For persons lacking access to the hard-to-find Marsh volumes, this compiler included, descendency listings by others citing her work have been crucial. Especially valuable has been the work of June Bowman, posted online through the webpages of a group of her family members under the heading "Dellinger, Mallory & Others" at Ancestry.com. Mrs. Bowman and her nephew Marvin Dellinger constitute the persons to contact for anyone wishing to pursue this line further.

      Drawing from "Dellinger, Mallory & Others," with reference to Marsh's book on the Riddles, the fundamental source of information concerning Anthony Minter and his family is his will, which was "presented in court 14 Nov 1751 by Elizabeth Minter." [Marsh, 1981, B2, p.259].  Except for daughter Nancy Elizabeth, the dates of birth for Anthony and his children, where known, are also from the will [June Bowman, email, Jan-29-2007].  Presumably this is also the source of the name Elizabeth as his wife. Anthony's date of birth is said to have been "about 1685." The Dellinger-Mallory listings also say that Anthony is thought to have moved to Caroline County "about 1730." If true, this casts doubt on Caroline County as the birthplace of his children, as has been stated in a number of places.

      Listings posted by Minter researchers have identified as many as eight children of Anthony and Elizabeth. Presumably, most of their names appeared in their father's will, and perhaps in other records as well. Eight are included here, but substantiation is incomplete, and most of what is known apparently derives from the research by Marsh.

      The single greatest deficiency in the available information on the family, at least as is known to this researcher, is that his wife we know only as Elizabeth. Not even her maiden name is known, much less anything of her origins.

      This family network is connected through "The Minters of Pine Forest Family Association" and its extraordinary newsletter, "News of the Minters of Pine Forest," and through a family website which includes photographs, family news and history, anecdotes, remembrances, and the like, as well as an outline of a book in progress on the history of the family. The prime mover behind all this is a descendant of one of two brothers, Thomas J. Minter [9], of Ohio. A good place to start to learn more about this line is   www.pineforestminters.homestead.com.

      A son of Scruggs and Catherine was Willis Scruggs Minter [4], born 1819-20. The 1850 census listed him as age 30, a cooper by occupation, "Willis S." Minter by name. Later censuses gave his occupation as farmer. Willis married twice and had two families of considerable size. His first wife, Lucy Ann Anderson, born 1818-19, bore six children. After her death about 1874, Willis married Mariah Louisa Baltimore, of Fluvanna County, who was born in 1852, and was thus considerably younger than her husband.  There were seven children born of this marriage. The second oldest of them was Katie B. Minter [5], born in 1879, who was the grandmother of Jim Taylor of Virginia, the person to contact for further discussion and exchange of information on this line.  Jim is nearing completion of a book on his family and its ancestry (as of January, 2007).

      Anthony's only other living son, John, of Henry County, was bequeathed "...my Bay horse Saddle and bridle," and of him there is no further mention.  Anthony appointed as executors of his will "... my son Jeremiah Minter my two sons in law William Leake and Tarleton Layne and my grandson Gabriel Minter...."   Thus, John was not named as an executor while Jeremiah was, despite the matter of his "insanity," as well as the question of whether he would appear to claim his legacy.

      According to Storm, another son of Anthony and Elizabeth, named Gabriel, married Nancy Thrailkill, and they had a son, Gabriel, Jr., who married Nancy Cosby and was the grandson Gabriel named as one of the executors of Anthony's will. A son of Gabriel, Jr. was the great-grandson, Josiah Minter, mentioned in Anthony's will. The first Gabriel was not identified in the will, presumably because he was deceased.

      Again from the Dellinger-Mallory group [Marsh], during the Revolution, Anthony "furnished beef, wheat, & flour to troops," and in 1788 he "signed an oath" in Powhatan County indicating his support of the Constitution of the United States (i.e., voted to ratify).

      The major question remaining in regard to Anthony Minter, Jr. pertains to his wife, Elizabeth Jane, whose maiden surname is unknown. It can only be hoped that any reader knowing anything about her will get in touch and help us out. Perhaps further research in Caroline County, if not already exhausted, might tell us something about her, but it is possible that any historical record of her is among the lost documents of the time.

      Some of the descendants of William and Sally, through their son Richard, are actively involved in research on the family. A newsletter entitled "Minter News - the Minter Family Newsletter" (issue 5 dated November 2006), is published by Clifton F. Minter, Jr. [9]  (contacts).  He also is collecting issues, or pages, from the Minter-Mintor Genealogical Bulletin of the 1950s and 1960s, planning to preserve this valuable resource for the benefit of future researchers, and hopes to hear from anyone having additional pages to offer.

