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  • Rev. James Minor Rawlings, D.D. was born in Louisa County, Virginia, and was Chaplain of the University of Virginia for two years, being afterwards the President of the S.W.P.U. of Clarksville, Tennessee. His father, James Henry Rawlings, was a graduate of Washington and Lee University, and of William and Mary College. He is descended from James Rawlings, who was at one time the Sheriff of Spottsylvania County, Virginia. His wife, Helen Carter, was the daughter of Judge Egbert R. Watson, who was one of the most distinguished Lawyers of Albemarle County, Virginia.
  • Dr. James Henry Rawlings was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the 7th of June, 1871. His father was the Rev. James Minor Rawlings, D.D., and his mother, before her marriage, was Miss Helen Carter Watson. On both sides of his family he is descended from the early English settlers. Rawlings graduated from the University of Virginia in 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was subsequently Resident Physician in the Women's Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland, for one year. In 1900 he became Resident Physician in the New York Infant's Asylum for two years, then opened an office for the practice of his profession in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was an Assistant Physician of the Presbyterian Orphanage of Lynchburg, Virginia, and a Democrat in politics.
  • Mary Norris Rawlings (1873-1960) was the daughter of James Minor Rawlings, D.D. and Helen Carter Watson Rawlings. She was born December 14, 1873, at the home of her grandfather, Judge Egbert R. Watson, on Park Street. She attended Miss Carrie Randolph’s “Edgehill School for Girls” while her father was chaplain at the University of Virginia 1886-88. She was a civic leader and authority on Albemarle County history. An author and founding member of the Albemarle County Historical Society; in 1950, she was made honorary lifetime president of the historical society.


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