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the Confederate States army, in command ot the cavalry under Stonewall Jackson in the Valley campaign, killed instantly while leading the Mfty-eighth Virginia Regiment into battle on the afternoon of June 6, 1862, near Harrisonburg. Virginia. His brother, Richard Ashby, captain of the Seventh Vir- ginia Cavalry, was killed in battle near Romney, West Virginia. The brothers are buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Win- chester, Virginia, side by side. Dorothea Ashby was a granddaughter of Turner Ash- by, S'r., and Dorothea (Green) Ashby, of Culpeper, Virginia, who were married in 1820, he is a descendant of Captain Thomas Ashby, who located in what is now Fau- cjuier county, Virginia, died in 1752, found- ing a most distinguished family, famous in every war ever waged in this country. Chil- dren of Rev. William J. and Dorothea (Ash- by) Morton are as follows: Charles Bruce, born in St. John's Church rectory, in Tappa- hannock, Essex county, Virginia, January 10, 1900; William Jackson, born in Em- manuel Church rectory, Harrisonburg, Vir- ginia, September 2, 1902; Powhatan Mon- cure. born December 10, 1903; Dorothy Ashby, born November 22, 1905 ; Caroline Fitzhugh, born April 11, 1910. The last three children were born in the rectory of Old Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia.

Otis Marshall, M. D. A descendant of the illustrious Virginia Marshall family that includes among its members Chief Justice Marshall of the United States supreme court. Dr. Otis Marshall, of Culpeper, Vir- ginia, a modern representative of the family, has attained a standing in his profession commensurate with the Marshall fame.

Dr. Marshall is a son of Robert F. Mar- shall, and a grandson of Zenas Marshall, of Albemarle, Virginia, a quartermaster in the Confederate army during the war, 1861-65. Robert F. Marshall was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1854. and after a suc- cessful business life as a merchant is now retired in Barboursville. Virginia. He mar- ried Leila C. Shotwell. whose brother, Elias, was a soldier of the Confederacy. Chil- dren : Otis, of further mention ; Randolph F.. a student at Randolph-Macon College : Maude Ellis, married William B. Gillum. of Barboursville. Virginia; Gertrude F. ; Irene Harrison.

Dr. Otis Marshall, son of Robert F. and

Leila C. (Shotwell) Marshall, was born in llarboursville. Orange county, Virginia, August 4, 1884. He obtained his primary and preparatory education in public and private schools of Orange and Madison counties ; then entered Richmond College, which he attended for two years, then spent one year, 1901-02, in the University of Vir- ginia, then entered the medical department of Richmond College, from which he re- ceived his degree of M. D. class of 1907, and later pursued a course of professional study at the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital. He served there as interne for fifteen months, and then spent a year in pro- fessional service at the Charlottesville (\'ir- ginia) Hospital. Pie was in practice one year at Paint Creek, a West Virginia min- ing town, spent a year in practice at Brandy, X'irginia, and finally located permanently in Culjjeper in 1910, where he conducts a successful general practice in medicine and surgery. Dr. Marshall, though young in years, has had a wide experience in hospital and general experience, and has developed an unusual skill in surgery as well as diag- nosis and treatment of disease. He is a member of the State Medical and Piedmont Medical societies, the Southern Railroad Surgeons Association, \^irginia Public Health Association, and keeps in close touch with the work of each. He has con- tributed numerous articles to the medical journals, and is rated as one of the rising young men of the medical profession. In religious belief Dr. Marshall is a Baptist, and in political faith an Independent. He is also a member of the Greek letter society Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Catalpa Club.

Dr. Marshall married, November 7, 1912, Josephine Marie Riton, born in Monroe, W'isconsin. Child, Victor F.. born in Cul- peper, September i, 1913.

Governor Philip T. Woodfin. Philip T. Woodfin, Jr., eldest son of Philip T. and Jane R. Woodfin, was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, April 26, 1840. .\s a boy, he yearned for a military life, and was natu- rally adapted for it. He was a member of the Sutton Light Infantry of Marljlehead, Massachusetts, and at the call for troops by President Lincoln on April 15, 1861, conse- quently was one of the first to enlist, and on the morning of April 16, was in Bostoa with his company as color bearer, on his