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of Frank Pierce Pulley, a farmer of South- ampton county, born in Isle of Wight county in 1851. Frank Pierce Pulley mar- ried Cora Fanny Stephenson, daughter of Levi Stephenson, who served four years in the Confederate army in a Virginia regi- ment. Children : Lloyd C, born in 1882, married (first) Daisy Edwards, married (second) Rose Bradshaw ; John Levi, born in 1886, married Mary Holmes ; Junius Waverly, of further mention ; Frank Pierce, born in 1894; Richard Henry, born in 1896; Douglass Holden, born in 1899; Thomas, born in 1901.

Junius Waverly Pulley, third son of Frank Pierce and Cora Fanny (Stephen- son) Pulley, was born in Southampton county, Virginia, March 16, 1890. His early life was spent at the home farm and in at- tendance at the public schools at Ivor. He was a student at Virginia Military Acad- emy, going thence to Richmond College, and after one year there entering the law department of Washington and Lee Univer- sity in 1910, where in 1913 he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Virginia bar in the same year and located in Courtland, where he began the practice of his profession. Although beset with all the difficulties that confront the young aspirant for legal advancement, Mr. Pulley has succeeded beyond his expecta- tions and has secured honorable standing in his profession. He is a member of the South- ampton County Bar Association, a Democrat in politics, a member of the Baptist church, teacher in the Sunday school, member of the Woodmen of the World, and is held in high esteem professionally and socially. His college fraternity and society is the Phi Gamma Delta and Grayham Lee, both of Washington and Lee University.

Elisha Leavenworth McGill, M. D., of Petersburg, has been established in that city for eleven years, and has acquired in that time a prominent standing in the pro- fession, and well-merited success as a prac- titioner. He bears in his veins the Scotch blood which has been instrumental in set- tling and developing large sections ot the south. His grandfather, John McGili, was a native of Scotland, who came to America and settled at Port Perry, Canada.

(II) John (2) McGill, son of John (i) McGill, was born about 1821, in Canada.

and when a young man removed to A^ir- ginia and located in Petersburg before the civil war. For many years he was a mem- ber of the firm of Watson & McGill. tobacco manufacturers, and is now living, retired, in Petersburg, at the age of eighty-three years. He married Helen Elizabeth Leavenworth, born June 11, 1836, in North Carolina, and died June 26. 191 3. in Petersburg, a de- scendant of a very old American family. Thomas Leavenworth, a native of England, came to America after 1664, and resided in AVoodbury, Connecticut, where he died Au- gust 3, 1683. He was survived for some years by his wife Grace, who was the mother of two sons, Thomas and John, and a daughter, whose name is not preserv^ed. Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and Grace Leavenworth, born 1673, probably in Wood- bury, died August 4, 1754, in the parish of Ripton, then a part of Stratford, now the town of Huntington, Fairfield county, Con- necticut. He was a physician, a man of much energy and strong character, and ac- cumulated considerable wealth for his time. He resided in W^oodbury until 1695, at which time he purchased land in Strat- ford, and resided there until 1721, when he settled in Ripton parish of the same town. He was received in full communion at the Stratford church in 1698, and with his wife and several of his children was among the founders of the Ripton church. He mar- ried, about 1698, in Stratford, Mary, daugh- ter of David and Grace Jenkins, born there in 1680, died in June, 1768, in Ripton. Their sixth son, ]\Iark Leavenworth, was born about 171 1, and died August 20, 1797, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale in 1737, was licensed to preach in the following year, and settled at Waterbury, where he was an influential member of the community, an able preacher, and highly esteemed. He preached the annual election sermon before the assembly at Hartford in 1772. In 1760 he was appointed chaplain of the Second Connecticut Regiment of Mili- tia, was re-appointed the following year, and accompanied the regiment in an expe- dition to Canada. He married (first) Feb- ruary 6, 1740, Ruth, daughter of Rev. Jere- miah Peck, the first minister at AVater- bury. His second wife was Sarah Hall. His eldest son. Colonel Jesse Leavenworth, born November 22, 1741, in Waterbury, died December 12, 1824, at Sacket's Har-