The Washingtons. Volume 7, Part 2: Generation Eleven of the Presidential Branch

By Justin Glenn

Part of a series filled with “gratifying detail” about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the eleventh generation of descendants. (Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy, Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, and Lee’s Colonels)

This is the seventh volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This volume contains the late nineteenth and twentieth century born descendants of John Washington’s daughter, Anne (Washington) Wright, and as such transports the reader through many of the major historical events of those eras by providing the stories of the family members who lived through them.

Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country.

“It is surprising that no comprehensive family history has been published. Justin M. Glenn’s The Washingtons: A Family History finally fills this void for the branch to which General and President George Washington belonged, identifying some 63,000 descendants.” —John Frederick Dorman, editor of The Virginia Genealogist (1957–2006) and author of Adventurers of Purse and Person

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Sep 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781940669397

Justin Glenn

Justin Matthews Glenn was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and raised in Glendale and Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Stanford University [B.A., Classics, 1967; magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa] and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University [M.A., Classics, 1969; Ph.D., Classics, 1970]. His career as a professor of Classics at the University of Georgia and Florida State University spanned thirty-five years, and he has published over seventy articles, notes, and reviews in his field. A distant cousin of George Washington, he has served as Registrar General of the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants since 2002.

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Generation Eleven

The Washington-Wright Line:

Descendants of Anne (Washington) Wright

28452. Elizabeth Bowyer Garland (born in Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 1892; married in Washington, D.C. [Nov. 24, 1915] George Wharton Edwards [born in Fort Missoula, Mont., Feb. 3, 1892; served in WW I as 1st Lt., 1st Pa. Field Artillery, National Guard. They resided in Monroe, Fairfield Co., Conn., 1930, where he worked as an accountant. He died Oct. 27, 1940]. She died in Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., Conn., Nov. 15, 1942, and both were buried at Arlington National Cemetery).

Children:

+39276. John Garland Edwards.

+39277. Mary Conger Edwards.

+39278. George Wharton Edwards, Jr. [H. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 43; Anc.com/Washington D.C., Marriages; WW I Draft Reg.; 1930 census Fairfield Co., Conn., E.D. 141, p. 6A; www.findagrave.com; Anc.com/OWT and PMT; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-113231]

28454. Mary Truxtun Garland (born in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1897; married ibid. [Aug. 3, 1918] William George Hill [born in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1890; last resided ibid., and he died July 1973]. They resided in Bethesda, Montgomery Co., Md., 1940, where he was an automobile executive. She died in Bethesda, Md., June 2, 1971).

Children:

39279. Truxtun Garland Hill (born in Washington, D.C., June 13, 1919; died ibid., Dec. 25, 1921).

+39280. William George Hill, Jr.

+39281. Margaret Bowyer Hill.

+39282. Mary Truxtun Hill. [H. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 43; Anc.com/Washington, D.C., Marriages; 1940 census Montgomery Co., Md., E.D. 16-22B, p. 13B; SSDI; Anc.com/AWT; brynfamily.net/genealogy, citing The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 19, p. 123; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-113233]

28455. Anne Heap Gleaves (born in Washington, D.C., July 15, 1890; married ibid. [June 19, 1915] Thomas Earle Van Metre [born in W. Va., 1887; graduated from the USNA, Annapolis, 1909. His first assignments were aboard the battleships New Jersey and South Dakota (1909-1911), followed by submarine school. In Nov. 1911, he took command of C-1 [formerly the Octopus], one of the first submarines ever commissioned in the Navy. In what was then considered an epic feat of seamanship, the primitive and diminutive [105 feet long] craft successfully sailed across 700 miles of open ocean to the newly completed Panama Canal.

He next served on the battleship New York before serving in the Atlantic during WW I on the destroyer Wilkes. After subsequent assignments aboard the battleships New Jersey and North Dakota, he went on to command the destroyers Chase and Dent and later Destroyer Squadrons 11 and 7 in the Pacific Fleet. He also served tours of duty as an instructor at the USNA, Annapolis, and with the communications division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

The U.S. entry into WW II found him assigned to the Naval Examining Board in Washington, and from 1942 to 1945 he served as Deputy Naval Inspector General of the U.S. Fleet. He received the Legion of Merit for his professional skill that contributed materially to the successful prosecution of the war. He retired from the Navy as commander in 1947, returning to his native West Virginia. There, in Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., he was vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church, member of SAR, and president of the local Rotary. He died Dec. 8, 1973]. She died in Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., Md., April 17, 1940. Both were buried at Arlington National Cemetery).

Children:

39283. Nancy Stribling Van Metre (born and died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 13, 1916; she was buried at the Old Norbourne Cemetery in Boydville Historic District, Martinsburg, W. Va.).

+39284. Evelina Gleaves Van Metre.

+39285. Thomas Earle Van Metre, Jr.

+39286. Albert Gleaves Van Metre. [Quotation from obit. of Cmdr. T. E. Van Metre, Sr., in Shipmate, July-Aug. 1974; DAB, Sup. 2, Albert Gleaves; ACAB, 9:160-161; www.findagrave.com; West Virginia Cemeteries (www.vanmetre.com/Cemeteries/west_virginia_cemeteries.htm); J.A.W., Outline, 12111-113241]

28456. Evelina Porter Gleaves (born in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1895; on Aug. 1, 1918, she was given the honor of christening the destroyer Greer [DD-145] in Philadelphia, Pa. She wrote a delightful and valuable history of her family’s many interesting branches, Family Facts and Fairy Tales [1953; 2nd ed., 1988]. She married ibid. [Dec. 20, 1926] Albert Morris Cohen [born in Atlantic City, Atlantic Co., N.J., Pa., July 17, 1883; graduated from Haverford (Prep.), 1900, and then studied mechanical engineering for two years at Drexel Institute. Soon after starting his first job, he accepted an appointment to the USNA, Annapolis, and he was Commander of the Brigade during his final year. After graduating in 1907, he sailed aboard the battleship Kansas in the Great White Fleet’s round-the-world voyage. He later served aboard the battleship Louisiana in its voyage to the Baltic states and Scandinavia in 1911. The following year, he was turret and fire control officer aboard the battleship Delaware, which made a cruise to England and France before escorting President Taft to an inspection of the Panama Canal just prior to its opening. He then had a tour of duty in the Executive Department of the Naval Academy at Annapolis and did recruiting duty in New York City.

With U.S. entry into WW I, he became Executive Officer of the large troop transport George Washington. After several Atlantic crossings he was ordered to Anacostia, Va., where he had a few days of practice as a bombardier, dropping dummy bombs out of an airplane at targets on the Potomac River. He then sailed for France and reported for duty with Capt. Thomas T. Craven, commander of U.S. Naval Air Forces in France. When Craven learned the extent of Cohen’s training, the latter promptly was assigned a desk job as Craven’s Executive Officer.

With war’s end, Cohen’s temporary rank of Commander was reduced to Lt. Commander, and he saw little future for a career in the peace-time Navy. He soon resigned and joined the family business, Charles J. Cohen Company, in New York City, succeeding his father as president upon the latter’s death in 1927. He died in Wynnewood, Montgomery Co., Pa., April 2, 1959]. Evelina died in Stevensville, Ravalli Co., Mont., at the age of 101 on Dec. 27, 1996, and both were buried at Arlington National Cemetery).

Children:

+39287. Albert Gleaves Cohen.

