James Dabney Estes was born on 31 January 1836 as the first of seven children to Benjamin Harrison Estes and his wife Eliza Miller Dix Estes. Throughout the Antebellum era,
Drewry Estes Logan, of Hanover, N.H., died on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, at Kendal at Hanover, following a short illness. She was 94.
She was born Nov. 16, 1926, in Martinsville, Va., and raised on a tobacco farm in Cascade, Va. She was the daughter of Bettie Starling Estes and James Dabney Estes. She graduated from St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, N.C., and was a music major at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C. She received her bachelor’s degree in music from Syracuse University. She was also a graduate student at the Indiana University School of Music (now the Jacobs School of Music).