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20. 1791, Sally Atwell, and among their chil- dren was William, of whom further.

William Mooklar, son of W'illiam and Sally (Atwellj Mooklar, was a native of Virginia, and died in Essex county, Vir- ginia, while visiting in that locality. He was a pedagogue by profession, and at his death was the head of a well attended and flourishing school, taught by himself. He married Susan Tebbs, daughter of Captain Foushee C. Tebbs. a sketch of whose family is given below, and they were the parents of five children : The eldest son went west, and his death occurred in Kentucky in 1842 : Sarah ; Martha ; Atwell Tebbs, of whom fur- ther ; Foushee Bladon, died in childhood.

Atwell Tebbs Mooklar, son of William and Susan (Tebbs) Mooklar, was born in Richmond county, Virginia, February 7, 1827. died in King William county, Virginia, February I, 1901. retired. For many years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Mangohick. King William county, Vir- ginia, in connection with farming, and was popular and well known throughout the locality. In politics and public life he was active to an unusual degree, and there were but two elective county offices in which the popular vote did not place him at some time in his career, commonwealth attorney and clerk. With these two exceptions all offices, from constable to representative, were oc- cupied by him, and in all he served accept- ably, for twenty years holding the chair- manship of the board of supervisors. Until ten years prior to his death he was active in both business and public service, but at that time he retired and lived free from arduous responsibility during his remain- ing years. He carried with him, to add to the peaceful enjoyment of his closing years, a sense of many duties well performed and the assurance of the gratitude and appre- ciation of those for whom and with whom lie labored. His business associaties ever found him the soul of honor, ready in the meeting of all obligations, careful in all things, but never grasping or harsh, and this uprightness and fairness was conspicu- ously noticeable in all of his dealings with bis fellows. He was a man to whom pa- triotism and a strong sense of right were inherent qualities, and his strong belief in the Confederate cause led him to take up arms in its defence in the years from 1861 to 1865. He held a first lieutenancy in the

Twenty-second Virginia Regiment, and fought in that body tmtil the close of the war.

Atwell Tebbs Mooklar married (first) Fannie E. Fox, of King William county, \irginia, January 5. 1865, by whom he had two children : Ellen, who married William J. Cocke, of Greensburg, Indiana, and has one child. Mary INIooklar Cocke, and Rich- ard, who died in young manhood. He mar- ried (second) June 4. 1872. Lucy Taliaferro Walker, of Walkerton. King and Queen county. \'irginia, daughter of Temple and Jane (Cluverius) \\'alker. of whom further, and they were the parents of two children : Foushee Overton, of whom further, and William Temple, born April 22, 1875, a law- yer of King William county, Virginia, who lives on the homestead.

Dr. I^'oushee Overton Mooklar, son of Atwell Tebbs and Lucy Taliaferro (Wal- ker) Mooklar, was born in Richmond, V^ir- ginia, March 15. 1873. He prepared for college in the public schools of his native city, and subsequently became a student in William and Mary College, and from that institution entered the University College of Medicine (now the Medical College of \'irginia). He was graduated from this last named college in dentistry. May 26, 1898, and since that time has been engaged in active practice in Richmond. His present office, which he has occupied since October I, 1914, is at Xo. 411 East Grace street. Dr. Mooklar is a popular and largely patron- ized dentist, success having attended his efl-'orts from the time of his establishment in the city, and he is a proficient master of his profession. He is associated with the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Owls. His church is the Baptist.

Dr. Mooklar married, at Danville, \'ir- ginia, June 25. 1902, Carolyn AVood Shuff, born at Staunton. Virginia. December 2. 1881, daughter of Charles Wesley and Flor- ence (Wood) Shuflf. the former named born in Staunton. \'irginia. died in Goodwill, West ^'irginia, aged forty-four years, and the latter named born in Warrenton, Vir- ginia, now resides in Danville, aged fifty- six years. Children of Dr. and ^Irs. Mook- lar: Foushee Overton, Jr.. born March 5, T904, died July 7, 1904; Dorothy Foushee. born June 22. 1905 : May McClaire. born December 11, 1910.