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His fraternal order is the Masonic and he is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Dr. Parrish married, at Chatham, Vir- ginia, September 5, 1894, Mary A., daugh- ter of Edwin T. and Sallie (Echols) Jones, her parents, both deceased, natives of Pitt- sylvania county. Edwin T. Jones, for many years a merchant of that locality, served for four years in the Confederate army, partici- pating in many of the most important battles and campaigns of the w^ar, and was wounded in battle. Of the fourteen chil- dren of Edwin T. and Sallie (Echols) Jones, four are living at the present time: Mittie. married H. D. Sheppard, of Chatham, Vir- ginia ; Bertha, married W. L. Jones, of Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania; J. M., lives in Chatham ; Mary A., of previous mention, married William P. Parrish. Dr. and Mrs. Parrish are the parents of two children : Edwin J., born June 27, 1895, a student in the Chatham Training School ; Elizabeth, born November 10, 1900, attending a private school in Chatham.

Samuel Lee Kelley. The ancestors of Samuel Lee Kelley. of Richmond, Virginia, came to the United States from the north of Ireland, where the family of Kelley had long been seated. They were Irish patriots, Presbyterian in their religion, but not allied with the Orange party. The maternal branch — Gray — was of English descent and Catholic in religion. The founder of this American branch, Robert Kelley, born in Londonderry, Ireland, mar- ried Mary Gray. He came to the United States a young man, and settled in the south. He was a Democrat in politics, a Presbyterian in religious faith. Their chil- dren were: William, Mary, Robert (2), Samuel A., Lawrence, Joseph.

(II) Samuel A. Kelley, son of Robert and Mary (Gray) Kelley, was born in the Dis- trict of Columbia, died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1869, aged thirty-nine years. He was a soldier of the Confederacy, serv- ing in the "Monticello Guards," Nineteenth Rfgimenl X'irginia Infantry, Garnett's brig- ade, I'ickctt's division. Pie was a Democrat in politics, a Catholic in religion. He mar- ried, in Alexandria, Virginia, Mary J. Quinn, born in Donaghahadee, county Down, Ireland, of Irish and Scotch par- entage. Her family came to the United

States in 1852. During the war between the states she was a nurse in Confederate hospitals, and at the time of the birth of her eldest son was matron in Howard's Grove Hospital, near Richmond. Children : Samuel Lee, of whom further ; Ernest Alex- ander, born September 7, 1869. After !Mr. Kelley's death Airs. Kelley married (second) David Shields.

(Ill) Samuel Lee Kelley, son of Samuel A. and Mary J. (Quinn) Kelley, was born near Richmond, Virginia, June 22, 1864. His father at the time was a soldier in the Confederate army, his mother nursing the wounded Confederate soldiers in Howard's Grove Hospital, he was therefore sur- rounded at birth by all the gruesome evi- dences of w^ar, and most appropriately w^as given the name of the great southern com- mander. General Lee. His father died when he was five years of age and his mother mar- ried as stated above, David Shields, a rail- road contractor. As his stepfather's busi- ness took him to various localities, Samuel L. Kelley obtained his education in these various neighborhoods but always in private institutions. These he attended in Char- lottesville, Virginia, and Huntingdon, West Virginia; also taking a course at Church- land Academy, Norfolk county, V^irginia Before entering college he engaged four years W'ith his stepfather in railroad and levee construction in the West and South- w^est, acquiring as a result of his active, every-day out-of-door work, a strong frame and a hardy constitution. But his tastes were literary and he did not succumb to the attractions of a business life. His mother, a w^oman of rare intellectuality, clear judgment, dominating personality and great force of character, encouraged and fostered this finer side of her son's nature and aided him in the determination of a profession. He entered Richmond College, passing thence in the fall of 1888 to the law department of the University of Virginia, John B. Minor still being dean, the same great lawyer and instructor as ever. His university career was brilliant and so thor- oughly did he master the precepts of his great teacher that he was graduated B. L. in one session — 1889. He also in that year received ojie of the most highly valued honors of the university, that of "final presi- dent" of the Washington Society.

In 1890 he located in Richmond perma-