CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Wyatt
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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


Wyatt

  The Wyatt family is of English extraction. Among early records the name is
found spelt Wiat, Wiatt and Wyatt, differently even with members of the same
households. Colonel John Wyatt, first of his name in Campbell, was an officer in
the Revolutionary army and was present at the battle of Guilford court-House. He
married Wilhelmina, the daughter of Colonel-Samuel Jordan, who was a sister of
Mrs. William Cabell of Union Hill, Nelson county, and of Mrs. John Cabell of
Green Hill, Buckingham county. Colonel Wyatt settled first in Amherst county,
but moved to Lynchburg, and had a large family of children. He was mayor of the
city in 1806, died in 1827. His daughter, Caroline, married Edmund Winston of
Amherst: Anne, his second daughter, married Captain William Norvell.

  Captain Samuel Wyatt, a tobacconist of Lynchburg, married, first, Mary,
daughter of Benjamin Brown, of Amherst, who died in 1825; married, 2nd, Sarah,
daughter of Matthew-Brown of Lynchburg, who died in 1842. Captain Wyatt
commanded the Lynchburg Rifles in the war of 1812. He fought a duel with Henry
Langhorne at Point of Honor, Dr. George Cabell’s former residence, which was
given the name from that incident by Lewis Cabell (son of Dr. George), who was
then owner of the property.

  Thomas Wyatt, a younger brother of Colonel John, moved in 1787 from King and
Queen county to Lynchburg, where he became an active citizen. He married Sarah
Miller. In 1793 John Miller deeded to Thomas Wyatt lot No. 15 in Lynchburg. In
1795 Caleb Tate sold Thomas Wyatt and William Norvell, merchants in partnership
under the name of Wyatt and Norvell, one-half acre lot in the town. In 18O4
Jesse Tate sold Wyatt one-half acre lot; the same year John and Mary Lynch sold
him a half-acre lot below Lynchburg, and a half-acre upon which stood Miller's
Tavern opposite the lot purchased by Colonel John Wyatt.

  At the first meeting of Hustings court in Lynchburg, 18O5, Thomas Wyatt, Sr.,
was appointed recorder, and John Wyatt was security with William Warwick on the
bond of William Norvell, then appointed clerk of court.

  Mary, a daughter of Thomas Wyatt, married D. Hoffman; another daughter,
Martha, married (2nd wife), William Massie of Pharsalia, Nelson county, whose
daughter, Ellen, married _____ Warwick. Thomas Wyatt was a trustee and treasurer
for the Methodist church of Lynchburg; and a director in 1814, of Exchange Bank
of Lynchburg. Thomas Wyatt, Jr., was one of the teachers in the public schools
in Lynchburg, established in 1871—one of which buildings later was named for him.

  Robert Wyatt married Clarissa Aylett, daughter of Baldwin and Catherine
Coles-Payne of Mt. Airy, Campbell county, Seneca creek neighborhood, whose old
home still stands and has near its entrance a large native stone stable. Robert
Wyatt lived in Hills creek section near the old Bowling Clark residence. His
daughter, Sallie Elizabeth, married Hays Otey, of Lynchburg, and resided in that
town; daughter, Nannie, married Philip Yuille, of Lawyers; and son, Thomas,
married Mary Bell.


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