Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1906-08-09

genial and most able Judge Robert
Ford
March. 3 1850. was she last mar.
rage registered 1t Newtown BY
Father James WaIton AtthIs point
he IS lost sighf Of until sometime 10
i7s6 when Re appeared al ST tnigo's
and WAS II charge ihore He had
crested dnfinR lhe next year she
pFssent SnFy HeAi ghufch 6i Sk III
|igos which Is still ID zine conai
ltlon he baptized and christened
the late Colonel william Coad
! who was born Nov ~, lSu3, but be
fore The nov year was inaugurafed
the good old priest ceased 10 labor
Ior she salvation ot souls. and was
buried ia the Jesuit Tot close to the
sacred edilics he had erected some
eighteen years previously. AlIcon.
Temporary authorities mention him
as having been exceedingly loved
By those who knew him we'll, and
~ manifestation 81 their high IS.
seem for bis many good qualities Of
bead aud hears they erected i very
naas monumentovsr bis grave which
staods vol preserved IL she pres.
ens time
The much lamented Father Wal
ton was succeeded BY Father syIges-
ter Boarman, Father Henry. Father
Iaantxan and Father sphinx down Is
the coming 81 tho great missionary,
Father Joseph carberry. native 81
Newiown Mock, who arrived ia 1916.
There IA much dofaood tomb.
caused BY sha orumbiIng q the
stone. oyer sbe Rraye o. Father
Horny whoss sshes ere near those
d Father Walton
Father Rausxan was the priest il
charge, October 1914. when an Eng.
4 iish bsres came ID 81 Iuigos House
ia command 81 Lieut. Haneock,
and sbe men thereof robbed the
chapel 10 the cid mansion ~ the sa.
Tered vessels and al other articles 81
ans value
Tho Father Sphinx mentioned aboVe
xas probably Dalss 81 insN c8ur.
4 tyos st Mary 4, Tor there $50 raeord
i'll shc Walton Jourusl III tbs marrl.
nee. December -. ire q Joseph
stooe and DOROTHY Spins. and agalu
Nov -. IT'S, 81 Joseph Ford and
Eienrieita Splnk The writer soil
remembers while home 10 vacation
from College being On i gisit ID she
Maddox boys II Teonardtown. so-
seph and Fred about 1874. tho ior-
mer induced bimblm o 10 tod small
house ID bis fathers orchard 70 sec
al old o0loresi man named Henry
splnk who was very near II death,
as his breatking indicated He
doubtless came from 1 family whose
name Be assumed, ahioh was quite
usual ID shose simes as III manifest
@ by tbs great plumbers 81 colored
people III tbs county who bear The
names d Barnes, sommeryllle. &c.
Il III possible and evcn probable
thar the Rev Nr sphinx was the
onIy brother 81 Tho Two ladies' men.
sloned. who gare married u Joseph
sione and Joseph Ford Thus the
family probably became extinct ii
name. while the stock may still DO
with us under someo other cognomon.
/ VINO Of our antiquarians can toll u.s.
That the virtues o. tho splnk family
werp very conspiuous seems certain,
and ii is hoped have been TRANSMITS.
tea % the present generation, but
iew are likely % be lound who win
nos agree 10 its uot being ragresable
thai the Old patronymic has passed
out Of existence, because Ii was III
! questionably wanting 10 any suggos.
ton Of concord Of sweet sound
The writer sincerely wishes that
Others took the same interest ia anti
I quated subjects IS NE docs. and
] would 20 70 . little trouble 10 writ
ing them np lor the public, Every
man o. age and moderate education
! Ii our midst must have learned
something Of his parents Of what
/ transpirod hundred years or more
ago, not generally known, which he
could with little trouble give Out Is
! The general public. II may be that
like she writer Of this paper, they
have The ieeling about them that
the vast majority Of your readers
take little or ne Interest IN the read.
Ing Of legends and authentic doings
Land sayings oi them who proceeded
! them d century OF twoago. Iwonld
/ like much 10 write Of tho many Incl