Person:Ralls Calvert (1)

Information on Ralls Calvert

From "Maryland Historical Magazine", Volume 16, by Maryland Historical Society, pg. 198:

18. Ralls Calvert 10 (George,9 George,8 John,7 George.6 William,5 Leonard,4 George,8 Leonard,2 John1), h. Oct. 9, 1767, Culpeper County, Va.; d. June 29, 1815, in Culpeper County, where he lived all his life. His home was Washington, where he was Postmaster, and there he died. He m., Nov. 15, 1790, Mary Wade Strother, daughter of Captain John and Anne (Strother) Strother, granddaughter of John and Mary Willis (Wade) Strother of "Wadefield," and great-granddaughter of Francis and Susannah (Dabney) Strother of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County (whose daughter, Mary, widow of Robert Deatherage, it will be remembered, was the second wife of George Calvert of "Deep Hole Farm."

ISSUE:

i. Jeremiah Strother, b. Sept. 10, 1791; d. April 18, 1867; m. April 8, 1816, Priscilla Smither (1796-1888).

ii. Anne Strother, b. Aug. 15, 1793; d. Nov. 1, 1861; m. (1) 1811, Issachar Smith (1784-1819) ; m. (2) 1823, Henry Spiller (1791-1842).

iii. George, b. Oct. 20, 1795, of whom later.

iv. Lydia Beck.

v. Martha.

vi. Patsey.

vii. John Strother, Major Tenth Virginia Regiment, C. S. A.; father of the late Judge George Ralls Calvert of New Market, Va., who left many notes of the Calvert Family.

viii. Edward, m. Mary Frances Jenkins.

ix. Ralls.

x. Mary.

xi. Katharine Kennerly, m. Hollingsworth.

xii. Lucy, d. 1848; m. 1844, James Leake Powers (1799-1889), whose first wife was her cousin, Martha Anne Nicklin (q. v.), daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Calvert) Nicklin.