The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-03

tho whagf looking latter numerous
great packages OF furniture, etc,
which the steamer was putting ashore.
She was making fascinating home
on tho banks of the Rappahannoek,
listening no doubt, for advice and In
SEPARATION to tho echoes OF the spirits OF
those who In the oldcn days dwelt at
"Oakenbrow."
"Belgrove" is now owned by Cap |
tain Vance, OF tho English army. lie
has restored and enlarged the fine
old place--put In splendid bathrooms
and set out 1000 roses. He not only
owns 'Bellegrovc" but Smiths
Mount" nearby. making ono immense
tract in perfect cultivation.
'Walsingham," Just below Port Con-
way, and on tho king George side
was sister plantation to "Bollogrove,"
being owned also by tho Turner's. This
place has passed also to strangers.
but to strangers who revcrence tradi-
iions, and whose restoration has been
strictly artistic and beautiful Mr..
Jack, of Chicago. Is tho present owner.
He paid $4,000 for tho splendid plan
tetion, and has spent 100000 upon It.
No homo In Virginia Is more comfor-
table or satisfying.
The tomb of old Nicholas Smith. OF
Smiths Mount (this estate went to the
Here lies the body of Colonel
Nicholas Smith. son OF Nicholas and
Elizabeth Smith, born In London the
fourth day of September, 1866. Mar
ried his wife in the twenty-third year
| of her age by whom he had no child
| Married his second wife in 1922, by
which he had three children, one son
and two daughters. Departed this
life 18th OF March, 1894, in the sixty
eighth year OF his agr.
Two of these children died, and
| Harry (2) Turner married the only
| surviving daughter, with good
dover of lands and other possessions
inherited from her opulent father.
The first Turner settled at Port
Conway. and most probably took up
the land above and below the town on
which stood the famous Turner es-
| tates. Probably he married a Talia-
| ferro. Harry Turner was one of tho
tncorporators OF Brays Church, on tho
north side OF the Rappahannock. The
titles were invested in Thomas Lee
Esq. Charles Carter, Thomas Turner,
Harry Turner. MACMILLAN Robinson
and Nicholas Smith. gentlemen.
Henry (s) inherited Smiths Mount,
and advertised 1t with it's 100 acres
| for sale In 1894. These advertisements
arc straws which generally show thai
the family prosperity Is on the wane
At Port Conway there is an Episcopa
chapel. and in the yard is the tomt
OF Harry (2) Turner. On 1t Is shi:
inscription:
Beneath this marble
Are deposited the remains OF
Major Harry Turner,
1851,
And Elizabeth. his wife,
1852
Who with credit and esteem possesse,
and enjoyed an ample fortune, iron
which unerring wisdom thought fit L
) snatch them IN their bloom, togethe
! with three sons. who all dyed In thei
) infancy
I'll This is a remarkable inscription. in
, asmuch as 1t mentions not the usua
4 comfort and glory In heaven, but rathn
: repincs over tho removal of carthl
r emolument- The Ample Fortune |
/. certainly the most important of Il
except the deaths.
u The arms of these Turner's of Kin
George, arc "Ermino four fer do mo
a lines sable. Crest; Argent lilo
a holding In the dexter paw fer d
; moline sable, Motto: Esse guam Vi
n derL" These arms are on the tomb .
!, Major Henry Turner, now at Port Con
!, way. formerly at Smiths Mount
~ Thomas CD Turner represented Kin
, George in the House OF Burgesse
l73s-'45. Henry (3) Turner held TIL
same Office i74T-'la, and Thomas G.
= Turner was a Burgess tT52-'55.
The Fontatne md Maury Familie-.
: "The Memoirs of a Huguenot Fan
Il ily," first published in 1853 CNe
& York. G. p. Putnam &; Coz. is a trans
: lation from tho French, by Miss Ar
), Maury. of the original autobiograp t
]. of Rev. James Fontaine, with lette
:. | OF travel in Virginia, New York ar
other places In 1I1516. In undertaI
ing to write up the two HuEuen,
!. families. the aim of Miss Maury. wh
was daughter of James Maury, "a
! many years United States Consul q
Liverpool. was to raise means to al
;, in educating the eight orphan chill
: dren of her brother, William Maurs
who died shortly after coming fror
England and settling in King Georg
county, Va. For the purpose of get
ting material she visited her relatives
James and Edmund Eontaine, sons o
, a. revolutionary officer, in Hanove
county. Va. about 1850. and from then
: she obtained the original manuscrin'
She was so Interested in the two fami
!, lies that she also prepared char
q tracing them back to 1900 1t is pleas
. ant TO rotate that her lahors were sue
@ cessful, as from tho sale of tho book
q she derived sufficient returns, with I'll
!. help OF her bachelor brother, Rutso
q Maury, both living in New York
II defray the schooling of her nephew
10 and nieces,
$, These memoirs attracted much a
tention among Huguenots In Euror
= aud America, and in 1879 second ed
t. ton was published by Putnam & Son
IL In 1876 the Religious Tract Society
n England, published in an iabridge
10 form Memoirs of Huguenot Family
L. at It's office in SO Paternoster ROY
D London. In 1877 Society des Livrs
- Religieux published at Toulous
c. France In French, an abridged editio
l. of Miss Maury's book. This transls
ton back into French OF the Re
y James Fontaine's autobiography we
30 made by Monsieur e. CasteI paste
), of church In Toulouse. with a length
l. preface, or rather Introduction, Write
la by him. embracing twenty-one pag,
or printed matter, very Interesting
ia Huguenots and their descendants
" 1887 Societe des Livres ReligieuX,
,r Toulouse, France, printed and pul