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county. \'irg-inia. Children of Captain Charles and Judith (Early-Pate) Callaway; (i) Joel, born 1767. (ii) Archilles, born 1771. (iii) William, born 1773. (iv) Sarah, born 1775, aforementioned as the wife of John Anderson, (v) James, born 1777. (vi) Polly, born 1779. (vii) Charles, born 1781. (viii) Judith, born 1783, married William Shands. (ix) John, born 1785. (x) Francis, born 1787. (xi) Henry, born 1792.

7. Joseph Callaway, seventh child of Colo- nel \Mlliam Callaway, was born December 10, 1756.

8. I\Iilly Callaway, eighth child of Colonel William Callaway, was born June 5, 1759.

9. Cathlena Callaway, ninth child of Colo- nel AVilliam Callaway, was born December 8, 1761. She married William Brown Price.

References — Colonial Virginia Register; William anil Mary Quarterly: Henning's Statutes at Large; Minutes Bedford County Court; Louise Pecquet Du Bellet. in "Some Prominent Families of Virginia;" Cabells and Their Kin; Green's Historic Families of Kentucky.

Turner Ashby Blythe. Born in South- ampton county, Virginia, and descendant of ihe famous Chappell, Ashby and Blythe families of Virginia. Turner Ashby Blythe is also connected with and bears the name of that gallant officer of the Confederacy, General Turner Ashby, commander of the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, an accomplished horseman, brave and daring. Turner Ashby raised a regiment of cavalry and with them made so brilliant a record as a cavalry offi- cer that he was commissioned brigadier- general by the provisional Confederate gov- ernment. He met an early death in a skir- mish near Harrisonburg preceding the battle of Cedar Keys, Virginia, between the First New Jersey Cavalry and "Stonewall" Jackson's rear-guard. His last words were : "Charge, men! For God's sake, charge!" He died June 5, 1862. General Turner Ash- by was a son of Colonel Turner Ashby, of "Rose Bank," Fauquier county, Virginia, a distinguished officer of the war of 181 2. Colonel Turner Ashby was a son of Captain John Ashby. an officer of the Third Virginia Regiment. Continental Line, 1775-83. Cap- tain John Ashby was a son of Robert Ash- by, grandson of Edward Ashby. and great- grandson of Edmund Ashby. who came to Fauquier county, Virginia, from England during the Cromwellian period. The family were adherents of King Charles I.

Turner Ashby Blythe was born in South- ampton county, Virginia. August 2. 1863, son of Richard Henry and Evelyn Rebecca (Chappell) Blythe. Richard H. Blythe was a planter and landowner of Southampton county, born in Norfolk, Virginia, died in 1882. He was a soldier of the Confederacy, serving in a Virginia regiment, two brothers of his wife, Robert and I^ichard Chappell, also serving in the Confederate army from Virginia. Richard Chappell was wounded during the siege of Vicksburg, complete loss of sight resulting from his injuries. The Chappells were from Sussex county, Virginia.

Turner Ashby Blythe was educated in private schools in Petersburg, Virginia, and Southampton county, Virginia, remaining in his native state until January, 1882, when he located in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, there forming a partnership with his brother Richard A. Blythe. and engaging in btisiness as brokers and manufacturers of cotton yarns. The business was incorporated as the Richard A. Blythe Company, and later Turner A. Blythe succeeded to the presi- dency of the company. The company is a large handler of cotton, both in the broker- age and manufacturing line, operating mills in Philadelphia for the manufacture of cot- ton yarn. Mr. Blythe is a member of the Masonic fraternity, holding all degrees of the York and Scottish Rites up to and in- cluding the thirty-second. He is a member of Mozart Lodge, No. 436, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, Harmony Chapter, No. 52, Royal Arch Masons. Corinthian Chasseur Commandery. Knights Templar, Philadel- phia Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and is a Noble of Lu Lu Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, all Masonic bodies of Philadelphia. His clubs are the Philadelphia Country and Art. In political faith he is a Democrat, and in religious affiliation a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. Blythe married, in 1889. Anne H. Hunnewell. of colonial ancestry, a member of the Colonial Dames of America.

Herbert Thomas Hartman. Through maternal lines Herbert T. Hartman, presi- dent of the jMunicipal Service Company, of Philadelphia, descends from the ancient Johnston familj', of Rockingham county, Virginia, of whom the first account deals 'A'ith Captain Andrew Johnston, a captain