Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-04-16

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And silks need not be new
There is healing in old trees
Old streets a glamor hold,
Why may not 1, as well as these
Grow lovely, growing old?
These lines of Karl Wilson Bak-
Ell, long a favorite of the writer,
always bring to mind the lovely old
town of Poolesville, so rich in ira
ditions, where we find old streets,
old trees, old homes, lovely old
dresses of long ago-and real old
time hospitality = soft Southern
voices that always inquire chow
are you all"?
We were guest in the quaint
old town Thursday, and met a
number of old friends and became
acquainted with some new ones.
We learned from Elsie White
Daniel that her son William is
home from camp for a visit of two
weeks-we recall seeing him sew
eral years ago, standing on the
pavement in Rockville watching
his name going on a door as
member of firm of lawyers he
was proud boy that day-and
just did not care who knew it.!
Mrs. Daniels sister, Mrs. Charles
Upton, president of the Homemak-
ers Club, driver of the clinic car
for our Public Health Lay Council,
always cheerful and gay. Mrs.
Jones Hoyle, whose article on
"Flags of the Confederacy" was
read into the Congressional Record.
We met for the first time Mrs.
William Budd, of course when she
began to talk about her Penny
brook Irish Settlers, we had much
in common, for we have been
adopted by "Reds" the Irish setter
next door, since we lost the beloved
Chesapeakes, "Pete and Little
Pete". The Budds came down from
the North and named their place
for Mrs. Budd who is Penny and
the brook that runs thru it, then
they found that they might have
kept the old one williams Ad-
venture" and still had a personal
interest in the name.
We also met Mr.. Merrick Will
son, principal of the school, who
presented US with a copy of the
voice of P. H. S. or it's echo,
then there was Mrs. Joseph Halter,
one of the first presidents of the
Homemaker's Club, Mrs. Clagett
Hilton whom we met several years
ago at Short Course at Maryland
University; Mrs. Russell Umstead,
once our neighbor in Laytonsville;
and dear little Mrs. George Will
lard, who scolded us for not writ
ing more about Poolesville vicinity
= just invite us again, folks!
Miss Sally Brown was not at the
meeting, and upon inquiry W.
learned she had fallen and broken
bone during the past winter
she is now IS. She lived alone in
the house in GAINESVILLE in which
she was born, when we visited her
two years ago.
We have spoken before in this
column of how the tides of settle
ment in the early days, came first
up the Patuxent, then up the Po-
tomac and Rock Creek and men
toned Richard Brightwell whose
1886 acres near Edwards Ferry
ran along the Potomac for four
miles, in 1895. He lived with his
dogs, pet bear, and deer in solitude
for about rs years at "Brightwell's
Hunting Quarters" before "Con-
cord" one mile farther up was
granted Daniel Dulany in April
1921.
According to Mrs. Willard the
Willard farms are a part of the
Brightwell tract; Daniel Carroll in
1875 purchased 5000 acres on both
sides of Whites Ferry, known then
as Conrad's, which we suppose took
in at least part of Concord. The
farms of Lambert, Myerly, Young,
Shannon, Trundles, The Creamery,
and Clothiers were all part of this
grant.
Killmain the stone house where
the Shannons live was partly built
before the Revolutionary War.
After the close of the war Ludwick
Young who had purchased the
property from the Halls completed
the house begun by the CAROLS,
using field stones from the place.