William Powhatan Poythress (c.1847-1920) by Louisa Campbell Mayo (1849-1927) had two daughters, both named Charlotte Reed Poythress. The fist was born 9 Feb 1880 and died 29 May 1880. The second was born in 1881 and died 1906. This information comes from the Robert Bolling Batte card files online in the Library of Virginia. -- Randy Jones "Barbara P. Neal" <bp_neal@earthlink.net> wrote: "s b" (one of our quiet List members who is in the line descended from Foxhall Poythress), recently mentioned to me that "One of our/my ancestors" William P Poythress, was a druggist who had the "Poythress Drug Company" in Richmond, VA. I have gathered what info I can readily find about this druggist in what I have here on my computer. If anyone else can please help me round out this William P. Poythress, druggist, for my records, I sure would appreciate it. I readily admit that I've missed fully digesting a LOT of List messages due to family elder-care problems, so if any of you recognize that there was something identifiable with this man or his family in them, please let me know that, too. Below is what I've found so far. Thanks, BPN (Barbara Poythress Neal) Back in March 2001 we had some list messages about this man, including my (BPN) transcription on 29 March 2001 of a brief history of the pharmaceutical company that BPW (Barbara Poythress Wolfe) had obtained years earlier. It doesn't clarify when he was born, and it mentions no children for him; perhaps he didn't have any children? Today I looked thru Elaine Poythress Criddle's great census compilations of Poythress info, backtracking from the 1880 one when he is listed as a druggist in his mother's household, with his wife & 2 siblings & a boarder lady & her grandson. I found: The identifiable family members for William P. Poythress, who became the druggist owning Poythress Drug Company in Richmond, were: - his father was William, per 1889-90 Richmond City Directory entry re his mother - his mother was Charlotte -- she was already widowed by the time of the 1850 Census - an older brother, Patrick Henry (later just Henry) Poythress who was born in about 1846. He may have died young, since I don't readily find him as either Henry or Patrick Henry in the census compilation after 1860. - William P. Poythress (later the druggist) who was born in about 1847-48. From the brief history of the Poythress Drug Company, we know that he was still alive after World War I began and drew most of the doctors from the building where the drugstore was located, which caused Poythress Drug Company to cease to be THE drugstore of Richmond. The history continues, "Mr. Poythress, getting old and feeble, sold his share of the business to younger men and, after clerking awhile in the store he once owned 'to give the boys a start' retired and a little later died." - a sister, Sarah/Sally/Sallie R. who was born in about 1852. She apparently never married, per the below 1910 census info. - a brother Walter E., born in about 1862 We also know that William P. Poythress had a wife, Louisa C., who was born about 1853, whom he married in about 1880 (See 1910 census). Interestingly, there was in Petersburg, VA a different William Poythress (William D. Poythress) who was about 10 years older (born in about 1837) than William P. Poythress, and who was also married to an older Louisa (born in about 1835). This Petersburg couple were the parents of little Mollie Poythress. These 3 Petersburg Poythresses are buried at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg. I've compiled my above list of family members for William P. Poythress, the druggist, from Elaine's census compilation of VA Poythress info: 1910 Henrico County HH 101 – of George P. Grant, Richmond City/Monroe Ward, 2nd Prec., sheet 7B, ED 139, 21 Apr. Poythress, William P., boarder, male, white, age 62, married 30 yrs., VA,VA,VA, druggist, emp., , Louise C., boarder, female, white, age 57, married 30 yrs., VA,VA,VA HH 94 – Richmond City/Monroe Ward, 2nd Prec., sheet 9A, ED 140, 19-23 Apr. Paythress, Sallie R., female, white, age 58, VA,VA,VA, rents house, 5 lodgers living in her home [Note: 1900 I didn't see Henrico County or City of Richmond listed in the compilation.] Supplement/Richmond VA City Directories 1889-90 - Poythress, Charlotte, [BPN NOTE: This is the mother of the druggist, per census records below] 2904 Broad E. Richmond, VA 1889,1890 Widow of William P. - 1890 Poythress, William P., occupation-druggist, business name-T Roberts Baker [BPN NOTE: this was then the drug company's name; see my 29 Mar 2001 message in our Poythress-List message archives for more details] 2912 Broad E., Richmond, VA 1889-1890 1880 Henrico County HH 98 – Richmond/2nd Prec. Marchall Ward, page 371B, ED 92, 4 June Poythress, C., white, female, age ?64, widowed/divorced, VA,?CAN, VA , W.P., white, male, age 32, son, married, druggist, VA,VA,VA , S.C., white, female, age 30, daughter-in-law, married, VA,VA,VA [BPN NOTE: We should re-check the census-taker's handwriting to see if his wife's initials might be "L.C." since in the above 1910 Census, she is "Louisa C." and they had been married 30 yrs by 1910. Many of the old handwriting samples make it difficult to see the difference in an initial of "L" and one of "S"] , Sallie R., white, female, age 28, daughter, VA,VA,VA , W.E., white, male, age 18, son, clerk, VA,VA,VA Dunn, S.A., white, female, age 57, boarder, VA,VA,VA Marks, Henry, white, male, age 14, gr.son, VA,VA,VA In 1870, Wm was apparently elsewhere - in school perhaps? -- because he was not in his mother's household: 1870 Henrico County HH 716 – Richmond City/Marshall Ward, page 193, 6 July Poytress, Charlotte, age 45, female, white, $150 personal est., born VA , Sarah R., age 18, female, white, born VA , Walter E., age 8, male, white, born VA 1860 Henrico County HH 563 – Richmond Ward 1, page 105, 6 July Portres, Scharlott, age 38, female, born VA , Henry, age 14, male, born VA, attends school , William, age 13, male, born VA, attends school , Sally, age 8, female, born VA, attends school 1850 VA, Henrico County HH 240 – of Elias Reed, Richmond Twp., page 251, 28 Aug. Poythress, Charlotte, age 25, female, born VA , Patrick Henry, age 4, male, born VA , William D., age 2, male, born VA [BPN NOTE: I feel sure from the mother & brother, & from it being in Henrico County, that this is really William P. Poythress] ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== Poythress Genealogy Research Web www.poythress.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com