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dent of the board of trustees. As president of this board he is an important factor in directing the work of the Randolph-AIacon system, under which system are maintained schools that hold honorable place among the many excellent institutions of learning of which Virginia boasts. Almost needless to say, Mr. Newman is a firm friend of educa- tion, not alone for the sake of its cultural and refining influences, but for the prepara- tion it gives to do one's work among one's ftllowmen with the highest degree of effi- ciency. Mr. Newman is politically identi- fied with the Democratic party. Such pro- fessional labors as Mr. Newman's judicial duties will permit of his performing are accomplished as a member of the law firm of Walton & Walton, one of the oldest founded legal firms in the state of Virginia. He married, December 20, 1877, Mary Ott Walton, born in Woodstock, Virginia, March 21, 1855, daughter of Moses and Emily N. (Lock) Walton, and has children, all born in Woodstock, Virginia: i. Wilbur Lock, born November 26, 1880; educated for the legal profession, now connected with the United States department of forestry at Staunton, Virginia; married Ruth Koontz ; has three children : Elizabeth, Josephine and Wilbur K. 2. Edgar Walton, born March 20, 1884; cashier of the Citizens' National Bank, Newmarket, Virginia, and the treas- urer of the Valley Turnpike Company ; mar- ried Margaret Price ; two children : Edgar W. and Richard B. 3. Helen, born May 8, 1886; married Dr. W. B. Sager, of Davis, West Virginia ; three children : Edgar D., Frederick N. and Mary W. 4. Harold H., a graduate of Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, practicing in Salisbury, North Carolina; married. October 3, 1914, Eleanor Maynard, of Jessup. Maryland. 5. Houston Hickman, born April 14, 1892; sec- retary and treasurer of the Virginia Granite Company at Harrisonburg, Virginia ; mar- ried Edna F. Jones, of Atlantic City, New Jersey ; one child, Virginia. 6. Douglas Cook, born November 25, 1896; a student in Randolph-Macon College.

Floyd Jackson Gregory, M. D. The Greg- orys of Virginia, long seated in Lunenburg county, of which family Dr. Floyd J. Greg- ory, of Keysville, is a leading representative, trace through maternal lines to the Woot- ten, Walton and Lee families of Virginia.

I'he Lee family, into which Joshua Gregory married, is the Lee family of which General Robert E. Lee, "Light Horse Harry" Lee, were such conspicuous members, the Ameri- can ancestor being Richard Lee, who came from England to Virginia in 1641. Ellen Etta (Wootten) Gregory, mother of Dr. F. J. Gregory, was a maternal granddaughter of General T. Walton, of the Confederate army, and a paternal granddaughter of Tay- lor Wootten, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses and engaged in the diplo- matic service of the United States. On both sides, Gregory and Wootten, numerous rep- resentatives served in Confederate army, both as officers and privates.

Dr. Floyd J. Gregory is a grandson of Josephus Gregory, of Lunenburg county, \ irginia. a prosperous planter and man of in- fluence. His wife, who was a Miss Lee, was a descendant of Richard Lee and of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, one of the greatest Vir- ginians of his day, scholar, statesman and soldier of the revolution.

Dr. Flavanus Josephus Gregory, son of Josephus Gregory, was born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, February 21, 1826, died February 13. 1910, in Keysville, Charlotte county, Virginia. He was a practicing phy- sician of Charlotte county many years, set- tling in that county not long after his gradu- ation as Doctor of Medicine from Jefiferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. He enlisted in a Charlotte county company of the Confederate arm}', but on September 18, 1861, was transferred to the coast artillery at Wilmington, North Caro- lina, serving as surgeon the entire period, 1861-65, ranking as major at the close of the war. During this entire period of service in the army, he had but one furlough and that was employed in the preparation for his marriage to Ellen Etta Walton, born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, in 1844, died May 10. 191 1, daughter of Dr. Lucius T. Wootten, an officer of the Confederate army, who married a Miss A\'alton, daughter of Brigadier-General S. T. Walton, of the Con- federate army. Dr. Lucius T. Wootten was a son of Taylor Wootten, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses and for several years in the service of the United States government. Children of Dr. Flavanus J. Gregory: Luella Wootten, born in 1863. at Keysville, married Rev. R. D. Garland, of Richmond, Virginia, secretary of the board of home missions of the Baptist church; Mary