Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1921, Page 56

G : ¥ ‘ Charles Town Is ENTRANCE TO EPISCOPAL CHURCH, CHARLES TOWN. town, and they are but a few miles from the Shenandoah and the Poto- mac. There is a daily paper at Win- chester and two well-written and Wwell-edited weekly papers are pub- lished at Charles Town. There is a 2 . Its /£00d deal of that quality in Charles fusion. It has a quiet efficiency. | Town which is commonly called “cul- biggest noise is the honk of tourists’ } tyre. Practically everybody is automobiles, and after that is the :g;woled, many of the people are well meise of the trains. There are many cm:gl;d and one meets finely edu- feurists and several trains a day. enl. o, and. :3’::.“5“.;-».5‘2‘;‘;’:5 ol “here is a gentle calm about the|“grand air* of the older period. It ©ld town that is refreshing. It mends 12 & very happy and contented place. the nerves of rush-worn people. TOET | intarcciing hittorie cinims woon Wi To om0 memse of hurry. The oficials In | siders. Tt associations. Sior e the town hall, the county officers in family of which George Washington the dourthouse, the clerks in the W?A the most illustrious member con- e 3 the | Stitute one claim. and its associa- stores, the men in the banks an tion with the John Brown tragedy waitresses in the hotels have & quletlinolhen air and they treat time not as though Clayton L. Haines, ! ¥ tre but as | lisher of the Charles Town newspa- eseh minute were the last, bu per, Spirit of Jefferson, made an ad- though there would be plenty of fu-|dress of welcome when he was mayor tuse They have a philosophy that to a conclave of Knights of Pythias. - 4 4 In the cou: ythia thare 1o something bigger in life than | Bylhe course of that address he said; furlcusly punching a cash register|owned by Charles Washington. broth- and something better to talk about e“r' of George Washington. Charles . O mnd emall change. | JVashington lived at Mordington, on o= the outskirts of Charl : Chirlestown is in West Virginia, but| was buried there. T;r:se "I‘nr:.-c: w.ex-:.: t7j8 very like what you expect to find | of Charles Town is Harewood, home 32 Bld Virginia, and sometimes do not [ 9f Samuel = Washington. another fod her of George, who lived, a family and died there. reaAr;g . %Phe streets are wide and, except on | Harewood the winsome widow, Main street, there is seldom anything | Todd, was married to President HE city of Charles Town, W. Va, holds a number of claims upon one’s interest. It has peculiar charms. It does & large business without noise and con- editor and pub- Dolly ison. » fad- Six miles n approaching traffic congestion, 8nd|Town lived Gen. posth, or Charles Yhey have traffic signals at several| was reprimanded by Gen. Washing- ereasings. A large extent of streets is|ton at the battle of Monmouth. Eight Paved with asphalt, and plans are|miles from Charles Town Gen. Gates, Peking to give a hard, smooth sur-|who commanded the American forces %o all the streets of the town.|at the battle of Saratoga, lived for residence streets are bordered by | several years. Five milesl north: of are set in|Charles ‘Town. in_an old cemetery, The side-| known as the Ronemus burying #ms a population of only 3,500, occu-{one Cathering Bierlin, Zwh Pies a larger area than many- cities|1707. and whose tomb Jje t Iwice or thricé its. population. In|marked grave in Waat Virginia. some sections of the -town the homes| About two miles west"of Charl mre spacious and of that character|Town are the ruins of and air which is usually termed|Chapel, which was buili 1* Homes that are costly|200 years ago. The se in which big-town homes | House, which stood where the Jef- are ly are few, but they spell|ferson Hotel stands now, was the comfort and repose. Even in those|place where Grant and Sheridan met rs of the town where less for-| in 1864 and planned the valley cam- unate or less leisurely people live the| paign.” You can gather from th Tomes have trees. lawns, flower beds | summary. that there are many Inter and n a vegetable garden. Many |esting places in and S the housee, “iatge and small. be- | Town © Rear? Charles Howe's History. of Virginia, pub- Joag to an age that was, and many of _the newer houses are patterned after the older style, * * lished in 1845, men are as well dressed and 38 | 1 1o akotch of Charles. owe . 