Gee, Candee, thanks for re-posting this. Made my day to think that it was worth posting again. Now that time passed, I've got a correction...or two. I discovered that Georgetown really wasn't named after George Beall, but King George. He was, however, one of the incorporators of the town. I seem to remember that there was some reluctance on his part to do so...feel like I read about it in Scharf's History of Western MD. Maybe someone can elucidate. And, it turns out that the Ninian Beall buried under a large concrete spire is the Ninian Beall of whom I wrote not long ago who married Anna Maria Stricker. He died in Brooke County, WV. According to Albert S.Edward's book, Historical Sketches of the Beall and Edwards Families, W.W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1910, Georgetown urbanization encroached upon the Beall burying grounds and they exhumed Colonel Ninian. Apparently, it proved his great height and...believe it or not...his flaming red hair. I believe it was in this book that I read that Colonel Ninian d. 1717 frequently wore his armor. I still get a kick out of that. I'm certain it contributed to his living to the ripe old age of 92.