Dr. Stanley Hope Graves1

Male, #7995, (20 May 1872 - )

Father*Thomas Edward Graves (9 Jan 1834 - 1905)
Mother*Louisa Brockman (30 Nov 1837 - )
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Birth*20 May 1872 Stanley was born at Orange Co., Virginia, on 20 May 1872. 
 He was the son of Thomas Edward Graves and Louisa Brockman. 
Marriage*1904 He married Etta Vernon Culpepper at Portsmouth (city), Virginia, in 1904. 
Biography* From Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V
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Captain Thomas Graves, American progenitor of the family of which Dr. Stanley Hope Graves, of Norfolk, is a member in the ninth American generation, was born in England and came to Virginia in the ship "Mary and Margaret" in 1607. He was the representative of Smyth's Hundred in the first legislature that convened at Jamestown, Virginia, July 30, 1619, and in 1624 was a resident of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. In 1631 Captain Thomas Graves was a justice in Accomac county, and four years later his name appears as a vestryman of the parish, while in 1630-32 he was one of the commissioners appointed for the building of a fort at Point Comfort. His wife, Catherine (Croshor) Graves, he probably married before his immigration to Virginia.
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The line continues through his son, John Graves, born at Smyth's Hundred, Virginia, who married a Miss Perrin and settled in Elizabeth City county, where on May 15, 1638, he was granted two hundred acres, and on May 20, 1639, one hundred and fifty acres. His son, Ralph, married Rachel, daughter of Major Joseph Croshor, and had a son, Richard Graves, born about 1665. This Richard Graves had a son, John, born December 10, 1712, married, November 22, 1732, Susan Dicken, born June 14, 1714. After his death she married again, her second husband being Richard Childs.
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Isaac Graves, of the sixth American generation of his family, son of John and Susan (Dicken) Graves, was born September 2, 1741. He married (first) a Miss Williams, who died a year after their marriage at the birth of a child that did not survive infancy. He married (second) Elizabeth Cowherd, born November 28, 1751, died in 1790. He married (third) Jemima, born May 29, 1754, died February 5, 1836, daughter of Joseph Holladay. Lewis Holladay Graves, son of the third marriage of Isaac Graves, was born September 16, 1793, died May 30, 1868; married, February 18, 1819, Frances White, born November 14, 1799, died August 27, 1882, daughter of Captain Richard White.
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Thomas Edward Graves, son of Lewis Holladay and Frances (White) Graves, was born in Virginia, January 9, 1834, died in 1905. He married, November 26, 1867, Louisa Brockman, daughter of Samuel Brockman. Louisa Brockman was born November 20, 1837, and was the mother of: Walter R; Lizzie Brockman, married Alexander Green, of Warrenton, Virginia, and has children: William Thomas and Helen Page; Stanley Hope, of whom further; Channing Page, married Natalie Burruss, of Orange county, Virginia, and has children: Alice, aged five years, and Thomas Edward, aged two years.
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Dr. Stanley Hope Graves, son of Thomas Edward and Louisa (Brockman) Graves, was born in Orange county, Virginia, May 20, 1872. The public and private schools furnished him with his primary education, and in 1889 he matriculated at William and Mary College, completing his academic course in 1892. He immediately began professional study at the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia, receiving his M. D. from that institution in 1894, and after his graduation he was for one year interne in a Richmond hospital, and later in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, and then in New York. Since 1905 Dr. Graves has been a practitioner of Norfolk, Virginia, from 1906 until 1910 an associate in the practice of medicine in the firm of Leigh & Graves, Dr. Southgate Leigh the other member of the association. Dr. Graves was medical superintendent of the Sarah Leigh Hospital during this association. In the latter year the two physicians dissolved this relationship and Dr. Graves has continued in private practice. In surgery, as in general practice, he has gained wide reputation, and has enjoyed a successful professional career, caring for the needs of a large clientele. Dr. Graves is chief surgeon of the Virginia Railway & Power Company; assistant surgeon of the Norfolk & Western and New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railway companies; attending surgeon of the Norfolk Protestant Hospital; president of the Board of Quarantine Commissioners for Elizabeth River and Hampton Roads; ex-member of the State Board of Health; medical examiner for the Home Life and Germania of New York Insurance companies. Dr. Graves' medical associations are the Norfolk County, Seaboard and Virginia State, while fraternally he is a Mason, completing the York Rite to a Knight Templar and the shrine. His social connections are with the Borough Club. 

Family

Etta Vernon Culpepper (5 Jan 1885 - )

Last Edited 13 Sep 2002

Citations

  1. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography.
    Volume V.