1t well groomed as men generally | foriows: L afe, and the women follow the fash- fons as they do here, but what we | comiy af JeBerson Tt e ool e 10 the ©aTl “extremes” are mot often seen |Tailmad from Winchester to Harpers Ferry, 1 the streets of Charles Town, and | Hne Roer fhe rormer s i e A (0 . when one sees ‘extreme styles they | iablished in Bt ID0. ¢ maned foom Otristian nam: proprietor, Ool. are usually worn by people not of | Charles ., p o Washington, & brother of George the town. ‘Bighty lots (blocks) were divided | - ohe church buildings are of large |and sirects and the following ioohrring size and excellent architecture and | e APPaimted trastess: the old church buildings are impres. sive. The shops—and every line o D, Wi !;’I&e in rd!presgnled—arelfuu-ulockled White and Richard goods and the people of Charles | "G cnartes Town can buy mdst of the grades and | house which m-:mm varieties of merchandise that are to|town. A fine spring marks the spot. be had in bigger and busier cities.|whole of the land in the vicinity of Oharles The hotels are considerably above the origt belonged to the Washington ®msual small-town standard, several|family, and a considerable portion still re- of the banks occupy suitable and ade- | Goi. Ourles Washingion was. ihe Sl quate buildings, and the opera house | of George who settled :::t“ ldllefllilfi Ridy n led ore than * ¥ k% ‘Washing tor old _Carter |30, he , by whom she sleeps.’ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, JUNE 26,-1921— PART 4. One of the Thriving Little Cities of West Virginia T HE Star Man Goes Beyond the Maryland and Virginia State Lines in Describing the “Neighbor™ Cities and Towns of Washington—Historic ‘Spots in Charles Town—Homes of the Washington Family. Descendants Still Living in the Com- munity—Business Activities, the Churches, Schools and County and City Officials. The Hanging of John Brown and His Associates at Charles, Town Jail—Location of ScaffordIsa Mystery. marked their resting place and gave token to e snd the Blue Ridge. Harewood, a solid old stone house, the home of Samuel he stranger of tue names, sges wnd virtues of Charles, is one of the historic show ‘Washington “resided in a log house when he moved to the valley he set up than a,century ago. and probably be- « the departed.” Though this was written three- quarters of a century ago, it contains a few statements that are grossly inaccurate. One of these Is that Charles Washington was the only brother of George_ to settle west of ‘Washington, brother of George and places in the neighborhood of Charles Town. The statement that Charles which stood a short distance from the town” is questionable. It may be that a log house, but considerably more fore the laying out of the town in 1756, he built one of the fine brick mansions of Virginia and called home Happy Retreat. The mame of the homeseat was later changed to Mordington, which name the grand old house bears today. Of the ruins of St. George's Chapel, this 1845 his- tory says: o one knows how old the chapel i The Virginia Free Press, in a “boom-the-town" edition, January 7. 1915, which was the 104th Year of publication of the Free Press, printed a picture of the chapel ruins With this text beneath it :“Place of Worship of the Washington Family. Ruins of St. George's Chapel. Erected 1765 Though Charles Town was estab- lished by act of the Virginia assembly in 1786, it is belleved that there was 8 settlement on the site as early as 1750, mear an old mill on Evitts run, Within the limits of the town. The direction of the main thoroughfare— Washington street—is nearly east and west, and the next streets paralieling It are Congress and Liberty, while the important north-and-south streets are George, Lawrence, Samuel and Mildred, which are Washington fam- fly names. The town has outgrown the site set out for It 13; vears ago. and " many new streets have been opened and the old ones lengthened. * * ¥ X ONE of the old and strikingly sit- Episcopal. uated churches of the town is Zion walls are veil It is of brick, and its led with that member of the grape family variously called Bos- ton ivy, Southside ivy and Ampelopsis veichil. Around the church are & thousand tombs, and many ot the Washingtons of Mount Vernon, Hare- wood, Happy Retreat or Mordington, and Berry Hill or Cedar Lawn are at rest there. A few of the Washing- ton epitaphs follow: - G shington, son of Col. th::m:::l Sleanor love Washingt Mount Vernon, J Charles Town Louisa _Fontai Serena Washinglon, b : ‘September K, 1808, ‘"'l?lln pll:ld!n \x‘flll\ln:‘an.