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Rh married to Miss Lucy C. Browning, and they have four children: Maude A., Mildred R., Jay F., and Lucy Russell. By a previous marriage he has three children: Blanche A., Ada K., and Robert L.

J. Thomas Dunn, adjutant of the Stonewall camp of Confederate Veterans at Portsmouth, and the youngest surviving Confederate soldier at that city, was born there on October 1, 1846. At fifteen years of age he left the public school to enter the Confederate service and was twice refused, on account of his youth, before he became a member, on March 4, 1862, of the Norfolk County Rifle Patriots, which was first organized in 1860 and did splendid service throughout the war. Young Dunn accompanied the company from the navy yard to Sewell's Point, in March, 1862, where it became Company F of the Forty-first Virginia regiment, and subsequently was assigned to Mahone's brigade. During his stay at Sewell's Point he witnessed the famous conflict between the Virginia and Monitor, but was not engaged until his regiment was thrown into the fight at Seven Pines, where Company F was particularly distinguished for steadiness and bravery. His military record, thus begun, subsequently included the battles of the Seven Days before Richmond, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania Court House and the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, the Crater and Yellow Tavern. He was twice captured, first at Strasburg, Va., but immediately paroled, and at Yellow Tavern, August 19, 1864, he was again taken by the enemy and this time held at Point Lookout until May, 1865. At the close of the war, in which he had performed the part of a veteran, he was but eighteen and a half years of age. He returned to his home without education in the schools, but with an excellent diploma from the army of Northern Virginia, and, though without money or a trade he has subsequently made a successful career. Perfecting himself as a machinist, he has been occupied in that direction with but little interruption, having been for twenty-three years connected with the shops of the Seaboard Air Line railroad at Portsmouth, for a number of years holding the position of foreman. In municipal affairs and social life he is active and influential. He has served one term in the city council, three terms on the school board and three terms as registrar of the Third ward. He is a charter member of Stonewall camp, of which he has been adjutant six years, and is treasurer and trustee; is trustee and treasurer of the I. O. O. F. lodge, and led in the organization of Seaside lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of International association of machinists. January 29, 1868, he was married to Mary E., daughter of Charles Ballentine, and they have four children living: William H., who has served seven years in company E, Second battalion; Maria E., wife of G. Hope Tonkin; Sarah C, wife of Kemper Hankins, and Ernest C. Mr. Dunn is a son of Thomas G. and Maria (Lloyd) Dunn, both natives of Baltimore. His father was a seaman and engineer of Scotch descent.

William Logan Dunn, M. D., of Glade Spring, Va., was born near that town, September 15, 1839, the son of Dr. Samuel Dunn, a prominent physician in that region of Virginia for sixty years, whose wife was a granddaughter of Maj. William Edmondson, who commanded the regiment from Washington county in the Revolutionary battle of King's Mountain. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Dunn was Lieut. William Dunn, an officer of Gen. Anthony