Littleton Waller Tazewell
Founder Littleton Waller Tazewell, a cousin of Founder Taylor, was born in Norfolk on July 16, 1848, the son of Edmund and Anne Elizabeth (Tazewell) Bradford. Founder Tazewell's name was changed from Bradford to Tazewell when the Virginia legislature gave him permission to adopt the name of his distinguished grandfather, Littleton Waller Tazewell, who was governor of Virginia and one of the state's most revered leaders in nineteenth century politics, but who had no male heir. This change was made after Founder Tazewell's days at the Virginia Military Institute and at the University of Virginia, where records show him as "T. Bradford" or "L.W.T. Bradford".
Tazewell was educated first at Norfolk Academy; then he was sent to be a cadet at V.M.I. on February 6, 1865, ahin one day of his seventieth birthday - which gave him the longest life of any of the Founders, save William Alexander. Tazewell is buried in the family square in Elmwood Cemetery, near the grave of Frederick Southgate Taylor. A monument gives simple details of birth, marriage and death.
Reprinted from The Oak: A History of Pi Kappa Alpha
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