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... effort was spent guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad there. Although the capture of Charles Town was a sidelight to the inconclusive Bristoe Station-Mine Run campaign, it was the crucial event in the military careers of Simpson and his regiment. The 9th Maryland lost only l...
...ions on this night were caused, I think, by orders from Hdqrs. Mr. Andrew E. Kenedy 33 of Charlestown, Va., was duly sworn. Q. by the Judge Advocate: Mr. Kenedy, had you any info1·111ation of the approach of Imboden's forces to Charlestown, Va., on the 18th day of last Oct.? If y...
...he 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 the Court...
...f of Air Staff in 1947. After World War II Master Sergeant Roy Hooe retired to his native Charles Town and served as Chief of Police in a three-man department until his second retirement. A host of Charles Town youths-including the present writer-well recall his diligence in whis...
...George Michael Bedinger, older brother of Sally's grandfather, Daniel Bedinger of Sheperdstown. She went to live in Boone County, Kentucky and was the mother of seven children, two girls and five sons. When grown, the middle son, Everett Wade, Jr., often visited his uncle, Judge ...
... recall that some years later when I had learned about the book I asked for it at the old Charles Town Library. I was told in somewhat frigid tones, ''We don't carry that kind of book!'' I don't think that I ever did read it, but I managed to learn about its background. Back acro...
...hat we were Jews, and did it unkindly. However, it was their loss to shun us. The Jews of Charles Town comprised a small minority, five or six families at the most. I believe that when my parents arrived in 1907 they found the unmarried Palmbaum brothers, Meyer and George, mercha...
34 The Magazine of the The post office was closed and mail transferred to Charles Town on August 15, 1903. POSTMASTER Benjamin F. Langdon Charles N. Goens DATE OF AP POINTMENT September 5, 1892 September 29, 1898 RANSON Even though it was close to Charles Town the ever increasing...
... They participated in a planning meeting on the subject, held on November 14, 2000 at the Charles Town Civic Auditorium. Various organizations, including the Charles Town Landmarks Commission, Historic Shepherdstown, the Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission, the Jeffers...
... when someone died among a number of people. Eventually they left the farm and moved into Charles Town or many states away. They had all scattered all over the country. ''These families, as I say grew, flourished, and populated the territory for the nineteenth and well into the t...
... root after the Revolution, but it is not probable that there was any organized church in Charlestown ... owing to the population being largely either Episcopal or Presbyterian. 43 In 1794 Bishop Francis Asbury found there a good house of worship and a local preacher, but it was ...
...Francis Moore, son of Rev. Jeremiah Moore of Prince William County, replaced Collins. The Charles Town Baptist Church is the successor to Zoar. Other neighbors the Davis family became acquainted with were the Gib bons and Cooke families, living in the Barrens near Traveler's Res...
... At the same time Early planned to proceed from Bunker Hill to Middleway and then towards Charles Town. Anderson found his advance delayed by Brigadier General Wesley Merritt's cavalry at Berryville and Brigadier General J. H. Wilson's at Summit Point. Although Anderson finally s...
...at she could learn about graves denoted by these unmarked field stones. While in Shepherdstown, Miller observed that ''at 'Bellevue' [home of the Swearingen family] there are many unmarked stones." ''In the Halltown neighborhood'' Miller found the ''grave of John Rion, a large la...
...ed written later h sa111 ea1 .. id ntif ing Cha1·les and Mild1--ed Washingon as lat of he town of F1·ede1·icksbu1 .. g. B w n the y ars 1777-1799 Charles Washington and l1is \Vif Mild1·ed appear· in the 1 .. ecords of Old Ber .. k 1 as g·1·antor·s in some 87 conve ances of 1 .. e...
...ned it in a letter. 13. L OOD 1967 Location: Two and one-quarter miles outh of Shepherds town ten miles north of Charles Town on the old Charles Town -Shepherdstown road. '' lm\vood ' wa built in 1797 on land occupied by Edward Luca II in 1732 and granted to him in 1751 by Thoma...
...rds were moved to Lexington for safe keeping. When the county seat was moved to Shepherdstown during the war the records were taken there. 5 Although there were no major battles fought in Jefferson County there was a lot of movement of troops and small skirmishes occurred throug...
