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...FICERS President-.rs. R obert Bro\se. Charles Town, W. Va. Vice-President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. R cording ecretary-Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Oharles Town, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Treasurer-Anne S. (Mrs. Clarence) Hobart,...
...ests in New Orleans; and the final sixteen years at his delightful country re1 .. ea near Shepherdstown. This however is perhaps too definite an assign1nent o a pa1 .. icula1· place at a particula1 1 period. Mr. Shepherd had his 1~oots in Shepherdstown and, even after he reach d...
...ruction by fire has been one of the sad incidents of that saddest of :modern events.'' In Shepherdstown there is now a daily reminder of the generosity of Rezin Davis Shepherd in the old town clock and a town hall, which has long stood as the central structure of the ''Old Colleg...
... He had a wide range of interests and activities, and was always working in behalf of the Shepherdstown co:mmunity. He was active in promoting the establish:ment of free schools in Jefferson County, and in 1850, three years af. er two such schools were opened in Shepherdstown, he...
...onorable Williani L. Wilson, a resident of Jeffer son County. Rural Free Delivery out of Shepherdstown was begun on Wednesday, July 15, 1903. The route south and west of town, including Sandy Ridge, Uvilla and Molers, was designated as Route 9, with Wn1. C. Myers named carrier a...
...e1·al to int1·oduce a 1~ound-trip, 2 ti111es daily, except Sun days, sta1· route between Shepherdstown and Martinsburg, for expediting mail se1·vice along the lines of the Balti inore and Ohio Rail1·oad. This has speeded up the local deli e1·y of mail f1·01I1 one to two days. I...
... t.he Federals in the darkness of night believed he had made his escape. These unrecorded Shepherdstown stories of Redmond Burke were examined at the November 1955 program meeting of the Jefferson County Historical Society, when Mrs. L. M. Lynch presented the following records fr...
... Burton Hilleary Museum Charles Town, West Virginia OFFICERS P1·eside11t-A. D. Kena mond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice P1·esident-J. Burns Huyett, Charles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Charles Town, W. Va. Cor1~esponding Secretary-Ella May Turner (died Au...
...Jackson to Antietam by way of Black ford's or Boteler's Ford, a mile and a quarter below Shepherdstown. The Ford Below Shepherdstown To Marylanders this crossing was Blackford's Ford. The land on their side was held by the heirs of John Blackford, who had built the Ferry Hill ho...
...p. 29 Billmyer's Mill and Billmyer Family ................ Vol. XVII, p. 11 Black Rose of Shepherdstown ............................ Vol. XVI, p. 37 Bolivar Monument Dedicated .............................. Vol. XXII, p. 44 Books relating to Jefferson County .................... ...
...John Brown ........................................ Vol. XIX, p. 27 Pinckney, General, in Shepherdstown .............. Vol. XV, p. 29 Pinckney-Shepherd Exchange of Letters .......... Vol. XVIII. p. 28 P J1·trai ts and Portrait Painters . .. . . .. . . . . . .. ... . . .. .. . .. ...
...g Secreta1·y - Thornton T. Perry, Charles Town. Corresponding SecretaI·y -A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown. Treasurer -Miss Rachel Snyder, Shepherdstown. 3 Cu1·ato1· -Vacancy since the death of Miss Elizabeth J. Daniel on October 25, 1960. Directors -Miss An11e Lloyd Baylor, Charles...
...The Rev. Mr. Matthews of the funeral account was the Presbyterian John Matthews, D.D., of Shepherdstown. The funeral occurred during the brief period between the rectorships of Benjamin Allen and Bosworth Smith, their parish consisting of the Episcopal churches at Charles Town an...
J ff 1·son oun t His orical Society 29 bs 1, 1anc of tl1 Bicentennial of the Shepherdstown h 1,. • 1· wa l)lann d by the Histo1--ic Shepherdstown Corn mi io11 o p1· sent a glirnpse into the history of the old ·o . n 111,.oug·h the yea1·s - the people their churches l101n s c1·af...
... Cor1·~5ponding Secretary -A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstow11 Tr asurer ,_ iss Rachel Snyder, Shepherdstown Cura or -1rs. Robe1·t T. Browse, Charles Tow11 3 Directors -Miss Anne Lloyd Baylor, Charles Town; Miss Margaret P. Ch wp Charles Town; Admiral George R. Cooper, Retreat Farm, C...
...10. Musser, C. S. Two Hundred Years' History of Shepherds town. Published by the author. Shepherdstown. 1931. Pecquet du Bellet, Louise. Soine Prominent Virginia Fa:milies, 4 volunies. J. T. Bell. Lynchburg, Va. 1907. Zittle, Capt. John H. A Correct History of the John Brown Inv...
