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William Buchanan Conway of Madison County, Virginia, and Julia
Ellen Thomas, of Blacksburg, Virginia, were total strangers in the
fall of 1869, when their correspondence began. Some mutual friends
of theirs may have discerned a potential compatibility between the
two and subsequently prompted the initiation of William and Julia's
communication. Julia had lived all of her life in the then-remote
mountain and college town of Blacksburg. William, who had grown up
on plantation in Madison County in relative comfort and security
before the war, had returned from the war in 1864 to discover much
of his family's estate lost or sold. He and his brother Catlett ran
their family's farm until 1866, when William left to study medicine
in Culpeper Court House, Virginia. He continued his medical studies
in Washington University in Baltimore, earning his M.D. degree in
February 1869. Soon after this, William left home to pursue his
medical career in Rockingham County, in the heart of the Shenandoah
River Valley, and it was here that he first wrote to Julia.
This volume traces five generations of descendants of Joseph Yates
(1805-1863), providing short biographical sketches of many of his
progeny. The ten pages of full-name index list numerous
surnames-Edmondson, Holloway, Holwell, Milton, Shelley, Stanaland,
and Swain, to name only a few. Born in Montgomery County, Georgia,
Joseph lived his life there, dying in Brooks County; however, his
descendants can be found throughout the U.S. He was married twice,
first to Malina Swain and five years later to Cyntha Bowie, having
children from both marriages.
This volume is a compilation of some of the descendants of Giles
Thomas and his wife Nancy Ann (Wheeler) Thomas, with short
biographical sketches. A brief summary of the ancestry of Giles and
Nancy is given in an addendum. Giles Thomas, the son of David and
Hannah (Greene) Thomas, was born 30 November 1763 in that part of
Baltimore County, MD, that later became Harford Co. (Harford Co was
cut off from Baltimore Co some years after Giles Thomas's birth.)
Giles Thomas died 21 Mar 1842. He married 4 June 1786 Nancy Ann
Wheeler (born 10 May 1762, died 12 Jun 1834), daughter of Benjamin
and Mary (Neale) Wheeler. Giles entered the army when he was only
16 years of age and served as a private in the Maryland troops
until the close of the Revolutionary War. He served under Gen
Nathaniel Greene in his campaign in the Carolinas. As compensation
for service in the War, he received a land warrant, No. 1747, lying
west of Fort Cumberland in Washington Co, MD. His name also appears
in the pay record in the Maryland Land office. He resided at Port
Tobacco, MD, during his active years but moved, sometime between
1796 and 1801, to Montgomery Co, VA, where he bought a farm and
settled on Catawba Creek. He and his wife are buried in Westview
Cemetery in Blacksburg, VA.
Some of the descendants of Edwin and Martha Conway were compiled by
W. Conway Price, PhD (1906-1991), one of their descendants. Edwin
Conway came to Virginia about 1640. According to Hayden (Virginia
Genealogies, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M.A., 1891), he appears
in Northumberland County records June 1642 as "Mr Edwyne Conaway,
Clarke of this Com., in the County of Northampton." He married in
England Martha ELTONHEAD, daughter of Richard ELTONHEAD of
Lancashire, England, and his wife, Ann SUTTON of Huston Spencer.
Martha ELTONHEAD was a descendant of a distinguished family. Hayden
gives a chart showing her Eltonhead ancestry for eleven
generations. Edwin Conway was the third Clerk of Northampton
County. He appears frequently as Clerk in the record volumes from
1642 to 1645. He probably moved to Lancaster County in 1652 when
his wife is thought to have arrived in Virginia. He was recipient
of grants of 500 acres of land in Northampton County in 1644 and
1250 acres in Lancaster in 1652. A total of 1000 acres of the
second grant resulted from two patents. The five pages of surname
index reflect a diversity of names found in these lines, including
Ball, Blackwell, Carter, Fitzhugh, Gordon, Lee, McCarty, Moncure,
Robinson, Taliaferro, Wallace, and many more.
Catlett Conway wrote the letters in this volume between 1892 and
1920 to his half-brother, William Buchanan Conway. The brothers
enjoyed their childhood on a plantation, Ellerslie, built by their
father, Battaile Fitzhugh Taliaferro Conway, in Madison County,
Virginia. By 1892 Catlett was living in Richmond, Virginia, and he
later moved to Philadelphia, where he lived with his daughter and
her family. Dr. W. B. Conway began his married life in Blacksburg,
Virginia, and moved eventually to Athens, Georgia. The letters
paint a picture of the brothers' lives and reveal many of Catlett's
memories and opinions of the Civil War. He recalls a number of
specific battles. Both Catlett and William Buchanan were CSA
veterans, and Catlett's military record is included in this volume.
Five children of David and Agnes (Hoffmann) Preisch of Offenbach
(Landau), in Rheinland Pfalz, Germany, sailed from Rotterdam in the
Winter Gallery, arriving in Philadelphia on 5 September 1737. Anna
Margaretha, Johan Michael, J. Henry, Augustine, and Daniel Preisch
were settled in southwestern Virginia by mid-1700s. Some of them
stayed in Virginia, while others moved on to other locations. This
volume is a compilation of descendants of these five siblings,
whose surname changed to Preisch to Price and who became the
progenitors of a great number of Prices throughout the United
States.
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