Newspaper Tidbit: Manassas Items (1916)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
6 February 1916

MANASSAS, VA., February 5.--Rev. and Mrs. B. G. Pease of Richmond have announced the approaching marriage of their daughter Grace and R. Allen Merchant, also of Richmond. The ceremony is to take place Wednesday, February 16, at the home of the bride's parents on East Franklin street. Mr. Merchant is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walton Merchant, for many years residents of Manassas. He was graduated from Manassas High School with the class of 1912.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Lynn, who recently were married in Washington, have returned to make their home at Milford Mills. Ms. Lynn was formerly Miss Mary Neville Dogan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dogan of Paradise.

Mr. and Mrs. C. R. C. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Waters last Friday evening entertained the senior and junior Bridge clubs at the New Prince William Hotel.

H. N. Merchant of Baltimore this week was the guest of his brother and sister-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. W. Fewell Merchant.

Mrs. Julia Newman Wreun of Weyer's Cave recently was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Newman.

The sewing circle of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South recently met with Mrs. R. S. Hynson. The women of the church are preparing to hold the annual bazaar February 17.

Members of the younger set are planning for a leap year dance to be given Friday evening in Conner's Opera House.

Mrs. Bowling of Upper Marlboro, Md., has been a guest of her son-in-law, Allison A. Hooff.

Aylett T. Holtzman of Washington was a recent guest of Rev. and Mrs. T. D. D. Clark.

Newspaper Tidbit: Easter Sunrise Service is Feature at Manassas (1941)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
13 April 1941

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE IS FEATURE AT MANASSAS

MANASSAS, Va., April 12 -- An Easter sunrise service at Manassas Presbyterian Church at 7 a.m. tomorrow, conducted by the Rev. John M. DeChant, will precede a day devoted to worship in five churches here.

The Rev. James Widmer, pastor of All Saints' Catholic Church, will sing Easter mass tomorrow at 8 a.m.

Worshippers at Manassas Baptist Church were to hear a service based on the them, "Dead, Buried and Risen With Him," conducted by the Rev. R. M. Graham at 11 a.m.

A holy communion service was to be held at Manassas Lutheran Church, with Rev. A. W. Ballentine officiating. The Luther League and the study class will meet at 7:15 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church members will attend communion services at 8 a.m. and hear a sermon by the Rev. A. Stuart Gibson. 

Tomorrow night an Easter cantata, "Immortality," will be presented at the Grace Methodist Church by the choir.

Newspaper Tidbit: Prayer Week Observed (1917)

Manassas Journal
5 January 1917

PRAYER WEEK OBSERVED

Manassas Churches Unite in Nation-Wide Service -- To Close Sunday

A week of prayer is being observed this week in the Manassas churches. The schedule follows:

Monday - At Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, sermon by Rev. J. F. Burks, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. Subject, Thanksgiving and Humiliation.

Tuesday - At Trinity Episcopal Church, sermon by Rev. Alford Kelley, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Subject, The Church Universal The One Body of Which Christ is the Head.

Wednesday - At the Presbyterian Church, sermon by Rev. J. Halpenny, pastor of  Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. Subject, Nations and Their Rulers.

Thursday - At Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, sermon by Rev. T. D. D. Clark. Subject, Missions Among the Moslems and the Heathen.

Friday - At Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, sermon by Rev. E. A. Roads, pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. Subject, Families, Schools, Colleges and the Young.

Sunday - At the Baptist Church, 7:30 p.m.; sermon by Rev. Dr. Mervin U. Roop, of Eastern College. Subject, The Constraint of Christ's Love.

Chuch Record Sunday: Manassas Churches Plan Prayer Week

Evening Star (DC)
3 January 1915

MANASSAS CHURCHES PLAN PRAYER WEEK

Services to Begin Monday Evening in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church

Manassas, Va., January 2 -- The churches of Manassas will observe a week of prayer, beginning Monday evening with services in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, conducted by Rev. C. E. Simmons, a superannuated Methodist minister.  The services Tuesday are to be conducted in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South by Rev. Dr. H. L. Quarles, pastor of Manassas Baptist Church; Wednesday in the Presbyterian Church, by Rev. J. E. Slick, pastor of Asbury Church; Thursday in the Baptist Church, by Rev. J. F. Burke, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, and Friday in Trinity Episcopal Church, by Rev. E. A. Roads, pastor of Grace Church.

