In Albemarle County, Virginia, Claiborne Rothwell, one of the first Rothwells to live in the county, was born about 1741 and, according to The Virginia Advocate of Saturday Oct. 11, 1828, died on Oct. 6 in his 87th year; he was remembered as a kind and affectionate husband and father, a good neighbor, a humane master, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was buried in the family cemetery near the Rothwell home close to Crozet. The Rothwell property of 238 acres was bought from Philip and Elizabeth Arnent in 1799, and the home, which stood on a slope at the edge of a wooded section near the cemetery, was reduced to its chimney by a destructive fire in the early 1900s. Before moving there about 1800, Claiborne had lived on a 390-acre place on the west side of the Southwest Mountains northeast of Charlottesville near the home of Col. Nelson, land he bought from Josiah and Mary Wood in 1787, with neighboring properties held by Wm. Sandridge, Gideon Carr, Nicholas Cain, John Robertson, and Cornelius Carver. Elisha Wm. Robertson, who lived from 1850 to 1894, led the Piedmont Nurseries from his 230-acre farm home for almost all of his adult life until his life was cut short by an injury suffered while breaking a young horse. He was born, died, and was buried on that place, which extended from present-day Hillsboro Baptist Church toward Brownsville. He and his wife, the former Alberta Bertrand Rothwell, had eight children whose later lives included ministry, military service in WW I, work in public education, and academic achievement, including Judson Hall Robertson, who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at UVA in 1920 and died in 1962 on the eve of his retirement as professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.