CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches Family Sketches - Slaughter ----¤¤¤---- 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 Slaughter Robert Slaughter married Frances Ann, daughter of Cadwallader Jones (will 1725), his son, Robert, m., in 1723, Mary, daughter of Augustus Smith, vestryman of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper county. Robert Slaughter, 3rd in name and line, (born 1724, died 1790), married in 175O, Susannah Harrison. In 1785, when members of the Slaughter family emigrated to Kentucky (among them Gabriel Slaughter), Charles, a brother of the latter, remained in Virginia; married Elizabeth, (born 1757, died 178O), daughter of John and Sarah White Poindexter of Louisa county. A deed between Charles Slaughter, Daniel and Elizabeth Marshall, John and Patience Marshall and Robert Cobbs (who married the sister of Slaughter's wife), was recorded in Campbell, involving the transfer of 282 acres of land lying on Whipping creek in 1804, showing that Slaughter had then moved to Campbell. In 1823 there was a settlement of Charles Slaughter's estate, when the widow received one-fourth and the balance was divided between his four children,—John P. Slaughter (named for his grand-father Poindexter)-Ann P. Davenport (nee Slaughter)—Robert Harrison Slaughter, and Eliza F. Bullock (nee Slaughter). Charles Slaughter ran away from boarding school to join the Revolutionary army, as a private in Capt. Alex Spotswood Dandridge's troop of light dragoons, commanded by Col. Theodore Bland from July, 1776 to Dec., 1778. His eldest son—Dr. John Poindexter, seems to have married three times; 1st m. in 18O5, Patsy Armistead of Charlotte county; children: —Charles Darwin m. Judith E. Clemens, had 2 sons, Dr. John and Henry Clay. -—Sarah m. Jdsiah Hunter; 3 children, Dr. Joseph E., Robert and Jane. -Pauline m. Robert Hunter; children, Mrs. Selina Dinwiddie and Rev. Joshua Hunter. Dr. John P. Slaughter, m.,2nd, Agnes Cobbs of Bedford; children, 1 daughter, Susan Agnes. Married, 3rd, in 1816, Vera Kirkpatrick. His will, recorded in 1837, mentions daughters, Mrs. Sarah A. Hunter, Mrs. Paulina A. Hunter,'Mrs. Susan Arabella Nicolas and son, Charles Darwin Slaughter. Daughters of Charles and Elizabeth P. Slaughter were: —Ann Poindexter, born 1782, m. in 1801, Glover Davenport. —Elizabeth F., born 1796, m. in 1810, James P. Bullock. —Dr. Robert Harrison, 2nd son of Charles Slaughter, Sr., born 1786, m. 1st, Miss Harrison, s. p.; m., 2nd, Mary Rice, daughter of Rice and Elizabeth Hamner-Garland of Albemarle county. Children:—Charles Rice, born 1819, m., in 1846, Catherine M., dau. of James Parker and Katurah Stone-Garland;—Dr. Samuel Rice, m. Elizabeth Henderson: went to California in 1849;—John Flavel, born 1828, died 1893, m. Mary Harker of Mount Holly, 1ST. J;—Celeste Pauline m. (2nd wife), in 1881, Jas. Madison Cobbs, s. p.;—Austina W. m. Ro. Withers Broadnax, whose dau., Mary Roberta m. George Cameron of Petersburg, Va. Children of Charles Rice and Catherine M. Slaughter were: —Mary E. m. Judge J. Singleton Diggs, son of Rev. Thomas and Elizabeth Ford-Diggs of Matthews county, Va.; children, Catherine, member of Lynchburg Public School faculty and Dudley of the Int. Gen. Elec Co., with office at Schenectady, N. Y.-Charles Alex, m. Bertie Garland Brown, daughter C. Althea m. J. M. Vest of Huntingdon, W. Va.;—Catherine Light foot Slaughter. Mary Roberta, only child of Dr. Saml. Slaughter, m. Chas. Matson Harker, Jr., of Mount Holly, N. J. Children of John F. and Mary H. Slaughter were:—Dr. Charles, m. 1 st, Mary Duke; m., 2nd, Hattie Gray. —John Flavel, unmarried;—Robert m. Augusta Bannister of Alabama, sons Robert and Munroe;—Dr. Samuel G. m. Mayme Richardson; children Rosalie, Willis and Samuel;— Edith Ridgway m. Judge R. T. W. Duke, Jr., of Charlottes-ville; 5 children, Mary, R. T. W., John S., Eskridge and Helen;—Dr. B. Rosalie m. Baxter Morton; she was engaged during the World War on special relief work in Servia; was instrumental in securing scholarships in the United States for Servian students; decorated for service rendered Servia. —Judge William Austin Slaughter, of Mt. Holly, N. J., m. Florence, dau. of Rev. John K. Lewis. Charles R. Slaughter was an M.A. of the University of Virginia; member of Virginia Convention of 1861, and drew up the articles of the secession of Virginia; died in 1862. John F. Slaughter, alumnus of Virginia University, was a member of the "Committee of Nine," who interviewed Gen. Grant in Washington at close of war, and helped to secure an early re-admission of Virginia into the Union; was president of the First National Bank of Lynchburg