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Descendants of William Wellford

8. ARMISTEAD NELSON⁴ WELLFORD (BEVERLEY RANDOLPH³, ROBERT², WILLIAM¹) was born 1826, and died 1884.

Notes for ARMISTEAD NELSON WELLFORD:
The following is an excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr. to Mary R. Wellford Wilson (original held by Susan Schueler of Akron, Ohio):

"My brother, Dr. Armistead Nelson Wellford, died some years ago leaving three representative sons. The elder, now living upon one of the old Carter estates in the Northern Neck of Virginia, the hereditary home of his mother, and the other two living in Richmond, one practicing law and the other medicine."

Child of ARMISTEAD NELSON WELLFORD is:

ARMISTEAD LANDON⁵ WELLFORD, b. 1857; d. 1933.

9. BEVERLEY RANDOLPH⁴ WELLFORD, JR. (BEVERLEY RANDOLPH³, ROBERT², WILLIAM¹) He married SUSAN SEDDON TALIAFERRO.

Notes for BEVERLEY RANDOLPH WELLFORD, JR.:
The following is an excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr. to Mary R. Wellford Wilson (original held by Susan Schueler of Akron, Ohio):

"Now as to myself and my children. . . I graduated from Princeton College as the Valedictorian of the Centennial Class of 1847. I returned to my Fredericksburg home to embark upon life with very brilliant prospects. I practiced law there and in adjacent counties for a few years, until the breaking up of my father's home in Fredericksburg by his acceptance of a professorship in the New College of Virginia justified me pulling up my stakes and seeking a wider field in Richmond. I very soon after married my boyhood sweetheart, the best, as 50 years of life has proven, of wives, whose worth and beauty had won for her in all the social circles of Virginia, and well known to all the then habituees of the Virginia Springs as belle and beauty. I participated to no small extent in the formulating and vindicating in the press and on the stump the public opinion of my own people in preparation for the impending crisis of '61-'63. When the war began it was beyond expression mortifying to me that I could no immediately go to the front. But at that time and for many months after I was so disabled by disease that I was refused the privledge of service in the field. I was therefore condemned during the war to a position in the War Department, which did not, however, as my health improved, disable me from not infrequent and laborious service in the trenches around Richmond."

"I was one of the first batch of Judges who, after the days of the Reconstruction, chosen by a representative Legislature of Virginia to hold the scales of justice in her High court in the City of Richmond. I was thus made Judge of the Metropolitan Circuit of Virginia. I was thereafter thrice re-elected by the General Assembly without one dissenting voice, and after a continuous service of four terms and more than a third of a century, I was urged in my then 75th year to accept what I was assured would be a unanimous re-election. I could not conscientiously ask the General Assembly to speculate upon the probabilities of my continued freedom from the proximate effects of old age for a period of eight more years, and I retired from the Bench to be a practical pensioner in the waning years of their Mother and Father, upon our best of children. I therefore abandoned in February 1904, our Richmond home. Since then my tax-paying and voting home has been my wife's native county of Gloucester, Virginia; butt our children do not allow us to remain there except for a brief period in the summer when they can be with us. The rest of the year we spend with our only son in Newport News, Va., where he has been since the first year of the Seminary, pastor of the then feeble flock, but now the first Presbyterian Church, with a membership of over 400, and a daughter church in the same city of some 200 or 300 members.

Notes for SUSAN SEDDON TALIAFERRO:
The following is an excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr. to Mary R. Wellford Wilson (original held by Susan Schueler of Akron, Ohio):

"My wife had five brothers in the Army around us, all of whom made honorable and some very distinguished records. Her oldest brother, Gen, Wm. B. Taliaferro, participated in all the Valley campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, in Second Manassas, where he was badly wounded, and in the Battle of Fredericksburg. Thereafter he was transferred to South Carolina and commanded the defenses of Charleston, etc., marshalling the gallant and brilliant successful defense of Fort Wagner. He abandoned Charleston with his command only to participate with Gen. Johnston in the inconclusive battles of Bentonville and Aversboro, N.C., and was included in the surrender of Gen. Johnston to Sherman. He was thereafter a very prominent member of the Virginia Legislature and at one time a candidate for the Govenorship of Virginia."

Children of BEVERLEY WELLFORD and SUSAN TALIAFERRO are:

SUSAN SEDDON TALIAFERRO⁵ WELLFORD.

Notes for SUSAN SEDDON TALIAFERRO WELLFORD:
Excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr.:

"Our youngest child is an unmarried daughter bearing her mother's maiden name, Susan Seddon Taliaferro."

ii.

FANNY BEVERLEY WELLFORD, m. HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE.

Notes for FANNY BEVERLEY WELLFORD:
Excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr.:

"Our oldest, Fanny Beverley, is the wife of Doctor Henry Alexander White, professor in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in this city, and for many years professor of history in Washington and Lee University, well known in literary circles as author of a life of Robert E. Lee, in Putnam's series, and of several school histories of the United States, State of South Carolina, and wherever known, honored as one of the first scholars in our Southland."

iii.

? WELLFORD.

Notes for ? WELLFORD:
Excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr.:

"The rest of the year we spend with our only son (name not listed) in Newport News, Va., where he has been since the first year of the Seminary, pastor of the then feeble flock, but now the first Presbyterian Church, with a membership of over 400, and a daughter church in the same city of some 200 or 300 members."

10. PHILLIP A.⁴ WELLFORD (BEVERLEY RANDOLPH³, ROBERT², WILLIAM¹)

Notes for PHILLIP A. WELLFORD:
The following is an excerpt from a 1908 document written by Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr. to Mary R. Wellford Wilson (original held by Susan Schueler of Akron, Ohio):

"Next to me came, after the death in infancy of two baby brothers, my brother, Philip A. Wellford, a Major in the C.S.A. After the war he engaged in business pursuits and under his direct supervision the railroad from Charlotte, N.C. to Atlanta was constructed. A flourishing town in Peidmont, South Carolina, which has developed from a railway station transmits his name of Wellford upon the geographic map. He is now living in Richmond, Va., and a baby granddaughter, orphan child of his son, Thos. Spotswood, who died in Newport News a year ago."

"His? brother Philip left Richmond at the first occasion as Lieutenant of a Kid Glove company of the picked young men of Virginia, from which in a few months a score or more of the privates were advanced to the highest officers of the line. Philip with his company participated under Stonewall Jackson in the battle of Kernstown. He was thereafter transferred to the commissary force were his previous business experience was utilized for valuable services, and as the chief commissary in the Richmond Mills he spent the residue of his services in the war."

Child of PHILLIP A. WELLFORD is:

THOMAS SPOTSWOOD⁵ WELLFORD, d. 1907, Newport News.

11. MARY CATHERINE⁴ WELLFORD (CHARLES CARTER³, ROBERT², WILLIAM¹) She married ? ROY.

Child of MARY WELLFORD and ? ROY is:

ELISA⁵ ROY.

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