+39288. Clotilda Florance Cohen. [DAB, Sup. 2, Albert Gleaves; ACAB, 9:160-161; H. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 42-43; MontDI; SSDI; www.findagrave.com; Anc.com/Pa. Death Certificates (which I follow), Social Security Applications & Claims; AWT; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-113242]

28458. Frederick Lawrence Recktenwald (born in Point Pleasant, Mason Co., W. Va., Jan. 26, 1888; a salesman, he married in Charleston, Kanawha Co., W. Va. [July 16, 1918] Louise Anderson [born in Kanawha Co., W. Va., Oct. 4, 1900; died in Charleston, W. Va., June 16, 1985]. They resided in Charleston, W. Va., where he died May 13, 1974).

Children:

39289. Earl Recktenwald (born in W. Va., March 30, 1918; married in Kanawha Co., W. Va. [1949] Mary Agnes Lanham [born March 28, 1920; died July 17, 1995]. He last resided in Dunbar, Kanawha Co., W. Va., and he died April 1, 2003).

39290. Mary L. Recktenwald (born in W. Va., Sept. 12, 1919; married Arthur F. Trimble [born Feb. 1, 1916; last resided in Charleston, Kanawha Co., W. Va., and he died 9, 1989]. She died Oct. 9, 1992).

39291. Pauline Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. 1920).

39292. Elizabeth J. Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. 1923; married Carl Eugene Berlin [born in Wood Co., W. Va., Dec. 3, 1919; a WW II veteran, he enlisted in Huntington, W. Va., and he served as Cpl., USAF. He last resided in Kenova, Wayne Co., W. Va., and he died Sept. 7, 1993]. She died in Kanawha Co., W. Va., Oct. 25, 1970).

39293. John Worth Recktenwald (born in W. Va., Sept. 14, 1926; married [1946] ___, and he died in Kanawha Co., W. Va., June 22, 1959).

39294-a. Paul F. Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. Oct. 1928).

39394-b. James Robert Recktenwald (born ibid., March 17, 1931; married in Kanawha Co., W. Va. [1951] Lucretia Ann Kirk [born May 30, 1932; last resided in Given, Jackson Co., W. Va., and she died May 20, 2010]. He last resided in Given, W. Va., and he died March 19, 2010).

39394-c. Edward Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. 1934).

39394-d. Margaret Ann Recktenwald (born ibid., March 17, 1935; married in Kanawha Co., W. Va. [1951] Robert Lee McCartney [born March 20, 1929; last resided in Huntington, Cabell Co., W. Va., and he died April 1978]. She last resided in Huntington, W. Va., and she died Aug. 24, 1995).

39394-e. Alfred Franklin Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. 1936). [1930 census Kanawha Co., W. Va., E.D. 29, p. 13B; 1930 census Kanawha Co., W. Va., E.D. 29, p. 13B; WW II AER; SSDI; www.findagrave.com; Anc.com/W. Va. Births, W. Va. Marriages, W. Va. Deaths, PMT, and AWT, entry by JLW; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-115121]

28459. Lewis Richard Recktenwald (born in Point Pleasant, Mason Co., W. Va., Oct. 11, 1890; a clerk for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, he married in Lowell, Washington Co., Oh. [Nov. 12, 1912] Loretta Amelia Shilling [born in Lowell, Washington Co., Oh., May 3, 1891]. He died in Charleston, Kanawha Co., W. Va., 1974).

Children:

39295. Richard Lewis Rechtenwald (apparently changed the spelling of his last name; born in Charleston, W. Va., April 20, 1914; married [April 27, 1946] Maysie Florence Legg [born in Coopers Creek, Kanawha Co., W. Va., Aug. 27, 1913; died in Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 21, 1997]. He last resided in Boca Raton, Palm Beach Co., Fla., and he died Aug. 23, 1995).

39296. Charles Recktenwald (born Sept. 18, 1916; died in Scott Depot, Putnam Co., W. Va., April 6, 1993).

39297. Francis Recktenwald—daughter (sic, 1920 census; born in W. Va., ca. July 1919).

39298. John Recktenwald (born Feb. 2, 1923; died in Scott Depot, W. Va., Feb. 1965).

39299. Robert William Recktenwald (born in Charleston, W. Va., June 7, 1927; died March 9, 1996).

39300-a. Harold Joseph Recktenwald (born ibid., Jan. 14 and died ibid., Aug. 15, 1929).

39300-b. Clarence Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. 1931). [1920 census Kanawha Co., W. Va., E.D. 90, p. 4B; 1940 census ibid., E.D. 20-35, p. 2B; SSDI; Anc.com/AWT, entry by JLW; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-115122]

28460. Francis English Recktenwald (born in Charleston, Kanawha Co., W. Va., Jan. 28, 1897; a WW I veteran, he married Anna Lucille Shaurer [born in W. Va., ca. 1900]. They resided in Charleston, W. Va., where he worked for the National Youth Administration, ca. 1942. He died ibid., July 1, 1968, and they had five children).

Children (partial list):

39301. William F. Recktenwald (born in W. Va., ca. 1920).

39302. Frances A. Recktenwald (born ibid., ca. 1921).

39303. Jean E. Recktenwald (born ibid., ca. 1924).

39304. James Edward Recktenwald (born in Dunbar, Kanawha Co., W. Va., May 25, 1929; absent in the 1930 census, he apparently died young). [1920 census Kanawha Co., W. Va., E.D. 90, p. 4B; 1930 census ibid., E.D. 55, p. 13B; WW II Draft Reg.; Anc.com/AWT, entry by JLW; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-115123]

28461. Mary Marguerite Recktenwald (born in Charleston, Kanawha Co., W. Va., Aug. 28, 1900; married Harry R. Jenkins [born in W. Va., ca. 1899; a WW I veteran, he was an accountant for the DuPont Company]. They and their two oldest children resided with Mary’s parents in Charleston, W. Va., 1930, and according to Ancestry.com/AWT they eventually had four children. Mary, Harry, and their three children listed below resided in Charleston, W. Va., 1940).

Children (partial list):

39305. Doris M. Jenkins (born in Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 30, 1920; married ___ O’Dell, and she died in Kanawha Co., W. Va., March 8, 1957).

39306-a. Betty J. Jenkins (born in W. Va., ca. 1922).

39206-b. Patricia Ann Jenkins (born ibid., ca. 1931). [1930 census Kanawha Co., W. Va., E.D. 29, p. 6A; 1940 census ibid., E.D. 20-47, p. 22A; Anc.com/W. Va. Death Index and AWT, entry by JLW; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-115123]

28463. Kathleen Lewis Guthrie (born in Point Pleasant, Mason Co., W. Va., May 5, 1891; married in Huntington, Cabell Co., W. Va., [Jan. 30, 1912] Frank Witcher McCullough [born in Huntington, W. Va., May 3, 1889; entered the Law Department of W. Va. U. in 1908 and graduated in 1910. He became a prominent lawyer in Huntington, W. Va., serving also as Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia from Nov. 1913 to Dec. 31, 1921. He was a director of the First National Bank of Huntington and vice-president of the Buffalo Thacker Coal Company. Also active in the Democratic Party, he was a delegate to its conventions at the district, county, and state level. He died in New York, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1948]. She last resided in Huntington, W. Va., where she died Sept. 13, 1968).

Children:

39307. Witcher Guthrie McCullough (born in Cabell Co., W. Va., July 8, 1915; served in the Navy from June 15, 1942 to Oct. 12, 1945. He died in DeKalb Co., Ga., Sept. 5, 1979).

