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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020 VOL. LXXXIII, no. 42 NEW SERIES (USPS 220-560) GLOUCESTER, VA. 23061 | MATHEWS, VA. 23109 two sections 36 pages 75 CENTS All Gloucester students to return by mid-November BY KIM ROBINS per week by mid-November, children started the 2020- according to an “all call” to 2021 school year with online All children enrolled in students’ families by GCPS instruction that began on Gloucester County Public Superintendent Walter Clem- Sept. 8. Pre-kindergarten and Schools will be back in their ons on Monday. classrooms at least two days Gloucester public school SEE BACK IN THE CLASSROOM, PAGE 5A No Gloucester Christmas COVID-19 surge parade this year continues in counties Gloucester Parks, Recre- ation and Tourism has an- BY SHERRY HAMILTON with seven added over the nounced it will not be host- past week, for a total of 135, ing its annual Christmas The surge of coronavirus while 11 people have died and Holiday Parade on Main cases continued this week and eight have been hospi- MELANY SLAUGHTER / GAZETTE-JOURNAL Street this year. in Gloucester and Mathews, talized. Brandy and Eric Hurst recently welcomed home triplet boys this summer, with the Port Haywood family blossoming to seven. Gloucester County’s Rec- with Gloucester recording 48 Dr. Richard Williams, di- Here, Brandy holds 3-year-old Maverick and one of the triplets, Lincoln; 12-year-old Chance holds Parker, and Eric holds reation and Tourism Manag- new cases, for a total of 313, rector of the Three Rivers er Matthew Barber said the while Mathews added 30, Health District, said in his Leighton. department is looking at a bringing the total to 122. weekly report that the main variety of options and it ex- Since the pandemic began, source of transmission in pects to have an announce- 15 Gloucester residents and the community continues ment within the next two eight Mathews residents to be from people being ex- Hurst family welcomes triplets weeks regarding the name have had to be hospitalized posed during private events BY MELANY SLAUGHTER ly expecting triplets. spectively, at birth. Parker is of the event and the format. for the illness, while three that are not regulated by the Leighton, Lincoln and Park- the fraternal brother and he Barber said the depart- Gloucester residents have state. Brandy and Eric Hurst er were born July 7 at VCU weighed 2 pounds, 14 ounces ment is looking to do some- died. There have been no “Across our country, planned to have just one more Health in Richmond, nine when he was born. thing in which the public deaths from the virus record- people are getting tired of child, but at Brandy’s seven- weeks early. Leighton and Lincoln and Parker stayed at can interact and perhaps ed in Mathews. maintaining the discipline re- week ultrasound they were in Lincoln are identical and they VCU for fi ve weeks and Leigh- submit “miniature” fl oats Cases continued to rise in for quite a surprise—the Port weighed 2 pounds, 15 ounces for judging. Middlesex County, as well, SEE COVID 19 UPDATE, PAGE 5A Haywood couple was sudden- and 2 pounds, 8 ounce, re- SEE TRIPLETS, PAGE 5A Ruins provide Machicomoco not perfect backdrop for opening in October BY TYLER BASS fi rst Indigenous Peoples’ Day, ghost tours a new holiday that replaces Even in the brightest day, In spite of an announce- Columbus Day in the com- the ruins of Rosewell have ment Friday from Gov. Ralph monwealth. a feeling of the paranormal Northam’s offi ce that Machi- Neudeck said that the event about them, so it’s only fi tting comoco State Park would be that was meant to take place that the Gloucester historical opening later this month, the on Monday was only a dedica- landmark will be turned over new Gloucester state park tion and that the park is not for “Four Nights of Fright” lat- is not ready for an October ready to be opened to the er this month for the annual opening, according to Dave public yet. That dedication Rosewell Ghost Tours. Neudeck, Public Communica- ceremony was not held. The tours will be held on tions and Marketing Director The park is close to being Friday and Saturday, Oct. for the Virginia Department of ready, but still weeks away 23 and 24, and the following Conservation and Recreation. with the last bit of construc- Thursday and Friday, Oct. 29 Northam made his an- tion wrapping up, Neudeck and 30, at both 7-8 p.m. and nouncement in conjunction said. He did say that the park 9-10 p.m. with the declaration of Mon- According to Rosewell SHERRY HAMILTON / GAZETTE-JOURNAL day’s celebration of Virginia’s SEE MACHICOMOCO, PAGE 5A Foundation executive direc- A once majestic mansion on the York River, Rosewell had fallen into disrepair when, in 1916,  re left only the tor Elizabeth Judd, each tour building’s framework intact. Ongoing e orts to preserve these ruins have been put on hold temporarily during the will begin at the visitor center COVID-19 pandemic. and guests will be led through the ruins by lamp or fl ashlight while the guide tells the oral history of the Rosewell ghost stories. Pandemic puts hold on plans “There are no zombies or clowns,” she said. “Just the ruins themselves are eerie to further stabilize Rosewell enough.” On Oct. 30, Pamela Kinney, BY SHERRY HAMILTON JEWELS ON THE YORK| will come to Gloucester author of “Virginia’s Haunted from the United Kingdom to Historic Triangle,” will be Nearly three centuries begin the work of restoring there to sign books. after Rosewell fi rst became The fourth and fi nal in the Flemish bond brickwork Recently, said Judd, a fam- part of the Gloucester a series of articles on the between the remaining sec- ily visited the mansion during landscape, the burned-out parks and other outdoor tions of the exterior wall, mid-day, taking a self-guided mansion’s skeletonized sites on the York River in up to the level of the water tour, and not long after they but still-majestic remains mark at the bottom of the left, they came rushing back continue to stand, and Gloucester those already fi rst-fl oor windows. to the visitors’ center to tell the Rosewell Foundation open, almost open, as The goal, said Judd, is to TYLER BASS / GAZETTE-JOURNAL what happened to them. They is working to ensure that well as those still in the eventually have a structure said they saw three men wear- those ruins are preserved planning stages. that’s safe enough to al- ‘Fire, Smoke & Muskets’ ing black walking in the ruins, for future generations. low the public to actually and they approached the ru- Elizabeth Judd, Ex- walk inside the ruins, to ex- Gun smoke  lled the air on Saturday as Gloucester Court House was transported ins to tell the men that they ecutive Director of the further stabilize the structure, plore the wine cellar, and to back in time for “Fire, Smoke & Muskets: Gloucester 1781,” a living history program couldn’t be inside, but there foundation, said that the but once travel restrictions gain an appreciation of the presented by the Gloucester Museum of History. Here, the members of a Revolu- pandemic has put a tem- are lifted, an expert in the con- tionary War artillery crew  re a brass cannon behind the museum. For more on the SEE GHOST TOUR, PAGE 5A porary hold on efforts to servation of historic masonry SEE ROSEWELL, PAGE 15A program, see page 3A.

