[7] Hon. James Taylor, M. C. for this district and an old and intimate friend of Mr. Peyton, who served with Major Peyton in the army during the war of 1812-15 and whose friendship was continued up to the time of Mr. Peyton's death in 1847.
[8] Subsequently M. C. for this district and Governor of Virginia—Governor McDowell and Mrs. Taylor were both first cousins of Mrs. Peyton.
[9] The late Major Thomas Preston Lewis, the youngest son of Major John Lewis, of the Sweet Springs, a man of many noble traits of character, who died unmarried in Augusta county in 1877, deeply regretted.
[10] Hon. Thomas H. Benton, U. S. Senator for Missouri, and author of "Thirty Years' View; or, a history of the working of the American Government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850." Colonel Benton married Miss McDowell, a sister of Governor James McDowell, a cousin of Mrs. J. H. Peyton.
[11] Mr. Loyal was the father of Mrs. Admiral Farragut—the gallant Admiral so much distinguished during the war.
[12] This was a farm of 350 acres lying in the Sweet Spring Valley, inherited by Mrs. Peyton from her father, and in 1894 is owned by her nephew, Dr. J. Lewis Woodville.
[13] Susan Taylor married some years subsequently Hon. John B. Weller, M. C. from Ohio, and afterwards Governor of California.
[14] Note.—The late Wm. Frazier, who was present, informed us that it was the most felicitous address he ever heard from one great man to another, and he greatly regretted that a stenographer had not been present to take it down.
[15] He was an inmate of the Asylum but allowed to go at large.
[16] Thomas L. Preston, of Abingdon, and brother of Hon. Wm. C. Preston, of South Carolina.