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Colonel Fry devised land and slaves to his widow, three sons and two daughters. His widow died August 20. 1772. Children: John, Henry, Martha William, died young. and Margaret

Rev. Henry Fry, born October 30, 1738, son of Colonel Joshua Fry, became a min- ister of the Methodist Episcopal church, lived a troubled life, but with a degree of firmness and fortitude unsurpassed among men put down in succession all his way- ward passions and almost established for himself the character of a saint among men. He was a member of the house of burgesses, clerk of Albemarle county, delegate to the general assembly from \'irginia in 1785 and was the mover of a general Emancipation Bill. He died at the house of his son, Wes- ley Fry. of Madison, Virginia, aged eighty- five years. His wife, a daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, born in June, 1764, died February 19, 1808.

Joshua Fry, son of Rev. Henry Fry, was born May 17, 1769, died October 17, 1838. He married, November 24, 1793, Catherine (Kittvi Walker, born lulv i, 1772, died 1814.'

Hugh Walker I-'ry, son of Joshua and Kitty (Walker) I'^ry. was born January 22. 1796. He married, December 26, 1820, Maria White, born July i, 1801.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Fry, son of Hugh Walker and Maria (White) Fry, was born October 8, 1821, married. May 8, 1844, Jane Margaret Watson, born August 29, 1825, and had fourteen children : Infant, Hugh Walker, Anna Maria, Richard Watson, W'illiam Henry, Jane Margaret, Peter Merriwether, Charles Nelson, Eleanor Shepherd, married Dr. Henry Lewis Bur- well, of previous mention, Edward Scott, Douglass Bland, M. Douglass, Mary \'ir- ginia, Susan Harris.

Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Fry, ])rior to the war of 1861-64, was captain of the Richmond Light Infantry, Blues, and prior to Mrginia's seceding from the L^nion, became lieutenant-colonel of the Eighteenth Regi- ment Virginia Infantry. W^ithin thirty min- utes after it was known that Virginia had seceded, he tendered the services of his regi- ment to the governor of the state, his being the first ofifer of troops for service. He led his regiment at Manassas, the first real battle of the war, and continued in field service for one year, then by special order

of the secretary of war, was detached from his command and placed in charge of a camp Oi military instruction at Charlottesville. Three months later he was recalled to Richmond and made chief of the Bureau of Conscription, and as adjutant of the post was in charge of the exchange of prisoners. At the time of the evacuation of Richmond, acting under orders from the government, he was engaged in destroying the archives of his office, and tarrying too long at his duty was made prisoner by the Federals.

His son, Hugh Walker Fry, was a student at \'irginia Military Institute when the battle of Newmarket was fought and it is inscribed in the records of that institution that on that day the cadets of the institute marched out in military order and took active part in the battle. Cadet Fry bearing an honorable part. He enlisted in the Con- federate army in April, 186 1, Company E, First Regiment Virginia Infantry, although under fifteen years of age. After a yeai of service he left the army and entered Vir- ginia Military Institute, fought with the cadets at Newmarket, and was in active service until the war closed. Two brothers of Lieutenant-Colonel Fry also served in the Confederate army. Major Hugh W. Fry and John J. Fry.

Dr. Burwell has one daughter. Mary Douglas Burwell, born at Cayneys Springs, \'irginia, January 9, 1886. educated at Hol- lins Institute, married in 1913, John Paul (-raft'. Mrs. Burwell is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and through her illustrious ancestry is eligible to the patriotic orders of the United States, as is Dr. Burwell. She was a charter member of Armistead Goode Chapter, of Chase City, and is its historian.

Colonel Thomas Smith, of Warrenton, \'irginia, is a son of the late Governor Wil- liam Smith, whose biography forms a part of this work, one of the most eminent citi- zens of the state. Thomas Smith was born August 26, 1836, in Culpeper county, Vir- ginia, and was six years of age when his parents removed to Warrenton, Virginia. There he attended the local public schools, and was subsequently a student at the College of ^^'illiam and Mary, after which he pursued the law course at the Univer- sitv of \'irginia, and was admitted to the bar. After a short time in practice at