Newspaper Tidbit: Old Homes of PWCo

Manassas Journal
13 July 1933

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Participants in the program "Old Homes of Prince William" which was presented at the recent meeting of County Homemakers Association.

On the left is Mrs. Benjamin Brown, who represented Effingham; Miss Mildred Ewell told of early days in her own home, Edge Hill; little Clara Bell Carter and Miss Mary Louise Carter pictured interesting happenings at Mt. Atlas and Erindale; and Miss Maude Ewell gave an account of life and conditions during the early years of Bel Air.

[Effingham plantation was recently purchased by a private owner who announced their intention to convert the historic property into a winery.  There have been decidedly mixed reactions in the Nokesville community to the plans. ~cgl]

Sunday's Obituary: Eliza Marders

Alexandria Gazette
June 18, 1849

DIED, at Erindale, in Prince William Co., Va., on the 11th inst., Mrs. ELIZA MARDERS, consort of Elder Lovel Marders.  She has left a husband, child, and many relatives and friends to mourn her loss; but they sorrow not as those who have no hope.  She was for more than eleven years an acceptable member of the Baptist Church.  During the last eight years she was the subject of much affliction, and her last illness was protracted and severe; but she bore her afflictions with Christian fortitude and resignation, and we joyfully believe that she is now in that land, where "the inhabitants never say I am sick" -- where "no want or pain, shall ever disturb her rest again."