.... Boteler, Sr., who lived out on the ''pike," whose daughter Lottie was a great belle and Charles J. Faulkner alternated to Congress from that district, and like two polished and keen Damascene blades, they often crossed in public debates, both eloquent and chivalrous. I think th...
32 The Magazine of the Claymont Court Town when he laid out the town on 80 acres of his property. Nat's great grandfather, Bushrod Corbin Washington (1790-1851), inherited the Bull skin property from his father Corbin Washington (1764-1799) who built Claymont Court on it in I 82...
...y. Brubaker wa hopeful that thi extreme cour e of action would not be requii .. ed. 85 At Charles Town, the chool board members, though allegedly Unionists, refu ed to accept partial Bureau aid to erect a chool building for Negro children to replace an in adequate older log truc...
...al Society 23 Co urt of st irginia, Judge Thomas Claiborne Green, ,vho ,v·a a resident of Charles Town. Miss Pattie Willis should be •mentioned among the artists. I 11 the )'O u11 (Yer gen era tion \ 1e c:i n claim sc•r11 e of Ch a rles To\,·11 11arenta e. Tucker Brooks, son of t...
...ton and his wife Frances Gregory, of Spotsylvania county. There is reason to believe that Charles' lands in this section were being farmed as early as 1768. This date appears on the corner stone of the old kitchen at Happy Retreat, but has never been fully' authenticated. The str...
... the County of Frederick (Except [three specified tractsJ) unto my Brothers Samuel John & Charles reserving as above an equal Proportion for my Brother George Provided they .. . . pay .... their Sister Betty Lewis .... one hundred & fifty Pounds." The reservation in favor of Geor...
54 The Magazine of the From the Account Book of Matthew Frame Matthew Frame, Merchant, Charles Town, Jefferson County, Va. May 17, 1813 to Dec. 13, 1813 Names of accounts in the book: David Palmer, Andrew Woods, Samuel Farnsworth, Thomas Likins, Henry Gantt, John Lyons, Fanny Gib...
...owell Brown, county surveyor from the early 1850's through the 1880's, a mark designating Charles Washington's grave site within close proximity to the scoffed ''headstone." Intrigued, Mr. Perry went to the site to examine it. There he observed not only the headstone, but three s...
...irk ................... 20 Butcher, R. Hume .......... 13 Butler, Miss Ann M .......... 1 Charles T. (Rose Hill) ......... 2-1, 6 Joseph ............... 27 Dr. Vincent M. (Mt. Pleasant) . . . . . . . . 1-6 William G. (Locust Grove) .... 6, 6-8-B Byers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
...er half-brother Lawrence died in 1752, and his four younger half-brothers George, Samuel, Charles and John Augustine inherited his accumulated land. So each of these four brothers had significant land holdings in this area from his earliest youth. They continued to acquire more l...
...n business. He consolidated the Mount Pleasant dower tract within a larger tract marked ''Charles Yates'' on the 1852 Brown Map. 23 An archaeological site at Mount Pleasant has been extensively studied, 24 showing that the tract was occupied by Benjamin Wiltshire, who tenanted fo...
...ted with the five rural routes created in Jefferson County, West Vir ginia, three out of Charles Town, one out of Uvilla, and one out of Halltown. The Postlllaster General at this ti:me was the Honorable Williani L. Wilson, a resident of Jeffer son County. Rural Free Delivery o...
Jeffer on ount Hi torical Society Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission First Free School Building Designated as an Historic Landmark 59 The brick chool building de ignated a an Historic Landmark of harle Town i adjacent to and now owned by the Zion Bapti t hurch. The fir t ...
... continuing work toward the goal e tabli hed when the ommittee wa appointed by the Charle Town Council in Augu t of 1975. 1 In downtown Charle Town the exterior of the old Charles Wa hington Hall and the Rou Hall (Independent Fire Co.) have been beautifull re tared by the City Co...
...l. 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 his deat...
...n and it ha. changed in few re. pect~ ince the execution. The only ruined part~ of Charle Town are the Court Hou e and the Jail. The fonner 111aintai11 it walls and outline and the fot1r brick and pla ter Doric column, before it a1·e till tandi11g~ but the roof i reduced to a few...
... but the consolidation was not ap 1 proved until NovemJber 15, 1871. Malta Lodge o. 80 at Charles Town ·was crua,rtered , by the Grand Lodge of Virginia December 14, 1847. Its West Virginia charter is dated Decemlber 28, 18 72. The movement for the organization of Malta must have...