“:lh::rof"!&‘ R;’x‘. , C. 8. . AD N K:::::In} nd Elisa 8. Washington of Mount Vernon: died 1909 laufln«nw :I\nnlsm. za; 8. ustine rdon: dléed at Washington, D. C. Ja 28, 1930, i »e Hertburn Washington, _son l:‘:'lllxvl “"';lllllm and Ella M. Bassett ‘Washing o horn at Clover Lea, Hanover county. o a5, 1863 ; died at New York August 30, 1914, i ¢ Lewis William Washington, lng‘“:h\‘l‘(.ius"n(‘ George_Washington Baurett bot ‘Thwis. born at Eltham. New Kent L et ay Qe at New York January 1 | . 1898. Twis William, son of George Corbia Wa town, D. C At T e in Jefferson county, W. V . Washington, wife of Bushrod i T October 30, 1780 died Sep- 183! n ¢ Runhrod Washington, .EluTns'lo':'d‘:d November 4. 1847. . ‘wife of Richard B. Wi hi John Augus. uly i 31, 1805 e aghter ot Louis and born January 15, 1889; eldest son of Col. Au- Washington, born &t born e e Washington, born Februsry 22, 184 30, 1863 d‘.;:n’l:mll Wlnh:flou. l':fll September 14, : died September lb;i'l’!lhm ‘Washington Herbert, died October 4, 188 1ged. seventy-three years. 18 regarded as one of the handsomie | Ho was an amiable, mi g playhouses of the state. Moving pic- | tleman, and in his appearance, as well as tures ure shown there and a travel- | Cixmcter. fesembled . B his brother. ing theatrical troupe takes it over for s army in their march to.the passed ‘west of the vill 3 ordinary run of road attractions the | Washin iu gl B People of Chatles Town go to Win- a night stand now and then. For the through this region. inn .| Annie Emine Saunders, Chester, twenty-two miles away, and | Dereantile stores. a branch of the Rank of the for the greater operatic and dramatic | YAHeT, &1 #cademy, newspaper printing office; Tepresentations they come to Wash- | Shzcs od a population of about 1400, - ington or go to Baltimore. In many | *Washington Mawnic cave is two and a hal! ways Charles Town is independent of | miles flat stone marked: “Christian Black- ber 6, 1790, and died Aug- of Ripon mlise. a hquse which stands T oout thirty miles pelow Washington. Mary E. B. Allibone, born at Ripon this life March 6, 1860, " of grief for ary E. Antxhbone 'was no doubt Mary Eliza- “There sleeps beneath. all that 1is son, January 11, 1811, uated at ‘pers Ferry, October 17, 1859." Close born at London, England, on the 10th' the 27th day of January, 1921. This Turner Saunders. Heirs ‘together of of Charles Town. It is di -the outside world for amusement, The into several apartments, one of which is called has musicians and readers of (the lodgeroom. Tradition informs us that etiy b ‘merit, the high school students and agton: with o t the ether young people put on shows that | oeiiY of Iaes" the Sasons In thls vicinity had Eive Dleasure, the people patronize |a celebration there. Ihe movies, there are various church | *‘About two miles southwest of Charles Town. Bocleties in which they find enter- | near the line of the railroad to Winchester. in tainment and then there are teas,|id gpen. cultimated feld stand the remains card parties and recepti = e JC 5 5 Yeascalis and i ptions. turesque , on which vines, clinging in their Charles Town rests in a region of | beauty and verdure on the ‘crumbling walls, ‘wonderful charm and the people make | gently wave in the passing The cedal excursions tn famaus springs, to pic- | Wood of the windows iz yet ture places in the valley and enchant. | £723¢, and on the walls are carved age is onknown. ing spots In the Blue Ridge, Whose |dead of other generations who repose at its morning shadow reaches nearly to the | base, are despoiled of the monuments that omce Near these Washington graves is & fe of Maj. R. S. Blackburn, Gife 54 Judith Bail, who was el Resting here are the Sehes of the woman who was mistress high land near the junction of the S tomac river and - Neabsco creek, ther part 6f the cemetsry is i Boab: “Sacred to the memory of ary Lodge, in the county of Prince Wil- oo pecember 16, 1798, and departed the loss of her dearly beloved brother, Blackburn of Ripon Lodge. 