Patrick Henry appeared in Williamsburg in 1760 to take his attorney's examination before Robert Carter Nicholas, Edmund Pendleton, John and Peyton Randolph, and George Wythe. Towards the end of his career, he represented my 5x great-grandfather Rev. Weatherford.
In 1746, Edmund Pendleton advertised that he had lodgings in the home of Mrs. Sarah Packe, my 7x great-grandmother.
Sarah Packe lived next door to the Printing Office on Lot #47. She was a partner with William Parks in the printing establishment and store-house in Williamsburg, Mrs. Sarah Packe. His granddaughter, Sarah Shelton II, married the aforesaid Patrick Henry.
I read this poem after I read in Tom Brokaw's autobiography, "A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland," that his teachers, Mrs. Petersen and Mr. Holmes, introduced him to its evocative language. It rings as true today as in the 1800's when it was written.
It is an appropriate memorial to Mr. Pack, the son of my 7x great-grandparents, Graves and Sarah Pack, who was lost at sea.
“Erected in 1906 by Churches of the Roanoke Association.
“A sufferer for Conscience Sake.
“An Earnest and Faithful Minister of the Gospel.”
"This information was collected on May 20, 2003 by David Hambrick and Ken Bowen
In November of 1965, Rebecca J. Bragg was returning home with her sister Roxie in time for Thanksgiving after visiting with her sister. My sister Mary was named, in part, after Rebecca. Roxie was one of my mother's best friends and she wanted my mother to go away and work with her. Roxie and Rebecca were both killed in an automobile collision. They are both buried in the Bowles Cemetery.
"From Athens follow Route 20 north to Pipestem. Continue on Route 20 and pass the entrance to Pipestem State Park, and turn right on Indian Ridge Road, and then turn left on Rocky Mount Road, Route 26/4. Follow this road to the Rocky Mount Church and cemetery. The cemetery is clean and trimmed with 259 graves including four Civil War, three World War I, seventeen World War II, three Korean War, and two Vietnam Veterans."
My grandmother and grandfather, Zed and Frances Louise Young, greatuncle and greataunt, J. Carl Sr. and Reba Y. Barton, great-grandparents, Nancy Farley and Sterling P. Weatherford, great-grandparents Maggie W. and J. Allen Young, great-uncle Pvt. Estel Young, great-grandaunt Effie Weatherford, and Robert Lee Barton, the teen-age son of Carl and Reba, are buried there. Robert Lee Barton drowned at his brother's baptism. One of my mother's best friends, Amie Kirk, is also buried there. My 4x great-grandparents, Melvin and Syntha Farley, and their following children are buried there:
Caroline Farley; A. T. Farley, and Auston Green Farley and his wife Avaline Farley.
Annie G. Weatherford and Lydia M. Anderson, wife of Caesar Anderson, my great-grandaunts, are also buried there.
"Located in the Pipestem Area. Turn up the road at Cook's Chapel Church; take second road to the
right. Go to Neeley's Cemetery at the top of the hill. Make a left at the 'Y' intersection.
Go out the ridge about a mile or two. The road ends after you go thru two or three gates and
then you come to a meadow. Drive across it & there you will find the cemetery at the edge of
the field and near the woods."
My 2x great-grandparents, Victoria Alice Thompson & James W. Young, and an infant daughter are buried there.
Homer, Nelson, Pierce Young, John Thurman, Arabell Young, and Elbert Walter may be their children.
"George Washington Thompson was robbd and killed September 28, 1916. He is buied in the family cemetary on the farm. (Eli Thompson and Sarah Shrewsberry Thompson lived on the farm near Elgood, West Virginia.) His wife, Susan, continued to reside on the farm until her death February 3, 1935. She is also buried in the family cemetary."
See "RALEIGH BALLARD THOMPSON" by Susan Thompson in Mercer County History: 1984, published by the Mercer County Historical Society, Inc.
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I read this poem after I read in Tom Brokaw's autobiography, "A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland," that his teachers, Mrs. Petersen and Mr. Holmes, introduced him to its evocative language. It rings as true today as in the 1700's when it was written.
For those of you who are really observant, the picture in the upper left-hand corner of this page is of a tree in the forefront of the skyline of Boston. (It was taken from the Esplanade.) To my knowledge, neither Jeremy nor I have any immediate family in Boston.
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