Lt. William J. Baytop
Edwin Broaddus
Capt. John B. Browne
Joseph Bryan
John R. Cary
Samuel B. Chapman
Judge John Bacon Clopton
Dr. Thomas C. Clopton
John S. Cooke
James Dabney
Arthur Landon Davies
William K. Davis
Major P.H. Fitzhugh
Maryus Jones
Major T. Catesby Jones
Judge Warner Jones
Capt. William ap W. Jones
Col. William Jones
William ap Catesby Jones
Judge Wyndham Kemp
Lt. R.D. Miller
Charles Wortley Montague
Thomas Ball Montague
Col. George Wythe Munford
Col. Powhatan P. Page
Commodore T. Jefferson Page
Major John W. Puller
Dr. Walter Reed
Warner P. Roane
Augustine W. Robins
Capt. Thomas A. Robins
Thomas C. Robins
Benjamin Rowe
Rev. A.F. Scott
Hon. John Tyler Seawell
M. Boswell Seawell
Hon. James M. Seawell
John Sinclair
Major. J.N. Stubbs
Jefferson W. Stubbs
W.C. Stubbs
William R. Stubbs
John Newstead Tabb
 Lt. Phillip Tabb
Warner Taliaferro
Gen. William B. Taliaferro
Lt. Col. Fielding Lewis Taylor
Miss Cornelia Thornton
Thomas C. Walker
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Dr. Walter Reed, M.D., M.A., L.L.D

Dr. Walter Reed (1851-1902)
Conqueror of the Yellow Fever

Walter Reed was born on September 13, 1851, in a small country home at Belroi, Gloucester County, Virginia. He was the last of five children of the Reverend Lemuel Sutton Reed and his wife Pharaba White. His father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who moved every two years to a different circuit of the church.

It was during a two year service (1851-1852) that Walter was born. He studied medicine at the University of Virginia. On July 1, 1869 Walter and nine other students received their M.D. degrees. He stood third in his class and was the youngest graduate of the Medical Department. Two years after receiving his diploma from Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York University Medical Center), Reed sought an appointment in the Medical Corps of the United States Army and in 1875 he was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon, with the rank of first lieutenant.  In this same year he married Miss Emilie Lawrence, of Murfreesboro, North Carolina. He had two children Walter Lawrence Reed born at Fort Apache (1877) and Emilie Lawrence Reed born at Fort Omaha (1883). Stricken with appendicitis, he died of acute peritonitis on November 23, 1902. On the granite shaft over his grave is a bronze tablet with the legend: "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever." Even more suitable than bronze as a memorial is the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C., established by the United States Army in 1906.

Walter Reed's Birthplace

Located at the intersection of routes 616 and 614 is a small mid 19th century building authentically furnished. It is significant because it represents the early small rural dwellings once so common to Tidewater Virginia. One-story, three-bay, frame gable-roofed dwelling covered with white weather boarding and set on short brick piers.

 Now owned and maintained by A.P.V.A.