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Clara (Boothe) Weir, of Prince William county, Virginia, her father sometime a merchant of Tappahannock, Virginia. His father was James W'eir, a Scotchman, who settled at "Dumfries" in Prince William county. Virginia, and married Lucy Mary Marye in St. George parish, Virginia. Issue of General Eppa and Lucy Caroline (W^eir) llunton: Elizabeth Boothe, born June 20, 1853, died September 30, 1854; Eppa, of whom further.

(VI) Eppa (3) Hunton, son of General Eppa (2) and Lucy Caroline (Weir) Hun- ton, was born April 14, 1855, at Brentsville, Prince William county, Virginia. He re- ceived elementary instruction in the local schools of Warrenton, Virginia, and at the age of fifteen years he was sent to Bellevue Hig-h School in Bedford county, Virginia, where he remained from 1870 to 1873, ^^^ in the last mentioned year he entered the University of Virginia, where he was gradu- ated in 1877 with distinction. Some years after leaving the university he was honored with membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fra* ternity. In October, 1877, he began the practice of law with his father at Warren- ton, Virginia, under the firm name of Hun- ton & Son, and later attended regularly the courts in Prince William and Loudoun counties, Virginia. He moved to Richmond, \'irginia, in 1901, and became a member of the law firm of Munford, Hunton, Williams &: Anderson, which still continues. He was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1893- 94, represented Fauquier and Loudoun counties, Virginia; and in 1901-02 was a member of the Virginia constitutional con- vention, in which he was chairman of the committee on judiciary.

Hon. Eppa Hunton is a Democrat in poli- tics, a director of the First National Bank of Richmond, and likewise of the Richmond Trust and Savings Company, and is general counsel of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac and W^ashington Southern rail- roads. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, the Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon, college frater- nities. He is also a member of the W^est- moreland (president in 1912-13), and of the Commonwealth clubs of Richmond ; the Fauquier Club, of Warrenton, and of the Country Club of Virginia.

Mr. Hunton married (first) Erva Winston Payne, daughter of General William Henry

iMtzhugh and Mary Elizabeth (Payne) Payne, November 18, 1884, at Warrenton, Virginia. She was born February 20, 1861, and died October 9, 1897, in the same county, without issue. He married (second) Vir- ginia Semmes Payne, sister of the first men- tioned, April 24. 1901, at Warrenton, Vir- ginia. She was born February 23, 1867, in Fauquier county, Virginia, and is the mother of: Mary Winter Payne, born July 5, 1902, died the same day; Eppa (4), born July 31, 1904.

General William Henry Fitzhugh Payne lived in Warrenton, Fauquier county, Vir- ginia, was a distinguished lawyer, and for several years prior to the civil war was com- monwealth attorney of Fauquier county. Early in 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in the Black Horse Cav- alry Company ; he was soon elected captain of his company, and commanded .it until September, 1861, and thereafter was pro- moted successively until he attained the rank of brigadier-general of cavalry, November I, 1864. He was wounded and captured each time respectively at Williamsburg, Virginia, Hanover, Pennsylvania, Five Forks, Vir- ginia, and was a prisoner of war at Old Point Comfort, Johnson's Island and the Old Capitol. He married Mary Elizabeth Payne, daughter of Colonel William W inter Payne and Minerva (W^inston) Payne, of Virginia and Alabama, and they had chil- dren : William Winter. Arthur Morson, Henry Fitzhugh. John Winston, Richards, Erva Winston, of whom above ; John Dan- iel, Sarah Robb, Virginia Semmes, of whom above ; Charles Bland Payne.

Edgar Wood Bowles, M. D., D. D. S.

Regularly graduated in medicine and dental surgery, Dr. Edgar Wood Bowles chose the latter profession as his field of endeavor, and since 1901 has been an active practitioner of Richmond, that year the date of his gradu- ation from the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Bowles is a son of Drewry W. Bowles, a contracting builder of Richmond and a veteran of the war between the states. Dr. Bowles himself having a worthy military record. Dr. Bowles was a student in the University College of Medicine when the war with Spain broke out. and, leaving- school, as a member of Company H, Fourth Regiment Virginia Volunteers (Company A, Richmond Light Infantry Blues brigade),