Hello Betty, Thanks for your thoughts. I do have very, very fond memories of Maryland as a kid and young man. But I did not grow up there. I grew up in Alabama but my grandmother Edelen (maiden name Berry) used to come visit us regularly and we would always go visit her for a few days in the summer when we were out of school. She and her sisters were so very interesting the way they told the old stories of family, homes, dear old Southern Maryland, etc.. They used to take us around to the old family spots when we were kids, etc.. It is from them I get my love of Old Maryland and an interest in history, family, etc.. They were the last of a dying breed it seemed to me, the last of the old "Blue-blooded Landed Gentry" of Old Southern Maryland. It seems to me when I remember back on them that more fairer, genteel, fine Christian Southern ladies ever existed. So many of today's younger generations have no comprehension of such things, having grown up either on the street, or raised up by baby sitters, Nintendo and X-box and other TV video games, with little contact and love with their old folks. Let me go, I am rambling on again. Take care, DE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty H. Garbers" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship or Mt. Friendship? > Dear David. > > My uncle Clyde Harbin married a woman by the name of Berry. There is a > town > in Loudon Co, VA, called Berryville. I had assumed that the Bery family > had > lived in that area previously. > > It is great that you have such fond memories growing up in MD. I have > seen > the name Edelen name in KY among the catholic families that settled there. > I have a Margaret Harbin who married a Henry Cambron in MD. They left > MD for KY. Their son Zachariah Cambron helped to build St Rose Church in > the first settlement of Mary-landers to KY. I can not recall the name of > the area at the moment. If anyone has any info on a Margaret Harbin who > married a Henry Cambron I would appreciate hearing from you. > > Betty Harbin Garbers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Yep, that land was a part of me. I loved it as I love family. I reckon >> because I spent so much time listening to the absolutely fascinating >> tales >> and stories of family, heroes, land, etc, from my grandmother Edelen and >> her >> sisters (their maiden name was Berry). >> Take care, >> DAve >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship or Mt. Friendship? >> >> >>> Unfortunately, David, your story is not unusual. It is sad, indeed, >>> because someone such as yourself would have treasured and loved the land >>> for decades to come. >>> Mur >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 8:35 PM >>> Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Friendship or Mt. Friendship? >>> >>> >>> Hello dgolds, >>> I am not from up there, I grew up in Alabama and have never >>> heard of Nanjemoy Creek. The land I speak of is along Highway 228 I >>> think >>> in a community called "Berry", not far from Waldorf. It lay along >>> Mattawoman Creek and on the other side of the creek was Pr. Georges >>> County >>> and the land of my gr. gr. grandfather Dr. Alexius Llewellyn Middleton. >>> In case you are curiouis about who has the land now, in 1994 >>> my >>> grandmother died and per her wishes the land was sold by her son and >>> executor and the money was to be divided among her heirs. We were all >>> very >>> close to her although we grew up in Alabama. In the years before her >>> death >>> whenever I would go up and visit her I would always go out to her land >>> and >>> walk and hike around it. I begged her to sell me just five acres right >>> where the old house had stood but she would not do it and adhered to her >>> original plan of it being sold and split between her heirs. I knew what >>> would happen, with my dad dead and we kids scattered around the Deep >>> Douth. >>> My uncle, her exectutor, did as she wanted, but sold the land to himself >>> and >>> some partners, "E., K., Edelen & Farms" I think and developed it. I >>> think >>> that stands for "Eichner, Kennedy, and Edelen". They developed it and >>> now >>> it is a fancy subdivision. It was like 93 acres. My uncle sold it to >>> himself and his partners for one million, at least that is what we were >>> told. Other relatives up there told me that land should have sold for >>> 4-6 >>> million or even more. Heck, Walmart paid a family 8 million for roughly >>> the >>> same amount of land on the outskirts of little Prattville, Alabama. I >>> can >>> imagine the true value of 93 acres on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.. >>> None of us had the money to look into it and hire a lawyer. One sister >>> who >>> lived up there talked with the district attorney and the DA agreed that >>> it >>> was indeed fishy and seemed unethical. But alas, why did she not do >>> anything about it if she felt that way?!? Our little portions were >>> doled >>> out in bits and pieces over the years, with a lump at the end of a >>> certain >>> time. The lawyers we talked to said it would eat up anything we had >>> coming >>> to try to dig into it and fight it. >>> So, I don't know if anything shady took place or not, >>> although >>> I >>> remember hearing something about my uncle getting rid of my >>> grandmother's >>> lawyer and using his own during this, and the DA thought that was sort >>> of >>> odd if not wrong. She, the DA at the time, said that as the executor >>> that >>> all that looked fishy. My uncle and I were pretty tight as far as I knew >>> (he >>> is dead now too, dying of cancer a few years ago). So I just don't >>> think >>> about it. But if it should have indeed sold for say 6 million, then we >>> were >>> just screwed. >>> I used to love to walk those woods and that land and imagine >>> my >>> ancestors. There was a lot of history there. I am sad it is gone now, >>> under >>> concrete and asphalt. I heard that the beautiful land across the creek >>> is >>> now some sort of golf course and old Middleton or Berry road crossing >>> Mattowoman Cr. there by my grandmother's land is not more. Sad. >>> Well let me go. I did not mean to ramble on. >>> DE >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] >>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >>> body >>> of >>> the message >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> AOL now offers free email to everyone. 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