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civil vvar he was a colporteur in camps and hospitals, and a Confederate post-chaplain. After the war he revived the Southern Bap- tist missions, aided in the education of the freedmen, preaching often to colored con- gregations, and conferring with the Freed- men's Bureau in planning for assisting the emancipated slaves. He was one of the founders of the Virginia Baptist education society, also of Richmond College. His chief published works were "Life of Lot Cary ;" "Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers ;" and "Memoir of Luther Rice, one of the First IMissionaries in the East." When he died he had nearly completed a "History of Vir- ginia Baptists." His wife was a daughter of Elisha Scott Williams. He died in Rich- mond, Virginia, December 22, 1871.

Jones, James Alfred, born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, June 3, 1820, son of James B. Jones and Judith Bailey, his wife. He took the Master of Arts degree at the Uni- versity of Virginia in his nineteenth year, and also took the law course, completing his legal studies under Conway Robinson, of Richmond. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, and the next year entered upon prac- tice in Petersburg, removing to Richmond in 1857. In 1850 he was a member of the state constitutional convention ; he was emi- nently conservative, and he did not favor the amendments proposed in that body, nor the constitution which it framed. In 1853 he was elected to the state senate. From the time of his removal to Richmond, his prac- tice was for the greater part a practicing attorney in the supreme court of appeals, ranking as one of the ablest in the state. He was an earnest exponent of states' rights doctrines. He was a director and counsel

for railroads and banks, and a trustee of Richmond College. He married Mary Henry, daughter of James G. Lyon, of Mobile, Ala- bama.

Garnett, Alexander Yelverton Peyton, born in Essex county, Virginia, September 20, 1820. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1841, then entered the United States navy, was pro- moted surgeon in 1848, and resigned on Oc- tober 21, 1850, to accept the professorship of clinical medicine in the National Medical College at Washington, D. C. In 1861 he left Washington, and became a member of the examining board of surgeons for the Confederate army, and afterward surgeon in charge of the two military hospitals in Rich- mond. He was the family physician of Jef- ferson Davis and of all his cabinet officers, and accompanied Mr. Davis after the evac- uation of Richmond. Afterward he returned to Washington, and was again elected a professor in the medical college in 1867. but resigned in 1870, and was made an emeritus professor. He was elected a vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1885. He contributed to medical literature papers on the claims of "Condurango as a Cure for Cancer;" "The Potomac Marshes and Their Influence as a Pathogenic Agent ;" "Epidemic Jaundice Among Children ;" "The Sorghum Vulgare or Broom-corn Seed in Cystitis ;" "Nelaton's Probe in Gunshot Wounds," and "Coloproctitis Treated by Hot-water Douche and Dilation or Divi- sion of the Sphincters." He married in 1848 the eldest daughter of Henry A. Wise. He died July 11, 1888, at Rehoboth Beach, Dela-