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Cook needed at Gloucester man pleads Piankatank River Golf Club $12-$15 to start based guilty to manslaughter on experience BY KIM ROBINS Dusewicz said Edwards had 30-40 hours a week. seen texts between Hirsch- A Gloucester man pleaded berg and Edwards’s girl- Also hiring a server. guilty to voluntary man- friend, and when Edwards Inquire by emailing slaughter this week in con- arrived home from work on [email protected] nection to the May 5 death of May 5 Hirschberg’s vehicle Eli Joseph Hirschberg, 29, of was there. He said Edwards Gloucester. grabbed a baseball bat as he Bryce Hunter Edwards, 21, entered the residence. of Gloucester pleaded guilty Once inside, Edwards saw to the manslaughter charge Hirschberg straddling his girl- Tuesday in Gloucester Cir- friend on a sofa and struck cuit Court and his plea was Hirschberg twice with the F IN-HOUSE JEWELER F accepted by Judge Jeffrey W. bat. A struggle ensued dur- F 59 YEARS SERVING YOU F Shaw. Edwards was initially ing which Edwards grabbed a F F charged with second degree knife and stabbed Hirschberg CUSTOM DESIGN murder in Hirschberg’s death in the abdomen. Hirschberg F FREE ESTIMATES F TYLER BASS / GAZETTE-JOURNAL but was indicted on voluntary was pronounced dead after he F WATCH REPAIRF manslaughter. was transported to the hospi- A line of Revolutionary War reenactors fire their muskets after Gloucester High School teacher and 7th Virginia Regiment GOLD F DIAMONDS F GIFTS member Mike Cecere gives the order. Gloucester Common- tal. wealth’s Attorney John T. Shaw set sentencing for Edgehill Town Center Dusewicz said evidence would Edwards on April 19, 2021. Gloucester, VA 23061 have shown first responders The maximum penalty for 804-693-3434 answered a 911 call to 3871 voluntary manslaughter is 10 Gloucester Museum of History hosts Stream Drive in Gloucester years incarceration. Edwards on May 5. There they found was represented by attorney Gloucester-Mathews Hirschberg bleeding from a Brian Decker and co-counsel ‘Fire, Smoke & Muskets’ event wound to the abdomen. Sydney Speight. GAZETTE-JOURNAL BY TYLER BASS the reenactors. P.O. Box 2060 Two actors at the event Gloucester, VA Gloucester’s historic court were Mark Schneider and 23061 circle was sent back in time Stephen Seals. Schneider por- A consolidation in 1937 on Saturday, as the Gloucester trayed Lt. Colonel Banastre of the Gloucester Gazette Museum of History held “Fire, Tarleton. Nicknamed “Bloody (1919) and the Mathews Smoke & Muskets: Gloucester Ban,” Tarleton was a British Journal (1904). 1781.” The event saw reenac- officer who was under the Published every Thursday tors providing educational command of Lord Cornwallis at Gloucester, Virginia by monologues and military at Gloucester Point during the Tidewater Newspapers, demonstrations. Battle of Yorktown. Inc. Periodicals postage Despite the rainy weather, Seals portrayed James Ar- paid at Gloucester, Virginia. Postmaster: Please send many came out to the fes- mistead Lafayette. Lafayette change of addresses to: tivities to witness the musket was a slave who was owned Gazette-Journal, P.O. Box and cannon fire. Many of the by the Armistead family but 2060, Gloucester, VA 23061. reenactors came from the 7th was recruited by the Marquis Subscriptions: $24 per Virginia Regiment. One of the de Lafayette to spy on the year, $44 for two years, in members of the regiment is British in Gloucester. During Gloucester and Mathews Gloucester High School histo- the performance, Seals said Counties; $30 per year, $56 ry teacher Mike Cecere, who that Lafayette was so good at for two years elsewhere. TYLER BASS / GAZETTE-JOURNAL leads the regiment as its cap- spying that the British wanted Please allow two weeks tain and conducted the dem- him to spy for them. for new subscriptions or TYLER BASS / GAZETTE-JOURNAL change of address to begin. onstrations during the event. “Smoke, Fire & Muskets” McNulty blood drive Telephone 804-693-3101 or Continental and British sol- was put on with help from the Mark Schneider portrayed Lt. Colonel Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue’s Junior EMS and Fire Cadets, with the help of 804-725-2191. diers safely discharged vol- Gloucester Historical Society, Banastre Tarleton during Saturday’s Christine Hicks and Rilee Dalton, held a successful blood drive Friday in memory of Member of the Virginia leys of musket and cannon fire Friends of the Museum, the Press Association. All rights events. Tarleton, who served under Sean McNulty Jr. Thanks to their efforts, the Red Cross left with 123 units of blood. behind the museum. 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Y M C K THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 Mathews Mirror GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL 3A Mathews Wetlands board approves two requests BY TYLER BASS etation. A living shoreline of clean sand and plants will The Mathews County Wet- also be installed. There will lands Board, meeting on also be a class 2 revetment Wednesday, Oct. 7 in the over an existing deteriorat- historic courthouse, unani- ing bulkhead. This project is mously approved a pair of located along the North River. requests for shoreline im- provements following pub- SHERRY HAMILTON / GAZETTE-JOURNAL lic hearings on the matter. Ham radio event The first hearing was for InstaFallFest Richard Elder, who had re- Members of the Middle Peninsula Amateur Radio Club will be operating a spe- InstaFallFest was held on Oct. 3 at the home of Paul and Elsa Verbyla on Main quested permission to in- cial event to honor Mathews’s famous daughter, Capt. Sally L. Tompkins, from stall 157-feet of Flexamat Street in Mathews, offering games and prizes, including an Instagram contest 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Williams Wharf Landing. Information about this berm on his property on with a prize to the person whose photo taken on-site earned the most likes by historic site as well as the history of Captain Sally’s heroic efforts during the Whites Creek. Oyster bags Oct. 10. Those attending also had the opportunity to register to vote and receive Civil War will once more be shared with the ham radio fraternity worldwide. and oyster reefs will be help with online registration. Shown, from left, are organizers Melissa Mott, Kami- placed along the marsh toe Lawnmower and Between 1862 and 1865 she treated 1,334 ill and wounded soldiers losing only lah Turner and Maryanne Kiley. as needed, according to his Small Engine Repair 73 with an overall very low mortality of 5.5 percent in the home of Judge John plan. Robertson in Richmond that became known as Robertson Hospital. While ob- 757-788-6473 The Central United Methodist Men sincerely regret The second public hear- 12894 John Clayton that due to Coronavirus we are unable to host our serving COVID-19 precautions, the public is invited to attend. More informa- ing was for the request from Mem. Hwy. (Rt. 14) annual Shrimp Dinner in 2020. We will have a tion is available at www.mathewslandconservancy.org and www.mparc.net. Kim and Nick Wuckovich. Master Certified Technician Above, club members Barbara Ettner, and Bobby Forrest make contacts at a They sought to install 60 25 Years' Experience!!! Brunswick Stew Sale previous year’s event at Williams Wharf. feet of Flexamat with veg- Pickup and Delivery th Saturday, Nov. 7 Noon-2:00 PAID ADVERTISEMENT JOIN US FOR $8.00 per quart Central United Methodist Church VOTE Church Street at Mathews Court House FIRE PREVENTION RD Support Community Outreach - Call 725-8673 for Tickets NOV. 3

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Y M C K 4A GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL Point Panorama THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 Woodville School to become a ‘living museum’ BY TYLER BASS Wilson said that Peebles used the building to store The Woodville Rosenwald valuables and antiques. In School is nearing the end 2012, Gloucester’s Econom- of its renovations and the ic Development Authority Woodville Rosenwald School purchased the building and Foundation is hoping to have formed the foundation to it ready to be opened in the manage it. In 2019, the foun- near future. dation became the sole owner Foundation president Dr. of the building and has been Wesley Wilson has a vision for restoring it ever since. the old schoolhouse brought Wilson said that the build- on by observations he made ing will be restored to its “last in the county. He said that known footprint.” He said that once a year the Black History he and other members of the Month exhibit is presented foundation have spoken to at the Gloucester Museum of former students of the school History, and then is put away to find out what they remem- when February ends. ber the school and its layout. Wilson said he wants a place One of the classrooms has New member for people to come and learn been restored to size by the Jimmy Leiffer, president of the Abingdon Ruritan Club, welcomed the newest about Black history all year removal of the walls, but the TYLER BASS / GAZETTE-JOURNAL member, Regina Scott, at the club’s membership meeting this week. round. The plans are to turn other one will be left as four Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation president and executive director Dr. Wes- the school into a “living muse- separate rooms. Wilson said ley Wilson, above, stands in front of the historic school house which will soon be um,” said Wilson. He sees the that the smaller rooms will be building having artifacts on a place for study and work. He a place of learning once again. Below, members of the community have donated display, resources for learn- said the museum will have the period accurate desks to the school. This desk has the Sears, Roebuck & Co. name ing, and a place for teachers books and computers avail- on it. Julius Rosenwald was the CEO of Sears, Roebuck & Co. when he funded the REAL ESTATE AUCTION and students to come and able. construction of the school in 1923. and Personal Property learn about African-American Wilson said that the founda- On site: 3140 Lilly Pond Road, Center Cross, Va. 22437-2106 history. tion has been working with Wilson said that the original the School Board to see how floor plan consisted of two they can use the schoolhouse SATURDAY, October 17 at 10am large rooms taking up much to provide more learning ex- of the building. At some point periences. 