Newspaper Heraldry: Cole/Digges

Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)
5 November 1911

We insert the following, Cole and Digges data for the benefit and at the request of a descendant:

Cole.

Colonel William Cole (1), secretary of colony, married, first, Susannah (Crofts?); second, Anne, daughter of Governor Edward Digges; third, Martha, daughter of Colonel John Lear (she married, second, Colonel Lewis Burwell).

William Cole (2), his son, married Mary Roscow, a relative of Colone Burwell.

William Cole (3), his son, married Elizabeth Cocke (2).

William Cole (4), his son, married Susannah Digges, daughter of Major William Digges and Frances Robinson.

William Cole (5), his son, married Mary Frances Alexander, of "Effingham," Prince William county, Va., and had Susannah Digges Cole, who married Judge John Madison Chapman, great-nephew of President James Madison. They had Susie Ashton Chapman, who married Calvin Perkins, and Belle Chapman, who married William Moncure, lawyer, of Memphis, Tenn.

Mary Ella Chapman, who married Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, and had issue, four sons and five daughters.

Emma Chapman, who married Captain R. V. Boykin, of Norfolk, Va., and had two daughters and one son.

Susie Ashton Chapman married Calvin Perkins, and had Blankeney, Belle, Perkins, Ashton Chapman, Louis Allen and William Alexander.

Belle Chapman Perkins married William Moncure, son of Charles F. and Ann (Daniel) Moncure, of Richmond, Va., and had one son and two daughters.

Sallie Alexander Chapman, unmarried, lives in New York.

Ashton Alexander Chapman married Nannie Eaton Gregory, daughter of Colonel Roger Gregory, of Oxford, N.C.; no issue.

Digges.

Sir Dudley -- Lady Mary Kempe.

Governor Edward Digges -- Elizabeth Page (1).

Dudley Digges -- Susannah Cole, daughter of Colonel William and first wife

Hon. Cole Digges -- Elizabeth Power, granddaughter of Rev. Edward Folliot.

Major William Digges - Frances, daughter of Major Anthony Robinson.

Susannah Digges -- William Cole (4)

William Cole (5) -- Mary Frances Alexander, daughter of Gerrard Alexander and wife (cousins) Elizabeth Ashton Alexander

William Cole (6) killed in battle, 1862.

Susannah Digges Cole - Judge John Madison Chapman.

Susie Ashton Chapman -- Calvin Perkins, born in Columbus, Miss., practicing law in Memphis, Tenn. Issue, Blakeney, Belle Moncure, Ashton Chapman, Louis Allen and William Alexander.