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county, who died about 1865, aged seventy- five years. He married Harriet Webb and there were ten children, two of whom are yet living: Mrs. Frances Gee and John A. Webb, a merchant of Kinbridge, Lunen- burg county. Dr. Edward C. and Frances Gee after their marriage lived at Lochleven, where their thirteen children were born, of whom nine are living: Nannie B., married (first) W. A. Jones, (second) E. S. W^at- kins. and resides in Lochleven; Hattie, died in infancy ; Everett Webb, of whom fur- ther; Etta May, married W. C. Winn, a merchant of Pleasant Grove, Lunenburg county ; Jessie E., married Dr. T. C. Harris, a practicing physician of Kinbridge, Lunen- burg county ; Robert E., farmer and internal revenue commissioner of Lunenburg county ; Gertrude, married J. G. Bailey, of Kinbridge; John William, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, located at Prospect, Virginia ; Tunis Thomas, a farmer at Lochleven ; James, twin of Tunis T., died in infancy ; Susan, deceased ; Charles, de- ceased ; Frank A., a farmer of Lochleven.

Everett Webb Gee, AI. D.. third child of Dr. Edward C. Gee, was born in Lochleven, Lunenburg county, Virginia, June 20, 1865. His early education w^as obtained in the public schools, and from the age of fourteen to tw^enty-one years he was a clerk in his father's general mercantile business in Loch- leven. In 1886 he entered the Medical Col- lege of Virginia in Richmond, and was there graduated Doctor of Medicine, class of 1888. He then returned to Lochleven where until his father's death in 1893 they were asso- ciated in practice. Two years later he located in Richmond, Virginia, establishing offices at No. 315 East Clay street. In 1906 he moved to his present location, No. 416 East Grace street, where he is well estab- lished in public esteem as an honorable, skillful physician. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Virginia Medical Association. Tri-State Medical As- sociation, Southern Medical Association. Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Rich- mond, Virginia. He is a member of the Centenary Methodist Ei)iscopal Church, and a Democrat in politics.

Dr. Gee married, in Richmond, July 16, 1891. \'irginia \\\ Webb, born June 16, 1866, at Lunenburg Courthouse, daughter of Wil- liam W. and \'irginia H. (Fames) Webb. William \\'. Webb died in November, 1892,

aged sixty-five years ; his widow* yet sur- vives him, a resident of Richmond. Chil- dren of Dr. Everett W. and Virginia W. (Webb) Gee: William Webb, born Novem- ber 12, 1893; Margaret, died in 1901, aged three and a half years; M. Virginia, born January 31, 1903.

James Alexander McClure. Rev. James Alexander McClure, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Petersburg, Vir- ginia, is a descendant in the sixth generation of a Scotch-Irish family, early planted in Virginia. Several of his ancestors were sol- diers of the revolution, and the McClure family partakes essentially of those Scotch cjualities which have always led to success in life, honesty, industry and economy. The McClure family in Scotland was an ofTshoot of the clan McLeod, tracing back to the Isle of Skye. There are many theories regard- ing the origin of the name, but none of them are positively fixed by recorded authority. The name occurs in Scotland as early as the twelfth century, and in the fifteenth cen- tury it appears as Mak Lure. Persons of the name abound at the present day in Ayr- shire, Scotland, and many of the name went from Scotland to Northern Ireland in the days when James VI. made numerous land grants to immigrants from that country. Thence have come many to various sections of the United States, and all have given credit to the name, and have been useful in developing the communities in which they lived.

(I) James McClure, pioneer of the family in Augusta county, Virginia, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, about 1690, and with his wife Agnes settled in Long Meadow, on Middle river of the Shenan- doah, abcyat five miles north of Fisherville, in 1738. The survey of his land was made in that year. He was a charter member of the Tinkling Spring Church, organized 1740, and baptisms of two children are recorded there.

(II) His eldest child, John McClure, was born in 1717, and was about eighteen years old when he came with his father to Vir- ginia. He settled on South river, near Lyndhurst, where he received a deed for 359 acres, March i, 1749. His name appears frequently in the records of the county. He was tenth on the muster roll of Captain James Cathrey's company in 1742, was a