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1864 he succeeded Captain M. C. Arthur, who was killed near Winchester. Virginia, and remained in command until the close of the war. He then returned to Bedford county, where he was elected county treas- urer, and at the end of one term was elected to the state legislature, in which he served several terms. He then filled the office of state senator for two terms, after which he Avas urgently requested to accept the nomi- nation for United States senator, but he ab- solutely refused. He was well known throughout the state. He left a widow and seven children. Mr. and Airs. Johnson had children: i. Lewis Arthur Johnson, B. A., LL. B., was born June 10, 1891 ; when he was graduated from the Roanoke high school, he was awarded a scholarship to the Univer- sity of Virginia, and was graduated from the law department in 1912, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws ; during his senior year at the university, he was adjunct professor on corporation law ; he was president of his class at the time of his graduation, having been previously selected by the faculty, and was the winner of the gold medal for ora- tory, a much-coveted honor ; for several years he had been president of the Univer- sity Young Men's Christian Association, and prominent in other student activities ; he is noAv a member of the law firm of Step- toe <S: Johnson, in Clarksburg, West Vir- ginia, where he has attained state-wide prominence as a lawyer and campaign ora- tor. 2. Marcellus A. Johnson, Jr., was born September 2/, 1893 ! ^^'^^ graduated from the Roanoke high school in 191 1, then entered the University College of Medicine, at Richmond, Virginia, where he is now the president of his class and a member of the fraternities and other student organizations ; while in high school he was president of the Roanoke Federation of Christian Endeavor Societies, and is now active in religious life at the medical school. 3. Gordon Earl John- son, born February 3, 1896; was graduated from the Roanoke high school, and then qualified for the second year class in the scientific-electrical course, in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is a leader in musical circles. 4. Helen G. Johnson, is a student in "the Roa- noke high school. 5. Paul S. Johnson, at- tends the public schools.

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Radford Millner Cox. As cashier of th( Farmers" Bank of Amherst, senior membe: of the firm of Cox & Gregory, and a mem ber of the Amherst council, Radford Mill ner Cox holds a conspicuous and importan position in the business and public life o that town, while the following chronicle wil show that in its religious life and the pro motion of all of the influences for the ad vancement of his town and locality his par has ever been a worthy one. He is a de scendant of a family old in Amherst county his grandfather, Reuben Cox, having ther( been a farmer, his death occurring after h( had attained an advanced age, the father o four sons, one of them, Archie, the father o Radford Millner Cox.

Archie Cox, son of Reuben Cox, was borr in x\mherst county, Virginia, in 1809, diec in Amherst, Virginia, in 1876. His occupa tion was that of his father, and he died on th< land that he had cultivated for the greatei part of his life. He married (first) Grac( Ann Burford, daughter of a farmer of Am herst county, where he passed his life, (sec ond) a Miss Christian, a native of Amherst who died in 1872. Children of Archie Cox all of his first marriage : Rosa V., marriec George W. Christian, deceased, and resides in Amherst, Virginia ; Nannie Madison, mar- ried Robert A. Kent, a merchant of Am- herst, Virginia ; Radford Millner, of whorr further. The following children, also of the first marriage of Archie Cox, are all de- ceased : Edward L., a soldier in a Virginia Regiment in the war between the states was killed in the battle of Seven Pines : Jane, married Samuel R. Wartham ; Pow- hatan G., a member of a Virginia regiment in the war of 1861-65, killed in the fighting about Richmond ; Breckenbridge F., a sol- dier of the Confederate States army, in a Virginia regiment, was wounded in the fighting around Richmond, taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg, present at the Appomattox Court House, died in Amherst, Virginia, in 1875 ; Robert Walker, a soldier of the Confederate army, wounded in action at the battle of Seven Pines, died soon after- ward at Scottsville from the effects of his injury ; William Fletcher, for two years a member of the engineering corps of the Con- federate army, died in Amherst, Virginia, in 1902.

Radford Alillner Cox, son of Archie and