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Mayo Hudgins, unmarried. 9. Herbert Ver- million Hudgins, unmarried. 10. Eugene Le Masurier Hudgins, unmarried.

Estelle Victoria, the eldest daughter of Captain William E. and Louise Victoria (Stone) Hudgins, is president of the Vir- ginia Chapter, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America ; founder and regent of Falls Church Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution: member of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia ; national councilor of the National Genea- logical Society, of Washington, D. C. ; Daughter of the Confederacy, and in 191 2 published a history of the Hudgins and allied families from which the facts herein contained have been largely drawn. She married, August 11, i8c;7. in Norfolk, Vir- ginia, William Edward Callender, son of John Robert and Marion (Kerr) Callender, of Edinburgh, Scotland, cotton merchant and exporter. He retired from business in 1901 and studied for Holy Orders in the Episcopal church. He was made deacon in Christ Church, Raleigh, North Carolina, by the Right Rev. J. B. Cheshire, D. D.. Bishop of North Carolina, September 21, 1902, or- dained priest, July id, 1904, in Christ Church, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, by the Right Rev. Ellison Capers. D. D., Bishop of South Carolina. He was rector of Christ Church parish, Mount Pleasant, and acting chaplain, Coast Artillery, United States of America, at Fort Moultrie, .South Carolina, from 1902 to 1904. Chaplain of naval re- serves. South Carolina, with the rank of lieutenant (senior grade) July 22, 1907; rector of St. John's Church, Florence, South Carolina, 1907 ; rector of the Old Falls Church, Falls Church, Virginia, 1908. (George Washington was a vestryman of this old colonial church). Children of Wil- liam Edward and Estelle Victoria (Hud- gins) Callender: Mabel O., born in Char- lotte, North Carolina, April 3, 1899, died 1899. buried in Norfolk, Virginia : Virginia Ormistoun, born in Charlotte, North Caro- lina, March 4, 1901 ; Louisa de Montalant, born at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, April i6, 1904; William Edward, Jr., born February 21, 1908, in Laurens, South Caro- lina, died March, igo8, buried in Laurens.

William Edward (2) Hudgins, son of Captain William Edward and Louise Vic- toria (Stone) Hudgins, was born in Nor- folk, Virginia, March 23, 1878. He was

educated in St. Mary's Male Academy, Nor- folk. He then began business life as a clerk in the employ of Charles E. Scott & Com- pany, coal dealers. In 1897 he entered the employ of Johns Brothers, Incorporated, coal and wood dealers on a large scale, as clerk and bookkeeper. After years of efficient service with this company he was admitted a partner in 1915. Air. Hudgins married (first) March 16, 1898, Annie Ives Hall, born September 25, 1880, died October 26, 1901, daughter of William W. and Harriet A. (Ives'i Hall. Child by this marriage: Hattie Louise, born May 22, 1900. Mr. Hudgins married (second) February 2, 1905, Sarah Jane Roberts, born April 12, 1884, daughter of Thomas Kemp and Leonide (Pitt) Roberts, of Norfolk, Virginia.

The Matthews, Buckner, Stone, Daven- port, Callender and de Montalant coats-of- arms are in use in the above family.

Frank Nash Bilisoly. The first settle- ment of the Bilisolys in Virginia was made at Norfolk about 1780 by Antoine Sylvestre Bilisoly, who came from San Domingo, West Indies. The present representative of the family in Portsmouth, Frank Nash Bilisoly, married Charlotte Ruth Hudgins, a descendant of John Hudgins, who came to Virginia from Gloucestershire, England, and is the founder of the Hudgins family of Mathews county, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.

(I) Antoine Sylvestre Bilisoly married Alarie Adelaide Accenelli and came from St. Domingo to Norfolk, Virginia, with wife and daughters. He engaged in shipbuilding in Portsmouth, prospered and acquired property, including several vessels engaged in the coasting trade.

(II) Joseph Antoine Bilisoly, only son of Antoine Sylvestre and Marie Adelaide Bili- soly, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1799, died in 1881. He became a very wealthy merchant, exporter, vessel owner and trader. He owned vessels trading to many ports and filled out trading expeditions to various islands and countries, sending teams laden with goods into the interior and exchang- ing them with the natives for gold and valu- ables. He married Eliza Ann Benson, who bore him four sons and seven daughters.

(HI) Joseph Lorenzo Bilisoly, son of Joseph Antoine and Eliza Ann (Benson) Bilisoly, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia,