The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-26

, about DR.. William Crimes but even by
| searching diligently. nothing is re
vcalcd lie took 100 acres OF he land
| or Catnhoo. tho Indian, and !, looks rs
! II this aspiring Indiar Ind bitten OFF
F.; more than he could chew or. in palmer
language, had staked off more thar, he
| could piow. DR. Crimes also had a lot
at Gloucester townc. There was time
when prophecy pointed TO cities on
| either side Of York Rlvcr--one at York
! town, the other al Gloucester Point.
The prophecy still awaits fulilment
! Camphed is a name which clings to
many localities but It fails 10 work out
| bury wc can find nothing aithoug II
land vas granted TO Ralph Embry and
james Bradbury in 1902.
| When VIC come to the name Edward
(, Rowe We arc on familiar ground. He
took ZIP land in 1864, and perhaps ever
| since there has hcen a Ned Rowe III
! Gloucester county. In i7is Benjamin
Rove. probably his son. married Mary
1 jarvis and in 1855 there We're Hans
| ford, Iach and Edward Rowe in Abing
don Parish. They were at first IIpis
| copalians. but when the tide turned
| just after the Revolution they became
useful members of the Methodist
| Church.
Everybody remembers Ned i,owc's"
| store and his house and his wife. about
Fifteen or twenty years ago. It was a t
the beginning of Guinea" and there
one could lind al sorts OF merchandise.
and OF the best Moreover, all who
Went 20 the store were sooner OF later
Z TO enter tho house and partake of its
famous iiospitality. There was no cnd
so Mrs Rowe's domestic ingenuity. and
her dishes We're famous Any excuse
which would take the men and women
Of Work. North, Ware ur severn Rivers
IN ~. Il I'm I x,-rc q t>-
! accepted.
i Tile simple tastes and methods ot
rural life thirty yeats ago seem almost
;lncredihlo now. when catalogues and
Butterick patterns carry Paris mod es
Ito the ftrthest corner Of the globe.
About that number OF years ago "a
! Gloucc stcr girl had :, lover. aud this
lover laid at her feet as Il tender Of
fcring two beautiful skins of u gray
fox. These skins the girl tanned with
her own hands. and the lover Afterwards
i Cit them into strips, of slvcry beauty
to trim a cloak But where was tho
cloak IT wasn't always easy to get
things from town, and ut onco eNcur-
sions were made to tho various stores
at Hickory Fork and the court house,
with depressing results as to the cloak,
but with charming experiences along
the level leafy roads
] At last somc ono suggested Ned
Rowe's" store. and thither tho fur and
the girl went, and thcrc n beautiful
soft, dar<-hluc hroadcloth was pro-
! cured, out OF which q cloak so hand
some was fashioned with the help OF
the fur, that not only was it the cyno-
sure OF all rural Dyes. but city folk
II who CHANGED that way could not Keep
their eyes from it. Not only did Mr..
Nod Rowe have beautiful broaucloth
but everything else. and many went
TO his store. who. but for ii, would
never have penetrated tho mysteries OF
Guinea" Guinea was tho land OF tho
usher folk" and on certain days its
fish carts. hcrnldcu bJ conch she'll
trumnets. would distribute sea food
/ along tho various thoroughfaree. Chief
/, among these fish peddlers wero tho
4 Browns. of Guinea, whose voices were
almost as strong OF sound M the nNk-
ward trumpet which they used, and tho
Cooks were always at tho various
! gates before them TO buy tho fish for
dinner.
Fifty years ago Guinea was print
| tive; its barefoot citizens ran from tho
sound of carriage wheels, crying ms
they ran: run. little wheel Big
wheel catch you'll NON there are
prosperous people in Guinea, ana about
the churches OF Sundays there arc
more big and little wheels than can be
counted. There are several families OF
stores still. and arc excellent citizens.
Guinea has always been II paradise
for doctors Years ago Or. Philip Tai
iafnrro would sail away in his big
boat and be lost for week or two In
the bounds OF Guinea. Dr. Wilmer
Nelson lost his Iifc attending to the
sick in Guinea Just after tho war. In
later years pr. Edward Taliaferro
practicod medicine In Guinea. THIS
practice enabled him to go abroad for
study and he Is ono Of Tho most sue
cessful young doctors in Norfolk. Or
John w. c. Jones first settled In
Guinea; thence he, too. went abroad
studying fl Berlin, Vienna Paris ana
London. lie. too, is II skilful specialist
now living In Newport News, @
i Wo have collected nil the RoWcs
recorded in the old register Of Abing-
don Parish which may supplement any
Biblc records which tho families may
a possess.
In 1900, James Rowe lived in Glou-
ccster. Very probably he was tho son
OF Edward Rowe. the patcn,ee. He
married Nary t?p. and had James. born
IN 1863: Ben, born in l7l5 quite a.
sap); Lucy, born In 1919. There was
also II William Rowe. probably his
brother, married Elizabeth ana had
Catherine. born 1915. and William,
horn In 17o2. There was also ia mos
Rowe, who married Frances (?). and
had IL son William. Thomas Rowe and
his Wife Mary mad Il son, Clacls, born
Iii IT'S
Ben Rowe. son OF James, Born in
11I5 married Rcbecca rs. and had
Zacharinh and Lucy.
10 cheriah Rowe married Margaret.
! His children are not recorded We find
margaret Rowe died At Zach Nowcs
house, November 20, 1875 She was
his wife, wo have no doubt but then
wumen':s rights were not even In the
air. Zach Rowe owned slaves and
II other witnesses OF prosperity Thomas
! Rove we also find In the Abingdon
Register, and also John. BENJAMIN,
/ Joseph and Richard about the middle
OF the eighteenth century. Thomas had
daughters Kebccca (wife not mention
+ ODD, born 1854, and Mildred, born 1864
John had son, Lewis, born 1861.
Hen jamin married Anne, and had son
u In Los llnt,r IL -,