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 

PWCo Items: 1 August 1874

Alexandria Gazette
1 August 1874

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY ITEMS.--[From the Manassas Gazette.]

The water in the well of Mr. E. E. Conner, of this place, became so strongly tinctured with coal oil several months ago that the family was compelled to discontinue its use.  Last week Mr. C. had the well cleaned out. There was found an oily substance on the surface of the water which, on having fire applied to it, burned as brilliantly as the best coal oil. Mr. C. cannot account for the presence of the substance.

Edwards, a German, living with Mr. C. Matthis, of this place, had occasion to go on top the barn one day last wee, and, missing his footing, fell to the ground a distance of fifteen or eighteen feet, sustaining a terrible fracture of one of his legs and a very bad sprain of an ankle. The bones were terribly shivered between the knee and ankle joints and protruded through the flesh.

Constable Keys, with a number of men, surrounded and arrested Monroe Atchison, on Saturday last, at Horton's store. Atchison is one of the brothers, two others of which are at large, who are suspected of stealing two horses from the Herndons. He was taken before Justice Law, who committed him to jail. Atchison expects to prove an alibi.

A wandering albino, with a pack on his back, passed through here one day last week. His complexion was almost snow white, and his hair, including his beard, eyebrows and lashes, if possible, were whiter than his skin. His eyes were almond shaped, and a light cherry-red. He was of light statue, and walked as nimbly as a cat.

Nearly every well in the town of Manassas has gone dry, and will continue so while they remain at their present depth -- from fifteen to twenty feet.

One Wednesday, the 5th of August, at Sudley church, a festival will be held for the purpose of raising funds for the completion of said church.

Delegates to the Congressional Convention to meet at Tappahannock on Wednesday next will be appointed at Brentsville on Monday.

Horse racing, which bid fair in the early summer to be all the rage at Manassas, seems to have entirely died out.

Blackberries are plentiful now, and selling at from two to three cents a quart.

The corn crop, from present appearances, we fear, will be a short one.

The County Court for the August term sits on Monday next.

Military Monday: Battlefields at Bull Run (1904)

Boston Sunday Globe
29 May 1904

BATTLEFIELDS AT BULL RUN
Have Undergone but Little Change in the Four Decades Since
They Shook with Tread of Armies and Crash of Guns

The Bells of Sudley Meeting House and Centerville Church Ring Out Every Sunday and Old men Prey There Who Listened to the Firing, Saw Glimpses of the Struggles, Carried Water to the Wounded and Helped Bury the Dead

Tombstone Tuesday: John Frank Dogan / Edith May Leachman

Sudley Methodist Church Cemetery (Photo: C. G. Lynn)

JOHN FRANK DOGAN

Sept. 20, 1949

May 5, 1923

EDITH MAY LEACHMAN

His Wife

May 15, 1857

June 7, 1945

Edith May Leachman was the daughter of John Thomas and Elizabeth (Lewis) Leachman.  John Frank Dogan was the son of William Henry and Lucinda Dogan.  They were married 30 April 1890 in PWCo.

Sunday's Obituary: Frank Lee Hoffman

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
6 October 1946

Frank L. Hoffman Dies; Prince William Farmer

Manassas, Va., Oct. 5 - Frank Lee Hoffman, 44, well-known Prince William County farmer, was killed instantly yesterday when a truck collided with his automobile at the intersection of 234 and 261 near Catharpin.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Sudley Methodist Church, of which he was a member. Burial will be in the church cemetery at Sudley.

A native of Dover, Loudoun County, he was the son of the late Judson F. Hoffman and Mary C. Hoffman, who made her home with him. Mr. Hoffman has lived at Glenwood Farm at Catharpin for the past 40 years.

Besides his mother, he is survived by his widow, the former Minnie Owens, Fauquier County; two sons, Judson and Burgess Hoffman, and a daughter, Frances, all of whom live at Glenwood Farm.

He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Mary Mills and Mrs. Ethel Clements, Mount Rainier, Md., and three brothers, Douglas Hoffman, Centerville, Va.; Berkeley, Greenwich, Va.; and Lester Hoffman, Washington.

Wednesday's Child: Daisie B. Lynn

Sudley Methodist Church Cemetery, Catharpin, VA

DAISIE B. 

daughter of 

L. C. & H. T. 

LYNN

Born Feb. 8, 1890

Died July 11, 1892

Suffer little children to come unto me.

[Daisie Bonham Lynn was the daughter of Lewis Craig Lynn and Hannah T. Bonham. ~cgl]

Tombstone Tuesday: Lulu Lewis Lynn (1904)

Sudley Methodist Church Cemetery

In Memory Of

LULA LEWIS LYNN

Daughter of

L. C. & H. T. 

LYNN

Nov. 13, 1884

Jan. 27, 1904

Evening Star (Washington, DC)

27 January 1904

The remains of Miss Lulu Lewis Lynn, whose death occurred this morning at Sibley Hospital in Washington, will be forwarded tomorrow from the residence of Mr. William Demaine on King street to Sudley, Prince William county, for interment.  The deceased was nineteen years of age, and was the daughter of Mr. Lewis Lynn of Prince William.

[Lulu Lewis Lynn was the daughter of Lewis Craig and Hanna J. (Bonham) Lynn. ~cgl]

Tombstone Tuesday: Belle (Grayson) and Luther Oscar Lynn

Sudley Methodist Church Cemetery

LUTHER O. LYNN

Born

August 30, 1850

Died

Dec. 22, 1919

Sudley Methodist Church Cemetery

BELL F. LYNN

Wife of

L. O. LYNN

Born

May 1, 185

Died

Nov. 16, 1927

Luther Oscar Lynn was the son of Luther Langdon Lynn and his first wife, Mary Frances James Currell.  He married Isabella Frances "Belle" Grayson on December 23, 1875 in Prince William County.