Margaret M Crismond Margaret Marie Crismond

Spotsylvania Memory: The Row Family of Virginia: Lizzie Row's Last ...

&Nbsp;    My great grandmother took seriously the education of her children. Tutors were hired at considerable expense. As youngsters her children would also be sent to neighborhood schools held at private homes and Lizzie herself taught a semester at Sunshine. Shown below is a "Monthly Roll of Honor," probably from the early 1890's, that lists the names of exemplary students, including Houston, Horace and Mabel Row.      The early death of Houston Row was a crippling blow to the fortunes of the Rows. However, Mabel was intelligent and capable and attended college in Richmond in the late 1800s. I have yet to find mention of which school she went to, but Mabel was the first Row to graduate from college. She came home to Sunshine in 1900 and taught school in the Chancellor district. In the picture below of Mabel's classmates, she appears near the center of the group with a pink dot on her left shoulder.      In November 1901 Lizzie, as well as her brothers and sister in Rockbridge, at long last received their inheritances from the estate of their father, who had died without a will in 1882. It had taken years of patience and one failed attempt to subdivide and sell the family farm, Mount Pleasant, to pay the creditors of George W. Houston's estate. In the end, Lizzie's brother Will and his wife Fannie assumed the debts of the estate in return for title to Mount Pleasant. At age 47 Lizzie received her legacy.      Mabel married Samuel T. Wakeman in 1908 and moved to the house he had built on a large tract of land next to Sunshine. Horace, of course, continued to live with his mother. While he caught the attention of some of the girls in the neighborhood (as evidenced by some postcards mailed to him) my grandfather did not seem in any particular rush to get married.      The following year my great grandmother hired E.H. Randall, surveyor for the city of Fredericksburg, to survey Sunshine as a first step in transferring title to the farm to Horace. In his cover letter sent with the plat dated December 31, 1910, Randall indicated that Sunshine consisted of 343 acres, 32 more than had been previously supposed. In 1911 Horace bought Mabel's share of Sunshine and became the sole owner.      In March 1917 Lizzie, now fifty three years old, was not feeling well and went to see Dr. W.A. Harris, longtime physician to the Rows.

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