May, 1863. In 1866 Mr. Franklin married Miss Lucy A. Mayse, a daughter of Robert Mayse. They have had two children, William Robert, who died in 1892, and Margaret G. Mr. Franklin's wife died in 1874, and he married for his second wife, Miss Bird Anderson, by whom he had one son that died in infancy. His second wife died in 1878.
William H. Fray, of Culpeper, Va., a survivor of Pickett's Virginia division of the army under Lee, was born in Madison county, March 31, 1844. He received his education in the "old field schools," until he had reached the age of seventeen years, when he enlisted in a volunteer company, which became Company A of the Seventh Virginia infantry, Kemper's brigade, Pickett's division, First army corps. With this command he served four years, taking part in the first battle of Manassas, Williamsburg, Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Suffolk and North Carolina campaigns, including the battle of Plymouth, Cold Harbor, and the many months' fighting of this division before Petersburg. He was a faithful and devoted soldier, deserving to be remembered among the brave men who assailed the Federal lines at the climax of the war on the slopes of Cemetery hill. On April 6, l865, during the retreat of the army from the Confederate capital, he was captured by the enemy and was subsequently confined at Point Lookout until the general release of prisoners of war. Then returning to his farm home, he removed to Culpeper in 1866, where he has ever since been engaged in business. He is an influential citizen and is especially popular with his comrades of A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans. On February 15, 1872, he was married to Miss Emma R. Miller, of Fleetwood, and they have three children living.
Walker Burford Freeman, of Richmond, a gallant veteran of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Bedford county, Va., August 28, 1843, where he was reared and educated. Early in the war period he became a member of the Piedmont artillery, organized at Bedford City, and four months later, August 31, 1861, he was mustered with this command into the service of the Confederate States. He served with this company of artillery during the defense of Yorktown and Gloucester Point until the evacuation, when the company was assigned to the Thirty-fourth Virginia infantry, as Company E. Freeman served as a private until September, 1863, when his gallant service led to his appointment to act as sergeant. During his service he participated, after the evacuation of Yorktown, in the two days' battle of Seven Pines, where he was wounded three times in one day and received seven bullet holes in his clothing; in the second engagement at Williamsburg; was under fire at Fort Sumter in 1863; took part in the action at Fort Walthall Junction and various engagements on the Howlett House line in May and June, 1864; in the defense of the lines at Petersburg, June 17, 1864, and various engagements on the Petersburg line, and in the engagements on the Boydton Plank Road, at Hatcher's Run and Sailor's Creek, and finally surrendered at Appomattox. After the war he returned to Lynchburg, and embarked in the wholesale grocery trade. He continued in this until 1886 and then went into the insurance business, which, after following the same six years at Lynchburg, he has continued at Richmond since 1892. While at