      New information concerning Susannah has become available through the courtesy of a descendant, Mr. Kim Allen Morton, of Missouri, a person to contact regarding Susannah and John, as well as his line, as described elsewhere (Note 4D).  Kim provided reference to a case in chancery, 1810, in which reference was made to the will of John Williams, dated 1772  [Library of Virginia Digital Collections, Chancery Index No. 1810-004, at  www.lva.lib.va.us/index.htm" (text not available online)].  The will stated, according to Kim, "I give to my daughter Susanna.... when she reaches 21 or marries...." Thus it is established that he had a daughter by that name, and that she had not yet married by 1772. (This casts doubt on the date usually given for the birth of her first child, Elizabeth, "Betsy," that same year of 1772.)

      The editor (or contributor), clearly not quoting the letter directly in this instance, added an interesting statement which casts some doubt on the presumption that the land settled by John and Susannah remained continuously in the family until 1995 (as was presumed in Minters of Henry County):   "Capt. A. S. Minter's grandfather, John, was a poor business man and lost all his property."   (Note the editor's assumption here that it was John, not some "Ambrose," who was the grandfather of A. S. Minter.)

      Betsy Minter married Luther Obediah Dupuy, who was born about 1775, almost surely a member of some branch of the extensive Dupuy family descended from Huguenot immigrant Bartholomew Dupuy, outlined in Brock's survey of the Huguenot settlement at Manakin-Town.   This was the second marriage of a Minter woman to a Dupuy. As per Note 3B, Betsy's aunt of the same name, John Minter's sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" Minter [3], married the Reverend John Dupuy and moved to Kentucky.  It must be noted, however, that Brock's genealogy of the Dupuys lists children of John and Elizabeth (Minter) Dupuy and the name Luther Obediah is not among them.

      Jane Duffy, a descendant of Obediah, is the person to contact regarding this line, and, as in the case of many other such contacts, other facets of the larger Minter tree as well.  According to her and others, Obediah married Frances "Fannie" Walker Covington and they had seven children (known). From them has followed a substantial descendancy, of which Storm provides a good overview.

      Ironically, the Minter surname traces to Obediah's mother's side of the family and not the male side; he was, in terms of male bloodlines, a Dupuy, not a Minter. Thus, if his surname had not been legally changed by his grandparents, the name Dupuy would replace Minter throughout his descendancy.

      One of the children of Odediah and Fannie was Daniel Leftwich Minter [6], born in 1834 (age 16 in the 1850 census), who died in 1862 of wounds sustained at the battle of Cedar Run, according to a note found in the family Bible of his granddaughter (who was also Jane Duffy's grandmother) [Duffy, email of Oct-15-2006].  Some listings show Daniel's middle name as Leftridge, rather than Leftwich.  Daniel married Hester Ann Jefferson, and in 1857 they had a son, John James Minter [7], who would marry Maralda Jane Davis in the mid-1870s.  A daughter of this couple, Nannie Jane Minter [8], married Hamilton Roundtree Adkins around the turn of the century and they had four children, of whom one was John Nathaniel Adkins, Jane Duffy's father.  A photograph of the family, taken about 1910, according to Jane, who made it available to us, shows her father John Nathaniel and his sister, Faturia Mae, as children, their brother Cecil not having been born yet.

      Another child of Obediah (Dupuy) and Fannie (Covington) Minter was James Fontaine Minter [6], born in 1829, who married America Delaware Jefferson, of Pittsylvania County, born in 1834.  Their son Isaiah Thompson Minter [7], born in 1854, married, first, Alice Wingfield, and after her death, Josephine Umberger, about the mid-1890s. Isaiah was listed in the census of 1920 as age 65, a grocer with his own business in Roanoke. He and Josephine had three children, the youngest of whom was a daughter born in 1901/02, named Josephine Katherine Minter [8].  In 1925, Josephine married James Lindsay Almond, Jr., who served as Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-57, as Governor of Virginia, 1958-62, and later as Judge of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, until his death in 1986.

