Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-09-11

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patent upon the invention, model
of which may seen at Mr.. Lights
drug store.
From The Shepherdsto,0n Register.
Mr.. J. P. Keprfott, who lives near
Kearneysville, raised this year 800
bushels of wheat on 6S4 acres of land
-an average of about 26 bushels to the
acre.
The Hagerstown fair will be held
this year on the 10th, goth, 21st and
ed of October.
A man named George Stein fell
through the trestle work of the Shen-
andoah Junction last Sunday night.
Although he fell more than twenty
feet, he escaped with slight bruises.
DUDLEY DIGGEs PENDLEToN, an
account of whose deplorable death was
given in the Shepherdstown Register,
was born in Louisa county, Virginia,
on the I'd of March, 1910. He was
the eldest son of the late Hugh
Nelson Pendleton, of Clarke county,
Virginia, and the sixth eldest son in
the line of direct decent from Philip
Pendleton, who was born in Norwich,
England, in 1850, emigrated to Vir-
ginia in 1874, and having settled in
that portion of New Kent county,
Virginia, which now forms the coun-
ty of Caroline, became the founder OF
the Pendleton families of Virginia.
His mother was Elizabeth Digges, a
daughter of Dudley Digges of Louisa
county, Virginia, and granddaugh-
ter of Governor John Page in the
county of Gloucester, Virginia. He
was named after his maternal grand
father Dudley Digges. direct descen-
dant of the celebrated Sir Dudley Dig
ges of Chilham Castle, Kent County,
England, who distinguished himself
in Parliament during the region OF
King Charles the First, was Master of
the Rolls, Ambassador to Russia, &c.
Collaterally Mr.. Pendleton was re-
lated to most of the prominent Vir-
ginia families who fourished i'm the
Colonial period-the Nelson's, Byrds,
Wormleys, Corbins, Carriers, Burwells,
Grymes, Pages, Wellfords, &c. 1t is
not, however, on account of his line
age and family connections that Mr..
Pendleton's memory will be cherished
by his numerous friends, but because
he was a truly good man who, in his
character and conduct, illustrated the
qualities of a Christian gentleman
whose sense of duty inspired the ac-
tons of his daily life and enabled
him to be prepared to meet his sudden
and painful death with heroic forth
tude and resignation.
When the late civil war began he
had, but short time before, gradu-
ated with honor at Washington Col
lege-now known as Washington and
Lee University-at Lexington, Vir-
ginia, and promptly obeying the call
of his Mother State when she sum-
moned her sons to her defense, he did
his duty faithfully and fearlessly, as
an officer of the Army of Northern
Virginia, throughout that sad sangui-
nary episode of our country's history,
serving for most of the time as Adju-
tant on the personal staff of his dis
tinguished uncle, the late Rev. DR..
William Nelson Pendleton, of Lex
ington, Virginia, Major General and
Chief of Artillery of the Army of
Northern Virginia. After the sur.
render at Appomattox Court House.
he went to work with characteristic
energy to bring again into cultivation
the devastated fields of his fathers
estate and to restore to his aged pa
rents the comforts of which they had
been deprived by the war. Having
faith in the fact that it is mans duty
to do the best of his ability that which
his hands find to do in the line of life's
requirements, he gave practical proof
that his faith in this respect was not
without its appropriate works. AS a
farmer, he was intelligent, industri-
GUS and progressive. AS teacher,
he was painstaking. thorough and
faithful. AS a member of the church,
he was active, consistent and consci.
entious. AS a citizen, he was, at all
times and on all topics, manly. frank
and fair-doing what he believed to
be right without fear or favor and re-
CARELESS of consequence TO himself.
He was a devoted husband. fond
father, reliable friend and an uncom
promising foe to vice in all its forms
and had no respect for those who seeh
to sap the morals of youth by tempt
ing them to dissipation. Among the
community in he lived there is no one
who fails 10 recognize his merits as {
man, to appreciate the value of hi.
Christian example in all the relation.
OF life, and to deplore his untimely
death.
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