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 style that was easy, exact, and graceful, so that his professional writings lost the burdensome, didactic form that so often marks such composition and became papers of literary as well as of medical value. One of his professional treatises, read at a conference of one of the medical associations with which he was identified, won wide recognition and high praise, and admitted him into the most select circles of scientific writers.

The bearer of much good to suffering humanity through his medical skill and knowledge, he touched almost as great a number who needed his help through his gifts to charitable institutions and enterprises. His wealth he would have held as of little value had it not been the medium through which he was enabled to lift those less fortunate than he, to ease pain that defied his doctor's skill. Those who knew of his freely bestowed gifts to eleemosynary projects loved him for the brotherhood he thus displayed, and in this beneficent action he gave the completing touch to a life of purity and goodness, lived manfully among men in such a manner as to hold their lasting respect. At his death Suffolk lost a citizen whose concern for her welfare surmounted any obstacles of inconvenience, a professional man who stood high among scholars and his medical brethren, and a philanthropist whose generosity was productive of good beyond computation.

Children of Dr. Henry Augustus Morgan and his wife, Sarah Augusta Harrell: Henry Aubrey, died aged eighteen inonths, and Sarah Lizzie, a resident of Suffolk, Virginia.

(III) William Preston Harrell, eldest son and second child of Samuel Riddick and Mary Elizabeth (Vaughan) Harrell, was born in Gates county, North Carolina. After completing his education, part of his academic training being received under the tutelage of Professor Kellogg, he engaged, in agricultural pursuits upon a large scale, so continuing during his active years. He long filled the magistrate's office, was a member of the local school board, and was a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church, passing his years in the enjoyment of many friends. William Preston Harrell married, in February, 1874, Annie Hines, born in 1853, and had children: i. Lellie Hines, of whom further. 2. Eugenia Augusta, born in November, 1876; married, in June. 1903. James R. Shaw, and has Marjorie and Eugenia. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born in February, 1878; married Frank N. Cross, and has Frank Norfleet, Hattie, William P., Elizabeth and Dorothy. 4. William Preston (2). 5. Beatrice Lorens, married Frank Leslie Pierce. and has a son, Harrell. 6. Forrest.

(IV) Lellie Hines Harrell, daughter of William Preston and Annie (Hines) Harrell, was born February 25. 1875. She married. June 6, 1895, J- Travis Edwards, brother of Rev. T. O. Edwards, who married her aunt. Estelle Harrell. Children of J. Travis and Lellie Hines (Harrell) Edwards: Lellie Louise, born January 15, 1899, and Catharine Truitt. born February 28, 1903.

J. Travis Edwards, son of Rev. John Joseph and Louisa Georgietta (Esher) Edwards, was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and was educated in the public schools and Randolph-Macon College. He was for a time engaged in manufacturing, afterward forming his present connection with the Norfolk and Western railroad, being at this time one of the oldest employees of that road in point of service. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, the Modern Woodmen of the World, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. His church is the Methodist Episcopal and he affiliates with the Democratic party.

(Ill) Samuel Bascom Harrell. third child and second son of Samuel Riddick and Mary Elizabeth (Vaughan) Harrell, was born in Sunbury. Gates county. North Carolina, in 1845. His educated in a private boarding school tatight by Martin Kellogg. In 1863 he enlisted in Company I, Sixty-eighth Regiment North Carolina Volunteer Infantry, in which company he served until the close of the war. with the rank of sergeant-major, at which time he entered into the mercantile business in Gatesville. North Carolina, and so continued until August, 1869, when he moved to Perquimans county. North Carolina, and began agricultural operations, which he conducted for four years. For the fourteen following years he was engaged in the mercantile business in New Hope, Perquimans county. North Carolina, coming to Norfolk, Virginia, on April 5, 1887, and at once began dealings in cotton. Retaining