Judge Grattan (Hon. Charles Grattan) is a son of Major Robert Grattan. who was born in Rockingham county on March 1, 1800, and died in 1856, and whose father was the Major Robert Grattan who commanded a troop of Horse in the whisky insurrection. The last-named Major Robert Grattan, also of Rockingham county, was a son of John Grattan of he same county, who came from the North of Ireland early in the Eighteenth century. The mother of Judge Grattan, born in Albemarle county, died in Harrisonburg, Virginia, about 1868, aged fifty-nine years, was Martha D., daughter of Peter Minor, Esq., of Albemarle county. His wife. whom he married in Augusta county on January 6; 1864, was born in this county. Elizabeth Crawford Finley. Her father was Samuel B. Finley. born in Augusta county, died in this county, about 1874, a son of Samuel Finley of the same county. Her mother was born in Grcenbrier county, (then) Virginia, and is now about seventy years of age, Sarah A., daughter of Col. Samuel McClung of Greenbrier who married Elizabeth Crawford of Augusta county. The children of Judge Grattan and wife are six daughters, Mary, Virginia, Sarah, Martha McClung, Elizabeth Christian. Minnie Watson, and they have buried one daughter, Louisa Noland.
