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retiring sincere disposition, won and re- tained a large circle of friends and was known for his integrity of character and high sense of right. In March, 1862, he entered the Confederate army, becoming a member of Company D, Twentieth Virginia Artillery, J. D. Pierce captain, and although only twenty-one years old, he was soon made second lieutenant. He was at the bombardment of Drury's Bluff when the "Galena" and other Federal gunboats at- tempted to pass that point on their way to Richmond, Virginia, was also in the engage- ment in which General Dahlgren was killed on Brook Road, and when the evacuation was ordered, he was stationed on Chaflin's Farm, under command of General Ewell. He was captured at Sailor's Creek and taken to "Old Capitol" prison in Washington. After remaining there two weeks, he was taken, with a number of other Confederate officers, to Johnson's Island, Ohio, where he was confined in prison until June 18, 1865. He rendered distinguished service to the cause of the Confederacy, was always ready and prompt in answering the call of duty, and brave to a fault on the field of battle.

Mr. Pendleton Emett married, December 15, 1881, Rebecca Alice Pringle, daughter of Captain William Goode and Cornelia R. (Wright) Pringle, granddaughter of Wil- liam Pringle, who served in war of 1812 and married Alice Goode Baskerville (see Bas- kerville, Goode, Pringle). Children of Air. and Mrs. Pendleton Emett: i. Ethel Thorn- hill. 2. Ada Virginia.

(V) I. Ether Thornhill Emett was born in Lynchburg and educated in the public schools of that city and Randolph-Macon Woman's College. She married, October 15, 191 o, David Terry Edwards, of whom [urther, and has a daughter, Alice Churchill Edwards, born August 24, 191 1.

2. Ada' Virginia Emett, born and edu- cated in Lynchburg, Virginia, married April 17, 1912, Robert Hurt, of New York City, of whom further, and has a son, Henry Charles Hurt.

With the marriage of the two daughters of Pendleton Emett, this Emett line in Vir- ginia ends.

. Mr. David T. Edwards, who married Ethel Emett, is district manager for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Lynchburg. He descended from the old Edwards family of Surry county, who

came to \'irginia in the early part of the seventeenth century. The family is of Welsh lineage dating back from Tudor Trevor, Lord of Hereford, founder of the tribe of "The Marches." The name in Welsh was "Rhys-ap-Ednyfed" from which it re- solved into Edwards.

Burke, who goes back to the origin of the family in Wales gives the Edwards arms thus : "Gules — A chevron engirdled, between three tiger heads, erased, arg. Crest — On a wreath, a man's head, within a helmet, ppr ; garnished, or. Motto : A ryiio Dcuv Clervid (Welsh) : What God has willed will be accomplished." There is, however, a \'irginia armor for the family.

David T. Edwards is a son of James Ed- wards, grandson of Calohill Edwards and great-grandson of George A. Edwards and Rebecca Ellyson.

Mr. Robert Hurt, born October, 1884, in Halifax county, Virginia, and married Ada Virginia Emett, is connected with the New York Savings Bank of New York City. He is a great-great-grandson of Philemon Hurt, a Virginia Baptist minister, born October, 1758. Philemon Hurt married and had a son, John Robert Hurt, who was also a Baptist minister of Halifax county. John Robart Hurt married and had issue : Wil- liam Walker Hurt, born April 25, 1809, mar- ried Nancy Sims Linn, born November, 181 1. Issue of \\'illiam ^^'alker and Nancy Sims (Linn) Hurt: Elizabeth. Colonel John L.. state senator from Pittsylvania county ; Robert, Mary, General Henry Hays, state senator from Halifax county ; Jane, William Bailey, James Young, Stanhope S., Elvira and Eugene Charles, born November, 1855, of whom further.

Eugene Charles Hurt married Roxanna \\'illiamson Spencer, of whom further; they have the following children, all of whom were born in Halifax county : Sallie Sims, Henry Hays, of New York City. Robert, of New York City, married Ada Emett : Eph- riam Spencer, John L., Danville. Virginia ; Anna M., Eugene Charles, Jr., University of Virginia.

Roxanna (Spencer) Hurt, wife of Eugene Charles Hurt, Sr., is a great-granddaughter of Gideon Spencer, who was lieutenant-colo- nel Twenty-sixth \'irginia Regiment in the revolutionary war. Gideon Spencer married Catherine Clements, September 5, 1796; issue: Thomas Flournoy.