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married C. F. Perry. Their children are Alden and Byron.
Sarah, youngest daughter of Nelson, married Eugene Vaughn,
and has two children, Sadie and Nelson. John T., second son
of Robert, studied medicine under Dr. Coffin at Jamestown. He
practiced in South Carolina, where he married a Miss Campbell
and then moved to Alabama. Both are dead. They left several
children, whose names we are unable to give.

Robert Franklin, third son of Robert, married a Miss Denny.
Their sons are Charles H., Joseph, James and Robert, and there
are three daughters. Robert Franklin was the well-known Judge
Armfield, of Statesville, who was one of the State's most gifted
sons. He served as Colonel in the Confederate Army, as Con-
gressman for two terms, as Lieutenant-Governor of the State, and
as Judge of the Superior Court. But he was perhaps greatest as
a criminal lawyer. He defended many men in the most noted
murder cases in the State, and was successful without exception.

His oldest son, Charles H., is bearing his name and wearing
his father's mantle worthily. Another son, Joseph, was the bril-
liant and admited young Colonel of the First North Carolina
Regiment, which served in Cuba during the War with Spain.
Alexander, fourth son of Robert, married in Georgia.

Robert, second son of William the first, was a soldier in the
American Army and died during the Revolution. Nathan, third
son of William the first, married Polly Dempsey. They lived near
Pleasant Garden Church. Nathan represented Guilford in the
State Senate for years. He went South, returned with yellow
fever, but recovered. He died in 1839. One of his sons severely
cut his foot with an axe and died at the age of sixteen. The other,
John, went to Tennessee and became a slave-trader, being a mem-
ber of the firm of Armfield & Franklin. He amassed a large for-
tune. He had an elegant summer home at Beersheba Springs, in
the Cumberland Mountains, and winter homes in Alexandria, Va.
and in New Orleans, where he and his wife lived and entertained
in princely style. He was one of the original founders and

John Armfield