2 Parcels: (1) 3 Acres w/Home (2) 34.52 Acres. REAL ESTATE to be the building was converted Last August, Gov. Ralph AUCTIONED at 10 am Home W/1,039 sf, 2 Bedrms, 1.5 Bath, to a residence, and the two Northam created the Virginia Laundry Rm, Living Rm, Kitchen/Dining Comb, Appliances. 2 Detached Workshops. Arbor Swing, Fenced Yard rooms became eight with the Commission on African Amer- ALSO Selling: Ditch Witch 1030 w/Trailer, 0- turn Ariens Mower, 30 addition of walls. ican History Education to ft Travel Trailer, Gas Tiller, 2 Craftsman Mobile Tool Boxes, Tools, According to the foundation, ensure that Virginia students Cast Iron Pot-Belly Stove, Bottle Collection, Crystal, Pottery, Roll- the school was one of many learn the about Black history Top Desk, Oak Curved Glass China Cabinet, Oak Wardrobe, Drop African-American schools correctly. Wilson wants the Side Table w/Chairs, Wrought Iron Patio Set, Records, Books, Reel funded nationwide by Julius school to assist in that. to Reel. Orig Art, 2 Wood-Block Prints, Framed Photos ,Wool Oriental Rugs. Coins and Paper Money Collection: Confed Money, Rosenwald between 1912 and Wilson said that he under- 1886 $5 Bond w/coupons, Large $1.00 1923 Bill, $1 $5 $10 Federal 1931. Rosenwald was the CEO stands that not everyone Reserve Notes, Silver Certificates, 1830, 1832 Half Dollars, 1820 of Sears, Roebuck and Com- wants to talk about the hard Bust Dimes, Silver 3 Cent Coin, 1877 Gold One Cent, V-, Shield pany. In 1919, T.C. Walker met topics of American history, Nickels, Large Cents, Flying Eagle Cents, Half-Dimes, 1893 Half with Rosenwald in Chicago to but it has to be discussed and Dollar, 1875 20 cent, 1920 Standing Liberty Quarter, American Eagle obtain funding for the school. taught. He said that he and munity garden, as it did when house is up to code and has 1/5 Gold Coins (10) never opened, w/certs (US Mint) 20 The school was originally the foundation only want to it was open. passed inspections. He also Donald/Melania Trump 2019 Coins, Eisenhower Dollars, Kennedy Halves, Indian Head Pennies, Buffalo Nickels, Collection Rare opened in 1923, and served educate, and not to embar- The activity that’s been go- said that foundation was Comm/Tokens, Silver Token “Lincoln’s Call for Troops April 15, as a schoolhouse for African- rass or threaten anyone. ing on at the school has at- given an HVAC system from 1861…” Canadian Coins. Bronze Medals Presidents (Washington- American students until 1932. The foundation also wants tracted curiosity from the Ferguson Plumbing Supply. Reagan) Mint Sets, Canadian Mint Sets, Roll of 1943 Steel Pennies. In 1942, George W. Marshall the Woodville Rosenwald community. Wilson said that The electricals, plumbing, purchased the property, who School to be a staple in the he’s been getting questions and insulation have all been then sold it to the Stubbs fam- community as a place of constantly from those who replaced or updated, he said. ily the following year. It was gathering. The large class- want to know more and to Wilson also said that the ESTATE AUCTION occupied by that family until room will be available for rent come visit the school. In the major project left to be com- 2001, when the building was based on supply and demand, class there are period-accu- pleted before the school can of Personal Property purchased by David Peebles said Wilson. He said that the rate desks laid out that were open is construction of a On site: 7573 Hoefork Lane, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062 of Gloucester. school will also have a com- all donated by those who parking area. Wilson restated have taken an interest in the this information during a pub- SATURDAY, October 24 at 10am building, he said. lic hearing at the Gloucester One of the features of the Board of Supervisor’s Oct. 6 PENDING CONTRACT ON REAL ESTATE… building that Wilson puts meeting. AUCTION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY: Alum Building, 16 Firearms emphasis on is the windows. The public hearing was for (Shotguns, Rifles, Incl Belgium Brownings, RARE Mdl 61 “The windows are a treasure,” the Woodville Rosenwald Winchester .22 Magnum), 23 Fishing Rods/Reels, NEW Penn Reels, he said, because all of them School Foundation’s request Lures, Boat Chairs, Gasoline Auger, Mobile Tool Box, Power Tools, are original. The building, like for a real estate tax exemp- Hand Tools, Garden Tools, NEW Smoker, NEW BBQ Grill, Patio Furniture, Commercial Cookware, Cast Iron, Corningware, Ship’s the windows, is in great condi- tion. The board did vote to Dinnerware, Studio Pottery, Vintage Glassware, Stereo System, LP tion. He said that while some grant a tax exemption to the Albums, CDs, 5 Pc Mahogany Bedrm Set, Mahogany China Cabinet, may have misconceptions foundation after several indi- Mahogany Drop-front Desk, 3-Piece Bedrm Set, Recliner, Singer 221 about the state of the build- viduals voiced their support Featherweight Sewing Machine w/attachmts, Baby Lock Serger, ing, it has been taken care of for the school. Sewing Notions, Fabric, Artist’s Supplies, Craft Supplies, Tools, and is being updated for mod- One of the more notable 1,000s Beads (Swarovski, etc.), Mostly New Packaged Beads, ern use. commenters at that time was Findings, Beading, Sewing Books, Supplies, Storage Bins FULL! Wilson said that the school- Michael Blakey, a professor Purses, Aigner Leather Jacket, Men’s, Ladies’ Coats. Bookcase, of Anthropology and Ameri- Kitchen Cart, 100s Cookbooks, Novels, History. Lamps, Crystal, can studies at the College of Fostoria, Porcelains, Linens, Costume Jewelry. William and Mary. He is also a member of the Woodville Rosenwald School Founda- tion, and is on the Scholarly REAL ESTATE AUCTION Advisory Committee of the To Settle the Estate National Museum of African On site: 4028 George Washington Mem. Hwy., Hayes, Virginia 23072 American History and Culture for the Smithsonian. SATURDAY, October 31 at 11am VIRGINIA Blakey said that every effort ECOTOUR GUIDE COURSE REGISTRATION IS was being made to make the 2 Parcels: Tax Map 45-371 and Tax Map 34-371A. Acreage is 0.59 OPEN! school a quality cultural cen- acre and .34 acre. Total Acreage is 0.93 acres…Parcels are contigu- This eight-week class, offered “live” online Tuesday evenings, will ous. provide successful students with certification credentials to lead their ter for the area. He said that he Zoned COMMERCIAL Prime- B1 Register now through and his colleagues have been own Ecotours in coastal Virginia and earn 3 CEUs through RCC. December 31 Assessed at $ 183,840.00… Will sell ABSOLUTE at or ABOVE the working to make the school a Opening Bid of $90,000. See VIDEO of this property at In addition to your ecotour certification, successful participants will credible museum. He said that www.VirginiaPropertyAuction.com also earn a 2-year Virginia Green certification! January 11 – March 5 scholars from a national to a Tuesdays 5:30 – 7:30 local level have been meeting Call Linda for Bid Package with Terms 804-832-8471 The course will focus on aspects of ecotourism, including: ecosystem to curate information for the science, customer service, business marketing, interpretation skills, school museum. culture, and natural history. Guest speaker presentations will be Spring Field Trips March 13 & 22 Wilson said that they will be incorporated into the course and active discussion is encouraged and COMMERCIAL required. Interpretive materials and resources for the course will be looking to have the last bit of their plan approved in Decem- provided. Course Cost: $165 REAL ESTATE AUCTION Military & Student: $135 ber. If it is, he said the building In order to qualify for ecotourism certification, a mandatory Spring (Contact for discount code prior to registering.) could be open to the public and Store Inventory (Owner Retiring Field Trip will be hosted at one of the coastal region’s Virginia State around the second quarter of On site: 223 Main Street, Smithfield, Virginia 23430 Parks. 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Y M C K THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 GLOUCESTERMATHEWS GAZETTEJOURNAL 5A

COVID19 UPDATE: Local numbers continue to rise

