The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-28

the place being given to her and her
husband. Lawrence Lewis. the son of
Betty Washington, as wedding present
from General Washington, in whose
house both were reared. General Wash
ington not only gave them the farm of
1000 acres, but he gave them handsome
purse with which to build a mansion. No
other home in the south was so interest
ing or had such a reputation for hospi-
tally. The celebrities of the first quar-
ter OF the last century were entertained
there. and it viii ever be a matter of re-
gret that the mistress of the mansion did
not write her memoirs. Probably no other
American woman has ever lived who could
contribute more to literature, concerning
the social and political doings of the con-
structive days of the republic, than she
could. She had very complete educa-
ton and as much wit and lively imagin-
alton as any woman of any time.
She became a widow in 1855 and lived
until 1853, the farm going TO ruin in the
meantime. 1t is now in a great many
small farms operated by thrifty New Jer-
sey farmers who grow cabbages and mel
ons and tobacco on the land and drive into
Washington every morning to sell their
products at the center market
Nearly everybody has heard of Fair
fax county, Virginia, or 'Old Faufax."
as the natives call it. This is its story in
brief: The third Lord Fairfax was gen
eral in the Round Head armies of
Cromwell and figured in the events that
brought Charles the First TO the scaffold
where he lost his head after writing a
very readable poem. This same Lord
Fairfax was a cousin of the Baron of
Cameron IN Scotland, and this baron be-
came the Sixth Lord Fairfax. His moth
er was the daughter of Lord Culpepper.
who received from King James the Sec
ond in 1855, a grant o. land in Virginia.
described as the ''Nortnern neck of Fir-
ginia." between the Potomac and Kappa
hammock rivers, several million acres. He
inherited ali this land. but being too busy
himself sowing wild oats in London. he
sent his cousin. Lord William Fairfax
over to run the place for him. This VIII
liam was chief justice of the Bahama ISL
ands and was married while there 10
Sarah Walker of Nassau He was after
wards made collector of His Majesty's
revenues at Salem. While there Sarah
died and her last wish was this strange
one, that her husband should marry De-
borah Clark, a widow who had been chum-
my with her The dutiful lord and hus-
band carried out her wish almost immedi-
ately. and in 1874 moved TO Belvoir where
both started in by giving the amplest
hospitality ever known in the south. In
the meantime Baron Thomas of Cameron
fell in love in England. asked for the
hand of one of the court ladies and be-
came engaged TO her. He quit his wild
ways. became truly a peer of the realm,
lived during the engagement a model life
and when the day of the wedding came.
the lady Tilted him and ran off and got
married 10 young rake with a coronet.
This soured the Sixth Lord of Fairfax.
Baron of Comeron. and he came to Amer
lea He lived for six years with his cousin
at Belvoir, after which he went over on
the Shenandoah and built mansion. Near
it he built a log hut. Was this for his
steward? Not much. Lord Fairfax, with
his fox hounds slept and lived in this hut
while his steward lived in the mansion
it was a freak of a bechelor who had been
Tilted
During the time the Baron of Cameron
lived with his cousin, at gay Belvoir. a
rustic-Iooking lad of fourteen rowed out
of Epsewassen and tied his little boat at
the landing of Belvoir. The Barons eye
noticed him and he spoke to him. He
found him an apt chap and engaged him
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