Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-12

ried. lives in Washington and works
in the bureau of engraving and print
ing. The first son was John, who
married Mary Crawford. She was a
eran of the war of 1872 and son of
John Crawford, who moved to Fair
fax county from Maryland. The wife
of James was Miss Athey, daughter of
Birch Athey. and granddaughter of
William Athey, old Virginia people.
The ancient Crawford home, powered
in big trees. is off the left Of the
road leading from Lorton to Lewis
chapel, and within view of the Ram
bier as he sat on the broad cool porch
of the John Plaskett home Rufus
Crawford lives there today. The chill
dren of John Plaskett and Mary Gran
ford are Emma, who married Joseph
Springman, who keeps a store at
Lorton; Martha and Robert, who
deceased. who married Miss Irene
Love of Maryland. living. and resided
in Alexandria; John NJ. who lives on
the old home place; James. who mar
ried Miss Emma Coleman of Center
Vile: Ernest. who married Miss Mar
garet Trice. and who live nearby;
Mary. widow, who married Samuel
Davis: Clara, who married Edwin
Bulb, and who live below Lewis
chapel. and Annie, who has chosen to
remain single. up to this date. at
least. and who lives in the old home
among the lilac bushes, the golden
glow, the zinnias and the dahlias.
Joseph Plaskett was an Episco-
palian and his wife Methodist. Mrs.
John Plaskett told the Rambler that
she had it from her father. James
Crawford. that the first meeting
place Of the Methodists of the Pohick-
Gunston neighborhood was in the
barn of John Bates farm, Lebanon.
Then, when Pohick Church was aban-
Episcopalians, the Methodists held
service there, and in 1857 they built
Lewis chapel. naming it after a godly
preacher, Lewis, who had long min
istered to the spiritual needs of the
Methodists of Gunston Neck. and who
into the way Of holiness She said
that Mr.. Lewis often visited her child
hood home, and that he and her
father were friends. She thought his
name was John Lewis and that he
came from somewhere near Ma
nassas. He died about the time of "the
southern war" and besides preaching
Lewis chapel. he also preached at the
very old Methodist house of prayer
called Mount Vernon Church, which
stood near Accotink and was burned
down at the time or the southern
war" Mrs. Plaskett thought that
there is a picture of the old preacher
in the home of Luther Trice.
Crawford memorial, near Lewis
chapel, and which has succeeded that
chapel as the Methodist worship place
of the neighborhood, was named for
James and John Crawford, sons of the
first James Crawford. They were de-
vout men and they did with their
own hands much of the work on the
new church. James Crawford, the
elder, was born in the town of Col
chester and his sons repeated that he
had said it was a flourishing place
with street lined with stores. Mr..
and Mrs. Plaskett remember William
Mason. the last Mason owner of Lex
ington, and they remember with great
affection Mrs. Mason. the last Mason
to live at Gunston Hall. Mrs Mason
of Gunston Hall was my Sunday
school teacher at Pohick Church."
said Mrs. Plaskett, as the Rambler
picked up his pack. started down the
lane by the lilac hedge, and turned
into the hot and shadeless public
road,