+39308. Frank Witcher McCullough, Jr. [Who’s Who Am., 1930-1931; H. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 45; Anon., Hist. of West Va., Old and New, 2:57-58; WVaBI; WW II Draft Reg.; GaDI; SSDI; Anc.com/SAR Membership Applications (Frank W. McCullough III, natl. #100533); Anc.com/OWT; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-11513]

28464. Fannie Elizabeth Guthrie (born in Mason Co., W. Va., Aug. 16, 1901; married in Huntington, W. Va. [Aug. 1, 1923] Ben Mitchell Williamson, Jr. [born in Ky., March 1900; a WW I veteran, he was manager of a wholesale hardware business in Ashland, Boyd Co., Ky. He died in Boyd Co., Ky., Jan. 15, 1964]. She died March 21, 1981).

Children:

39309. Margaret Lynn Williamson (born in Ky., April 23, 1924; married George Farrell Hiatt [born in Hagerstown, Wayne Co., Ind., March 15, 1917; he was an executive for an oil and refining plant, and he died in Winter Park, Orange Co., Fla., Aug. 10, 1986]. She died in Boyd Co., Ky., March 31, 1971. They had three children:

[1]. Julia Julie Lewis Hiatt (born in Boyd Co., Ky., Oct. 28, 1946; married ___ Steele [an oil executive], and they were divorced in 1984. They moved to Richmond, Va., in 1978, and their first choice of a home was that being offered for sale by Edward and Kathleen Willey. The deal fell through, but Julia and Kathleen remained friends and kept in touch. According to a widely reported story, Julia’s life changed dramatically on a routine trip to a supermarket in the fall of 1993. Her son’s soccer team needed some supplies, and Julia was reaching for some paper towels on the bottom shelf. Kathleen Willey spotted her, rushed up, and suddenly vented her feelings, let[ting] loose a series of angry comments about being groped by President Bill Clinton in the White House the previous day. This is the story that Julia told to Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff, supposedly off the record. When the reporter was about to go public with the story, Julia changed her story and said that she did lie at first as a favor to Willey but that she later recanted when she realized the magazine was going to print the story and name her.

In subsequent testimony to two grand juries in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., Julia recanted her original version of the story and testified that Kathleen Willey was lying about a phony conversation between them that never occurred. In a 60 Minutes television interview in March 1998, Kathleen speculated that the White House pressured Julia and intimidated her into falsifying her story. Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr shared Kathleen Willey’s opinion and prosecuted Julia for perjury. The case ended in a hung jury on May 7, 1999.

Of all the people who swirled about President Clinton’s sexual scandals, Julia Steele was the only person ever charged with a crime. A few weeks later, Kenneth Starr dropped the charges against her. A few months later, before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law on Sept. 23, 1999, Julia testified:

I have been humiliated and bullied; I have been persecuted and ultimately prosecuted by Kenneth Starr and the OIC [Office of the Independent Counsel] for refusing to corroborate Kathleen Willey’s claim that President Clinton groped her. I have also been financially destroyed. I lost my job, and have been unable to work. I am now losing a home I once owned free and clear.

Julia and her husband had three children prior to her divorce. She later gave birth to a still-born son. She subsequently adopted in Romania in 1990 a ten-week-old son named Adam).

[2]. Elizabeth Forrest Hiatt (born in Boyd Co., Ky., March 8, 1950; married ___ Maglio, and she resided in Longwood, Seminole Co., Fla.).

[3]. Ben Williamson Hiatt (born in Boyd Co., Ky., Feb. 24, 1953; resided in Alexandria, Va.).

39310. Elizabeth Guthrie Williamson (born in Ashland, Boyd Co., Ky., Dec. 7, 1926; graduated from the U. of Ky. [B.A., 1948]. A member of the CDA, she married in Ashland, Ky. (Jan. 18, 1950) Theodore Joseph Shaut Caldwell [born Sept. 10, 1920; died April 15, 2001]. They had four children:

[1]. Lynn Caldwell (married James T. Glendinning, and they resided in Vienna, Va.).

[2]. Barbara Caldwell (married Guy E. Martin, and they resided in Winchester, Clark Co., Ky.).

[3]. Liza Caldwell (married Carl Bailey, and they resided in Huntington, W. Va.).

[4]. Theodore Thad Joseph Shaut Caldwell, Jr. (married Tina ___, and they resided in Nashville, Tenn.). [Quotations from Leef SMITH, Federal Trial Is a Starr Attraction, Washington Post, 5/3/1999, p. B1 and Statement of Julie Hiatt Steele/Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Sept. 23, 1999 (http://judiciary.house.gov/legacy/stee0923.htm). See also: P. B. LEVY, Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency, 328; Anon., Hist. of W. Va., Old and New, 3:145-146; Who’s Who Am., 1930-1931; H. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 45; WVaMI; KyBI; KyDI; SSDI; FlaDI; FamSearch.org/W. Va. Deaths; 1930 census Boyd Co., Ky., E.D. 12, p. 14A (for Fannie and Ben Williamson); www.findagrave.com (with attached obits. of Theodore and Elizabeth W. Caldwell); obit. of George F. Hiatt in the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, 8/11/1986; Anc.com/OWT and PMT; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-11513]

28466. Nicholas Trout Cooke, Jr. (born in Richmond, Va., July 31, 1906; married [June 1, 1946] Jan Kollock Harrison [born Jan. 28, 1914]. They resided in Richmond, Va., and he died Oct. 25, 1995).

Children:

39311. Sarah Hull Cooke (born in Richmond, Va., June 4, 1947; married ibid. [Jan. 19, 1979] Luther Arrington Newcomb [born ibid., Nov. 17, 1942]. They were divorced ibid., Jan 26, 1976).

39312. Nicholas Trout Cooke III (born in Richmond, Va., July 17, 1953; he was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati on the line of Sigmund Stribling. He graduated from the U. of Va. J.D.], and for a time he practiced law in Richmond. Later sensing a call to the ministry, he enrolled as a seminarian in the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. While there he met and subsequently married [ca. 1983] Ellen (Gerrity) Koch. [Born ca. 1945, she had previously married and then divorced William C. Koch, an Episcopal priest who served as rector of All Saints Church in Brookline, Mass. She claimed to have graduated with a B.S. in Economics from Georgetown U., but a later investigation discovered that she was never enrolled there as a student. She did briefly attend George Washington U. for two semesters, but dropped out after she was put on academic suspension for deficient grades. Nevertheless, she had managed to land a job as assistant treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1980 to 1986].

After his graduation and ordination, Nicholas accepted a call to a parish in Alexandria, Va. Early in 1986, his wife Ellen briefly worked as assistant treasurer of the Diocese of Virginia, but suddenly that fall she was picked by the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop to be the denomination’s national treasurer. She thus moved to the Church’s national headquarters in Manhattan, N.Y., and in 1988 Nicholas moved to Montclair, Essex Co., N.J., where he became rector of the historic St. Luke’s Church. They purchased a historic colonial mansion in Montclair, N.J., whose main house and adjoining cottage boasted a total of seven bedrooms and five fireplaces. In July 1991, they also purchased a half-million-dollar Virginia farm.

Their opulent bubble finally burst, however, in the early summer of 1995. Major articles in the New York Times [May 8, 1995] and the Washington Post [June 4, 1995] proclaimed the sad story with their headlines: Rich Life Style and Looted Church and Thou Shalt Not Steal. According to the former article, the funds that supported their lavish life style came from $2.2 million that church officials say Mrs. Cooke, 50, looted from the church treasury from February 1990 to last January.

