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law courses. He engaged in the practice of law in his native county, in which he was very busily occupied until the outbreak of the war between the states. As soon as war appeared inevitable, he organized a com- pany of men, which was attached to the P'ifty-third Virginia Regiment of Volun- teers, and was elected its first captain. He was soon promoted lieutenant-colonel, and al the time of his retirement was in com- mand of the regiment as colonel, the organi- zation forming a part of Pickett's division, Armistead's brigade. At the battle of Get- tysburg, he received a severe wound, and suffered minor injuries on various other oc- casions. At Sailor's Creek he was made prisoner and was subsequently paroled, after which he returned to his law practice, and made himself famous. For sixteen years he was commonwealth's attorney. For many years he was a vestryman of the Epis- copal church, was a member of Pickett's Camp, Confederate \'eterans, and in politics a sound Democrat. He died in 1900. In 1858 he married Alice Brockenborough, born 1838, died 1895. Children: i. Sallie, married Richard T. Goodwin, and had chil- dren : Richard and Sallie. 2. Pattie Waller, wife of Dr. George Carrington Callaway, had children : Alice, Carrington, Henry, Edward, Pattie, Aylett. 3. Philip, married Christianna P'ernquest, and had a daughter, Elsie. 4. Alice Page, married Dr. Moses T. Hoge, Jr., and became the mother of Alice, Bessie, William A., and Susan. 5. William Roane, of further mention below. 6. Bessie B., wife of Austin B. Mitchell, and mother of Austin and Pattie Mitchell. 7. Patrick Henry, single.

William Roane Aylett (2), second son of William Roane ( i ) and Alice ( Brockenbor- ough) Aylett, was Ijorn November 2, 1871, on the old plantation at Montville, was edu- cated under private tutors, took an aca- demic course, and graduated in the academic and medical departments of the University of Virginia, taking the degree of M. D. in 1893. Following his graduation he gained practical experience in the Orange Hospital, at Orange, New Jersey, where he was two years an interne, and in 1897 settled at New- port News, Virginia, where he has since been engaged successfully in the practice of his profession. Today he occupies a lead- ing position as physician and surgeon in Warwick county and is a member of the

staff of St. Francis Hospital. He is a mem- ber of the American Medical Society, Vir- ginia ^Medical Association, the Tide Water Medical societies of Virginia and North (.'arolina, and the Local Medical Society. I'^ollowing the precepts of his forbears, he maintains connection with the Protestant Episcopal church, is a member of the great Masonic fraternity, and gives political alleg- iance to Democratic principles and policies. \\'hile busily engaged in caring for his pa- tients. Dr. Aylett does not refuse to give some time to the public service, and has been for some years chairman of the Board ot Police Commissioners of Newport News. He is esteemed as a physician and as a man, and worthily fulfills the traditions of a fine old family, and the duties of an American citizen. He married, June 5, 1900, Sallie Clarke, daughter of J. E. and Anna (South- all) Clarke, of Henderson, North Carolina.

Walter Baker Livezey. \\'alter Baker Livezey, a leading business man of Newport News, belongs to one of the most ancient of American families. His ancestor, Thomas Livezey, was a member of the Society of Friends, an intimate of \\'illiam Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and among the first colonizers of that state. This colony was founded by Penn as an asylum for the Friends, who were being persecuted in Eng- land on account of their religion. He se- cured a charter from King Charles II. grant- ing the entire state of Pennsylvania. Thomas Livezey was a husbandman, resid- ing in Norton, county Chester, England, and came to Pennsylvania with Penn's agent, William Markham, who was deputy governor of the province. In May, 1861, he landed on the banks of the Delaware river, and his name first appears in the Pennsylvania records as a grand juror at Philadelphia, January 11, 1682. He had ac- quired title to two hundred and fifty acres of land, with which was granted, according tc the custom, a plot within the limits of I'hiladelphia, where he built a house, which he sold in 1683. This was lot No. 150 on the "portraiture of the city of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania, in American, by Thomas Holme, Surveyor-General, Lon- don, 1683." This lot is near what is now the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. In addition to his first pur-

chase, he subsequently acquired two hun-