Evening star., 1931-04-26


have the ether Al States of the
Union; and we recognize our old
local family names just as they DO thelrs' ana
we regard them as names OF distinction. >uSI
as Virginia does its Lees and its FltzhueEH.
Massachusetts, its Cabots and its Lodges, ana
Pennsylva mia its Penns and its Pennypackers.
When we wander into some old nearby ceme-
terry and see the names Burnes, Peter' van
Ness Foxall and ever 50 many others-Just
rs familiar to the od-timers-prominentiy III
~rod on the weathered tombstones we I'M
rneaiately stop to ascertain just who IS bur1eo
there for know it must be someone Iore-
most in the citys early history
To the writer's way CT thinking, cemetery
is a GOOD place to visit-lt is great 1neoluln
of education The silent reminders We see
there-ncting the passing of the lowly and the
er.at-tcach us most forcibly of what there Is
in store for all. .
Eere we find the Nations and the city's
most prominent of former day; those who
have he.ned to construct the foundation OF
the Republic and those who hive osen m
strumental in making Washing on what II Is
today in a greater a lesser degree
Only recently the writer stood in Rock Greek
Cemetery and saw lowered to its last resting
MACE the body of that amiable, lovable charac-
ter Miss katherine Patt2n, founder OF the
Washingtoniana Section of the Public Library
She had done her part for the District OF Co
lumbia in her quiet unosentatious way, ana
left to her sweet memory something worth
while And the opportunity for service stlu
presents itself for each of uG.
MANY of the older families of the District
found place for their dead in Congressional
Cemetery, in the far southeastern part OF the
city, and even many of the Nations 1lustrlous
departed are buried there also.
A FEW days ago the writcl ch&ncad upon
two clusters of 16 tombstones in this
cemetery erected to members Of two OF WASH
lost fOlkS-thc
Grammer families
OF the two, the StettiniNs family was the
first to come to the new Capital, arriving mere
about 1798 and buying property near Seventh
and streets northwest. Christian Hines, In
his EARLY Recollections" says of the first MEM
ber to arrive:
About this time business beginning to
be pretty brisk in Washington. Some OF the
public buildings were nearly finished. ana
others were in a state Of advancement People
began to talk about settling here, and selected
such lots as would suit best the business they
we're engaged in, respectively. Some settled
at the Navy Yard, few about the Capltol,
and others about the Treasury ohce, as 1ar
down street as st. Patricks Church. This
locality was the most thickly settled at that
time.
IT remember that, some time previous TO this,
a few friends assembled at my fathers house
for the purpose of consulting with each other
as to where would be the most suitable place
to settle. Among these gentlemen were Mr.
Stettineus bookbinder, and Nicholas Sparrow,
a tailor The others do not remember. This,
I think was in 1893 or 1899. Finally they
chose their several localities, Mr.. Stettineus
buying lot on Pennsylvania avenue, near
where the Bank of Washington now stands;
Mr Sparrow one a little east of that OF Mr..
Stettineus and my father bought lot on r
street north, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets west, from William Thompson, Esq.
This being suitable site for lanyard which
he intended to establish for my brother Henry,
and being anxious to move to Washington be-
fore the seat of Government should be re-
moved from Philadelphia and wishing to have
all his family together, he took me home, very
much to the regret Of Mr.. and Mrs. Green.
Mrs Green was kind and affectionate old
lady, and considered her almost a second
mother for no mother could have treated son
better than she treated me. My father sold
his property in Georgetown "a large two-story
log house and frame attached to 10 TO
Mr.. Kaldenbach, and moved TO Washington IN
December, 1799."
CAMUEL ENDREDI STETTINIUS, the gentle
~ man referred to by Mr.. Hines, was native
of Stettin-on- the Rhine. place named for the
Stettinius family, his father being Johannes
Stettinius, a. Lutheran minister, who lived TO
the ripe old age Of 103 years.
S. muel e. Stettinius was born in ITO, and
married Mary Ann Kornakowitz of Bardwen
in hat ritz in JIl1v