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THE BAGBYS
By: Harry Ashby Bagby, D.D.

The Bagby's are of Scotch blood, chiefly. They were among the first settlers on this side of the Atlantic, James, Isom and William Bagby were in Jamestown in the days of Berkeley, and of Bacon's Rebellion. As a people they have been religious enough and sensible enough to become numerous. Their name is legion. They have loved peace, though they never feared to lift a lance against social or theological foe. They have builded on education and religion. An illiterate Bagby, or one who is anti-Christian, would be hard to find.

Some of them early followed the trail of Daniel Boone to "The dark and bloody ground", and they have done their bit, and are still at it in Kentucky. I personally knew Rev. C.J. Bagby who spent his life in the Baptist ministry in North Middle Kentucky, and his younger brother, D.Y., Th. D., I think whose useful life has been spent largely in Texas. However tempted, I must try to stick to my text. The task you have set me is to write of Virginia Bagbys. The Virginia stock has had much to be grateful for, and very little to hide.

I must speak first of those of the family who have been or are ministers of Christ. Here, to me, is a fascinating story. Nearly all of the Bagbys in Virginia have been Baptists, and the patriarch of this tribe was John Bagby, of Stevensville, in the sequestered and unique county of King and Queen. The picture of his face somehow makes me think of the iron Duke of Wellington. He was a Virginia planter and man of affairs, a very large slave owner, living in an ample home called Bunker Hill, and having at hand every thing then known to comfort. Such is not generally the kind of home out of which ministers come. I have heard it affirmed many times that when he died he left behind him one hundred and fifty descendants, and that not a one of this number had ever passed the age of fifteen without uniting with a Baptist church. Nearly all of these have kept the faith of our fathers to the end, though a few have been deflected by the infatuation of a strangely legalistic theory of baptism. My father used to say that his mother - or mothers, for in effect he had two, though he never knew the one who gave him birth - used to pray that the Lord would give them one of her boys to preach the gospel. The answer to that family prayer may be seen in the following: Five stalwart boys came out of the home: Richard Hugh, the eldest, was easily one of the foremost preachers of his day. The influence of his life and ministry abides, and yea, will abide. He spent a whole generation as pastor of Old Bruington, his home church, a church which for culture, ability and generosity was not surpassed in the State. He fell at his loved post of duty at the early age of fifty. After the oldest I speak of the youngest, Edward. He must have been singularly magnetic. It was his avowed purpose to preach. While gallantly loading on at the battle of the Crater in Petersburg, his life was cut off. My father was next to the youngest. He gave his entire life to the ministry, mostly in Kentucky. If to preach is to be possessed of certain burning truths which are called the Gospel, and in glowing eagerness, to pour these out of one's own soul into the hearts of those he loves, then George Franklin Bagby ought, in all candor, to be rated with our great preachers. Dr. Alfred Bagby has but recently gone to his reward, and, to my mind, that reward will be vastly greater than he ever thought of. He was pastor of famous old Mattaponi church, two miles from where he was born and reared, for, I believe, thirty-five years. His book, "King and Queen County" has given him earthly immortality. These four were ministers. The other was Major John Robert, who spent his life in merchandising. He came home from the war a major. Such was his influence in the county that, when his elder brother died, the Bruington church sent a committee to ask him to allow them to ordain him, and make him their pastor. He was, perhaps, the leading influence in Bruington as long as he lived. Had he heard the call of the church, it would have given the entire set of five sons to the ministry.

