Jane Alston Hall Armfield is the daughter of Spotswood Braxton Hall, Jr. and Catherine Cabell Claiborne Hall and was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia.  Mrs. Armfield was married to the late William Johnston Armfield IV.   She is the mother of four sons, William Claiborne Hancock, James Cole Braxton Hancock, William Spotswood Armfield and Nicholas Cabell Armfield, and three daughters, Caroline Carter Hancock Johnston, Elizabeth Alston Armfield Daigh and Olivia Corbin Armfield, and she has eleven grandchildren.  Mrs. Armfield graduated from St. Catherine’s School in Richmond and attended both Hollins University and Tulane University.  

 

Mrs. Armfield is a 10th generation Virginian with deep family roots in Virginia history, being a direct descendant of Governor Alexander Spotswood and Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  Her earliest Virginia ancestor is Governor John West, the 6th Crown Governor of Virginia and one of the founders of the West family of Virginia.  Mrs. Armfield has a strong and active commitment to her family’s tradition of historic restoration, preservation and involvement in lineage organizations.  Her great grandmother, Katherine Hamilton Cabell Claiborne (later, Mrs. William Ruffin Cox), was a charter member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Virginia and was the third national president of NSCDA for 25 years.  Mrs. Armfield’s great uncle, James Alston Cabell, was the President of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, now known as Preservation Virginia, in 1907 and the Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia from 1913 to 1929.

 

Memberships

 

National Society of Colonial Dames of America 

Colonial Dames of America

Daughters of the Cincinnati

One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Member of the Council)

Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Member of the Council)

Jamestowne Society (Historian, Richmond Company)

Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

Baronial Order of Magna Charta

Military Order of the Crusades

Descendants of the Templar Knights

 

Other Notes

 

Mrs. Armfield is or has been a member of the Boards of the following:

 

St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, Virginia

Richmond Ballet, Richmond, Virginia

Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia

Canterbury School, Greensboro, N.C.

Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sheltering Arms Hospital, Richmond, Virginia

Richmond Friends of Stratford Hall