Shortly before these revelations, Ellen had resigned from her position in Dec. 1994, and she joined Nicholas in McLean, Va., where he had recently accepted a call to St. John’s Episcopal Church. After the scandal broke, Nicholas resigned from the priesthood and was reported by The Washington Post as looking for work in a Richmond law firm or the Civil Service. [On Jan. 24, 1996, Ellen pled guilty to the embezzlement more than $1.5 million from the Episcopal Church and also to income tax evasion. She was released from federal custody in Jan. 2001]. In 1997 Nicholas opened a book shop in Richmond, Va.). [Quotations from Robert HANDLEY, Rich Life Style and Looted Church, New York Times, 5/5/1995 and L. GOODSTEIN, Thou Shalt Not Lie, Washington Post, 6/4/1995, reprinted in J. M. BUDDENBAUM and D. L. MASON, Readings on Religion as News, 428-437. See also: M. MOURSUND, Stribling, 10; Sharon WALSH, Ex-Episcopal Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More than $1.5 Million, Washington Post, 1/25/1996, p. A 16; Edd STANNARD, Former ECUSA Treasurer Released from Custody, Anglican Journal, Jan. 2001; SSDI; Anc.com/Va. Birth Records, Va. Marriage Records, and Social Security Applications & Claims]

28469. Charlotte Thrall Moore (born in Circleville, Pickaway Co., Oh., July 15, 1916; married [May 16, 1941] Loren Lee Pace [born Sept. 27, 1914; died in Findlay, Hancock Co., Oh., Dec. 19, 2012]. She last resided in Findlay, Oh., where she died May 14, 2000).

Children:

39313-a. Cynthia Lee Pace (born 1942; she had one child, Michael Douglas Pace [born 1975]).

39313-b. Geoffrey Pace (born 1947; married Nancy Howard).

39313-c. Deborah Pace (born 1951; married Paul Peterson. Their daughter Elaine D. Peterson married Randall J. Butterfield III). [OhDI; SSDI; Anc.com/Social Security Applications & Claims and Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obit. Index; FGS by DMM]

28470. Philip Lee Moore (born in Oh., April 14, 1920; married [1941] Jeanne Garmhausen. He last resided and died in Circleville, Pickaway Co., Oh., Oct. 22, 1984).

Children:

39314. Susan Jeanette Moore (born 1946).

39315. Philip Lee Moore, Jr. (born 1948). [OhDI; SSDI; Anc.com/AWT; FGS by DMM]

28471. Howard Benford Moore, Jr. (born 1926; married Eileen Edyris Leppold).

Children:

+39316. Howard Benford Moore III.

+39317. David McClelland Moore.

+39318. Kathleen Suzanne Moore.

+39319. Christopher Wells Moore. [FGS by DMM]

28479. Sarah Bridges Thompson (born in Highlands, Macon Co., N.C., Oct. 19, 1920; graduated from Queen’s College, Charlotte, N.C. An airline stewardess and school teacher, she married Donald Bernard McNamee. She died in Clyde, Haywood Co., N.C., Oct. 31, 2006. Sarah and her son Robert were buried at Dawn Memory Garden in Haywood Co., N.C.).

Child:

39320. Robert E. McNamee (born July 30, 1950; married [Feb. 22, 1975] Patty Ritz, and they resided in Miami Springs, Dade Co., Fla. He died in Fla., Oct. 5, 1989). [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 75; obit. of Sarah T. McNamee in the (Asheville, N.C.) Citizen-Times, 11/1/2006; www.findagrave.com (which I follow for Robert E. McNamee); J.A.W., Outline, 12111-123111]

28480. Margaret Virginia Thompson (born in Highlands, Macon Co., N.C., Feb. 28, 1922; she was a librarian in the Mooresville [N.C.] public school system. She married in Macon Co., N.C. [April 5, 1947] Clarence Pharr McNeely, Jr. [born in Mooresville, Iredell Co., N.C., Dec. 7, 1918; died in Iredell Co., N.C., Oct. 20, 2005]. She last resided in Mooresville, N.C., where she died April 16, 2008. Both were buried at Glenwood Memorial Park in Mooresville, N.C.).

Children:

39321. Margaret Lee McNeely (born in Iredell Co., N.C., May 2, 1950; married [April 5, 1975] William Brent Curtis, and they resided in Mooresville, N.C. They had two children: Neely Curtis and Will Curtis).

+39322. Clarence Pharr McNeely III.

39323. Helen Thompson McNeely (born in Rowan Co., N.C., Aug. 31, 1957; married Nick Cawood, and they resided in Woodstock, Cherokee Co., Ga. They had four children: Madison Cawood, Drew Cawood, Matthew Cawood, and Michael Cawood). [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T.Thompson, 76; NCarBI; SSDI; www.findgrave.com (with obit. of Margaret V. T. McNeely)]

28481. Mary Agnes Lee June Thompson (born in Highlands, Macon Co., N.C., June 5, 1924; married [Aug. 7, 1945] William Tracy Medlin, Jr. [born in Raleigh, Wake Co., N.C., Jan. 8, 1916; graduated from Wofford College and Duke U. Divinity School. He later received an honorary D.D. degree from Pfeiffer U. A Methodist minister, he served in many churches throughout western North Carolina and as District Superintendent of the Western North Carolina Conference, Marion District. He was also secretary for the Western North Caroline Conference for seven years. He retired after forty years of service as a minister, and even then he continued to serve twenty more years as an assistant at three Methodist churches. He died in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., N.C., at the age of 97 on Dec. 24, 2013]. She was elected as a delegate to two Jurisdictional Conferences of United Methodist Women, and she died in Winston-Salem, N.C., Dec. 13, 2010).

Children:

+39324. William Tracy Medlin III.

39325. John Thompson Medlin (born in Haywood Co., N.C., Sept. 16, 1951; married [Dec. 21, 1974] Nancy Elizabeth Richardson. They resided in Greensboro, Guilford Co., N.C., 2010. They had three children: John Thompson Medlin, Jr., Andrew Medlin, and Christopher Medlin). [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 76; NCarBI; obit. of Mary Agnes June Thompson posted on www.salemfh.com; obit. of William T. Medlin, Jr., in the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times, 12/28/2013]

28482. Magnus Stribling Thompson (born in N.C., April 9, 1926; a WW II veteran, he enlisted in the Air Force at Fort Bragg, N.C., Oct. 11, 1944. He married [Sept. 1, 1950] Mary Smith Cleaveland, and they were later divorced. He last resided in Salisbury, Rowan Co., N.C., where he died in a Veterans Hospital, Sept. 28, 1988).

Children:

+39326. Pamela Ann Thompson.

+39327. Mary Lee Thompson.

39328. Michael Stribling Thompson (born 1955; married Dale Allison Berzin). [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 76; NCarDI]

28483. Richard Byrd Thompson (born in Highlands, Macon Co., N.C., Feb. 5, 1930; married [Dec. 15, 1956] Nancy Carolyn Everhart [born April 17, 1936]. They resided in Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. He last resided in Charlotte, N.C., but he reportedly died in Lucia, Gaston Co., N.C., Aug. 29, 2006).

