Clopton Family Genealogical Society

 

 

 

 

Thomas Coles Clopton, M.D., C.S.A., of “Camden”

Special Thanks to the Gloucester County Historical Society

 

 

William Clopton, Gentleman + Ann Booth

William Clopton + Joyce Wilkinson

George Clopton, Sr., + Jane “Jenny” Jones

Edwin J. Clopton, Sr. + -- Coles

Thomas Coles Clopton, M.D., C.S.A. + Evalina Doswell

 

 

 

        1.  Thomas Coles²⁰ Clopton, M.D., C.S.A., of "Camden"  (Edwin J.¹⁹, George¹⁸, William¹⁷, William¹⁶, William¹⁵, Walter¹⁴, William¹³, Richard¹², William¹¹, John¹⁰, William⁹, Thomas⁸, Walter⁷, William⁶, Walter⁵, William⁴, Walter³, William², Guillaume¹ Peche, Lord Of Cloptunna and Dalham)¹ was born Abt. 1803², and died February 15, 1875 in Gloucester County, Virginia.  He married Evalina Doswell, daughter of Major Doswell and Sally Cowles. 

       

Children of Thomas Clopton and Evalina Doswell are:

        2                 i.    Thomas Jones²¹ Clopton, MD, CSA, of "Havers Hall"³, born May 12, 1832 in Richmond, Virginia; died March 10, 1914 in "Havers Hall," Gloucester, Virginia and buried at Ware Church, Gloucester⁴.  He married Mildred Cecilia Anderson June 7, 1866 in Ware Episcopal Church, Gloucester, Virginia; born December 22, 1845 in King & Queen County, Virginia⁵; died November 18, 1907 in "Havers Hal," Gloucester, Virginia, and possibly buried at Ware Church⁶.

 

FORMER FOX HUNTERS TO BE HONORED AT PONY SHOW SEPT. 9

 

               The fall show of the Gloucester Pony Club will be held on Saturday, Sept. 9 beginning at 10 A.M. at Botetourt School.  The program will honor Gloucester fox hunters of the late nineteenth century, a spokesman for the organization said. Each class will be dedicated to the memory of one outstanding fox hunter of that period and the winning trophy will be awarded by a member of his family.

Those to be honored include:  Joseph Bryan of "Eagle Point," Naxera; Dr. Thomas Clopton of "Havers Hall," Belroi; Albert Eastwood of Singpine; John Farinholt of Freeport; Charles Jones of "Cedar Hill," Gloucester; Richard Jones of "Lands Eng," Naxera; Goodall A. Minor of Bena; Mrs. Blanche Dimmock Noland of "Sherwood," Selden; Capt. Richard Page of "Greenway" and "Shelly," Coke; Maj. Jefferson Sinclair and son Ashton Wray Sinclair of "Marifield," Naxera; James Jefferson Sinclair, "Bay Cottage," Naxera, James Lyons Taliaferro of "Church Hill," Gloucester; Timothy W. Thrift of Woods Cross Roads; Robert Wilkins of "Enfield," Sassafras; and Mrs. Katherine Vandegrift Withers of "Sevenby," Naxera.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mott and Miss Indie Sinclair are co-chairmen of the show.  They state that the fox hunting tradition still goes on in Gloucester but in a very different style.  "Gone are the days of riding ten miles to the casting grounds, accompanied by the hounds on foot - hunting for eight hours and riding home.  Now it is trucks for the hounds and trailers and vans for the horses.  An easy hunting life.!

"Gazette - Journal," Gloucester-Mathews, Virginia  August 31, 1967

        3                ii.    Evalina Doswell Clopton, of "Camden", born March 8, 1843; died July 1, 1859 in Virginia and buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond.

 

 

 

Endnotes

 

1.  Named in his father's will.

2.  Jones, The World of Ware Parish in Gloucester County, Virginia,  (Courtesy John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Library, Colonial Williamsburg), States that on December 1862 he was 59 years old when he replaced Captain Seawell and successfully raised a company of rangers.

3.  Driver, 5th Virginia Cavalry,  (Courtesy of Barbara P. Willis, Librarian, Virginia Room, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Fredericksburg), p. 195, States he was a 3rd. Lt., Company A and that he attended the University of Virginia in 1857.  He was a Gloucester farmer at the time of his death and was buried at Ware Church.

4.  Free Lance (Fredericksburg, Virginia) 1885-1926,  (Microfilm located Rappahannock County Regional Library, Fredericksburg.  Courtesy of Bert Hampton Blanton, Jr.), March 14, 1914, States he died "Tuesday night aged 75 years."  He is survived by one daughter and seven sons.

5.  Free Lance (Fredericksburg, Virginia) 1885-1926,  (Microfilm located Rappahannock County Regional Library, Fredericksburg.  Courtesy of Bert Hampton Blanton, Jr.), States she is the daughter of "the late William Anderson of King and Queen," and that she died on Monday at her home, Havers Hall.  She is survived by her husband, six sons and one daughter.  But her husband's obituary states he is survived by seven sons and one daughter.

6.  Free Lance (Fredericksburg, Virginia) 1885-1926,  (Microfilm located Rappahannock County Regional Library, Fredericksburg.  Courtesy of Bert Hampton Blanton, Jr.), November 26, 1907.

 

 

 

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