Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22

and other things-at a comfortable
table in a quaint old dining room.
And then he lounged around with
some of the most pleasant and COM
paniona bile folk that one can come
upon in days march-and, believe
me-" much more so than the Rambler
sometimes comes upon in a long Sun
day walk. ---
After you leave Rabbits Store, Will
sons Store and Mount Zion Church.
where the improved part of the Old
Georgetown road ends, you enter that
part of the road which automobiles
do not frequent, or IL they do they
wish they hadn't. The Rambler mem
tons this in no spirit Of disrespect
to the old road. but rather as a note
OF commentator to it, for there are
people who travel afoot who can en-
JOY an old road that looks the part
and which does not set itself up as a
speed boulevard. Between quarter
and half a mile from the point at
which the Old Georgetown road
strikes the Rockville pike. near a
pretty place called Ingleside, you
will see--if your vision is all right
and you look in that direction--a long
one-and- a-half-story house off the
west side of the road. At this season
1t is powered in the foliage of giant
locust trees. The Rambler would like
to write that it is "enfoliaged," but
that would sound hifalutin' and would
spoil the simple elegance and grandeur
of this narrative. Living there now
Ia Willio Zoe ho
few years ago lived in that old
Magruder homestead between the
Bells Mill road and Cedar lane, near
the Montgomery County Club and not
far from that ancient brick Magruder
house called Locust Grove" Of which
the Rambler wrote summer before
last.
The house In which Amos formerly
lived is generally known as the
Nathaniel Magruder house, and the
Rambler understands that Nathaniel
was buried there. Amos Magruder is
a son of Samuel Wade Magruder, who
was. son of Warren Magruder
(brother of Lloyd Magruder Of Locust
Grove). Warren was a son OF "old"
Samuel Wade Magruder and he was
son of Alexander Msgruder, the
Immigrant" Amos had as brothers
and sisters-(D Winfield S. Magruder
now judge Of the orphans court at
Rockville: (2) Samuel Wade Magruder
of Rockville; (3) Elmer Ellsworth
Magruder of Hunting Hill, above
Rockville on the Darnstown road:
90 America Magruder, who married
John Fontaine, and lives in Somerset
county. Nd: .(5) Virginia Magruder,
who married Riley Landon and who
lives in Somerset county: 6) Rosina
Magruder. a widow. living in Balti-
more, and CD Julia Magruder, single
living in Baltimore.
Amos Magruder married Mollie Will
son, daughter Of Osborn Sprigg will
son and Elizabeth Ball Of Montgom-
cry county, whose epitaphs the Ram
bier read in the churchyard of Mount
Zion. Osborn Sprigg Wilson was a
son Of Osborn Sprigg Wilson, who
was born near Upper Marlboro, and
married a Miss Richards. His father
was Josiah Wilson. also Of Prince
Georges county, and who married a
Miss Gordon. Osborn Sprigg Wilson
and Elizabeth Ball, who rest at Mount
Zion Church. had as children az Mol
lie, who married Amos Magruder; co
Turner Wilson, who keeps the store
at Beane, near Mount Zion: go Sam
uel Wilson. deceased: 90 Franklin
Wilson. who is a partner Of Turner,
and (5) Amanda, who lives at the
store.
Amos Magruder and Mollie Wilson
were married at Mount Zion Church
by the Rev. John Teasdale, who was
pastor of the Mount Zion and tie
Tenleytown Baptist churches at the
same time. Amos sold the old Ma
thaniel Magruder house. where he had
lived for thirty years, to the Bradley
Hills Land Company. The children of
Amos William Magruder and Mollie
Wilson are Cd Edith p. Magruder;
(O Florence Elizabeth Magruder,
who married I. w. Shoemaker Of
Montgomery county: (3) Frances
Merle Magruder. who married w. A.
Carlisle Of Montgomery, and az
Naomi Magruder One child, Martha
Virginia Magruder, died in infancy.
and sleeps in the old cemetery OF
Mount Zion.
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