But even this is not all of the story. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren out of that house have heard and continue to hear the call of the ministry. I am sure I cannot name them all. Such an enumeration ought to mention as near of kin: C.J. and D.Y., whom we can now only name. John Bagby was uncle to Captain A.F. Bagby, of Tappahannock, who has given to the ministry two gifted sons, Edward and Richard, the first being at one time pastor of a large church in Washington and Chaplain of our House of Representatives. A third son is a doctor of fine reputation. John W. Ryland, a grandson, was one of the worthiest and truest in this line of ministeral succession, Ryland Murdock is another. I was a member of the Council which ordained him at Bruington, in 1897. After a very brief ministry he fell on sleep. Edward Bagby Pollard was, I presume, the most distinguished of the line of descent. He was pure in heart, finely educated, clear in thought, and in expression and with the courage of a beautiful conviction. Of the children of George Franklin; Virginia May [Mrs. A.B. Rudd] gave her life to missionary work in Mexico and Porto Rico, doing bravely the work of a preacher, though not technically a minister. A. Paul has been one of the best equipped and one of the most attractive and efficient of this bare catalogue of such public servants of Christ. Harry Ashby has been pastor in a number of most important pastorates during the last forty years. Olive Bagby, granddaughter of John, through both her father and her sainted mother, gave the beauty of her consecrated youth to missionary activities in China. What a wise Master-builder, what a maker of preachers was this man of action and of faith, and the noble women who helped to make Bunker Hill such an extraordinary plant-bed of Baptist preachers! Descended from a very near-by branch of the family tree is Wm. B. Bagby, that prince among modern missionaries. I doubt if Southern Baptists have ever had a more splendid representative in foreign lands than this minister to Brazil. The Lord has blessed him and his devoted wife in giving them a son [C.T.] in the ministry.

But apart from the ministry, the Bagbys have wrought well; farmers, merchants, teachers, doctors, lawyers. They have often been what is called "hard-headed". Maybe that is the Scotch in them. I know among them no trimmer, no dodger or slacker. Scores of them have been superintendents and deacons in many Baptist churches in many States. Though many of them sons of ministers, they have been, with rare and deplorable exceptions, outstanding sons of the Kingdom of Righteousness. I do not know where there can be found, out of the pulpit or in it, a more Christ-like soul than Luther R., son of the illustrious Richard Hugh. Some one once said to Dr. P.S. Henson: "You come, I believe from Fluvanna County, where they raise persimmons!" The reply was flashed back: "Yes, and Men!" The proud mother of several successful Christian men said to me the other day: "I have always said that it does not take much money to raise boys." My uncle, Alfred, and his very gifted Pollard wife knew how to rear boys without money. Out of that humble home there went forth two business men and four lawyers, and in the qualities that count for most in the highest type of Christian citizenship, these men range not far from the top. The eldest, Thomas, was a fine Christian lawyer of West Point. Charles, Alfred and George Poindexter have won distinction in the legal profession in the great City of Baltimore. But each one of them is as prominent in his church as in his profession. Bagby-Pollard, or Pollard-Bagby, makes a very happy combination; as witness again Hon. John Garland Pollard. Had he been willing to "crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, that [political] thrift might follow fawning", he might have been Governor of Virginia. Something akin to that might be said of Hon. Wm. F. Bagby, of Stevensville. His official connection with Bruington runs through forty years. I have been told that years ago, when he was Superintendent of the Sunday school, several times when the ground was too rough and deeply frozen for horse to travel, he walked the six miles to open his Sunday school on time. Of my own brothers: Frederic Hugh, eldest, business man in Texas; Theo. Gresham, of Kansas City; Geo. Franklin, M.D., of Richmond, and Leslie H., of New Orleans, have all been intelligent, outstanding, influential Christian men. I think they have all been deacons. With the Bagby tree before me. I cannot subscribe to the idea that the children of the manse nearly always go to the Devil. If any Bagby, who is now following Jesus, should chance to read these lines, let him know that the shout of an almost unanimous tribe would welcome him into the fellowship of our fathers. Such folk have been influential in civic and in religious life, because, without hypocrisy, with sane minds, and with the highest motives, they have loved and followed the right as God gave them to see the right.

I have left out much which would have appropriate place in such connection. I cannot willingly close until I have said this: Personally and spiritually, the most irresistible of the Bagby tribe have been the women. It is often hard to give them their due praise because they marry and carry through life other names: for a Bagby, male or female, is bound to marry. Their song, their suffering, their blood and their prayers have had as much to do with building the walls of Jerusalem as the hands of their hardier fathers and brothers. Where so many so richly deserve to be spoken of, it is inadmissible to mention even one by name. It were good for the Kingdom of all beauty and truth that their kind be multiplied in every country on earth.

Source: copied from papers sent to John Robert Bagby of Mountain View, Arkansas, excerpt from book "unknown" pages 95-99, sent by way of letter from Wilbur E. Bagby, addressed to Donald Bagby, 609 Lincoln, East Alton, Illinois, dated January 13, 1966, copied to John Robert Bagby, Mountain View, Arkansas.