1In DEth ot with this tomb is one inscribed: mortal of George W. Turner. born at Wheatland, in_the county of Jeffer- West Point, 1831, and fell in main taining the Tight of his state at Har- by is this. “Sacred to the memory of who was day of August 1869, and Who departed this life in the city of Washlagton tablet is dedicated ‘by her faithful and deeply grieved husband, William the grace of life.” In this group of gravestones are two inscribed: ~“‘Sacred to the memory of Henry Smith Turner of Wheatland, who died the 18th of July, 34, aged sixty-four years” and ‘Sacred to the memory of Kitty Black- burn, beloved wife of Henry Smith Turner, who died March 15, 1817, aged thirty-six years.” One of the tall shefts in this bury- ing ground is -inscribed: "David Bed- inger Lucas, March 8, 1836—July 24, 1909. Statesman. Jurist, Poet.” The Star man stood by & White mar- his | i ble headstone with this inscription: John Yates Beall, C. S. A. Feb. 24, 1865, aged thirty years.” This man was an agent of the Confederate states of Canada. One day he crossed the International bridge at Niagara and was arrested. He was tried, con- demned to death and hanged at Gov- ernors Island, New York harbor. The charge against him was that he was a Confederate spy. Many of his kin- dred rest near him. Among them are Geu’rgP A. Beall, born November 6, 1802: died August 20, 1855; Janet Y. Jborn January 12, 1804, died Feb- ruary 25, 1875; Janet Beall, died January 5, 1870. aged twenty-three years; Mary K. Beall, born January 2, 1820, died Oc- {ober 17, 1917, and William Beall, born Avvzrch 26, 1844, and died Jume 16, 1907. . H. Anderson, sexton of Zion Church, has served in that office for twenty- elght years. In Edge Hill cemetery is a Confed- erate burial plot with several hun- drel‘ marble headstones marking the graves of southern soldiers killed at Antietam, Harpers Ferry and other places near Charles Town, and in the middle of that plot rises a Confed- crate monument reared by the women of the Lee Memorial Association and unvefled April 26, 1871. In this ceme- tery is the grave of William L. Wil- son, long a member of Congress, chairman of the ways and means committee of the House, author of the Wilson tariff bill and Postmaster General in Cleveland's cabinet. The old home of this good and able man is near the entrance to the cemetery. It is a simple frame house, and the statesman’s widow lives there. The superintendent of the cemetery, in which Mr. Wilson and so many other men and women of note rest, is D. C. CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT CHARLES TOWN. Strider,’a brother of L. C. Strider of Washington. Several members of the Washing- ton family still live in Charles Town and are prominent in its business and social affairs. There are probably many other members of the Washing- ton blood in the town, but The Star man was given these names: John A. Washington, Samuel Walter Wa ington_and Miss Christian Washing- ton. They are children of Richard Washington of Harewood. Samuel Walter Washington lives in a modern brick house on Mildred street. and John A. and Miss Christian Wi ing- ton live in one of the spacious and beautiful homes of the town.om George street. * % & % \HE Harewood Washingtons are descended from Col. Samuel ‘Washington, the third child of Au- gustine. and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington, and oldest full brother of George Washington. He was born at that farm we now call Wakefleld, on the Potomac, between Bridges and Popes creeks, in West- moreland county, Va., November 16, 1734. He inherited from his father a large estate in the Choptank reigon of King George county, about fifty miles below Washington city, but removed from that county to other Washing- ton lands in Frederick county, later Berkeley, and later Jefferson county, between the years 1768 and 1770. He established his home under the name “Harewood” and died there in 1781, aged forty-seven years. His, will is of record at Martinsburg and his ashes rest at Harewood. Though Samuel died young, he was married five times. His wives were, Jane, daughter of Col John Champe; Mil- dred, daughter of Col. John Thornton ot Spotsylvania county; Lucy, daugh- ter of Nathaniel Chapman; Anne, daughter of William Steptoe, and last, 2 lady whose Dname appears as “the widow Perrin.” By Jane Champe, he seems not to have had children. Mil- dred Thornton bore him Thornton Washington, in King George county, 1760, or sbout that date, and John Perrin Washington, born about 1762 This Thornton Washington, son of Samuel and Mildred, was twice mar- ried. His first wife was Mildred Berry, daughter of Thomas Berry of Berry in King George county. They PIai%wo children, John Thornton Au- stine Washington, born in 1782, in erkeley county, and Thomas Wash- ington. Thornton ‘Washington's second wite was Frances Townsend Wash- Ihgton, daughter of