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is S. A. P., his club the University. Fond of out-of-door sports and interested in their promotion, Dr. Jones spends his hours of¥ duty in the open, and as president of the Covington Base Ball Club of the "Moun- tain League" has developed a strong organ- ization.

Dr. Jones married, in 1906, Anne Con- stance Shanahan. born in 1882, daughter of Cornelius M. Shanahan. Children : Arling- ton Cecil (2), born in Covintgon. July 8 1910, and Henry Harrison, born December 15, 1911.

Thomas Bernard Dornin. In the eigh- teenth century there was living in Paris, France, a family named Simonette, whose daughter. Marie Constance, born in 1752, married Edouard Garreau, attorney to the King. Having large possessions in San Domingo, he was on the island at the time of an insurrection of the negro slaves. Mon- sieur Garreau was entertaining a party of gentlemen when a slave w^arned them of the uprising, and they hurriedly sought safety, their host being shot while stand- ing in his doorway. The faithful slave res- cued the wife and children, concealing them under the sweet potato vines until he could get them aboard a vessel leaving for Spain. In Paris one of the daughters, Constance Rosalie, married Count Joseph Boudar, who was forced to leave the country at the time of the insurrection of the people against the nobility. This was the French revolution. He encountered many difficulties in making his escape, being driven into the sea by his pursuers, but was rescued by a passing vessel and brought to the United States, where his wife had preceded him, and given birth to their eldest child, Marie Rosalie, who was born March 2, 1800. When she was eighteen months old her parents went to Cuba, locating in Havana, and they were living there in 1810 when the insurrection of the natives occurred, and although she was l)ut ten years of age at that time she always retained a distinct recollection of the ter- rible scenes. She remembered seeing the mob from the garret window, where she and her brother, Thomas Boudar, had been con- cealed by the porter. Madam Boudar was away from home when the mob was form- ing and knew nothing of it until she met the governor driving rapidly down the street, who took her into his carriage and

drove her out of the city, and out of the way of harm. The scene that Marie Rosalie witnessed from the window as she looked out upon the mob was horrible beyond de- scription. The streets w^ere running with blood, and the ground was nearly covered with the bodies of the slain ; maddened negroes were going about wath human heads impaled upon sticks, while some of the lioters were dressed in the handsome silks and jewelry of the murdered women, and all were shouting and screaming as loud as they could.

As soon as possible the Boudar family returned to the United States. They first located in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, then in Norfolk, Virginia, and then in Richmond, the same state. At the com- mencement of the war of 1812 they removed to Lynchburg, then Lynch's Ferry, and several years later Marie Rosalie visited her brother, Thomas Boudar, in Richmond, Vir- ginia, and there she met William Dornin, whose wife she became. They returned to Lynchburg together, and there the family has resided ever since.

William Dornin was descended from a prominent family in county Antrim, Ire- land, who owned and managed extensive cattle grazing lands. His parents offered every inducement to persuade him to remain in the land of his birth, but being possessed of an adventurous spirit, which was not easily subdued, he ran away from home at the early age of sixteen, emigrating to the United States, settling first in New York City, from whence he removed to Richmond, Virginia. After his marriage with Marie Rosalie Boudar he removed to Lynchburg, Virginia, and was prominently identihed with the growth of that city. Mrs. Dornin lived a life of unselfish devotion to her church, her family, her friends, and all who needed her assistance. The first service of the Roman Catholic church in Lynchburg was held in her house, she having previously collected the children of Catholic families and taught them in her home, so that she enjoyed the distinction of being the mother of the Catholic church in Lynchburg. Her long life was spent in service to others, in nursing the sick and assisting the poor and distressed, and especially during the trying period of the civil war were her services helpful, she devoting her entire time to the sick soldiers in the hospitals, where in her

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