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Rh solicitation of his father he was soon released, and then for two years was at home, incapacitated for work by his wound. Since then he has been engaged as a boiler maker. He is highly regarded by the community, and, since 1889 has continuously held the position of city tax collector. He was married October 24, 1867, to Anna M. Germand, and they have eight children.

Abner W. Grandy, of Norfolk, who rendered brave and devoted service as a private in the Sixty-first Virginia infantry, is a native of North Carolina, born in Camden county, January 26, 1842. His father, Evan Grandy, was a member of the Light Horse Dragoons, organized for the Mexican war but never called out, and was the son of Ammon Grandy, the latter the son of Absalom Grandy who came from England early in the eighteenth century and occupied a grant of land in Camden county bestowed upon him by Lord Granville. Evan Grandy married Mary Williamson, whose father was a native of England. She died when her son Abner was two years old, and, four years later, in 1848, the father died at the age of thirty-five years, leaving young Abner Grandy to the care of his aunt, Mrs. Lydia Gregory. The latter, whose husband was a grandson of General Gregory of the Continental army, gave the boy a good primary education and had entered him at the Reynoldson institute in Gates county when the war of the Confederacy drew him from his studies to the field of battle. Leaving school in May, 1861, he volunteered at Norfolk in Company C of the Sixty-first regiment. With this regiment, subsequently being transferred to Company B, he served as a private throughout the war, sharing the fortunes of Mahone's brigade and participating in all the battles of the army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Appomattox, except when disabled by wounds. He fought at Seven Pines, through the Seven Days' battles, at Manassas, Sharpsburg, both battles at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Brandy Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, the Crater, Wilcox's Farm, Reams' Station, Burgess' Mill and Hatcher's Run. In the fight of May 12th, at Spottsylvania, he was severely wounded, causing him to miss the fighting at Cold Harbor, and at Hatcher's Run, on February 6, 1865, he received a wound through the right lung which ended his service a few weeks before the close of the war. During the subsequent years of peace he has made his home at Norfolk, where for nearly thirty years he was occupied as a drygoods salesman. During the past year he has held the office of scaler of weights and measures of the city, to which he was elected in the spring of 1896, by the largest majority ever given a municipal candidate, 3,615 votes, an eloquent testimonial of the esteem in which he is held by the people. He is a member of Pickett-Buchanan camp, the Baptist church and the Masonic order. On August 15, 1869, he was married to Amelia Trafton, and they have four children living: Lily L. Grandy, Mary Grandy, Herbert L. Grandy and Bruce Grandy.

Captain Charles Grattan, of Staunton, Va., who served with distinction in the artillery of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Albemarle county, December 8, 1833. He was reared in Rockingham county and was there elected to the legislature in 1859. Subsequently he entered the university of Virginia for the study of law, and while there entered the military service of the