The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1901, Page 1

—— .+ SMASAING THE BIG GUNS TO ATOMS < WICKEDEST MAN IN AMERICA TELLS HIS OWN STORY . PAGE 2 PAGE 7 ==u FRANK R. STOCKTON HAS SOMETRING TO SRY AROUT GHOSTS == PAGE R T WILL SEILN THE SWORD OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTOR GEORGE WASHING-// ToN Jfh HE sword of George Washington be sold for the benefit of a is t of us did not know that the Miss Virginia »wner of it, always kept it so very few of us realized that cle was preserved. der what G;:ovrge to us and what his , it becomes apparent sted at the heirlooms preserved in e most important. No ss Lewis refused $50,000 ses to hold out for he time that she refused $50,000, ve refused $5 She did not in- , for she felt that it 1 not to be oney. But now n, the daughter of Betty Washing- —and she is go- one of these days, and g to put her great- times-great uncle’s and n. accomplished about d already. It attend- some Frenchmen 1S In a very neat manner wed the British a trick have earned a rest by d think, but no. price that Baby Mann er mother calls more when she ws up. Lee Lewis Mann, niece of d mother of Betty, set out e ago for Baltimore to sell Miss Lewis has already ne- h the Metropolitan Museum ut the museum- disagrees matter of $50,000. 000 for the heirloom a; as not as yet gone above the earliest escapades . when it made its g a name that he was com- ed commander-in-chief of all the forces. In Braddock’s cam- ranged 2 field on horseback his sword do duty against a n bullets. Later the sword ugh the Jerseys, then ly prodded pursuing red- and Princeton. It held rough the terrible win- while the men under suffering and peopie were clamoring that he e sword crossed the Dela- ad won peace for its during its owner’s life- e fireplace in the Mourt e sSWo! ne ¥ by which Mrs. Mann traces her connection with George Washing- ton is a long one, full of distinguished people. She is to join the society of Colonial Dames, elite of the elite, in the radiance of which the exclusive Daugh- It | | no Tight at all. | their eyes to be able to squeeze into the She | Dames by even one ancestor: two makes | Most people would give Look at s application: On the paternal side she claims lineal descent from Hon. John Lewis. Hon. Augustine Darner, Colonel Lawrence you a distinguished member. the names on Mrs. Man Washington, Colonel Augustine Wash- | On the | ington, Colonel Fielding Lewis. maternal side she claims lineal descent from Governor Samuel Ogle, Governor Benjamin Tasker, William Bladen. Col- onel Join Tayloe, Hon. Henry Corbin. Any one of these ancestors would ca- title her to become a member of the| Colonial Dames. woman. But she has the further au- dacity to have George Washington for her great-great-great-grand uncle. This comes through the marriage of Colonel Fielding Lewis and Elizabeth Washington, the President’s sister. Mrs. Mann's statement is this: “I was born in Baltimore, Md. Iam the daugiter of Henry Grosvenor Lewis and Elizabeth King. “The said Henry Grosvenor Le was the son of Henry Howell Lewis, U. S. N. and C. S. N. and of Ann Ogle All of them tozethcri make her tenfold a member, and that is | more than enough for one 17-vear-old | | Airy, Va.* “The said Henry Howell Lewis was the son of Samuel Lewis and Sarah At- ta: Miiler, his wife. The said Samuel Lewis was the son of George Lewis and Catherine Dange:r- field fi The saic George Lewis was the son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washing- ton, his wife.” The fainous Octagon House in Wash- ington is the property of the Tayloes, and it was ther¢ that Captain Heriry Howell Lewis, U. S. N, and Ann Tayloe were married, it being the residence of John Tayloe, Mrs. Mann's great-grandfather. The Lewises came to this country in 1635; the Washingtons not until two years later. The Lewises are an old and dislinguishqd Welsh family of Van, County Glamorgan, and Robert' Lewis, 1, his | who sailed from Blessing in 1635, settled in Gloucester County, Va. He was a man of high standing and of large wealth, and had the largest grant of land ever given in Virginia—33,333 acres; time, Charles 1. It was a son of this Lewis who, after marrying Isabella Warner, built the fine old mansion, “Warner Hall.” With Warner - Hall were especially’ connected the earlier ancestors of The coat-of-arms of the Lewls family is perhaps the most extensive and curi- ous in the country. It contains twelve shields. The parents of Robert Lewis, the im- migrant, were Sir ~ Edward Lewis, knighted by James I in 1603. and Lady Ann, daughter of the Earl of Dorset and widow of the Earl of Beauchamp. Miss Virginia Tayloe Lewis, daughter of Captain Henry Howell Lewis of the old navy, is Mrs. Mann’s aunt. She is the nearest representative of both the Washington and Lewis families, and is the best authority on this genealagy. “Did I tell you,” said Mrs. Mann, “that when I was baptized the water with which I was sprinkled was con- tained in Washington’s punch bowl? Of course the punch bowls were much larger then than now. “When my baby was baptized. a year ago, the punch bowl made the trip from Baltimore to serve as a font for her. Her name? Didn’t I tell you? Why, her name is Betty Washington Mann. What else could my little girl be called?” And 10 that same small Betty Wash- ington Mann is to come the heritage of the price of the ancestral sword. It was = BETTY WASHINGTON~ LEWIS , MRS MANN'S GREAT, SREAT,GRFAT GRAND MOTHER. exhibited at the World’s Fair. and Miss | on it went to Tiffany’s, and its owner re- Lewis was offered $20,000 for it. Later | fused a much larger sum for it. . She has set her valuation at $100,000 and that| California to the fittle grand niece of the price she has determined shall come to | distinguished lineage. ters of the American Revolution pale to Tayloe of ‘the Octagon and of Moun: George Washington. 3 ‘-