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the old home of Captain Lewis Marshall in Fauquier county. Virginia. 4. Frank, unmar- ried, lives with his father at the old home the deed for which, signed on parchment in 1762, by Lord Fairfax, is still in the posses- sion of the family. 5. Charles, died unmar- ried at the age of twenty-four. 6. W^arren, died a missionary in India. 7. Russell, mar- ried Edna, daughter of James Clarke, of Ashley, Indiana, and now in the general in- surance business in Oklahoma City. 8. John A., of whom further.

(VII) John A. Tuttrell, son of Burwell Edmund and Mary Ritchie (Nelson) Lut- trell, was born in eastern Virginia. At the age of fifteen he entered Rappahannock Academy, in Rappahannock county, Vir- ginia, and took there a two years' course. Deciding then to go into a business life he entered in January, 1897, the Bryant & Stratton Business College in Baltimore and after finishing the full course there he went to work as a partner to his cousin. George M. Whitescarver, Esq., in Grafton, West Virginia, the business being that of general insurance, and under the firm name of G. M. Whitescarver & Company. He remained in this connection until No- vember, 1899, 'when on account of his father's illness he returned to his home in Virginia, having sold out his business inter- ests in Grafton. He remained in Virginia until January, 1901, when he returned to Grafton as clerk in the offices of F. A. Husted. superintendent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He left this position in April of that year to accept one with the South- ern Coal & Transportation Company, at Berryburg. in Barbour county, West Vir- ginia. This he left in June of the same year to take the position of private secretary to J. I. Jones, secretary of the Weaver Coal & Coke Company, at Belington, West Vir- ginia. He remained there until August of that year when he accepted a position as general accountant of the Cincinnati, Rich- mond &: Muncie railroad, and afterwards changed to the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louis- ville railroad, at Richmond, Indiana. After being there for about fifteen months he re- turned to Belington, and re-assumed his former position which he held until John W. Gates absorbed the interest of the Weaver Coal & Coke Company. In March, 1905, he sold his interest to Mr. Rector in their agencies at Belington, Philippi and Grafton.

and came to Parkersburg to accept a posi- tion in the insurance department of the Citizens' Trust & Guaranty Company, leav- ing them in October, 1905, to purchase a half interest in the old established insur- ance agency owned by the late William Doremus Paden. The name of this business was changed to Paden & Luttrell, and this name again changed, January, 191 1, after the death of Mr. Paden, to Paden & Lut- trell Insurance Agency, of wdiich concern Mr. Luttrell became president and general manager. In May, 1914, having previously purchased the interest formerly owned by Air. Paden and having sold an interest to Messrs. W. S. Lindamood and Albert B. White Jr. Mr. Luttrell severed his connec- tion wath the ofifice as general manager. He left Parkersburg on account of his health to spend the summer in Houston, Halifax county, Virginia, where in 1912 he had pur- chased the colonial home of the Holt family, built about 1834, and known as "Grand Oaks."

Mr. Luttrell is still interested in the busi- ness which bears his name, retaining the position of president. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Knight Templar, a mem- ber of Nemesis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Parkersburg. He is also an Elk, member of the Knights of Pythias, Modern Wood- men, and of the Parkersburg Country Club.

Mr. Luttrell married A^irginia, daughter of Judge Kinnaird Snodgrass, and grand- daughter of Hon. John F. Snodgrass, who represented the Parkersburg district in con- gress in 1853 before the separation from Virginia. He had one child named for his mother, Mary Ritchie Nelson, who died in October, 1907, when nine days old. An- other child, John Augustine Adams, was born February 12, 1913.

The information used herein as to the Lut- trell family in England and in Ireland is taken from "Sir Maxwell Lyte's History of Dunster and Its Lords," "Burke's Landed Gentry," '"Lodge's Peerage of Ireland," "Alacaulay's History of England," "Dug- dale's Baronage," and from numerous manu- scripts in the British Museum, and in Trin- ity College, Dublin, Ireland. The sources of the information as to the American branch have been deeds, commissions and family records.