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- Papers, 1795-1993, of the Stribling family of Fauquier County, Virginia, including Dr. Robert Mackay Stribling (1793-1862) and his son Robert Mackay Stribling (1833-1914). Biographical Information
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Dr. Robert Mackay Stribling was born on 14 February 1793. He was the son of Thomas Stribling and Elizabeth Snickers. Dr. Stribling was a physician in Fauquier County, Virginia, where he lived on his estate "Mountain View." He married Caroline Matilda Clarkson (1800-1887) on 29 January 1818. Dr. Stribling died on 24 August 1862, and is buried in the Leeds Episcopal Church cemetery in Markham, Virginia.
His son, Robert Mackay Stribling, was born on 3 December 1833. He received training as a doctor and completed medical degrees at the University of Virginia and University of Pennsylvania in 1854, and 1856, respectively, practicing medicine briefly before the outbreak of the Civil War. He married 1) Mary Cary Ambler (1835-1868) and 2) Agnes Harwood Douthat (1849-1938). In June 1861, Stribling joined the Confederate Army and was made Captain of the Markham Guard and subsequently the Fauquier Artillery. Following the war, he returned to Markham and took over the family estate, "Mountain View." He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1879 and served until 1887. Stribling died on 27 March 1914, and is buried in the Leeds Episcopal Church cemetery in Markham, Virginia.
Fauquier County, Virginia Deed Book 2 7 page 240
COOKE, Edward E. (recorded the court bill) 23 Feb 1819,
22 Sep 1823 - Confirmation of Ownership of Property whereas John E. COOKE called the orator to give a history of that property in question, Wm STAUNTON purchase of Martin PICKETT a lot in the town of Warrenton, Virginia for valuable consideration and paid him the purchase money, but did not obtain a Deed of Conveyance,
- that afterward said Wm STAUNTON (while acting as Deputy Sheriff under Samuel BLACKWELL) became indebted to the Commonwealth of Virginia in the year 1801, which said Samuel BLACKWELL paid his debt used as his collateral said lot which now contained a house conveyed over to said Samuel BLACKWELL in turn told the lot with a house in 1808 to John A. W. SMITH and in 1813 he sold the property to Thomas HENDERSON and in 1816 he sold the property to said John E. COOKE, the probable for the orator since Martin PICKETT died without issuing a title to said Wm STAUNTON, said property is not still listed to be the property of said Wm STAUNTON in the court case "John Scott and John Coakley (executors of Robert Walker vs Wm STAUNTON as described in his old Deed of Trust dated Jun 1801 for the benefit of said Robert Walker, now the purpose of this bill before the clerk,
-- it is the hope of the orator prays that the said Thomas Henderson, John A. W. Smith and Samuel Chilton and his wife Lucinda and Nancy Gillerson (late Nancy Blackwell) heirs of Samuel Blackwell deceased & Margaret Blackwell (widow of said Samuels Blackwell), Lucy Marshall, Ann Brooke, George B. Pickett, Steptoe Pickett, Ann D. Morgan and her husband Daniel Morgan, Henry Clarkson, Eliza Clarkson, Caroline STRIBLING and her husband Robert M. STRIBLING, Mary Clarkson and Mildred Clarkson, Charles Johnson Junior, Lucy Johnston, Edward Johnston and Arthur Slaughter, Henry Slaughter, Martin Slaughter, Dianna Slaughter, Augustine Slaughter and Ann Slaughter, John Scott & his wife Elizabeth (heirs of Martin Pickett deceased) and Joshua Grinage and his wife Polly (late Polly Staunton, widow of Wm Staunton Jr. deceased and Lucy Walton (late Lucy Staunton and her husband Thomas Jefferson WALTON (heirs of the late Wm Staunton Junior.) that they will agree to make a clear and proper title of conveyance to the house and lot containing 1 acres 3 roods, 19 poles to said orator,
signed by Edward E. Cooke,
received by John A.W. Smith, CC Book 27 page 240
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