Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-09-13

rect descendant Of that youth,
Nicholas Sibert, who was one OF
the few to escape from that most
fearful of all Indian massacres
which followed Braddock's defeat:
and also Of Captain Mccoy. who
fell at the battle Of Point Pleasant,
and whose remains, with those of
Captain Lewis and the noted lndi
an warrior Cornstalk, are buried in
what is now the main street OF
Point Pleasant, W. Va. where a
monument stands to their memory.
Only as the conversation turned
upon old land grants and Brother
Edward Wade reached up to look
for the Grant which George III in
1853 made to his ancestors, did we
learn that he was the fifth in di-
rect line who have dwelt at or
about the old homestead, What d
delight to have journeyed from one
old home to another and to have
had time to look at the old books
which are to be found in almost
everv home. Land grants running
back to 1743 and throwing light up
on various phases of pre- Revolu-
tionary history: old almanacs like
those Of Benjamin Franklin, seen
at Brother Wade's, over century
old: old Methodist volumes OF the
kind that our friend and brother,
Rev. Mr. Grissom, of North Carroll,
ma, who is perhaps the most expert
collector Of Methodist antiques in
our Church, would journey across
the Continent to see, much more to
buy, if there were chance OF such
"a thing-all these are to be found
among the old Methodist homes OF
Highland county. And to think,
for instance, of such house as the
old homestead Brother Wade lives
in. whose walls are absolutely rigid
piles of oak boards laid fiat one on
another and thus nailed until a
height was reached more than
equal to the height Of the average
house. No wonder that when the
Union soldiers set fire to this
structure during the Civil War it
did not burn!
We had it in mind to give a list
of the old families Of Highland
county; but as we talked with one
person after another and gathered
more and M ore a list of the old
family names, it became apparent
that unless we had space to give
what would be right good direc-
tory of the whole Of the country,
so far as the family names were
concerned, we had better give up
thought Of such thing.
Here we are: and have not as yet
begun to tell the story Of Highland
Methodism-of that local preacher
who century and more ago, a
member Of the Wade family,
preached far and near. founding
ton Of one Church after another.
until now we have the three
charges-Crabbottom, Rev S. Ora.
DIV: Monterey, Rev A A Walker;
and Mcdowell, Rev H NJ Roane;
and as pastor emeritus Of all these
charges, Rev. Adam Flaherty, who
lives with his son.in. law, Captain
Matheny, who is one OF the honor
I'd workers Of the Monterey church.
Crabbottom is eight or ten miles
beyond Monterey, in as fair val
ley as the eye can wish to look up
on. All the pastors are doing the
kind of work that tells. They
know every body in their charges,
and i. was a constant pleasure to
note the terms Of good comrade-
ship pastors and people were upon.
Like the Lewisburg District, which
is touched by them in part, the
three Highland charges are NOV
ing forward along all lines. We
would not be the least surprised to
hear that all assessments have been
paid in full and that these three
charges have decided to give their
pastors support above even the
average Of the Conference. That
they are able to do this there is no
doubt. That they are willing to
do this, one can see as he talks with
this or that member. The pastors
should make the point with these
men Of business. whose very ances-
try is proof Of their fairness, that
the preachers library demands
whas it cannot have otherswjse;
and the movement for increased
pastoral support, to which all these
charges have responded, will take
more and more permanent shape.
In Highland county, if God spares
our life, we expect to see strong
stations.
We cannot bring this letter to a
close without mention of the hos
pitality of Rev. A. A. Walker and
his wife. in whose home We had the
longest stay which has come to us
in months. Bright, cultivated and
refined, they would do honor to
any parsonage. SO, our trip to
Highland will live as one of our