She is also a niece of Jasper and Thomas Moran, former prominent merchants of Norfolk. Her mother was the fifth in descent from Sir Christopher Cheevers, head of the family of Cheevers of Mount Leinster, and a descendant of the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England. Mr. and Mrs. Barry have had three sons, Thomas Moran, James E., Jr., and Robert Emmett, deceased. Thomas M. married, in 1878, Virginia Lovett, of Norfolk, and they have five children, John Cheevers Moran, Mary Robinette, James Edward, Frederick James R., and Margaret Virginia.

William Stone Barton, late judge of the Tenth judicial district of Virginia, and during the Confederate era prominent in the military service, was a member of a Fredericksburg family, conspicuous for its efforts in the cause of Southern independence. The father was Thomas Bowerbank Barton, a lawyer of distinction, who died in 1872. The mother bore the maiden name of Susan Stone. All of their four sons were in the Confederate army. Howard T., with the rank of surgeon, was connected with the medical department until the end; Seth Maxwell, whose services are elsewhere mentioned, rose to the rank of brigadier-general; and Thomas Scott served in the commissary department. William Stone Barton, the oldest brother, was born at Fredericksburg, September 29, 1820, and was educated at Hanson's academy and the university of Virginia. He studied law under his father and Judge John Tayloe Lomax, of Fredericksburg, and began the practice of his profession at that city in 1841. During the next twenty years he was a successful attorney, was for a long time an influential member of the city council and a leader in public affairs. He was also captain of the Washington Guards, and when his company and the Fredericksburg Grays were formed in a battalion in i860, he was commissioned major. During 1861 he served as major of the Thirtieth Virginia regiment, and participated in its service. Upon the reorganization, in 1862, he was transferred from the line to staff duties, and throughout the remainder of the war Major Barton served as judge advocate general in the army of Northern Virginia. Before his death he stated that the most pleasant recollections he had of the great struggle were of the lives he had been permitted to save from hasty condemnation. In this service he not only preserved for the army some good soldiers, but brought happiness again to many a pleading wife whose husband had for some offense brought himself under the stern judgment of a court-martial. After the war he resumed his law practice at Fredericksburg, and by his honorable and genial life became one of the most popular citizens of the town. From 1870 until his death he held the office of judge of the circuit comprising the city of Fredericksburg and eight counties. His wife, Marion Eliza Jenifer, of Maryland, passed away three years before his demise, which occurred January 16, 1898.

William Upshur Bass, a prominent wholesale merchant of