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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779
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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779
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Lucy Waller Boyd / George Jefferson Hundley Farmville, Virginia GEORGE JEFFERSON HUNDLEY - born near Mobile, Alabama, March 22, 1838, son of Josiah Hundley and Cornelia Jefferson, his wife. On his father's side he is of mixed English and Huguenot blood; on his mother's side he is great-great- grandson of Peter Jefferson, uncle of Thomas Jefferson. His mother and father died when he was an infant. He had two years tuition at Fleetwood Academy and a year at Hampden-Sidney College, supplementing his education by reading standard authors. He entered the private law school of Judge John W. Brockenbrough, in Lexington, Virginia, 1860; his license was signed by three judges, and he was about to enter upon practice when Virginia seceded from the Union and he enlisted among the earliest volunteers, serving to Appomattox Court House. After the war Mr. Hundley taught school, and in 1866 located at Buckingham Court House, to practice law. In 1898 he was appointed circuit judge of the fifth judicial circuit. In 1870 he was elected to the state senate, serving for four years; and in 1895 to the house of delegates, where he took especial interest in a reform in the laws relating to criminal trial, and securing the passage of a bill providing that no mere technicality not affecting the merits of a case should delay or postpone a criminal trial. He has served on the board of trustees of the Farmville Normal School, and of the Institution for the Deaf,Dumb and Blind, at Staunton, Virginia. In politics he is a Democrat. On October 5, 1881, he married LUCY WALLER BOYD, of Nelson County, Virginia. His address is Farmville, Virginia. Source: Encyclopedia of
Virginia Biography, Volumes I-V. Richmond, VA: NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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