Evening star., 1918-06-30

4ss to the .1;s Sf her
years.
Sacred to the memory Of Matilda Richards,
ed 5asa ct r. 3 ps.7 born April 1906
Laura ". VIE Of G. C. Honesty, died
March %. 1904, aged 47 years.
Old Union Church was but a menu
ory when the grave Of Laura v. Hon.
esty was dug, and the site vas a wild
tangle then. She was a colored wom-
an. wife of Columbus G. Honesty. who
digs the graves in the cemetery of
Andrew Chapel, M. E. South, which
succeeded Union Church when the
Methodists split over the institution
of slavery in 1874. A few Sundays ago
the Rambler came upon Honesty
while he was digging grave at An
drew Chapel. and gathered notes that
will be of interest in another mar
rative.
= Across the road from the site of
Union Church and the present Bethel
Church, but at some distance apart,
are the farms of J. N. Iden, James
Iden and Benjamin Iden. J. N. Iden,
ried Miss Mary Virginia Smith, a
daughter of Temple Smith. Benny
1den, his son, married Miss Elizabeth
Oliver, daughter of William Oliver,
and James Iden. another son. married
Miss Bessie Irene Follin, a daughter
of Richard Henry Follin and Jane
Adams, who was daughter Of Robert
o. Adams.
Off the road to the southwest one
can see gray old house. That was
the home of Temple Smith and his
ancestors and is one of the historic
houses near Washington-that is. if
calm existence of a century and a half
makes a hnIJso hiofnrio Tn ho hpr
ing ground near the house, where
cedars, young sassafras, roses and
tiger lilies grow, there is a tomb
inscribed: Sarah E. Smith, died
Feb. 9. 1907, aged 81 years" The
house today is occupied by J. D. Shir-
ley. who works in Washington for the
government when not working in his
vegetable garden in Fairfax. He is a
son of William Shirley. of Fairfax,
who was son of Daniel Shirley, who
seems long ago to have been cele-
brated as shoemaker in the county
J. D. Shirley's wife. who helps care for
that fine vegetable garden, was Miss
Mary Florence Tolley, who was born
and raised" on Loudoun Heights, the
beautiful Virginian mountains that
rise above the Shenandoah and look
down on Harpers Ferry.
1t was to visit this venerable Smith
home that the Rambler made this trip.
came to northern Virginia from Eng
land three brothers, George, Wethers
and Temple Smith. They were rich
men of good family Two of/the boys
married daughters of the Lane family,
which was also an English family
George Smith had a son, Samuel, who
married Eliza Offutt, a daughter of
Rein Offutt. Their children were Ell,
George, Estley, Wethers, Temple,
Rein, Catherine and Sally Smith.
Samuel had a brother, James, and
those boys built the house which the
Rambler has in view. Samuel sue =
ceeded to its ownership after James
death. Eli and Estley Smith never mar
ried, went to Kentucky early in the nine
teenth century and died there. Rezin
Smith married Martha, daughter of
James Oliver.
wethers married Virginia Gunnell,
daughter of Henry Gunnell George
never married and died young. Teni-
pie married Sarah Oliver, daughter of
James oliver. Catherine Smith mar
ried Gustavus Elgin. brother of
married William Murray of Fauquier
county. Sally did not marry. The
children of Rezin Smith and Martha
oliver. daughter of James, were
George w. Smith, who married Mary
Oliver. daughter of Stanton Oliver,
who married John Divine Of WASH
ington; William Smith. who married
Marian Oliver, daughter Of Aaron
Oliver, granddaughter of James; Ida
Smith, who never married: Frank Smith,
who died young, and Edwin Smith, who
married Miss Gingles of Washing
ton and whose son Edwin died re-
Gently in the military service at Annts-
beth s. Gunneh; Roberta Smith, un-
p. 81.
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The children Of Wethers Smith and
Virginia Gunnell were Alfred d.
Smith. who married Kate Cunning
ham of Georgetown. and whose son,