He was the paternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge William Horn Battle & Lucy Martin Plummer of Raleigh; and gr-grandchild of Col. Joel Battle & Mary Palmer Johnston of Edgecombe County. He is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, J. John Battle (1634-1691) who immigrated from England to the Virginia Colonies in 1654 with his family and a number of relatives and neighbors settling on the west Fork of the Nansemond River in a district since known as Nansemond County, Virginia. On his mother's side, he was the maternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge Thomas Samuel Ashe & Caroline Burgwyn, of Anson County, and descended from prominent families on all sides of her family tree.
Richard died in 1880 at age 11.
He was the paternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge William Horn Battle & Lucy Martin Plummer of Raleigh; and gr-grandchild of Col. Joel Battle & Mary Palmer Johnston of Edgecombe County. He is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, J. John Battle (1634-1691) who immigrated from England to the Virginia Colonies in 1654 with his family and a number of relatives and neighbors settling on the west Fork of the Nansemond River in a district since known as Nansemond County, Virginia. On his mother's side, he was the maternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge Thomas Samuel Ashe & Caroline Burgwyn, of Anson County, and descended from prominent families on all sides of her family tree.
Richard died in 1880 at age 11.
Family Members
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Lucy Plummer Battle Cobb
1861–1905
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Samuel Ashe Battle
1863–1865
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Dr Lewis Junius Battle
1865–1940
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Caroline Burgwyn "Lena" Battle Stitt
1867–1949
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Nannie Ashe Battle
1871–1873
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Edmond Strudwick Ashe Battle
1873–1949
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Charles Phillips Battle
1875–1877
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Rosa Ashe Battle Miller
1879–1962
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William Kemp Battle
1880–1905
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