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while in 1630-32 he was one of the commis- sioners appointed for the building of a fort at Point Comfort. His wife, Catherine (Croshor) Graves, he probably married be- fore his immigration to Virginia.

The line continues through his son, John Graves, born at Smyth's Hundred, Virginia, who married a Miss Perrin and settled in Elizabeth City county, where on May 15, 1638, he was granted two hundred acres, and on May 20, 1639, one hundred and fifty acres. His son, Ralph, married Rachel, daughter of Major Joseph Croshor, and had a son, Richard Graves, born about 1665. This Richard Graves had a son, John, born December 10, 1712, married, November 22, 1732, Susan Dicken, born June 14, 1714. After his death she married again, her sec- ond husband being Richard Childs.

Isaac Graves, of the sixth American gen- eration of his family, son of John and Susan (Dicken) Graves, was born September 2, 1741. He married (first) a Miss Williams, who died a year after their marriage at the birth of a child that did not survive infancy. He married (second) Elizabeth Cowherd, born November 28, 1751, died in 1790. He married (third) Jemima, born May 29, 1754, died Eebruary 5, 1836, daughter of Joseph Holladay. Lewis HoUaday Graves, son of the third marriage of Isaac Graves, was born September 16, 1793, died May 30, 1868; married, February 18, 1819, Frances \\'hite, born November 14, 1799, died August 27, 1882, daughter of Captain Richard White.

Thomas Edward Graves, son of Lewis Holladay and Frances (White) Graves, was born in Virginia, January 9, 1834, died in 1905. He married, November 26, 1867, Louisa Brockman, daughter of Samuel Brockman. Louisa Brockman was born November 20, 1837, and was the mother of: Walter R. ; Lizzie Brockman, married Alexander Green, of Warrenton, \"irginia, and has children : William Thomas and Helen Page ; Stanley Hope, of whom further ; Channing Page, married Natalie Burruss. of Orange county, \^irginia, and has children : Alice, aged five years, and Thomas Edward, aged two years.

Dr. Stanley Flope Graves, son of Thomas Edward and Louisa (Brockman) Graves, was born in Orange county, Virginia, May 20. 1872. The public and private schools furnished him with his primary education,

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and in 1889 he matriculated at William and Mary College, completing his academic course in 1892. He immediately began pro- fessional study at the IMedical College of \'irginia, at Richmond, Virginia, receiving his M. D. from that institution in 1894, and after his graduation he was for one year interne in a Richmond hospital, and later in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, and then in New York. Since 1905 Dr. Graves has been a practitioner of Norfolk, Virginia, from 1906 until 1910 an associate in the practice of medicine in the firm of Leigh & Graves, Dr. Southgate Leigh the other member of the association. Dr. Graves was medical su- ])erintendent of the Sarah Leigh Hospital during this association. In the latter year the two physicians dissolved this relationship and Dr. Graves has continued in private prac- tice. In surgery, as in general practice, he has gained wide reputation, and has en- joyed a successful professional career, car- ing for the needs of a large clientele. Dr. Graves is chief surgeon of the Virginia Rail- way & Power Company ; assistant surgeon of the Norfolk & Western and New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railway companies; attending surgeon of the Norfolk Protestant Hospital ; president of the Board of Quaran- tine Commissioners for Elizabeth River and Hampton Roads : ex-member of the State Board of Health; medical examiner for the Home Life and Germania of New York In- surance companies. Dr. Graves' medical associations are the Norfolk County, Sea- board and Virginia State, while fraternally he is a Mason, completing the York Rite to a Knight Templar and the shrine. His so- cial connections are with the Borough Club. Dr. Stanley Hope Graves married Etta Vernon, daughter of Dr. Vernon Grant and Etta Franklin (Borum) Culpepper.

Foushee Overton Mooklar, D. D. S. Two

southern branches of the family of Mooklar were settled at the same time, three Scotch immigrants founding their families in New York, Kentucky and Virginia. It is of the latter line that Foushee Overton Mooklar a dental practitioner of Richmond, is repre- sentative, Richmond having been the fam- ily home at different times for many years. Dr. Foushee O. Mooklar is a great-grand- son of William Mooklar, who married, in Westmoreland county, Virginia, December