Children:

39329. Donald Allen Thompson (born 1957).

39330. Susan Lynne Thompson (born 1958). [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 76; SSDI; Anc.com/Social Security Applications & Claims; www.findagrave.com]

28484. Catherine Breathed Bridges (born in Hancock, Washington Co., Md., May 11, 1905; married in Washington, D.C. [June 3, 1926] Walter Ellsworth Linaweaver [born in Great Cacapon, Morgan Co., W. Va., Jan. 27, 1904; graduated from the UNSA, Annapolis, 1926, where he earned a varsity letter in Lacrosse. He received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his service in WW II as the Fleet Communication Officer to the Commander-in-Chief of the Asiatic Fleet. He later received the Legion of Merit with Combat V for his service during the Korean War as Commander East Coast Blockade and Escort Force from Aug. 1952 to Oct. 1952. He retired at the rank of Rear Admiral, USN, and he died in San Diego, Cal., Jan. 24, 1989]. They resided in La Mesa, San Diego Co., Cal., where she died June 3, 2001).

Children:

+39331. Walter Ellsworth Linaweaver, Jr.

+39332. Ann Clermont Linaweaver. [H. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 51; B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 77; CalDI; military decoration details posted on valor.militarytimes.com; www.findagrave.com; Navy Men’s Lacrosse on grfx.cstv.com; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-12312]

28485. Julia Elizabeth Adams Thompson (born in Petersburg, Va., July 25, 1911; graduated from Agnes Scott College [1931; editor of the weekly newspaper; Phi Beta Kappa]. A Sunday School teacher and active lay leader in the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Ga., she was also prominent in community affairs. She served as president of the Child Service Association for three years and also on the board of the Student Aid Foundation. A member of CDA, she married in Richmond, Va. [Dec. 29, 1931] Hal Lafayette Smith [born in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 29, 1904; graduated from Ga. Tech, 1926. He was president of Whitehall Chevrolet Company, later Downtown Chevrolet Company, in Atlanta, Ga. He was a deacon, later an elder, and then a trustee of First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Ga. Among many civic offices, he was chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter of the American Red Cross, the United Way Fund Drive [then called the Community Chest], and the Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott College. For many years, he served on the board of directors of The Citizens and Southern National Bank.

A generous benefactor of education, he endowed the John E. Smith Scholars program and the Chair of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Ga. Tech. He also endowed the Julia T. Smith Chaplaincy and the Chair of Free Enterprise at Agnes Scott, as well as the Smith-Thompson Scholars Fund at Columbia Theological Seminary. He was a founding trustee of the Westminster Schools, endowing the school’s Chair of Christian Education. He served on the board of the Georgia Foundation of Independent Colleges, and he was president of the Ga. Tech Foundation. He died in Naples, Collier Co., Fla., March 9, 2003]. They resided in Atlanta, Fulton Co., Ga., where she died Dec. 1, 1995).

Children:

+39333. John Edward Smith II

+39334. Anne Claiborne Smith. [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 209-211; GaDI; SSDI; obits. of Julia T. Smith and Hal L. Smith from JES II]

28486. William Taliaferro Thompson III (twin; born in Petersburg, Va., May 26, 1913; called Tee, he graduated from Davidson College [A.B., 1934; Phi Beta Kappa; Kappa Sigma], where he earned varsity letters in football and tennis. He entered the Medical College of Va., where he graduated at the top of his class [M.D., 1938] and received the Robert C. Bryan Prize in Pathology. After completing his internship in Boston, Mass., he returned to the Medical College of Va., where he did his residency and remained as an instructor. While in Boston, however, he met a Wellesley student and fellow Virginian, Jessie Gresham Baker. They were married in Richmond, Va., June 21, 1941. [She was born in Bellingham, Whatcom Co., Wash., Oct. 18, 1918. Raised in Richmond, Va., she graduated from Wellesley College (B.A., 1940). She later became extremely active in the cause of historic preservation in Virginia, serving as a member of the board of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (beginning in 1952) and was its president from 1964 to 1968. She also served on the boards of the Sheltering Arms Hospital, the Crippled Children’s Hospital, and the Virginia Home. She died in Richmond, Va., May 25, 1995].

Called to active duty in the Medical Corps in Oct. 1940, Tee served at Fort Lee near Petersburg, Va., until he joined the 45th General Hospital Unit in 1943. He went on to serve in the 45th in Rabat, French Morocco, and then Naples, Italy, and finally Bari, Italy. Returning to the U.S. with the rank of Major in Oct. 1945, he worked at St. Luke’s Hospital and McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, Va. He was appointed chief of medical services at McGuire Hospital in 1954, and also became associate professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Va., where he played a major role in establishing its first intensive care unit and its pulmonary and critical care division.

In his active retirement, beginning in 1974, he served as medical director at the Westminster-Canterbury retirement home until 1987. He was the author of more than 50 articles in various medical journals, and in 1976 he was appointed editor of Virginia Medical, the official organ of the Medical Society of Virginia. A prominent leader in the American College of Physicians, he served from 1971-1975 as governor of the Virginia Chapter, which bestowed upon him its Laureate Award in 1986. He also won the Davidson Alumni Service Award in 1984, and in his honor the American Lung Association endowed the W. Taliaferro Thompson Chair of Pulmonary Medicine at the Medical College of Va. in 1987.

Deeply committed to education, he also served on the board of trustees of Mary Baldwin College, the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, and Davidson College. A member of the Society of the Cincinnati, he also served on numerous local, regional, and national boards of the Presbyterian Church, and he was a commissioner to the General Assembly in 1962. In 1981 he was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. He died in Richmond, Va., Feb. 19, 2002).

Children:

+39335. William Taliaferro Thompson IV.

+39336. Addison Baker Thompson.

+39337. Jessie Ball Thompson. [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 211-219; Who’s Who Am., 2002; SSDI]

28487. William McIlwaine Thompson (twin; born in Petersburg, Va., May 26, 1913; called Mac or Wee, he graduated from Davidson [1934], where his academic honors included the Freshman Scholarship Medal and election to Phi Beta Kappa. He then taught for two years at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., before entering Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. After his graduation and ordination in 1939, he became assistant pastor and director of Christian education at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va. In 1941 he became pastor of the Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, Va., but little more than a year later he enlisted as a chaplain in the Army. He was able to obtain an assignment initially with the 45th General Hospital in which his twin brother worked as a medical officer. From North Africa, he was assigned as a chaplain to the 1st Armored Division and later to the 88th Inf. Division in Italy. Serving with the 351st Inf. Regiment, 88th Inf. Division in the bitter mountain battles of central Italy, he was wounded while ministering to troops in the front lines, but returned to the front as soon as possible. Honorably discharged from the Army at the rank of Captain in Jan. 1946, his decorations included the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

In 1946 he enrolled in Yale Divinity School, where he earned his doctorate after completing a dissertation on The Problem of Political Authority in Calvin’s Theory and Practice. After teaching for two years as associate professor of Bible at his alma mater Davidson College, he accepted an appointment as pastor of the College Church [Presbyterian] at Hampden-Sydney. He then became the first professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in 1951.

He married in Richmond, Va. [Nov. 7, 1942] Alice Cathryne Jones [born in Beeville, Bee Co., Tex., Jan. 16, 1920; she grew up on the family ranch and graduated (1940) Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., where she was president of her Junior Class and in her senior year president of the YWCA Board. She also attended what is now Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Va. According to her daughter, she chose to marry rather than finish the necessary papers to graduate.

She personally made enormous contributions to racial integration and cooperation in both the Presbyterian Church and her community. When two black children enrolled in previously all-white Chandler Jr. High School, Alice invited these children and their parents to a social gathering at her home and invited several white students and their parents in order to meet each other before the opening class. When a regulation prevented her from inviting a black Presbyterian minister to address her church women’s group, she lobbied successfully to overturn the rule. She organized and was Den Mother of the first racially integrated Cub Scout Pack in Richmond, Va., and she also was responsible for integrating the United Church Women’s Council.