Note: In the last line of the fourth paragraph of this article, there is a typo. Where Harry Ashby Bagby refers to C. T. Bagby, it should have been T. C. Bagby. Per a close relative, his name was Taylor Crawford Bagby.

More About HARRY ASHBY [REV] BAGBY:
Burial: Bruington Baptist Church Cemetery, King and Queen County, Virginia.
Grave Marker reads:
"A BORN PREACHER, AN AFFECTIONATE PASTOR, A WISE THINKER, A LOVER OF THE LORD"
Degree: Doctor of Divinity
Individual Note: Information about Rev. Harry Ashby Bagby in Asseccion No: Miscellaneous Reel 37-39, Author: Whitsitt, William Heth, personal papers collection, Accession No: 24812, also Accession No.: Miscellaneous Reel 37-39, Author: Whitsitt, William Heth.
Religion: Baptist


Children of HARRY BAGBY and ELIZABETH THOMPSON are:

1. EDWARD BOOKER BAGBY, SR., b. Unknown; Unknown.
2. MARIUS C. BAGBY, b. Unknown; Unknown.

GEORGE "FRANKLIN" BAGBY, JR. [M.D.] 6, (GEORGE FRANKLIN [REV] 5, JOHN CHRISTOPHER 4, RICHARD 3, JOHN 2, JAMES 1) was born December 05, 1865 in Virginia, and died September 03, 1957 in Virginia. He married MARY JANE "MAMIE" LAWRENCE. She was born January 18, 1873, and died February 18, 1953.

More About DR GEORGE "FRANKLIN" BAGBY, JR. [M.D.]:
Burial: Bruington Baptist Church Cemetery, King and Queen County, Virginia
Fact 1: Birth & Death dates from grave marker
Fact 2: Resided in Richmond, Virginia
Religion: Baptist
He was an ordained Deacon.

Notes for MARY JANE "MAMIE" LAWRENCE:
Burial: Bruington Baptist Church Cemetery, King and Queen County, Virginia.
Birth and Death dates taken from grave marker.



Children of GEORGE BAGBY and MARY LAWRENCE are:

1. ELIZABETH BAGBY, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
2. MILDRED A. BAGBY, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
3. GEORGE F. BAGBY III, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
4. NANCY M. BAGBY, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

VIRGINIA "MAY" BAGBY 6, (GEORGE FRANKLIN [REV] 5, JOHN CHRISTOPHER 4, RICHARD 3, JOHN 2, JAMES 1) was born November 26, 1867 in Flemingburg, Kentucky, and died August 17, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia. She married AUGUSTUS BARTOW [REV] RUDD June 11, 1889 in Frankfort, Kentucky, son of ALFRED RUDD and INDIANA CAUTHORNE. He was born February 24, 1861 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and died April 03, 1944 in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

May Bagby, as she was known, grand-daughter of John Christopher Bagby of Bunker Hill with her husband Rev. Augustus Bartow Rudd, D.D. Rev. A.B. Rudd, D.D. was a Baptist Missionary to Mexico and Puerto Rico during the same time that Rev. William Buck Bagby, D.D. was a Missionary to Brazil. Both men followed the other's ministry with great concern. May Bagby [Rudd] and Rev. A.B. Rudd, D.D. are both buried at Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery in Mosely, Virginia.

 

Notes for VIRGINIA "MAY" BAGBY:

From Richmond Newspaper Obituary:

MRS. RUDD DIES; WAS MISSIONARY IN MEXICO - Mrs. May Bagby Rudd, wife of the Rev. A.B. Rudd, died yesterday at her home on Avondale Avenue, where she had been confined with illness for several weeks. Mrs. Rudd for many years served as a foreign missionary for the Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Rev. George Franklin Bagby and Mrs. Mary Tom Courtney Bagby of King and Queen County. She was a graduate of Hollins College. In 1889, she became the wife of the Rev. Mr. Rudd. After their marriage in Frankfort, KY., the couple went to Mexico where they represented the Southern Baptist Convention in missionary endeavor. Later, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Rudd went to Puerto Rico where they resided for about 15 years. Mrs. Rudd came to Richmond in 1914 when her husband became the pastor of Barton Heights Baptist Church. In 1917, they moved to Mexico when the Rev. Mr. Rudd was appointed superintendent of the Baptist missions in Mexico for the Northern board. Since returning to Richmond, she has resided on Avondale Avenue. She had been active in the Ginter Park Baptist Church and as a member in the Woodward Central W.C.T.U. Surviving beside her husband, are five children, Mrs. V.C. Bixby, Mrs. H.T. Harris, of New York, Miss Margaret Rudd, A.B. Rudd, of Bucharest, Romania, R. Hugh Rudd, of this city; four brothers, the Rev. Mr. Harry A. Bagby of Pendleton, S.C., Dr. George F. Bagby, Leslie H. Bagby and the Rev. Mr. A. Paul Bagby; and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at Ginter Park Baptist Church, after which the cortege will proceed to the Skinquarter Baptist Church where burial will be in the family plot.

