Evening star., 1934-06-02

family has come the silver knee
buckles which were worn to the
funeral. Pieces of the Inflated satin
tights which did not get to the funeral
also were distributed to various men,
bers of the family. Our piece" COM
mentS Miss Moore, was the one but
toning over the knee where the catas-
traphe occurred" A witty descendant
has marked it thus. irreverently,
ITO show you how tight
Were the pants they then wore
This sample is kept
You can see where they tore
AS our grandsire mounted the chaise
at the door
To go and see Washington, who was
no more"
Miss Moore will fondly tell you OF
her family's love and pride In their
great grandmother, wife of Henry
Ingle, who was Mary Pichin of
Huguenot ancestry. Mary Pichin's
family were friends of the Marquis de
Lafayette in their native France, and
to her father the marquis promptly
paid his respects upon his visit to
Philadelphia. Among the family
treasures is an exquisite snuff box
of tortoise-shell with the Lafayette
arms in gold upon its lid. This was
given to Mary Pichin's father by Gen.
Lafayette in appreciation Of the hos
pitality received by him from Mr.
Pichin while the marquis was in
America.
In a cabinet in Miss Moore's draw
ing room is a green morocco slipper
with tiny French heel. one of a pair
in which the young and lovely Mary
Pichin, before her marriage to Henry
Ingle. danced with Gen. Lafayette at
ball which was given for the dis
tinguished visitor in Philadelphia. In
this same cabinet. too. along with a
little old Bible with print so fine that
it is strain upon even the youngest
eyes to follow the page, are the same
great-grandmother's tiny wedding
slippers, made of handsome white
brocade with ruchings Of tulle for
bows.
Rare Pewter Retained.
LII AN1LcS LOJIu arc
two Adam chairs of lovely design, two
of a dozen brought from the Ingle
home in Philadelphia and thought to
have belonged to the Pichin family.
There is also a mirror whose frame
was the product Of the skill of Grand
father 1ngle's cabinetmakers of 1900
A large pewter sugar bowl, dating
back to the War of 1912, is the only
piece remaining from a large tea set
which Miss Moores patriotic great
grandmother contributed to the Amer
lean cause to be melted up for bullets,
a courss generally pursued by loyal
Capital City housewives during the
War OF 1912, with the result that
collectors find little pewter in this
locality.
During the War Of 1912. several
oetachmentS OF the British forces
under the command Of Admiral Cock
burn, were detailed to find and DESTROY
the cherished stores of American am
munltion, which in several instances
had been hidden in abandoned wells
gone dry. Coincident with the ac-
tiv1tles OF the British searching parties
a terrific storm swept over Washing
ton. Feather beds, pillows, chairs and
other light articles Of household equip
ment were sent swirling here and
there from the upper floors of houses
whose roofs had been ripped from
their supports.
In haste to perform their mission
and return to their ships lest they be-
come cut off from them by the
elements, certain of the invading de-
tachmentS became demoralized and
went wildly hither and yon in the
general melee. Either by accident or
design" as Miss Moore's mother puts
1t In her Columbia Historical Society
"reminiscences, "a lighted torch was
thrown by an American into one of
the hidden stores of ammunition with
tne result that Is British were DESTROY
ed and many were wounded. For
several days afterward the dismem-
bered bodies of those who persisted
were being collected for interment.
The fleeing wounded" the family his
torlan adds, were detained and ten
derly cared for by Washington resi-
o' - AAAihbCA vi Us LILLE CIllQTen
being put at the task of iscrapine
lint to dress their wounds"
Learns Value Of Silence,
Miss Moore's grandmother Mary
Ingle, daughter of Henry Ingle and
Mary Pichin, who afterward married
William Campbell at early candle
lighting time on March %, 1926" was
IL years old during the War of 1872.
One day, with her mother and other
feminine members of her family. she
was seated on the porch of their home
on Capitol Hill in front of which was
one OF the neighborhoods wooden
pumps. An intoxicated British officer
with his orderly rode up. Here little
girl" said he, take this silver cup
of Jim Madison's president Madison)
and fetch me cup of water from yon
pump" With little dipping courtsy
the grandmother is reported to have
said gravely, "Ill fetch you the water
sir. but you haven't Mr.. Madison's
silver cup because my father took his
papers and his silver" But the mother
Mrs. Henry Ingle, Mary Pichin that
had been, quickly put a restraining
hand over the child's mouth, saying,