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dent of the board of trustees. As president
of this board he is an important factor in
directing the work of the Randolph-AIacon
system, under which system are maintained
schools that hold honorable place among the
many excellent institutions of learning of
which Virginia boasts. Almost needless to
say, Mr. Newman is a firm friend of educa-
tion, not alone for the sake of its cultural
and refining influences, but for the prepara-
tion it gives to do one's work among one's
ftllowmen with the highest degree of effi-
ciency. Mr. Newman is politically identi-
fied with the Democratic party. Such pro-
fessional labors as Mr. Newman's judicial
duties will permit of his performing are
accomplished as a member of the law firm
of Walton & Walton, one of the oldest
founded legal firms in the state of Virginia.
He married, December 20, 1877, Mary Ott
Walton, born in Woodstock, Virginia,
March 21, 1855, daughter of Moses and
Emily N. (Lock) Walton, and has children,
all born in Woodstock, Virginia: i. Wilbur
Lock, born November 26, 1880; educated for
the legal profession, now connected with the
United States department of forestry at
Staunton, Virginia; married Ruth Koontz ;
has three children : Elizabeth, Josephine and
Wilbur K. 2. Edgar Walton, born March
20, 1884; cashier of the Citizens' National
Bank, Newmarket, Virginia, and the treas-
urer of the Valley Turnpike Company ; mar-
ried Margaret Price ; two children : Edgar
W. and Richard B. 3. Helen, born May 8,
1886; married Dr. W. B. Sager, of Davis,
West Virginia ; three children : Edgar D.,
Frederick N. and Mary W. 4. Harold H.,
a graduate of Johns Hopkins University of
Baltimore, Maryland, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine, practicing in Salisbury,
North Carolina; married. October 3, 1914,
Eleanor Maynard, of Jessup. Maryland. 5.
Houston Hickman, born April 14, 1892; sec-
retary and treasurer of the Virginia Granite
Company at Harrisonburg, Virginia ; mar-
ried Edna F. Jones, of Atlantic City, New
Jersey ; one child, Virginia. 6. Douglas
Cook, born November 25, 1896; a student
in Randolph-Macon College.
Floyd Jackson Gregory, M. D. The Greg- orys of Virginia, long seated in Lunenburg county, of which family Dr. Floyd J. Greg- ory, of Keysville, is a leading representative, trace through maternal lines to the Woot- ten, Walton and Lee families of Virginia.
I'he Lee family, into which Joshua Gregory
married, is the Lee family of which General
Robert E. Lee, "Light Horse Harry" Lee,
were such conspicuous members, the Ameri-
can ancestor being Richard Lee, who came
from England to Virginia in 1641. Ellen
Etta (Wootten) Gregory, mother of Dr. F.
J. Gregory, was a maternal granddaughter
of General T. Walton, of the Confederate
army, and a paternal granddaughter of Tay-
lor Wootten, a member of the Virginia
house of burgesses and engaged in the diplo-
matic service of the United States. On both
sides, Gregory and Wootten, numerous rep-
resentatives served in Confederate army,
both as officers and privates.
Dr. Floyd J. Gregory is a grandson of Josephus Gregory, of Lunenburg county, \ irginia. a prosperous planter and man of in- fluence. His wife, who was a Miss Lee, was a descendant of Richard Lee and of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, one of the greatest Vir- ginians of his day, scholar, statesman and soldier of the revolution.
Dr. Flavanus Josephus Gregory, son of Josephus Gregory, was born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, February 21, 1826, died February 13. 1910, in Keysville, Charlotte county, Virginia. He was a practicing phy- sician of Charlotte county many years, set- tling in that county not long after his gradu- ation as Doctor of Medicine from Jefiferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. He enlisted in a Charlotte county company of the Confederate arm}', but on September 18, 1861, was transferred to the coast artillery at Wilmington, North Caro- lina, serving as surgeon the entire period, 1861-65, ranking as major at the close of the war. During this entire period of service in the army, he had but one furlough and that was employed in the preparation for his marriage to Ellen Etta Walton, born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, in 1844, died May 10. 191 1, daughter of Dr. Lucius T. Wootten, an officer of the Confederate army, who married a Miss A\'alton, daughter of Brigadier-General S. T. Walton, of the Con- federate army. Dr. Lucius T. Wootten was a son of Taylor Wootten, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses and for several years in the service of the United States government. Children of Dr. Flavanus J. Gregory: Luella Wootten, born in 1863. at Keysville, married Rev. R. D. Garland, of Richmond, Virginia, secretary of the board of home missions of the Baptist church; Mary
