Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-03-19
For the SPECTATOR.
Cant. Henry B. Roland.

MR.. EDITOR The traveller from Har-
risonburg to Staunton in the year 1872,
when war was declared by the United
States against Great Britain, would fol-
low the old road over which old Charley
Beckett lam doubtful if I spell his
name correctly carried the first mail
from Winchester to Staunton. Where
the village of Mt. Crawford spreads out
he would have found one house, occu-
pied by one - Foley, and down near
the foot of the hill, towards the Grattan
ford. Henry Hansbarger carried on a
blacksmith shop. ct Burke's mill,
John Donihoo was the only citizen-his
brother Hugh, at the time, lived at the
old stone house on the KeezletOwn road.
He was the father of the late Mr.. Doni-
hoo of Staunton, who spelled his name
Donighe. Where Mt. Sidney is, or
rather below, Capt. Samuel Frame
lived where the late Addison Hyde
lived. Adjoining him below was one
- Roland, who owned the old Plow
and Harrow tavern. There is no re-
membrance as to where this man Ro-
land came from, or the date at which he
settled there. He had four sons John
who was a cavalry officer on the north
ern frontier, very fine looking man !;
David, George. and Henry B., whose
name is found at the head of this COM
munication. He became a prominent
man in that community. He succeeded
Capt. Samuel Frame as the comman-
dant of the cavalry company of the old
32nd Regiment. that held its regimen
tai musters in October at old Peter Han
gers, the Willow Spout. The Writer'S
first remembrance Of one of these mus
ter's, when he was boy, was to see
Capt. Henry B. Roland, who reminded
him of Marshall Ney, one of Napoleon's
famous cavalry officers, at the head of
this splendid company Of cavalry, in
making charge upon the regiment
In those days, the character of this
troop may be judged of, when the wide
scope of country, east of the jennings
Gap road, via Staunton to Waynesboro',
considered famous for it's stalwart men
and spirited horses. doubt if the ma
terial for finer cavalry was ever found
in any country. This troop reached the
zenith of its fame under Capt. Henry
B. Roland. He married Patsey, daugh-
ter of Hugh Glenn, who then lived at
the west end OF what is now the village
of Mt. Sidney, and who, with his large
family. will be treated of as a part of
this article. Some of his children have
become so prominent and SO impressed
themselves on some of the western and
the Pacific States, that they deserve hon
orable mention. Capt. Roland pur-
chased some fifty or more acres of land
from his father-in-law, and somewhere
about 1928 laid off and gave name to the
village of Mt Sidney. He opened and
carried on successfully for several years
store in the heart of the village. We
cannot give the date at which the post
office was established. Capt. ROLAND
studied medicine, and removed with
his family to Indiana, and practiced
successfully to his death. The first store
that we have any knowledge of, Mr..
Editor, was established by your uncle
Michael Mauzy, a few hundred yards
west of the old Plow and Harrow. and
near the present intersection of the
Keezletown road with the Valley pike.
His wife was Laird, raised under the
shadow Of the Peaked mountain. A
Mr.. Kemper attended the store for him
a number of years, and then opened a
store near Cross Keys in Rockingham.
We have no knowledge where Hugh
Glenn was born, but suppose it was near
where we find him at the beginning of
this century. He was married three
times. His first wife, Betsey McCaus
land, was daughter of John McCaus-
land, of Chambersburg. Pa. He was
educated for the church, but became a
teacher, and in the last decade of the
last century taught some years in Staun-
ton, about Waynesboro', and in parts of
Albemarle. He married Montgomery
or a Hamilton in Staunton, second
wife. Hugh Glenn had sons, George,
John, and James T. and Patsy Roland !;
Charlotte Windle, who, with her hus-
band, Washington Windle, are residing
in New Market, and have large family.
His son George married a daughter of
his fathers second wife, Mrs. Anderson,
nee Turk, sister of the late Capt. James
Turk, She had one son and three
daughters by her first husband, Ander-
son, and one of these, Polly Anderson,
was the wife Of Geo. Glenn and mether