BIOGRAPHY, Rockbridge County, VA- "T" ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** JAMES GLENN UPDIKE - son of John and Mary A. (Day) Updike, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, October 23, 1817. His father was born in Loudoun county, his mother in Westminster, Maryland, and both died in Loudoun county, the former in 1848 and the latter in 1849. In January, 1850, James G. Updike came to Rockbridge county, and in this county, on the 18th of June, 1850, Susan E. Miller became his wife. She was born in Rockbridge county, January 24, 1824, a daughter of natives of this county, James and Sarah E. (Trimbell) Miller. Her father died in 1842, her mother in 1872, both in this county. The children of James G. and Sarah E. (Miller) Updike are recorded: John Bolliver, born April 19, 1851, died April 27, 1880; Alice Glenn, born February 14, 1853, died March 11, 1863; Charles Shannon, born October 10, 1855, resides in Richmond; James Miller, born February 12, 1858, lives at Buffalo Forge, this county; Frank Preston, born December 10, 1860, died March 11, 1863. The second marriage of James G. Updike was solemnized in February, 1867, when Rebecca J., daughter of Andrew and Leanah Agner, became his wife. She died January 28, 1879, leaving to him three children: George Andrew, born January 21, 1868; Mary Lou, born April 8, 1870; Albert Sydney, born May 15, 1872. The subject of this sketch was captain of the "Rockbridge Greys", in the Confederate States service, from April 18, 1861, to March 1, 1862, when ill health, caused by exposure in the Hancock and Romney expedition, forced him to resign, after which heserved the Confederacy in Rockbridge county as collector of tax in kind, and as captain in the Home Guards, until that government ceased to be. The "Rockbridge Greys", ordered by Governor Letcher to report to Lexington for duty April 18, 1861, became Company H, 4th Virginia Infantry, and the color company of the regiment through the war. Since the war, Mr. Updike has been two years clerk of Rockbridge county court, has served twelve years as justice of the peace, has been judge and commissioner of elections, and is member of school board. He is merchant, farmer and stock grower in Natural Bridge magisterial district, and postmaster at Buffalo Forge, Rockbridge county, Virginia. Source: Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia (NY, Richmond, and Toledo: H. H. Hardesty and Company Publishers, 1884). p. 411-412. Transcribed and submitted by Valerie F. Crook" **********************************************************************