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church yard. John (2) Coles died in 1808, and his wife survived him about eighteen years, dying in 1826. Their children were: Walter. John, Isaac. Tucker, Edward, Re- becca, Mary, Eliza, Sarah, Elizabeth and Emily.

Walter Coles, eldest son of John (2) and Rebecca E. (Tucker) Coles, was born 1772. at Enniscarthy. and died in W'oodville. Albe- marle county, \'irginia, in 1854, aged eighty- two years. He was a planter at Woodville, an active member of the Episcopal church, a county magistrate, and was buried in the Coles cemetery on Green Mountain, in .Albe- marle county. He married (first) Eliza, daughter of Bowler Cocke, of Turkey Island, and (second) Sally, daughter of John Swann, of Powhatan. The children of the first marriage were : John Bowles, Walter, Sally (married a Taylor, of South Caro- lina) and Rebecca, wife of Tarleton Flem- ing, of Goochland county, Virginia.

Walter (2) Coles, second son of Walter (i) and Eliza (Cocke) Coles, was born about 1800, in Albemarle county, Virginia, and succeeded his father on the plantation at Woodville. He died in Goochland county about 1856, and his body was taken to his native place, for burial in the Coles Ceme- tery. He married Ann Eliza Carter, who was also buried in the Coles cemetery. The family was allied with the Presbyterian church, probably from the first immigrant. \\'alter (2) Coles had children: Walter, a ])hysician soldier of the Civil war, who died in .\ugust, 1892, in St. Louis, Missouri; Sally Logan, now residing in Esmont, Albe- marle county, Virginia ; Elizabeth Cocke, died unmarried : James Carter, died at the age of si.xteen years ; John, a business man of !^t. Louis. Missouri ; Thomas Boiling, mentioned below.

Thomas Boiling Coles, son of \\'alter (2) and Ann Eliza (Carter) Coles, was born July 15, 1853, in Goochland county, Virginia. He was educated at boarding schools in Vir- ginia. At the age of seventeen years he went to St. Louis, to begin a business career which has proved eminently successful. He ^ng^ged as clerk in a wholesale hardware store, and was subsequently employed by the same establishment as traveling sales- man in Texas, continuing twelve years. In 1890 he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he took charge of the sales depart- ment of the Braddock Wire Company, of

which John W. Gates was the head. This was later the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, and in 1899 was merged in the American Steel and Wire Company, which became a part of the United States Steel Company, with headquarters in New York. Mr. Coles moved to that city, and still has charge of sales in the wire department, deal- ing with wholesalers in all parts of the world. His long continuance in this posi- tion suffices as proof of his ability and in- tegrity. He resides in Brooklyn, and is junior warden of St. John's (Protestant Episcopal) Church, of that borough. He is a member of the Crescent Athletic and Brooklyn Riding and Driving clubs, and of the Royal .-\rcanum. Politically, he is inde- pendent of party control, and endeavors to cast his influence and vote for good govern- ment and the promotion of the public weal. He married, in St. Louis, in 1882. Charlotte J. Berkeley, born in Kentucky, daughter of Rev. Edward F. Berkeley, who baptized and buried Henry Clay, and his wife, Sarah (Maury) Berkeley, daughter of Charles Maury.

Gideon Lee Long. For two centuries Long is a name found in Page county, Vir- ginia, history. Isaac Long, grandfather of Gideon L. Long, formerly of Luray, Vir- ginia, was a landed proprietor, deriving title in 1729 from Lord Fairfax. These acres have descended through several generations of the family, have never been out of the family and are now owned by Gideon L. Long. There is record of military service in the revolution and subsequent wars waged by the United States and in the war be- tween the states. Michael Long, father of Gideon L. Long, served in the Confederate army, while his sister's husband, Colonel Thomas Price, was an officer of the Federal army, and there were similar instances in other branches of the family. Longs have been prominent in the professions, in busi- ness and in agricultural lines since the foundation of the family in Virginia, the branch of which Gideon L. Long is a fore- most representative, having as a rule been agriculturists, owning large estates and holding influential positions.

Michael Long, son of Isaac Long, was born on the Page county homestead, .Au- gust 31, 1817, died in 1887, a farmer and a merchant. He served in the Confederate