David Harry - tax collector 1803 Washington County, Maryland

1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. XCII.

On application,chancellor may dived a sale,&c.

An ACT for the valuation of real and personal property within this state.

Passed 7th of January, 1804,

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all real and personal property, in this state, except property belonging to this state, or the United States, houses for public worship,burying-grounds, or property belonging to any county, or to any college, or to any county school, and except also the crop and produce of the land in the hands of the person whose land produced the same, or in the hands of the tenant, and provisions necessary for the use and consumption of the person to whom the same shall belong, an.d his family, for the year, and plantation utensils, the working tools of mechanics and manufacturers, actually and constantly employed in their respective Properly to be valued occupations, wearing apparel, goods, wares and merchandise, and all home made manufactures in the hands of manufacturers, all ready money, all grain and tobacco, and all licensed vessels whatever, shall be valued agreeably to the directions of this act, and shall be chargeable according to such valuation with the public assessment.
Commissioners to be appointed, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That five sensible, discreet and experienced persons, shall be appointed in each- county of this state, who shall be commissioners of the tax, and they, or any three or more of them, shall be commissioners for the county for which they shall severally be appointed; and five persons as aforesaid shall be appointed, and called Commissioners of the Tax for the City of Baltimore, for the same time.
Their names.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the following persons shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners for the several and respective counties of this state, and for the city of Baltimore, to wit :
For Saint-Mary's county, Jame....for Washington county, Martin Kershner, William Webb, David Harry, Frisby Tiighman and James M'Clain; for Montgomery county, Wi

Alex! Alexander Lamont Reynolds

Chris, Julie, Alex, Andy, Amy
John, Michael, Zack, Daniel

Best Friends are a gift. Andy met his in the seventh grade. I am not sure if they met on the bus ride to school or in class. But shortly after we moved from Smithfield to Newport News, Andy and Alex got to know each other.

This is an unmailed letter to little Alex... Alex's son.

(I write lots of letters, but don't mail them. This is probably one that could / should have been mailed. When I was in college my mom corrected my letters and returned them with spelling and punctuation errors noted in red. Now I perpetually revise my writing.

There is always more that could be said. Often the letters are more for me than anyone else anyway. Sort of like this blog.)

"Dear Little Alex,

I have known your Dad since he was in the seventh grade. Now you are just a little guy (he was a toddler when I wrote this); so that doesn't mean too much to you right now. But that is a long time. I thought I would tell you a little bit about your dad. It is fun to hear about what other people thing about parents.

Your dad was always a funny kid. He was always laughing and smiling. Of course he was not "always happy", but he always tried to find the best things that happened each day to enjoy. He always had a job. He raked leaves in the fall. He baby-sat for Col Rock's* two boys; they lived across the street from us. He bought baseball card bubblegum by the box and sold it by the pack to other kids at school. Somehow he always had a little money, but never enough to satisfy him.

I admired his drive. Alex wanted to accomplish someting and he worked like it all depended on him. I am fairly sure that your Dad bought his own clothes and his little brothers clothes too. Wow! He expected a lot from himself.

Your dad was the best friend of my son Andy (or Drew). They spent lots of time talking with each other about school or whatever boys talk about. They had other friends, but they just had a special friendship that still lasts today.

As a matter of fact my family just thought Alex belonged with us.... At our house, when we went to see fireworks, or a school play or a football game, or just about anywhere he would go too.... we took Alex because it was more fun when he came too.

Alex & Drew were voted "Best Friends" their senior year in high school. That means that all the 12Th graders knew that when you saw one... if you waited a second you would see the other one. "

When your Mom and Dad married, Andy made sure he could be there as Best Man. Before your dad went overseas, he came to visit Andy's family in Utah. I think even when they are old men with gray hair, they will still be best friends.

I hope you have a best friend. Someone who means as much to you as your dad does to my family. All of my kids (now grown) love your dad. I do too. When your dad talks about his family he is so proud of all of you. He loves you, your sisters and your Mom. There isn't any sacrifice too big when it comes to his family.

