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and grandfather of Lunsford Hoxsey Lewis, was born near Port Republic, Rockingham county, Virginia, March i, 1818, died at Lynnwood, the homestead in that county. He was for many years a planter and farmer, the occupation of his father, and was in 1861 a delegate to the secession convention, be- ing the only representative of the present state of Virginia who refused to sign the ordinance of separation. In 1869 he became lieutenant-governor of the state of Virginia, and later, after serving for five years in the United States senate, was again elected to the lieutenant-governorship, his public career being a brilliant one and passed in high station. He married, in 1842, Serena Helen ShefTey, one of his sons being Daniel Shefifey, of whom further.

Daniel ShefTey Lewis, son of John Francis and Serena Helen (ShefTey) Lewis, was born at "Lynnwood," Rockingham county, Virginia, October 16, 1843, died in October, igi2. He was a graduate LL. B. of the University of Virginia, one of the class- mates of John S. Wise, of Virginia. A law- yer of repute, he was likewise well-known in journalistic circles, being at diflferent times editor of several periodicals. He mar- ried Isabel McLain Botts, born February 3, 1842, daughter of John Minor and Mary Whiting (Blair) Botts, who now resides at Clifton Forge. Virginia. The Botts family is of German origin, and has been seated in Virginia since early in the eighteenth century. John Minor Botts was a lawyer and gentleman farmer, at one time holding a seat in the United States Congress, the author of "The Great Rebellion, Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure." He was strenuously opposed to the Confederate cause, and because of the violence and virulence of his statements against the Confederate government, that body caused his arrest and confinement in Libby Prison, at Richmond, Virginia.

Lunsford Hoxsey Lewis, son of Daniel Sheflfey and Isabel McLain (Botts) Lewis, was born at Harrisonburg. Rockingham county, \ irginia. May 6, 1880. After com- pleting his course in the public schools he was graduated from the high school in 1898, He was for two years a student in the Uni- versity of Virginia, and was then for two years a teacher in the graded school at Tim- lerville, Virginia, in 1906 beginning a four- ^^viR-37

year course in the Medical College of Vir- ginia, at Richmond, that institution award- ing him his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1910. After serving as interne in the Coney island Hospital, New York, for eighteen months, in the fall of 191 1 he established in the practice of his profession at Elkton, Vir- ginia. The short time that he has been a practitioner of that place has marked his rapid rise in professional favor, and he has alreadv attracted a most desirable clientele. His masterv of his profession is complete and thorough, and every indication points to his rise to a position in medical circles that will compare favorably with the honor and achievement of his ancestors in other de- partments of society. He is a member of the Rockingham County Medical Society, and the Pi Kappa Beta fraternity. Dr. Lewis is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and politically a Repub- lican.

Roy William Carter. One of the younger fraternity of lawyers of Orange county, Vir- ginia, Roy William Carter, since 191 1 a legal practitioner, entered his profession in association with one of the leading jurists of his day. Judge Morton. The firm of Morton &- Carter continued but for one year, its termination caused by the death in 1912 of Judge Morton, since which time Mr. Car- ter has been engaged in practice alone at Orange, the county seat of Orange county, Virginia. He is a descendant of one of the early \ irginia families, his great-grand- father. George Carter, a soldier in the revo- lutionary war. George Carter married Ju- dith Walden. and their son, William Walden Carter, grandfather of Roy William Carter, was the father of William. James, Scott, and Thomas Walden, of whom further.

Thomas Walden Carter, son of William Walden Carter and father of Roy William Carter, was born in Fauquier county, Vir- ginia, in 1848. He was a soldier of the Con- federate army in the war between the states, serving for the last half of that conflict in Colonel Mosby's command, after the war moving to Orange, Virginia, where for twenty years he filled the office of post- master. His present home is in Franklin, Tennessee. Thomas Walden Carter mar- ried Bettie B. Fletcher, born in Orange county. Virginia, in 1848, and has issue: