Land Records: :Potomac Railroad Company Notice of Eminent Domain

Alexandria Gazette
29 June 1871

POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY, President's Office, Richmond, June 13, 1871.

To Landon Carter, Ann E. Carter, his wife, D. F. Neale, Thomas W. Neale, William Hale and Lovett Hale; --Wev and Eliabeth Wev; Samuel J. F. Tebbs, Hamilton Crockford, -- Crockford and -- Crockford, the infant children of Tebbs, who married W. W. Tebbs, the infant children of Cornelia Duval, who was Cornelia Tebbs, Thomas Duval and Laura Duval, Anna Steel, Lucien S. Duval, H. S. Duval and the infant children of John P. Duval, Foushee C. Tebbs, J. H. McVeigh, Elizabeth P. McVeigh, Ann L. Tebbs, Margaret F. Thompson, John W. Tebbs and two infant children of W. W. Tebbs, deceased; Thomas F. Tebbs, Richard Tebbs, Daisy Tebbs, George Rozel, DeButts Rozel and Anna Rozel, James Spencer, Francis C. Fitzhugh, William Haywood, Henrietta M. C. Spenve, Elizabeth Chamberlaine and Joseph Chamberlaine, A. Nicol and the Potomac and Manassas Railroad Company.

Notice is hereby given to you, that the Commissioners appointed by the County Court of Prince William county, on the 3d day of May, 1871, to ascertain a just compensation to the owners of lands upon the line of the railroad of this Company within the said county, for such of the said lands as are proposed to be taken by the said Company for its purposes, will meet for that purpose on the land owned by you in the said county, in Carrborough, on the 18th day of July, 1871, between the hours of ten a.m. and 6 p.m. 

Very respectfully,

P. V. DANIEL, Jr., Pesident
Potomac Railroad Co.
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Sunday's Obituary: Minnie Rhine Herndon (1929)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
28 November 1929

MRS. MINNIE HERNDON IS DEAD AT AGE OF 60

Had Gained Wide Recognition in Prison Reform Circles for Work District

Mrs. Minnie Rhine Herndon, 60 years old, whose work while superintendent of women at District penal institution at Lorton, Va., won wide recognition in prison reform cirecles, died last night at a private sanitarium following an illness of 18 months.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon, from the Old Pohick Church at Lorton Va., and interment will be in the Herndon lot in the churchyard. Rev. George W. Dow and Rev. R. P. Rixey will officiate. The body will be at Schuppert's funeral establishment, 2008 Pennsylvania avenue, until noon Saturday.

During the 17 years which Mrs. Herndon was superintendent of women at Lorton she was also active in social welfare work conducted by several churches. She was a member of the Beulah Baptist Church at Franconia, Va. Ill health forced her retirement from active work almost a year ago.

Mrs. Herndon was born in Prince William County, Va. In 1897 she married Allan M. Herndon, whose death occurred shortly before she went into prison work. Most of Mrs. Herndon's married life was spent in Washington.

Mrs. Herndon is survived by two daughters, Mrs. William H. Leef of Alexandria, Va. and Miss M. Aurelia Herndon of Washington; a son, Francis M. Herndon of Washington; a grandson, William H. Leef, Jr.; a brother, R. L. Rhine of Washington and six sisters, Mrs. Sara Broders, Miss Elizabeth Rhine and Mrs. Michael Guiffre, all of Washington, and Mrs. Laura Duvall of Lorton, Mrs. Annie Herndon of Nokesville, Va., and Mrs. B. A. Kalleen of Chicago.