Smyrna times., 1931-02-18

nothing of his future. His young
est daughter, Mary, was the belle
of Smyrna for years and many
hearts were slain by her darts. AT
an uncertain age she married Mr.
Schutzenbach and removed to New
York or Philadelphia. I had the
pleasure to meet her several times
after she was a widow and she re-
tanned that symmetry of form,
elasticity of movement and spark
ling conversational powers, for
which she was noted in her youth.
Her sister, Elizabeth, married
Jacob Raymond, (who lived in
the old Robert Hill property, now
i B. Frank VanWinkle), and left
two daughters and one son. Their
daughter Susan, turned a deaf ear
to all suitors, but Martha accepted
a Cummins' invitation to Matri-
mony. I understand she remodel
ed the old Blackiston Homestead
and renewed her youth and beau
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ever wrote Poetry, but I know she
was of most poetic nature and con-
versant with Byron and other
poets, from whose writings she
could quote apropos. Mr.. Ray
mond's son, George Henry, I am
told, is now president of one of
your Banks and well known to
your readers. In former years I
had some intimate association with
him and esteemed him most high
I ly. Mr.. Jacob Raymond had a
clerk who lived in his family. One
day the clerk purchased bundle
of rags and the weight of the
package, created suspicion. When
he took the bundle to the rag
room, he opened it and found it to
contain a full suit of Sailors wool
en- clothes. Soon after the young
man was taken sick and DR.. Perk-
ins pronounced his disease Small
Pox." Great alarm pervaded the
town and Mr. Raymond was urged
to have the patient removed, but
both he and his family refused to
turn the afflicted clerk out of their
house. Young Thomas Perkins,
eldest son of the Doctor, volunteer
ed to nurse the patient and Mr..
Raymond's family were heroic in
their attention to him and efforts
for the recovery of the plague
stricken young man, but he died
and in the shades Of evening his
corpse was carried out Of the
town. It was a melancholy fun
eral and but few dared to ap-
proach the house.
East of Mr.. Raymond's were
several dwellings. in one Of which
I think lived Robert Preston. He
was a drummer boy in the war of
1912 and Drum Major in the 9Th
Regiment Delaware Infantry Vol
unteers, in the late civil war I
think he was about seventy when
the war broke out, but under re-
fining fire of patriotism he was re-
ruced to forty-five when he enlist
ed. A Mr.. Lisinger. who was a
great wag, lived in one of those
houses.
Next to this row was the dwell
ing of William Budd, (now Smyrna
Times Building before referred to.
His wife was a daughter Of Judge
Davis, and married first Robert
Wilson and second Mr. Budd. 1
have often thought that the epi-
taph that General Jackson wrote
and had inscribed on the tomb of
his wife might well have been
written for Mrs. Mary Budd, viz. !:
Her face was fair, her person
pleasing, her temper amiable, and
her heart kind She delighted in
relieving the wants of her fellow
creatures and cultivated that di-
vine pleasure by the most liberal
and unpretending methods. To the
poor she was a benefactress; to
the rich she was an example; to
the wretched a comforter; to the
prosperous an ornament. Her pity
went hand in hand with her benev-
olence, and she thanked her Gre
ator for being permitted to do
good. A being SO gentle and yet
so virtuous, slander might wound,
but could not dishonor; even death,
when he tore her from the arms of
her husband, could but transplant
her to the bosom of her God"
Next to Budd's lived Colin F.
Jale, if 1 remember right. He re-
moved from Smyrna to Baltimore
and for many years conducted in
that city grain commission busi-
ness. Next was the cabinet shop
of James Mcdowell, Sr., and af-
forwards of his son, James.
Next was the wheelwright shop
of Benjamin Smith. His son Ben
n.y." and I were playing with edge
tools one day and I accidentally in
f1icted a severe wound on him, the
scar of which he no doubt carries
to this day. In my alarm 1 ran
for one Doctor after another until
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