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pa or Grandma. They simply call us
Frogs and then give our family
names. The only way | know that is
because | heard little Boy say so
who was wading in our Pond not long
ago.
Well said Mr.. Pond Frog, I am
sure they'd call me Mr.. Pond Frog
in the book if | asked them to. Books
are very obigIng imagine and not
bit like Frogs
But said Grandpa Frog, you're
talking lot Of nonsense about some.
thing you don't know a thing about.
You've never read book, have you?
Or course not, neither have l. And
what's more | have no desire to- It
would hurt my eyes and make them
water. Water should be in the Pond
and not in my eyes. And why should
read in book what already know?
| know I'm Frog and so are you.
What's more still, you don't know
whether books are friendly or not.
They may be awful snobs-we can
never be sure until we know and we
never can know as don't suppose any
of our family would ever care to send
their Children to book School when
there are so many other more impor
tant things to learn
What's more important" said Mr.
Pond Frog, than family history?
But we all can learn family his.
tory from each other
" Some Of us won't bother to tell
should think you'd know a Profes.
sor when you saw one
Grandpa Frog opened his mouth
very wide with surprise. While 1t
was open he swallowed a very nice
bug and when he had blinked with
pleasure over that he said:
"'At last see You want to be
called Mr Pond Frog to add dignity
to your appearance. That's quite noble
| will admit And you want to be a
Professor in the new Pond School
down by the creek of which | am the
chief head. Um-um. Grr.r-r-r, shall
think about it. Yes. now I've thought
"What, what?' croaked Mr.. Pond
Frog.
You may be the new Professor In
sur School, and you may teach Fam
lily History. From now on wen all
call you Mr. Pond Frog, the new Pro.
Eessor of Family History
"Oh, how happy Mr.. Pond Frog was,
md the next morning he was In his
place on top of a stump in the creek
At the end of the pond.
"All the little Frogs gathered
around soon after, and School began.
OF course there were other classes
and lessons for the Frogs, but Mr.
Pond Frog had a class every half hour
In Family History He taught them
Of the different kinds of Frogs, and OF
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all their cousins,
uncles aun t s,
and Just what
thoy were famous
for. He told
them of all the
great happenings
in days gone by,
and Of the won
derful things that
had been done by
their grandpas,
grandmas, and
great. great,
great, gre at
gra n d pas and
grandmas.
The little
f gs thought
Family History
was q fine sfndv.
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ana they enjoyed
hearing all the Fairy stories too that
AIR. Pond Frog told them at recess.
And when 1t came time for the
summer vacation there was an ex;
animation in Family History. All the
little Frogs got one hundred as they
couldn't make mistake when Mr..
Pond Frog had made it so interest
Ing for them.
And the Frogs decided it had been
great success and were very crate.
tul to Mr.. Pond Frog for suggesting
1t and to Grandpa Frog for allowing
It. AS for Mr.. Pond Frog he was
the happiest Frog you can imagine
md croaked and croaked with Joy for
Grandpa Frog had asked him to teack
Family History in the School again
n the fall"
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
A ROAD THROUGH FIFE GRANT.

some of the acres are still owned and
titled by his descendants. Ninian Beall
was born in Fifeshire in 1921, came
to Maryland in 1858 and died in 111i,
in his ninety-third year. He died on
his Eastern branch grant. which was
called Fife, and it is believed that his
grave is in the Beall family plot, at
the rear of the Sheriff house, now own
ed by John w. Young. whose wife was
Isabel Sheriff, daughter of George
Beall Sheriff, son of Lemuel Sherin
and Susan Bean Greenfield Young. Eff
forts have been made to find stone
to Col. Ninian Beall, but without sue
cess.
Ninian Beall was a Scottish soldier
loval to the house of Stuart. Fighting
against the Cromwell forces, he was
made a prisoner at the battle or Dun,
bar Whether he came to Maryland
because he did not relish the govern
ment of the Commonwealth the Ram
bier does not know, but some writers
have said that he was TRANSPORTER
TO MARYLAND. He had three brothers,
Thomas. John and George ana ,nes
all had Maryland patents to LANDS.
Thomas, who married Elizabeth Lee,
died in 170S. and left large family;
John married Joan Tyler. Ninian had
eight children. One of his sons, capt.
Charles Beall. had son, Col. joshua
BeaH. and he was baptized by the Kew.
Hugh Conn, one of the early Presby-
terrain ministers Of this region MI.
Conn had church at BladenSDurs,
and he married into the Veitch family,
which owned part of the field on
which the battle of Bladensburg was
fought.