Sunday's Obituary: John Meredith Hooe

Richmond Times Dispatch
21 October 1916

Manassas, Va., October 20 -- The funeral of John Meredith Hooe, deputy sheriff of Prince William County, who died on Tuesday of hemorrhage of the brain, was held yesterday at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  The pastor, Rev. E. A. Roads, was assisted by Rev. Alford Kelley, pastor of the Manassas Presbyterian Church, and Rev. J. Royal Cooke, pastor of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Hooe was a member.  Five Prince William County councils of the order of Fraternal Americans took charge of the service at the grave.  Mr. Hooe was a member of Aden Council.

Mr. Hooe was forty-six years old and a nephew of the late Representative Elisha E. Meredith, of Virginia.  His wife and seven children survive.

[John Meredith Hooe is buried beside his wife, Margaret Bertha Kiewit Hooe, in the Manassas Cemetery, Manassas, Va. ~ cgl]

Tombstone Tuesday: Ham(b)rick Memorial Stone

When the final resting place of an ancestor cannot be determined or confirmed, a Memorial Stone can serve to remember and honor them in place of a traditional tombstone.

The following memorial to the Prince William County patriarchs of the Ham(b)rick family was erected by their descendants in the Clover Hill Farm family cemetery behind the Grace Methodist Church on Wellington Road in Manassas.

Photos by C. G. Lynn

(Front)

HAM(B)RICK

Patrick Hamrick

c. 1684 - 1764

and

Margaret Ingles

Hamrick

c. 1689 - 

Lived at Clover Hill Farm

1740 - 1764

300 Years after he arrived in 

Virginia this Memorial is

Dedicated by their eight and

ninth generation descendants

in Grateful Remembance and

celebration of their lives.

30 September 1999

(Back)

Children

Patrick

c. 1715 - 1794

James

C. 1717 - 1778

Robert

C. 1718 - 1757

Dau.

Married James Bridges

c. 1721 - 

Dau.

c. 1723 - 

Dau.

c. - 1725 - 

Benjamin

c. 1727 - 1793

John

c. 1730 - 1757

Joseph

c. 1731 - 1792

Newspaper Tidbits: Periodicals Outside of PWCo

Richmond Planet – August 9, 1890

Rev. M. D. Williams of Manassas, Va. Writes:

            Manassas, Va., July 29, 1890.

Editor of the Planet:

            We are raising funds to beautify our house of worship here.  On Sunday last Rev. Rice, of Alexandria, and Rev. W. Harris were with us, collections raised amounted to $31.33 cents.  The North Virginia Baptist Association meets in Middleburg, Loudon county, Va., on the 20^th of August.

            I preached the funeral of Miss Kate Fletcher daughter of Brother Frank Fletcher, Thoroughfare Station, Prince William County.  She departed this life on the 20^th of July, in her 20^th year. She died a Christian.

            Yours:  M. D. Williams

Roanoke Daily Times – September 20, 1896

VIRGINIA BREVITIES.  A pretty wedding was solemnized at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Manassas Wednesday.  The parties were John S. Wilson, prominent merchant of Paris, Fauquier county, and Miss Maud E., daughter of the late Judge Aylett Nicol, of the county court of Prince William county, and sister of Judge Charles E. Nicol.

The Free Lance (Fredericksburg, VA) – December 29, 1900

Mr. Andrew J. Davis formerly of Prince William county, died in Washington last week at an advanced age.  His remains were taken to Brentsville for interment.

The Richmond Dispatch – April 21, 1901

Eppa Hunton, Jr., who has been nominated for the convention by the Democrats of Fauquier, is a son of General Eppa Hunton and Lucy Wier Hunton, and was born at Brentsville, Prince William county, April 14, 1855.  He was prepared for the University of Virginia at the Bellevue High School, Bedford county, and entered the University in the autumn of 1873, and received his diploma in the law department in 1877.  Soon after graduation the young attorney located at Warrenton, and has there diligently devoted himself to his profession ever since, achieving advancement therein.  He has never sought nor held political office, with the exception of a term in the Legislature, 1893-'94, to which he was elected by the Democrats of Fauquier and Loudoun counties.  His nomination for the convention was practically without opposition.

The St. Paul Globe (Minnesota) – June 10, 1902

A letter of Gen. Robert E. Lee to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, dated Headquarters A. N. Va., Jan 31, 1863 and complimenting "Sergeant Mickler and his party" for gallantry "in a skirmish in the streets of Brentsville on the 9^th inst." Sold for $5.

The Colored American (Washington, DC) – September 20, 1902

Miss Estelle V. Hedgeman, of Brentsville, Va., has returned home after spending a few days in the city with friends.  She will shortly resume her residence here.  Miss Hedgeman was formerly employed in the Census, and is the owner of a farm near Brentsville.