Newspaper Tidbits: Nokesville

The Times (Washington, D.C.) – March 20, 1899

WANTED TO BE A SLEUTH.  His First Case was to Get Swindled Out of $70.

James W. Fultz, the Nokesville, Va., merchant who was relieved of $70 in cash Saturday afternoon by two clever swindlers, left the city yesterday morning over the Pennsylvania Railroad en route to his home.  He was still minus his money and will probably remain so, as the men who secured it are undoubtedly miles away from this city by this time and out of the jurisdiction of the local police.

It was understood yesterday that the object of Fultz's visit to this city was to obtain a position on the police force.  He stated to Detective Sam Browne, who saved him from being ground under the wheels of a railroad train at the Pennsylvania station after the swindle had been perpetrated, that he had recently sold his farm and a quantity of personal effects in Nokesville because he wanted to become a policeman, or, preferably, a detective.  Fultz stated that he felt sure he would make a first-class sleuth because of his wonderful memory for faces.

Harrisonburg Rockingham Register (VA) – May 23, 1905

Mrs. Walter S. Flory and children, of Bridgewater, spent Friday with Mrs. C. C. Lineweaver on East Market Street, while enroute home from Nokesville, Prince William county, where they have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Flory.

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA) - September 24, 1907

The Cedar Run Hunt Club was organized in Nokesville Saturday with thirty members.  It includes some of the best riders in Prince William county and has one of the best fields in the State for fox hunting.  The following officers were elected:  President H. W. Herring, Nokesville; secretary and treasurer, Melvin C. Hazen, Washington, D.C.; executive committee, C. J. Meetz, Bristow; W. J. Green, Nokesville; H. H. Hall, Gainesville; master of hounds, R. L. Adamson, Warrenton; first whip, C. J. Meetze, Bristow; second whip, W. C. Hall.

The Free Lance (Fredericksburg, VA) – January 4, 1910

Mrs. Mary E. Bodine has sold her farm of 101 acres near Nokesville, Prince William county, to Mrs. J. R. Manuel for $4,300.  Possession March 1.

The Free Lance (Fredericksburg, VA) - July 26, 1910

W. R. Free, of Nokesville, died suddenly Thursday.  He was a Confederate veteran.

Will: William Lee, Sr.

WILLIAM LEE SR. Will

Prince William County Will Book L, pg. 343

24 Jun 1820; proved 09 Aug 1820

I WILLIAM LEE SENR. Do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say: 1^st I desire that all my estate or property after my decease my just debts & funeral expenses being paid shall remain in the hands of my beloved wife MARY LEE & her to be in full possession & enjoyment of the same during her natural life.  2^nd To my son WM. LEE I give & bequeath a cow & calf at the death of my wife to come into his possession. 3^rd To my daughter NANCY I give in like manner one heifer be hers at my wife’s decease. 4^th To my son HENRY I give & bequeath a bed which now goes by the name of his to fall to him in like manner at my wifes decease. 5. To my two daughters ELIZABETH & WILHELMINA I give & bequeath all the remaining property over which I now have controul after my just debts & funeral expences are paid and the above items are fulfild after my wifes decease. And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my friends Col. GERARD ALEXANDER Sr. & Major CHARLES EWELL SENR. Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me heretofore made.  In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 24^th day of June in the year of our Lords one thousand eight hundred & twenty.

WM. LEE SENR.  {seal}

Signed sealed published & declared as & for the last will and testament of the above named WM. LEE SENR. In presence of us

WM. P. DUNNINGTON, JOHN W. PETTY

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Prince William County Aug 9^th 1820 This last will and testament of WM. LEE SENR. Decd was presented to the Court and being proved by the oaths of WM. P. DUNNINGTON and JNO. W. PETTY is ordered to be recorded.

Teste, PHIL. D. DAWE

Newsletter: Brentsville Neighbors

The June 2011 issue of Brentsville Neighbors is out.  Give it a read!

Newspaper Tidbit: Plead with Suffragists (1915)

Manassas Journal
January 8, 1915

PLEAD WITH SUFFRAGISTS. Mrs. C. E. Nicol and her daughters, the Misses Fanny Julia and Marie L. Nicol, were numbered among the 100 democratic women, many of them voters, who visited the White House Wednesday to try again to persuade President Wilson to support the constitutional amendment for nation-wide woman's suffrage. The President told the women he admired greatly their skill and tenacity in the campaign, but he added that he was opposed to granting women suffrage through federal action.

Ben Lomond/Pringle House Civil War Hospital

The weather couldn't have been more perfect for Saturday's reopening of the Ben Lomond Historic Site as the Pringle House Civil War Hospital.

Welcome remarks were made by Brendon Hanafin, Historic Preservation Division Cheif for the PWCo Department of Public Works; Corey A. Stewart, Chairman, and John T. Stirrup, Jr., Gainsville District Supervisor, PWCo Board of County Supervisors, and a moving key note speech on the importance of Civil War medicine in present-day emergency medical procedures by George Wunderlich, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

After the official ribbon cutting, the house was opened to the public for tours.  The new exhibits are mostly hands-on furnishings and displays of what the house may have looked like during it's tenure as a hospital for Confederate wounded after the First Battle of Manassas/Bull Run.  In addition to the main house built by Benjamin Tasker Chinn circa 1830, Ben Lomond Historic Site includes a lovely old rose garden, smokehouse and dairy, a kitchen garden, and slave quarters.

The grounds are open to the public from sunrise to sunset every day. Tours are offered Thursday through Monday from May 1 through October 31 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. or by appointment.

Future events at the site include:

June 12 - Slavery on Sunday Tours (11am - 3pm, $7 per person, free for children under six) - Staff will provide unique hands-on tours and share details about the typical activities of a Sunday for the enslaved community of Ben Lomond.

July 21-24 - Pringle House Hospital 150th Anniversary - (11am - 3pm, $7 per person, free for children under six) - Join site staff and costumed intepreters as the field hospital comes alive once again.  Activities include Civil War-era medical demonstrations, making bandages, and civilian life during the war.

Newspaper Tidbit

Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA)
October 31, 1859

Some Gipseys recently, who had been loitering about the house of Mr. Thomas Holmes, near Brentsville, Prince William county (Va.) it is said, persuaded him to look into the case of a watch in which was chloroform, and, whilst he was laboring under the effects of the inhalation, took from him the key of his bureau and stole therefrom a thousand dollars in gold, with which they decamped.

Ben Lomond: Opening of the Pringle House Hospital Exhibit

21 May 2011 - 22 May 2011
10am-3pm

Ben Lomond Historic Site
10321 Sudley Manor Road
Manassas,VA

Admission: Free

Join us as we re-open the newly refurbished Ben Lomond Historic Site as the Pringle Hospital. The house has undergone a transformation back to July of 1861 when it became a Confederate hospital after the battle of First Manassas. The new exhibits will chronicle the hectic and traumatic experiences of the medical staff, soldiers, and civilians who occupied the hospital.

Program will include living historians, slave life interpretation, medical demonstrations, original medical displays, and hands-on educational tent. Ribbon-cutting ceremony begins at 10:00 a.m.