The Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia will meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the community room of Gloucester Library, Main Street Center.
This month’s meeting will feature a video of Cecil Wray Page filmed in 2000. Born in 1920, he spoke about his early education in Gloucester and about the early dirt roads with horses and buggies and early cars. Page attended Virginia Military Institute for his first year and graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, with a Bachelor of Science degree. He served in both World War II and the Korean War.
In the video, he describes two disasters in Gloucester—the great storm of 1933 and the tornado at Woods Cross Roads in 1935. He also discusses important events in the founding of Gloucester County. In retirement, Page moved back to Shelly in Gloucester, where he continued to contribute to the community where he was raised. He was active in the preservation of numerous Gloucester historic sights, especially Rosewell, the ancestral ...