Edwin Gilliam Booth (1810-1886)

He was born in Nottoway County, Virginia. He began his law career in Fredericksburg and soon acquired the largest practice in the area. In 1848-49 he served in the Virginia Legislature, and was one of the revisors of the Virginia Code of Laws before moving his practice to Philadelphia. During the Civil War, he contributed much of his fortune for the relief of Confederate soldiers held in Northern prisons. He was the author of, In War Time: Two Years in the Confederacy and Two Years North. In 1833, he married his first wife, Sally Tanner Jones, of Nottoway County, and several years after her death and burial at “Bothwell” Dinwiddie County, Virginia, he married Henrietta Chauncey, of Philadelphia, where he went to reside. In 1879, he purchased Carter's Grove near Williamsburg, Virginia, as beacon to the "New South". He died in Philadelphia, in 1886, and was interred with Henrietta at Burlington, New Jersey. He had three children by his first wife and lost his second son in the Civil War.