...hool, The Union .............................................. Vol. XI, Schools, Free, in Shepherdstown, 1848 ........ Vol. X, Schools, Old, of Harpers Ferry and Bolivar ...................................................... Vol. XXX, Schools, Shepherdstown, 1762-1872 ..............
32 The Magazine of the established that ''they spent about one year near Shepherdstown, and awaited for Joist Hite to have surveys made." So, those who ''spent about one year near Shepherdstown'' included Joist Rite's three daugh ters and sons-in-law and his five young sons. Jac...
... husband, the late Dr. Edmund J. Lee, spent as missionaries in China. Dr. Lee was born in Shepherdstown and he and Mrs. Lee lived in Shepherdstown following his retirement and until his death in 1962. FREEDOM'S DAUGHTER. By Helen McKelvey Oakley. W.W. Nor ton and Co., Inc., New ...
...or 1833," and he goes on to say that some of the victims were brough1 across the river to Shepherdstown and t,uried in a corner of what is now Rose Hill Cemetery just off West High Street. The Cement Mill on the south bank of the Potomac was an important industry for some years, ...
Jeffer on County Historical ociety 55 On This Rock, by Gladys Hartzell. Published by The Shepherdstown Register Incorporated. 323 pages and index. When t. Peters Lutheran Church of Shepherdstown, among the oldest churches in this area and the oldest Lutheran church in West Virgir...
...y of nomination, but ll1ese a re tl1e 011es tl1at I visited. 13 econd the e11tire town of Shepherdstown should be placed 011 tl1e atio11al Regi ter as a district-everything within the corporate limits, including the college. This is one of the most i11 teresti11g and intact distr...
...awson Botts, with the Fairplay Union Band, Washington County, Maryland. Hamtramck Guards, Shepherdstown, Lt. W.M.A. Morgan. com manding, with Criswell's Cornet Band. Potomac Cadets, Shepherdstown, Capt. Selby Hamtramck. Shepherdstown Dragoons, Capt. Jacob Rinehart. Citizens and ...
...itectural -Historic Survey The dedicated and efficiently organized group of volunteers in Shepherdstown, following the recommendations of Mr. Wright pub lished in the 1972 Magazine, completed the inventory of that area in July. The more thinly spread volunteers in the remainder ...
28 The Magazine of the The Stone House At Fruit Hill One mile north of Shepherdstown on Shepherd Grade a side road on the left leads to the Fruit Hill lane. The lane runs nine-tenths of a mile through woodland to two houses one of which is a pre Revolutionary fieldstone house an...
...certain properties should be nominated for the National Register; that the entire town of Shepherdstown should be placed on the National Register as a district, and that efforts should be made to insure the early passage of State enabling legislation to permit Historic District Z...
...to me. And our county is the richer for their having been here. Falling Spring Branch and Shepherdstown's Town Run Falling Spring Branch is really Shepherdstown's ''own excuse for being." Thomas Shepherd obtained a grant of land in 1734 on the tributary about a mile above the Pot...
...' This quotation from the Minutes is found in C. S. Musser's Two Hundred Years History of Shepherdstown, Shepherdstown, 1931. Note: Although the career of Turner Ashby as a Confederate officer was brief, he was regarded as one of the most picturesque and daring heroes of the time...
...erry; John C. Newcomer, Harpers Ferry; Roger J. Perry, Charle Town; Capt. John B. Schley, Shepherdstown; Miss Linnie Schley Shepherdstown; Manning Smith, Charles Town; Dr. John E. Stealey Shepherdstown. Publications Committee-Dr. Washington, Mr. Davis, Capt. Schley, Mr . William ...
...iring of the tone church near Charlestown also the church in Winche ter and the chapel in Shepherdstown and that called Morgan each forty dollar together with fifty dollars to be applied toward building a new church in Martinsburg. All the before mentioned donation are intended f...
.... Mr. Price had been occasionally preaching in this parish, especially at Martinsburg and Shepherdstown, when I first visited them about the year 1812 or 1813." (Norborne Church was already going to ruin by then.) Mr. Price would have been an old man in 1812 ( at least 70) and we...
...urran Hall. A trap door opens onto the roof beside the clock tower. A magnificent view of Shepherdstown may be had from beside the clock face (8). Following the Civil War, the county courthouse was moved from Charles Town to Shepherdstown. Rezin D. Shepherd made provisions before...
...illiam Weis and used as a grave marker. Currently located in St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Shepherdstown. Cemetery from 190 I, at the time of her grandfather's death until its presentation in 1965. In addition to this grave marker, there is a stained glass window in St. Peter's Lu...
