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...SH-UA CAVALIER, a;t the age of eig.hreen, owned by a descend·ant, Charles J. cavalier, of Shepherdstown. The artist was rela·ted by marriage to tJhe Cavaliers of Harpers Fen·y. Portrait of JOSHUA CAVALIE~R, painted in 1884, owned by Mrs. Grove Hen-kle, of Halltown. Portrait of CO...
...R J. P. _..._ ... , 1798-1858, for the Hamtramck Guards, owned by Mrs. G. W. Billmyer, of Shepherdstown. Jouett IPortmit, oil on canvas, of ~¥6,,1 HUNTER, 1805-1888, painted aboot-1835, fo11nerly hung in ''Hunber's Hill,'' Charles Town, resoued by Mrs. Rebecca. Hunter when the 1h...
...ne about 1790, owned by Miss Anna Riddle, of Charles Tow11. E. Hutchinson Miller Bol'n in Shepherdstown in 1831, studied art in Washington, whe1·e he lived a,nd had a studio from 1855 till his death in 1921, paint.eel in oils and water colors, many landscapes, also portrai~ of Li...
...enty-seven, lived in New Orleans, never married, painted in 1835. Mrs. Philip P. Steptoe, Shepherdstown ·Portrait in oil, 22'' by 20'', of McDONALD S'l'E.RJRE'l*I', born 1825, near Staunton, Va., for many years an editor in Parkersbmg, W. Va., painted in 1855. Mrs. A. P. Thomson,...
...and a descendant of William A1mistead, who cam to Virginia in 1636. Mrs. J. W. Ware, Jr., Shepherdstown Water color po1·tr·ait, 7'' by 9' of JULIA LOVELL YATES, wife of John Yates, painted in England. The Misses Whiting, Summit Point Portrait, oil on wood, of GEORGE BRAXTON WHITI...
...mbers of the Jam,es Gi'bson Ch 1a,pter, Daughters of 1812.... 35 Captain Jacob Reinhart's Shepherdstown Cavalry. . . . 3 8 County Book Shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 9
...Mrs. Billmyer thinks th1at his second wife's name was Eliza'beth Clag·gett. In ''Historic Shepherdstown'' we are told that there \Vere two ''Ra w'leigh '' Mo1rgans, one a nephew of the other. One of them1 was elected Lieutenant in the com,pany raised by C~11t. Abran1 Sheph·erd fo...
...Diocese of Treves, Germany. The first John F,rancis Hamtnafmtk, who was the father of the Shepherdstown citiz·en, became a ''soldier before he ,vas a man,'' it was said. He was famous in the regions ne·ar the Northwestern posts around Detroit' during the Revo1utio11 anLi afterwar...
..., whose granddaughter, Miss Elise Selby Bill:n1yer, is proba·bly th·e only young ,girl in Shepherdstown ,vho is living·
30 Magazine of th~ Shepherdstown, and the grandfather of Miss Louel~a Sheetz, the last remaining survivor of ·the .family in Shepherdsto\v11. Shugart Bibles Mrs. C. 1'. Shug·art, of Chtarles Town, has an old Gern1a11 Bible 11ublished in Nur11berg·, Germany, in 1788, tl1at l1elong...
...ber. 'fl1e Joh11 Sl1ug·art born June 15, 1788, is the one wl 10 n1arried Mary Hoffn1an of Shepherdstown, whose father, John H off man , 1 7 6 0-1 8 2 7, was a Re • o I LI t ion ~l r) so 1 d i er. 1 • h is J oh n h u ·art i t he t· ;l t 11 e r of R ca so 11 hug art, w 11 o s e .1 ...
...n Cof-. fin, Boston, 1831, and now owned· ,lJy his great grandson, Wil-. liam C. Link, of Shepherdstown, has the following detailed~ record: Marriages George Licklider to Jane Melvin 12th N·ovember 1829. William Cruzen T,tnk and Emma Kate Keesecker, December 22, 1886 . . Helen El...
... I • I ,, h., (Withi11. the past yea1· Miss Nannie Moss· Steptoe, of Falling Spring, near Shepherdstown, prepared three historical booklets on Bedford, Fountain 1Rock, and Falling Spring, all r.ather extensively illustrated with photographs and' drawings. On request of the Societ...
...his boy's father, was promoted to Colonel in his place. Capt. Morg1an was the head 9f the Shepherdstown Cavalry Company, was the first to reach Harpers Ferry at the time of John Brown's raid. This company was afterward incorporated· with the 1st Virg·inia Cavalry, then commanded ...
.. • 42 Magazine of the -''Historic Shepherdstown'' aqd ''Georg·e Michael Bedinger, a Kentucky Pioneer.'' ( See the Michie Com:pany, Publishers, Charlottesville, Va., 1909 and 191 o.) The letters and journals. are all eminently ,readable and show force of ch1aracter and a good En...
...er that his brother, Henry, was instrumental in keeping a group of Lutherans ·together in Shepherdstown.) He was, as his son-in-law says, ''a terrible Lu·theran. '' He was a generous subscriber to St. Michael's and s:ubsequently to St. John's at A·bbottstown. He was naturalized i...