Pallbearers will be Overton S. Woodward. W.L. Robinson, Courtney Bagby, J. Arthur Bass, Wister Goode, and Dr. Garnett Ryland. Honorary pallbearers will include Dr. W.F. Boatwright, Dr. W.A. Harris, Dr. B.B. Bagby, and the following deacons of the Ginter Park Baptist Church: C.S. Fensom, N.A. Bousman, J.B. Bowers, Sr., Basil R. Chapman, Frank D. Childry, W.D. Duke, W.L. Elkins, H.A. Frostick, E.D. Gunter, W.V. Moseley, William T. Rady, Ernest W. Farley, Sr., and George H. Whitfield.

Research submitted by: George Oliver "Buddy" Rudd.

Where 'Tom' came from: In the book I have "A Practical Mystic-A.B. Rudd" on page 17 it states 'Virginia May Bagby, born November 26,1868, in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, was the daughter of George Franklin Bagby and Mary Tom Courtney, both from King and Queen County, Virginia. Her grandfather, John Bagby's home in King and Queen, named Bunker Hill was a prosperous, self-contained little community of its own. Educated for the ministry, George Franklin was a Chaplain in the War Between the States throughout the duration. Even as Bartow's father had left a young wife with little children for that war, so George Franklin left Mary Tom in King and Queen where he intended to settle".

Research submitted by Helen Rudd:

Skinquarter Baptist Church, Moseley, Virginia. Location of the cemetery. (poor quality, non-digital photo)

Burial: Skinquarter Cememtery, Skinquarter Baptist Church, Moseley, Virginia. Grave marker reads, for May Bagby Rudd, "she hath done what she could", taken from Mark 14:8. Grave marker reads, for Rev. Augustus Bartow Rudd, D.D., "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain", taken from Philippians 1:21 (non-digital photo)

 


Notes for AUGUSTUS BARTOW [REV] RUDD:

Rev. Augustus Bartow Rudd, D.D.

Born February 24, 1861, Died April 3, 1944

Son of: Alfred Augustus Rudd & Indiana Elizabeth Cauthron

From "Sketch Book On Woman’s Missionary Union in Skinquarter Baptist Church", page 4

"I [Augustus Bartow Rudd] was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on the 24th of February, 1861, and was the second child of a family of seven - three girls and four boys. My father, Alfred Augustus Rudd, is an industrious mechanic and farmer, with a plain English education. My mother, Indiana Elizabeth Cauthorne, enjoyed better educational advantages than my father. My home - "Lone Oak" - is in a thoroughly Baptist Community, and only a short distance from the church - Skinquarter - of which my parents are members."

Augustus graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1888. Back in Richmond, VA, he met May Bagby, while making plans to leave the States to become a missionary in Mexico. May Bagby and Dr. Rudd were married on June 11, 1889, in Frankfort, Kentucky, and left for Mexico the next month. They traveled first to Parras, Coahuila. After four and a half years, they were transferred, and for five years successfully directed the Madero Institute, a school for girls. Besides other missionary activities, Mrs. Rudd taught music in the Institute.

In August, 1898, the couple returned to the States, and in the next year, having been appointed by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, they began their Missionary work in Puerto Rico, which continued until 1914, when they returned to the States again, where Dr. Rudd served as the pastor of the Barton Heights Baptist Church, in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1917, the revolution in Mexico had subsided sufficiently to make it safe for missionaries to return to that country. The Rudd’s were among the first to return to the land of their first love. In Saltilla, Mexico, they were called to help in the founding of the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary. From 1920 until 1926, Dr. Rudd was the superintendent of the work of the Northern Baptist Convention in the Republic, with headquarters in Mexico City.