1t is on the Conn-Veitch lands that
the National Industrial Training School
for Bows stands and on which Fort
Lincoln and Battery Jameson were
built during the civil war. Part OF the
old farm, north of the Reform School,
is owned by the Boyle family. descend
ed from the Conn-Veftch marriage, ana
by other members of the Veitch fam
ilv. The old Veitch-Boyle family ceme-
terry is east of the Reform School about
a quarter of mile, and the old Neitch
homestead is on the north slope OF the
Reform School hill That is, 1T was
standing there when the Rambler last
walked that way The Joshua Beall
who was baptized by Rev. Hugh Conn:
married EIinor Smith Greenfield, Of
one of the old families of Maryland,
and that is one of the ways in which
the Bealls and the Greenfields are re-
lated The Eastern branch state OF
Fife descended to Joshua BeaI. he
was for years the Judge of the county
court at Upper Marlboro and he died
at that village in 1896. His daughter
was the wife of Gen. Rein Beall of the
Maryland line Of the continental army
Cen Rein Beall died october 4. 1909,
and the Rambler believes that his grave
is his old estate Flying Turkey near
Beltsville.
Adjoining the all-GreenfieldS her-
iff burial plot near Benning Is another
old family graveyard, in which there
are three stones with legible inscrip'
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tions. One is to the memory of Mrs.
Eliza Mccormick. wife of Alexander
Mccormick. who died August II. 1874.
in the thirtyeighth year OF her age.
Another stone is inscribed to the menu
orv of Ellen Van Horn. who died De-
cember 10. 1911, aged thirteen years.
The third stone is to the memory OF
Elizabeth Van Horn. a little child
who departed this life November 2.
A. d. 1916. aged twelve months and
twenty-five days" The Rambler has
no knowledge as to this Van Horn
family and only meager acquaint-
ance with the McCormicks. These Me
Cormicks were related to the Bealls
and some members of the family are
still living near Benning. Admiral Nc
Cormick is of this family There was
A Gen. Rein Beall who was born in
Rockville, who figured in the war of
1872 and the Rambler supposes that
he was a son of Gen. Rein Beall of the
Maryland line in the continental army
who is buried near Beltsville. The sec
ond Rein Beall was commissioned IN
ensign in 1898, his commission being
signed by President Washington. He
became a captain in 1894 and briga-
der in 1905. The Rambler's under
standing is that he died in 1S43 and
that he is buried at Wooster. Ohio.
II you should cross the Benning bridge
and then turn north along the old Ana
costa road, you will observe wide
tracts of land. generally treeless. be-
tween the road and the river. These
fields are planted to vegetables in sum-
mer. The geological survey, in its
classified ton of the soils of this region,
gives the name of Norfolk sand" to
this soil, and remarks that it is one or
the finest of soils for the growth OF
vegetables. At first glance the land is
fiat but it is really gently rolling, with
numerous low, rounded ridges and shall
low folds. You will not walk more
than couple of hundred yards along
the Anacostia road when you will come
to a fence opening through which leads
a lane toward the west. Far off to the
right is the grandstand and the ruins
of the stables of the Benning race
course, which is on land sold by the
1866 Ahead, you will see a very old
house closely grown around with silver
poplars. This is a characteristic tree
around old homes in MARYLAND, espe-
cially the homes of old Catholic families.
for it is generally called an aspen,
and there is a legend that the cross
was made from the aspen, and that the
leaves of the tree have trembled ever
since because of its horror that ii should
have been put to such a use. AT the
rear of that house you will find the
burial place of the Bealls of Fife. This
particular tract of the great grant or
Fife has been known for generations
out of mind as Beall's Pleasure. The
Bealls have always pronounced the
name BELL" and there are good many
descendants of the early Bealls VINO
spell the name as it is pronounced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

and the canal and between the Aque-
duct and Chain bridges.
Robert Ould had a large family. The
first Of his children was Lancaster
1890. He was married to a Miss Bled-
soc, a Pocahontas descendant. He be-
came a Presbyterian minister. nVed
for a long time in Columbus. ONO. ana
rests in Oak Hill. The second son was
Remus, born in 1918 and died in 1852,
and the third son was Henry. born
1922, died 1924. Then came Pauline
Guild, who was born in 1924. was mar
1856. Daniel Gather Guild was born
in 1926 and died in 1892. George G.
Ould was born in 1892 and died IN
1887. Henrietta G. Guild. born IN 1882
died in infancy, and Elisha H. ould'
born in 1899, died in 1892. One may
read these dates on a number Of the
Ould tombs in Oak Hill cemetery.
Robert Guild had a son. Robert. who
was a distinguished man. He died IN
Richmond Va, in 1881. He lived in
during the years 1S47-51 and 1883.