She served on numerous boards, including the Richmond YWCA, the United Church Women’s Council, Stillman College, the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian Church US, and the Home Mission Committee of Hanover Presbytery, in addition to many local activities of the Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond. She died in Virginia Beach, Va., July 2, 2003]. He died of chronic leukemia at the age of 39 on Nov. 14, 1952).

Children:

+39338. William McIlwaine Thompson, Jr.

+39339. Alice Carter Thompson. [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 219-224; SSDI; additional details from ATC]

28488. Anne Claiborne Thompson (born in Petersburg, Va., Jan. 14, 1918; graduated from Agnes Scott College, where her academic honors included Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa. An active volunteer in both the Presbyterian Church and her community, for many years she served as a kindergarten Church School teacher, a circle leader, and a worker with the Women of the Church. She was recognized several times by Meals on Wheels in Richmond, Va., as one of their most dedicated volunteers, making weekly meal deliveries for over 30 years. She married in Richmond, Va. [June 23, 1938] Ben Lacy Rose [born in Fayetteville, Cumberland Co., N.C., Dec. 12, 1914; graduated from Davidson College (1935) and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia (1938). He then accepted a call as pastor of Presbyterian churches in Chinquapin, Beulaville, and Bethel, N.C.

Entering the Army in May 1941, he served as a chaplain in the 113th Mechanized Cav. Group. Part of the vanguard of the Allied advance into Germany, his unit was among the first to link up with Russian forces near Berlin, and he was mentioned several times in Cornelius Ryan’s noted history The Last Battle. After the war, he remained in the chaplains’ corps of the Army Reserve and attained the rank of Colonel. His decorations included the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster. He later drew on his wartime experiences to draw this spiritual analogy:

Dr. Ben Lacy Rose frequently compared the spiritual struggles of the faithful to the struggles of the Allied soldiers fighting in the time between D-Day and V-Day at the end of World War II. That is to say, after the invasion at Normandy the power of the Axis forces was broken and victory for the Allied forces was assured. Nevertheless, many people would still die in combat in the continuing battles until V-Day finally arrived. We also know that God’s victory over evil is secure, but that neither guarantees our personal security nor does it reduce the pain and the heat of these latter day skirmishes.

He then served as pastor in Bristol, Va., and Wilmington, N.C. During his years at Bristol, he studied each summer at Union Theological Seminary, where he earned advanced degrees (Th.M., 1950; Th.D., 1955). He later received honorary D.D. degrees from Davidson College and King College in Bristol, Tenn. From 1956 to 1973, he was professor of Pastoral Leadership and Homiletics at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. While on a sabbatical in 1960-1961, he pursued post-graduate study at Columbia and Princeton. He eventually attained the highest position in the U.S. Presbyterian Church, serving as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church in 1971-1972. From 1973 to 1978, he served as a pastor in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., and as minister to ministers in eastern North Carolina.

A gifted and prolific writer, he was the author of several books on religious topics, including Confirming Your Call in Church, Home, and Vocation (John Knox, 1967) and T.U.L.I.P.: Sermons on the Five Points of Calvinism (Providence House, 1992; 2nd ed., 1997). For thirty years (1959-1989), he published a question and answer column in the Presbyterian Survey (later posted on The Layman Online). An especially illuminating example of his theological insights and his gift of communication is his column on unity and diversity on Dec. 9, 1999. His interests and talents also extended to genealogy. He wrote and privately published eight family histories, including his superb Alexander Rose of Person County N. C. and his Descendants (1979) and The Family of William Taliaferro Thompson, Jr. and his Wife Anne Claiborne McIlwaine (1982). He generously provided me with a complimentary copy of the latter, a rare and invaluable record of an important branch of the Washington-Wright-Stribling family.

At the age of 67, he agreed to become the Stated Supply minister for Hebron Church in Manakin-Sabot, Va. This was an annual contract to serve a small church that could not support a full-time minister. He continued to serve each year in this capacity until the church reluctantly accepted his resignation when he reached the age of 84. Under his leadership, this small church of about 30 members grew to ca. 250, and it became one of the most dynamic congregations in Goochland County. In the last years of his active retirement, he resided at the Westminster-Canterbury retirement community in Richmond, Va., where he often led in worship and all the residents knew when Ben Lacy Rose was coming down the hall—he was singing those gospel songs! He died in Richmond, Va., Nov. 13, 2006]. Anne died in Richmond, Va., Dec. 28, 2005. Their youngest child, Taliaferro Thompson Rose, was born in Bristol, Va., April 10 and died May 1, 1952).

Children (surviving):

+39340. Anne Claiborne Rose.

+39341. Margaret Rockwell Rose.

+39342. Lucy Atkinson Rose.

39343. Benjamin Lacy Rose, Jr. (born in Bristol, Va., May 28, 1950; graduated from the U. of N.C.-Chapel Hill, 1972. After study at the U. of British Columbia in Vancouver, he returned to Richmond, Va., where he worked for a moving company and then an oil company. Later he became a partner in his own geodesic dome construction business, Climate Design, and he was co-holder of a patent for a design used in the domes. He was also a licensed heating contractor for 35 years. After the death of his sister Lucy, he decided to honor her by becoming a hospice nurse. He graduated from Beth Israel School of Nursing in New York, N.Y., in 2010, shortly before his 60th birthday. He then worked as an R.N. in Richmond, Va.). [Quotations from J. H. SMYLIE, A Tribute to Ben Lacy Rose (1914-2006) (see bibliog., websites). See also: B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 224-228; additional details from MRDay; SSDI]

28489. Joseph Alston Thompson (born in Richmond, Va., March 19, 1921; graduated from Davidson College [1942; Phi Beta Kappa] and Harvard [M.B.A., 1943]. A WW II veteran, he entered active duty as an Ensign on May 28, 1943. He served as an ordnance officer and ship’s service officer, and he was promoted to Lt. (jg) and then to Lt. He was stationed primarily at the Naval Air Station in Elizabeth City, N.C., and he was honorably discharged May 1, 1946. While serving as an officer in the Navy, he married in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank Co., N.C. [June 9, 1945] Dorothy Jean Williams [born in Tyler, Smith Co., Tex., Nov. 28, 1926; attended Randolph Macon College (1943-1945), and later she was secretary of the Atlanta Speech School]. After the war, they settled in Atlanta, Ga., where he became the president and owner of Leased Vehicles, Inc. A ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church, he died Sept. 5, 1994).

Children:

39344. Joseph Alston Thompson, Jr. (born in Atlanta, Ga., May 17, 1947; graduated from Vanderbilt U. [B.A., 1969]. After a stint in the Army, he graduated from the U. of Va. [J.D., 1973]. He married [1st, on Feb. 14, 1973] Penelope Dent Odom [graduated from Mary Baldwin College (B.A., 1969)]. They moved to New York City, where he worked for a law firm and earned a Master’s degree in Tax Law at NYU [LL.M., 1976]. They then settled in Atlanta, Ga., where he became a partner in a law office. He served as the Chairman of the Tax Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and he was a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He was also the coauthor of the Professional Corporation Desk Book [Prentice-Hall, 1982]. Divorced in 2001, he married [2nd, on May 5, 2007] Jennifer Irene Diversi [born at Fort Benning, Ga., May 18, 1961; graduated from Vanderbilt U. (B.S., 1983), the Medical College of Georgia (D.M.D., 1987), and Tufts U. School of Dental Medicine (Periodontology, 1989). DAR member #830994, she was a practicing periodontist and served on various professional boards. She had one daughter, Caroline Joan Violette, by a previous marriage]. They resided in Atlanta, Ga.).