Lawrence Wash- ington of King George county. They had & son, Samuel, who was born in Berkeley county. John Thornton Au- gustines Washington, first chila of Shornton and Mildred Berry Wash- ington, was born in Berkeley county, Jater 'Jefferson, in 1783, and in 1810 mn.l;kd Elisabeth Conrad Bedinger, Maj. Daniel Bedinger of ‘They inherited a fine Berry Hill, d i daughter of Shepherdstown. old home called 111, al continued under that name until about 1827, when the family renamed it Cedar Lawn. John T. A. Washington and Elisa. beth Bedinger had a numerous family and if The Star man has not tangled, their ek were: t { The son’s name is ted over the United States. ‘Washington, Virginia Thornton Wash- ington, Sally Eleanor Washington, Benjamin Franklin Washington, George Anna Augusta ‘Washington, Mary Elizabeth Washington, Thorn- ton Augustine Washington. Mildred Berry Washington (1), Mildred Berry Washington (2), born at Cedar Lawn, 1829: George Washington, Susan Ells- worth _Washingten _and Henrletta Gray Washington. Lawrence Berry Washington did not marry. He was a lawyer, poet and author. & soldier in the Mexican war and was lost in a steamboat wreck on the Missouri river in 1856. Daniel Bedinger Washington was a farmer and writer. He married Lucy Ann Wharton at Harpers Ferry in 1843, and they removed, in 1856, to Johnson county, Mo. He served in the Confederate army and died near Inm- dex, Cass county, Mo.. in 1887. Many of his children and grandchildren live in Missourl. Virginia Thornton did not marry, and died at Cedar Lawn. which is about three miles west of Charles Town, in 1838. Sally Eleanor ‘Washington removed with her broth- er, Daniel B. Washington, to Missourt and died in 1858. Benjamin Franklin Washington contributed many arti-| cles to the Spirit of Jefferson, Charles Town's democratic paper; married Georgianna Hite Ranson, daughter of James Ranson of Charles Town, and, With e company of Virginians. went to California in 1849. He was the first edifor of the San Francisco Examiner in 1865, Under President Buchanan he had been collector of the port of San Francisco from 1857 to 1861 His wife died at San Francisco in 1860 and he passed away {n_that city in 1872. They had five children —John T. Franklin B, Fanny Madison, Lilllan and Bertha—and there are nunierous descendants of these. * *x x % EORGE ANNA AUGUSTA WASH- INGTON married, in 1851, John Wheeler Smith of Connecticut. He was major and paymaster in the Unifon army, during the civil war. They resided for severa] years in ‘Washington city, then moved to Mi souri, and finally settled at Little Rock, Ark., where there are a num ber of descendants. Mary Eligabeth Washington was married in Missouri to Squire Ashbury of Jones county. Thornton A.’ Washington graduated from West Point in 1849, resigned April 8, 1861; served throughout the ¢|erate Memorial Hall, often called the T.|Miss Margaret, and his nation-wide reputation as a Broadway merchant. When Charles was five years old, in 1841, the family left Maryiand, and settled in Berkeley county, Va., buy- ing a fine place called “Runney meade,” twelve miles from Wniche: ter. Charles dttended the academy Winchester, and at fifteen years went to work as a clerk in a Winchester store. In 1861, he enlisted in the 12th Virginia Infantry, served until the surrender at Appomattox and aft- er helping gather the thin harvest on the family place in the summer of 1865, went to New York city. His first venture with a pattner in keepifg store was a failure. Later, he opened a dry goods store on Church street, using as his business motto. “Cash’ Before Delivery.” He prospered brilliantly, and in a few years built a famous ten-story building on Bro way. This mercantile house dealt with more_than 30,000 stores throughout the United States, and had business connections in South America and Mexico. Mr. Rouss was soon rated as a millionaire. He usually spent his va- cations at Winchester, and made many splendid gifts to the town. Among other things, be contributed $30.000 toward the installation of Win- chester's water supply system and $10,000 for the building of a. fence around Mount Hebron cemetery at Winchester. He gave .