On the breaking out of the civil war
he removed to Richmond and was com
missioner for the exchange of prison
was esteemed as an accomplished law
yer. His first wife was Sarah Turpin
and his second was Mrs. Madge dorsey
Handy, a widow. The children of the
George w. Donaldson, and is living in
Charleston. w. Va, and Matte. who
married Oliver Schoolcraft. The child
of the second marriage was Madge Dor
sey Ould, who married William Francis
Powers and is living in Richmond. and
they have two children, Margaret Ould
Powers and William Francis Powers.
Henry Ould of London. Georgetown
and Washington, and who was lai,i
away in the little plot above PIERCE
Mill. and later disinterred and removed
to Baltimore. had son. Marion Hall
Ould. He was born In Washington
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members OF various piahs oi Or ahiz'hs
id'ioiial resources ioI uelehse' anu a.
,he CLOSE the ioea when hdu oeeh ~
ioHS IN MS hihC spIahe oeioie ne
eyes he revealed 10 ms listeners ms
VISION OF lohg me Oh "lhseo seH,i
nels spreading over 'he seas, "a''ii'hts
Tor the advance guard the screen %
uestroyers preceding an eheH! meet
He saw the aVlators not waiting TO
take slow Night back to land, but send
ing by wireless the words of warning
to the nearest station
His prophetic words were eagerly
taken up by those present; they dis
cusSed the possibility of such a guard
from, Rosnoke to Esstnort The club
''
became enthusiastic, ana theh anu
there the work which has been grow
-,
ihs HtedoiiS' was 'oi It,
Other individuals and members of
III. r.rious aeronau,icaI cIubs of the
'"e 'ou' o'
country nave "ofked aIohs 'he sa''c
line and even several weeks before
n. .,.,, t,afor. ~. club
Hu,il'r H. re H., 5','d ;p Nd nronosed
Johii nays raiiIiii'.u. - ''a" 20. q, ,,,roi
basic plan Tor genera coas. pa, ,,Tf
OF the Atlantic. the racine the SUN
and the great taxes.
Interest in the patrol plan mas SPIT
like Wildhre, II has the support OF INC
President, of the War and the Navy De
partments Of the numerous aeronautl-
cal clubs. the patriotic associa tions and
the press throughout the United States.
found in the national commission, of
uh,rb Admiral Peary is chairman
p;nriI,. !, 90 a n,,iopaI movement
for ausrs from the interior are needed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

and called himself simply Henry QUO.
In 1911 Henry Ould was a clerk IN the
Bank of England and his brother ROD
ert was in the London Library when
they were invited to come to America
and start a school. teaching the Ian
casterian system. That school was
started in 1912 in Georgetown, D. c.
and was a success from its beginning
Later the school was removed to Wash
ington, where it was conducted lor
many years. In 1911 Joseph Lancaster
the founder of the system, wrote let
ter to Mr.. John Laird of Georgetown.
from which the following extract is
taken:
Ion looking over all my schools
found but one young man answering
the description, that was wllilhg TO ~;
and he was unwilling to leave Eng lana
without his brother-a brother bouhd
to him in affection from his infancy
and to whom he has been roster par
ent since the decease OF ms mother-
Both Young men have quilted reSpecta-
BILE situations and connections to en-
bark in your cause: they are IN every
respect worthy your countenance ana
protection to which ] commend them.
The elder, Robert Ould, well as his
brother, Henry Ould. have been my pu-
pills at an early age. | have been In
frequent intercourse with them since
they left school. They have also lived
amongst my friends: SO that in every
respect l can speak to their merits and
characters on gratifying evidence of
the most satisfa Glory kind. Were I to
say all I feel respecting Robert Guild
l should write volume OF a letter.
=
Robert Ould was born at London.
March II, 1883, and died at Georgetown
July 30, 1910. He married Pauline
Gather at Rockville. Md, on December
"a 1914. She was born May 3, 1884,
and died in Georgetown March ]. 1876.
Henry Ould was born in London Feb
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lit his pipe. The tombstones looked on,
and not in reprovine way. as tne
Rambler sent little fogs of sweet
smelling smoke to mingle with the
fragrant cedar boughs above. he Tan
cied that the oldest and the Grayest or
the tombstones wanted to talk to nm.
and taking out his notebook he wrote
down what follows, which is what he
thought the tombstone said:
I'VE tombstones are glad to have you
here. We may not be merry company,
for we are so old that the years nave
so nearly worn away the names anu
dates on us that you had dlfhculty IN
finding out who We are and whom We
represent. The man | stand for was
like yourself, a smoker, only think he
smoked a better brand He raised to-
bacco on the farm of which this nttle
lot was once part. He was, as | say
in my inscription, a good husband and
kind father He was generous man
and his neighbors liked him. His chill,
dren loved him. his dogs always rushed
to greet him and his horse neighed at
the sound of his voice When children.
