Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-18
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4 The TINY VILLAGE
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~ 1882. The arms of the Washingtons, woven in
to the fabric Of Sograve manorhouse show three
stars and two red stripes on white ground In
the little church at Brington they appear three
times In the mortuary chapel OF the Spencers
there, amid many noble tombs is one tomb on
which repose full length figures of Baron Spencer
and his Wife who was Washington Among the
arms carved ON this tomb the Washington and
Spencer arms are quartered together. In the chan
Gel of the church they appear again over the tomb
of Lawrence Washington and under the mating
in the center aisle, down which the feet of the vii
layers pass every Sunday they cover the remains
of Robert Washington. brother OF Lawrence There
they are engraved on brass shield of which the
picture here published is rubbing The simple
inscription, touching record of happy life reads:
Here lies inferred We bodies OF Elijah Washing
ton, widdowe who changed this life for immor-
tatie We 10Th OF March, 1922. AS also We body Of
Robert Washington gent, her late husband second
some of Robert Washington of Solgrave in We
county of North, who departed this life We 10th
of March, 1922 after they lived lovingly together
in this parish
The arms of the knights of Washngton--the
stars and bars-were their shields. On
their helmets they bore a crest-sometimes ra-
ven, sometimes an eagle The Herad's college of
London the authority on all matters of heraldry
says: In the red and white bars, and the stars
of the shield, and the eagle issuant Of his crest,
borne later by General Washington the trainers of
the constitution got the idea of the Stars and
Stripes and the Spread Eagle of the national en-
blem."
PERSONAL GLlMPsEs OF WASHINGTON
In a historical tribute of more than usual inter-
est Washington Colonial Magnate,' writ
ten by e. N. Vallandighan, the following is the
striking Introductory sentence: That great river,
the Potomac in its tidal course fitly ypi-
fy the life and character of the majestic man,
Washington. who horn within sight of its
banks, whose permanent home for most of his
life overlooked many miles of Its course and whose
tomb now dominates its waters.'
The sketch concerns itself almost exclusively
with the home side of Washngton's career and
VIII be read with interest by many persons accus-
toned to think of the father of his country only in
his regimental uniform or in the presidential chair
at the capital
rMagnate he and the neighbor of other
magnates who VIGOROUSLY pleasure-ovlng and
fond of display" says Mr.. Vallandigham as his in
eresting article is its close. washington re-
tanned the business instincts and habits of his fam
lily. Before he was IA he had familiarized himself
with business forms and methods, and from his
early youth he strict and minutely careful
accountant During much of his life at Mt Vernon
he rose at daylight, breakfasted at seven in sum
mer and eight in winter. dined at two upon meat
and vegetables, drinking beer or cider and two
glasses of old Madeira, and went early to bed
He helped Peter. the slave blacksmith, to make a
new kind of pillow, and was so eager to try it that