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decide that a farmer’s life isn't for them. Eastham’s one of the lucky ones. His son William G* Jr. and daughter Marion have been bitten by the same horse bug that infected their dad over a half century ago. Both are in partnership with their father, splitting three ways the labor in the hay fields, corn fields, bams and paddocks.
Horae And Hound Family
“My father’s people have lived in this county as long as their’s been a Rappahannock," said the 62 year old “going on 22” senior Eastham. Bom and raised in Flint Hill, he was one of seven children in a family of “fox hunters and farmers.”
According to Eastham. Rappahannock was the cradle of foxhunting in those days, breeding some of the finest hunters and hounds in Virginia. His family had a joint venture going with the Bywaters. another old Rappahannock name. The hounds that came from their kennels were in demand everywhere that pink coated riders gave chase to foxes. “Most of the hounds with hunts on the East Coast have dogs descended from the Bywaters-Eastham strain. It was a business and a hobby. It made money for them." Eastham said.
With pride, he shows interested visitors to the family’s historic brick home books on fox hunting written
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