Kinsolving, a descendant of one of the oldest families of Virginia. At the beginning of the war of the Confederacy he was too aged to fight in the field, but he served in the reserve organization, and to the army at the front gave his sons, James Kinsolving Woodson, Iverson Lewis Woodson, and Daniel Perkins Woodson, all of whom were members of Company K, Nineteenth Virginia infantry, Pickett's division. The first, one of the most daring of soldiers, was lost at the battle of Sharpsburg. The third was wounded on the head at Hatcher's Run, while obeying orders to carry a message to his colonel through a deadly fire. A younger son, Charles Edward Woodson, born in Albemarle county in 1861, is now rector of St. Peter's Episcopal church, Norfolk. After several years of study in his youth, and graduation in the preparatory school, he entered the theological school of Virginia, where he was graduated in 1889. After seven years' ministry at the Emmanuel church, Franklin, he was called to his present work at Norfolk. He was married in 1890 to Jane McGregor Ashby, daughter of Col. Turner Wade Ashby, and his wife, Elizabeth McGregor, a daughter of William McGregor, a native of Scotland. Her father, who earned his title in the Mexican war, was a first cousin of the lamented Gen. Turner Ashby.
Captain John W. H. Wrenn, of the Third Virginia infantry, now residing at Berkley, Va., was born at Portsmouth, January 10, 1827. He is the son of Thomas P. and Sarah (Cherry) Wrenn, both natives of Virginia, who died during the yellow fever scourge of 1855. He followed the craft of a boat builder in his youth, and was educated at the Portsmouth military institute. For twelve years prior to the war he was connected with the military service of the State, becoming first lieutenant of the Portsmouth Rifle company in 1848, and subsequently holding the positions of acting adjutant of the Third regiment, Virginia militia, and captain of Company B of the same regiment. He entered the Confederate service in April, 1861, with the Portsmouth Rifle company, which was attached to the Ninth Virginia regiment, and later in the year he was elected captain of Company B of the Third regiment, formerly known as the Virginia Riflemen. He commanded his company, in Colston's brigade (afterward Pryor's), in Longstreet's division in the engagements at Dam No. 1, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and the Seven Days' campaign. In 1864 he was relieved from further service on account of physical disability, and by the time he had regained his health the war had come to a close. He resided at Portsmouth until 1869, and since then at Berkley where he has a comfortable home. For many years he followed the business of real estate and insurance with much success. Since 1889 he has held the position of ferry collector. He is one of the charter members of Pickett-Buchanan camp, United Confederate veterans, of Norfolk. Captain Wrenn was married in 1849 to Mary E. Brent, who died in 1870, and m 1890 he was united to his present wife, Mary E. Parker. He has one son living.
