The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-02-24
SURVIVING SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY
SIRES.
The Graves OF our Local Patriots.
ror Tho EUis and Tntplligencer

For The 1Egis and Intelligencer.
Here are some facts of local interest which
have for some time been intending TO SEND
you, and will first say a few words by way OF ex-
discussion was started on the subject of Sur.
viving Sons of Revolutionary Heroes" IL was
begun. l believe, by Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
who appealed, through New YORK journal,
for "a fund to make Benjamin winchester, or
Connecticut, comfortable for the rest or his
days" She represented him as being eighty
only man on earth whose father actually
fought for American independence, This
was commented on ny wr Ma VICE. ihe Ss o.
wrong-'the Rev. DR.. John @. Morris, of Bal
timOre, being the son OF surgeon in the Rev
9lptonary army so MI S0hn nt nd iaS1 6o of of
course had not seen the above statements, on
receiving an invitation to be present at the
Peggy Stewart banquet In September last,
wrote in reply: ut is an occasion OF special
qualification to me, rs presume am the only
surviving son OF an officer of the Maryland
Line" Mr.. Jucob, on subsequently hearing
that Rev. DIR. Morris WAS the son OF hevolu-
tionary officer, wrote Il special letter congrat-
ulating the Doctor and himself on the fact that
they were ''thc only surviving sons of Revolu-
tionary soldiers Later, two other such sur
vivors were found and placed on record in the
columns of the SU,t-George A. Potts, of Fred
erick county, and John S. Watkins, OF Howard
county. Here, SO fnr Us KNOW, Ine subject
was dropped
now take it up to say that two sons of an
officer of the old Maryland Line are still living
in this county, namely, Mcssrs Parker Hall
Lee and James Carvil Lee, well-known farmers
ON Tobacco run, in Deer Creek valley. Their
father was Parker Hall Lee, son of Samuel
Hall, son of Capt. John Hall, of Cranberry"
Samuel Lees father was James Lee, who was,
think the james Lee who settled at the head
of Bush River early in the last century-h1S
wife being Elizabeth Wilson, believe.
Parker Hall Lee of revolutionary memory,
was born January 14th, 1859. In ITS, while
Sd Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment of the
Maryl lard Line, commanded by Col; Josias Car
vii Hall, of this county, and served credltabiy
throughout the war. In 1882, on 10th April,
he married Elizabeth, daughter of Major VIII
linn Dallam and his wife, Ann Matthews Dali
lam, by whom ne had sons and daughters. She
dying, ne married Mrs Mary howard Muhlllk-
huysen, and to them were born the two sons
above named, now living, and other cilldren
After his marriage he resided on his farm,
Jericho" on Tobacco run, consisting OF about
one thousand acres which though at that time
comparatively unproductivc, is now as fertile
tract of land us can be found in the State
The greater part OF It descended 10 .ne Two
Parker Hall Lee died May 9th, 1929, aged
seventy seven years. His grave is on portion
of the original tract, on n small tributary OF
Tobacco run. | have not seen it for many
years. but as well as ! recollect, it is enclosed
by wall some fifteen feet square and is marx
ed by IL stone bearing an inscription. The
spot was, when | last saw it, surrounded by
trees in cultivated field | think one or two
other members of his family are inferred with
i'll the enclosure.
1t would be interesting to know how many
other of our revolutionary heroes nave their
final resting places in this county-their locali-
ty and their present condition. Is II too much
to hope that persons who have such knowledge
or who can get it, will impart it through the
columns of the county newspapers? Surely
if each correspondent could tell of but one
such grave the information would be wei
coined by all who appreciate the blessings Of
liberty and admire the spirit which aided in
it. Several hundred men of this
county were active either i'll field or i'll council,
in advancing the cause OF Independence
Such being the case, strange indeed would 1t be
if one or more of them were not inferred in al
most every burial place, public and private,
in the county.
Let il be the care of some one In each neigh
borhood, before too late, to search them out
until as many as possible are made known and
so described or marked, il not already done,
that they may at least be identified by future
Interest in these men so far
from diminishing as time goes OIL, is constant
" increasing; and ere long, If indeed it is not
already the case, the slightest trace of the very
least of them will be regarded rs well-nigh sa-
cred. And then. at least if not before, we
shall be ashamed that we do not even know
where their dust reposes.
GEO. W. ARCHER.
Emmorton, Feb. II, 1898.
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