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A of case investigation and con- 7,919 people tested positive quired to avoid COVID-19 in- tact-tracing are challenging, for COVID-19 during the past fection,” said Williams. “Many but that the capability of the week, for a total of 161,610, are gathering more often in Three Rivers Health District while there have been 283 ad- large groups without masking team is excellent. He said that ditional hospitalizations, for a and social distancing.” confl icting information staff total of 11,628. Seventy-eight Williams said that this be- receives can lead to different Virginians have died from the havior is responsible to some and contradictory advice to virus during the past week for extent for increasing case patients. a total of 3,381 deaths from counts nationwide, and that “We respectfully ask ev- the coronavirus statewide “we must continue protect- eryone to remember we are since March. ing ourselves as best we can dealing with a novel, poorly As of Wednesday morn- to limit pandemic surges this understood pathogen causing ing, 2,304,369 tests had been fall.” a once-in-a-century pandemic, conducted for the virus state- UPLIFTING UPGRADE How infection occurs and we are learning as we gain wide, with 37,534 of those in The CDC has reconfi rmed experience,” he said. “None of the Three Rivers Health Dis- that the main way people us has ever done containment trict. The statewide positivity are infected is by respira- activities on this particular rate was 4.6 percent, while the Free Cordless Lift tory droplets in the air, said pathogen or on this scale. We district rate was 4.4 percent. on Gorgeous Graber Pleated, Natural, Williams. Situations in which ask for your patience as we The number of people hos- Roller, Solar, Fresco® Roman, and Fabric Shades* the spread is more likely in- learn how to do this work as pitalized with COVID-19 as clude: being in an enclosed best we can.” of Wednesday morning was space with an infectious per- COVID-19 testing 1,007 statewide, with 231 of son, even shortly after that Testing for the virus, by those patients in the intensive person has left; having pro- appointment only, will be care unit and 102 of them on longed exposure when there conducted from 10 a.m. to 2 ventilators. Thus far, 18,747 is an increased concentration p.m. today at the Gloucester Virginians have been dis- of droplets in the air, such Library, Main Street Center. charged from hospitals after Rudy Bears as when people are singing, To make an appointment, call treatment for the virus. Gloucester Ruritan Club president Lou Serio presented Shannon Klink, Director of Emergency Services at Riverside Walter shouting, or exercising; and the Gloucester Health Depart- There were 3,393 hospital Reed Hospital with 17 stu ed Rudy Bears. The bears will be presented to children who are treated at the Gloucester hospi- being in poorly ventilated ment at 804-693-2445. beds available statewide as tal’s emergency room. Shown are Lou Serio, Shannon Klink and Rachel Serio, from left. spaces that allow a build-up of Flu vaccination important of Wednesday morning, with suspended respiratory drop- Flu vaccination is more im- an additional 3,695 beds avail- lets and particles. portant than ever this year in able in the event of a surge; Williams reemphasized order to reduce fl u case rates, 2,067 ventilators were on- GHOST TOUR the importance of wearing a ease the burden on the health hand and available for use. C Jim’s mask, practicing social dis- care system, and help lessen CJ tancing, washing hands, prac- confusion with COVID-19 cas- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A CABINET CREATIONS ticing good hygiene, and keep- es, which may look just like MACHICOMOCO was no one there. ing surfaces decontaminated. fl u, said Williams. “Everybody seems to SALE He also pointed out the im- “It is possible to have fl u CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A have their own ghost story portance of good ventilation and COVID-19 at the same is on schedule and will open to tell,” said Judd. GRANITESALE COUNTER TOPS and avoiding crowded indoor time,” he said. “It is best to to the public sometime later Tickets are $10 per person. STARTING PRICE $48.00 SQ. FT. spaces. avoid both.” this year. Advanced reservations GRANITE COUNTERTOPS Business in compliance The broader picture Machicomoco State Park are required due to limited FREEST SINKARTING WITH PRICE TOPS $4 428.00 SQ. SQ FT.. FT. min. 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He also said dents in grades six and 12 will principals will work with return to school beginning teachers and staff to create Oct. 26. opportunities for periodic He also said students in mask comfort breaks. grades four and fi ve and “As always, we will continue grades seven through 11 to monitor environmental and would be able to begin in-per- operational conditions and son instruction on Thursday, notify you if any updates or Nov. 12, which is the fi rst day changes need to occur,” Clem- of the second quarter. ons said in Monday’s call. All of the transitions to in- Clemons said the school di- person instruction follow the vision will continue to provide hybrid model, with half of the fully remote learning options students in the grade level for families who have chosen attending school two days a not to have their children re- week, usually Monday and turn to in-person instruction. TRIPLETS: ‘It’s been a wild ride’

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Y M C K 6A GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL Opinion THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 Listen to the doctor

uring the long dreary months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a consistent source of good infor- Dmation and advice has been Dr. Richard Wil- liams, director of the Three Rivers Health District. Here is his advice. We would do well to pay at- tention. Wear masks, practice social distancing, limit the size of crowds, and avoid spending time in crowds. “These measures are our primary defense against new infections,” he said. In the first months, local COVID-19 caseloads stayed relatively steady. Now, the case totals in Gloucester and Mathews have grown rapidly, and the pandemic has taken lives across our region and our state. No one is immune, as the infections of President Trump and Governor Northam make plain. The first few months brought fear, confusion, and a sense of novelty to the communities. No one really knew what to do; everyone hoped it would be quick; some resisted public health orders and advice. We laughed at each other’s masks and tried the recipes posted online. Here we are, seven months later. The novelty is long gone, COVID-fatigue has set in big time, and cases are going up. Still in place are the education- al, business, social, and supply miseries that have thrown our usual pleasant life far out of sync. Freedom-loving Americans don’t take well to re- strictions, so possibly it’s understandable that the READERS WRITE| pandemic is still with us. Treatment has improved … but that’s about all. A vaccine that will liberate us from COVID jail is drawing closer. Our lives depend on it would have to be shut Matt Perez, Forbes Staff. Learn to live with it Until then, the best we can offer is to pass on down to prevent spread, the “In a first for the world’s the advice of Dr. Williams, who has demonstrated Editor, Gazette-Journal: government should have leading medical journal, Editor, Gazette-Journal: again and again his commitment to public health Our nation is facing its committed itself to compen- which has sought to be Recently, while President and service. Wear the mask … keep your distance greatest challenge in over sate those affected until this nonpartisan, The New Trump was recovering from 100 years. The COVID-19 vi- crisis passed. This would be England Journal of Medi- COVID-19, he said Americans … wash your hands … sanitize surfaces; and keep rus is pervasive, unrelenting, very expensive, but it has to cine published an editorial should not fear the virus, but away from crowded settings. highly contagious and dis- be done. on Wednesday denouncing rather learn to live with it. respectful of age, sex, race, So where does the money the Trump administration’s The national media, politi- religion or anything else. It is come from? response to the Covid-19 cal groups, etc., are giving not the flu. It is not a hoax. It Should the federal govern- pandemic and calling on its him holy hell for scaring and is a pandemic that has killed ment borrow it? The national readers to vote out the presi- misleading us. Let’s look at hundreds of thousands of debt is already at record dent out, writing, ‘They have some facts. people worldwide. levels, now over 120 percent taken a crisis and turned it Currently, approximately This challenge requires of GDP. That is not fatal, into a tragedy.’” 210,000 people in the U.S. strong leadership from the but not good. Our personal Newsweek: “New England have died from the virus. president and the federal income tax rates are low Medical Journal Calls Trump This number could be much government. This has not compared not only with Admin ‘Dangerously Incom- lower if millions of Ameri- been forthcoming and our other industrialized coun- petent’ Over Handling of cans followed the guide- country has paid a terrible tries but with ourselves not COVID” – By Daniel Villarreal. lines provided to lessen price. If the government had too many years ago. Back in “The New England Journal the effects of the virus (i.e., acted responsibly back in the ’60s our top rate was 91 of Medicine has published wear masks, practice social February when they knew percent on annual incomes an editorial saying that the distancing and wash up how serious this was, we exceeding (in today’s dol- administration of President frequently). But sadly, they would not be in our current lars) $1.5 million. Our top Donald Trump has ‘failed don’t. COVID-19 is a new dis- dire situation and thousands rate today is 37 percent on ... a test of leadership’ in ease to hit this country and of lives might have been incomes of $500,000 or more. its response to the ongoing medical research is working saved. We all know that there are a COVID-19 epidemic.” hard to find a cure; hopefully Of course, early on, almost lot of people making, to me NPR: “The Coronavirus Cri- in the next few months. all the deaths were older at least, obscene amounts sis – In Rare Step, Esteemed COVID-19 is not the most people, mostly in nursing of money. And, as we have Medical Journal Urges Voters serious disease presently homes. The feeling seemed recently learned, they pay To Oust Trump” – By Bill facing this country. 