Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

the city OF Alexandria, which you designated in
one OF your stories as Shooters hill. but
which does not agree with my spelling OF the
name, ''Suters hill" style obtained from a
government publication Of the civil war period.
! would like to know which Of those speiiings
Is the correct one. The hill was probably
owned at an early day by man named Sufer.
man of that rame was prominently connected
with construction work on the Pacific railways;
also note in your stories about the David
BURNS family that YOU spell the name ''Burnes."
Is there any reliable authority for this innova-
ton In the spelling Of such Il common name?
The owners of names are often freaky, in the
matter of fancy changes and 1t may be that
David Burns was affected by such fancy.
Having become 0pulent from his landed posses
sions in the Capital city, 1t was natural
perhaps for MIR, Burns to feel arstocratic, and
the entry of the sc" into his name would be
In keeping with such an exhibition of vanity.
i am living in Washington at the address
given in the heading Of this letter, but my old
home rs at seiya about seven miles west OF the
Providence district of Fairfax county, In
which are Falls Church, Townsville, Mclean,
Langley, Balls hill and other points of interest.
! do not now remember whether your rambles
took in this section. OF course, you know that
the hills around Washington on both sides Of
hensiye system Of Notifications during the civil
war. many of these old earthworks still being
IN s! W OF fairly good PRESERVATION T,,uoy
First. about Suffers" or Shooters"
hill. The Rambler has not looked up
that subject. but believes it to be
Shooters hill. In San Francisco is
Suffer street named for John A. SUIT
ter, at whose mill, on the south fork
of the American river, near Coloma.
gold was discovered by James w.
Marshall. one of Suffers worNmen,
on January "a. 1S4S. Adolphs Sutro
was one of the rich citizens of San
Francisco. Sutro's Gardens, now
public park on the hill back of the
Cliff House, was long ago and is still
one of the show places of the city.
Sutro gave to San Francisco one of
the finest libraries in the United
States, $4,000 volumes Of the library
being destroyed by the fire and earth
quake of 1905. David Burnes name
Is spelled with an "e' in the oldest
recon DIS of the city Of Washington
and is so spelled on his tombstone
in Rock Creek cemetery. The Ram
shoe leather in writing rambles
around Langley, Mclean, Lewins-
vile and Balls hill. Several years
ago he visited the ruins of the site
of each of the civil war earthworks--
forts and connecting batterics--that
We're built for the defense of Wash
ington,
But, now back to Goose creek
Much of the land which has been de-
scribed was Harrison land" In one
of the early rambles was this: THE
first Harrisons to come to Virginia.
according to the best information
obtainable. We're Cuthbert Harrison,
esq, of Ancaster. Caxton and Flax
by, Yorkshire and his son. Burr, who.
according to the register of Det-
tingen parish. Prince William county,
Va, was baptised in the parish of ST.
Margaretts. Westminster, England,
on December 2s. 1887, and on this
register he Is spoken of as Burr Har-
rison of Chappawamsic, son of Cuth-
bert Harrison. When Cuthbert Har-
rison and his son Burr came to Amer
lea Is not known"
Now we come to Henry TaZewell
Harrison. tho seventh of that name,
son OF Mathew Harrison and Cath
crime Elzey, born at Dumfries. 1896.
and died in 1881. He was married at
Sully, an old Lee home near Hern-
don, in 1884. to Jane Elizabeth Lee.
daughter of Francis Lightfoot Lee
and Jane Fitzgerald. They had two
children Catherine. who died in 1871.
and Arthur Lee, who died in infancy.
Jane Elizabeth Lee-Harrison died
June 20, 1887, and she rests in the
old cl1urchyard of st. James Church,
Leesburg. In November, 1899 Henry
Tazewell Harrison married Mary Il.
Jones, who was born in 1915 and was
daughter of Gen. Walter Jones and
Anne Lucinda Lee; and Gen. Walter
Jones gives us an interesting link
between the Goose creek country and
Washington city.
Gen Walter Jones was born in
Northumberland county October Z,
1777, son of DIR. Walter Jones of
that county and Ailsie Flood,
daughter of DR.. William Flood Of
Farnham, Richmond county. Gen.
Walter Jones studied law under Bush
rod c. Washington, who became
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Gen. Walter Jones was
appointed by President Jefferson as
United States attorney for the dis
trict Of the Potomac in 1902. In 1921
President Monroe appointed him
major general of militia of the Dis
trict OF Columbia, and he was the
leading military officer in the recep-
ton of Lafayette at Alexandria in
1894. directly after Lafayette left
Washington. He was also prominent
in the ceremonies attendant upon
Lafayette's reception in Washington,
and was one of the many who spoke
to toasts at the dinner given to
Lafayette at Gadsby's Hotel. He was
a distinguished lawyer. and In the
trial of the famous Girard win case
at Philadelphia was associated with
Daniel Webster. He married Anne
Lucinda Lee in May, 1903, and died
in Washington October IA, 1861, at
the homo Of his son-in-law, Dr.
Thomas Miller, and is buried in Con-
gressional cemetery. His children
were Mrs Thomas Miller of Wash