* Col Rock is now BRIGADIER GENERAL ANTHONY J. ROCK. The most important skill a leader must have is the ability to know who to trust. Col Rock knew he could trust your dad to take care of his boys. Your dad impressed lots of people early in his life.

Car Stories

A picture of an antique auto reminded me of several car stories involving my parents.

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One warm day my dad, Jim Bennett, was outside with some friends. As luck would have it he was wearing his first store bought suit. His mom, a skilled seamstress, had always made the clothes for the family. This must have been a big deal.

His friends had firecrackers they had brought over. Jim had just started to light one when a car filled with girls pulled up to say hello. He quickly stuffed the firecracker in his back pocket.

Unlike all those times when a boy thinks the fire cracker is lit and it isn't, this time it was... POP!

The firecracker went off and so did his pocket.

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When my mom, Julia, was a teen. Her dad was persuaded to take Julia and a car full of her friends for an ice cream in their new car. Mother was trying to show everyone how much she knew about cars. This certainly proved to be an exaggeration.

My grandfathers concern had probably been keeping his car clean while all these girls ate ice cream. Instead as he left the ice cream shop, he was greeted by screaming girls in a car rolling down a hill. My mother had moved the car from park into neutral. The car was moving and she didn't know how to brake.

Up in the air went the ice cream. Off he went chasing the car. Luckily the hill wasn't too steep; so the car wasn't going very fast. He was young and took off racing to jump on the foot board,reach in and steer the car safely until it came to rest at the bottom of the hill.

No one had an ice cream that day.

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My dad had a football scholarship to college. It paid for books and tuition, but not for housing, food or living expenses. He always had jobs to cover those expenses plus he helped his sister Lois pay for college.

In addition to football practice. He worked for Floyd's mortuary as an ambulance driver. He would pick up the deceased and perhaps drove for funerals. He was the precursor to an EMT. He was dispatched to bring people to the hospital and actually delivered a baby or two in the process. He did dishes and other tasks at the boarding houses where he stayed.

During the summer he worked in area mills and saved his money for school. One year he bought a car which he rented to other students on weekends. He had his own Hertz rent-a-car, before Hertz. He couldn't afford to take a girl on a date, but he could still get the benefit.

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Growing up in the South, there were many cold days, but fewer frigid days.

The winter after we married was very, very cold. As a young couple, we frequently came to Spartanburg. It is hard to remember if we were talking at the table or watching the 11 o'clock news. The talk turned to how cold it was going to be that night. My dad was inspired to ask if we had added antifreeze to the car.

It is amazing what is not taught in college. I had a nice vocabulary, but didn't know what antifreeze was. I probablly would have recognized the term antigravity from Star Trek. I certainly didn't know I needed to add antifreeze to a car. I had never needed to before. (My dad had always taken care of the car.)

Up the stairs we went... out to the carport ... up went the hood... opened the radiator... ICE! It was too late for antifreeze. Out came very long extension cords and a hair dryer. My dad rigged it to blow on the radiator through the night and saved it.

Sam Bulloch - not a pretty story

If we record the good stories, we should record the bad also.

If Sam Bulloch was born in 1891, he was 3 years older than Mabel. At twelve his father died. At twenty four he died. This article says he was 28. I wonder how his father's death changed his life. This article (word for word) was on the front page of the Atlanta Journal.

