Evening star., 1948-11-28

GEN. RICHARD MONTGOMERY,
For 1Uhom Montgomery County
UaS named.
regarded as too insignificant a
stream, it was finally concluded to
name it after its more pretentious
neighbor, Rock Creek"
Early Landowners
During the period, when Rockville
was Williamsburg, the lot owners
according to assessment books, in
cluded Allen Bowie, who was taxed
for one house and lot; Enoch
Beeson, one house and lot; John
Sutton Crawford, two unimproved
lots, and one house and lot; WAL
ter Clagett, one unimproved lot;
Bryan Dayley, one house and lot;
Hezekiah Ford, one house and lot;
DR.. Joseph Hall, one house and lot;
Edward Harding, one house and lot;
Philip Jenkins, two houses and lots
and two unimproved lots; John
Lyons, one unimproved lot; Rich
ard Morgan, one house and lot;
Nicholas Mudd, two unimproved
lots; Francis Magruder, one unim-
proved lot; William O'Neale, sr.
five unimproved lots; Caleb Sum-
mers, one house and lot and half
lot improved; John L. Summers
two one-half lots and houses, one
improved lot, and two unimproved
lots; Joseph Wilson Of j., one house
and one lot; Joseph Wilson heirs,
one house and lot and two unim-
proved lots; William p. Williams,
13 unimproved lots; Thomas o.
Williams, II unimproved lots: Elish
o. Williams, II unimproved lots,
and Edward o. Williams, II un-
improved lots.
This accounts for 20 houses in
1893 and no doubt there were other
buildings besides these, including
the Courthouse and Jail, which
would make a substantial town for
that date.
One of the best evidences Of the
age of community Is shown by
the inscriptions on the tombstones
in its cemeteries, and in Rockville
Cemetery, a short distance east of
the city limits, the writer found one
large stone lettered as follows:
Here lies the body of
JOHN HARDING
Born March Is, 1888, and
Died January 20, 1752."
There were other old graves in this
cemetery, which is usually well kept.
The Bowie family is well repre-
sented. Miss Mary Bowie died June
2, 1900; Richard, March ~, 1901; !;
Allen and Ruth, 1903 and 1912, re-
spectively; and here is to be found
a marker, placed by kind hands Of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution. McHenry Hilleary, &C
cording to the inscription, died In
1892, and Sarah Johns, wife of
Thomas Johns, departed this life in
1882. Mary Ann Grimes died in
1915, Gassaway Perry in 1884, Addi-
son Belt, 1857; Upton Beall, 1927;
Jane Neal, wife OF Upton Beall, 1S4s;
Harriet Ann, a daughter Of Upton
Beall, died 1924, and Upton Beall
an only son, died 1920.
Elizabeth A. o. Young died tr
1912, and another stone is In mems
ory OF our Mother, Rebecca M
Young, who died in 1922, aged Al
years" The father of the family
Henry H. Young, died in 1854. Anns
Miller died at the early age Of z
in 1850: John o. Miller, in 1848 ano
William Braddock died in 1880.
Meteoric Shower
A reference to the wonderful
meteoric shower of November /:
and 13, 1888, that probably has never
been equaled before in this country
and the display of which, as told by
an early Montgomery County, Md.
resident, says that:
about 9 o'clock on the morning
of the 18th, reined up before the
old hotel in Rockville and soon
entered the barroom, but I shall
break down in the attempt to de-
scribe appearances in that room, In
front of the door, on the porch. In
the street and wagon yard-not that
I did not see and remember well
apo,,ob fo do Sa-h1lt that deScrip-