Evening star., 1925-05-24

longing to them" To her son, :. S.
Carroll, she leaves the large silver
pitcher of my grandmother's." In
other bequests, she refers to my
dear son Sprigg.'
II was not a short hunt to find the
deed of :. SpriSg to this property, but
various languages have aNiomS COM
mandatory OF patience. ana the RAM
bier remembers having read some
where an admonition that if at first
you don't succeed, try, try again.
That eXhorta ton may be good in
narrow limits, but you should let the
limits be very narrow. There are
many things which. ii a man fail in,
he ought not to try again. If a man
fail once in some things, he ought to
have sense enough to quit The Ram
bier feels like Dragging about find
ing this deed, because the job urged
him to do d little work. ani having
suffered that strange experience, he
insists on telling you. You know
how it is. When your wife forces
you to NOV the grass in the front
yard, you choose for that feat of eN
ertion the time when all your neigh
bOrS are coming home from work, or
at least from office. After having cut
the grass you so about the neighbor
hood, saying, in an offhand way. as
though Industry were your Christian
name. We'll, l trimmed my lawn
today"
nN April IS, 1885, John NJ. Thomas
and Sarah Brooke Lee Thomas
his wife, both of Ann Arundel Coun-
ty, Md, decided to Samuel Sprigg Of
Prince Georges County, lots l, . and
Is, square 142, for $4,000. The price
shows that a house was on that
ground, and indicates that it was a
brick house. 1t might have been
Tobias Lear's house and it Nigh int.
The Rambler is not putting up d
bond to secure that statement.
Before coming on that deed the
Rambler found a deed of trust, May
IS, 1885, from Thomas Carbery,
Charles l. Queen, his vie, Maria A
Queen, and Samuel Sprigg, to guar
antee the president and directors of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co
that the title to certain land sold to
that company by Charles /. and
Maria A. Queen, Henry c. Neale and
Charles Kiby was good. These papers
did not contain any information as to
the occupation of Samuel Sprigg or
to his residence, other than he was
'of Prince Georges County. Md"
Perhaps you noticed that Mrs.
Sallie Sprigg Carroll set aside by her
will money for the upkeep of her
vault in Oak Hill Cemetery. The list
of interments in that vault follows:
May, 1857, Howard Carroll, years
old; May, 1857, William Carroll. jr.,
% years; May, 1861, William Calea
Carroll, infant; July 16, 1868, William
Thomas Carroll, So: 1864, William
Thomas Carroll, infant; 1865, Violetta
L. SpriGg, II; 1865, Samuel Sprigg,
rs; December, 1867, Charles Carroll
Griffin and Charles Griffin. infants;
July 81, 1872, Violetta L. Mercer, AZ;
May %, 1884, Helen H. Carroll, 19;
February /, 1898, Samuel Sprigg Car
roll, SO; February 13, 1895, Sally
Sprigg Carroll, 50 years and months,
August II, 1914, Carolin Ann Carroll
Bolles, " years and IL months.
In The Star of February y. 1895,
was this:
Mrs Sally Sprisg Carroll. the
widow of William Thomas Carroll,
who was for 43 years clerk of the Su-
preme Court, died at her residence,
| No. 1901 + street, yesterday. She
was a daughter of ex-Gov. Sprigg of
Maryland and for 60 years has been
| we'll known in this city and loved
| by all who knew her. Her pure and
| Christian character was manifested
| by every act of her life. She leaves
| three daughters, the Countess Ester
hazy, Mrs. T. Dix Bolles and Mrs.
| John Marshall Brown, and one son,