The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-03-27

lfun ana Little Hunting Creek fallins
u John Washington. 1t included th,
site OF the present Mount Vernon man
sion and was known rs tho Hunting
Creek plantation.
Upon the death of John WASHINGTON
the estate passed by devise to Johns
| son, Lawrence. This was IN January,
1911 On the death of Lawrence the
estate passed to Lawrcncc's son Angus
tine, the father Of The great George
Augustine left the estate by will to his
Oldest son, Ma or Lawrence Wash
lnSton, who was half brother to George
and fourteen years his senior.
Notwithstanding the fact that they
were only half brothers and notwith-
standing the disparity IN their age =,
there was between Lawrence and
George the warmcst brolhcrly affection.
Lawrence was Il progressive, far-sccine
man, ac.iVc in business and in public
llle. lie was interested in the manu-
tacturc of iron, both IN Virginia and
Maryland, and at the time of his death
was president Of the Ohio company, Ct
which he was ono of the originat0rs.
lie served several terms in the House
OF Burgc< srs and was Adiutant-Gcn-
cral, with the rank of ma ior, of the
Northern District Of Virginia. 1t was
he who named the estate Mount Yer
non in honor Of The English admiral,
Edward Vernon, under whom he had
served III the war against SPAN.
Lawrence died in 1902 and his re-
mains rest in the Mount Vernon vault
near those of George Washington. His
vii! provided that in the event of the
death of his child Sarah without issue,
to whom the estate was bcqucstcd, it
was TO go his "bclovcd brother George"
Sarah died soon after her father and
thus it was that Mount Vernon became
forever associated with the lllustrious
name OF George Washington.
George Washington bcqrcathcd The
estate TO his nephew, Judge Bushrod
Washington, take effect on the death
of Martha, George WashinGLon's wife,
who died May p, lSO2, in the room
lmn' dlatcly over the one in winch her
husband had passed away less than
three years before. Bushrod WASH
lnSton in turn bcuucathed the estate 10
his nephew, John \. Washington, who
died III 1882, leaving Mount Vernon to
his third child, j Ohm A. Washington,
who became OF age in 1881 ana lived
at Mount Vernon until April 6, 1858,
when 200 acres of the estate, including
the mansion, the tomb and the wharf
passed to the Ladies' A gociation or
payment of $500, 900. Spectators had
tried to get hold Of the
estate prior TO that, offering much
larger sums for it.
In 1887 the late Jay Gould bought
i:i IL acres that had belonged TO the.
original Mount Vernon estate paying
~ 900 for il and transferring it for
the sum Of 81 that day to the Mount
Vernon association. ~'
Judge Scncr's cXhatI tive report,
which is highly c. mmcnlcd by Cover
nor TJ Ter, of Virginia, in his last an
nual message, gives, in addition to the
minute history Of the estate, the entire
legislative history of the Ladies' 4Asso-
citation, It's constitution and bylaws,
the opinion --concurrcd in by Attorney
General Mon1aguc--of }. Randolph
Tucker IT'S TO the legal status of the
association a sketch of the life Of the
first regent, Ann Pamela Cunningham,
and the interesting incidents connected
with the formation Of The association
lnd Miss Cunningham's lonely resi-
dcncc of many years at Mount Vernon
in a word about everything that la
borious research could get together
the Washington family,
Mount Vernon and the patriotic asso-
clatlon that has Mount Vernon. in
charge, the whole being illustrated
with portraits and maps of much his
torical value.