The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-02
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lno Fhe ola residence OF the Mann
ihurstons, near Hickory Fork. C;ioGcts-
ter mao seen hard times for four years.
and real wedding with vail and -caIte
was q very unusual thing Everybody
Went and tho ceremony took place in ii
tho large dining-room. and the supper
was set upstairs. &#
The wedding seemed 4 sort OF truce
TO sadness and despair q peal of re-
assurance that war was over and peace
had como With healing on her wings,
with weddings ana feasts and all tho
JOY that Gloucester used to have
childish eyes. gazed upon that fea at
after tho war Wedding and saw
what they had never seen before.
pyramids of snowy cakes, jellics and
custards, and all garnished or rather
cmbellished with Father Abraham ap-I
pies &c was soon after the war, anu
no such delicaces as grapes or oranges
had come in. Does any reader know
fathor Abraham apples?'' They are
red ana pointed. something like tho
shcepSnose, but bigger and of !,
bright red color and with very white
meat Piled UP amidst the SNOWY
cakes and the ambcr icllies, they gave
surh q festive air as no other wedding
feast seems to have had and 8af,nr@
the feast everybody promcnaded. There
was no dancing: this was not dignticd
nut the old and young, the bride and
the groom, and even the preacher RI
Walked up and down. UP and down
that great hall ut Millwood, in their
quaint ratment. 1t was great" to tho
child.
No wedding journeys then. This, too.
would nave been und!gniflcd, but there
were the big chtntz-hung bridal cham
Der and the second day" dress.
III on old house in Gloucester coun-
" now standing there. was a Quaint
room always -.iowD as tho bridal
ehamher.' Tho hongings wcrc OF very
ncantltul hand made netting. knit nv
me mistress of the house live genera
LIONS age. It was used for all this
time until the room was uism,nt1ori
about twenty-four years aga. and 49,,
last or netting or whatever one might
ea.l ~ Is IN good condition in Rich
Hohd to-day and owned by a rio.
scendant Of tho Industrious gentle
woman = iS1"'>t'-5Is
The lfaywards who live in Gloucesitrr
now are Doubtless descendants OF VIII
l'ah' the grantee OF 1881. Perhaps
naN'' y 'hen can assist us In max
hg good Hayward genealogy. mi
we Will be glad to print all Tho m.
formation sent us - A.95
Giouccstcr Land Grants. 4
les2-Robert Poyton, will 16as {(1{,v.
ueh 100 acres BlackWater Creek 1II,s
t t,gs resV, and major of tho Gloucester
h hai TO Virginia before 1919; named
soao J IN Gambridge. England. He had
E Was Iather OF Elizabeth married, 1855,
m;oiphei Ieter Beverley; Thomas mar
M N Frances Tahh; Robert, married
amd iofn, William, Ambrose
i7s2-Sir John Peyton, a t "Islel,an,.
s MsH !! 9h i whites and 1913 blacks (ccn-N
i1so, and disa 1ar b. Ia was born
1 %,arriea; first, frances cooke, oe
and seeend W WSam Dick, a his , eshidren
lanes Tnliatcrro. (See i1aste a?w VIZ pl
ginia Gcnealogies.) .I.'g75|D.
Or i Har- AIS stiriing, 400 acre. head
tiers ters Annie and Mary Stirling. men
,o; lsal-R Richard GlasscoclS, ss5 acres
Gila.lsscock lived lin Glouces ter. iT63.
Milton Glassoock was or vestry OF
kingston Parish
1914 Edward Davis Cor Davies,. 4oo
acres. head Of Ducking Pond cre Elk
dividing he lands of Isaac and Thomu;
afummer; and also 800 acres at island
or New nelnt Comfort in 1900, which
apsed III l7l3 ana was entered bv
Ihon,aa Cooke, of Gloucester. sg&s
l6ol-4o acres, belonging to ycstry
OF Q, kingston Parish, north side Of Ioud-
WriEht's Greek.
1oo-Georgc Billups. 800 acres join-#
l ns I9hn LILY (abovel. southwest Fido
SAG acres joining Richard BiIlups. Rob-
erl Blllups married Ann Ransone A in h
W. 1Ia; sarah g, = siilqps married Peter
George Alexander Dudley in 1855 John
Blilups married Elizabeth Beverley
y Mi ni,dnlg; in i77o. aGsenh BilIMps, oc \
and Mary College In 1777. Colonel
Thomas Scott. born 1927. son OF Thomas
and Anne (Baytonl Scott. married Mrs.
Rutl, Biliups in l7ao (hs second wtfo).i
Ems (born 1!ss) daughter Of Dr.
Charles Tomkins, who died 1881. (Sce
81 Richmond Dispatch. September
head Wssiern p Seansh Of "a pue ssSs
Fond Creek, lIe married Elizabeth
a Mem iv,, ana had KEMP John George
married, lIi3, Judith Dudley. and was
or ,,,,t ne vestry y. Of Kingston PARISH.
listed eight whites and twenty Blacks
iudttll Plummer married. 1869. John
iteade in Kingston Parish, and had
J ~. Arnistead Readc. born 17To.
William Plummer in Ware Neck 1770.k
George Plumnor ensign in Gloucester
comnanp TIA. George William Plum
mer. captain ol Il Gloucester company
stationed at williamsburg. i777. andt
was mentioned, 1887, III the will OF
Thomas Smith. OF Kingston Parish. lS
ThWeatl,--Can any one furnish detin
tie, fully proved Information i'll regard
to the iirst three generations OF tho
ThWeatt family? | have all tho in-s
formation contained in the register OF
Bristol parish
If "pescendant" OF William Walter
Cobb writing In Sunday. March - 80
Issue. will wrlto - WV White, SeS
hrell. Va, who is q nephew of the cltl. 4
zen described, he will get the Informs
zion dssired. Yours truly.
L. r. EDWARDS
Franklin, Va. March II. 1911. s
Can you ever catc,, an error. if YOU
give It an inch? shall try. 1t IL y
stated again in your paper of last
SUNDAY that C'olonel Henry Wood. sof
o,oocl,land, married sarah Cooke.
Perrin He did no sucl, thing. This 4