655,000 to be that they were old very little tax. Chappell. Americans will die from and ready to go anyway. As So maybe we need to have “Our leaders have largely heart disease this year. a mid-octogenarian, I take a special “COVID” tax to help claimed immunity for their 606,000 people will die from exception to that sentiment. offset the added expense. actions. But this election cancer. And that is after Have the dialogue Then they discovered that And how about “U.S. COVID gives us the power to render years of research, new medi- PPE and ventilators were in Bonds” like the war bonds judgment,” reads a New cations and ways to treat here are reasons all over the nation to real- short supply. The Strategic of WWI and WWII? We really England Journal of Medicine those ailments. And yet there National Stockpile had not need to get things moving! editorial signed by some is no media outrage against ize that we have failed to seal the deal on the been properly maintained. The pandemic won’t be over three dozen editors. the President? Why? Because Tproposition that “all men are created equal.” Although the Trump until we get a vaccine that is “The Trump administra- we have learned to live This summer that began with cries for racial jus- Administration had been proven safe and effective and tion has ‘taken a crisis and with it. tice and erupted into riots ended on the same in charge for three years, is widely available. And that turned it into a tragedy’ in Without some medical notes, and we wonder if any progress has really this was blamed on Obama. is likely to be many months its response to the COVID-19 breakthrough or increase in Then, instead of distributing away. Meanwhile, the govern- pandemic, The New England use of masks, distancing or been made. the supplies that were avail- ment needs to pull its head Journal of Medicine says cleaning, there are estimates One hundred years ago, as told in an article in able, states were forced to out of the sand and get to in a scathing editorial that that COVID-19 deaths could this week’s paper, the ancestors of present resi- compete on the open market. work. Our lives depend on it. essentially calls on American reach 440,000 by the end of dents of Gloucester and Mathews counties felt the What a mess! Arthur H. Jennette, MD voters to throw the president the year. We all hope that need for interracial conversation and solutions. So what should they have Cardinal, Va. out of office.” doesn’t happen, but even if it done? “It is the first time the did, it would still be far less We are unable to tell how or even if these commit- The federal government prestigious medical journal than the number of deaths tees went to work, but like the Founding Fathers should have taken command has taken a stance on a U.S. mentioned above. We may before them, the local men on these committees from the start. The Public Replace the enablers presidential election since it never totally cure COVID-19 put their names forward in favor of an idea that Health Service should have Editor, Gazette-Journal: was founded in 1812.” but we will surely lessen the others probably did not agree with. They want- been placed in charge. They The New England Journal Vote for better. Vote for effects of it and learn to live ed to find ways for the races to understand each should have set strict rules of Medicine published a effective, responsible leader- with it. regarding face masks and so- report on Oct. 8. Here are ship. Vote to replace the Bill Wright other. cial distancing. Virus testing headlines about it. enablers. Gloucester, Va. A century later, while our society and laws have and tracing protocols should Forbes Magazine: “New Jim Knupp advanced in many ways, we have stayed the same have been implemented. England Journal Of Medicine Hartfield, Va. in another: many, many Americans seem unable When it became obvious that Urges Voters To Cast Out to imagine or understand the views of others with large parts of the economy Trump Administration” – By differing skin tones or religions. We have the opportunity for public, frank, dia- logue. We look for leaders and concerned citizens POETIC REFLECTIONS| to step forward to make this happen. Letters To The Editor

Letters to the Gazette- Journal on any subject of Misterioso public interest are always welcome. The newspa- BY T.A. LEACH, THE GLEBE, MATHEWS, VA. By those who lead, in fog wrong may be destroying per, however, cannot con- and clouds, their own ambi- destinations, sider for publication a letter Our future’s in our hands, tion prime, ’Tis choice, the pendulum which does not carry the the Destiny of our own fate, Yet we, the ones who do of swirling options, judged writer’s signature and ad- As History writes, on shift- commit, can change on one selections, dress. Letters should also ing sands, we’re often way thin dime. We turn, as irresponsible, not exceed 200 words. Writers will please include GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS too late, ignoring costly weakness, It is the choice, the swing And so, we each and every Afraid of moving, walking a telephone number where of pendulum’s resisting one do muddle in this puzzle, on the path of brave robust- they can be reached dur- sway, Though those in power ness. ing the day. The right is re- Gazette-Journal Conundrum’s mindless strain to keep us quiet, served to edit letters. winds of indecision blocks blurred and muzzled, We’re standing still and Elsa Cooke Verbyla | Publisher our way. But here, our Nation, staying home in answer to The Gazette-Journal screams in agony for our this snarled fuss, will not accept letters to Charles E. Koenig | Editor We wait and fault and convictions, Yet each of us has power of Readers Write which com- ponder, tapping briefly our The courage needed, our voice in equal status, ment on articles published Published by own heads, strong and true, to elevate The toughest individuals in in other periodicals. Also, Tidewater Newspapers Inc. Confusion, thinking hard elections. long-known human history, space limitations often pre- Gloucester, VA 23061 in pain, the headache we are Our knees become the liq- vent publication of thank- fed, The fear that choosing uid of demur, it is a mystery. you letters.

Y M C K THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL 7A Race relations Fleeting efforts made a century ago to find common ground

BY ELSA VERBYLA reported on Sept. 16, 1920 not welcome on the Island, a cate off the Island” and that of the Gazette, wrote scath- ally increasing group on both that “The last colored fam- feeling that still exists today the fight was not the root ing editorials against the Klan sides learned to know the Like a beacon of light in a ily moved off the island last among a number of citizens.” cause. Just as likely, he said, and wrote in 1928 of receiv- goals and sympathies of each dark night, attempts to form week.” This exodus had been Incidents creating friction, was the growth of better jobs ing threats of harm, which other,” the article stated. committees for improved race underway and commented Dixon said, were the theft of in the cities. he dismissed with words that One of the leaders in over- relations came together one on for several years; the is- items in the late 1800s from During the 1920s, local amounted to a laugh. The all organization was Dr. Rob- century ago in Gloucester and land’s black population in a home during a funeral, in- groups of the Ku Klux Klan Gazette called the Klan “the ert Russa Moton, president of Mathews. Just as quickly as a 1910 had been 135 residents volving a white family and operated more or less open- bedsheet battalion.” Tuskegee Institute who later beacon, they disappeared. living alongside 676 whites. black man, and a Christmas ly in both Gloucester and The Wikipedia article built his retirement home, Gloucester’s effort came John W. Dixon, who wrote Eve 1915 fight in a general Mathews, announcing meet- notes that the regional ef- Holly Knoll, on the banks first. On Aug. 31, 1920, during in 2001 about the departure store between a black man ings, showing up at funer- fort brought some beneficial of the York River. Over the a gathering in the courthouse, in his booklet “The Black and white man. als, and donating to local results: “Before this commis- years this became a think “preliminary steps were taken Americans of Gwynn’s Island, Dixon noted however that, causes. At least one cross sion was created, there were tank on racial issues and its in the organization of an Inter- 1600s through 1900s,” said “As of the date that this event was burned, in front of Sib- 83 lynchings; ten years later active role to develop leaders Racial County Committee, to two incidents and the exo- occurred, many Black fami- ley’s Store in Mathews, as (1929) this number dropped continues as The Gloucester act in conjunction with the dus “resulted in the percep- lies had already moved or reported by the Journal in to ten. Through the work of Institute. state and national organiza- tion that black people were were making plans to relo- 1925. Alanson Crosby, editor this commission … a gradu- tion,” the Gloucester Gazette reported. Across the South at that time, the Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation was Who were the players in the effort to improve race relations? forming local committees. The organization was found- BY ELSA VERBLYA a future law- in his obituary educational, economic, social and re- ed in 1919 in Atlanta in order yer, future “one of this ligious life of the people among whom to “oppose lynching, mob Who were the players in those Gloucester county’s out- he had come to dwell.” Joslyn had violence, and peonage and early journeys to racial dialogue Common- standing and moved to the county in 1905 and had to educate white southerners which made stops in Gloucester and wealth’s At- most respect- been an automobile dealer, member of concerning the worst aspects Mathews? torney, future ed citizens.” Spring Hill Baptist Church, member of of racial abuse,” stated an on- Nation and state member of He was active the school board instrumental in con- line article in the New Georgia Dr. Robert Russa Moton, 1867-1935; the House of in Gwynn’s Is- struction of Cobbs Creek High School, Encyclopedia. born in Amelia Delegates and land Baptist vice-president and director in 1920 of An