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were emigrants from England and settled in Virginia. Elizabeth Allen (Hobson) Brown was a daughter of Benjamin Hob- son, who was a son of Josiah and Susannah Hobson, both of whose ancestors were Eng- lish emigrants. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Wood : Henry Rodophil, died at the age of twenty-five years ; Rosalie ; Lillian Page, who married George W. Gibson, of Camden, New Jersey ; Robert Whitfield ; Ruxtan Jeter ; Frederick Albert ; Wilfred Walton. of whom further ; Willis Emory, died at the age of five years.

Dr. Wilfred Walton Wood was born in Ballsville, Powhatan county, Virginia, May 7, 1879. During his earlier years his edu- cation was acquired in private schools, and after the age of fourteen years was contin- ued in the schools of Richmond, to which city his parents removed. He received his professional education in the University Col- lege of Medicine, Richmond. Virginia, which was later merged into the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, and so* excellent was the character of his work that he was chosen to fill the chair of crown and bridge work and clinical dentistry at the Medical Col- lege of Virginia, dental department, and continued in charge of that department for a period of seven years. He also for a con- siderable period of time rendered efficient service as clinical director. He engaged in the private practice of his profession in 1900, and his offices are now located in the Cham- ber of Commerce Building, where he makes a specialty of oral surgery and anaesthet- ics. He is a member of the Richmond City Dental Society, the Virginia State Dental Association, the National Dental Associa- tion, Psi Omega fraternity, and Tau Nu Sigma fraternity, and his religious member- ship is with the Centenary Methodist Church.

Dr. Wood married, in Richmond, Vir- ginia, April 25, 1905, Maude Berkley Robins, born in Richmond, Virginia, daughter of Thomas Coleman and Nannie (King) Rob- ins, who were the parents of two other chil- dren : Mary Anderson and Beulah Coleman Robins. The only child of Dr. and Mrs. Wood is Dorothy Lucile, born December II, 1910.

The Tunstall Family. The Tunstalls from whom came Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall, the eminent physician of Norfolk, Virginia, is

of the same family as Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of London and also of Durham, prominent people in the county of King and Queen, Virginia, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Richard Tunstall was granted land in King and Queen county, Virginia, in 1667. Colonel Richard Tun- stall was a member of the house of bur- gesses, 1766-67-68; a member of the com- mittee of safety, 1774, and both he and his son Richard (2) were clerks of King and Queen county.

This record deals with the distinguished career of Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall, of Norfolk, and his seven children.

Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall was born in Norfolk county, Virginia, August 31, 1818, died in the city of Norfolk, April i, 1883. His father, Alexander Tunstall, was cash- ier of the Farmers' Bank and had a farm in Norfolk county. The early years of Dr. Tunstall were spent on the farm. His pre- paratory education was acquired in private schools ; his classical education was acquired at Hampden-Sidney College. Deciding upon medicine as his profession he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where he was graduated with honors and awarded his de- gree of M. D. He began practice in the city of Norfolk, where until his death he was engaged in a most successful and extensive medical and surgical practice. He was highly regarded professionally, the demand for his services coming from all classes and to all was his skill freely given. He spared not himself, but ever held himself in readi- ness to respond to a call from the sufifering. He was a devout churchman, and for over thirty years was a vestryman of St. Paul's Church, Norfolk. He belonged to the lead- ing medical societies and was much sought for in consultation. He married Elizabeth Walke Williamson, of English descent, her forbears having long been seated in Henrico county, Virginia. Children of Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall: Baynham B. Tunstall, eldest daughter of Dr. Robert Baylor Tun- stall. was born in 1840, died in 1891 ; married Robertson Taylor, of Baltimore, Maryland. Their son, Dr. Robert Tunstall Taylor, I)rominent physician of Baltimore, Mary- land, married Florence Templeman.

Alexander Tunstall, the eldest son of Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall, was born in Nor- folk, Virginia, April 8. 1843, ^^^^ there No-