... the materials into soldiers. One morning we were ordered out of our quarters, marched to Shepherdstown, through a thunderstorm, back to Kearneysville, where we took the train/or the ferry thoroughly drenched and disgruntled. Soon after this in the month of May, our regiment was ...
...r John Brown was hanged in Charles Town, West Virginia, close to R. D. 's ancestral home, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Two years later, on March 4th, Abraham Lincoln became president and on April 12th, the Civil War began. It seems natural that President Lincoln's preference for...
...by members of the Jones family. However, the following are examples of stone work done in Shepherdstown, Charles Town and Martinsburg based on recollections of Withrow Jones, other interviews, and historical records. Examples Of Work In And Around Shepherdstown St. Peters Luthera...
...m south of the Potomac. Stephenson' company was the frrst of 7 companies to come from the Shepherdstown area of old Berkeley County during the war. This represented a total of 300 men of whom 100 were local village residents. Nearly 60 of these men died in service. With a populat...
... the Sheriffs Dept. against the property. 19 c. Armstead Shepherd Lucas was active in the Shepherdstown community as postmaster, from March 1918 to April 1922, as Recorder, as a member of the Board of Education for the Shepherdstown School District and as a member f the Jefferson...
...17. THOMAS SHEPHERD'S MILL Location: Corner of High Street and Mill (Rumsey Ave.) Street, Shepherdstown. One of the most famous of the early grist mills was that constructed by Thomas Shepherd and claiming the largest water wheel ( overshot) in the world 40 feet in diameter. Shep...
...s of the Shenandoah Garden Club. 5. THE McDONOUGH HOUSE Location: 203 West German Street, Shepherdstown. Built around 1893 by the J. W. Snyder family, thi house features the charm and elegance of the Victorian era. Mr. Snyder was the brother of H. L. Snyder, editor of The Shepher...
Je fer on ounl Hi tori al o it,;l~' ., 17 A Shepherdstown Tragedy mpiled by Elizabeth nyder Lowe Shepherdstown Register January 29, 1892 MURDER MOST FOUL ***** Thrilling Tragedy in Shepherdstown ***** hot Down in the Street ***** Lo el Girl In tantl Killed by a Rejected Suitor **...
... John and ''Kate'' and all their children and spouses are buried at the Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV. On 10 Nov. 1908 a stained glass was installed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in memory of John & Catherine by members of the Keplinger family. There were eight other churc...
...in-charge) Donald A. Engle Christopher W. Linder (Officer-in-charge) Susan E. Buddenhagen SHEPHERDSTOWN June 6, 1897 July 15, 1899 November 7, 1914 May 21, 1918 October 1, 1947 November 28, 1948 February 5, 1951 March 9, 1956 August 6, 1957 May 19, 1978 December 2, 1978 January 1...
...ds to be given to soldiers of the French and Indian War. The Swearingens and other in the Shepherdstown area immediately made plans to take advantage of thi large e. Adam Money sold his I 00 acres of Terrapin Neck, bought from Col.Van Swearingen two years before, to a weaver name...
...ter written to Martha (Law) Clark, who lived in Hamilton County, Florida, by the woman in Shepherdstown, Virginia, who took care of and nursed Thomas J. Clark after he was wounded September 17, 1862 in the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) in Maryland during the Civil War. Thomas C...
...vania in the late 1820s to early 1830s for the merchant John Newton Lane before moving to Shepherdstown with Lane's new mercantile business about 1835. Markell then took over the business in 1840, a business called Webb & Markell, with partner Willoughby L Webb, Lane's nephew als...
...rented the place to tenants or to Henry Shepherd next door at least part of the time (the Shepherdstown Register in Feb. 1892 mentioned that he had relocated to Roanoke Virginia.) RiverView Fa1·m seemed to continue its long period of decline after this time. Henry St. John appare...
... Kansas on tour with their acting company at the time. R.D., the eldest son, came back to Shepherdstown, while Augustus and Miss Prescott continued their engagements. Jefferson County took over the maintenance of ''Shepherd Grade'' at this time (Smyth, 1909). In his will Henry di...
...1894 -Brothers Augustus (A.M.) and William (W.J.) Shepherd according to the Nov. 29, 1894 Shepherdstown Register had recently purchased (for over $3530) several noted racehor e at Madison Square Garden in New York City for their new stock farm operation at their Lower Farm: There...
...e took a step onto the tracks and was hit by a passing freight train. The obituary in the Shepherdstown Register noted that he was living on Main Street in Shepherdstown with his wife, the for1ner Minnie Reinhart, and a two-year old son (Henry IV). Minutes before his death he had...
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