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remembers the story of how his father came to Rappahannock County. “He was born in Nelson County,” Giles said. “He’d done some work for Mr. T. C. Lea helping him out in his store there. He was really very young, but Mr. Lea liked him so muc'. ,ii. t he sent for him and paid his way to come here." Giles said that his father “either was seventeen years old and had fifteen dollars, or was fifteen years old and had seventeen dollars” when he came here to work for Mr. Lea.
Giles was unsure where the original Lea store was. “I think he moved it a couple of times," he said. Finally, the senior Giles went into business, first with Compton, then by himself, at the
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