The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-29

vjrgInians," resided as spiritual pastor. 4
md master" OF that parish, at Linden:
the residence Of the ,.i writer's father? IN
Frank" of "the good ship Rachel, : what
n SUSPICIOUS "mctem podchosts' Us Of name 1
and person occurs retrospsotive9ly from
1859 TO 1853 In the real Captain Frank, I
trusted Shipper between tho waters OF
NVestmore Gland and Baltimore during the
two decades prior to the Issuance OF this
Unlike Dickens, who spent years In
cleaning the fields OF fact before produce
Ing his works of icdon. Tha ckeray{3
$blographer says Of him: He travelled In
the real sense, and used perceptiys rae
ultes, such as are given to fey obser y.
witnessed 4 in his books. Els first trip
I to New York WIS in s62, his second 3 IN
1856, where he was received Z the same an
roughly returned. 3 85I, IL t
Dr.. John Augustine Smith, who was O.
physician. and no a clergyman as ro-$
5terestirng letter from Westmoredand APP
5pearing In your last Sunday s Issue, re-S
signed his posi- ton as the Z tenth presi.5
aHnt G an tha
4 OF Medicine in the city Of New York d ur-3
Ing that year, where he died in 1865. Es "a
sentially society man, man r,le t,
OF William and Mary. ~ in his &. LIVES ]
OF the Presidents Of the College,,'S n
thor OF recognized standing, his wife the
oldest daughter Of Mrs. Richard Lee. Sof8
Lee Hail. and himself having been
Society asrns ds o5s
zerays visits, dt Is not difficult to infea.s
derived the facts for the estmoreland2
Nntipathies Carried over from Viz
glna, the English colony, to Virginia, . tho
American State, to things institution
Tory politics. took rapid reac t!onaryi eff
feet In Virginia after the Revolution. and.
asa component part dts diocese, oples
fsl queay that peroa
tide. The last clerical incun bent ofsitsj
original parsonage, known as q. the
refersed ~
4 Rev Thomas Smith, father Of Dr. ] ohm
Augustine Smith Dr. Smith having been i
born at the Parsonage August -, 10.
5suance Of the statute passed by the Leg =
tislature Of Virginia January e.55t ls0s.s
$"Cople Parish remained without u reg
Moore and for a number OF years sub
sequently to the date last mentioned,
i"Yeocomlco Church, by tacit consent t. Tor
4 from u II fl, under the clause or thu
statute referred to. that required, by tn1-ss
plication or otherwise church buildings
II not used for religious worship to be sold) 4
was used as a house OF worship In COM 5
mon by Episcopalinns and NIethodiSrs. vi
lSl The writer recalls q tradition that a.
question arose during the ministry uf theS
Rev William N. Ward as to the legal I
title OF the church property between the
2IIpiscopulians and the AIethodsts. arising
from the wording OF the statute Of 1902
and the long use of the building by the5
latter 1t was settled In favor OF the
mother church. In an era In Virginia
yet an "age OF chivalry," when hospi tal-3
lily wns ln its flower. rectorles were
OF tho "nonessentials." and "cople Par
:Ish'' had no parsonage to succeed that
referred to until 1856. when its presentt5
8rectoly was built upon tract donated
K by the father Of the writer. a numerous
line of ministerial successlons to the Rev
Thomas Smith had wrought for God and
for holy lives down to the close of the
inte-belum period. 1S60-'6l During the
Interim referred to two auxiliary churches
to '.YeocomIco" had been erected In the !
parish the one upon the banks of tho \
Nomlni River, deriving its name from he
beautiful stream upon which Y Z, stands aI,a.
through the Initiative OF pr; Robert M,f,s
ply; tho other, known rs the Chapei,
erected near tho rectory, at the hamlett
known as 1.-THE Hague, " through the ms
fIuence OF the late Bishop Newton and tho
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