      When efforts to find any original source other than the marriage record proved unsuccessful, DNA analysis emerged as a possible means of determining whether Hezekiah was a Minter. In the Fall of 2006, Carl McArn and a Minter male, a known direct descendant of John Minter of Henry County, compared DNA results and found no kinship pattern. Thus, Hezekiah is now assumed to have been a Miner, not a Minter. (Unfortunately, I am unable to provide more specific information concerning the DNA analysis.) Carl McArn is the person to contact regarding the Miners, and perhaps for additional information regarding the DNA analysis.

Leftwich, Leftridge, and Leftrich:  variations on the same name?
      The names Leftwich and Leftridge have appeared frequently in the family lines from both siblings Elizabeth (Betsy) and Othniel Minter, in every case as a middle name. The first known use of any of the variants was the son of Othniel, William Leftwich, born in 1819. Another was Leftwich Watson, son of Othniel's sister Tabitha, in 1823. Daniel L., son of Obediah (Dupuy) Minter, born in 1834, has been listed both ways. Over the years, Leftridge seems to have been used more often than Leftwich, especially in the lines descending from Merit and Tabitha (Minter) Harville and Johnson and Susan (Clark) Minter.

      The origin of the name - or names - is unknown. A possible clue, however, can be seen in the census records for the area in the early 1800s. They show a number of persons of the surname Leftwich, probably all of a family, in Bedford County, which is near, but not contiguous to, Henry County, but show no one with the surname Leftridge. In the 1850 census there were some 209 Leftwiches in Bedford, and still no Leftridges.  Also, Butler's records of men serving with the Virginia militia in the War of 1812 include several Leftwiches in the 10th and 91st Regiments of Bedford County.

      The name Leftwich may have been used by Othniel and Joyce Minter to honor someone of that surname, whether or not related to either of them, and others in the family, or possibly census-takers or courthouse clerks, might have written what they thought they heard, resulting in Leftridge. But that, of course, is just a guess. As for the name Leftrich, which was used by the wife of James Leffie Minter in reference to her husband's grandfather and great-grandfather (4A), there is the added possibility that she was simply misspelling "Leftridge."

      Aside from the census and Ken Storm's listing, most of what we know about Anthony and Jane and their lines comes from a descendant, Becky Whittemore [10] of Utah, who is the person to contact regarding further information on this branch of the Minters.

Photograph of Silas Anthony Minter, courtesy of Mike, Leann, & Laura Flanagan. Their website includes family history and genealogy and more:  www.FlanaganFamily.net.

      In 1871, at age 22, Silas married Susan Covington, a native of England. She died the following year, as did their infant son. In 1874, Silas married again, this time Sarah A. McGregor, a native of Scotland who had come to Utah with her parents in 1864. Silas and Sarah had six children, of whom one was Sarah Estelle Minter [7], who, in 1901, married Nathan Masden Slater, formerly of Fall River, Massachusetts. They were the great-grandparents of Becky Whittemore. [Wedding day photograph]

      Nancy and Silas had eleven children, all of whom married. She died before 1845, and Silas married again, on Apr-24-1845, Betsey Philpott. From the 1850 census, where she was listed as "Elizabeth," age 52, her date of birth is taken to be about 1798. The 1860 census showed the wife of Silas to be "Betsy," age 68, so it is unclear whether this was the same person as Elizabeth of 1850. "Betsy" could be the familiar form of Elizabeth, but the ages miss by about six years. Some researchers have given the name Betsy Walker, suggesting the possibility that Silas married a third time.

      Silas was a preacher of the primitive Baptist faith, and performed numerous marriages recorded in Dodd's transcription, the earliest being in 1831.  In the Minter Genealogical Bulletin (p.164), the description of the letter written by Capt. A. S. Minter in 1898, discussed above, offers an interesting perspective on the Rev. Silas Minter. It should be kept in mind that it is difficult to determine when or whether it is A. S. Minter or the editor of the Bulletin who is rendering the commentary, and if it was the perspective of the Captain then it was what a young nephew recalled many years later. The Rev. Minter was described as "a hardshell Baptist preacher of decided ability and violent prejudices."   Judith P. A. Hill provided this account: "It is related of him that he preached so long to a Baltimore audience that they began to leave; whereupon he said: 'I perceive you all can't stand strong doctrine.'" [Hill, p.270]  Captain Minter (or the editor of the Bulletin) added that Silas "... had a son who became a Christian preacher to whom he never spoke again."

      Of the six sons of Silas and Nancy Minter, at least two became ministers, and both of them moved far from Virginia. As will be seen, the first census to record John's occupation as a minister was that of 1880, and Silas died in 1872, so it is not clear that they were ever in the ministry at the same time.  Barbara Brazington (contact) is of the opinion that it was more likely John's older brother Richard, who left Virginia between 1842 and 1847, and that the reason they never again spoke to each other was simply a matter of the distance between them.