+39345. Kathryn Gilliland Thompson.

+39346. Dorothy McIlwaine Thompson. [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 228-230; FGS by JAThompson]

28490. David Gregg Thompson (born in Richmond, Va., Nov. 15, 1925; entered Davidson College, 1943, where he played varsity baseball and football his freshman year. After entering the Army in March 1944, he volunteered for paratroop duty and joined the 101st Airborne Division, fighting in Belgium, France, and Germany. Honorably discharged in May 1946, he returned to Davidson for another academic year. During this time, he married [1st, in March 1947] Hazel Dooley Thomas, and they moved to Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., N.C., where he became a salesman. Divorced in 1963, he married [2nd, on May 15, 1965] Frederika Muris [born of Dutch parents in the Dutch East Indies, Oct. 9, 1932, she endured four brutal years in a Japanese internment camp in WW II]. They resided in Miami Shores, Dade Co., Fla., and later Deland, Volusia Co., Fla., where he was a lay leader in local Presbyterian churches and established a wholesale marketing business).

Children (by his 1st wife):

39347. David Gregg Thompson, Jr. (born in Winston-Salem, N.C., Oct. 1, 1948; worked in the restaurant business in Atlanta, Ga. He married [May 7, 1995] Rebecca Burke White [of Charleston, Kanawha Co., W. Va.]. Later divorced, he resided in Loganville, Walton Co., Ga.).

+39348. William Thomas Thompson.

Children (by his 2nd wife):

39349. Johannes Muris Thompson (born in Miami Beach, Dade Co., Fla., Oct. 1, 1967; married [Dec. 13, 1998] Lisa Lee Armfield. They resided in Fla., and they had two children: Jakob Gregg Thompson [born 2004] and Elijah McIlwaine Thompson [born 2012]).

39350. Frederika de Kock Thompson (born in Miami Beach, Fla., May 20, 1969; graduated from Flagler College [1992]. She married [Aug. 13, 1994] Fredrick Benjamin Hunter III. They resided in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Co., Fla. They had three children: Elisabeth Anne Hunter [born 1996], Fredrick Benjamin Hunter IV [born 1998], and Michael Aleksandr Hunter [adopted; born in Perm, Russia, and he was adopted May 3, 2000]). [B. ROSE-A. ROSE, William T. Thompson, 230-231]

28498. Braden Vandeventer, Jr. (born in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 27, 1921; graduated from VMI [1943]. During WW II, he served in the 375th Field Artillery Battalion, attached to the 100th Inf. Division, USA, and he reached the rank of Maj., USA, in the European Theater [1944-1945]. His decorations included the Bronze Star. After the war, he graduated from the U. of Va. [LL.B., 1949], and he maintained a successful private law practice in Norfolk, Va. [1949-1991]. A lecturer at William and Mary Law School, he served on the boards of directors of the Life Savings Bank and Signet Bank of Va., and he was a regional director of the BB&T Bank. He also served on the executive committee of the U.S. Maritime Law Association [1976-1979]. He was honored in 1994 by the Hampton Roads Maritime Association for distinguished service in promoting the unity of the ports of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News, and he was a trustee of Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va. He married in Redding, Berks Co., Pa. [June 10, 1954] Barbara Ann Lewis [born in Redding, Pa., Sept. 1924; she generously contributed data on her family]. He died in Norfolk, Va., Dec. 5, 1998).

Children:

39351-a. Elizabeth Ann Vandeventer (born in Norfolk, Va., June 3, 1955; graduated from the U. of Va. and Wharton School of Business, U. of Pa. She resided unm. in New York, N.Y., 2000).

39351-b. Thomas Ruffin Vandeventer (born in Norfolk, Va., Aug. 19, 1956; graduated from the U. of Va. [B.S.] and Columbia [M.B.A.]. He worked for Smith-Barney in New York City, 2000).

39351-c. William Lewis Vandeventer (born in Norfolk, Va., July 4, 1960; graduated from the U. of Va. and Yale [M. Architecture]. He resided in Seattle, Wash.).

+39352. Ann Braden Vandeventer. [Who’s Who Am., 1990-1991; SSDI; FGS by BLV]

28501. Marietta Elizabeth Whipp (born in Romney, Hampshire Co., W. Va., Oct. 29, 1907; married ibid. [Nov. 2, 1929] James Ascom Bowers [born in Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 1895; died in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Nov. 19, 1970]. She taught typing at West Virginia School for the Blind in Romney, W. Va., and she later worked as an officer manager for a school gmnastic clothing manufacturer for ca. 35 years in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Cal. She last resided in Calimesa, Riverside Co., Cal., and she died Nov. Jan. 31, 2002).

Children:

+39353. Caroline Elizabeth Bowers.

39354. Anne Neal Bowers (born in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Dec. 9, 1933; died unm. Sept. 7, 2001). [SSDI; FGS by PLW]

28502. David Mullendore Whipp II (born in Romney, Hampshire Co., W. Va., Jan. 30, 1909; working as an electrician, he resided unm. with his parents in Romney, W. Va., 1930. He later graduated from Cal. Institute of Technology [B.S., 1936], and he joined the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1939. After serving aboard ships on the Atlantic Coast and the Caribbean from Maine to the British West Indies until 1942, he was then transferred to the U.S. Army. His unit was the 1st Field Artillery Observation Battalion, pioneering new techniques which plotted and coordinated the artillery fire for an entire Corps.

By Aug. 1942, he was stationed in England, and on Oct. 1, 1942 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. Soon afterward, he participated in Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa. By mid-March 1943, he was working with the artillery of George S. Patton’s II Corps in the build-up for Patton’s first major battle in World War II, El Guettar. Whipp did not shrink from setting up advanced observation posts in the most exposed positions, even ahead of advanced infantry patrols. His service was so conspicuous that General Orders number 14 [issued May 1, 1943 by the Headquarters, 13th Field Artillery Brigade] included this citation:

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal (Army Award) to David M. Whipp (K-100010), Lieutenant, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for gallantry in action while serving with the 1st Field Observation Battalion from 14 March to 24 March 1943, during the attack on El Guettar, Tunisia. With complete disregard for his own personal safety, Lieutenant Whipp proceeded in advance of the infantry to establish survey control for all of the Artillery to be engaged in this attack. By his actions Lieutenant Whipp accomplished this survey control two days prior to the time that our Artillery occupied these positions, despite heavy enemy shell fire. On *** April 1943 near Korian, Tunisia, Lieutenant Whipp was assigned the mission of establishing the survey control of a forward Flash Ranging Observation Post. After setting up his survey instruments at the O.P., which was under fire from enemy artillery, Lieutenant Whipp observed an enemy battery. Though not trained as an artilleryman, he contacted the Corps Artillery fire direction center by radio and called for fire on the enemy battery. He succeeded in neutralizing this and other enemy batteries comprising a battalion of Artillery. By his coolness, courage, and devotion to duty Lieutenant Whipp was an inspiration to his men and is deserving of the highest praise, exemplifying the highest traditions of United States Armed Forces.

One month later in a letter home dated May 20, 1943, he described a memorable night in Tunisia. Working late at night, he stepped out of his Survey Center for a breath of air. He was horrified to see a convoy of trucks going by with lights on. It was a flagrant breach of black-out orders, and he expected to see German bombers overhead any minute. But as rows of lighted trucks rolled on, the truth dawned on him:

The Germans had surrendered. I sat down in the middle of the field all alone and watched. It was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen. The tears came to my eyes; the FIRST lights.

