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Mis father. Robert Henry Weaver, born in Rochelle, Virginia, in 1844. is yet living, an lionored veteran of tlie war between the states, bearing the marks of three wounds. One of these was received at the battle of Gettysburg, where as a private of the Sev- enth Regiment Virginia Infantry, Pickett's division, he faced the fearful odds and with his comrades joined in the mad charge that marked the higli tide of the Gonfederacy and brought death, wounds and capture to thou- sands of brave men. of both Blue and Gray armies. On that never to be forgotten day Mr. Weaver was wounded and also made prisoner. After the war Mr. Weaver, still a minor, began farming in Madison county, an occupation he followed until his retire- ment. His brother. Thomas Weaver, also a Confederate soldier, was in Orange, Vir- ginia, and another brother, William Weaver, served in the Confederate army and is now living at Rochelle, Virginia. Robert H. Weaver married Mary Etta Jarrell, who died in 1908, daughter of James Jarrell, of Hood, Madison county, Virginia. Children : Zeno L., of whom further ; James Moses, born in Richmond. Virginia. January 8, 1871, mar- ried Delia Sims : Mary Wise, married Wood Walker; Lillie Lee, married Michael Estes ; Ida Eudora, married Addison Hood; Lucy, married Heber Lillard.

Dr. Zeno Leonidas Weaver, son of Rob- ert Henry and Mary Etta (Jarrell) Weaver, was born in Hood, Madison county, Vir- ginia. He obtained his early and academic training in the public schools of Hood, and Warbert Academy. Wolftown, Virginia. Deciding upon the medical profession he entered the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond. Virginia, whence he was gradu- ated Doctor of Medicine, May 10, 1900. Later he pursued special post-graduate study at Bellevue Hospital and College of New York City. After service as interne at Bellevue Hospital, he located at Middle- town, Virginia, in general practice, continu- ing until, October, 191 1, when he moved to ' Elkton, Virginia, where he is well estab- lished and successful. Until igii he was surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Middletown ; is a member of the Virginia Medical Society ; Rockingham County Med- ical Society, and recognized in the profes- sion as a learned, skillful, honorable physi- cian and surgeon. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, lodge and

chapter of the Masonic order, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, funior Order of American Mechanics, Alodern Woodmen, and in political faith is a Demo- crat.

Dr. Weaver married, December 24, 1900, Adelaide Claudia Stephens, born at Stan- nardsville, Green county, \'irginia, daugh- ter of Dr. James and Anna Betty (Durett) -Stephens.' Children : Mary Stephens, born at Sterling, \'irginia, and Dorothy Durett, born in Middletown, Virginia.

Walter Henderson Robertson. Founded in America by J(jhn Robertson, of "Athol Hall," Scotland, this line of the Robertson family owns an honorable record in its Vir- ginia home, the pages of the history of the cliurch, the rolls of battle of war, and the legal lists of the state finding the name in responsible and worthy position. The son of the American ancestor, of whose blood the present earl of Athol is, was William H. Robertson, of Amelia county, Virginia, who gave three sons to the Confederate cause in the war between the states, Gen- eral Beverly H. Robertson, who resigned his commission in the army of the United States to take up arms in defence of the Southern cause; Dr. William Robertson, a surgeon, and Rev. Walter Henderson Rob- ertson, of whom further. William H. Rob- ertson married a daughter of Philemon Har- combe, a soldier in the Continental army during the war of the revolution, one of whose sons was at one time a professor in the University of Virginia.

Rev. Walter Henderson Robertson, son of William H. Robertson, was born in Ame- lia county, Virginia, in 1841, died in 1903. He was educated in the University of Vir- ginia, and after his graduation first gratified an inclination toward the law, later enter- ing the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He was for two years a soldier in the Fay- ette Artillery, after which he served on the staiif of General Perlegrew. During the first day's fighting at Gettysburg he was severely wounded in the leg, his injury swelling the number of casualties of that bloody conflict. He was for a time a resident of Gloucester county, Virginia, afterward moving to War- renton, Fauquier county. Virginia, where he died. He married Georgia Ripley, born in 1853. living at the present date (1914), daughter of Thomas R. and Laura (O'Con-