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... quantity di counts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $10.00 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish (1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $10.00 each, mailed, Michael D. Thompson, Calendar...
...ette Tyler (September 26, 1869 - December 8, 1936). He married Odette on April 1, 1897 in Shepherdstown after which they honeymooned in England where Odette was to repeat her Secret Service role and have a command perforrnance for Queen Victoria. Odette Tyler's real name was Eliz...
...e 1905-1906 season, the Shepherds retired for the second time, and again to Wild Goose in Shepherdstown. It can be assumed that his mother's ill health made personal demands on them and that they went to care for her, although she did not die until November 2, 1915. Their retirem...
The Jones Family Stonemasons of Shepherdstown t. Pet r Luth ran hurch, hepherd to,vn W 61 hetl1er 'Oll are v. 1alking or riding throu gh hepherd town you can't h lp noticir1g tl1e bc~lutiful tone ork around the area. nd it' you Ii ten to p p1 talk. )' ti 111igl1t h ar th rn lam n...
70 Spring House, Morgan Grove Park, Shepherdstown, WV Spring House, Morgan Grove Park-The Spring House wa built by Robert (Bob), Charles David (Snook), Ernest (Tootie), and Withrow Jones. Withrow recalls it was so hot, they would work awhile and then stick their heads in the cold...
...'' Jones rebuilt the Presbyterian Church wall in August 1942. Examples Of Work Outside Of Shepherdstown WV University Experiment Farm, Kearneysville, WV-The Jones brothers built a stone addition to an old barn for use as a cold storage and packing shed. It was beaded on the outsi...
.......................................................................................... 5 Shepherdstown and The Morgan-Stephenson Companies, 1775-1988, by Joseph Whitehome ........................................................... 16 Rion Hall and Daniel Bedinger Lucas, by Virgi...
... quantity discounts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $10.00 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish (1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $10.00 each, mailed, Michael D. Thompson, Calendar...
... quantity discounts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $10.00 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish (1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $10.00 each, mailed, Michael D. Thompson, Calendar...
...e same sum. The fire company raised the balance, and has but a small debt yet unpaid. The Shepherdstown Register, January 16, 1896. Cecil D. Eby William L. Wilson's Account Friday, January JO Went up to Charles Town on the 11:30 a.m. train to participate in the dedication of the ...
... quantity discounts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $10.00 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish ( 1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $10.00 each, mailed, Michael D. Thompson, Calenda...
...1901). Robert Milton Lucas was the only one to marry. All are buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown. d. Robert Milton Lucas, son of Robert and Caroline (Moore) Lucas died July 4th 1923. He had married a cousin, Frances Valeria Lucas, a daughter of Dr. Robert A. and Catherine ...
...er in 1849 and it was used as a hospital, along with most other large homes in and around Shepherdstown after the Battle of Antietem in mid-September 1862. One of the Lucas slaves, ''Sams," fought for the South in the Civil War. In November 1840, he was married to Catherine Sheph...
...cal Society, Vol. 33, dated December 1967, the late Claire Schley Goulding, a resident of Shepherdstown and member of the Potomac Garden Club, compiled info11nation for the first 13 Tours. Using her format and beginning with the 14th Tour, 1968, I have compiled a listing through ...
... Shown by members of the Shenandoah Garden Club. 12. YORK HILL Location: 5 Miles South of Shepherdstown, on Ridge Road, off Route 480. This old house is on part of a Fairfax Grant of 360 acres made in 1754 to
...c Places. Hostesses are member s of the Gateway Garden Club. 8. ALLEN DALE Location: From Shepherdstown West on Rt. 45, tum on Rocky Marsh Road. Allen Dale, the Henry F. Weaver home, was built by Jacob Van Doren on the 600 acre estate of his father, Captain Jacob Van Doren, who h...
...E-SHENTON HOUSE: See 32nd Tour, 1987 2. THE PANTLE HOME Location: 305 West German Street, Shepherdstown. Built around 1835 on a lot some 36 feet wide by 203 feet deep, the original one and a half story brick home with basement contained four large rooms and a sleeping loft. The l...
