Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-02

Edward Miles. born 1916, died 1874;
Margaret, beloved wife of E. H.
Brawner. died 1890; Thaddeus Braw-
ner, born 1929, died 1852, and Will
liam Hamilton, died 1926, aged fifty
three.
One of the tombs is inscribed: TN
memory Of Eliza Jameson, who died
25th of July, 1853. in the sixty-ninth
year of her age. From early youth
she was without display or de-
versal chastity. Death laid his hand
upon her heart gently, not shifting It.
but as the harper lays his open palm
upon his harp to deaden It's vlorax
tions." There are many tomos OF
members of the Ashbury. jenkins.
Morris and Knott families and there
are monuments to John w. Waring'
ir.: Mary J., wife of John w. Wartng,
and daughter of DR.. Edward Miles,
Benjamin F. Dement,, Mary r.. daugn-
ter of Benjamin F. and MARY star
No tombs to the memory of members
Of the Marbury family stand In TINS
little churchyard and the Rambler con,
cludes that the ashes Of those gooo
and worthy people rest in holy acres
on the Marbury farms in that he's"
borhood. ,,h,e- vent
down to Glymont on the steamooa1
Volunteer with Capt. James beacm,
known up and down the river river. as as
"Can,n Jim" Writing OF that WISH "
GIvmont. the Rambler said:
x.rv memories are recalled by the name
"Giymont." Though the name sufvses s.,L ~
the and sss Virgin.
r. IA one Of the places by the SIDE o. .ne ~, v
potomac where Washingtonians wen. 70 bi icSS
hnNY0
T.; 10 silent and ali but deserted now but tncse
,as.snrs who knew Glymont in its golden days
will fancy that the echoes OF gay en',,d not
there. All the columns Of The star eoa n.ni no
hold the names Of the people OF the e,e e1 Harv
who went to Glymont on the keyport; tne "a
washington, the Mattano ana ahe cSanneis and
shoals bars and headlands tides and curfen emu.
of the Potomac. Thousands OF the Young nt AZ
and women who capered to the caaehc a. u ,snS
adde's at Glymont have passed INTO inc IL. ~,
NJ nea ahsdows hut it is pleasant to think thas
sonnet times their spirits go again 10 the the
playground to dwell little wnne ano .ee-, NO,
100 trees or by the side OF the nowing sprlnx.
aerever ali the people who danced to merry
measures and spread their lunches IN the snaue
Of the Gymont woods have NOT yeI H ;red men
and women who first held hands ana s'sne J.
and told each other the secrets OF tneif ne. ~.
at Glymont will see these lines ana II a ans
R.mhier can lead their thoughts to those deaf
DAYS OF simpler joys and to Glymont ne WI.
10 repaid for the labor that these noees nave
cost him. -. .h.. c,vuont of
the time Of which the Rambler Is thinking Is
no more. Steamboats, still stop at oia Ty.
mont and at New Giymo @ 0ut ,u .se nerhaps
= century or even two centuries ago known
AZ Pye's Landing. 1t is upstream from tne
real Glymont-the Glymont where you as1 sf,e
and courted a good many years ago and that
the name '.Glymont'' came into popular use:
called Marburys Landing. Mnat - nov ~ e niE.
! to ISf,pyt mi
mont of tender and romantic memories.
The wharf. or what was the wharf t,;a at your our
Glymont. is pathetic rum sh.ads
mt Of the water, but all the cross pieces ana
the planking vanished long ago and the piie es
must follow SOON The wreek 9! h ,ne fsiien IN
even where it has not collapsed it is 80 feeble
and shaky from decay that one sets 1o4 9h upon
derbrush that has grown up around tne pa
vilion are flying horses. their wooden car
casses painless and weathe1.o beaten. Inese
Door things were once gay steeds that scam
pered and carscoled in a circle, bearing nttle
boys and little girls whose children now have
little boys and little girls
One Of the old steamboats, which
carried excursionists to Glymont was
called the Star Fairy, commanded by
found in The Evening Star Of August,
1870: 1.-The steamer Star Fairy. Capt.
Gardiner. is running excursions to
Glymont" The Star Fairy is a Po-
tomac steamboat Of which the Ram
bier has no other record than that
quoted above. In the early 70s there
was a little steamboat called the
Fairy. of the Piscataway line. run
ming between Alexandria and Farm
ington, which is hamlet on the
south side of Piscataway creek about
two miles below the venerable town
Of Piscataway. The Rambler can re-
call two other little steamboats, that
ran from Alexandria to Pennington.
One was the Virginia and the other
tho Harry Loder. Later. the Virginia
ran as a ferry from Alexandra to
Foxs Ferry, an abandoned stone