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Rh Anne Montgomery Barksdale, daughter of Robert Barksdale, of Amelia county, and granddaughter of Judge John Robertson, of Mount Athos, Va. Two children have been born to them: John Rolfe, who died in infancy, and Mary Frances Monro, born June 4, 1885.

General Stith Bolling, of Petersburg Va., captain in the Confederate service and appointed brigadier-general by Governor Walker, in 1870, is a native of Lunenburg county, where he was born February 28, 1835. His father, a prosperous farmer of that county, was born in Nottoway county in 1808 and died in 1888. His mother, Mary T. Irby, was also a native of Nottoway county. General Bolling was reared upon the home farm until he reached the age of nineteen years, and was then engaged in the wholesale business with his brothers at Richmond until 1861, when he returned to his native county and enlisted as a private in the Lunenburg cavalry company. His soldierly qualities were speedily recognized by promotion to orderly-sergeant, then to second lieutenant, and in 1862 he was elected captain. In this rank he served during the remainder of the war, commanding Company G, Ninth Virginia cavalry, W. H. F. Lee's brigade of Stuart's command. During a considerable part of the war he was attached to the staff of Gen. W. H. F. Lee as acting adjutant-general. He was wounded six times; first, near Culpeper Court House; second, near Green House; third, at Morton's Ford, where he was struck on the head by a cannon ball and left on the field for dead, but was able to report for duty three months later; fourth, at Guinea's Station, where he was shot through the thigh; fifth, near Petersburg, and last at Gaines' Mill. After the war he returned to agricultural pursuits in Lunenburg county. In 1869 he was elected to the Virginia house of delegates, and in 1871 he was re-elected. In 1875 he was appointed by Governor Kemper inspector of tobacco, an office which he held until 1882, meanwhile making his home at Petersburg, where he has resided since. In the latter part of 1882 he was appointed postmaster at Petersburg by President Arthur, and this office he had in charge during a term of four and a half years. In July, 1889, he was appointed a second time to this office by President Harrison, and in 1898 was again appointed by President McKinley. General Bolling has been active in the political arena as a republican, has served four years as a member of the State executive committee of that party, taken part in the canvasses of the State, and in 1888 was a candidate for presidential elector. He is vice-president of the chamber of commerce and president of the tobacco association, and has rendered valuable service as president of the board of public schools. He was married May 9, 1860, to Cornelia Scott-Forrest, of Lunenburg county, and they have four children, two of whom are living, Mary E. and Cornelia I. The names of the two children, deceased, were Jessie S. and Stith Forrest, the latter having just finished a course at college prior to his death.

James D. Bondurant, of Lynchburg, who experienced long and arduous service in the army of Northern Virginia, as an artillery-man, is a native of Bedford county, where he was born in 1846. On account of his youth he was not received as an enlisted soldier during the first year of the war, but in April, 1861, he became attached to the Bedford Light Artillery, under Capt. Tyler C.