Folks: I recently signed up for Md.Frederick web site listed below as I wanted to try and find some old Frederick Co. cousins. The column below is listed almost daily with various tid bits of information. I wonder why PAFRANKL doesn't have something similar as it seems very morbid bound these days. Gordon crooks From: "john Ashbury" <wasps1965@verizon.net> To: <MDFREDER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 5:25 AM Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 1-11-10 > On January 11, 1750, the Rev. Daniel Wagner, pastor of the German Reformed > Church on West Church Street in Frederick from 1802 to 1810, was born in > Eibelshausen, Germany. > > > > On January 11, 1843, Francis Scott Key, author of "The Defence of Ft. > McHenry," which became our national anthem in 1931, died of pneumonia and > pleurisy in Baltimore at the home of his daughter. He was originally > buried > at Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church graveyard in that city but was > removed > to Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick in 1866. > > > > On January 11, 1887, Middletown Valley Savings Bank was organized. It > opened > for business on February 7. > > > > On January 11, 1898, a meeting was held in Independence Hall in Frederick > for the purpose of organizing a lodge of the International Order of Odd > Fellows. > > > > On January 11, 2004, former Frederick City Alderman William O. Lee, Jr., > retired principal of West Frederick Middle School and author of a book on > the black history of Frederick in the 20th Century, died at his McMurray > Street home after a long battle with lung cancer. He was born on West All > Saints Street, Frederick, on May 7, 1928. > > > > If anyone can add information to these History Moments, > > or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, > > please contact me privately. > > > > John W. Ashbury > > wasps1965@verizon.net > > > > Visit www.MidMdRoots.com > for Old Court Records, Tombstone > Inscriptions, Old Newspaper items, etc > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDFREDER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.132/2611 - Release Date: 01/10/10 07:35:00