Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-01-26

we nave always commended that
most of us who had LANDED" an
cestors in this section of the state
in the early days preceding or i'm
mediately following the Revolution,
are related in some degree-read-
ing geneologies pretty we'll con-
firms the thought. Scanning the
Welsh, Griffith, Riggs, the John
Howse of Montgomery County, and
the Waters "books" during the past
year, we found many of the same
n m e Showing relationship
through descent or intermarriage.
The most recent of these books is
the Waters Book, released shortly
before Christmas Q949). Com
piled from the posthumous papers
of Mrs. Edith Worley Beatty by
her husband, Philip Asfordby Beat
ty, it follows the lines of John,
Samuel and Richard Waters from
earliest Colonial days in Virginia
and Maryland. 1t contains de-
scriptive references running back
to the year 1856.
The Waters Book will prove most
interesting to people of Mont
gomery County bearing any of
these names: Arnold, Atkinson,
Blunt, Burgee, Belt, Brock, Baker,
Briscoe, Bowie, Boyd, Brown,
Brewer, Bosley, Beall, Beatty,
Carroll, Cooke, Chesney, Clagett,
Dorsey, Dunster, Davis, DeVries,
Duval, DeKalb, Etchison, Fitchett,
Griffith, Garrett, Greenberry, Gas
saway, Holland, Harris, Howard.
Also Hite, Hilleary, Hammond,
Higgins, Hoskins, Ijams, Jones,
Lansdale, Linthicum, Larner, Mag
ruder, MacCubbin, Moore, Nichol-
son, Owens, Owings, Offutt, Pott-
niger, Plummer, Poole, Pierpont,
Riggs, Ridgely, Smith, Stinson,
Shreve, Spates, Talbot, Thomas,
Thrift, Tyler, Todd, Warfeld,
Welsh, White, Williams, Wood,
Woodward, Worley, Watkins,
Worthington, Yates.
Edith Worley Waters Beatty
was of the 9th generation in
descent from John Waters, born
1906, who arrived from England
on "The Transport" July 4, 1886.
"Waters Adventure" was surveyed
for John Waters at Eye head of
West River" June 16, 1876 and the
line is traced by properties. In her
Worley line, tradition and evidence
point to Francis Worley, a sur
veyor, who came from England
with William Penn in 1899, as the
progenitor of the line in America,
but an old Bible was destroyed
the link unforged and the line be-
gins automatically with John Wor-
ley, son of William, born ITO.
Mrs. Beatty, married in 1902,
began collecting data on the Wat
ers family history in 1904, while
she and her husband were living in
Morgantown, West Virginia. Her
studies continued until her death
in Bradenton, Florida, January 9,
194S. Failing health prevented
Mrs. Beatty from completing and
publishing her work. Knowing
that with the passage of time those
of pioneer stock will increasingly
wish ito prove their lineage it was
her desire to preserve the family
history, realizing that each year
will add to it's value and interest.
That the results of so much care
and labor not be lost her husband
has done what he could to preserve
them.
When Mr.. Beatty has bound and
indexed the original papers he
plans to present them to the Mary
land Historical Society of which
Mrs. Beatty was a member from
1910 through 1947. These papers
deal with most of the old families
of Maryland and contain much his
torical data too valuable to be lost
much of it not directly pertinent
to the Waters Book-thus making
it available to later searchers.
This data will be designated as
the Edith Worley Beatty Memorial
Collection which has been begun
by the presentation of a quilt, the
squares made by friends of Mrs.
Beatty's grandmother in 1928, and
quilted by Mrs. Beatty and friends
80 years later, in 1918.
Included in the collection will
be military photographs, a copy of
the Asfordby tree of ten gener-
atoms up to 1862, brought over
to the colonies not quite century
later by Mr.. Beatty's paternal an
cestor, William Asfordby, whose
daughter Susannah Asfordby mar
ried the original colonial Beatty.
The late Mrs. Bradley Magruder
of Redland was also a descendant
of this union.
Mr.. Beatty dedicates his part
of the work to his wife and her
mother, Mrs. Susannah Magruder
Waters Worley (1845-1933), 1.-TWO
women whose gallant lives of sacri-
flee and devotion were beyond the
praise of any man."
The story of Mr.. Beatty's own
family has been written by Lean