The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-12-22
The OLD SECEDER CHURCH
A Paper Read Before the Pennsylvania
Scotch.lrish Society by 7. Elliott
Patterson.
INTERESTING LOCAL HISTORY.
Continued from last week.
THEIR CIVIL WAR RECORD.


THEIR CIVIL WAR RECORD.
Of those old elders, three of
them each sent a son into the
Union armv and a fourth sent
three. James Walker Johnston,
1st Lieut., Co. FL, 77th Pa. Vol. 1;
John F. Kendall, Orderly Ser
geant, 126th and 2O5th Pa. Vol. /;
James Kendall, 126th and 205th
Pa. VOL; David M. Kendall, 121st
Pa. VOL; James p. Nelson, 121st
Pa. Vol; d. Fl. Patterson, 18th
Pa. Minute Men, Co. C.] One of
these, John F. Kendall, deserves
more than passing notice. AS
orderly of his company, and
knowing the detail for picket
duty on certain dangerous night
to which his younger brother
was assigned, went to him and
said: james, exceptionally
heavy lines are being thrown out
by both armies tonight. You
are the Younger and must remain
IN camp; go in your place" The
chivalrous offer was declined by
James, who, IN speaking OF it
said: 81 could never forget ohm
for that affectlopate and consider.
ate Offer" The younger has since
died and John is now an elder IN
the same old congregation.
Knowing them both and remem.
bering the day their company
was welcomed home after com
pleting their full term of service,
take pleasure in referring to
the incident. But the men of
the congregation were not the
only exponents of strong and
forceful character. There were
daughters of the Revolution
among them, the genuine, real,
article, and without frllls. Eliza.
beth Bourns. the Revolu utlonary
cannon makers daughter; Henri.
eta Maria Ashman, whose faith
er, Col. George Ashman, of the
firm of Ashman, Cromwell &
Ridgey, built, owned, and worked
the first iron furnace west of
the Susquehanna Quilt in 1880;
and Isabel N. Mllllgan, grand.
niece of DR.. Samuel Young, of
Hagerstown, whose beautiful in.
tellect, unlmpalred through along
and useful life, mastered the
larger and shorter Westminster
Catechisms, all of the Psalms,
and the entire New Testament as
a memory exercise in the religi-
GUS training OF her youth.
Two others, sisters, during a |
Confederate raid that threatened
the capture and Imprisonment of
the husband of one of them, were
standing in the doorway of their
home, when the younger, becom.
ing hysterical, began crying,
"Oh, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, the day |
OF Judgment has come, the day of
Judgment has come" Elizabeth,
turning to her, with the raiders |
standing about them, said: "Keep
quiet, Rebecca; keep quiet. |
hope the day Of judgment will |
see better looking crowd than |
this" A worthy granddaughter
OF a revolutionary colonel. When
tell Justice Stewart, and Alex
ander and George, of our mem
bership, that those women were |
frst cousins of one of the border |
ralders--Dr. Ash. Hamli, of Mar.
tinsburg, Vlrginia-they can tell
you more about the Confederate
doctor than l, and claim as close
relationship. Their ministers
were men of power and influence.
Lind, of Greencastle; CIarkson,
OF Mercersburg; and Flnly Nc
Naughton, of McConnellsburg.
The last, q graduate of Union
College, Schenectady, in 1922,
mad long pastorste of nearly
thirty years, and, not unlike some
OF the Kings Of Israel, at It's close
found his kingdom divided. He
vas followed by DR., James Bruce,
Isthsr Of former Lieutenant
Governor Bruce, Of New York,
whose pastorate covered the
early period Of the Civil War. |
nis successor, Rev. Roberto Gracy
ferguson. LID. q graduate OF |