from 1876 till 1892; his sons, Charles, Samuel G. and William, are alumni of Virginia University and daughter, Rosalie, is an alumna of the Philadelphia Woman's Medical College. The Slaughter-Garland home place, Oakley, Campbell county, stood not far beyond the present Westover section of Lynchburg, but the house was destroyed by fire, in recent years. Electric Service Dudley Diggs, graduate of Virginia Military Institute, entered service with the General Electric Company at their Lynn plant on a graduate testing course of one and a half years; was then transferred to the commercial section of the company in the street lighting department with charge of Headlights, Intensified Arc Lamps and other arc lamps. While located at Gloversville, N. Y., he received the shock of an electric flash which prevented the use of his eyes for nearly a year. At the time the Ornamental Luminous Arc lamp appeared he was put in charge of the sales of the new lamp and was called upon to deliver talks before technical and commercial associations at Indianapolis, Atlanta, Detroit and other places most important of which was at Michigan State Section of the National Electric Lamp Association, which chartered a steamer and held meetings for a week, while they cruised through Lake Huron, Georgian Bay and other places. This was the first large delegation before which the new lamp was presented. Diggs was sent to other conventions to make similar addresses. He conceived the idea of co-operative selling by a group of pole manufacturers in conjunction with the General Electric Company and received an appropriation for this purpose, and held a joint meeting at Lynn. From this meeting grew one of the permanent policies of this section of the company, far-reaching in effect, as to the manner of selling the type of lighting to the public. Since then co-operative selling of an idea by a group of manufacturers of an association has become an every-day incident. In New York district Diggs was detailed as street lighting and general lighting specialist, covering New York city, part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut from 1913 to 1920. During the World War his service was protective lighting of Ellis Island,-which was used as a place of detention for German spies,—protective and utilitarian lighting of shell loading plants, ship building plants, protection of New York bridges, New York water supply and points of embarkation. In 192O he was engaged with the International General Electric Company, which handles export business of the General Electric pendants and other manufactures, negotiating agreements for exclusive representation abroad. In 1924 was sent to South America to study merchandising methods in order to assist the companies operating there and especially to assist in a large lighting proposition in Santiago, the capital of Chile. He also assisted local engineers in laying out a complete new lighting scheme. Later the Chilean government sent its foremost engineer to the United States in company with the Construction Engineer of the Electric Properties of the large public utilities in Chile, and the financial managers of the Whitehall Securities Corporation of London, to study methods in the United States and to place order for complete equipment for this project. Diggs had charge of the delegation; after an examination, they decided to adopt Electric Company material and placed order for all the material. This was the first city in the world with over a half million population to change its entire lighting for the whole city at one time. Its lighting cost millions and will make of it the best lighted city. A separate electrical merchandising company was formed and at Diggs' recommendation an agent was sent from the "United States to start it. The store inaugurated by this company is the most up-to-date in Chile, and is a joint enterprise of the International General Electric Company and the International Machinery Company, which is a Chilean representative of the General Electric Company. Under auspices of the local technical societies and universities Diggs lectured at Buenos Aires and Rosaria, Argentine, San Paula and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; with a special moving picture and lantern slide lecture at the Universities in Santiago, Chile, and before officials at Valparaiso, Chile; he was sent in 1926 to England to investigate conditions in a subsidiary company and map out a course of observation for the manager, who came to America in conjunction with one of their directors. Dudley Diggs is located at Schenectady, N. 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