$35,000 for the creation or extension of a physical laboratory at the University of Vir- ginia, and was the founder of Confed- Battle Abbey of the South, at Rich- mend. Two years before the outbreak of the civil war he was married to 4 daughter ‘of George Keenan of Winchester. Charles Broad- way Rouss became blind several years before his death, and the American public was deeply moved by the af- fliction of this prominent, rich and: magnanimous man. * % %% \VELY. you see why one of the fire companies in Charles Town calls itself the Charlie Rouse Company, and there is a Rouss Memorial Hall in the Brigade. and for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Charles ) Town, rests in Edge Hill cemetery. Charles Town has three pharmacies— run by Dr. J. William Brown, Dr. F. B. Hooff and Dr. Clyde Miller. The phy- sicians are Drs. A. O. Albin, F. M. Phil- lips, Alexander Rouss, William Neill, old ‘town. Capt. Milton Rouss. a|Pjttman, Miller and Haines. Drs. Luke brother of Charles B., lives in Charles|ahd Ramey are the dentists. Charles Town. The chief of the Tire depatt-|TO¥n has lodges of Masons, Odd Fel- lows. Knights of Pythias, Red Men and other associations which help to make life more interesting. Edward G. Hen- son runs the opera house. ** x % ment of Charles Town, according to| information given The Star man at the mayor's office, is Harry Marstella. The chief of police is James A. Smith, and fhe rest of the police force is Turner White. The principal of the Charles Town public schools is Prof. Wright Denny, and the postmaster is S. C. Young. The Jefferson Hotel is run by Maitland Riley and his brother Courtney, and the Palm Hotel by Mr. Weiss. The newspapers are the Farm- ers' Advocate, edited by Robert C. Rissler, and the Spirit of Jefterson, generally called for short, the Spirit. and which was established in 1844 In opposition to the ancient Federalist and Whig newspaper, the Free Press, is edited by Clayton L. Haines, born in Charles Town, reared in a printing office, who has been mayor of the town and has been elected to the city council %o often that he lost the count. There are four banks in the town One is the Farmers and Merchan Deposit Company. The officers of this institution are R. L. Withers, presi- dent: W. F. Alexander, vice presiden: § Lee Phillips. cashier. and L. G. A n, assistant cashier. The directors is SR Aexander: W. B Aloreniiay, | Which the trials of John Brown and hs 3. Edward Burns, B. D. Gibson, H, T.|men were held in 1853. The Jail i ”\l\" .F'o;‘rls. T;norvgton . Per- | which Brown and “others associated . am E. Reed. I. W. Williams, him in the attack on the gov- C.'F. Wall and Robert L Withers. | *!' Another bank s the National Citl-|ernment arsenal at Harpers Ferry Officers: G. E. Hughes, presi- | were held was torn down many years gent! B F. Langdon, vice préident: |ago, another erected in its place and, M. § Morgan, cashler; Cecll B, Wat. | the, site 18 MOW vhcant It 1 g it son, assistant cashier; directors, R. C. | Bally OPRAWE [Tl P11 has been Rissler. George W. Shull, M. O. Rouss. | BT 2t"the rear, or north, end of the B gamggg;";f;orgecfihngzha L | D house. Samuel ' street has been X ny n . Langdon. d whic Then, there is the Bank of Charles ;,',::::"‘.‘.".""‘.,‘.‘}.;l‘.f fckd 5o now Town, the officers of which are S. W. | now bordered on both sides py villa- Washington, president ;D. S. Hughes, |jike homes in large gardens. The vice president; John Porterfield, cash- |gpot on which the scaffold stood is fer. and J. Frank Turner, assistant|not known. On the east side of the gnshlehj The dv‘vrcct;n‘tdnn John C.[street are two 1n;gebandwllifllndsor'§ urns, James W. Strider, John A.|homes, one owned by am B. Washington, Milton Burr, S. S. Dal- | Packette and the other by Col. John garn, E. E. Cooke, D. Hughes, S.|Gibson. The Packette garden was . "\Washington, J. J. Wysong and | pointed out to The Star man as the Next there is the |site of the scaffold, while Elijah Avey, who was living at Charles which Charles Town isthe capital, are: Judge, J. M. Woods; clerk of the county court, Charles A. Johnson: prosecuting attorney, J. T. Porterfield ; sheriff, W. O. Macoughtry ; chief deputy sheriff and jailer, W. R. Alden; .deputy sheriff, George C. Link of Shepherdstown; en- gineer, James K. Hendricks ; superinten- dent of education, 1. M. Bonham; com- missioner of revenue, F. L. Watson; deputy commissioneis of revenue, T. O. Link and R. E. Hammond; clerk of the circuit court, Charles W. Confad. There is a court of five commissioners having Jurisdiction of matters pertaining to the financial system of the county, roads and s. N. R Roberts is chairman and the associate members are C. H. Moore of the Charles Town