Deed: Cushing to Trustees of Sudley Methodist Church (cemetery)

Deed:  Cushing to Trustees M. E. Ch. S.
PWCo Deed Book 44, pg. 227

This Deed made and entered into this 28th day of January 1896 by and between Henry C. Cushing and Clara P. Cushing, his wife, parties of the first part, and A. H. Compton, C. F. Brower, Wm. M. Wheeler, F. H Sanders, and A. J. Ayres, Trustees of the Sudley Methodist Episcopal Church South parties of the second part, all of the County of Prince William and State of Virginia; Witnesseth: In consideration of their affection and Christian regard for the Church members and officials of the said Sudley Church and their desire to aid them in the establishment of a cemetery at their place of Worship, the said parties of the first part have given, granted and conveyed, and by these presents do give, grant and convey to the above named Trustees and their successors in office with general warranty, a lot of land adjoining the lot on which the Sudley Church Building now stands, Beginning at A. a cedar tree near the corner of Fetzer and the Church lot, thence with said lot S. 88 E. 18 poles to a stake on the North side of the Sudley and Manassas Road, thence with the said road S. 30 W. 18 poles to a stake on said road, thence N. 86 W. 19 poles to a stake in Mr. Cushing's field, thence N. 4 E 17 poles to the beginning and containing two acres and two poles. 

In Trust that the said land shall be used kept and maintained as a place of burial for the dead, subject to the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church South under the discipline usage and ministerial appointments of said Church from time to time authorized and declared by the General Conference of said church and the annual Conference within whose bounds the said premises are situate.

Witness the following signatures and seals the date first before written.

H. C. Cushing {seal}
Clara P. Cushing {seal}

State of Virginia, Prince William County, to wit:

I, Crawford Cushing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia do certify that Henry C. Cushing and Clara P. Cushing, his wife, whose names are signed to the deed hereunto annexed bearing date of January 28th 1896 have acknowledged the same before me in my County aforesaid. 

Given under my hand this 10th day of February, 1896.

Crawford Cushing, J.P.

In Prince William County Court, February 12th 1896.

This Deed was presented to the Court with the certificate annexed and ordered to be recorded.

Teste:  Edwin Nelson, Clerk 

Inventory of Jesse Barron (partial/enslaved persons only) (1811)

Inventory of Jesse Barron (partial/enslaved persons only)
PWCo WB K, pg. 128

Pursuant to an order of the worshipful Court of Prince Wm. Cty. bearing date the 4th of March 1811 we the undersigned commissioners therein named met at the house of the late Jesse Barron on the 12th inst. and after being first sworn proceeded to view and appraise the personal property of the sd. Barron and do make report thereof as follows viz.

Negroes

James about the age of 30 years - $350
Cyrus about the age of 25 years - 350
Dick about the age of 12 years - 228
Cloe about the age of 60 years - 50
Mary about the age of 50 years - 150
Amy about the age of 20 years - 266.67
Lucy about the age of 15 years - 266.67
Dolly about the age of 17 years - 250


... Recapitulation

Valuation of Negroes - $1911.34


... Signed
Gerard Alexander
Philip Alexander
Alexander Compton

Countery signed
Hendley Barron, Administrator

At a Court held for Prince William County Dec. 2d 1811

This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of Jesse Barron Dec'd was returned to the Court and ordered to be recorded.

Teste,
J. Williams  Ct. Cur.

Sunday's Obituary: Mariamnie Ewell Compton

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
3 July 1924

Miss Mariamnie Ewell Compton, seventy-nine, daughter of the late Alexander H. Compton of Prince William County, died yesterday at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Alexander H. Compton, 819 King street.  Funeral services were held this morning at the residence, conducted by Rev. William S. Hammond, pastor of the Southern Methodist Church. Interment will be in the church yard at Sudley, Prince William County.

Sunday's Obituary: Alexander H. Compton

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
4 July 1916

Alexander H. Compton Dead

Alexander H. Compton, seventy-seven years old, died yesterday at his home at Wellington, Prince William county.  He was engaged in farming.  Besides his wife he leaves a sister, Miss Mamie E. Compton.  His funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from Sudley M. E. Church, Wellington.

Madness Monday: Maggie Compton Perkey Clore

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
21 October 1946

MAN KILLS DAUGHTER, THEN ENDS HIS LIFE

Manassas, Va., Oct. 21 -- A Manassas man, arguing with his daughter about being sent to the county almshouse, shot her to death and then killed himself yesterday, Sheriff J. P. Kerlin reported.