...torian furniture. Other noteworthy pieces include an 1849 Rosewood melodian, Jacob Craft (Shepherdstown) tall-case clock, Eli Terry shelf clock and Baroque gilded mirror. The hardwood floors are covered with a fine collection of Oriental rugs. In the southern yard can be found a ...
... of the Shenandoah Garden Club. 5. HUME HOUSE Location: Comer of German and Duke Streets, Shepherdstown. The eighteenth century log house standing on this corner has grown in 192 years into a large and substantial residence. It is on Lot No. 8 of Thomas Shepherd's original plat o...
...ation, was known as Pack Horse Ford which extends from the Pack Horse Ford crossing below Shepherdstown and crosses North Mountain through Mill's Gap. The first settlers on the plantation were the Kelly Family. During the Indian uprising in the 17 50' s a group of about 20 Indian...
...ational Park Service. 4. THE KENNEDY HOUSE AT WILLOWDALE FARM Location: Engle-Moler Road, Shepherdstown.
...nger as he had frequently carried his owner before and after this event. A FRIEND INDEED. Shepherdstown Register, February 22, 1906 Raleigh A. Donley
... quantity discounts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $10.00 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish (1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $10.00 each, mailed, Michael D. Thompson, Calendar...
... the state of affairs. Miss Susie was in Hagerstown a long time, and when she returned to Shepherdstown, Smootz also came back home. From that time he began to follow Miss Susie and to dog her footsteps until she feared to go on the streets alone. Always keeping within the pale o...
...of Hagerstown. Frank McDaniel of Carlisle, and W. P. Licklider and Harry Winte1·1noyer of Shepherdstown. Accompanying the coffin were Will Myers, Stanley Long, and James Bell, who had belonged to Miss Susie's Sunday School Class. They carried the beautiful floral designs sent by ...
...dy Deed Harry F. Smootz, who bears the brand of Cain upon his brow was born and raised in Shepherdstown. He will be twenty-seven years of age in March next. His parents are both dead, but his dreadful deed has brought trouble to three brothers and three sisters, all of whom are o...
...death of the lovely girl above whose body the heavy clods are piled. GREAT NEWSPAPER WORK Shepherdstown Register Feb. 5, 1892, Never, we suppose in this county, has there been a demand for newspapers like that made upon the REGISTER last week. Thu1·sday afternoon the frrst editio...
...elieved he would kill Miss Ferrell or himself or somebody. James D. Fayman, postmaster at Shepherdstown: Smootz would sit in room next to postoffice and suddenly get up and walk around the square by Ferrell's house. Thought he was a maniac, from his actions. In conversation, howe...
... age of 77 years. Married Susan C. who was born 1819 and died in 1910. Jacob was Mayor of Shepherdstown in 1876.
Jeff er 011 ot1nt)~ Historical ociet)' Gibson House New and Washington Streets Shepherdstown, WV 63 Thi phot graph appear~ becau e of the courte y of Mr . Audrey Egle hoL e modern home o cupie thi ite. The notation on the original photograph call the tructure the ' Old Gib on Hou...
................................................................. 44 Fragments of a Diary of Shepherdstown -Events During the War 1861-5 ............................................................................. 83 Trivia -Charles Town Is One of the Thriving Little Ci ties of Wes...
...zine of the out the purposes of the act, by causing the public records to be removed from Shepherdstown to Charles Town, and by causing to be procured at Charles Town, rooms suitable to contain the records and to be used as offices by the county officers." The cost for restoring ...
... N eek by Elizabeth H. Hyman In February 1792 two farm properties on Terrapin Neck in the Shepherdstown district of Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) -one said to be 400 acres and the other some 300 acres, both held under grants from the late Lord Fa...
...ice by Fairfax was a 300-acre tract in the name of one Israel Friend on the Potomac below Shepherdstown that extended five miles along the river front~ FLS, 1547. Large surveys up the Shenandoah were located on the North and South Forks and tributaries; they extended miles along ...
... through the good offices of one Captain Abraham Shepherd, an enterprising war veteran of Shepherdstown. By some means he had learned of their claim (perhaps through his wife, related to the Swearingens by marriage, or through his own relatives, the Van Meters who held the origin...