dogs and horses show a likine for a
man. that man is good. But by some
of the standards of your day he was
not an eminently proper man.
when he was young he would ride
from here to Piscataway, or Upper
Marlboro, or Rockville. or Fairfax to
attend dance, and he would dance all
night He was fond of fox hunting.
and l know that as a youth he stayed
out late at night on coon and possum
hunts. When he got angry his speech
was very human and he was not too
proud to use his fist. On winter nights
1 know that instead of popping corn
or meditating on religious themes he
would play seven-up. When he got
married 1t was to the sweetheart whom
he adored." (And as the older tomb
stone said this the Rambler thought
he heard a faint little laugh that seem
ed to come from a gentle and pallid.
though smaller, tombstone which stood
next to that which was speakingD
HE had land" continued the larger
and the older tombstone. (which his
father had left him. and he owned
slaves. whom he treated well. He did
not care about work himself. He had
never in his life read an essay on the
dignity of labor He really and truly
believed that it was beneath the dig
nifty of gentleman of his station to
get out in the field and work with q
hoe. There were some ideas, common
ly accepted when l was new tomb
stone, which seem strange now. He
went to church every Sunday morning
and did his duty TO his parish. He was
godfather at many christenings and
pallbearer at many funerals. When
the old church was nearly wrecked by
the great storm Of 1147 and it was con-
cluded to build new one he bought
lottery tickets in the lottery which
was instituted to provide the funds
] know that he visited Marlboro, Bla-
densburg and Annapolis while he had
those lottery tickets in his waistcoat
pocket. 1t never entered his head that
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he had done anything wrong. Times
change and manners change with them.
AS he grew old he became more in
clined to meditation, and he was calm
and resigned when he knew he was
coming out under these cedars. His
spirit still hovers around the old place
and takes flight to the haunts or ms
youth. ! know this well, and though
you begin to puff that pipe impatiently.
az though you doubt my sanity, l give
it to you on the word of very old
and very sober tombstone.
The Rambler has strayed good
way from the story that at the begin
ming of this narrative he meant to tell,
but when a tombstone is inclined to
talk and to tell more than is carved
upon it it is fact worth recording.
Sunday before last. in the course of the
PIERCE mill chapter, the Rambler in
writing of the PIERCE cemetery said:
Only two sravestones have them inscrip
tons which may be read These no longer
upright. but lean against the fallen trunk Of a
monster pine tree which has been for long
Iifeless that its dust will mix with the
graveyard mold. This old tree. which for gen
erations Of men and trees stretched it's arms
over the little plot and gave its shade to those
rest beneath the brambles and the flowers.
:he gravestOnes which for many years 1t
looked down. These two stones are close to-
gether and the inscription which the Rambler
read first follows:
Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Jane
Peirce Ould, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth
Cloud Guild Born April l.. 1922; died Novem
her &c, 1920
The next stone is: Sacred to the memory
of PauIina Gather Ould. daughter Of Henry and
Elizabeth Cloud Ould. born September "a, 1875,
and died March 81, 1921"
The Rambler told some facts about
the Ould family, but he has since learn
ed more. In the Library of Congress.
with the aid of John Morrison and
Mr. Moore. the Rambler found a book
entitled "The Olds Family of England
and America" and it is interesting to
note that this volume of genealogy
was the work Of Edison B. Odds of
Washington, treasurer of the Union
Trust Company. The Olds family has
branches spelling the name Old. Ould
and Odds, and from Mr.. Odds and his
book the Rambler obtained the story
of two early Washingtonians-Hen
Ould and Robert Ould. That story.
which is used by permission from Ed
son b. Odds, follows:
In 1871 Henry Ould. who was
mathematical instrument maker living
in Dartmouth. County Devon. England,
and who was married to Jane PIERCE of
Plymouth. County Devon, England.
made application for a patent on an
instrument which was afterward used
in connection with Hadley's quadrant
for measuring longitude. He had two
sons, one named Robert and the other
Henry Longitude Seal Oud. The lat
ter afterward dropped his long name
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of the younger men to hold important
Office. He is an advocate of prepared
ness, but believes in aviation for its
value in peace as well as in war, and
his practical knowledge of coastal con-
ditions, north and south. as well as
east and west, will be utilized in Sc
lecting the stations.
DIR. Harry c. Frankenfield. one of the
chief forecasters of the weather pu-
reau, is member of the National Aero
Club. In spite of the fact that
throughout the entire country eighty
five out of the hundred forecasts of the
weather are correct, it is generally be-
lieved that Dr. Frankenfield has in his
representations disappointed more per-
sons than any one else in the United
States, but the fact remains the wealth
err bureau saves the country at least
500, 100000 annually and that he is