Evening star., 1921-05-22

thousand acres in King George
county Va. and in 17l5 erected a
house in Matthias Point Neck and OBJ
tanned from the Virginia Legislature
the first license to operate public
ferry across the Potomac river. Writ
ing of old Potomac ferries last June.
the Rambler said: THE earliest rec
ord of d Potomac public ferry which
the Rambler has come upon is tnat
found in the act of the Virginia as
sembly for 1920. 1t is An act for set
tlng new ferries On the Pamunkey,
Mattapony and Patowmack rivers.
In the act provision is made for one
ferry over the Potomac from Col.
Pooe's to Cedar Point in Maryland.
The authorized rate of fare was
shillinGs for man. shillings for
horse and > shillings for hogshead
of tobacco The Hooe home in that
part of Virginia was called Barnes-
Vile. and DIR. Tyler has written TINS
about it: This old house was IN
perfect state of preservation until
June p. 1861, when it was set on nre
by federal gunboats. Several genera
tions of Hooes lie buried at Barnes
vile, where large marble smart tens
the story of their births and deaths.
Rice Hooe was member of the house
of burgesses and he was Vestry-
man for Overwharton parish, l100-
1903"
A RICE HOOE. who, the Rambler
assumes. was Rice t3l. son OF
the founder of Barnesville. was mar
ried twice. his first wife being Anne.
daughter of Robert Howson and
widow OF Capt Robert Massie. An
other son of the first Hooe in King
George county was Howson Hooe,
who married Frances Bernard Their
/ son. Howson Hooe. married Mary.
! daughter of Robert Dade and a
| granddaughter of Francis Dade ana
Frances Townsend Dade. That Fran
i Mary Townsend. who became the
wife of John Washington. Howson
! Hooe was sheriff and justice OF the
! peace of Prince William county. 1I6l-
! 1863, and a vestryman of Dettingen
parish.
1 Howson Hooe and Mary Dade's
children were Henry Dade Hooe.
| who married Jane Fitzhush OF King
George county. and Howson Hooe.
| who married three times, one OF his
dren of Henry Dade Hooe and Jane
| Fitzhugh were Henry Dade Hooe:
Robert Howson Hooe and Daniel
| Fitzhugh Hooe. The children OF How
son Hooe and Nancy Reed were
California in 1919; Harmon Hooe;
/ Eyrick Richard Hooe. who was killed
| in the Confederate service. and !ohn
Hooe who married Mary Farr. Rob-
ert, Howson Hooe; son us OF hoMsoa HOW on
Buck Lodge. his fathers home In
Prince William county. and died in
Fauouier county. His wife was
! Mary. daughter of Mai Richard and
Robert Howson Hooe and Mary
/, Waugh were Anne. Rice. Howson::
: Matthias. Mary. John Robert and
/ Sallie
About three miles from Ripon Lodge
! is Smoketown 1t lies on what was
once mari of the Ripon lands and the
capitol of the settlement is on tract
that was the property of John Bram-
NELL. From Ripon Lodge the way
leads for two miles through woods
that were bought from the Atkinson
/ family by Johnson & Wimsatt or
| Washington and out of that tract
have come great numbers of railroad
i ties and great quantities of lumber
and cordwood. Passing through this
timber district you follow the Tele-
graph road north and then turn Wese
up the Bethel road.
Smoketown is scattered along that
road and the hilltops and wales
make up a picturesque section. The
and the Rambler will go into the sub
ject of Smoketuwn' more extensively
/. at another session. Perhaps the most
/; important citizen is John Loveless.
| popularity called the mayor of Smoke
4, town. and his cottage home is catte+
| the capitol of Smoketown. A largS
percentage of the citizens are related
to John as children. grandchildren.
sons -in-law and daughters-in-law.
John and the Rambler and Johns
latest wife Mrs Ida Loveless. and
{; their little daughter. Alice Agnes
Ioveless, spent an hour together un-
DER the vine and fig tree-a paper
! mul berry-in the front garden Of the
capitol The Rambler also met Mrs.
| Maggie Rainey. Mrs. Mary Carroll.
| John sullivan. Mrs. Sampson Beavers.
Mrs Will Patterson, Henry Griffin
| and his large family Jacob Loveless.
Be njamin Jewell. little Miss Jeanette
| Jewell and other members of the old
est families of Smoketown.