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Church of that denomination, in Richmond, and are material supports to its general work and the many benevolences in con- nection therewith.

Air. Massie was married, November 17, 1910, to Susan Williams, a native of Rich- mond, Virginia, where she was born, the

daughter of T. C. and (Peatross)

Williams, of that city. Mrs. Massie has two brothers and one sister living, they are T. C. Williams, Jr., A. D. Williams and Mary Williams, all of whom are residents of Richmond. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Massie.

(VIII) Eugene C. Massie, son of Henry and Susan Elizabeth (Smith) Massie, was born in Orange county, Virginia, May 27, 1861. He prepared for college at the acad- emy of Major Horace W. Jones, at Char- lottesville. Virginia; was a student in the University of Virginia, 1876-83, from which he graduiitcd in law and other departments. Pie was admitted to the bar in 1884, and was partner with James Pleasants in the law firm of Pleasants & Massie. Mr. Pleasants died July 16, 1898, since which time Mr. Massie has practiced alone in Richmond, with offices in the Mutual Assurance build- ing. He has been a member of the Virginia National Guard for many years, from igo6 to 1910 was chief of stafT with rank of colo- nel on staff of Governor Claude A. Swan- son. For the same period of time he was a member of the Virginia house of dele- gates ; was commissioner from Virginia on uniform state laws, under Governors Swan- son and Mann ; is chairman of committee on Torrens system, in conference of commis- .iioners on uniform state laws, and was made chairman of the executive committee of the conference of commissioners on uniform state laws at the twenty-fourth annual con- ference held in Washington, D. C. October 14-21, 1914. He is a member of the Rich- mond Chamber of Commerce, American Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association, Bar Association of City of Richmond, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Westmoreland Club and Business Alen's Club. He is an Epis- copalian in religion, and a Democrat in poli- tics.

Mr. Massie married, November 16, 1897, Laura Roy Ellerson, of Richmond. Chil- dren: James Pleasants, born July 10, 1899, and Ida Watkins, born January 4, igoi.

(VI) Dr. Thomas Massie, son of Major Thomas (q. v.) and Sarah (Cocke) Massie,

was born October 21, 1782, died at "Blue Rock," Nelson county, Virginia, May 6, 1864. He studied under the preceptorship of Dr. McCaw, of Richmond, was gradu- ated in Philadelphia, then spent four years in study in Edinburgh, London and Paris. Upon his return to the United States in 1807, he settled in Richmond, Virginia, mak- ing frequent trips to Chillicothe, Ohio where he had a large estate, and after a time returned to Nelson county, Virginia. During the war of 1812 he was in active service as a surgeon. He was a member of the house of delegates, 1824-27, 1829-30; a trustee of Washington College. Dr. Massie married (first) December 14, 1809, Lucy Waller, his cousin, who died August 31, 1822, and (second) August 3, 1826, Sarah Carrington, a daughter of Colonel William and Anne (Carrington) Cabell. By first marriage : A daughter, who lived only a few weeks; Sarah, married Hon. William O. Goode, member of the Virginia convention of 1829-30, and of the United States con- gress; Elizabeth Waller; William Henry; Martha Anna ; Juliet A., married Henry C. Boyd-; Lucy Cornelia; Thomas Waller. By the second marriage : Ann C. ; Patrick Ca- bell, see forward ; Paul.

(VII) Patrick Cabell Massie, son of Dr. Thomas and Sarah Carrington (Cabell) Massie, was born in Nelson county, Vir- ginia, January 8, 1829, died at Lynchburg, Virginia, September 27, 1877. After an ex- cellent preparatory course of instruction, he matriculated at Yale College, from which he was graduated after a four years' aca- demic course. He then entered the law school of the institution, and studied there for a further two years. He never prac- ticed law. however, but returned to the home plantation, "Three Springs," and de- voted his time to tobacco growing, in which enterprise he was very successful, and be- came one of the most influential men of that section of the country. Mr. Massie married, June 18, 1857, Susan C, daughter of Dr. Robert W. and Susan Dabney (Alexander) Withers, and sister of ex-Senator Robert E. Withers. Children: Robert W'ithers, see forward : Thomas ; Patrick Cabell, attorney, married Elizabeth McCullough Kirkman ; Thomas; Judge Thornton L., married Mary Kent Nicholson ; Douglas Gray ; Withers, married Theresa Murry ; Susan Catherine, married Lucius P. Brown, of Tennessee.

(VIII) Robert Withers Massie, son of