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May was born in Virginia to Kit and Norine May and attended Augusta County's North River High School. He had a son and daughter from separate marriages. His daughter was born in 1995, just a year before he died. [7] May died in a farming accident where a tractor fell on him on June 30, 1996, at the age of 52. [8]
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Frazier was born at Jenning's Gap, Augusta County, Virginia, November 19, 1812, the son of James A and Martha (Rankin) Frazier.He left Yale College in August, 1830, and entered the University of Virginia, where after further academic and legal studies, he graduated in 1834 with the degree of Bachelor of Law.
John Lewis Peyton (September 15, 1824 – May 21, 1896) [1] was an American lawyer, diplomat, state agent for the Confederate States Army, and an author from Virginia. [2] During the beginning of the American Civil War he moved to Europe, and in 1861 became a state agent for North Carolina for the southern Confederate States Army cause.
About 17,300 Augusta County residents participated in early voting. This is roughly 1,000 more than did during the 2020 presidential election, and roughly one third of all Augusta County voters.
Robert Porterfield (February 22, 1751 – February 13, 1843), (often referred to as "General Porterfield") was a Virginia planter, politician, magistrate and military officer who served in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Augusta County for one term.
Emmett Wilson Hanger Jr. (born August 2, 1948, in Staunton, Virginia) is an American politician of the Republican Party.He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1991, when he was unseated by Creigh Deeds.
John Mathews settled in Augusta County, Virginia around 1737 and held several local offices in the community. [8] [9] Several of his sons took part in patriot efforts during the American Revolutionary War; Sampson Mathews (c. 1737–1807) and George Mathews (1739–1812) were members of the Augusta County Committee of Safety, which drafted the Augusta Resolves and the Augusta Declaration. [10]