Peery Cousins Pictures
Page Three
All of the following are found in "Another Album of Tazewell County Virginia - Part I"
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Son of Dr. James Peery and Mary Letitia Spotts, he was born 28 Oct 1873 at Cedar Bluff. Following graduation from Emory and Henry College and Washington and Lee University, he practiced law in Tazewell and Wise. In 1920, he was a delegate to the Democra tic National Convention at San Francisco, where his son Albert was a page. He represented the Ninth District in Congress for three terms (1923 - 1928), served on the State Corporation Commission and, in 1933, was elected Govenor. Douglas Southall Freema n, in 1938, appraised his administration as one "of quiet vigor, of indisputable courage, of the soundest common sense and well-bottomed progress." He and his wife, the daughter of Albert P. Gillespie and Nancy Higginbotham, married 19 June 1907. They w ere the parents of three children: (Judge) Albert Gillespie, George Campbell, Jr., and Nancy Letitia. Courtesy of Goldine M. Higginbotham. |
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She (8 Aug 1882 - 20 May 1952), He (17 June 1882 - 3 Nov 1966) Courtesy of C.H. Peery, III |
Photographed 13 Jan 1896 on Mrs. Peery's fiftieth birthday in Odgen, Utah. David was brother of Charles Henry Peery. Courtesy of Letitia Duvall |
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Seated: Martha St. Clair Fudge, wife of Harvey George, Sam Walton, James Sidney, Harvey George Peery. Standing: Garland, Charles Fudge, Bess. Courtesy of Hazel Peery Cauthen. |
At their home in 1896. Front: Maggie, Katie, Charles Henry. Second: Harold, Lena Deborah, John David. Third: Charles Henry Peery, Letitia Ward, Eleanor Phoebe Beavers Peery. Courtesy of Letitia Duvall |
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