The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1903-08-01
"REMINISCENCES.
A MEMORABLE YEAR RECALLED
Another Chapter From The Elusive nemory Of An
Old Resident OF Elkton.

I entity with the Baltimore Militia in the
war of 1872 with the rank of Colonel.
and afterwards was hrcvrtted Major
General. At the April term of the Cir
cult Court the death of both these prom
! inrnt citizens of the town was taken
cogni%Arcr of in feeling resolutions pre-
pared and reported TO the Court by
| Ezekiel f. Chambers and Colonel John
It. Groome.
In the same year, 1912, George Me
| Cullou=h. II brother of the late Hiram
Net Iillough. who afterwards married
Miss Svhilla Miller. daughter of Sam1
II. Miller. of Wilmington. Del. was ap.
pointed Clerk by the Governor of the
| State
In this same year. and in the same
month of january. us an interesting local
event We note. that Hiram McCul!ough
w"S married to Miss Sarah Jane Rick
cttS. and located in the property now oc-
rupird by the widow and family of tn,
late George Ricketts,. and where on the
following Fourth of July 1S42l he enter
t9irrl at dinner the Cecil Grcy'S" n
local Military Company of which he WAS
member. and of which the late Francis
y. Ellis was Captain, and States Attor-
ncy Richard +. GrA>on Lieutenant.
1t would seem. that some local rivalry
existed between the two military com
pauirS of the town, the Cecil GrcyS"
and the "Elkton Guards" of which the
late Colonel George II. Howard WAS
Captain. as while the "GrryS" were be-
ing entertained on the Nations Natal
Day by Mr.. Mccullough ut his residence.
the Millim@ton Guard" of Kent county.
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