William Henry Brodnax

[2] Over the course of a military career in the Virginia militia, Brodnax attained the rank of Brigadier General.

In 1824, he was appointed by the Virginia state legislature to meet General Lafayette on his arrival at Baltimore, Maryland.

The next month he represented, along with his brother Meriwether Brodnax, several slaves accused of participating in Nat Turner's Rebellion in Sussex.

[5][6] In 1832 during the Virginia legislature's debate about slavery Brodnax spoke in favor of colonization of free African Americans.

[7] Brodnax died of cholera on October 23, 1834, and was buried in the cemetery at Dimwiddie County Courthouse.