...re to retire and make his home there. WINGERD COITJ\GE 1 h r1ortl1 e11d of Duke street in Shepherdstown in tl1 o 11 ro'1 . ha leads to the Ja•mes Rumsey Bridge r 11 I ol 111~ c t nds \lingerd Cottage, no\v O\vned and u 1 i d l , Pt ti I a ,, i 1 l1i lo, r( n1blin hou e l1as a pec...
...lip land Catharine Welsh Entler. John Wingerd's tombstone in the old Lutheran Cemetery in Shepherdstown bears the ihscrip'tion, ''died Sept. 5, 1816, aged 59 years 9 mos., ,t showing that his wife was more than twenty years his junior. John Wingerd served on the town Court of Tru...
...erd Grade. In 1907 Colonel I. V. Johnson, who had been Auditor of West Virgi11ia, came to Shepherdstown and bought the f1arm, s.elling it three years later to Wm. H. Marrin. Mr. Martin ·built the large barn now standing, after the original structure was destroyed by fi,re During ...
...may be records so1newhere to give the 11ames of the teachers in the first free schools in Shepherdstown, but the oldest res.idents here mention only a Mr. Bell in the earlier history and Robert Bragonier and Benjamin Hartzell in the later history of the Shephe1·d School, and a Mr...
...d the re-ent occupants. -By Bell B. Snyder. AND JA.\1£5 VERDIER bout thri e n1iles out of Shepherdstown on the Ke!ar r1e 1s ille roa on the ri ht side stands Rockland, an old stone hous hi 11 on a rocky knoll.. The farm on which the house i s,jfu t d is no o vn d )' Mr. Milton ....
... in tere ting to kno\v something o he la r hi tor , of the Union hool . .. .., --------. -SHEPHERDSTOWN PLEDGES ITS SUPPORT TO PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS IN 1798. ( B .. , B. FI o) d F 1 i ck in g er) r"f'l1r l fore the eastern portion of Berkeley un • \. ,al Ii he a a s parate ,county...
...the popularity he had so long sought, was deluged by expressio ns of loyalty and support. Shepherdstown, then represented in Congress by the ardent Federalist, General Daniel Morgan, h!as.tened off its address to the President. It, along with his reply, is found on pages 3 1 9-3 ...
...SES FOR MARJRJAGES 1833 to 1&51 Performed by John T. Hargrave, the Presbyterian Pastor at Shepherdstown June 25, 1833 Fauquier Clerk A. J. Marshall: Williss Bonner -Amanda B. Crane Sept. 14, 1833 Loudoun Clerk C. Binns: William B. Moffett & Louisa Klein of Shelburne Nov. 9, 1833 ...
... star of famili s and pione r migration to tl1e Shenanoah alley. This came first throu<Yh Shepherdstown and Harper F rry into J ff erson. Tidewater and Eastern Virinia settl er an settlers from Pied1m,ont Virginia were held back first beca use the Fairfax grant with all the land ...
..., returned to Jefferson Cou11ty in 1873 to teach in Shepherd College and uilt a home near Shepherdstown. -Helen B. Pendleton Notes On Westwood Slaves t tl1e ot1tl1reak of the ar bet\v een tl1e tat s Huo·l1 1 e lso11 P nd I eto11 0\·11er of We t\'\,o od told hi..,. I aves that h }...
... superintendent, Dr. Alexander Tinsley resigned as president of the Board of Education in Shepherdstown Dis trict. Within a week the presidents of the various bo!ards of education met in Charles Town to elect a successor to Wil son. If Dr. Tinsley resigned to qualify himself as...
...nham's adminis tration high schools were constructed at Harpers Ferry, Charles Town, and Shepherdstown. Many schools \Vere consoli dated and the transportation of pupils greatly extended. Mr. Bonham ,vas born in the same house where he no,v resides. After being tutored in a pri...
...RICA (By the Reverend John William Link, Mt. Pleasant, N. C., at a Link Family Reunion in Shepherdstown on Sept. 2, 1946) We shall attempt to assemble such data that is in hand and off er such suggestions that may lead to the discovery of more data on the early anc.es.try of the ...
...dition that this old house was built by a Cookus. So says Danske Dandt'idge in ''Historic Shepherdstown," pages 19 and 20. She ITlentions this in connection with a deed in the possession of the Andrews farnily at Fruit Hill, but she 1nerely quotes a last paragraph indicating that...
... a t1 .. act of land consisting of 179 acres, 2 roods & 34 poles about l 1/2 miles f roni Shepherdstown adjoining lands of Jacob Fulk & Williain Williamson, which land had been conveyed to Alexander Robinson by Joseph Burkitt, Jacob Burkitt and David Wolrington & Mary Craig his w...
...nd1--idge's ref e1--ence to Van Swearingen, 01--Indian Van, son of Thomas Swear ingen of Shepherdstown, going west to the Indian wars, but she leaves him lost out there so111ewhe1--e. The his tory of the northern panhandle lists a number of Swear ingens among the hono1--1--011...
