Evening star., 1918-07-28

a
garland run. There the
long road which leads
from Washington to Leesburg and
hundreds OF other interesting places
in northwestern VirSinio crosses and
begins its descent into the valley
which takes its name from the usu-
ally red and muddy stream that flows
through it. 1t is called Church Hill
because a church has stood there
since 179O-frst. log building in
which Baptists worshiped, then
small brick church which, long ago
returned to dust and briekhats, and
then. in 1852, the present brick church
which. although officially known as
D-anesviile NJ. Z. Church, South. is
usually called .'Old Liberty Church."
from the fact that when it was built
II was occupied by more than one re-
1igious sect as its place of prayer
and preaching. Why because of that
fact it was called Liberty Church"
the Rambler knows not. 1t often
happened in Virginia as elsewhere
that two or more Christian congre-
cations would hold their services in
the same building. but to these COM
bination church buildings the name
'gnion Church was commonly given.
But anyhow. Church Hill is so-calied
from the church that stands among
the oaks that crowd it's summit.
e If that church should drop out OF
the landscape and all memory OF II
fade from the. minds of men. the
Any hill or rise of ground in Mary
land or Virginia, on which church
stands or has ever stood, carries the
name Church Hill" The reverence
Potomac valley feel never allows
them. to change the name of hill
that once was honored or sanctified
by church.
1t is very much the same way with
schoolhouses. ct up a schooIhouse on a
Jenkins hill. Mullikin's or Posey's
hill for a century it becomes School
house hill. Then. should the school
house burn down and it's ashes be
dissipated by a hundred years of wind
and rain.. it will. remain "SchoolhOuse
HILL even though a new owner may
paint a. sign in golden letters show
ing that it's later name Is Flora VISTA
Mont View or Alta This or That .
On the right hand of this long and
hard old road where it crosses Church
hill are two houses which interested
the Rambler and which he believes
will awaken memories in many of the
people of Virginia and the District Of
Columbia. The first house sits back
in a formal garden. If that means
garden laid out in geometrical design,
with many angles. but if by formal
garden is meant one which Is stin
and severe instead of graceful and
beautiful. then it is not formal
garden in which this old house sits.
The walks are bordered with box
bushes of thick and luXurnint growth
and two tall. taperins and symmetri-
cal spruce trees stand like gigantic
sentinels before it. A wide. deep
porch, with a very pleasant look from
the hot old road. reaches across the
front of the house. Forrest Cockerille
and his family live there. Long years
ago it was the home of DR.. William B.
Day.
The next house along the road going
west. and on the same side as that
with the box hedges in the garden, is
now the home of E. L. Bates. 1t was
the home of DR.. John T. Day. These
men were among the best known and
best beloved physicians in the country
adjacent to Washington. DR.. William
Days field of practice generally lay
east of Dranesyille as far as Langley,
Chain bridge. Lewinsville and Tysons
Crossroads, while DIR. John T. Day
ministered to aching humanity
throughout the country west and
Seouth of Dranesville. He was especi-
ally well known in Leesburg and
'Herndon. DIR. John Day was a mem
ber. of st. Timothy's Episcopal Church
at Herndon, in which church is
window to his memory. He sleeps in
the cemetery about a mile north Of
ing from that fair village to the Lees
burg pike, close to the fine old red
stone bridge over Sugarland run. DE-.
William Day rests in the cemetery at
Andrew Chapel. and the inference
from this is that he was a member OF
the Andrew Chapel congregation.
which had moved away from Old
Union Church on the division of the
Methodist Chuch on the slavery
question into Methodists North and
Methodists South. =
Drs. John and William Day were men
of fine character. They were Vir.
ginian In their sentiments during the
civil war. and the Rambler, browsing
following report. made in November.
1851, by Col. George D. Bayard, COM
manding the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry,
to Capt H. J. Biddle, assistant adju-
tant general OF McCalrs division the
Headquarters of which was near. Lang
ley, and which operated throughout
the upper part of Fairfax county and
Loudoun county when the Confederates
were. not too strong or enterprisng for
them:
CANT. PIERPoNT. Va. November q. 1851.