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Frances (Johns) Blanton, was born in Cumberland county. Virginia, March 6, 1796. He was a man of versatile talents ; owned an estate of several thousand acres, with over one hundred slaves ; was a magis- trate, and as such arbitrated many legal dis- putes among his neighbors in the county. His high character, sound judgment, and sagacity, in addition to his wisdom and learning, were guarantees of justice, and his decisions were rarely appealed. He gained a wide reputation and was an important factor in. the business life of his county. Much of the money loaned and invested in the community passed through his hands. He was a Whig in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married Nancy Thornton Walker, and at his death left her a fortune of over one hundred thous- and dollars, a large sum for that day. Chil- dren : William David, born October 2, 1819; Philip Southall. of further mention ; James Madison ; Walker Burton ; Francis Baker ; Benjamin Watkins Leigh ; Mary Walker ; Judith Thornton ; Martha Wilson.

Dr. Philip Southall Blanton, son of James and Nancy Thornton (Walker) Blanton, was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, June 30, 1824, died from an overdose of medicine in 1863, at the early age of thirty- nine years. He was a graduate of Hamp- den-Sidney College, Virginia, taking first honors, and obtained his degree of M. D. at Jefiferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He was a distinguished physician and a man of scholarly attainments. He was a Whig in politics, and a Presbyterian. He married, in Cumberland county, Virginia, February 5, 1852. Nancy Miller Armistead, born in Buckingham county, Virginia, August 24, 1829, second daughter of Rev. Jesse S. Armi- stead. D. D.. a theologian of wide reputation and an eloquent, forceful preacher. Chil- dren : James Truehart, born October 26. 1852; Jessie, May 23. 1854; Prescott South- all. February 17. 1856; Philip Southall (2), October 5, 1857; Charles Armistead, of further mention ; ]\Iaria Page, born April 4, 1861.

Charles Armistead Blanton. M. D., of the city of Richmond, Virginia, youngest son of 'Dr. Philip Southall and Nancy Miller (Armistead) Blanton, was born at "West Hill," Cumberland county. Virginia. July 23, 1859. His early and academic education was obtained in private Virginia schools,

his medical educational training at the Medical College of Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D. in June, 1881. He began the practice of his profession in Richmond almost immediately after graduation, and for thirty-three years has zealously followed the medical profession. From 1887 to 1894 he was a member of the adjunct faculty of the Medical College of Virginia, professor in same ; chair of Materia Medica and Ther- apeutics, in 1894 to 1898, professor in same ; chair of children's diseases. 1898 to 1910, elected Emeritus professor of same in 191 1 ; and is pediatrician to Memorial Hospital, Richmond. He is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association ; member of the Southern Medical Association ; member of the Medical Society of Virginia ; member of Richmond Academy of Medicine and Sur- gery, and since 191 1 trustee of Hampden- Sidney College. His college fraternity is Pi Mu (Medical). He is a communicant of the church of his fathers, he and his family being members of the First Presbyterian Church. Richmond.

Dr. Blanton married, in the Second Pres- byterian Church of Richmond, December 27, 1888, Elizabeth Brown Wallace, born in Fredericksburg. Virginia. February 19, i860, daughter of Howson Hooe and Elizabeth Skyrin (Crouch) Wallace. Howson H. Wallace, a merchant, enlisted in the cavalry service in the Confederate army in 1861, but a fractured leg early unfitted him for further active service, and during the remainder of the conflict between the states he occupied a clerical position in the treasury depart- ment of the Confederate government. He had children : John Thomas. Elizabeth Brown. Howson Hooe (2), Mollie Temple, Lucy Skyrin, Helen Glassell (deceased), Walter Bernard. Katherine Spottswood (de- ceased). Children of Dr. Charles A. and Elizabeth Brown (Wallace) Blanton: i. Wyndham Boiling, born June 3. 1890; grad- uate of Hampden-Sidney College, A. B., class of 1910; University of Virginia A. M., class of 1912; now a medical student in Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City (Columbia University). 2. Howson Wallace, born February 9, 1892; graduate of Hampden-Sidney College, A. B., class of 1912; teacher of physics and chemistry in John Armstrong High School, Richmond, 1912-13; now a medical student in College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York