ECCA Board Members

Peter was raised in nearby Goochland County where he now resides with his wife, Susan and their two Daughters. In addition he spent many of his younger years during the summers working on the farm of his grandparents, Fielding and Louise Dickinson at Wheatland, Loretto, Virginia. He and Susan are the owners of various parcels of land in Essex including Wheatland which he now owns with his brother, Teddy. Susan and Peter raise cattle on their farms in Goochland and Essex, County.

Bob Baylor has lived in Essex County all his life.

He was born in 1954 and lived at Port Tobacco Farm in Upper Essex, until he was five or six years old, with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Baylor, Sr. and his two sisters, Jane Waring and Peggy.  The family then moved to Edenetta, where he continued to live until 1984.    Bob then returned to Port Tobacco Farm, where he now lives with his wife Jeannette and their son Waring.

Bob has been a farmer all his life, as his father was before him.    “For as far back as anyone can remember the land my sisters and I own has been in our family”. Bob’s wife, Jeannette was able to find out, with a bit of help from Agnes Andrews and the old deed book housed in the Clerks Office at the Essex County Courthouse, that the “Port Tobacco Farm” tract has been in his family since 1668.