      A portrait of Silas Minter is said to have hung on the wall of the Leatherwood Baptist Church for many years, along with those of other pastors, and a photograph of the portrait was provided by two different contributors, Seth Compton and Bob White, each of whose Minter lines tie into these notes at a later point (generations 5 and 6). A third offer to provide the same photograph was received from the person, Desmond Kendrick, the Henry County archivist, who is the originator of the image. (The boxed inscription below the portrait is Mr. Kendrick's work.)

      We are left wondering where this portrait is now. Is it back on the wall of the church following its renovations? If not, is it, along with portraits of any other Leatherwood Baptist preachers, in safekeeping? Does anyone know?

      One of the nine children shown in the 1850 census was not listed in that of 1860, Betty, born in 1845, who likely had died by 1860. A tenth child was born in 1850/1851 in Virginia. Many of the names of the children of this family were clearly in the Minter naming tradition, including Silas, Nancy, John, Cintha (or Cinthia), Martha, William, and James.

Note on surname spelling:   Both Ziegler and Ziglar are found in the sources we have seen on this family. It appears, although we have no proof of this, that immigrants to North Carolina, said by one source to have come from Germany, spelled the name Ziegler, and that some (perhaps most or even all) branches changed the spelling to Ziglar. The latter, Ziglar, will be used here.

      All sources known to this compiler agree that a son of Joe and Matilda Minter was Joseph Warren Minter, born in 1867, sometimes with the suffix "Jr." attached to the name. This "Joe, Jr.," regardless of the middle name or veteran status of his father, married Lucy D. Franklin and, according to Storm, they had ten children, one of whom was Thomas Joseph ("Tommy Joe"), born circa 1890s, who married Myrtle Dora Bray. A granddaughter of Tommy Joe and Myrtle is Julia Minter Kendrick, a current resident of Henry County and a person to contact for exchange of information concerning this line. Another is her brother-in-law Desmond Kendrick, who is well known among history and family researchers with roots in Henry County, as the archivist of the county library, and a very knowledgeable source on the county and many of its families.

      Whether the son of Silas and Nancy Minter was named Joseph Warren or Joseph Jackson may not be of great importance in itself, but the answer does imply whether the civil war veteran in the photograph was in this line of the family.  Ken Storm's listing notes that Joseph Warren Minter served with the 57th Virginia Infantry Regiment. It is apparent that some research on civil war regiments might help resolve the issue.

      A search of the censuses of 1850 through 1880 yielded the following results.  In 1850, a Joseph Minter, 23, a son of Obediah and Fanny Minter (Note 4A), was said, in the indelicate manner of the times, to be an "idiot," and thus seems an unlikely candidate for the Joseph in question.  Also in 1850, a Joseph Minter, 25, occupation overseer, was found residing in the household of George Napier, 35, a tobacconist in Henry County.  The 1870 census showed Joseph and Matilda Minter residing in Martinsville with eight children, ages one through 15. By 1880, Joseph apparently had died, as Matilda Minter was listed as age 50, the mother of the head of the household, James Minter, 26, farmer. Also present were James' wife Sarah, 28, and their daughter Mary, 2, as well as three brothers and three sisters of James, ages five through 19.  Storm gives a date of death for Joseph as March, 1874.  As the family was still in Martinsville, it seems likely that the only census-related change that had occurred was that James' wife and child had been added and that he had taken on the designation of head of the family.

      Another possible source of useful information regarding Joseph, possibly including his middle name, would be any obituary that might have appeared upon the death, said to have occurred in 1952, of his son, Joseph Warren Minter.

      The person to contact for additional information on descendants of Richard and Mary Ann is Barbara Brazington, a great-great-granddaughter, descendant of a line tracing geographically from Missouri to Ontario (Canada), back to Missouri, then to Idaho. She is also very knowledgeable concerning other family lines tracing back to Silas F. and Nancy (Stultz) Minter. She contributed the line of her own descendancy, with a full listing of generation 6, the children of Richard and Mary Ann Minter:

    [5] Richard W. Minter, 1822-1866, b. Henry Co., VA; d. Kent, Ontario, Canada 
          mar. Mary Ann Doyle, 1820-1873, b. Henry Co., d. after 1873 
        [6] John Thomas Minter, b. app. Nov-15-1841 in b. in VA, d. Mar-16-1884, probably in 
             Lewis Co., MO [per location in 1880 census]. He was listed as "Thomas" in the 1860
             census and as "John T." in the 1880 census.
             mar. Olivia Jones in 1861, in Knox Co., MO.  They had at least seven children, per
             listing in the 1880 census (ages 17 through one).       
        [6] William L. Minter, b. 1842 in VA, residing in Canada in 1872
        [6] Martha Jane Minter, b. Feb-08-1847 in Brown Co., IL; d. Jun-06-1926 in Kamiah, 
             Lewis Co., ID.
             mar. William Lee in 1880 in Macon Co., MO 
        [6] Richard Joseph Minter, b. Sep-22-1849 in Brown Co., IL; d. Apr-21-1916 in 
             Kirksville, Adair Co., MO
             mar. Dosha Bradshaw in Newark, Knox Co., MO; two children
        [6] Mary Louisa Minter, b. Dec-03-1851 in Brown Co., IL, d. Apr-13-1817 in Nez Perce Co., ID
             mar. John Stuart, b. Mar-16-1841 in Kent, Ontario, Canada, d. Jan-11-1926 in 
             Orofino, Clearwater, ID
            [7] Elmer Otis Stuart, b. Jul-13-1894 in Pomeroy, Garfield, WA; d. May-01-1968 in
                 Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                 mar. Ellenora Smith, b. Nov-18-1896 in Linden, Nez Perce, ID; d. Feb-03-1965 in
                 Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                [8] Leonard Hezekiah Stuart, b. May-06-1923-1995 in Juliaetta, Nez Perce Co., ID 
                     d. Jul-19-1995 in Lewiston, Nez Perce, ID
                     mar. Margaret Eileen Aamoth, b. Dec-29-1920 in Minot, Ward Co, ND,
                     d. Sep-15-1961 in Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                    [9] Barbara Carol Stuart, b. Jan-28-1948 in Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                     mar. (unk) Brazington

      Another line descending from Jim and Matilda Caroline Minter is that of Linda Compton Hodges, of Arkansas, a person to contact for information exchange on this branch of the family. The following listing is from information provided by Linda C. Hodges, and from the extensive Minter listings of Ken Storm and Walter Madison Minter.

    [5] James E. Minter (Jim)  b. Apr-01-1831 in Henry Co., VA; d. Aug-30-1862 at 
        Second Manassas, Civil War
        mar. (May-24-1848) Matilda Caroline Eggleston  b. 1829, d. unk
       [6] Silas Othniel Minter (spelling of middle name varies) b. abt 1852
           mar. (Jan-29-1874) Theresa Eggleston (Reecy)  b. abt 1852, d. unk
          [7] Sallie Mae Minter  b. Feb-1880, d. 1964
              mar. James Logan Compton  b. 1873, d. 1924
             [8] James Sanford Compton  b. Feb-12-1907, d. Mar-23-1957
                 mar. Mary Elizabeth Smith  (dates unknown)
                [9] Linda Compton
                    mar. (unknown) Hodges     

      The 1860 census found John and Eliza in Dale County, Alabama, where he was said to be a merchant, and there were no children.  Soon thereafter, when the war broke out, he served as an officer with the 54th Alabama Infantry, and by the end of the war had attained the rank of colonel. Early in the war, his company was captured at Island No. 10 near Memphis (dates unclear), held for a time in Illinois before being returned in a prisoner swap in 1862. He is also listed as a member of the 37th Infantry, since the 54th, 42nd, and 37th were consolidated as of April 9, 1865 [See www.civilwarhome.com/54alainf.htm   and www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/54alainf.html.

      The census of 1870 showed John and Eliza farming in Lewis County, Missouri, still with no children. In the 1880 census, in the town of Canton in Lewis County, was listed John A. Minter, 45, minister, with Eliza A., 39, and one child, daughter Julia A, 7.   From the 1898 letter of Capt. A. S. Minter, described in the Bulletin as previously noted: "A son of Silas, Col. J. A. Minter lived in Ozark, Alabama, became a Colonel in the Confederate Army....  He later became a famous Missionary Baptist preacher."  

