CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Floyd
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Floyd

  Dr. Nathaniel Wilson Floyd, born 1793 near Louisville, Ky., son of Captain
Charles and Mary Stewart-Floyd (of Hanover county), who accompanied George
Rogers Clark to Kentucky, married in 1819 at Locust Grove, Bedford county,
Elizabeth West, the daughter of Major John Nelson Anderson (who served in the
Revolution under "Light-Horse" Harry Lee), and his wife, Elizabeth West,
daughter of Captain John Jones, also a Revolutionary officer, and wife, Frances
Barbour, daughter of Lane and grand-daughter of Orlando Jones, noted lawyer of
Williamsburg, whose father, Roland Jones, was the first rector of Bruton parish.
Mary Stewart was the daughter of Captain John Stewart and Annie Haw, his wife,
of Henrico county. Dr. Floyd bought land on Ivy creek, Campbell county, about
182O, and erected a home there, calling it Brook field, a few miles west of
Lynchburg. He discontinued the practice of medicine, died 1866, his wife in
1883; children:

—Charles Anderson, m. Mildred, the daughter of Hardin Perkins; enlisted in the
Confederate cavalry company under Colonel Radford, and was killed April 6th,
1865 in the battle at Sailor's creek; left a family of nine children.

—Captain Nathaniel Bedford, m. Ellen M. Stith, of Texas; was a member of the 6th
Texas Regiment of the Confederate army.

—Captain Nicolas Jackson, m. Mary M. Morrow of Louisiana; served under General
Wilcox in the Confederate army. 

—Annie Pauline, m. Colonel Henry Ward Adams of "The Mansion," and "Monteflora,"
near Alta Vista, Campbell county. 

—Mary Amelia, m. James Aug. Wiggins, of Alabama. 

—Elizabeth West, m. Alexander Spotswood Perkins of Alabama.

—John Buchanon, m. Fannie M. Harris, of Alabama; he served in General Wheeler's
cavalry of the Confederate army. 

—Letitia Preston, m. Captain John C. Featherston, of Alabama, who had been
wounded at the battle of Gettysburg and was brought to Dr. Floyd's home, where
he was nursed to health. He was son of Howell Colston Featherston of Alabama,
and his wife, Dulaney Odom. Captain Featherston entered the C. S. army as
lieutenant of the 9th Alabama Regiment, Wilcox's brigade, and was promoted to
the captaincy. He lived at Evergreen, near Lynchburg, but during the later years
of his life purchased a home in the city to which he moved his family. Elected
to Virginia Legislature in 1896, he served eight years: was a member at the art
commission for placing bronze statues of George Washington and Robert E. Lee in
Statuary Hall at Washington Capitol. He was appointed business agent for
Virginia Farmer's State Grange and United States Agricultural Statistician for
Virginia. Children: 

—Nathaniel Floyd, held position in Treasury Department, Washington.

—Howell Colston, attorney-at-law, of Lynchburg, represented Campbell county in
Virginia Legislature, 1907-O8; author of "Origin and History of Lynch Law" an
article in "The Green Bag" of Boston.


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