Hi folks: I came across the following in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. XXI Page 507, “Notes and Queries,” published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1897, written by Thomas Willing Balch: ----------------- BEALL--In the Presbyterian graveyard at Georgetown, District of Columbia, are buried the founder of Georgetown, his wife, and one of their sons, George. The inscriptions are as follows: “Here lieth Colonel George Beall who departed this Life March 15 1780 Aged 85 years.” “Here Lieth the Body of Elizabeth Beall the wife of Colonel George Beall who departed this Life October the 2nd: 1748 Aged about 49 years.” “Sacred to the Memory of Colonel George Beall. He was born in George Town on the 26th day of February 1729. He died October 15th 1807 in the 79th Year of his Age. He lived respected and died lamented.” Originally they were interred in their own burying ground alongside their house, which still stands upon the present N Street, near Thirty-first Street; the bodies were removed to the present site more than 25 years ago. My father copied the inscriptions before the tombs were removed from the family burying ground. Today the tomb of the first Colonel George Beall is broken and but little of the inscription remains; the other two inscriptions are perfectly legiible. The wife of the first Colonel George Beall, a son of Colonel Ninian Beall, was Elizabeth Brooke; and the wife of their son, the second Colonel George Beall, was Elizabeth Magruder (originally McGregor). I should much like to know something more about these two Elizabeths. THOMAS WILLING BALCH. ------ All ofwhich begs the question: what became of those tombstones and inscriptions? Has anybody out there any info on them? Dennis Bell (of the Largo, Fife Bells) Burnaby, B.C. Canada