Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22


of course, you know that the gen
erals father and mother-Augustihe
Washington and Mary BaIl-rnoved away
from here when George, the future gen
era. and statesman, was a little child. but
his eldest brother inherited this place
ano.Iier brother John lived at Nonlini,
about afteen miles below here, and sui
another brother Samuel, lived at Chop
tank. near Matthias point, in King George
county, q few miles above here. so there
were "a lot Of Washingtons about here
while George was growing up on his
fathers farm in Stafford county. just
across from Fredericksburg. and at the
farm. f1psewassou. near Alexandra.
which, when his half-brother Lawrence
built there he ca led Mount Vernon
George visited these cations, and they
visited him both before and after he came
TO b., recognized as great
There are a lot of US Washingtons
Twins. around here vet. There are a num-
her 81 them in King George county, some
in Alexandria, and there are a number In
Washington city, among whom l recalI
Mrs. Lena Washington Hungerford and
her daughters, who used to live down
here IN one OF the ancestral Washington
houses called Blenheim-the old brick
house which you see down yonder at
the end of the lane
He who said what is quoted above
was a stAlwart o d man. somewhat rheu-
matte iii mis- joints, but otherwise hale
and hearty. AS the writer remembers,
he said he was seventy seven years OLD.
He bears a strong facial resemblance to
George Washington. The blood of George
Washington's father flows in his veins.
and he lives with his family of sons and
dauGhters on the farm on which George
Washington was born. in Westmoreland
county. Va. and about three miles from
the site of the famous birth house, the
chimneyS of which were visible up to the
time Of the civil war. brick from which
are now scattered over the ground, and
the site Of which is now marked by a
tail white granite shaft erected by the
United States government in 1896.
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This man, two or three generations re-
moved, is descended from Augustine
Washington, who inherited the farm on
which John Washington. the English
emigrant, settled, which he and success
sive Washingtons enlarged, and on which
in 1872 George Washington was born.
This old man does not own very much
of the plantation as II existed during the
life OF George Washington's father. but
his aCres constitute a good sized farm.
which he has titled all his life, excepting
the four years of the civil war, through
which he served honorably as a private
soldier in the Confederate army, and
which has enabled him to rear a family
of CHI dren. now grown and all doing
very we'll in their several walks of life.
The name of this interesting old gentle
man is Lawrence Washington He does
not do much blowing now the tilling
of the farm being done mainly by his
son, Lawrence, junior. He has another
son Henry who would rather fish and
hunt and handle sailboats and horses
than uIDw. but whose habits are grow
ing steadier as the seasons come and
go. The last time the writer saw
Henry he was the boss OF a gang of men
digging out gravel and shell near Church
Point on the Potomac, which other men
were hauling away and spreading on the
county road which leads from Oak Grove