He was in the first waves of Patton’s forces to land in Sicily on July 9-10, 1943, and continued to assist advanced artillery fire. During the closing days of the campaign, he was briefly hospitalized with a high fever. Soon he crossed over the straits of Messina to Italy, continuing to work with advanced artillery units. Promoted to Captain on Oct. 8, 1943, he endured the bitter winter of 1943-1944 in Italy’s mountainous spine. Nights in freezing weather were spent in an unheated tent. Sometimes the only meat available for rations was the corpses of mules that had been killed by enemy artillery. His reputation for skill and valor landed him in the hottest spots of the Italian campaign, including the landing at Salerno and the battle for Monte Cassino. On July 22, 1944, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Gold Star for his valor in support of Free French troops in Italy commanded by General Juin.

Finally, in mid-Aug. 1944 he participated in Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in Southern France. He was present at the fall of Marseilles, and then he accompanied advanced elements in the rapid march toward the German border. A few days later, he was part of a small patrol consisting of four officers and eleven enlisted men that stumbled upon a German patrol north of Toulon:

They had been hiding in the woods and watching us and wondering how many there were. Our unit took all of them prisoner, and we marched them back to prison camp. It was rather interesting the way the argument was, the German Colonel was holding his gun on our Lieutenant, and our Lieutenant was holding his gun on the German Colonel, each saying you are out-numbered and surrounded, put down your gun and I won’t hurt you. But our Lieutenant outstared the German Colonel and we, the other Captain and myself were a little ways off, and did not know anything about it, but we were called on to help march the prisoners back to camp.

By Jan. 1945, he had been promoted to the rank of Major, and his unit had helped lead the advance into Germany as part of the Sixth Army Group. When Germany finally surrendered, Whipp and his unit had been on the battle line almost continually from Dec. 1942 to May 1945, except when briefly preparing for the next invasion or moving to new positions. As a Washington descendant, he appropriately sailed for Boston aboard the transport George Washington, arriving ca. Nov. 26, 1945. He arrived home in Romney, W. Va., on Nov. 28, 1945, after more than three years overseas. According to an obituary published by the NOAA Corps Bulletin, he took the greatest pride in the fact that not one man from his unit was captured by the Germans while under his direction during the course of the war. This was in spite of the fact that his unit was always working in either the frontlines or on many occasions in advance of the infantry.

In 1946 he resumed his peace-time duties with the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the Arctic field party, various other geodetic expeditions, and Seattle-based ships until 1955. He then became Assistant Chief of the Geophysics Division at the Washington Office [1955-1957], followed by two years at Fort Sill, Okla., as liaison officer. He then served as Coast and Geodetic Field Officer and Pacific Field Director, as well as Director of the International Tsunami Information Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, until his retirement in 1968. He married in Oakland, Garrett Co., Md. [Aug. 26, 1933] Thelma Ruth Bean [born in Sunnyside, Yakima Co., Wash., Dec. 24, 1910; died Nov. 12, 2011]. He died in Pomona, Los Angeles Co., Cal., May 10, 1992, and he was buried at Live Oak Cemetery in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., Cal.).

Children:

39355. Patricia Louise Whipp (born in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Cal., July 11, 1937; graduated from the U. of Maryland [B.S., Mathematics, 1960], West Coast U. in Los Angeles, Cal. [M.S., Computer Science], and Trinity College of Graduate Studies in Anaheim, Cal. [M.A., Counseling Psychology, 1998]. She taught in junior and senior high schools, as well as adult education. She also worked for 27 years in research science in computer science and engineering, as well as heading a ministry God’s Word Going Forth and owning a business The Printed Word. She generously provided information on her branch of the Wright-Stribling family).

+39356. Dorothy Anne Whipp. [Quotations from Silver Star citation and The Letters of Captain David Mullendore Whipp (both posted on NOAA History-Hall of Honor: http://www.history.noaa.gov/hallofhonor/dwhipp.html) and obit. of David M. Whipp in the NOAA Corps Bulletin, July 1992, pp. A11-A12. See also: H. M. McILHANY, Some Va. Families, 56; 1910 census Hampshire Co., W. Va., E.D. 39, p. 8A; 1930 census ibid., E.D. 8, p. 14B; SSDI; FGS by PLW; J.A.W., Outline, 12111-132311]

28503. Emma Neal Whipp (born in Romney, Hampshire Co., W. Va., May 27, 1921; married in Duarte, Los Angeles Co., Cal. [May 23, 1941] Charles Day Hoit [born in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Dec. 21, 1916; died in Athol, Kootenai Co., Idaho, Oct. 13, 2000]).

Children:

+39357. Edward Allison Hoit.

+39358. Melvin Day Hoit.

+39359. Preston David Hoit. [CalBI; CalDI; SSDI; FGS by PLW]

28504. Florence M. Stribling (born in W. Va., 1904; married in Wood Co., W. Va. [1924] Carl Moore [born in W. Va., Aug. 16, 1902; died Parkersburg, Wood Co., W. Va., March 7, 1999]. She was divorced, working as a finisher in a rayon mill, and residing with her parents in Parkersburg, W. Va., 1930. She died in 1970, and both were buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Parkersburg, W. Va.).

Child:

39360. Richard Owen Moore (born in W. Va., Nov. 22, 1925; died in Spencer, Roane Co., W. Va., May 15, 2003, and he was buried at the same Mount Olivet Cemetery). [FamSearch.org/W. Va. Marriages; 1930 census Wood Co., W. Va., E.D. 27, p. 6B; www.findagrave.com]

28512. Anne Crawford Miles (born Jan. 24, 1908; married [April 30, 1941] William Thomas Arthur [born in Omaha, Douglas Co., Neb., Feb. 10, 1909; died in Shelby Co., Tenn., Jan. 25, 1995]. She died in Shelby Co., Tenn., Dec. 24, 1985, and both were buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn.).

Children:

39361. Anne Miles Arthur (born April 15, 1942; married [March 30, 1974] John B. Kinney).

39362. William Thomas Arthur, Jr. (married Jean Parham Coors, and they had one child: William Coors Arthur [born July 5, 1971]). [R. JORDAN, Jordan and Crawford, 299; SSDI; www.findagrave.com]

28513. Lovick Pierce Miles, Jr. (born in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ark., Nov. 8, 1909; graduated from Yale [B.A., 1932; LL.B., 1935]. He married in Memphis, Tenn. [June 19, 1941] Mary Virginia Capell [born Aug. 4, 1917; died Oct. 25, 1988]. A WW II veteran, he enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., April 29, 1943. He resided and practiced law in Memphis, Tenn. He died March 8, 1991, and both were buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn.).

Child (adopted):

+39363. Mary Capell Miles. [R. JORDAN, Jordan and Crawford, 299; Who’s Who S&SW, 1975-1976; WW II AER; www.findagrave.com]

28515. Hal Bowen Howard, Jr. (born in Memphis, Tenn., June 8, 1925; graduated from Yale [B.A., International Relations] and Harvard [M.B.A.]. An Army veteran, he served in the Army of Occupation in Japan following WW II. Later a Certified Investment Counselor, he worked for T. Rowe Price for 25 years, ending his career as Vice-President and Director. He married [1st, on Dec. 28, 1963] Sara McRae Humphries [born April 4, 1940; died March