Milford chronicle., 1907-12-13
Places and People Of Milford Neck From
1870 10 1907.

r NAAN property VI H. t. L. ANIltI vi NllllOIi
n and tenanted by David Blizzard was 70
i many years the home of Ezekiel Fit
# Gerald. He inherited it from his fathe
Il and settled on it in early manhood. HI
: had a family of six children-all SONS
r His oldest son, George Edward, was
4 bright bOy-rather above the average fo
, intillingence and managed to acquire &
, a fair common school education, during
/ bis minor years. When grown he en-
gagged in teaching and for several years
followed that occupation. Finally he OBJ.
tained a clerkship in a clothing store in
. Dover, Delaware, and later in Philadel-
phia. He was drafted during the Civil
War but his patriotism quailed at the
horrors of war and he skipped" to Can
ada. The severity of the Canadian win
ter convinced him however that there
is mo place like home, and he returned
in the following spring. After the close
of the war he married and went to Mis-
souri,, since which time he has been en-
gagged in the Newspaper business in Kan.
sas City.
In the last of the Sixties Ezekiel Fitz
Gerald sold his farm in Milford Neck and
went to Sussex county, where he died
few years afterward Three of his sons.
David, Ezekiel and John, married and
settled in Cedar Creek hundred and have
become thrifty farmers. Esquire James |
B. Davis bought the farm of Mr.. Fitz |
Gerald and improved it by erecting new
buildings and repairing the old ones.
After his death it went to his neice,
Mrs George S. Grier, and thence to the
present owner. It is a level plateau or
table land and well adapted to the growth
Of grass and grain and is susceptible of a
high state of improvement.
The next place to be mentioned is a
tract of land belonging to John C. Hall. I
1t was one time the home of Ephriam {
Holliger, who lived there as long ago as
1910. He was quaint individual of tie
genus homo, and lived almost as secluded
as did Alexander Silkirk on thesIsland of a
Juan Fernandez, his home and farm
being entirely surrounded by swamps and
tall timber. He was a stout man and :
OfeXtraordinary lung power; his n
voice could be heard on a calm
summer morning for miles away; his o
of farming we're crude and prim- q
tive his only team was a pair of large 81
oxen, with which he plowed bis ground c
cultivated his crops and did his hauling 9
MS twelve or fifteen acres of corn yielded
lim all the grain he needed his pork +
vas raised in the woods and fatted on Of
he abundent mast of acorns this timber r
Produced. Game was plentiful and he iF
vas quite a hunter using a hintlock mus G.
ret of Revolutionary style, as a fowling- n n
,iece. He died about 1850, probably 70
ixty years of age.
The next place is the property of Of
ieorge Macklin and consists Of about 81
our acres of land with a comfortable Pt
ouse upon it. This place was formerly vi
part Of the land owned by Robert Scott We
colored man who lived near by at what da
called SCOTS Crossroads. Robert Scott,
lough covered with a black skin was as on
ure and unsullied in character as any ny ny
ian he was honest and upright, a tTe
evout and exemplary christian. No Z
ne feared to trust him knowing that thl
hatever confidence they put in him St,
ould not be misplaced. He reared a Su SSi
mily of twelve children, seven sons and rec
We daughters all of whom he trained to brC
lbits of industry and sObriety and to ee, ce,
spect the parental authority which was act
rict though not severe. In his home ?
as the family alter from which daily he by
a6 a chapter from his bible and offered anC
earnest supplications from a soul filed a5e sae
th devotion If not this, what is pure s.
ligion and undifled before God and the co son
ither Robert Scott has long since gone allc
the land of souls; the homestead has chi
en- torn away; the fields turned to MAJ na5
mmon, but the memory Of him still mo-
gers in the minds of those who knew sub
n best. Fortunate would it be for his ed IL
,e if they would obey tte precepts and ord,
low the example of this pure minded soe hou
IN of simple life. eral
ISAAC r. JESTER. K;