The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-11-07


wood; Mr.. James and Humphrey, late re-
preventative, are the sons.
DR.. Wolfe's grandmother was sister
Of Col. John Hammond Riggs, grand
father of Glenwood's physician, DIR. Au-
gustus Riggs, whose grandmother, Rebec-
ca Howard, was daughter of Rebecca
Boone and sister of Margaret Boone, wife
of John Dorsey, Jr The only daughter
of John Dorsey, Jr., Margaret, married
William Gather, of Frederick county, who
left John d. and Richard, both bachelors,
Mrs. Elizabeth Norris, Mrs. Margaret
Poole, Mr.. Henry G. Gather, who mar
ried Julia Maynard and George NJ, whose
daughter, Kate Poole Gather, who re-
Gently married Col. Washington Bowie, OF
Montgomery county.
Another daughter of Samuel Owings
and Ariana Dorsey, Maria, continued the
connection by her marriage with Dennis
Dorsey. She left Nicholas, Samuel o.,
Roderick, Gustavus, William F. and Ann.
The Oldest, bachelor, alone is left In
Howard, but the sons of Samuel Owings
have continued the connection, as follows !:
William married Miss Sellers, and left l..
[. ellis Owings, late Commissioner, who
married Maria, of Samuel o. Dorsey;
Samuel, of Samuel, married Elizabeth Dor
sey, of George, sister of Mrs. David
Clarke and left George Dorsey, of Penn
sylvania Joshua married Mary Dorsey, of
Philemon, whose house has given three
more wives to Montgomery; William &.
Owings, late Sheriff, is not yet married.
The hero of this sketch, Col. Richard
Dorsey, of John, married in 1902, when
forty nine years of age, Ann Wayman, of
John and Ann Warfeld.
Ex-senator McCreery, of Kentucky, the
children of Gen. Thomas Hood, Rev.
Benjamin Hood and Col. Lyde Griffith, of
Capt Samuel, all 60 back to John Way
man, of Virginia.
COL Richard Dorsey's oldest son, Nor
timer, represented this county in the Leg
islature, settled his father estate, married
Maria Skinner, of Upper Marlboro bought
"Rockland" of his sister, Achsah, and
left Richard H., whose wife is daug liter
of DIR. Hammond, Of Frederick county.
William married Miss Snowden, grand
daughter of Dr. Gustavus Warfeld. Nor
timer married Miss Sally Crapster, grand
daughter of Mr.. Basil Crapster; Mrs.
Adolphus Crapster, Mrs. Rebecca Griffith
and Miss Helen complete the six children.
COL Dorsey's daughters were Mrs.
Henry Ridgely, mother of our late Com
missioner John Ridgely, Mrs. Major
Charles Hood; Mrs. John Hood, of Gen.
Thomas Hood; Mrs. DR.. Warner Hobbs,
Of Frederick county, and Mrs. Norris, of
St. Louis.
The youngest son of Colonel Richard,
Caleb, inherited "Happy Retreat mar
ried Caroline Riggs, of Thomas, and left
Thomas, of Baltimore, whose widow is
Margaret, daughter of the late Daniel
Banks, Of Baltimore.
Richard, of Caleb, next inherited it,
married Carrie, daughter of Samuel ..
Dorsey, and sister Of Col. Gust. Dorsey,
of Montgomery county.
After the death Of his wife, he sold the
place to Mr.. John Delashmutt, of Freder
lex county, and removed to Baltimore.
The death Of Col. Dorsey, which occurred
in 1926, aged 73 years, was sudden. 1t
was his custom to walk over the place ac-
companied by his dog. Upon one Of these
walks feeling weak, he sat down under a
tree and died. His faithful companion,
seeing the end, hurried to the house and
by his action induced the family to follow
him to the spot. For several days this
dog was a lone sentinel over the old hero
grave. His remains are in the quite grave
yard of his Happy Retreat. Like
many others of his companions in arms no
memorial has yet been offered to his mem
DRY.
Longfellow, who lived in the old house
where Washington made his headquarters
at Cambridge and where Col. Dorsey may
have been received, pays, it seems to me,
an appropriate tribute to these old soldiers,
in his immortal lines Of Evangeline, the
Huguenot.
Unknown and unnoticed they lie,
Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside
them;
ofthrobbing hearts,
Where theirs are at rest and forever
of aching brains.
Where theirs no longer are busy;
Thousands of toiling hands
Where theirs have ceased from their labors;
Thousands of weary + ct,
Where theirs have completed their journey"
UNoME
Motimer Dorsey, of Westminster, Md,