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I-'or three years he traveled in the interest;^- of the Lendon Oil Company, subsequently moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became associated with a leading photographer and thoroughly learned the difficult art. Si'^ce 1894 Mr. Cheyne has been engaged in this calling in Ilnmpton, Virginia, in that year opening :n the city the first studio of any pretension that Hampton had known. With the esta^ilishment in business of competuig photographic concerns Mr. Cheyne's busi- ness has not suffered 10 any appreciable <!e- gree. for he retains his old patronage and through the excellence of his art and .he attractive'iess of his parlors gains a gener- ous proportion of the new. Not only is his studio one of the finest in this region, but he is a skilled master of the photographic an, a close student of all that is new in his everchangnig field and a tireless experi- n^.enter in ihe quest for pleasing effects in tone snd composition. His studio is ile- servedly popular, for his work is of a dis- tinctive character, showing the hand oi the accon.iplished and careful artist.

Mr. Cheyne affiliates with the Maseru ic ordt-r, belonging to St. Tammany Lodge. N'j. 5, 7rce and Accepted Masons, and ,St. John's Commandery, No. 57, Royal Arch Masons. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protecti\e Order of Klks. His political belief is Demo- cratic al'.hough he is not active in public affairs, and he is a trustee of the First Methodist Church, also president of a Bible clas^ connected with this church. He is a member of the Young Alen's Christian As- sociaiiov:.

He married, July 13. 1897, Louise, bor.i January i, 1868, daughter of William and Emma {Smithj Couch (see Couch sketch, in this work), and has issue: Ethelbert. born May 26, 1898; Emily, born June [3, 1901 : Marian, born February 6, 1909.

Peter Lee Huddleston. For nearly a quarter of a century Peter Lee Huddleston has been the honored sheriff of Bedford county, A'irginia. his re-elections every four years being a matter of course, no opposi- tion being off'ered to the retention in office of an old tried and true veteran of the Con- federate army and veteran of the public ser- vice. His years, seventy-seven, set lightly upon his shoulders and, while they have

cooled the blood of the man who half a century ago dragged himself from beneath his wounded horse on the bloody i'leld • f Gettysburg, they have also ripened his judg- ment and clarified his vision, so that the veteran of 191 5 stands on a higher plane and as civil officer of the government rend- ers service to his fellow-men valuable and well appreciated.

Peter Lee Huddleston was born in Bed- ford county, Virginia. August 5, 1837. His early life was spent in farming, a vocation he followed until the outbreak of the war between the states in 1861. when he enlisted in the Confederate army and for four v-ears followed the varying fortunes of the Con- federacy, as private and officer, infantry- man and cavalryman. For the first tv/elve months he was a first lieutenant of the Twentieth-eighth Regiment Virginia Infan- try, and subsequently transferred to Com- pany A, Second Regiment Virginia Cavalry, as a private. He was engaged at first Man- assas, Fredericksburg. Chancellors\ille, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Brandy Station and many other battles of the war, serving without serious injury to himself, although hurt at Gettysburg by a soldier's horse fall- ing upon him. His military career was marked by the display of the soldierly quali- ties all admire, courage, obedience and de- votion, while those years of peril and sacri- fice but added strength to his character, paving the way for the years of usefulness to follow. Mr. Huddleston's brother, \\'il- liam Camden Huddleston. born in Bedford county, June 14, 1835, was a fellow soldier in the Second Virginia Cavalry, Hampton's division, serving as a private until the war ended. He married Elizabeth Gibbs. His sister, Sarah Huddleston, born in Bedford county, Virginia, in 1833, married William P. Thomas.

Peter Lee Huddleston, after the war ended, returned to Bedford county where he engaged in farming, taught school, be- came civil engineer and surveyor, continu- ing as such imtil 1891. In that year he was elected sheriff of Bedford county and as each quadrennial term ended, he has been returned to succeed himself without oppo- sition. This is no less a tribute to his hon- est, upright and efficient administration of the sheriff's office than a testimonial to his high character as a man. neighbor and citi- zen. Mr. Huddleston was made a Mason