Page is absolutely correct about this, and I apologize for getting this mixed up. The worst part is that I should know better. I hear so many stories up here. As we all know, we often get things confused and mixed up, but we try as a group to sort them all out. But you know what? This would make a great article in a future issue of the NN magazine: "Childrens'''' Stories From the Doctors' Office." That is something EVERYONE can relate to. Craig cc: page henley >> >> Subject: Re: Oakley >> >> >> Craig: >> >> I'm afraid you have Oakley and The Oaks a bit backward. Oakley was the property given to Esther Ball and Rawleigh Chinn as a wedding present by her father Joseph Ball. The original house was built by them shortly after 1703. My ancestor, Joseph Peirce, purchased Oakley in 1831. It was left to his oldest son, Robert Tunstall Peirce, who farmed it until 1884 with time out to fight as 1st Lt., Company D, Ninth Virginia Cavalry, during the Civil War. In 1884 he turned Oakley over to his oldest son, Joseph Peirce, who farmed it until 1949. >> >> Robert Tunstall Peirce then built a house on a part of Oakley across the present road, Rt. 622, Morattico Road, in 1884 and he and his wife moved there. It was built in a grove of 13 oak trees and he named it "The Oaks". His youngest son, my grandfather, Dr. Chichester Tapscott Peirce, moved with his father to The Oaks and lived there until he went to Aberdeen Academy and then on to medical school. After his graduation in 1899 he started a practice on the Eastern Shore but came back to Lancaster County after his father offered him The Oaks after he and his mother died if he would return and practice medicine there. >> >> Dr. Peirce was always called "Chit" by his family and friends. He practiced medicine until he died in 1964. In the early 1950s he brought Dr. Norman R. Tingle into the practice. Dr. Tingle was known as "Jiggs". >> > I seem to have confused Dr. Pierce with Dr. "Jiggs'" Tingle, of whom Larry Brewer was so terrified. Not being a native, I get my folk-lore stories confused. I have my own childhood memories of Doctors, but they are not the stuff of nightmares. > > But when Page Henley sets the record straight, you can take it to the bank. Guaranteed. > > Craig >