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Robert E. Lee
Confederate States general (1807–1870)
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
Dolley Madison
First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817
William Clark
American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor (1770-1838)
George Mason
American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1725-1792)
Martha Jefferson
First lady of Virginia, wife of Thomas Jefferson (1748-1782)
Albert Sidney Johnston
Confederate States Army officer (1803–1862)
Stephen F. Austin
American empresario, founder of Texas, namesake of Austin, Texas (1793-1836)
George Henry Thomas
United States Army general (1816-1870)
Charles Lee
American lawyer (1758-1815)
George Rogers Clark
American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752–1818)
Augustine Washington
(1694-1743) British-American planter, slave owner, and the father of George Washington
Peyton Randolph
president of the first Continental Congress (1721-1775)
George Wythe
first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia judge
Carter Braxton
American politician (1736-1797), signer of the Declaration of Independence
Isaac Shelby
American politician (1750-1826)
William Barton Rogers
American scientist, founder of MIT (1804-1882)
Mary Ball Washington
mother of George Washington
John S. Mosby
Confederate Army officer (1833-1916)
Richard Coke
American politician (1829-1897)
Edmund Pendleton
American politician (1721-1803)
Charles Lynch
American politician (1736-1796)
Samuel Cooper
Adjutant and Inspector General of the armies of the Confederate States (1798–1876)
Charles Scott
governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812
Nathaniel Bacon
Virginia colonist, leader of Bacon's Rebellion (1647–1676)
John Penn
signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation
John Washington
English planter, soldier, politician, and the great-grandfather of George Washington
Edward Coles
2nd governor of Illinois (1786-1868)
Francis Lightfoot Lee
American politician (1734-1797)
George Wythe Randolph
Confederate Army general, grandson of Thomas Jefferson (1818–1867)
Lawrence Washington
American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia; half-brother of George Washington
Mary Anna Custis Lee
wife of Robert E. Lee (1808-1873)
William B. Taliaferro
Confederate Army general (1822-1898)
William Byrd II
American planter (1674-1744)
Richard Bland
American politician
Thomas B. Robertson
United States federal judge (1779–1828)
William H. Cabell
American politician (1772-1853)
Robert Beverley, Jr.
American historian d. 1722
James McClurg
American politician
Samuel A. Cartwright
American physician (1793–1863)
Albert G. Jenkins
American politician (1830–1864)
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
American jurist and politician (1798–1864)
George Washington Parke Custis
adopted son of George Washington (1781-1857)
Joseph Reid Anderson
American civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier (1813-1892)
Charles Bent
American politician (1799-1847)
Richard Barnes Mason
United States general (1797–1850)
John Coffee
American general (1772-1833)
John Harvie
United States Founding Father. He signed the Articles of Confederation, served as mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and cast an electoral vote for George Washington.
John Parke Custis
American politician (1754-1781)
Thomas Lee
Virginia colonist (1690-1750)
James Woodson Bates
American judge (1788-1846)
Thomas Green Clemson
American politician and statesman (1807–1888)
John Albert Broadus
American pastor and theologian (1827–1895)
William Washington
United States soldier (1752-1810)
St. George Tucker
American lawyer and judge (1752-1827)
Robert Brent
American mayor
Elijah Craig
American preacher 1738-1808
Richard Lee I
American politician
Benjamin Taliaferro
politician and American Revolutionary War prisoner (1750-1821)
Daniel Parke Custis
American planter and politician