Greene-Rockingham County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Durrette, Adelaide Starke 1862 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alice Warner http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 March 10, 2009, 3:23 pm Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler Adelaide Starke, eldest child of Judge Wyatt Starke and Elizabeth Columbia (Miller) Beazley, and sister of Dr. Wyatt Sanford Beazley, was born May 27, 1862. She graduated from Albemarle Female Institute in June, 1879, and for five years, until her marriage to Elijah D. Durrette, of Greene county, Virginia, performed faithfully the beautiful service of assisting her mother in the home. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Durrette: 1. Mary Lee, born in 1886; graduated from the Rawlings Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, and later, in trained nursing from the Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. For two years she filled this position with delight to her patients and great credit and honor to herself and her school. She then became the wife of Robert Braxton Allport, of Richmond, and they are the parents of two children: Robert Braxton, Jr., born September 1, 1912, and Marion Beazley, born March 28, 1915. 2. Dollie Elizabeth, born in 1888, also graduated from the Rawlings Institute, and for four years filled most acceptably positions as teacher in her native county of Greene. She became the wife of Miller Jarman, of Rockingham county, Virginia, and they are the parents of one child, Miletus, born September 27, 1913. 3. Elijah Davis, born in 1890; was for some time student at Fork Union Military Academy, Virginia. 4. Frank Starke, born in 1899. 5. Wyatt Beazley, born in 1901. Additional Comments: From biography of Wyatt Sanford Beazley MD in Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography 1915 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/greene/bios/durrette166gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb