The times dispatch. [volume], September 15, 1912, Image 16

About The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914

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The Old Stone House and the John Marshall Home, Now in Charge of the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
_BY ALICE M. TYLER.
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and David Lambert, In j. project fo
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Street, between Eighteenth and Nlne
ieeth Streets, that ..as since become
! Ininoli.-i In tin annals ??*.' Ma.- >nr.V.
? lie-. Jr., was master ol this
Ipjlge frbrii 17S9 tb 1793. I If w.ih again
elt ; In 1795 and died lieforc Ills
wrui of oltice expired.
The e?tnte of^Jitcib l-.go. ,)r, >vas ill
ht-rited by ids widow, who about the
!.nuriied Captain Joseph A.
..f the United States Navy. She
lied .a iSiiS and the inscription un her
tpmbston* In St. John's Church, yard
thajt she %%as arphunod at an early
age and that, being brought up under
I.the carl <<i lici maternal uncle In Itleh
Id, sh< married and continued to
ret here until her death.
Mrs. I'.llxalieth Wattier K?e.
After Jacob Uge, jr., tue next owner
of the <>l.l Stone ItoUse was Samuel
<????? commissary oi the Amei leiiii army
during the War of the Revolution. Ho
married Elizabeth Waiker, Ol Linien
loir:; County, Vlrgltllh, reared in the
home of Colonel Thomas l'i isser, of
Hrookii. Id. near It!. Iiuiond. The fol?
lowing paragraphs from an obituary
[written by l.tlshop Itbihnrd Cliiinillng
.Moore at till lime of Mrs. |jg, s death
in 1 $29, show the esteem and reused
in who p she was held. There arc- Cie
pai a graphs::
' 1'le.i ,it her late residence bri Bitst
'Mi.'p street, Thursday night. January
'. 1829, Mrs, KlUaloth Walker Kge,
In the S5d year of her age. She was
native of Luuonburg County, Virginia
a ii,l for th,. last seventy years a use
?? of [tlchmond. She loft behind ?
? family of children, grand child
tind gi, al-gi ? at-pi andi lilpiren
voted to hot family, she spent little
elsewhere] and thus, it has pleased
'? 1 t.> lake from Us bosom to Him*
' .f tin. oldest residents of ibis
To say in common language that
> ? v.as an affectionate wife, fjnd
other, Indulgent ami charitable nils
and exemplary woman, may t>.?
taken perhaps as mere words, as a
it|i ! "'. course, but not In any one
ol those r61atlana bus the busy tongue
inder ?vir whispered an objection
?
"Without any parade or snow of
, she was ti devout believer In
the tr.erlt:, of her Lord and Master
JeSUi Christ, and when In the day of
Ihei death, the bishop, her pastor, visit
! ed her and administered the Holy <"?
munloii, aha ilrmiy told lilm she fully
relied <.n x'-,.- love and mercy of her ro
dei me?r to whom she wns looking for
eomf.irt and consolation, both In time
and eternity. 'i heard a vied from
I lea yen. Haying, write, from henceforth
blessed are) the dead who die "n the
Lord, even ad salih Ihri spirit for they
i.st trom their labors.'"
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker like bad
boarders In tn.- Old Stone House dur
:i in-- perlad of the Virginia f*on
vention in its.-., a contention of which
.Samuel Sehcercr, a near kinsman of
Mrs. Ego, was a member, .lames Mon?
roe, Congressman, Senator, foreign
Ministen an i President <>t the United
States, boarded with Mrs. Kg,, and at?
tended He- sessions of the Cphventlojn.
Jefferson. Washington, Henry and
LttKayatte were other disllgulshcd vis?
itors to the Old Stone House, inn there
is in. foundation whatever for a claim
advanced that the house was evar
Was hlngton's licarquarters.
Samuel i'.K-- resided In the house
during iio War of the Revolution and
ai tio time of Arnold's Invasion lit.
17$), was absent at Iiis post of duty
In the Continental army.
Legend of ('ortiwalllfi'H litinslon.
There Is a st.uy told thai em the
day ot the RrltlHh occupation of the
city, two of the Kgo grandchildren,
im!,- lads, wire sent ?in hbrsoback,
early in the morning, to drive the
lows to the pasture lands beyond the
city limits. The children encountered
the Redcoats, were roughly halted by
them and turned back to the city.
1 .\s t?i.- xoldlori wore descending^ Itlch
mond or Church Hill, then much sleep?
ier than it now Is, the yoilthful priH
; oners escaped int., the hushes and re?
mained hideu there until nft< r the
troop bad passed on Afterward they
saw their r hi s, hut could d.? nothing
toward getting them home as the cows
i wet-.- transformed frorn Inno. 6nt, in
' offensive animals into impudent crea?
tures, who tossed up their heads, kick*
; ed up their heels and would not .let
I the hoys approach them, or raax them
j where they should go, although by this
time it was lato afternoon and the lads,
I seeing that everything was quiet In
I the yiclnity of H e Old Stone House.
thought they might as well return and
1 ai l 1 ate their hunger with a good aup
I per at grandmother's abundant table.
So IHey crept back home, were Joyfully
welcomed by their elders, very uneasy
regarding 1,10 lads' prolonged absence.
The next morning the hoy:; found their
rows repentant over the bec;l they had
drunk from this gutters, where it had
been poured by the British the day t.,
fbre, ami quite willing to be stiiblcd
and milked. S<> a matter that tiad be
giin very ill ended without sortoui con?
ti eo,uenccs.
i Whi n <;? neral LaFayctte < ame to
Richmond in lfc-4, the Old Stone Hotiso
was marly a century old; II- la credit?
ed with partaking of cake and 1< mon?
ad,, during a visit to It. and the young?
est of eight children born to .la. ol>
(inlt and Diana Morgan Bge wa? named
i m Fayctts,
The last of the Bge children born in
Ih? Old Stone House on Auguiil 25.
ISIC, was James Lawrence Ege, a mem?
ber of the II rm of Mitchell and Tyler,
in Richmond us long as It remained a
linn. He and his wile are burled in
the church yard of ..id St. John's]
Founder <>f Enders Family.
I'iiiing ih" year 1 7 70, there came to
'Richmond from New York a young
man named John Bndors, the son of
Nicholas and Susannah Fahnestock
lenders, of New V u k He married in
1X14. Sarah Lambert Bge. daughter of
Samuel and Elisabeth Walker Bge and,
at the time Of his death, cause,| by a
lall from a ladder In is.'.-, he was prob?
ably one of the wealthiest men in Rich?
mond. Colonel William If. Panier is
it grandson of .1 din Kndcrs, Sr, and
Sarah I<nmbert Bite. His brothers and
sisters were Sarah Endcr.1 Pamev, Mary
Palmer, Join-. Enders I'almer, Charles
T uner Palmer. Elizabeth, Palmer, Bella
I'almer. Irving I'almer, Arthur IIa i vie
I'almer. Emmtt I'almer und Julia ?'an
by Palmer.
Tin- Mary Brnper Memorial.
ChnrlOfl Turner I'almer was a resi?
dent Of NclSOli Cbiinty.Va.i ami married
I .turn Inglls. a descendant of Mary
Draper Inglls, to whose memory a
m 111111110111 was unveiled on September
29, l'.ian. Mary Draper Inglls was the
tlrst white bride married west of the|
Alleghnny Mountains. She was taken I
prisoner by Indians In 175.r>. Escaping,
she traveled alone. in winter, eight j
hundred miles through unbroken forests j
returning home. To perpetuate the |
nin MisiiMi
i ! m pi.e, in n t
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KG K, Sil..
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thought of her uhparalelled heroism,
her descendants built a monument to
her. In which the. ?tonen of the cabin
chimney forhilng her h< irthstorie were
Us< d.
Bill ti return from numerous Fge.
descendants to the pld stone Hou.-.: of
I he "James River settlements'* from
whence tho Virginia branches Issued!
It pa?8< 1 after Samuel Fge's day to
his daughter, Mr.- J?he Welsh, and
from Heirs who succeeded her It came
Into the possession of Or?nvllle <?
Valentine, Ran., who, desirous of keep?
ing in good condition an ancient i n -
mark, dating back to Rh hmond's' hist
beginnings, has placed tin1 building in
the care of women Interested in the
preservation :>f Richmond's past, out of
which has come her present,
That Mr. Vanohtlno's confidence win
, be Justified, the future of the Old
I Stone House will pro\e Its history
I and a full genealogy of the Bgd family
'have been Written end published tills
year by the liev. Thompson I'. Ege,
! 1i, l>.. of .\ew York City.
