On his travels he stopped and called on Hertford in them furrin' parts and Hertford he gave to grandfather a mighty precious bottle of stuff to bring back home to a big merchant down lynchburg way.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
He lived in Virginia before the war; came from up near lynchburg somewhere; belonged to an old family there, and had been in love with his sweetheart for years, but could never make any impression on her.
"The Burial of the Guns"
Thomas Nelson Page
Two years before I made his acquaintance Mr. William M. Blackford, of lynchburg, wrote in his diary, since privately printed, under the date July 25, 1862: Williamson, an interesting man, educated at Harvard and abroad, was a rising lawyer in Baltimore when the war broke out and he enlisted as a private in a Maryland regiment.
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve