DOCKET "WILLIAM CARRINGTON," ---- Dr. William Carrington was probably named for his uncle who had just passed away in 1829. He was educated at the Univ. of Virginia but chose to practice in New York until the outbreak of war when he offered his services to Virginia & the Confederacy. He was appointed surgeon & Inspector of Hospitals to the 5th Virginia Volunteers on 5/16/1861. In July he was transferred to the 7th Virginia Inf. of the Confederate forces. On Oct 1, 1862 he became Inspector of Hospitals under Gen. Gustavus Smith. By March 1863 he was Inspector of all Richmond hospitals and in Sept. 1864 he was appointed Medical Director of all of Virginia's hospitals. The war completely wore him out and broken in health he returned to "Ridgeway" where he died a few days after his father on the 17 of July. He was married to his first cousin, Mildred Coles Carrington, daughter of Isaac Coles and Sarah Read Carrington of "Sylvan Hill" on 10/21/1863 and had the following children: William A. Carrington (died as an infant), Edgar Wirt Carrington.---------------------------------------------------------- 

Charles Scott Carrington was born at "Mildendo" and died there 71 years later. He was educated at Hampden-Sydney College where he graduated in 1839, studied under the Hon. Thomas Stanhope Flournoy and became a practicing lawyer in Halifax County and Richmond. As such, he was elected the President of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company in March 1867 to which position he devoted much of his time and fortune for the next 10 years. During the southern states war for independence he was appointed a Major with the responsibility to secure loans from the citizens on behalf of the county so that the county might equip and clothe its soldiers. He and his wife, Susan McDowell, whom he married in 12/8/1852, had 5 children only one of which, Sarah, bore children. Charles tribulations regarding the failure of the canal company, the purchase of his siblings shares of "Mildendo" and war loans left him with enormous debts towards the end of his life. He resigned as president of the canal company in 1876 and returned to "Mildendo" where his brother, Dr. William Fontaine Carrington, was managing the property. Dr. Carrington left in 1882 with his second wife to start anew in Hot Springs, AK while Charles stayed on struggling to save their ancestral home. On Christmas Day 1891, mired in debt and legal wrangling, Charles died intestate and was buried in an unmarked grave next to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth and her sister, Sarah Venable, in the "Mildendo" Coles/Carrington Cemetery.

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