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Eleanor Agnes Lee (February 27, 1841 – October 15, 1873) was an American diarist and poet. The fifth child of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee, she was a member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia and was affectionately called "Wiggy" and "Agnes" by her parents.
Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census , the population was 7,320. [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Rockbridge County , although the two are separate jurisdictions, and is combined with it for statistical purposes by the Bureau of Economic Analysis . [ 5 ]
After the war, Cowan moved his family (and sister-in-law Mary Cresap) to Kansas City, Missouri, where he practiced law together with former CSA Major Blake L. Woodson (b. 1835), formerly of Roanoke, Virginia, and who had studied under John Brockenbrough in Lexington, Virginia. In 1884 Kansas City voters elected Woodson their prosecuting ...
James Alexander Chiles was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1860. He was one of eight children born to Richard and Martha Chiles. He had a twin brother, named John, who gave him financial assistance while at Lincoln University and University of Michigan Law School.
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia city has officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried. The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a ...
Dr. Archibald Graham purchased the house and significantly expanded it in 1845 by adding a stone addition on the rear and remodeling the front and interior to accommodate his medical practice. Dr. Graham sold the house to then-Major Thomas Jackson, a professor at the nearby Virginia Military Institute, on November 4, 1858, for $3000. [4]
Tracy Kisenda, the uncle of a 17-year-old student who died Friday after reportedly breaking up a fight at Lexington’s Henry Clay High School and suffering an apparent seizure, said the family is ...
Rockbridge County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,650. [1] Its county seat is the city of Lexington. [2] Rockbridge County completely surrounds the independent cities of Buena Vista and Lexington.