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Rh mainly engaged in the great transportation business of southeast Virginia, except during a period, 1869 to 1874, when he resided in Arkansas. He was in the service of the Old Dominion steamship company at Norfolk from 1866 to 1869, of the Clyde steamship company from 1874 to 1880, and since then has held a responsible position with the Southern railroad at West Point. He is past commander and present adjutant of John R. Cook camp, Confederate Veterans, and a member of the Richmond Howitzer association. He was married February 6, 1868, to Pocahontas Baytop, daughter of Lieut. William J. Baytop, who was killed at Seven Pines. They have three children: Ashby B., Pattie Saunders and Carrie P.

Major W. F. C. Gregory, a gallant officer in the Confederate States army, was a native of Amelia county, Va. Subsequent to the war he became prominent in public affairs, was a leading member of the Petersburg bar and at one time was much talked of in connection with the governorship of Virginia. Judith A., a sister of Major Gregory, married the Rev. James A. Riddick, also a native of Virginia, and a well-known minister of the Methodist church. J. G. Riddick, M. D., notable among the younger physicians of Norfolk, is a son of this union and was born at Stony Creek, in Sussex county, June 10, 1861. Dr. Riddick received his collegiate education at Randolph-Macon, where he was graduated in liberal arts, and subsequently matriculated at the college of physicians and surgeons at Baltimore, Md. At the latter institution, after three years' study, he received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1883. He selected Norfolk as the theater of his professional career, and has resided in that city since his graduation, maintaining a growing and successful practice. For nine years he served the city as health officer, and when compelled by his other professional duties to resign that position, he was at once appointed to the board of public health, and ever since retained in that position. He is a member of the city and State medical societies, and maintains an association with the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias. His religious connection is with the Epworth Methodist church. He was married to Miss Sallie Yates Council, daughter of Rev. James G. Council, of the Baptist ministry.

William S. Gregory, of Lynchburg, Va., was born at that city in 1845. He entered the Confederate service as a private in Company G of the Eleventh Virginia regiment of infantry just after the battle of Seven Pines, and participated in the battles of Frayser's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Gettysburg, Plymouth, N. C. (where he was wounded), Chickamauga, the battles around Petersburg, Five Forks, Dinwiddie Court House and Sailor's Creek. During a portion of the war he also served in the signal corps. At Sailor's Creek he was among the captured and, being sent to Newport News, was held as a prisoner of war until July, 1865, having refused to obtain an earlier release by taking the oath of allegiance. He was a brave and devoted soldier, and was identified with the splendid record of Pickett's division of the army of Northern Virginia. After the close of the war he went into business at Lynchburg, in which he has since continued.

Kenneth Raynor Griffin, a prominent attorney of Portsmouth, was born in Southampton county, Va., January 27, 1844. His father, William Griffin, also a native of that county, served as an