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Williams. Tie married (second) October 12, 191 1, Louisa S. White, born in New Or- leans, Louisiana, September 13, 1875, daugh- ter of E. A. and Adrienne (Lewis) White. Children of first marriage : Annie Lucinda.' born November 7, 1874, married T. P. Ford, June, 191 1 ; Joseph Garland, born Septem- ber 13, 1877, married Cora Virginia, daugh- ter of Judge George H. Broughton ; Roy Williams, born August 10. 1880, married Katherine, daughter of Rev. E. F. Kahle ; Charlie, born October 11, 1895; George Xorvill, born February 14, 1901. Children by second marriage : Julia Adrienne, born June 20, 1913; John Edward, born July 11, 1914.

Thomas David Jones, M. D. Securing a medical education through his own efiforts, in fact having to work hard for everything in the way of education. Dr. Jones overcame all obstacles, and since 1906 has been en- gaged in practice in the city of Richmond, where he is reaping the rewards of his^ years of study, labor and preparation. His Scotch ancestors came to America at an early pe- riod, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, about the middle of the seventeenth century. He is a grandson of David and Rosanna (Sims) Jones, and a son of Langdon Cheves Jones.

Langdon Cheves Jones was, for the most of his active life, commissioner of revenue for Louisa county, Virginia, a man of bril- liant mind and remarkable memory, but limited education, books having been his greatest educators. He married Frances Elizabeth Harlow, daughter of Thomas Harlow, who was born in 1788, died in 1863.

Dr. Thomas David Jones was born at Zion, Louisa county, Virginia, July 19, 1878. He attended the public schools of his dis- trict in early life, and worked around among the farmers of the neighborhood from the time he was twelve years of age until sev- enteen. He was fond of reading, but fol- lowed no special line of study, acquiring gen- eral information in all possible ways. At the age of seventeen years he located in Richmond. X'irginia, where for one year he worked in the IManchester Butter, Dish fac- tory, then a branch of the Richmond Cedar Works. He then spent one year as con- ductor on the Ivichmond Railway & Electric Company, now the Virginia Railway & Power Comjiaii}-. From the fall of 1897 until 1902 he was clerk in the general mer-

cantile store of W. M. Payne, at Zion, Vir- ginia. He had carefully husbanded his re- sources, having a profession in view, and after leaving Zion and his clerical position, he returned to Richmond and entered the Medical College of Virginia. In 1906 he was graduated M. D., and from the spring of 1906 until 1907 was interne at the City Hospital, Richmond. He then began private practice in the same city, and so continues successfully. He is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church ; Omega Upsilon Phi ; the American Medical Association ; Rich- mond Academy of Medicine and Surgery, and has held many offices in the following orders: Lodge No. 14. Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men, Jun- ior Order of United American Mechanics and Woodmen of the World.

Dr. Jones married, November 2. 1910, Helen, daughter of William H. and Alice Y. Wheeler, granddaughter of John V. and Missouri (Pettijohn) Wheeler, and a de- scendant of John Wheeler, the "Pilgrim" of early New England. Children : Thomas David Jr., John Paul.

Charles Landon Scott. Agriculture, medi- cine, pedagogy and the law are the callings that have been followed in Virginia by three generations of the family of Scott. The first is ascribed to Charles A. Scott, grand- father of Charles Landon Scott ; the second to Samuel Scott, his father, a physician of reputation, his wide practice extending over four counties ; while the last two are the activities of Charles Landon Scott, the latter the profession with which he has been prominently identified in Amherst county since 1884, admission to the bar having been granted him three years previously.

The Scott family is an old one in Vir- ginia and is of Scotch origin, the American ancestor of the line having come from the parish of Buccleugh, county of Selkirk, Scotland, which still gives the title of duke to the head of the Scott family. The fam- ily coat-of-arms follows : "Arms — On a bend a star between two crescents, in a bordure eight stars. Crest — a dove. TUotto — Gandhi uiuicio magna."'

(1) Charles A. Scott, grandfather of Charles L. Scott, was born in lUickingham county. \'irginia. and there lived until his death, aged sixtv-seven vears. He was the