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Fire Compaii}-. and also held ofiicial posi- tions in the Virginia State Firemen's Asso- ciation. For many years Colonel Marshall was prominent in politics, and was three times nominated for Congress in a district having from nine to ten thousand Republi- can majority, and carried the standard of his party though defeated in common with others. During the first Cleveland adminis- tration he was active in the local councils, and exercised much influence in that and the succeeding Cleveland administration. He was a leading spirit in Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Portsmouth, and was afBliated with Portsmouth Lodge, No. 82, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. At his funeral held from St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, all these bodies attended with full rank, testifying the respect and esteem in which their com- rade was held.

He married Catherine Wilson, who died in 1891. Children: i. Myra, died at the age of fifteen years. 2. Rebecca Coke, born 1868; married, 1893, Marion Lewis Marshall, son of Jacquelin Ambler Marshall, and had three children : Richard Jacquelin, Kate Wilson, and St. Julien Ravenal ; the eldest is a stu- dent at the Virginia Military Institute. 3. Susan Lewis, born 1870; married, in 1900, Robert Stribling Marshall, a brother of her elder sister's husband, born November, 1871 ; they have children: Richard Coke (3), born 1900; Mary Douthal, 1902; Robert Stribling, Jr., 1905; Myra St. Julien, 1909; Susan Lewis, 191 1. 4. S. Wilson, born 1872; married, 1902, Agnes Howard Nelson, and has children : S. Wilson, Jr., born 1905 ; Eleanor Warner, 1908. 5. Kate W^ilson, born 1875, died in infancy. 6. Fielding Lewis, born 1877; married, 1902, Freda Darley Jackson, and has children : Fielding Lewis, Jr., born 1906; Fred Darley, 1908, died 1914; Mary Jacquelin, 1911; Richard Coke (4), 1912. 7. Richard Coke, mentioned below 8. St. Julien Ravenal, born 1881 ; married. 1908, Marie Stuart Lewis, and had children : St. Julien Ravenal, Jr., born 1910; John i-ewis, 1912. 9. Rev. Myron Barrand, born 1883; married, 1907, Sarah Niemeyer, and had children: Louise Chandler, born 1908; Elizabeth Barrand, 1909; Catherine Wilson, 1912.

(IX) Captain Richard Coke (2) Marshall, third son of Colonel Richard Coke (i) and Catherine (Wilson) ^^larshall, was born

March 13. 1879, in Portsmouth. X'irginia. and there attended L. P. Slater's school, a l)rivate institution of that city. He gradu- ated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1898, and enlisted in the United States serv- ice for the Spanish war. receiving a commis- sion as captain. On his return from this service he was engaged in teaching for two and one-half years at the Virginia Military Institute, and in 1902 received a commission in the coast artillery, belonging to the regu- lar army, and in 1908 was promoted to cap- tain. He was stationed at Old Point, Fort Monroe, but has been transferred to the quartermaster-general's office at Washing- ton. D. C. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha, a college fraternity; is a communi- cant of the Episcopal church, and in politics is a Democrat. In 1903 he married Marie Louise Booker, daughter of George S. and Laura (Garrett) Booker, of Old Point. Vir- ginia. Their children are: Laura Winder, born October i, 1904; Richard Coke, born February 19. 1908.

Edward May. Several generations of suc- cessful planters and business men have made the name May a familiar one through- out the south, much of its prestige of former days resulting from the membership of Au- gustus Hugh May, father of Edward May, of Norfolk. Virginia, in the firm of Rich- ardson (X: May, of New Orleans, Louisiana, a large and wealthy concern whose business and possessions extended over many of the cotton growing states. Pleasant Hugh May, the father of Augustus Hugh May. was a distinguished lawyer, judge and legislator of South Carolina, a graduate of Chapel Hill College, North Carolina, while in the pres- ent day the family is represented in Nor- folk by Mr. Edward Alay. a prominent finan- cier and broker. Edward ]\Iay has been con- nected with the business community of the city only since 1902. He was born in New Orleans. Louisiana, but educated in \ ir- ginia, having attended the University of \'irginia. His earlier business career, laid in the lines he now follows, was passed in Chicago and the Northwest, having been one of the first settlers in Dakota Territory.

( I ) Among the earliest members of this Lincolnshire. England, family, was John May. who about 1740 filled the of^ce of clerk of Bristol parish. Virginia. John May mar- ried, about 1735, Agnes Smith, and had