article in Wikipedia puts County, Mo- future presi- Church and the Farmers and Fishermen’s Bank, an a different slant on the opera- ton graduated dent of Tide- “used to sit organizer of Mathews Ruritan Club, tion. from Hamp- water News- by my great- W. Eugene Callis and a founder of the firm now known It states that “In spite of its ton Institute papers, Inc. At John T. DuVal grandmother as Mathews Insurance Agency. official ‘interracial’ title, the and after en- his death, the and fan her Alex N. Lewis died in 1945 and commission was formed pri- tering a career Gazette-Jour- while she his obituary termed him “a pioneer marily by liberal white South- in higher edu- nal obituary was playing the pump organ at our colored citizen of Mathews County, erners … in response to the cation, was stated that “He was ever courteous, church,” said John Lee Callis, his having been connected with the reli- increasing unrest amongst named presi- kindly, sympathetic and quick to un- great-grandson. In addition to active gious, civic and educational life of the black Americans during the dent of Tuske- derstand fully the problems of others pallbearers, his casket was accompa- county for nearly half a century.” The post-World War I period. Ac- gee Institute … ready and eager to help a friend or nied by a number of honorary pall- obituary states that “At the time of his cording to internal docu- in 1915. He Dr. Robert Russa Moton neighbor, or some community cause bearers, including something very death he was a faculty member of the ments the CIC believed that had married which might need his help.” unusual, a woman: Miss Violet Leffler. Thomas Hunter School, treasurer of WWI had ‘changed the whole as his second The Rev. Harry L. Corr, 1865-1951, She was bookkeeper at the Bank of Thomas Hunter P-TA, and president status of race relationships,’ wife Jennie interviewed Mathews, where he was a director for of the Mathews County Teachers’ As- and that blacks had grown re- Dee Booth of Gloucester in 1908. He a few months many years. sociation. He was also president of solved to obtain ‘things hith- built Holly Knoll in Gloucester in 1935 before his The Rev. William Franklin Carpen- the Mathews County Sunday School erto not hoped for.’” and resigned from Tuskegee due to death by the ter, 1873-1959, was rector of Kings- Union and first vice-president of the Hints of both ambitions are failing health the same year. He died Gazette-Jour- ton Episcopal Parish with Christ, St. Tidewater Baptist Sunday School shown in the Gazette, which in 1940. He is buried at Hampton Uni- nal at age 85, John’s and Trinity churches, from Convention, and a member of the Ma- in announcing the upcoming versity. was still work- 1919-1923. During this term money sons and Eastern Star. … The written meeting said, “the movement Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966, was ing a full day was raised and Trinity renovated. The tributes, the large number of floral is state-wide and has the en- known late in his life as the archi- on his tractor Mathews Journal reported April 13, designs and the unusual crowd of sor- dorsement of the best ele- tect of Virginia’s Massive Resistance and pastor- 1922 that “The congregation of Trin- rowing friends bore silent testimony ments of both races. It will, it against integration of public schools. ing his peo- ity Church will return to their spiritual of the esteem in which the deceased is hoped, be a check to unwel- But in 1920, he was a senator in the ple. He was Rev. Harry L. Corr home on Easter Sunday. Nearly a year was held,” the obituary stated. come agitation and an encour- Virginia General Assembly and rising born at White has elapsed since the old building “Professor Rogers” was named sec- agement to good citizenship fast in state politics. He was elected Marsh and was vacated for rebuilding purposes.” retary and treasurer of the Mathews and good will.” governor in 1925 and at this time, served Bap- Carpenter, a native Canadian whose committee. Earlier issues of the B.B. Roane was named according to the Wikipedia article, tist churches tenure at Kingston was his first in the Mathews Journal in 1920 inform us chairman of the local commit- became involved in the Interracial in Gloucester, King and Queen and United States, went on to parishes in that Prof. P.L. Rogers of Appomattox tee. Other officers were John commission. Byrd went on to the U.S. Middlesex counties over a long career. Washington, D.C., and Prince William had been named principal of Lee-Jack- T. DuVal, secretary and trea- Senate in 1933, serving until 1965. He estimated having married between County, and after his death was de- son High School, assuming his posi- surer; the Rev. Harry L. Corr, The Rev. Ernest Franklin Hall, 500 and 600 couples and said that scribed in a Diocese of Virginia report tion in September 1920. chairman of the white sub- 1869-1970, one Sunday at Providence Baptist, he as a “splendid example of a faithful The Rev. John W. Simmons, born committee, and the Rev. J.W. committee baptized 52 people in 17½ minutes. In country minister who sought noth- in 1888, was Lemon, chairman of the Negro organizer in spite of changes in society, he said, ing for himself but only that he might chair of the subcommittee. Mathews, was “Real Christianity, in people’s hearts, serve the Lord and the people com- Mathews That is all we can find in the a clergyman is always the same … The principle mitted to his care.” committee, record of Gloucester’s orga- in the Meth- of brotherly love does not change.” The Rev. H.H. Ficklin was a builder. and pastor of nization. We came across no odist Episco- His obituary a few months later called He apparently came to Mathews in Mathews Bap- further reports of meetings pal Church, Corr “Gloucester’s most prominent 1919 and stayed until 1922, and was tist Church or actions during 1920 in our South, now and best beloved minister.” pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in and West- files. It was not, however, the the United The Rev. John W. Lemon of Ark, Cobbs Creek and Zion Baptist Church ville Bap- only interracial effort that Methodist 1868-1952, in Miles. A church history of Ebene- tist Church. year in the county. Church. He was a beloved zer from 1991 states: “He was said to He came to Rev. Ernest F. Hall In July, the Rev. J. W. Booth, lived for a pastor, his have performed his duties unusually Mathews Rev. John W. Simmons pastor of Bethel Baptist century, and obituary said. well. He was a leader, an administra- in 1919 and Church, invited “the Pastors in 1920 was a His career in- tor, and a minister to his flock. Dur- left in 1922. of Gloucester County (white YMCA chap- cluded educa- ing his tenure, carbide lights replaced We have not and colored) … to the Pas- lain. He was assigned to Mathews as tion at Hamp- the kerosene lamps, and the church found much information on him, but tor’s Conference to be held at pastor of the Mathews Charge from ton Institute raised much of the money for the pur- the Mathews Journal informs us that Bethel … on Friday, July 16.” 1929-32. One of his five daughters, and teaching chase of the pews in which you now his initial sermon at Mathews Baptist, Subjects would include mis- Sarah, married Norris B. Richardson in Calhoun, sit.” A Zion Church history said that, given May 11, 1919, was on the subject sions and public education, as of Mathews. Alabama, be- “During his administration the church of “The Great Judgement Day” and de- both affected “the white and In Gloucester fore returning was remodeled, which included open- livered in the evening to “a crowded colored people of Gloucester.” The Rev. John William Booth, to his native Rev. John W. Lemon ing the steeple, installing the bell, and house.” There was no follow-up in 1847-1923, of Gloucester. He purchasing the pews.” William B. Smith, 1888-1976, was the paper, and according to Dr. Bethel Baptist was pastor of J.R. Hudgins: This is the one indi- Clerk of Court Dorothy C. Cooke, historian Church, Sas- Morning Glo- vidual we have been unable to iden- in Mathews of Bethel Church, any record safras, was ry Baptist Church and Smithfield Bap- tify. A look at the 1920 Census in- and like B.B. may have been destroyed by born a slave. tist Church before assuming the pul- forms us that five Hudgins males in Roane in fire years ago in the home of According to pit at Shepherdsville Baptist, where Mathews bore names with the initials Gloucester, a the church clerk. a 1950 biogra- he served 35 years. He died during J.R.: Jas. R. Hudgins, a fisherman born towering fig- The Mathews Journal gave phy by his son summer travels, stricken in Baltimore in 1869; John R. Hudgins, a farmer ure in county no prior notice of the Inter-Ra- Peter J. Booth, after earlier conducting a revival at born in 1855; John R. Hudgins, a retail government. cial Committee meeting held he was taught Tuskegee Institute in Georgia. merchant from Gwynn’s Island born in He became in the county, but reported on reading and Basil Bernard Roane, 1889-1974, 1866; John R. Hudgins, a farmer born clerk in 1914 Oct. 28 that the “Rev. E. F. Hall writing and Rev. John William Booth named chair- in 1843; and John R. Hudgins, who was upon the was in the county Tuesday allowed to man of born in 1918. Could J.R. Hudgins of the death of the William B. Smith for the purpose of interesting preach as a Gloucester’s committee be one of the adults? Or incumbent, prominent citizens here in a boy at en- Interracial was there a typo in an initial? We just his father movement, now wide-spread slaved people’s prayer meetings. A Committee, do not know. It appears that the cen- Sands Smith, in the south, to bring about a white man helping him was the Rev. was a legend- sus counted 815 residents of Mathews and served until retirement in 1971, better understanding among William E. Wiatt, who provided reli- ary figure in with the surname Hudgins in 1920. never facing