By: Lawson Genevieve Rudd

From Richmond Newspaper Obituary

April 3rd, 1944

Dr. A.B. Rudd Succumbs in Hospital - The Rev. A.B. Rudd, D.D., 83, retired University of Richmond professor and a former missionary and pastor of Barton Heights Baptist Church, died Monday in a local hospital. Dr. Rudd worked 25 years in Mexico and 15 in Puerto Rico as a missionary. At intervals in missionary work he held several Virginia pastorates. The last one, from 1914 to 1917, was at Barton Heights Baptist Church here. When he retired from missionary work in 1926, he became professor of Bible at the university. He retired from that position in 1933. Dr. Rudd was born in Chesterfield County.

He attended Richmond College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. His wife, Mrs. May Bagby Rudd, died in 1937. Surviving him are two sons, A.B. Rudd, Jr., and R. Hugh Rudd, of Richmond; three daughters, Mrs. May R. Harris and Miss Margaret Rudd, of Richmond, and Mrs. V.C. Bixby, superintendent of the Baptist Missionary Hospital at Managua, Nicaragua; and a brother, Dr. Wortley F. Rudd, dean of the school of pharmacy of the Medical College of Virginia.

Research submitted by: George Oliver "Buddy" Rudd

 
More About AUGUSTUS BARTOW [REV] RUDD:

Degree: 1888, Doctor of Divinity: from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentuck.
Individual Note: Among churches he pastored in the States were Skinquarter Baptist Church, Moseley, Virginia. [place of burial].
Fact 1: In addition to being a Minister of the Gospel, he was a retired University of Richmond professor.


Children of VIRGINIA BAGBY and AUGUSTUS RUDD are:

1. LIZZIE "COURTNEY" RUDD, b. April 08, 1890, Parras, Mexico; d. after 1949, Moseley, Virginia.
2. HARRIS MANLEY RUDD, b. March 28, 1892, Parras, Mexico; d. August 24, 1893, Zacatecas, Mexico.
3. RACHEL CAUTHORN RUDD, b. March 27, 1895, Mexico; d. September 30, 1899.
4. ROBERT HUGH RUDD, b. September 13, 1897, Saltillo, Mexico; d. June 28, 1949, Suffern, New York [Rockland County].
5. AUGUSTUS BARTOW RUDD, JR., b. August 16, 1900, Ponce, Puerto Rico; d. February 08, 1963, Summit, New Jersey.
6. MAY GENEVIEVE "MAJOR V" RUDD, b. October 09, 1902, Ponce, Puerto Rico; d. April 01, 1995, Wilmington, North Carolina.
7. MARGARET THOMAS "TOM" RUDD, b. December 15, 1907, Ponce, Puerto Rico; d. October 22, 1999, Goodwin House, Alexandria, Virginia.
Notes for MARGARET THOMAS "TOM" RUDD: Burial: Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery, Moseley, Virginia.

The following poem was found among research papers of Pleasant H. "Plez" Bagby, presented to Sherri Schäefer Bagby by William "Hugh" Bagby. Pleasant H. Bagby, a grandson of Dr. Alfred Paul Bagby, D.D., a son of John Christopher Bagby, a.k.a. John Bagby of Bunker Hill. It was written by Margaret Thomas "Tom" Rudd for her first cousin, William Fleet Bagby. Margaret and William were both grandchildren of John Christopher Bagby, a.k.a. John Bagby of Bunker Hill. The poem was written for William's 90th birthday. He was born about 1860, so it would have been about 1950 when this poem was composed.

THE SAGE OF KING AND QUEEN

To: Mr. William F. Bagby on his ninetieth birthday
By: Miss Margaret T. Rudd, of Richmond

I've travelled far around the world
and many sages seen.
I've ridden trains and airplanes
and once a submarine,
But back home in the U.S.A.,
in Dixieland, I mean,
A man as wise as foreign guys,
Resides in King and Queen.

I've trod the sands of other lands,
I've tasted dishes rare,
Bright birds and trees in tropic breeze,
Caressed, so soft and fair.
And now at home, no more to roam,
Is the fairest sight I've seen,
The robin sweet, the good hog meat,
And the Sage of King and Queen.