district; Logan Shutt, Kablestown district; Dr. S, T. Knott, Shepherdstown district, and C. C. Hinkle, HArper’s Ferry district The present courthouse is that in Newton W. Myers. Jefterson Bank and Trust Company. Its officers are W. A. Higgs, president; W. C. Relly, first vice president; C.F. | wall, second vice president; H. N. ‘Watson, cashier; D. C. Dolly, assistant cashier; directors, W. A. Higgs, C. F. Wall, E. B. Reed. L. M. Porter, H. T. n 1906 evincing personal knowledge or close investigation of the details of Brown's trial and death, says: “The scaffold stood in the center of a ten-acre field at the south edge of the civil war with distinction in the Con- federate Army, and was married, in 1860, to Olive Ann, daughter of Enoch Jones, at San Antonio, Tex. Mildred Berry Washington, in 1854. was mar- ried to Solomon Singleton Bedinger of Lewis county, Ky. From Kentucky they moved to Missouri and then to Arkansas, where she died in_ 1871, leaving many descendants. George Washington, the eieventh child of John T. A. Washington of Berry Hill removed to Missouri, and so. too, did Susan Ellsworth Washington. There are many direct and col- lateral relations of Col. Charles and Col. Samuel Washington in the val- ley of Virginia, and more are scatter- 1t would 1ill a book to print their name: Charles Town, like nearly all other towns, is governed by a mavor and city council. The mayor is A. M. S. Morgan, and the councilmen, elected about two weeks ago, are A. D. Ma. hong H. Bradley, J. W. Gatney, W. H. Baldwin, G. Conklyn, Wil liam H. Anderson, S. Lee Phillips and Frank Cockrell, James M. Mason, jr., is the city attorney; D. C. Dolly, clerk, and James A. Smith, collector and treasurer. . The water supply of the town is farnished by a corporation under the name of the Charles Town Water Company. The water flows from a spring into a reservoir, is pumped into a standpipe and th(nce is piped throughout the town. Lighting is supplied by the Northern Virginia Poweqr Company, whose plant is on the Shenardoah river, three mil from the town, Fire protection is furnished by two volunteer com- panies, each of which owns its quar- ters and keeps & steam fire engine in readiness to answer fire calls. On of these fire companies is the Citizens and the other the Independent or the Charlie Rouss company, that company otcupying ‘a bulld for the erection of whichiCharles “Broadway” Rouss, millofnaire merchant and philan- thropist, made a substantial contrl- bution. Opposite the courthouse is a building bearing a big glit sign, ‘Rouss Memorial Hall.” And this fact a_ few -recollections of Charl B. Rouss, who for a good many years was much in the public eye and whose memory is cherished in the valley well as in other parts of Virginia. He was bora at Woods- boro, Frederick county, Md, Febru- ary 11, 1836, and was a son of Peter Hoke Rouss and his wife, Belinda Baitzell. The Rouss family was of ancient and distinguished Auatrian cestry, and the Baltzells were prosperous Maryland people before and during’ the American revolution. . genenll given as Charles Broadway Rouss. tainly Charles t was cer- B. Rouss, and the writer of these lines belleves, though he does not know, that the “B” in ' Mr. Rouss’ name stood for “Baltsell,” surname, d thy Licklider, N. R. Roberts, J. H. Black- ford, J. J. Lyne, J. W. Irvin, A. L Grandstaff, J. H. Dutrow, F. B. Robinson, M. B, Myers, T. J. West, 3 G. T. Shirley, W. A. Fulk, C. G. Moler, C. T. Engle. W.C. Relly, L. N. Bonham and 1. D. Myers. says that in the fall and winter of _Two raliroads, the Norfolk and|159-60 he was a boy learning the Western and the valley branch of the | watchmaker's trade at Charles Town. Baltimore and Ohio, lead to Chatles| John Brown was hanged December Town. Transportation facilities arg ade- | 2. 