ROBERT JENNINGS REVELEY 1820-1890 ROBERT JENNINGS REVELEY was born at White Marsh in 1820. (His twin sister, Frances, died in infancy). He was only three when his parents died. He married Elizabeth Doss on September 17, 1840. Elizabeth was the daughter of Overstreet Doss and Jane Helm. Overstreet Doss lived in Mount Athos, near the Oxford Furnace. Robert and Elizabeth's marriage is listed in the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Campbell Co.,VA: 1840 Robert(Revely)& Eliza Doss, dt Overstreet. Robert O.Doss, Surety Robert Doss and his father are mentioned in Embracing the History of Campbell County Virginia, 1782-1926: Nat. Guggenheimer, a Lynchburg merchant, opened a branch store in Concord with Maurice Furber as manager; and Robert A. Doss, (son of Overstreet Doss, owner of a good deal of land around the village) an early county sheriff and treasurer, also had a store, but following the fate of many sheriffs, his office caused his failure. Ralf was told a sad family story by Robert's great granddaughter, Betty Wendt. Robert co-signed a note for a Mr. Thornhill, using most of his farmland as collateral. Robert was reluctant to use his slaves as security for the note because he was too fond of them to risk losing them. Then Thornhill defaulted, the land was lost, and a few years later the Civil War freed the slaves. Robert's sister Judith married Joshua Thornhill, but we don't know if he was involved. In 1850, Robert had 5 slaves and was an Overseer and neighbor to Thornhills who had many slaves and a large plantation. In the 1860 census, Robert was a Deputy Sheriff at Thornhill's Store. In 1870 the Reveleys were in Lynchburg and Robert was working as a hand on the railroad. The Reveleys had ten children . [5]WILLIAM REVELEY was born May 3, 1840 and died June 12, 1851. [5]ADA JENNINGS REVELEY was born August 14, 1841 in Virginia and is believed to have never married. She was a teacher in Lynchburg high school and died November 9, 1910. [5]THOMAS REVELEY was born September 4, 1842 in Virginia and died on June 12, 1847. [5]GEORGE OVERSTREET REVELEY was born on January 18, 1848 in Virginia, never married, and died December 18, 1928. [5]JAMES BRANCH REVELEY was born on April 19, 1852. He married Mary Chritchen in April of 1900 and they had seven children -Marvin, Harry, Myrtle, Margaret, Evelyn, Catherine, and James II. He died on May 10, 1937. [5]ROBERT FRANCIS REVELEY was born January 1, 1853 in Campbell County, Virginia. His first marriage was to Sarah Virginia LeGrand in January 1878. Their eight children were -Jennings, Herbert, George, Walter, Grace, Mary, Ethel, and Robert. His wife Sarah died in 1892 and he remarried in 1907 to Lydia Foster. They had four children -Robert Jr., Anna,Olivia, and Judith. Robert was a dairyman, and then a farmer. He died April 22, 1947. [5]LESLIE HOLMES REVELEY was born September 28, 1857 in Campbell County, Virginia. He married Rosalie Blair Garland on February 20, 1884 at Invernay, Meckenlenburg County, Virginia. They lived in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he worked for the railroad. They had three children - William, Robert, and Panthea. [5]LELAND REVELEY was born October 3, 1859 and died in 1860. [5]WILLIAM MARVIAN REVELEY was born June 25, 1861 and died March 17, 1868. [5]ELIZABETH PATTESON REVELEY was born July 6, 1863 and never married. She was a teacher in, and later the principal of, Lynchburg High School. She died May 11, 1949 in Riverside, California at the home of her nephew, Robert Wayland Reveley. Robert died on January 6, 1890. -Sarah Reveley 2007 updating Ralf Reveley's book of 1987 -