For year on year he's lived right here.
His progeny are many.
Both far and wide, with manly pride,
He rated them good as any.
With strength of arm he once could charm,
The ladies of the county.
Now, strength in sons and daughter's sons,
He shares in Christian bounty.

This sage is tall and slightly bald,
His eye is penetrating,
His spirit kind and sharp of mind,
His wit most scintillating.
His ways are just, in God his trust,
He loves his fields of green.
For honest work he ne'er did shirk,
This Sage of King and Queen.

So now a toast to our gracious host,
From all his folks and friends.
To work and play, the living way,
He's traced to noble ends.
To jobs well done from rising sun,
'Til twilight cast it's shadow
And spread it's glow on the one we know,
As the Sage of King and Queen.



Miss Rudd, retired UR professor, dies
Thursday, October 28, 1999
BY JENIFER V. BUCKMAN
Times-Dispatch Staff Writer

When Margaret Thomas Rudd retired from the University of Richmond's Westhampton College in 1963, a newspaper article declared "Margaret Rudd lets no grass grow under her feet." The author, poet, intrepid traveler and former chairman of modern languages at Westhampton College, died Friday at Goodwin House in Alexandria. She was 91. A memorial service will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at Goodwin House. A private burial will take place at Skinquarter Baptist Church.

The youngest of five children born to Baptist missionaries, she spent the first 12 years of her life in Puerto Rico and Mexico. She earned a degree from Westhampton College in 1929 and taught language at Stuart Hall in Staunton for three years. In 1937, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University. She also studied at the University of Mexico and The Sorbonne in Paris.

She taught Spanish and French at the former Blackstone College and was a dean of women there. She also taught at Stephen's College in Columbia, Mo., before joining the faculty at the University of Richmond in 1942. At Westhampton College, she helped found the language laboratory by placing her personal record player in a small basement room.

For eight years, Miss Rudd served as chairman of the modern languages department. She took a two-year leave of absence from 1946 to 1948 to accept an appointment from the State Department as a teacher in the Cultural Institute in Concepcion, Chile. She took a sabbatical to study in Spain in 1959 and that year she published "The Lone Heretic," a biography of the Spanish writer and thinker, Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.

In 1976, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Richmond. The honor summed up her accomplishments. "To transmit human values of the Hispanic culture in which you were born motivates your every role; scholar, teacher, biographer, poet."

In retirement, she published a book of poetry "Arrow Through Time" and wrote a biography of her father, missionary and former UR professor Augustus Bartow Rudd. The work, "A Practical Mystic: A.B. Rudd," was published in 1987.

Miss Rudd was active in the development of Virginia Educational Television Inc. and was a member of The National Association of American Pen Women and the Virginia Writers Club. She was a former regional vice president of the Virginia Poetry Society.

Survivors include two nieces, Elizabeth Ross of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Joyce Carlson of Vero Beach, Florida.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Office of Development, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173, for the establishment of a fund in memory of the Rudd family.

Research submitted by: George Oliver "Buddy" Rudd.

 


MARY ELLEN "SISTER" POLLARD 6, (VIRGINIA BAGBY 5, JOHN CHRISTOPHER 4, RICHARD 3, JOHN 2, JAMES 1) was born about 1862 in King and Queen County, Virginia, and died about 1938 in Richmond, Virginia. She married G. HARVEY CLARKE. He was born about 1852, and died about 1930 in Richmond, Virginia.


Children of MARY POLLARD and G. CLARKE are:

1. GERTRUDE CLARKE, b. about 1884; d. about 1955.
2. VIRGINIA CLARKE, b. March 22, 1885; d. about 1969; m. HARTWELL TAYLOR; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
3. GEORGE STANLEY CLARKE, b. about 1886; d. about 1955.
4. JOHN A. CLARKE, b. Unknown; m. (1) ELISE SMITH; b. Unknown; m. (2) ALICE PEAKE; b. Unknown; m. (3) ELIZABETH PEAKE PATTERSON; b. Unknown.
More About JOHN A. CLARKE:
Individual Note: No children from any marriage listed per "John Bagby of Bunker Hill"
More About ALICE PEAKE:
Individual Note: Another source lists her name as Alice Parke
5. EMMA CLARKE, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
6. G. S. CLARKE, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

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