The Marslinll House,
An official conveyance and acceptance
between Hie City Council of Richmond
and the Association lot tho Preserva?
tion of Virginia Antiquities having
been consummated in Oct >ber ot 1911.
I a committee of association members
has since been bury over the work of
restoration within and without the
.lohn Marshall House, standing at the
hi irnor of Ninth and Marshall Slreets
At the time of iis, cectiohj it was
typical of the character of the man
who built It. and of the simplicity or
taste in architecture which then pre?
vailed Its proximity to the John
Marshall High School now renders u
an ibject lesson to the buys and girls
who can measure progress by compar?
ing the Ideas of yesterday with tlie
Ideas of to-day. and realize that the
first chief Justice of the Unites' states
and the Interpreter of the Constitution,
was. of all men, the most Independent
of outward show In the hulldlr ?(
the home.
flevoted to Home and fireside.
Yet few men of any class, period, ol
condition, over showed a greater fond?
ness for his home and fireside than did
J.dm Marshall. He married tho daugh?
ter of Jacquelln Ambler, of Williams
burg, who cam,, to Richmond when the
capital was removed from tho former
Io the latter city, Mr. Ambler being
Stale trensurer.
The Amblers occupied a house on
Fifth Street In Richmond. In the Im?
mediate neighborhood of st. James
Church at the time when Mary Amb?
ler became the bride of the future
Chief Justice. The newly married pair
chose to spend the first years of their
life together In a nearby dwelling on
Fourth Street Afterward they re?
moved Io a cottage Just above the site
of the present brick building, a wood?
en structure surrounded, however, with
llOWer beds and box hedges. From this
point of vantage the chief at leisure.
overlooked the putting up of his per-!
mftnent home, saw that it stnori strong
and that It wns proportioned as he
n Ished it to bo.
(?rent Lawyer mid Urem i.over.
A small square hall, a spacious draw?
ing room and dining room occupy the
first floor. Above are the fair, large
heel chambers, one of them the room
In which Mrs. Marshall, who was an
Invalid for many yearn ? her life,
spjnt mom of her day wlwi In doors.
Chief justice Marshall his always
h. en considered one Of tht greatest
legal lights Of his day and 6. all diys
iitc. Or Cat lawyer and gi?-.t lover.
Foremost In public debate tint tender,
est in his care of hit whom ie cher?
ished in sickness, as in health a pro
that brought htm hack t<> the b< .:. .;??
of th'ei wife, wri? was h's dearest , : h
ly care.
For years after John Marshall anl
Is wife lay side by side in Shockol
11111 Cemetery, the Marshall house- whs.
owned by granddaughters .if the
Chief Justice, the :Mjss.H Harvle.
Some years ago It was sold (I y them lb
the city Recentlv, -,s 1: is ;<? en uot,:d,
the City Council lias Intrusted It to tho
keeping of a body of Richmond and
Virginia women
The w "rl. of Restoration.
There has been for ihetn a long and
hard task In the work of restoring to
the house its original air of simple
beauty and harmony There have been
repairs to brick work and wood work;
the removal of disfiguring paint, the
replacing Of In ass lodks taken from
doois and hundreds of other details
necessary to give to the itilltffhg a
measure of Its rightful lone and at?
mosphere.
It is hoped that in the end the Mar?
shall house, restored and refurnished
with mbmehtoe's of its builder and
owner, a son for whom Richmond and
Virginia must always feel the proud?
est and most reverential devotion,
will remain to exemplify to the future
a lesson that may be learned In the
abode of greatness and goodness com?
bined.
It s.ems most appropriate that to
women th. Mat shall house has been
committed Because as the homo of
the great Chief Justice It was also tho
home of one of tho best beloved and
most dearly tended of women?his
wife, Mary Ambler Marshall.
Its daily use is the best and the
least expensive form of
HEALTH INSURANCE.
Can Cancer Be Cured?
IT CAN
The record of the Kollam Hospital Ifl
without parallel In history, having
cured to stay cured permanently, with?
out the use of tho Knife or. X-rnj, over
60 per cent, of tlie ninny hundreds of
sufferers from cancer which tl has
treated during the past llf'een ytars.
Wo have tn .-n endorsed by the Donata
and Legislature of Virginia. Wo Xuar.
ante* our cures. ,
Physicians treated free.
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1617 wmt Main Street,
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