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the Lynchburg jobbing interests. In 1899 the senior Mr. Lucado retired from active pursuits, closing up his business.

Captain Lucado entered the Confederate army, April 24. 1861, in Company G, Elev- enth Virginia Regiment. He was commis- sioned captain of commissary department i]i the field, August 8, 1861, and shortly afterward assigned to General Longstreet's brigade headquarters, regimental commis- sary. While serving in this capacity he was present at the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Frazier's Farm (where he was wounded). Second Manassas, Brownboro, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Dranesville, Cold Harbor. After June 12, 1864, he was with General Early and at all the battles in which his troops engaged until after Cedar Creek, among them Hanover Junction, where he was again wounded. He surrendered at .•\ppomattox, having been in constant serv- ice throughout the war, and was a member of the Home Guard.

Captain Lucado married (first) Ammen Hamner. (second) Belle Pettygrew, daugh- ter of James W. and Mary (Newell) Petty- grew, who bore him two sons: G. Funston, see forward, and Albert Walker.

(HI) G. Funston Lucado, son of Captain Leonard Fret well and Belle (Pettygrew) Lucado, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, November 12, 1861, died July 24, 1904. He received his education in the public schools of his native city and at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute, Lexington, Virginia, from which institution he was graduated. He gained his first business experience by asso- ciating with his father in the wholesale mer- cantile business, under the firm title of Lu- cado & Sons. \Miile prosecuting this busi- ness, G. Funston Lucado was attracted to the possibilities of coal development in West Virginia, and by judicious invest- ments made almost at the inception of the coal operations in that field, he was largely and prominently identified with the coal mining industry. His prescience and prac- tical knowledge of the business in every de- tail are best attested by the fact that at the time of his death he was president of the Raleigh Coal & Coke Company, of Raleigh county, West Virginia; of thedilliam Coal & Coke Company : of the Arlington Coal & Coke Company : of the Shawnee Coal & Coke Company, all of McDowell countv.

West Virginia ; of the Glen Allen Coal & Coke Company, of Mingo county, W^est Vir- ginia ; secretary and treasurer of the Lee Coal & Coke Company, Virginia, and Coal & Coke Company of Virginia, and a director of the Lynchburg National Hank. Among his associates in the coal field Mr. Lucado was highly regarded as a man of exceptional capacity and tireless enterprise, whose char- acter won confidence and whose discretion overcame difficulties. He was not only liked and respected by the operators, but was implicitly trusted by the employees of every C(im]iany with which he was identified.

Whether the elements of success in life are innate attributes of the individual, or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine, yet the study of a suc- cessful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of the same uncertainty. A man who measured up to modern requirements was the late G. Funston Lucado, in whose death the com- munity lost not only a singularly success- ful man,' hut a most worthy and honored citizen. He was not only successful him- self, but was largely influential in the suc- cess of ethers, and he has left to posterity that priceless heritage, an honored nnme.

Mr. Lucado married Margaret Sandford Glass, daughter of Major Robert Henry and Meta (Sanford) Glass (see Glass II). Child: Margaret Funston.

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( 1 ) Thomas Glass, the first member of the family of whom we have information, was born in Fluvanna county, Virginia. Later he removed to Amherst county, Vir- ginia, where he purchased land and followed agricultural pursuits, continuing along this line throughout the active years of his life. He became prominent in his community and served a number of years as captain of a militia company. He married Lavinia Cauthorne, daughter of Richard and Ann (Williamson) Cauthorne. the latter named having been an accomplished and very beau- tiful woman, whose death occurred in 1842. Mrs. Glass died in 1832. Children of i\ir. and Mrs. Glass: Robert Henry, see for- ward ; Horatio, died young in Florida ; John, moved to Missouri, married, and died there ; l.anghorne, died young; Louisa, married a