MRS. ANNE MONTGOMERY PEYTON. OF "MONTGOMERY HALL," AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA. True daughter of Virginia's soil, Scion of a noble race, Thy virtues, tho' by bards unsung, Hold in fond heart's a place, Which time with its dark sullen tide Can ne'er dim or efface. Reared in a "sweet sequestered vale," Where flowers the fairest grew, And blossoms on their native hills, In beauty's varying hue; Mere crystal streams down Mountain's side Bright sprays of silver threw. And thou, so like those blushing flowers, Whose buds the Sun's soft ray Had kissed, until new beauties burst With every dawning day, And thy young heart free as those streams Whose waters idly play. Endowed with learning's richest gift, A bright peculiar star, Thou mov'dst in social widening range, With not a shade to mar Or dim the lustre soft and bright That blazed and shone afar. The mystic spell of nature's charms Thy being closely bound, And in each changing, passing scene, Thou some new pleasure found, And youthful hopes, and youthful dreams, By fortune's smile was crowned. And when removed to other spheres, The love that warmed thy breast Shed 'round its rays with power that soothed Sad, aching hearts to rest, For of all gifts to fellow-man Sweet sympathy's the best. Then children gamboled 'round thy knee, In childhood's glad delight, Thy watching eye marked well the road Which led them to the right; The straight and narrow way which leads Up to the heavenly height. True daughter of Virginia's soil, Mother of an honored race, Thy memory in thy children's hearts, Still holds its loyal place, And years in their mad sweep and rush, Will ne'er dim or efface. Wren's "_Echoes from the heart_," p. 214. APPENDICES. A. THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN H. AND ANN M. PEYTON. 1. Susan Madison Peyton, born 1822, m. Col. John B. Baldwin, no issue. 2. John Lewis Peyton, born 1824, m. Henrietta E. C., daughter of Col. John C. Washington, of North Carolina, and niece of Gov. Wm. A. Graham, Hon. James H. Bryan, etc., and have issue, one son, _Lawrence Washington Howe Peyton_, born 1872, a distinguished graduate V. M. I., having taken the 2d Jackson-Hope medal and the degree of C. E. In 1894-'95, Capt. Lawrence W. H. Peyton, after a law course at the University of Virginia, is Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. 3. Anne Montgomery Peyton died unmarried.