1859, Cook and Coppoc, white, and quate. The Baitimore and Ohio freight | Copeland and Green. colored, four of agent is Frank Cockerell; ticket | Brown's confederates in the raid on agent and operator, Walter A. Spangler, | Harpers Ferry, October 17, 3559, were and the express agent, Mr. Ford. e | han on the same scaffold Decem- Norfolk and Western station agent is|ber 16, 1859, and Stevens and Haz- Mr. Early and the operators and ticket [lett, white, two of the Harpers Ferr, agents, Messrs. Lugar and McComb. raiders, were hanged March 16, 1860. The pastors of the Protestant churches [ Mr. Avey writes: are the Rev. Conrad H. Goodwin, Epis- | ~“They were all hanged in the same copal; the Rev. Goodwin Frazer, Bap-|Meld and from the same scaffold. tist; the Rev. G. G. Sydnor, Presbyter- | which was taken down each time and ian, and the Rev. T. M. Swann, Metho- | stored away in the jail yard, and dist Episcopal South. The ‘Catholic | was afterward transformed into a church is a chapel of St. Peter's at |portico in front of Mr. Rannel's resi- Harpers Ferr§, and the congregation is | dence in Charles Tow - served by the Rev. Father J. A. Curran| Mr Avey lectured in_many citles of St. Peter's. The Rev. Dr. A. C. Hop- | on the subject of John Brown's cap- kins, who was chaplain of the Stonewall | ture and death. and told many anec- up with fine buildings and is now the finest residence section of Charles Town. Col. John Gibson. a Confed- erate colonel, purchased this spot of ground and erected his fine residence there.” Avey. writing of himself, THE officers of Jefferson county. of | Town in 1859 and published a book | town, but since then it has been bullt } THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. | dotes of Capt. John Avis. Jailer_at Charles Town: ard Parker, who presided trial; Andrew Hunter, the pros ing attorney, and Lawson Botts, J. Faulkner ‘and L. C. Green, who appeared for the accused and Whom i Brown _dismis and George H | Hoyt of Boston, Samuel Chilton of | Washington and Hiram Griswold of Cleveland, who continued Brown's defense and conducted it until the end of the last dark chapter. Mr. Avey tell€ that John Brown, under sentence of death, walked out of the jail at 11 am. and mounted a three- | zeated epring wagon. taking the mid- die seat beside Sheriff Moore. Capt. John . the jafler. and George | Saddier. the undertaker, sat on the | front seat and Deputy Jailer James | Campbell the hack seat.” The wagon s surrounded and accompanied by companies of mili i Arriving at the scaffold, which was surrounded by troops. he walked up and. facing south. arms were bound with rope at the elbows and j his legs at the knees. The military i officers, Sheriff John Moore, Jailer Avis, Deputy CampbeH, Dr. Strath and George Saddler. the un- dertaker, were the only persons per- mitted to be between the square of troops and the scaffold. The remains of John Brown were taken from Charles Town at 4 o'clock that after- noon. and delivered to his widow at Harpers Ferry. Thence they were taken Lo his old fiome, ut North Elba, Essex county, N. Y., where they pest. TEE VWILLIAM DARKE. one of the orig- inal trustees of Charles Town, and whose grave is near the vener- able city, was a man of renown when the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah re- gions were the “wild west” of the American colonije. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1736, but his parents moved to a place about five miles from. Shepherdstown when he was a ochild. He was an officer in the Vir-' ginia provincial troops. serving with Braddock, and was present at the great defeat. He has been described as a man of “herculean frame, rough manners, strong, uncultivated mind. and of a disposition frank and fear- less.” An officer in the revolutionary army, he was taken prisoner at the battle of Germantown. in 1777, but en | being released in the autumn of 1780 he returned to his home, and in the spring of 1781 was at Winchester or- Eanizing troops. He rejoined Washington's army in command of a regiment recruited in Hampshire and Berkeley counties, and took’ part in the siege of Yorktown. At thevend of the revolution he re- sumed his farming. He was chosen as one of" the representatives of Ber- keley county to the Virginia conven- tion of 1788,«which had been called to approve or reject the proposed Con- stitution of" the United States, and he voted for its:adoption. He was an officer in Gen. Bt.. Clalr's arimy in the Indian wars during President Wash- ington's administration,’ and his youngest son, Capt. Jozeph Darke, ‘was killed in action. Gen. Darke (his regiment having been expanded to a brigade just before the siege of Yorktown) died on his farm, Novem- ber 20, 1801. Jefterson county was formed 1801 from Berkeiey, and in Howe's baok of 1845 I8 this: “It was settied principally by old Virginia families from the ecastern part of the state, and the inhabitants still retain that high and chivalrous spirit and gener- ous hospitality for which the race was #0 remarkable in the palmy days of 1ts prosperity.” Brown's Judge Rich- the ut- at ' B James A pEBERRE