opposition. “He was a the races. Among those pres- gious books to the budding clergy- Gloucester The Rev. B.E. Hudson, 1877-1965, much loved man in Mathews. His ent were: Revs. B. E. Hudson, man. Booth started preaching in 1879 County gov- a native of Amherst County, was pas- friends knew him as a true friend, ever W. F. Carpenter and J. W. Sim- and was pastor at Bethel for 41 years. ernment, tor of the Mathews Charge, which in- ready to help in time of need,” the Ga- mons, Messrs. F. L. Joslyn, W. The Rev. William E. Wiatt, 1826- serving as cluded Central, Salem, Bethel, St. Mat- zette-Journal wrote in an editorial at Eugene Callis, J. R. Hudgins, 1918, died Clerk of Court B. B. Roane thew and Asbury churches, in 1920. his death. It termed him “one of the W. B. Smith and Rev. H. H. before the for nearly 56 The annual Methodist conference finest gentlemen ever to have been Ficklin and Alex Lewis, col- interracial years. In 1920 was held shortly after the interracial born and reared in the entire county.” ored. Organization was ef- movement he had been meeting and Hudson was moved to fected as follows: Rev. J. W. began, but clerk for two years and was about 30 a charge in Albemarle. The Mathews Acknowledgment: This article could Simmons, chairman; Rev. W. F. his encour- years old … typical of the young age Journal lamented his departure: “the not have been written without the Carpenter, vice-chairman; and agement of of many of those in the movement. county suffers a loss hard to replace” cheerful cooperation of many individu- Prof. Rogers, secretary and Booth’s ca- He rarely took vacation. When war as he was “one of the unfortunately als, who looked for photographs and re- treasurer.” reer path was bonds went on sale in 1941 to fund small number of preachers who take cords and made phone calls on our be- As in Gloucester, no addi- profound, ac- the government’s defense, Roane was an active part in the advancement of half to augment the scant information tional meeting notices or re- cording to the first in line. In 1940 he was chief of worthy causes outside of the immedi- available in the local papers: Becky ports were given in the Jour- biography. He Rev. William E. Wiatt the Gloucester Volunteer Fire Depart- ate affairs of the church.” Hudson had Barnhardt, Dana Brown, John Lee Cal- nal. invited the ment. His successor as clerk, Charles earlier held a pastorate in Gloucester, lis, Dr. Dorothy C. Cooke, Stephanie This fleeting story stands black preach- E. King Jr., was quoted in the paper from 1913-15, and returned to the Davis of the Virginia United Method- out as something truly differ- er to the pul- stating that Roane was a charitable North Mathews charge from 1947-49 ist Conference, Mary Ann Gilman, Sue ent in an era when segregation pit of his church, Petsworth Baptist; man in private. “A lot of persons don’t although by then he was on retired Haywood, Angie Ingram, Karen Jones, of institutions and activities the two met in each other’s homes to know how much he helped others in status. John Lemon, Claudia Lemon Pratt, Julia in the South was unyielding, study the Bible. They were friends un- need, black or white.” F.L. Joslyn, 1881-1947, was Fred Randle of the Episcopal Diocese of Vir- both in law and practice. til death. Wiatt was a chaplain in the In Mathews Libby Joslyn Sr., aged 37 at the time of ginia, Judy Richardson, Cathy B. Rowe, Blacks on Gwynn’s Island 26th Virginia Infantry of the Confeder- W. Eugene Callis, 1868-1933, lived the meeting. An editorial after he died Emily Tucker, Edith Turner, Margaret About the same time these ate Army. on Gwynn’s Island and operated the termed him “truly a useful citizen of Walker, Fannie Ware and Thomas T. meetings occurred, the John T. DuVal, 1897-1954, in 1920 thriving businesses at Callis Wharf, a his adopted county of Mathews whose Wiatt. Gwynn’s Island correspon- was an up-and-coming cashier of the steamboat stop, seafood processing best interests he ever sought to pro- dent to the Mathews Journal Bank of Gloucester, in his twenties, plant and retail center. He was termed mote. He identified himself with the

Y M C K 8A GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL The arts THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 ‘Old to New’ exhibit Mathews author pens featured at Bay School ‘Twin Paths to Freedom’ The Archeological Society “Old to New,” a collection of Virginia has published of artwork that incorpo- “Twin Paths to Freedom: The rates up-cycled, recycled History and Archaeology of and reused components to James City County’s Free create new works of art, is Black Communities” by his- currently on display in the torian Martha W. McCartney Art Speaks Gallery at the of Williamsburg and Hudgins. Bay School Community Arts The book describes the his- Center in Mathews. tory and material culture of Artists took various direc- two early 19th century com- tions as they created their munities of former slaves new artwork out of old, said and provides an overview of Basket weaving a press release. Some used the conditions under which recycled components, such they lived. Students at the Bay School Community Arts Center learned to weave a func- as Tom Zuk, who incorporat- McCartney, a graduate of tional basket during a beginner level class taught by Davida Hall. Shown, from ed wood scraps in his work. the College of William and left, are Evelyn Poppell, Judy Buis and Sue Skidmore with their creations. Some, such as Pat Whitlow Mary, has served as a consul- and Tim Dooley, used com- tant to the Colonial Williams- binations of vintage objects burg Foundation, James- to create conversation piec- town-Yorktown Foundation, Historian and author Martha McCart- Affordable Self Storage es as well as art. National Park Service, Vir- ney has a new book, “Twin Paths to Marilou Bray McCrosky ginia Department of Historic Freedom.” used oyster shells from A kewpie doll mermaid lamp is just one Resources, three state uni- George Washington’s birth- of many pieces of art currently on dis- versities, and several con- place to make her oys- play in the “Old to New” exhibit at the tract archaeology firms and Parish Register Mathews, ter shell necklaces, while Bay School Community Arts Center in historic preservation groups. Gloucester and Middlesex SPECIAL Cynthia Plessinger used Mathews. A recipient of the NSDAR’s Counties, Virginia Slaves and shells, glass and debris that National History Award, she Slaveholders, 1746-1827,” washed ashore on Haven recently received an Ameri- “Jordan’s Point: Archaeology Beach after Hurricane Isaias to make window mosaics. can Heroes award from the in Perspective; Powhatan In- BUY ONE MONTH GET ONE MONTH Wood artists Sam Forrest and Pat Andrews used fallen National Society, Daughters dian Place Names in Tidewa- trees to make exquisite and unique furniture, said the re- of Colonial Wars. ter Virginia,” “The Henrico lease. Andrews also used metal objects such as old scuba McCartney, who serves on Parish Glebe, Varina, Virgin- tanks and railroad ties to create sculptures and useable the board of the Mathews ia,” and “Eppington on the items for the home. County Historical Society, Appomattox.” Many other artists in the “Old to New” exhibit also found has written 13 books. They Her essays appear in En- ways to reuse something old and make it new. Some of the include “Mathews County, cyclopedia Virginia; The components are obvious and some are not. Visit the gallery Virginia: Lost Landscapes,” Dictionary of Virginia Biogra- and see if you can pick out the reused, recycled and up-cy- “Untold Stories and With phy; The Journal of Southern cled aspects from each piece of art, said the release. Or visit Reverence for the Past: History; The Journal of the Shacklefords • Cobbs Creek www.bayschool-arts.com to view and shop the collection. Gloucester County, Virginia,” Museum of Early Southern Mathews • Hayes Locations “Hanover County, Virginia: Decorative Arts; The Ameri- Nature’s Bounty, Nation’s can Encyclopedia of Colonial Call 757-723-6551 for information Glory,” “James City County: Wars; The Oxford Encyclope- North Star Market Keystone of the Common- dia of Women in World Histo- 13852 John Clayton Mem. Hyw., North wealth,” “Jamestown Island: ry, and Ceramics in America. American Legacy,” “Virginia McCartney has donated a 804-725-7777 Immigrants and Adventur- copy of “Twin Paths to Free- ONE-STOP SPOT FOR YOUR FISHING NEEDS ers 1607-1635: A Biographi- dom” to Mathews Memorial cal Dictionary,” “Jamestown Library. It is available on Am- FISHING BAIT AND TACKLE People to 1800,” “Kingston azon.com. WE'LL BE READY WHEN YOU ARE!! Living Flower Arrangement Workshop: Sat, Oct 17, 10 am AND DON’T FORGET OUR Make and take your own layered container of flower bulbs to Tappahannock gallery open Saturday bloom in the coming spring during this fun and informative AWESOME DELI AND The Tappahannock Art Gallery at 200 Prince Street will workshop. $25 per person. Advance registration is required; once again welcome COVID-19-protected visitors from 9 a.m. please give us a call or visit us online to reserve your space! FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN to 1 p.m. Saturday during Tappahannock’s Market Day. This Non-Ethanol Gas • Bait • Ice • Beer • Soda will be one of the few opportunities this lost year to view the gallery’s collection of the work of its local artist members. Second Saturdays: Saturday, November 14, 10 am Propane Exchange Brent and Becky’s will host the Gloucester Master Gardeners Gift Cards • Wine & Premium Cigars on the second Saturday of the month for an informational look at what is going on in the garden, as well as an informational talk by Sandy Pait on growing mushrooms. Join the Gloucester Master Gardeners to learn how to make your garden the best it can be. There is no charge or registration for this informative Some Thoughts on session packed with great information! Visit our website at