Poplar Hill
Dunnington, India Knight (Granny)
Dunnington, Walter Gray died February 12, 1849
Dunnington, Walter G. Jr. died April 2, 1999
Dunnington, Walter Jr Received The Distinguished Service Cross. date of action July 14 - 15, 1918
Dunnington - July 27, 1860
Dunnington, Walter Grey, attorney
Dunnington, Walter Grey (son of the above)
Dunnington, Dr. John Hughes and his wife Mrs. Dunnington, Genevieve Parker
Dunnington, Allen Gray
Some history of the Poplar Hill
Poplar Hill Photos
Poplar Hill Golf Course
Poplar Hill - Hampden Sydney article in Farmville paper May 2005
Knight
Knight Family (Granny)
Shields
Some history from the Shields family
Brumfield, Betty Shields
Shields, Ann Kingdon
Chamberlin
Cherokee
Dunnington, James William
Dunnington, Kathryn Chamberlin
Orgain, Dolly Dunnington
Sprye, India Dunnington
Whidden, Sally Ann Dunnington Sydnor, Kathryn Dunnington
Sprye, Skip
Sprye, Trey
Goebel, Kathryn Sprye
Hagler, Katrina Goebel
Goebel, Peter
Index of people on this site
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GE0RGE WALLACE DONNAN, Born, January 20, 1822 in Amelia County, Virginia Died, December 8, 1861 in Richmond, Va. Buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Richmond, Va.
He was a son of David Donnan and Mary Stewart, his wife, being their eighth child and was named for his father's half broher, George Wallace who drowned off the coast of Scotland at the age of seventeen. He married Miss Louise Pettyjohn of Amherst County, Virginia on July 1854. By this mrriage there were two children, viz.: Bettie Lee Donnan, their first child, was born April 28, l855, and who married William T. Shields of Lexington, Va., on June 1, 1882 in Richmond and is now living in Lexington, Va. They are the parents of three children, viz.: E. Southard Shields, who was born February 20, l883 and who is now president of the Planters Bank and Trust Company of Farmville, Va., and he is also President of the Virginia Bankers Assn. He married Miss Lucy Knight Dunnington, a daughter of Walter Gray Dunnington, of Farmville, Va. By this marriage there are the following children, viz: Bettie Donnan Shields, born October 16, 1912, Lucie Knight Shields, born February 4, 1916; Walter Dunnington Shields, born February 19, 1923. The second child of Bettie Lee Donnan Shields is William R. Shields who was born April 20, 1885 and is a literary writer living in New York City, a bachelor. He enlisted in the US National Army as a private on August 9, 1917 and was assigned to Company L, Capt. Gerald Egan, 319th infantry, 80th Division at Camp Lee, Va. General Cronkite, Division Commander. Received a commission as Second Lieutenant in 1918 and ordered to Camp Cody, NM. to help organize the 388th Infantry. Was later transferred to Camp Shelby, Miss, and received his discharge October 13, 1919 at Camp Dix, NJ.
Louise Donnan Shields, the third child of Bettie Lee Donnan Shields, was born September 8, 1886, and married John Alexander Moore of Lexington, Va., and with her husband is now living in Miami, Fla. They have no children.
George Wallace Donnan, Jr, the second child of George Wallace Donnan, was born February 13, 1861 in Richmond, Va. and died in Lexington, Va. July 14, 1891 a bachelor and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
The subject of this story, George Wallace Donnan, entered business on his own account prior to 1844, under the frm name of Hall, Donnan & Co., in Petersburg. Subsequently, he joined his brother, Samuel C. Donnan in a business in Richmond and in 1849 the firm of W. S. & G. W. Donnan was formed in Richmond, Va., which partnership continued until his death in 1861. He was a man of quiet, sedate and dignified manner. Of the purest Christian character. For many years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia.
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The Annual Spry Family Reunion is held the 1st Sunday in October in China Grove, NC. Details for reunion
Enoch Spry history
Fisher family line
The General Armory
Marriage Certificate Enoch Spry and Mary Lingle
Carter Creek document
Death Certificate Thomas Spry
Letter to Johnsie from Helen Kurfees
Hill Spry Photos
Children of Elzavan Monroe Spry
Lineage Papers
Older Spry Pictures
1920 School Picture Liberty School
Letter To Annice Allsobrooks from President Nixon
1926 Spry Family Reunion
Lois's 92nd birthday party 1988
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