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Many Pioneers of Frederick County Attended Church There. Situated in one of the fertile places of Frederick county’s many beautiful garden spots is the quaint old Ridge meeting house on the Apple Pie Ridge Road, about four miles north of Winchester, and al though weather-beaten and almost gray with age, the little structure is rich in recollections of some of the early founders of that section, and around its sacred walls cling some of the most tender memories of childhood, which time or other circumstance cannot efface. Those who planned and built it have long since passed away, and yet the sacred edifice rears its plain head silent and alone_,above the many white marble memorials which mark the last resting place of many who have sat within its walls and received their first instructions in life. Its first occupants are gone and their dust is mingled with the composite earth because the struc ture was erected over one hun dred years ago, and there are none living who can remember its erect ion. Just prior to the arrival of the funeral cortege of Mrs. Jonah Tavenner on Wednesday last Miss Elisan Brown, one of the leading members of the Friends Society who worship there, opened the church and showed Visitors the in terior while she related some of the history connected therewith. The ground upon which the church was built was donated by her grandfather,who also helped to build it Sand who is now buried in the graveyard adjoining the edi fice. Buried in the churchyard are many of the pioneers of Fred erick county, and over in and Cor ner is a plan slab which marks the st ressing place of John Honesty, faithful old colored, body. ser vatof Charles. Broadway Rouss, the New York millionaire. ~ John nursed Mr. Rouss when he was a baby, living a few miles from the church, and was his body servant for many years. When old and gray with service Mr. Rouss lib erally provided for him and when the died it was his former master that had him buried near the scenes of his earlier years and life. Mr. Rouss’also attended the unday School when a boy, and it was doubtless there that he re ceived his first instructions in the only way to an eternal life. Miss Brown tells of an incident which occurred during the war and which illustrates a unique method of ex tinguishing a fire on One_ night Stonewall Jackson ‘and his corps were encamped near the chur It was late in the wi der snow was on the ground. To some way the ‘church caught fire, and for a while was doomed to de struction. When Jackson saw the blaze he immediately gave the or der to his men to extinguish the fire. There was no water just at hand, so the soldiers rolled up great balls of the wet snow and hurled these against the blazing structure, with the result that the fire was put out before the church was otal desta. Migros lived nearby oh had
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The Evening Star
Winchester, Virginia, US
Fri, Jun 30, 1899
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