The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-21

his first wife not known; his second was
Mary Ball. daughter of Colonel Joseph
Ball, of "Epping Forest" Lancaster
county, who was son OF Colonel william
Ball, the cmigrant to Vlrginin, as we
her. (See Brown Family, January 17th.)
Mary Ball was the daughter Of Colonel
Ball by his second wife. who was Mary.
Johnson. a widow. Of Lancaster county.
Mary Ball was born 1907 or s. She mar
ried Augustine Washington March, 8,
1880 or 81. and died August 20, 1889, aged
eighty-two. at her home near Frederlcks-
burg Augustine Washington had seven
children, two of whom supposed by his
first wife, and five by his last. After
the birth Of his youngest, George, In l132,
ho moved to his estate In Stafford coun-'
ty, near the then small town of Fred
erlcksburg, on tho Rappahannock, where
he resided until his death In 1s43
The house in which he lived has long
since vanished. but George here spent
his boyhood days. going to all oldfield
school; and tradition says that when a
young man 1t was hero that he threw a
stone across tho Rappahannock River
mot the Potomac), feat which has ncy-
err since been accomplished.
BY the will of Augustine Washington
he gave a plantation to each Of his three
sons. To his eldest, Lawrence, he gave
the "NIount Vernon" estate, near "IIunt-
Ing Creek" then containing $500 acres,
besides the lands and iron works III Mary
land and Virginia.
To his second son, Baily, an estate In
Westmoreland: to George, tho estate on
which lie died, in Stafford county. and
III Ira, iptp cbil rs.
tate OF six or seven hundred acres.
After his death. Mrs, Washington lived
with her five children, the eldest being
then only eleven years old. all Of whom
| she lived to sec grown up to manhood
and to reap the honors and high reward
of grateful country upon her youngest,
| Mrs. Washington died In 1889 at the
| age OF cighty-flve years, and WAS buried
on the plantation Of her son-in-law, Col.
Fielding Lewis. her grave now being
| marked by a massive monument erected
| by the government of tho United States.
One Of the sons of Augustine Washing
| ton was I3aily washington. of Stafford
| county: his eldest son, L!eutenant-Colonel
| William Washington, born 1852. entered
| cary in the Revolutionary Mar. serving
| first under General Mercer and After
| wards was made brigadier-general. He
! died at Charleston, s, o., 1910. he mar
| ricd a Miss Elliot, of South Carolina, ~
! l7S2 and after the war resided at his
| wile's ancestral home, on the sand
! HIS" South Carolina.
4 Elizabeth Called Betty Washing ton, the
! eldest daughter of Augustine Washington
and Mary Ball, married Colonel Fielding
Lewis, who is said to have owned hall
Of the town of Fredericksburg and mucf
OF the surrounding country. AS Genera
George Washington loft no children, The
nearest descendants kin To him are from
the families of his sister ana brothers.
OF the children of Colonel Fielding Lew
is.fal OF his sons were most prominent
during the Revolution and held some
high office. They were Captain l'ieldns
Lewis, Jr. Captain George Lewis o.
/ Washing;on's Life Guard: Major Law
renee Lewis, who was aide-de-camp Is
4 General Morgan, and Captain Robert Lev
4 Is, WashiIston's private secretary, Thel
| only daughter, Elizabeth Lewis, married
Charles Garter Esd, Of Shirley.
1 All Of these sons left large families
many Of their descendants being We
among Ms, and Of whom we have men
4 toned under the articles on Lewis.
/ Judge Bnshrod Washington WAS born
4 1852, in Iyestlnoreland county, Ma; III
| became the fayorite nephew OF Genera
4 Washington. and was the deyisef Of thu
/ Mount Vernon estate. lie WAS fine law
1 yer, and became a.member Of tho House
/ OF Delegates III 1851. lie was also asso