My previous post included the
gravestones in Fair View Cemetery of three generations of the Staples family,
from Samuel Granville Staples to Abram Penn Staples (III), plus two sons of the
latter. Abram Penn Staples (III) and Jean Duncan Watts were the couple whose
marriage was described three posts ago, which his parents, Abram Penn Staples
(II) and Sallie Clement (Hunt) Staples attended. The first generation, Samuel
Granville Staples and Caroline Harris (DeJarnette) Staples, had already died
before the wedding, and the couple’s sons were not yet born. There were,
however, a number of other Staples kin who attended the ceremony and who are
also buried at Fair View Cemetery. They are listed here in the chronological
order of the dates of their deaths.
Gravestone of Caroline DeJarnette (Staples)
Daniel
Inscription:
CAROLINE deJ. STAPLES / wife of JOEL W. DANIEL / MAR. 20, 1869 / AUG. 28, 1916
Joel Daniel was in the tobacco
manufacturing business; at the time of the 1900 census, he and his wife were
living in Martinsville, Virginia. He apparently died before 1910.
Gravestone of Samuel Granville Staples Jr
Inscription: SAMUEL
G. / STAPLES / JAN. 29, 1862 / AUG. 27, 1917
Samuel Granville Staples was the son
of Samuel Granville Staples and Caroline (DeJarnette) Staples. He became a
physician, and married on 19 Nov 1902 at Biloxi, Mississippi, Douglas
Maryon, born 18 Jul 1884 at Savannah, Georgia.
Gravestone of Samuel Hunt Staples
Inscription: SAMUEL
HUNT STAPLES / MARCH 24, 1887 / NOVEMBER 4, 1918 / SECOND LIEUTENANT U. S. ARMY
/ HIS NAME IS NOW ON HONOR’S ROLL / AND HIS RECORD RESTS WITH GOD
Samuel Hunt Staples was the son of
Abram Penn Staples (II) and Sallie (Hunt) Staples. He served in the American
Expeditionary Force in Europe in World War I and died unmarried.
Gravestone of Waller Redd Staples
Inscription: WALLER
REDD STAPLES / 1871-1927
Waller Redd Staples was a son of
Samuel Granville Staples and Caroline (DeJarnette) Staples. He married Olivia
Benson Trout, whose gravestone is shown below. After spending his early
years at the family home in Patrick County, Virginia, he was educated at
Washington and Lee University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was engaged in engineering work with the U. S. government for some years, part
of which was in the Land Office in Washington, DC. While there, he studied law
at the National University and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1899. After
practicing a few years in Lynchburg, Va. and at Marysville, W. Va. he moved to
Roanoke City and formed a law partnership with A. B. Hunt in 1905. Three years
later, he was elected to the Corporation Court Judgeship, in Roanoke City, from
which office he resigned in 1914 to resume his private practice. While on the
bench, he was appointed by Gov. Mann to try the celebrated Allen murder cases in Hillsville.
It was in March 1912 that Judge Thornton Massie and other officers of the Court
at Hillsville were shot to death in the Court Room itself, by members of the
notorious Allen gang. Under the conditions that existed, the appointment to try
these cases was a high and dangerous compliment. By his conduct of the Allen
trials, Judge Staples won extensive commendation, not only in Virginia but in
the press of many other localities. From 1922 until his death, Judge Staples
was the associate trial counsel of the N. & W. Railway.
Gravestone of Mary B. (Waugh) Staples (photo from www.findagrave.com)
Inscription: MARY B.
WAUGH / WIFE OF / DANIEL D. STAPLES / APR. 22, 1853 / AUG. 23, 1938
Daniel DeJarnette Staples was a
deputy clerk of the courts in Roanoke, Virginia, at the time of his death. He
and Mary (Waugh) Staples had three children.
Gravestone of Olivia Benson Staples
Inscription: OLIVIA
B. STAPLES / 1879-1969
Olivia Benson Trout was born 25 Oct
1879 and died in Oct 1969. She married on 21 Jan 1901 at Staunton, VA, Waller
Redd Staples whose gravestone is shown above.
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In addition to those who attended
the wedding, three members of the Staples family who died too early to be
present were also buried at Fair View, as well as one who was probably not
present because he was too young.
Gravestone of Lucy Hampton Staples
Inscription: LUCY
HAMPTON / STAPLES / Daughter of / SAMUEL G. AND / C. HARRIS STAPLES / BORN AUG.
3, 1866 / DIED JUNE 16, 1887 / And they shall be mine saith / the Lord of Hosts
in that day / when I make up my jewels. [Malachi 3:17]
Lucy Hampton Staples died the
earliest of the Staples family interred at Fair View. Her death date was in
fact three years earlier than the date of the founding of the cemetery, and
earlier than the approximate date for her parents’ move from Patrick County,
Virginia, to Roanoke, Virginia.
Gravestone of Waller Redd Staples
Inscription: SACRED
/ TO THE MEMORY OF / WALLER REDD STAPLES / WHO WAS BORN AT / PATRICK COURT
HOUSE, VIRGINIA / ON THE 24TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1826 / AND DIED AT
CHRISTIANSBURG, VIRGINIA / ON THE 20TH DAY OF AUGUST 1897 / THE MEMORY OF THE
JUST IS BLESSED [Proverbs 10:7] / IT WAS THE MIND WHICH MADE THE MAN / BUT HIS
VIGOR WAS IN HIS IMMORTAL SOUL / STAPLES
Waller Redd
Staples was the son of Abram Penn Staples and Mary (Penn) Staples. He was
educated at the University of North Carolina, and at William and Mary College.
For a short time he was in the law office of Judge Taliaferro, in Rocky Mount,
after which he formed a partnership with William Ballard Preston, of
Christiansburg, who was afterwards Secretary of the Navy under President Tyler.
Waller Staples served as representative from Montgomery County in the Virginia
House of Delegates, 1853-54, and was a member of the Confederate Congress.
After the war, he was elected to the first Court of Appeals under the new
constitution, and served on the Court, 1871-1882, After retiring from this
position, he formed a partnership with Beverly B. Munford of Richmond, and
there remained until his death. In 1887, Judge Staples, Judge Edward C. Burks
and John W. Riely revised the Code of Virginia.
Gravestone of Mary Huldah (Staples) Moir
Inscription: MARY
HULDAH STAPLES / WIFE OF / E. L. MOIR / BORN / AT PATRICK D. H. VA / SEPT. 14,
1864 / DEPARTED THIS LIFE / AT ROANOKE, VA / AUG. 1, 1897 / [A seven-line
inscription, probably from the Bible or a religious poem, follows; it is
probably readable in the cemetery, but it has weathered too much to be legible
in the photo.]
Mary Huldah Staples was the daughter
of Samuel Granville Staples and Caroline (DeJarnette) Staples. Her husband,
Edwin L. Moir, was a wholesale merchant. They had five children. After Mary
Huldah’s death, Edwin remarried to Kathleen Maryon, a sister of Douglas Maryon,
the wife of Samuel Granville Staples Jr, whose grave is shown above. There are
numerous gravestones of the Moir and Maryon families in Fair View Cemetery.
Gravestone of William D. Staples
Inscription: WILLIAM
D. STAPLES / 1907-1959
William D. Staples was the son of Waller
Redd Staples and Olivia (Trout) Staples.
He returned from Europe in 24 Oct 1945 as a Major in the U. S. Army. On 17 May
1931, he returned from Cherbourg, France, and gave his address as Scarsdale,
New York. He married 23 Nov 1937 at Roanoke, Virginia, Mary Elizabeth
McDowell, but the family records have no further information about him or his
family.
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