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Lapsley, (second) Margaret Barry, and had children ; those of the first marriage : Lucien, Mary, Isham ; those of the second marriage : Margaret, Julian, Betsey and Helen. 3. Lucien, born in i860, an attorney of \\'arrenton. Virginia, married Elizabeth Sharpless. 4. Margaret, born in 1861, mar- ried Robert W. Neilson, and has sons, Rob- ert K. and Edward Steptoe. 5. Ann Gordon, born in 1863, married Edward M. Spilman. 6. Catherine Isham, born 1865. 7. Isham (3), born February 25, 1867, a farmer, mar- ried Jesse Hall, and has one son, Isham. 8. James, born November 21, 1868, a banker of Anniston, Alabama, in 1915 made presi- dent of the Alabama Bankers' Association, married Josephine Noble; children: Sarah, Steptoe, Catherine and James. 9. John Au- gustine Chilton, born in June, 1870, married Mary Welb}- Scott, daughter of Major R. Taylor Scott, former attorney-general of Virginia, and has children : Taylor Scott, John Augustine Chilton, Jr., Fannie Carter and James ; John A. C. Keith died April 8. 191 5, having for many years been common- wealth's attorney of Fauquier county. 10. Thomas Randolph, of whom further.

Thomas Randolph Keith, son of Isham (2) and Sarah Agnes (Blackwell) Keith, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, Sep- tember 19, 1872. After attending the public schools of his native county he entered the law school of the University of X'irginia, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1894, being admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1894. In that year he first took up the practice of his profession in Fairfax Court House, where he has since been located. He is a member of the Bar Association of the Sixteenth Judicial Cir- cuit of Virginia, the Virginia State Bar As- sociation, and the American Bar Associa- tion. His college fraternities are the Chi Phi and Phi Delta Phi. Mr. Keith is the author of a "Quiz Book" of law courses at the University of Virginia, published in 1894 by Anderson Brothers. Since 1910 he has been a member of the Virginia state board of law examiners, and was one of those nominated by the supreme court of appeals of \'irginia to the governor for ap- pointment as code revisor in 1914. He affili- ates with the Protestant Episcopal church.

Mr. Keith married, November 16, 1899, Edith, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, July 30, 1870, daughter of Thomas and Hannah

(Morris) Moore. Mrs. Moore was a mem- ber of the Gouverneur Morris family of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Keith are the parents of: Ann Gordon, born at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, March 8, 1901 ; Han- nah Morris, born at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, August 10, 1902 ; Margaret Ran- dolph, born at Fairfax Court House, \'ir- ginia, October 19, 1908.

Herbert Scaggs Larrick. Herbert Scaggs I.arrick, a prominent attorney of W^inches- ter, where he has won a leading position by force of his ability, character and energy, is descended from an old Virginia family of French Huguenot origin. The name Lar- rick seems to have undergone several changes in spelling, the original French spelling was La Roque, this was later changed to Laruck, which was anglicized to its present form of Larrick.

His ancestors were natives of the then French province of Alsace-Loraine. In the early part of the eighteenth century mem- bers of this family, by reason of religious persecution, were forced to leave their native land. At the invitation of Queen Anne of England, they, with other Hugue- nots, found an asylum in the Jersey Isles, where under the protection of the British government they found a more congenial religious atmosphere.

From the Jersey Isles several members of the family emigrated to America. They were registered in the ship's lists as La Roque "natives of France but by the grace of her Majesty Queen Anne their abode was England." Landing at New Castle, Dela- ware, they proceeded to York, Pennsylvania, where they settled.

George Larrick, one of the family that had settled at York, Pennsylvania, was lured south by the mild climate and fertile lands of Virginia. Taking up the trail through the Cumberland \'alley which had been blazed by Jost Hite, he landed in what ij now Frederick county, shortly after Jost Hite, that sturdy German pioneer, had es- tablished the first settlement in the lower \'alley of \'irginia.

George Larrick settled near the present location of the town of Middletown on the lands of Lord Fairfax, without first having obtained the consent of his lordship. This resulted in a suit in ejectment instituted by the English nobleman against the pioneer.