...the Terrapin Neck litigation when local people gave their depo~ ition at Abert' tavern in Shepherdstown duri11g tl1e f·inal 1805-06 . tage of the litigation. They agreed among t tl1e111sel, 1e that the eek holder would have won had they ever had a fair l1eari11g 011 the i ue . Bu...
Jeffcr Oil Ollnl)' Hi. loric,11 • ClCiet)' Fragments of a Diary of Shepherdstown Events During the War of 1861-5 Contributed by D. C. Gallaher Sl1e1;l1e1·clstoii 111 Registe,·, April 23 I 925 83 Ec/it(;1·'.fi Fo111 c11·cl ,_ P1·ofe.'iso 1· Cec·il D. E/J) 1 b,,.011g/1t tl-1ese 1·e...
...nce was shown portions of a diary kept by a then, but now long since departed, citizen of Shepherdstown, the major portions of which had been lost. Incidentally it showed also an accurate account of every change of the weather. These fragments were, many of them, tom and indistin...
... of the Chapline stores because it is said Chapline would not agree to make the people of Shepherdstown pay for the goods taken out of the store by the supposed Rebels. February 5th. The smoke-house of Philip Winte1·1neyer was set on frre by some unknown person. Some ten days pre...
....H. Moore of the Charles Town district; Logan Shutt, Kablestown district; Dr. S.T. Knott, Shepherdstown district, and C.C. Hinkle, Harpers Ferry district. The present courthouse is that in which the trials of John Brown and his men were held in 1859. Samuel Street has been extend...
...., bon1 in Pe11n yl ania in 1736 but hi parent moved to a place about fi,,e 111ile fro111 Shepherdstown when he wa~ a child. he was a11 officer in tl1e irginia Provincial tr·oop , erving with Braddock, and was pre ent at tt1 great defeat. He ha~ been de cribed a a 1nan of ·'hercu...
......................................................................................... 24 Shepherdstown Sixty or Seventy Years Ago; Boyhood and Other Reminiscences, by D. C. Gallaher .................................................. 29 Bibliographical Reference-Reverend Mr. Jame...
...ited States Naval Academy Julian Lane Latimer (October 11, 1868-July 6, 1939) was born in Shepherdstown, the oldest child of Thomas Wilmer and Mary Josephine (Quigley) Latimer. At age of sixteen he graduated from Shepherd College, at that time a preparatory school. While attendin...
... Robert C. Thaxton, and son Julian Lane Latimer, Jr. 8 He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, joined by this wife, who died a few weeks after, following an operation. 6 Ibid., p.260. 7 According to some correspondence archived at the Naval Academy, Admiral Latimer, the...
Jef~ r on ount}' I-Ji t(Jrical ociety Shepherdstown Sixty or Seventy Years Ago Boyhood and Other Reminiscences by D. C. Gallaher S/1epl1erdstown Register, 19 April 1923 29 ( te: In my boyhood there wa only a Main Street' and namele s other . kind friend ha lately gi en me the mod...
...of the war, and incidentally a friend long ago gave me the original of which is a copy. ''Shepherdstown," Aug 29, 1862. Guards and Pickets will pass this little boy to get his cow until further orders. CHARLES A. WELSH, Captain and Provo Marshal How dangerous a ''little'' boy on ...
...ustrated. It may be purchased for $45.00, plus $3.00 postage, from Mrs. Lowe, P.O. Box S, Shepherdstown, WV 25443.
...ril 1, 1860. They were married in 1859 and boarded with their Aunt Mary Billmyer Baker in Shepherdstown, as my father was then clerking in the store of Elis Baker. The store was also the Post Office and the mail was handed out a window on the street. In those days there was littl...
...................................................................... 31 David Keplinger of Shepherdstown and His Descendants, by Joyce Ann McKee Jackson .................................................................. 53 Minutes of the First Meeting of the Jefferson County Histo...
...evailed, of course. Science subjects were really not my favorites. Fresh from college and Shepherdstown native, Max Derr, taught Biology. Then in my Senior year there was Physics with Ted Elliott. They were both younger than the remainder of the faculty which helped. It seems to ...
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