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From: "Leta Sheaffer" <>
Subject: Re: [MDMONTGO] Quakers in Sandy Springs
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:45:43 -0500
References: <20070214.182116.26276.1568019@webmail49.nyc.untd.com>


Jean Boutcher,

This has been the most enjoyable web site I have ever received. Having
lived in Sandy Spring as a child (1945-1952), I can still remember the many
people mentioned and the photographs of the many areas. My father managed
the Ashton Dial Telephone office during world war ll. We lived in Sandy
Spring two houses up from the old Sandy Spring grocery store.

I have been writing my autobiography, and many of the good times come to
mind as I write. Sandy Spring was truly a wonderful place to live as a
child.

Prior to moving into Sandy Spring we lived in Ashton, and prior to that we
lived on a huge farm owned by Mr. Beauchan, which I believe was on Lay Hill
Road.

It was a sad day when our family had to move, due to a promotion my father
received with the telephone company. I missed the many families we grew to
know, the good times as a child, the Quaker lane where we often times
attended the church, and the freedom in this small village.

If anyone would have pictures of Sandy Spring or Ashton in the 1940's and
50's, I would love to see them.

Thank you so very much !

Leta (Smith) Sheaffer
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Subject: Re: [MDMONTGO] Quakers in Sandy Springs


> Historically, the Brooke family is one of the most well known people in
> Montgomery County for owning vast farms. There is a town named after the
> family: "Brookesville". They have been selling vegetables for more than
> 150 years. As a result, Brookeville markets are legion in Mont. Co. and
> Washington, D.C. My ancestor John B. Oden, a shoemaker, moved from
> Clarksburg to Sandy Spring in or before 1850 (1850 census). The census
> returns shows that Alfred J. Oden also moved to Sandy Spring from
> Clarksburg in or after 1850. John B. Oden died in 1863 and was interred
> there (but his remains were removed to the Mount Olivet Cemetery in
> Frederick in 1872 by his wife Joanna Stowell (my ancestor). In 1983, a
> historian at Mont. Co. Historical Society did not give me the name of a
> cemetery where John B. Oden was interred.
> Jean Boutcher
>
> -- Kathi Jones-Hudson <> wrote:
> Here are a couple of really good websites about Sandy
> Spring and the Quakers (they founded the village in
> the 1700's - the Brooke's were some of the first
> families in the area). If I am not mistaken Sandy
> Spring is also the first free Black settlement in the
> County (if not the state) as well. Make sure you click
> on the timeline at the site, it gives lots of
> chronological history.
>
> http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/index.html
>
> Sandy Spring Meeting House
> http://www.sandyspring.org/index.html
>
>
>
>
> --- wrote:
>
>> I, too, would like information about the Quakers in
>> Sandy Springs. Especially
>> the Moore and Brooke families.
>> Thanks
>>
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>
> Kathi Jones-Hudson, National Coordinator
> Tombstone Transcription Project
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/index.html
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