Police listed the father as Thomas Lawson Compton, 65. His daughter, who had been twice married, was Mrs. Maggie Compton Perkey Clore.

Sheriff Kerlin said the father protested plans of his daughter to send him to the almshouse and fired two shots, striking her in and near the heart, and then shot himself through the head. The shooting occurred in the daughter's home on the Centerville road near here. Her two sons by a former marriage, aged 3 and 10, witnessed the shooting the sheriff said.

Beside her sons, Mrs. Clore is survived by her husband, a railroad employee and a daughter, Mrs. Mike Papa.

Dr. E. H. Marsteller, Prince William County coroner, issued certificates of homicide and suicide.


[The death certificate for Maggie Compton Perkey Clore notes her burial to be at Cannon Branch Cemetery in Manassas, VA. ~cgl]

Travel Tuesday: Eloise Compton

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
25 April 1932

Girl, 19, is Killed

The other fatal accident occurred when two machines collided head-on yesterday morning on the Centerville-Manassas road in Fairfax County, Va. Miss Carolyn Cole, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cole of Bigleville, Pa., died in Providence Hospital this morning from a fractured skull. Miss Eloise Compton, 19, of Manassas, Va., who with Miss Cole were passengers in one of the cars, is in Providence Hospital, suffering from serious cuts and bruises.

The two girls, roommates at the Marjorie Webster School of Dancing here, were riding in a car driven by Jim Peters, an employee of the Columbia Gas Co., now living at the Manassas Hotel, Manassas, Va., according to Fairfax police. Peters escaped with slight injuries. Miss Compton is a daughter of Will Compton of Manassas. 

The accident occurred when Peters' car and one driven by Carl Davis of Ox road, Lee district, Fairfax County, collided, police said. Both were demolished and Davis was cut and bruised on the head and legs, but was able to return to his home.

William Joseph Rodgers, 40, of Baltimore, the driver of the automobile containing Mr. and Mrs. Clatterbuck, is in a critical condition in Georgetown University Hospital suffering from skull fractures, head cuts, shock and possible internal injuries. An operation was performed early today on his skull.

Sunday's Obituary: Fannie Trone Edwards

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
13 April 1912

MRS. F. T. EDWARDS DEAD

Funeral of Widow of Former Methodist Pastor Tomorrow Afternoon

Mrs. Fannie Trone Edwards, widow of Rev. Dr. William S. Edwards of the Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, died at her home in the Imperial apartments last night of heart disease. Mrs. Edwards had been ill for several weeks.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home at 4 o'clock and the officiating ministers will be Rev. Dr. John T. Ensor, pastor of the Calvary M. E. Church, and Rev. J. W. R. Sumwalt, district superintendent of M. E. churches.  Burial will be made in Baltimore, her former home at Loudon Park cemetery.

Mrs. Edwards was the daughter of the late Rev. John Trone and Mrs. Delilah Trone of Prince William county, Va, and was closely connected with the Weedon and Howison families of Virginia. She had many friends throughout Virginia, Maryland and Washington.

Since the death of her husband three years ago in Baltimore, Mrs. Edwards had made her home at the Imperial, in Washington. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Chase Palmer of Washingotn, and two sisters, Mrs. Sailor C. Richards of Manassas, Va., and Mrs. Eugene Compton of Washington.

Wedding Wednesday: Yeatman/Nalls, Jones/Barbee, Strubhart/Hotchkiss

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC)
April 18, 1846

In Prince William county, on Wednesday, the 1st instant, by Rev. T. D. Herndon, Mr. John H. Yeatman, of Washington, D.C., to Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of William M. Nalls, of Prince William county, Va.

Richmond Whig
December 28, 1858

On the 16th instant, at Sudley Springs, Prince William county, Va., by the Rev. A. Compton, Mr. Samuel H. Jones, of Putnam county, to Miss Mary O. Barbee, of Prince William county, Va.

Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)
January 28, 1862

MARRIED,
In Prince William County, Va., on the evening of the 26th ult., by the Rev. Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the Hampton Legion, S.C.V., Mr. Wm. L. Strubhart, of the Beaufort District Troop, to Miss Angelica M. Hotchkiss, second daughter of W. Harris Hotchkiss, of Prince William.