The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-16

Mrs. stanley Finch as altsrpates to the Regent Mrs. Rhett 9oode. delegate, with Mra T. S. Robbins and Mrs. Ellen Barrett Ligon aiternates to the dele- gate Two new names were voted on for membership and arrangements were made for the celebration of washing
 Pster Fsrney Chapter, Montgomery.
 A pleasant feature of the February meeting of the Peter Forney Chapter, was the tinge of romance cast about 1t by the nearness of St. valentines Day Several very pretty love stories of the Colonial and Revolutionary days our privilege to produce for this column
 A Lsve story of the Fevolntien.
 The first time hesrd this love story was told to me by Grandaddy Hal a body servant of General Peter Forney. It was a perfect delight to my sister and myself to be left in charge Of Crandaddy. for mammy was 60 prim and precise and her ways did not suit our childish ideas of freedom. Tor she would reprove us and say. ~Ladies. don't do dat" but with Grandaddy. 1t was let us do as we saw fit, and when our mother would say "Hal I want you to take care of the children while l am gone. we would almost fly to Grandaddy and breAthIess with joy we would say to him. tell us c story. He La chile honey" and then proceed with .Chilluns you ouehter seed your grand par when he would go out to fight them red-cqats. He De dressed in fine clothes. wid spaniettes. all gold. on his shoulders, and wid cock tall hat on his head. wid a white fedder in t; and his sword dangling to his So with these stories. and many other sipiiar ones. began my love for Revolutionary history. and as grew older. the truth of sthese stories wer6 verified by my father and his sisters, General Peter FWfney was the son Of Jacob Forney. Jacob Forney was born in Alsace on the Rhine. to which place his father had fled. after tna revelation of the Edict of Nantes, ne being . Huguenot. After the death of his parents. which occurred in his ex- treme youth, he was left alens. and hearing of the gold fields of America with other allurements to entice young men, he concluded to come to America. Finding the prospects fully equal tc all that had been told him of the New Country. he remained here. determining to cast his lot So he returned to Alsace to dispose of his property and to obtain the Jewels that had been lsft him by his father, and securing these. | he again embarked for America, in a vessel containing Swiss emigrants. | While on board this vessel he was at- l tracted by the beauty of one of these Swiss damsels and he and Maria Ser | gner became warm friends. Soon this ! friendship refined into love and when | tifey. landed on the shores of America | they were married at Amsterdam They then went to Pennsylvania and later joined the tide of emigrants for
 the South. and finally settled in Tryon now Lincoln County, North Caro-
 lima, and there they built them c home
 and called 1t Mount Welcome. and ei
 this home their three sons and five daughters were reared. One of these sons was Peter Forney. who was a sol 1 dter and did active service in the Revo' 1 futionary war.
 | Mount Welcome was the headouar. | tsrsy Of Cornwallis and he drove the | old people from their homes. but Corn. | wallis soon relented ana gave tine oIe people the privilege of occupying tht basement during his stay. It ia thii l General Peter Forney for whom the
 Peter Forney Chapter is named. anc I the chapter secured wood from the old | Mount Welcome home with which thG
 charter of the Peter Forney Chapter ! is framed.
 Amelia c. Wyly.