...o ,vide ly did the waters of the springs become act·vertised that m~til still arrives in Charles Town, ·addressed to some Shan11ondale official and containing invitations to spa meetings in Ger many, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovtaikia, and other countries of Europe. Jn 1859 the fin...
..., 1836. The bride and groolll at once went to live at ''Happy Retreat,'' the old honie of Charles Washington, near Charles Town, which had become the property of Mr. Ha:mrnond after the death of his mother sorne eighteen months before. November 3rd, same year, a little daughter w...
...rson County Historical Society 43 ----------------------------( rorn Farmer ' Repository, Charles-Town, Jefferson ount irginia. Printed by Richard Williams. Vol. XVII, o. 8 8. February 2 1825) FARMERS Just received for sale a the Charles-Town Book Store, ''Memoirs of the Penns lv...
...Willis n1arried Paul Wilson, of Chicago. They now live at Belvedere, their farm adjoining Charles Town. Jane Willis, second daughter of Thon1as Hite Willis, lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Duncan McConnell, a professor. Nathaniel Hite Willis lives in California. He and...
...rancisco and Panama. 20 Possibly Fayette Washington Ball (1820-1839) a great grandson of Charles of Happy Retreat who died unmarried in Leesburg. 21 Mr. and Mrs. Sappington. 22 Sallie Asquith Moore, a daughter of Cato Moore II, apparent ly never married. 23 Margaret Strother Mo...
...il 5, 1732, died at Belvidere in March 1807. H.i will dated April 11 1806, is recorded in Charles Town, Will Book I. On eptember 26 1759, he married Mary McCormick Reily, the widow of Dr. Fergus Reily. They had the following children: ary Tate, born 1761 married (I) Edmondson, (2...
...ine of the • emo1rs o • enn1e ove orres (1845 -1936) The author of these memoirs lived in Charles Town from 1866 to 1901. Her husband, Dr. Charles Taylor Richardson 1 , was a prominent physician here during this time. In 1901 they moved to Omaha, Nebras ka where part of their fa...
...'63 just after hristmas. Mother thought she might get some material assistance from Uncle Charles. 5 She set things going in General Lee's direction, but he did not move swiftly enough for her (though passes from him tl1rough the 'On to Richmond'' route came after we had started ...
...er on our feelings as well as culinary arrangements, but Thursday morning found the whole town alive with excitement, and the streets filled with carriages and horses. The day was very auspicious, not a cloud appearing to hide the sun. The roll of the drum announced mustering of ...
... judged by the Historic Landmarks Commission to have been built more than a decade before Charles Washington built the original part of the mansion house in 1780. The interior contains a large fireplace with a brick oven and stairs leading to the loft. The land, which now include...
...lvin Nicodemus farm with a basket picnic and ox roast. June 19. A large crowd gathered in Charles Town for the Tri-Gala parade in celebration of the Bicentennial, the birth of West Virginia, and the Volunteer Fire Companies. Chairmen for the event were Ernest Houser Jr., Paul Bil...
...wrote widely in prose and poetry, based much of his best work on his county heritage, his Charles Town upbringing, and the Confederate tradition. The author temperately assesses the importance and place of Charles Town's native son in the milieu of mid-twentieth century American ...
...hich he had lived and worked for more than fifteen years. ''When Colonel Botts settled in Charlestown, he was poor and unknown; when he died, few, if any in his county, exerted a more solid influence, or had a larger circle of friends and admirers.'' 14 Lawson Botts left in Charl...
...n the December 19, 1894 issue of the Virginia Free Press, a weekly newspaper published in Charles Town by W W B. Gallaher in the upper room of the building located on the northeast comer of Charles and Washington Streets. Not only does it provide an outsiders view of daily life i...
16 The Magazine of the etlect on Charles and his tamily in 1861 and at Christmas he gave cash presents to 21 slaves. Harpers Ferry, when held by the Federals, was regarded by slaves as 'Freedom'. In March and April 1862 most ot'the tamily's slaves left. Their values ranged t'rom ...
...over. Prisoners were handed over to the tale authorities and lodged in the county jail at Charles Town. The.~' con isted of John Brown, Aaron D. Stevens (barely wounded), Shields, Green, Copeland, £. Coppoc, John E. Cook captured about a week later in Penn ylvania, A. Hazlett. Al...
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