HOTEL MAN KILLED; SLAYER IS DYING
9 Sept 1915 , Bullochville, GA

In Dying Condition, Hotel Proprietor Wrests Pistol From Slayer and Returns Three Deadly Bullets.
Columbus, Ga., September 9. - (Special.) -- G.A. Thompson, agent of the Southern railway and proprietor of the Tuscawilla hotel at Bullochville, Ga., and member of a leading family at Bullochville, is in a dying condition early tonight, the result of a sensational shooting affray in the dining room of the hotel this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Reports from Bullochville are that Bulloch was in the dining room of the hotel creating a disturbance and that Thompson reproved him and then stepped out to get the town marshal to have him removed. Not seeing the marshal, he asked W.B. Butts, a friend of Bulloch's, to remove him. Butts induced Bulloch to leave the dining room and Thompson asked the guest to leave the dining room, saying that he feared trouble. It is stated that just then Bulloch broke loose from Butts and ran inside the dining room, drawing his pistol and shooting Thompson, who seized him. Thompson, Bulloch and Butts were all struggling for the pistol, but Thompson succeeding in getting it and remarking that he was going to die and that he would get the man who shot him, began firing at Bulloch despite earnest pleas. The first shot struck Bulloch in the breast and he fell to the floor and Thompson then shot him three times, two of the bullets lodging in his head. With the last shot Thompson fell to the floor, dying almost before anyone could reach him.

Thompson has been railroad agent at Warm Springs for a good many years and a year or two ago bought the handsome three-story Tuscawilla hotel from W.B. Butts at a reported consideration of $10,000. He leaves a family.

Bulloch is a 28 years old and unmarried. He is a member of the prominent Bulloch family for whom Bullochville is named.

Various versions have reached Columbus as to the reason of the original disturbance in the hotel, in which Bulloch is said to have figured. One report is that Bulloch became angered at one of the waiters and was about to punish him when the proprietor of the hotel interfered. Whatever the nature of the trouble Thompson thought it best to have Bulloch removed from the dining room.

A long-distance message from Bullochville early tonight stated that Bulloch was shot in the chest, over the eye and in the head, that his spinal column was struck by one of the bullets and that there is seemingly no possible hop for him to recover.

The Atlanta Constitution Sept 10,1915 Front page

Usually there is time to change direction in life. If there was time, Sam didn't take advantage of it.

Mabel - College Graduation 1914

In April 1914, Mabel graduated from "Georgia Normal and Industrial School" in Milledgeville, GA. Today it is Georgia College and State University or just Georgia College for short. This picture of her graduating class appeared in the Atlanta Journal.

Notice the heading of the column just below and to the left regarding Women's Sufferage. Massachusetts had just passed the right to vote in their state.

Each generation lives in interesting times. It is nice to reflect on our ancestors in context of their time. I wonder what events our decendents will see as significant in our time.

Andrea and Peggy may smile when they see that "Miss Regina Pinkston" was her classmate. Miss Pinkston was my favorite teacher in high school. I had her for Geometry, Trig, and Senior English. If I had known how great she was, I would have taken Latin from her. I was told that she was certified to teach every course taught at our high school except shop.

I believe she had Macbeth memorized. I can almost hear her recite the part of the witches talking around the cauldron "double, double toil and trouble". I never had a teacher or professor who entranced me from the moment she began class until it concluded. My worst nightmare was being required to memorize a poem and reciting it in her class. My knees were literally knocking.

Year after year Miss Pinkston was chosen as the Teacher of the Year by the Valedictorian. After she retired from teaching, she wrote a comprehensive history of Meriwether County. I was told her father lived to 101 years old and walked to church every Sunday of his life. Perhaps he lived next door to his church. She was an amazing lady.

If Grandmother's education was similiar to Miss Pinkston's, I would have loved to hear her stories and experiences. Grandmother was ill from the time I was a toddler and died when I was in first grade.

Cyprian Bulloch, Jr and Benjamin F Bulloch

(Refer to the August 2009 post for additional information)

Cyprian, our direct ancestor, is shown in this picture with his brother Benjamin F Bulloch. They were business partners along with their cousin.

Cyprian's Home



Ben's Home

History of Bullochville by Julia Harry Bennett
, Bullochville/ Warm Springs, Georgia

Responce to incorrect information appearing in Manchester Newspaper:

Dear Mr Grimes,

My brother, Henry G Harry, has sent me your nice article about Bullochville. We hope you will rectify the fact that Bullochville was not named for Theodore Roosevelt's mother, Martha.