      There is likely a good deal more to be learned about the Rev. Col. J. A. Minter.  (Photo courtesy of Seth Compton)

      By 1880 the Ziglars had relocated to Lewis County, Missouri. The census of that year showed James, 45, and Susan, 44, with four children, ages 16 through 21. A fifth child, the oldest, named Nancy, had left home by then, and nothing further is known about her. The second oldest child was Martha E. Ziglar, born in Missouri, who was said to be 21 in the 1880 census, thus was born in 1858 or 1859. Martha married a John Morton and they relocated to Idaho about 1889, according to Alice Morton, a granddaughter of John and Martha (Ziglar) Morton, and a person to contact for additional discussion of this line.

   [6] John Francis Adkins, 1848-1938
        mar. Eliza Jane Minter, 1849-1914 
       [7] William Henry Adkins, 1869-1946
            mar. Lillie Bell Nunn, 1872-1946
           [8] Herman Adkins, 1869-1964 
                 mar. California Gold Light, 1895-1963
               [9] David Kent (name changed from Herman Adkins, Jr.), 1923-1992
                    mar. (living Jordan)
                   [10] Joey Kent, b. 1960

  

      A grandson of Homer and "Sis" is Bob White of New Mexico, whose contributions to the present effort have included a number of photographs and a great deal of valuable information regarding "early Minters" of the Jamestown era, who may have been predecessors of Anthony of Caroline. Bob is the person to contact regarding the descendancy from George "Foxhunter" Minter, as well as the early Minters (a topic not yet addressed here).

      Mark E. Webster, of North Carolina, a descendant of the Winns through Martha Jane's brother William Henry Winn (b. 1855), has done some research on the Winns and is a person to contact for more on this line. According to Mark, William Henry Winn married Parmelia Ellen Gravely, and the two are buried at Gilliam Church, Alamance County, North Carolina. Their daughter, Ruby Louise Winn, married Faggart Daniel ("F.D.") Murr, and Mark is their grandson. Mark's primary sources on the family were his grandmother and her old family bible containing notations regarding the family's ancestry. Mark was told by "Nannie Murr" that the Winns "were well off even after the civil war..." and that "... they had slaves, and paid help." [email, Apr-29-2006]. He also noted that "the old Winn homeplace is still standing..." in the Horse Pasture section of Henry County, though not still in family ownership.

      Mark's genealogical findings extend the Winn line back at least three and possibly four more generations, as shown below. To remain in sync with the generational numbering scheme in use here, it is necessary to begin the line with [-2], followed by [-1], etc., preceding the Generation [1] contemporary of Anthony Minter of Caroline County. At [3] is a question mark indicating what appears likely to be a missing link. From Sophia Martin's line described above, it would seem likely that Robert (born about 1770) would fit into this slot. But this is, of course, conjectural. The Winn line seems well-suited to another round of research and documentation.

   [-2] Sir Owen Winn, b. 1601
       [-1] Capt. John Winn     b. 1627 
           [0] Minor Winn, b. 1668  
                mar. Ann Byrd 
               [1] Minor Winn II (or "Jr."), b. 1701 
                   [2] John Winn, b. 1732
                       [3] ? (Robert, born about 1770, per S. Martin)
                           [4] James Winn, b. 1795
                               [5] Henry Jordan Winn, b. 1827
                                    mar. Matilda Catherine Clark 
                                   [6] Martha Jane Winn, b.1853
                                        mar. Michael Eggleston Minter 
                                   [6] William Henry Winn, b. 1855
                                        mar. Parmelia Ellen Gravely 

      Their daughter Marilyn Lea and her husband William Prillaman reside nearby, and the Prillamans have two sons and four grandchildren.  (The Staffords and the Prillamans at the Stafford Family reunion in 2006)

Photographs courtesy of Ralph E. Minter:
    George Minter at Work       According to the caption, this newsprint picture was taken by an employee in the Master Mechanic's office of the Norfolk & Western, but it is undocumented. Neither the name of the newspaper nor the date is available (to us), although it appears to have been in Portsmouth, Ohio, probably in the late-1930s or 1940s.

    Three cousins in their teens, 1929       In the middle is Helen Minter, daughter of George and Cora, who was born in 1914 and, having moved to Ohio within the past year or two, appears to have been hosting her cousins from Virginia: Mildred Slaydon (left), daughter of Ed and Kate (Minter) Slaydon, of Martinsville, and Elaine Minter (right), daughter of Caney and Eunice (Trout) Minter, of Roanoke. All three girls are 14-15 years of age. Their names are inscribed in the lower left portion of the picture. The name Slaydon is misspelled Slayton.

    Ralph Minter with Grandson Logan Minter in the Mid-1980s