NELSON FELL.

Nelson Fell, a member of the Fauquier Bar, died at his home near Warrenton, Virginia, on the 19th day of December, 1926. He was the son of E. Nelson Fell and Anne Palmer Fell, and was born at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 11th day of October, 1895, away from the home of his parents, at Narcoossee, Florida.

When three years old, his family removed to British Columbia, remaining there until 1901. His father was employed, until 1908, by the Spasky Copper Mine in the Kirghiz Steppes of Siberia. During part of this time, Nelson was placed at a school in London, for one season; and, following that term, for one season in a private school in Hanover, Germany. Thus he acquired, in early childhood, a knowledge of German, French and Russian.

His family then came to live at Creedmoor, near Warrenton, Virginia. In 1909, he attended Mr. Pellatt's school at Swansy, England, which was followed by two years at Rugby.

He entered Harvard University in 1913, and completed the four year course in 1916. Then he entered the Harvard law school in the fall of 1916. Answering the call of humanity, he abandoned his law studies on the 1st day of January, 1917, and went to Russia as an ambulance driver on the Roumanian front. There he continued until the Russian Revolution. During this time and very shortly before the first Russian Revolution, he was received in audience by the Empress of Russia. Upon the entry of the United States into the World War, he returned to this country at the earliest opportunity, volunteered for military service, and was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Air Service. He was immediately sent to France, and served as observer, night bomber and intelligence officer near Nancy and Verdun, until the armistice, when he was ordered to Coblentz with the American Army of Occupation, remaining there until his discharge from the Army, in 1919.

Upon the completion of his long and honorable war service, Fell returned to this country, and entered a business house in New York; but, yielding to his desire to practice law, he entered the Law School of the University of Virginia, in 1921, and was graduated with distinction, in 1924. While a law student at the University of Virginia, he was made Editor of the Virginia Law Review, was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa and The Raven Societies; and was a member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity, being elected President of that chapter of the fraternity during his last year at college.

On the 4th day of June, 1924, shortly following his graduation, he married Miss Elizabeth Hoffman McVickar, the daughter of a prominent jurist of Morristown, N. J., who survives him.

He was admitted to the Bar of Virginia on the 30th day of June, 1923, at the end of his second year in the Virginia Law School. He qualified as member of the Bar of Fauquier County on the 9th day of February, 1924, where he continued the practice of law until his death. He enjoyed a most successful career at the Bar, and, at the time of his death, had won the respect, confidence and admiration of all with whom he came in contact. His future success as an able attorney and wise counsellor was an accepted fact in the opinion of those who knew him and his work.

On the first day of October, 1926, he formed a partnership with Laurence R. Bartenstein, which was terminated by his death.

Few young men enjoyed such wide and varied experiences of life, travel and education, and profited more by them, than Nelson Fell.

He had a boundless faith in the wonderful future of this country, in which he made his home, and was tireless in his efforts to develop its resources and in expounding its worth. He was a director of the Warrenton Chamber of Commerce and one of the organizers of Fauquier Creameries, Incorporated, inspiring all of those with whom he worked, or was associated, with a spirit of progress and success, and furnishing an example of the highest integrity, honor and fairness.

It is a matter of pride to the bar that he answered every call

of duty willingly, and faced life with a calm and quiet courage. In the daily walk of life and in the stern demands of war, he never faltered, or hesitated, having always before him, as his goal, that which was right and just, and never swerving from this path.

His death was a severe blow to his family and friends, to his County and State; and especially to the Bar, which, by his character, ability and educational attainments, he adorned.

FULTON KEGLEY.

Judge Fulton Kegley, of Bland, Va., and at the time of his death judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, was descended from the early settlers in the Valley of Virginia. He was born at Bland July 12, 1866, in what was Wythe County, where his grandfather, Isaac Kegley, was born in 1808. His father was a physician, Dr. Mitchell Kegley, and his mother Matilda J. Johnson, of Claiborne County, Tenn.

Judge Kegley taught school and then studied law in the office of Judge Samuel W. Williams and at the University of Virginia. After practicing his profession for some years, he was appointed by Governor Swanson judge of the Twenty-second Circuit, in place of Judge Henson, who resigned the position. In 1911 and in 1919 he was re-elected for the full terms.

Brought up as he was on the farm, Judge Kegley always took a lively interest in agriculture. A large land owner, he was always engaged in trying to better the condition of those who made their living out of the land. He was elected president of the Bank of Bland County and was of great service to that institution. He became a director of the Shenandoah Life Insurance Company of Roanoke and belonged to a number of Masonic and other orders. For ten years he was Master of the Bland Lodge of Masons and was also connected with the Royal Arch Masons, the Knights Templar, and the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the order of Elks.

In 1898 he married Mary J. Hayes, daughter of George W. and Nicoti (Hubbard) Hayes, and has two children surviving. Judge Kegley was a member of the Methodist church and was a good and sincere Christian man. In his death his section and the State at large have lost a useful judge and a public-spirited, high-minded citizen.