History of Nottoway County Virginia United States of America

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James Fletcher Epes, representative, was born in Nottoway county, Va., May 23, 1842; son of T. Freeman and Jacqueline S. (Hardaway) Epes; grandson of John and Fanny (Campbell) Epes; and a descendant of James Fletcher and of John Logan Hardaway. He prepared for college in private schools at Charlotte and Albemarle, Va., and entered the University of Virginia, leaving in 1861 to join the Confederate army. He served in the 3d Virginia cavalry throughout the war, had three horses shot under him and was seriously wounded at the battle of Reams's Station. He was graduated from the law department of Washington and Lee university in 1867, practised law and served as commonwealth's attorney for Nottoway county, 1870-84. In 1883 he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was a Democratic representative in the 52d and 53d congresses, serving 1891-95, and acting prominently on the committees on immigration and coinage. At the close of his second term he retired to the plantation, "The Old-Place," in Notteway county, Va., where the fathers of three U.S. representatives had resided. He was married to Rebecca M. Poague of Rockbridge county, Va.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Sydney Parham Epes, representative, was born at "Sunnyside" in Nottoway county, Va., Aug. 20, 1865; son of Richard and Agnes Atkinson (Batte) Epes; grandson of Peter and Martha (Oliver) Epes, and of Peter (Poythress) and Elizabeth Wilkinson (Poindexter) Batte; great-grandson of Richard and Martha G. (Williams) Epes, and of John and Mary (Poythress) Batte; great-great-grandson of Peter and Mary (Poythress) Epes and of William and Elizabeth (Horton) Batte; great-great-great-grandson of John and Martha (Mallory) Batte; and a direct descendant from Francis Epes, who came from Wales to Virginia in 1628, and from Henry Batte, who came from Oakwell, Yorkshire, England, to Virginia, prior to 1666. He removed with his parents to Kentucky in 1879, returned to Virginia in 1884, and edited a Democratic paper at Blackstone. He was married Jan. 19, 1887, to Lucy Anderson, daughter of Capt. A. Baxter Jones, C.S.A., of Nottoway, county, Va. He was a member of the house of delegation in the Virginia legislature, 1891-92; register of the land-office, 1895-97, and a Democratic representative in the 55th and 56th congresses, 1897-1901. He was unseated March 23, 1898, but was renominated by his constituents and re-elected as representative from the 4th Virginia district to the 56th congress by a majority of 2500.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Richard Irby, author, was born in Nottaway county, Va., Sept. 28, 1825; son of Edmund and Frances Briggs (Lucas) Irby; grandson of William and Jane (Edmunds) Irby, and a descendant of Edmund Irby (1685-1733), the first of the name known in America, who married Ann Blunt, and was a planter of Prince George county, Va. Richard Irby was graduated from Randolph-Macon college in 1844; engaged in farming in his native county, 1845-67; was an iron manufacturer in Richmond, Va., 1867-78; general agent for the bureau of immigration of Virginia, 1879-86; secretary of the Virginia Bible society, 1882-86, and secretary and treasurer of Randolph-Macon college, Ashland, Va., from 1886. He was married, Oct. 1, 1846, to Frances Virginia Fitzgerald, of Florida. He was elected a trustee of Randolph-Macon college in 1854, and in 1900 was senior member of the board. He is the author of: History of Nottaway Grays (1878); History of Randolph..Macon College (1898); Bird Notes and other Sketches (1900), and numerous contributions to periodical literature.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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