Please read Regina Pinkston's "The Historicle Account of Meriwether County". On page 349 she tells that Bullochville was named for Benjamin F Bulloch and my Grandfather Cyprian Bulloch, Jr. They, with their brother-in-law, W.T. Bussey, formed Bulloch, Bussey and Coimpany. I am enclosing a 1911 article which tells thaey owned some 2,000 acres of land, most of Warm Springs from the top of the Warm Springs Mountain to the top of the mountain above Manchester.

These 3 men owned 3 of the store buildings still in use on Main Street, a coffin factory, cotton gin, bank, gristmill, 2 Bulloch homes, one or both on the National Register of Colonial Homes.

The gave the land for the Baptist church, the cemetary, the school, the US Fishery plus 2/3 of the water from Cold Springs.

Our Bullochs came from Edgecombe County, NC. In 1800 Stephen Bulloch married Winnie Robinson. Their home was between Rocky Mount, NC and Wilson, NC. Winnie died in 1806. Stephen Bulloch brought his two young sons to Greenville, GA to live with their Grandmother Robinson.

Cyprian Bulloch Sr. settled between Bussey's Cross Road and the Raleigh Rd. His brother, Henry moved to Arkansas. These boys were not related to Martha Bulloch who lived in Roswell, GA. Her ancestors are buried in Savanah, GA.

Elliott Roosevelt, in his book about Warm Springs called my Aunt Minnie who ran the store in Warm Spings forever, "Cousin Minnie", but they were not related.

Sincerely, Julia H(arry) Bennett

PS. My brother, Henry, is on the Board of Directors of the new museum. My father, Rev W. G. Harry, was Mayor of Warm Springs all the years FDR was President but the last one.




Article: "Group Studied Valuable Estate 50 Years Ago" December 8, 1911
Probably the most extensive subdivision of land in western Georgia is now going on in Bullochville, where a committee of division of the Bulloch, Bussey and Estate is now located.

The property consists of approximatedly 2,000 acres and is considered one of the most valuable estates in Meriwether County comprising town lots in the corporation of various _________, Bullochville, Cold Springs and South Springs. It entirely surrounds the property of the U. S. Fish Hatchery at Cold Springs, and extends from Bullochville to nearly the prosperous town of Manchester

At the request of different interests the court appointed a committee of division to make an equitable allotment so that all hiers, including minors numbering 12, would be fully protected. The commission which has been in closed continurous session about a week, consists for seven men.

Henry Valentine Parkman

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Henry Valentine Parkman was married twice. There were three children born to his marriage with Elizabeth Huffman. Serana b 1836, David b March 22,1838, and Rebekah b 1840 she died unmarried 1909. I do not know the cause of Elizabeth's death.

His second wife, Mary Ann Glanton (b Oct 22, 1819/ Oct 27, 1903)married him about 1842. It must have been daunting to start marriage with three small children.

Both ladies married Henry in Edgefield, South Carolina. Henry and Mary Ann had five daughters - Julia Cordelia Parkman my GG Grandmother - was their third child.

In 1847 the family moved to Cherokee County, Georgia. Within a year they decided there was too much illness in the area, they moved to Meriwether County. They settled about 1 mile south of Bussey's Crossroads.

According to a family history Henry was the first area farmer to engage in terracing. Neighbors thought he was wasting his time, but came use the same practices. He built a large grist mill and gin on his plantation that were used for many years. To provide water for the mill, he built a large pond known for years as Parkman's Pond. The dam was built of rock by slave labor. Probably they were the slaves Mary Ann received from her grandfather John Kilcrease (Gilcrease). Those slaves moved with the couple from South Carolina when they moved to Meriwether, County.

Although he was 60 years old, Henry fought in the Civil War. This is interesting because he hired a substitute so his son David would not need to enlist. David ran away and enlisted anyway. David fought under General Gordan in many prominent battles, including Gettysburg.

Henry and Mary Ann are both buried in the Macedonia Cemetery.