The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-11

and over his head great cloud of
public execration. 1t ia history that
Congress had prepared a thunderbolt
to strike him, butte soldiers sad
ness was respected and he was per-
mttted to live here unmolested with
no additional bitterness infused into
Ibis cup. Here 1 the old stone house
The lived J ag yes of pain and Bit
terness. Here passed the days Of
| the man wLo had shone as the king |
| of the camp until he moved to New |
| York, where he was elected to the |
Legislature. He died in 1900 at his
home Oh Rose Hill. then near the cor
| ner of Twenty-tllird Street and Sec
/ ond Avenue.
Another Famous Hero.
While George Washington was sta
i toned at the town of Winchester, en-
i gagged in his work of surveying, he
4 formed the acquaintance Of Adam
i Stephen, and later on, when Washing
Eton became. commander of the forces
4 on the frontier. Adam ctaphen re-
4 ceived his first commission. He bore
i his part and filled worthily every duty
4 assigned him. He was commandant for
4 some time at Fort Cumberland, then
1.-THE fa-thest advanced post of the bor-
4 der, and Immediately confronting Fort
4 Duquesne. He commanded a battalion
sent to the aid Of South Carolina BY
y Virginia, and soon after this he dis
4 appeared from the service returning
Il here to spend the balance of his DAYS
y General Stephen held large landed pos
sessions, and gave the land on which
a MartinsburG now stands. His home
on the Opequan. near Leetown, was a
log house, rough and unpromising, evil
Z IDENTITY Intended me re for actual every
day utility than for show. Like the
Les home ar addition was placed to
the Lighthouse, and it does NOT now
resemble the old home Of the general.
. 1t is said that Stephen, like Morgan
! and other soldiers of the period, was
much given to the wine cup; and UNI
like his neighbor, Lee, he loved COM
pany and was never happier than
when he had his friends around him.
From his cabin there was often the
sound of revelr.- in the long hours of
the winters nights. Stephen kept open
house all the time. He loved the wild
woods in which he lived; he loved his
people. and was a man OF rude Jest
> and wild revel. but with brave and pa
; triotic impulses. He worthly fought
!, many fights for the people he loved
: and his home. In his will he disposed
: Of large area of land. and requested
!: that his remains be laid to rest at a
,, certain point in the edge OF Martins
: burg, location which is now In
, cluded in the splendid estate of ex-
:. Senator Charles Faulkner. and in the
northwest corner of the beautiful
. grounds which fronts his home The
!, general also provided in his will that
: Ia certain sum OF money be expended
: In erecting substantial monument
over his grave but the executors OF
= the estate never got further than
: placing few huge stone boulders for
a a foundation. Somehow, as Is some
q times the case In such matters. the
81 money was not forthcoming. and to.
\ day the large stones for the founda-
"A ton of the monument are all that
% shows where the great fighter anG
liberal citizen is buried.
tionary generals who lived neighbor!
Last Of the Quartet.
4 The fourth and last OF these Revolu
\ here was General William Darke, 6
native Of Pennsylvania. while Lee
stephen and Gates We're from Grea
Britain Darke served uninterrupted,
throughout the Revolution, while tn,
three others were court -martialed an,
deprived of their commissions. Darke'
home was not far from those. Of tn,
other three generals, but tradition
has 1t that he was man who KEEP
largely 10 hlmselr not caring to asso
ciate with any one save his l,nmediat
family and some of the very exclu
sive people OF the valley. He walked
In the way of the arlstocrat, an
y was not very generally liked by tn
plain folk Of the valley. His, HON
!. was near what Is now Darkeville--
Z named In his honor, and near Duftiel
depot He died in 1901, and wa
, buried in Epgle Graveyard, near Ker
:. NEVILLE. The house has long sine
d disappeared, it having been construct
Up ed of lumber, and not of stone. a
y in the case OF the homes OF Lee an
! Gates.
1t is worth the while OF any seeke
5 Of pleasure or history to. visit TIL
:. beautiful Shenandoah and look upo
,n these old homes Of great generals an
Va brave soldiers.
~ Very Much Like n Dream