...n had only Clarks burg and Martinsburg to beat. Of course, Martinsburg ai:med lower than Shepherdstown, for the latter made liberal subscriptions for a site for the National Capital in 1789. And I don't hold it so much against Shepherds town that she failed to get the national ...
... 3 Addresses delivered during 1948 . . . . . . .... .. . ........ .. .. .. .. . .. .... 3 Shepherdstown a Century Ago and S0111e of its Master Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 An Early C...
.... N. Lenien in his diary entered the following item on August 10, 1839, -''Processi on in Shepherdstown laying cornerstone Ge1--rnan Reforrned Church.'' The old Meth odist Church, destroyed by a fire that threatened to raze the whole town, March 1854, was rapidly being rebuilt o...
...hey may be see11 now as the e, 1ide11ce of tl1e so1·t of masons there we1~e those days in Shepherdstown. Afte1· tl1e stone ,vo1 .. k fo1,. tl1e building was finished, M1·. Shepherd ar l''a11ged for the co11St1·uction of the stone walls around ithe whole lot. O1·ders ,vere to bui...
... Joseph's daugh ter, Susan, named one of he1 1 sons Adrian Wynkoop Bill lllyer (died in Shepherdstown in 1947). Mary Mercer Jones Randall, Joseph's wife, died in 1874. In the sanie year his daughte1" Susan's husband, John T. Billrnyer died, and she came with her four small chil...
...• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 19 25 General Pinckney at Shepherdstown . . ..... ..... ....... .. . . ... . .. . 29 Forty-Niners of Jefferson County ..................... ............. .. 30 Index to Volurnes I to XV .................................
... S PRING El:mwood and Cold Spring two fine old dwelli ngs two and a half :miles sou th of Shepherdstown along Rattle snake Run a1--e truly historic honies. They are on two po1'tions of a large tract of land granted by Lord Fairfax o Edwa1"d Lucas II in 1732 on the Elniwood part ...
...been stated frequently, but erroneously, that Edward Lucas the ea1 .. ly settler south of Shepherdstown, was the son of the first Lucas to collle to Alnerica, Robert Lucas of Deverall County of Wilts, in England who ar1 .. ived April 4 1679 in the good ship ''Elizabeth and Mary."...
10 Magazine of the from Shepherdstown on the "bee-line" to Boston in July, 1775. Job Lucas, a brother, was a soldier of the Revolu tion, as was also another brother, Lieutenant William, who was fa:mous as an Indian fighter. Williani Lucas later established hi:mself farther down ...
...cemetery. In 1823 it belonged to Captain Abraham Shepherd, son of the original founder of Shepherdstown. There is reason to believe that Mr. Shepherd acquired the land frorr1 the Ke1 .. ney farnily. There is a ro:rnantic tale of how this fell into the hands of a Lee and hence bec...
...o had a son Charles, born 1826. After living in Wheeling for a few years they returned to Shepherdstown where Edmund was encouraged to estab lish a law practice. It was soon after this that the first Leeland was built by Mr. Lee. Edinund Lee and Eliza lived in this house and had...
...by fire that day, April 12th, 1856. The following is a copy of the account written in the Shepherdstown Register, dated, April 19th~ 1856: ANOTHER FIRE On Saturday afternoon last, the 12th inst. at one o'clock the citizens of our town were aroused by the alarm of fire, when it wa...
... Mr. Lee m.ade several '':modern'' alterations. A bath was installed, one of the first in Shepherdstown. It was the kind with a water tank in the attic and a hand pump in the cellar. One went to the cellar and pumped water from a cistern to the attic tank, which in turn supplied ...
...Novernber 30, 1800, at Cold Spring near Shep herdstown. He practiced law for a tillle at Shepherdstown, then rnoved to Charles Town. He was elected to the General Asse:mbly for the 1837-1838 session and in 1839 was chosen a representative in Congress. Two years later he was defe...
...e co1n panies of gold seekers were for111ed -the Charles Town, the Harpers Ferry, and the Shepherdstown companies. The following notice appeared in The Spirit of Jef ferson, January 9, 1849: Ho! for Californa. It having been determined to organize a com pany for California whos...
...West Virginia .................................... Vol. XIII, p. 26 P inckney General, at Shepherdstown .................... Vol. XV, p. 29 Por rai s and Portrait Painte1·s ................................ Vol. VI, p. 21 Potomac Rifle Company ........................................
.... ......... .. . . . . . .. ... ... . . . .. . ... . ........ .. 19 ''The Black Rose'' of Shepherdstown .................. ............ 37 From. 0 Id Harpers Ferry Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Martin R. Delaney ...............................
...dren of Van and Elizabeth were: Sarah, who married her first cousin, Col. ''King'' Van of Shepherdstown. Drucilla n1arried Thomas Cresap, Jr.; Ruth, who rnarried Col. Daniel Cresap, Sr., and their son Daniel Cresap, Jr .. was a Lt. Colonel in the Revolutionary War; Thomas, who em...
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