www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com Liberty for more information on upcoming events! The following is from works by H.L. Mencken 7900 Daffodil Lane • Gloucester • 693-3966 www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com “...liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented (at least in the field of government) in a thousand years. I believe it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. ...any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prichard liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. Gift Guide I am against all efforts to make men virtuous by law.” ‘Great Awakening’ Publication date Nov. 5 Deadline Oct. 29 We yield up some of our liberty in the name of laws lecture to be held ‘for the common good’; we now must be ever vigilant that we do not become slaves of those laws and those lawmakers. virtually Oct. 25 Voting is our chance to choose our masters. Choose carefully. The Middlesex County Mu- Holiday C. Selph seum and Historical Society will sponsor a Zoom lecture on the Great Awakening on Calendar Sunday, Oct. 25 at 4 p.m. Publication date Nov. 26 The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prich- ard will speak on “The Great Deadline Nov. 13 Awakening and its Effects on Middlesex County.” SOUTHWIND PIZZA The Great Awakening was 44 Church Street, Mathews • 804-725-2766 a mid-18th century American “Committed to Serving our Community” religious revival that was a Chiristmas part of a broader revival in Protestant churches in Ger- many, the Netherlands, the Greetings Open for Full Service British Isles, the thirteen American colonies and South Publication date Dec. 17 Africa. The Awakening had a Indoor/Outdoor Seating lasting effect on the shape of Deadline Dec. 10 American life. Prichard is the Arthur Lee ASK ABOUT OUR Side Room available for Kinsolving Professor Emeri- tus of Christianity in America at the Virginia Theological HOLIDAY PRICING. Catering • Meetings Seminary in Alexandria. He is the former president of the Historical Society of the Epis- Luncheons and more! copal Church. A question and answer period will follow the lecture. Sunday Brunch is Back! To request the Zoom link or telephone dial-in number for this lecture, email the Middle- Call the advertising staff at Monday & Tuesday Closed sex Museum at middlesexmu- [email protected] or (804) 693-3101 Wednesday & Thursday 11:30-8 call 804-758-3663. Friday 11:30-9 • Saturday 11-9 • Sunday 9:30-3 Go to Facebook or www.southwindpizza.com to view the menu www.gazettejournal.net www.gazettejournal.net

Y M C K THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 Obituaries GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL 9A

BETTY TUCKER BROWN EDWARD REEVES ELLIOTT JR. CECIL EUGENE JONES Betty Tucker Brown, 88, of Gloucester, died at Walter Reed Edward Reeves Elliott Jr., Cecil Eugene Jones, 47 Convalescent Center in Saluda on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. age 62, of Gloucester, passed years young, of Mathews, Services are under the direction of Hogg Funeral Home, away peacefully at his home Virginia, passed away on Hayes. on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. He Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. retired from Newport News He was a member of Em- DARRELL E. CLARK Shipyard as a Lead General manuel United Methodist Darrell E. Clark, our be- Foreman, X-43, in 2019, with Church, Mathews County loved father, known to 38 years of service. Edward Little League, Water View many as “Unkie D,” age 50, was a former member of the Hunt Club, MERT Team and of Gloucester, passed away Gloucester Volunteer Fire Dive Team Rescue. He was suddenly on Oct. 4, 2020. Department, Newport News a former member of James He was a native of Buffalo, Shipbuilding Apprentice City Fire Department, James New York, and worked for Alumni, and the Progressive City Fire and Marine Res- the City of Hampton as the Club. He was a true outdoors- cue, Mathews Volunteer Fire Assistant Superintendent at man who enjoyed hunting, Department and Mathews the Woodlands Golf Course. fishing, and spending time Rescue Squad. He graduat- His parents, Mary “Ham- with his family, a good piece ed in the class of 1990 from mie” and Edward “Fast Ed- of German Chocolate Cake, and carried on the family tradi- Mathews High School. die,” and a brother, Bruce tion teaching his grandchildren their first motto. Everyone After graduating high school, Eugene, better known as E. Clark, preceded him in always wanted to sit next to him, so they could laugh at his “Jonesy” by most and “Bubba” by others, left Mathews and death. He leaves behind funny jokes, stories and pranks. His father, Edward Reeves El- headed to Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated there from Ohio two sons, Douglas “Dougie” liott Sr., preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife, Diesel Tech School and returned home to work at Enter- Clark (Taylor Blohm) and Lianne Shives Elliott; daughter, Krystal Horn (Graylend); son, prise Ford Tractor in Grafton, Virginia. During this time, he Justin “Russ” Clark (Lamar), Edward R. Elliott III (Ashleigh); grandchildren, Kinsley, Kam- volunteered for the Mathews Rescue Squad and was also a along with his brothers and sisters, Kenneth “Sup” Clark, den, Kyler, Kallie, Kambreigh, Ainsleigh; mother, Theresa R. volunteer firefighter for MVFD, serving as a lieutenant and Carolyn “Sister” Prevette (Mark), Robert “Bobby” Clark, Elliott; siblings, Karen, Lisa, Tina, Tami, and Dreux, as well as a then as captain. While serving his community in this way, he Grace “Pumpkin” Boone (Bill) and Richard “Pokey” Clark host of nieces and nephews. The family received friends Tues- decided that being a professional firefighter was his calling. (Ashley Richardson). Darrell was an avid NASCAR fan and day, Oct. 13, 2020, from 6-7 p.m. at Hogg Funeral Home. Due to His love of the outdoors was ever present right up to his loved to spend his time on any track. He had a great sense the outbreak of COVID-19, masks were required for entry, and passing. He loved fishing, hunting, car racing, coaching and of humor, keeping everyone in stitches and obviously had a social distancing was mandatory. A graveside service, con- serving as umpire. While being a firefighter, he also was an nickname for everyone. He was a gentle giant with a heart of ducted by Pastor Art Wolz, was held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, owner of H&R Construction along with his buddy, Joe Rob- gold. “May you rest in peace, Guy.” A graveside service was Oct. 14, 2020, at Windsor Gardens Cemetery & Mausoleum, 80 ins, and he found pleasure in all of his work. He loved all that held at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, at Rosewell Me- Soles Lane, Dutton, Virginia 23050. Services under the direc- God called him to do, always smiling, laughing and enjoying morial Garden Cemetery. Please consider contributions to tion of Hogg Funeral Home, Hayes. life. Eugene’s love for his children was unending. He will be Bread for Life Food Pantry, 6262 Main Street, Gloucester, Va. greatly missed as an important piece of our family puzzle. 23061. Services under the direction of Hogg Funeral Home, Rest in peace, Bubba. Hayes. Eugene was preceded in death by his father, W. Gerald Jones; uncles, Gordon M. Jones and Eugene W. Love; cousin, Robert G. “Bobby” Jones; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sands ROBERT GRAHAM GAYLE G. Jones and Mrs. Alberta N. Love and also his brother-in- Robert Graham Gayle of Bo- law, David L. Hernandez. MAUREEN TYLER COAR hannon, born Aug. 20, 1941, He is survived by his daughter, Lauren E. Jones; son, Justin Maureen Tyler Coar, age was escorted by the angels to W. Jones; mother, Jo Ann Jones; sister, Linda J. Hernandez; 80, of Mathews, died peace- join his Lord and Savior Jesus niece, Vallin H. Jenkins; aunt, Charlotte E. Jones; cousins, fully on Thursday, Oct. 8, Christ on Oct. 10, 2020. He won Sands G. Jones II (Christine), Karen J. Barrick (Tim), Patricia 2020 at Riverside Walter victory over a 53-year battle J. White (Gerry), Judy J. Zanette (Shawn) and Mike, Mark, Reed Hospital. She was with MS. Graham lived a life of Tim, Rick, Teresa, Karen and Beth Love of Erlanger, Ken- preceded in death by her peace and trust in God. Dur- tucky. husband, John Coar, and is ing his illness he never com- A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18, survived by her son, Darren plained or asked, “Why me?” 2020, at the Piankatank Ruritan Club, Hudgins, Virginia. In- Tyler (Denise); daughter, He was preceded in death terment will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be Justine Tyler; stepdaugh- by his parents, Captain Robert made to MVFD, P.O. Box 1130, Mathews, Va. 23109 or MVRS, ter, Gwen DeForest (Chris); and Carrie Lee Gayle. 94 Cricket Hill Road, Hudgins, Va. 23076. grandchildren, Nichole He leaves behind his devoted Faulkner Funeral Homes, Foster-Faulkner Chapel, Mathews, Wenner (Owen), Willie Fer- wife of 59 years, Joanne; son, is assisting the family. Please be advised that current state- nald. Private graveside ser- David (Karen); daughter, Jody mandated guidelines will apply to all in attendance, includ- vices were held on Monday, (Amy); sister, Beverley, and six ing social distancing and appropriate face coverings. We sin- Oct. 12, 2020. In memory awesome grandchildren, Zach- cerely appreciate your understanding. of our loved one, contribu- ary, Matthew, Emily, Tyler, Ashley and Noah. tions may be made to St. Graham retired from the Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 50, Memphis, in 1975. He loved farming and farmed Galewood Farm as long Tennessee 38101. Services under the direction of Hogg Fu- as he could. He also loved hunting, fishing, waterskiing and neral Home, Hayes. camping. He was a founding member of Cornerstone Fel- HUBERT (NAVADA) KOSTYAL lowship Church in 1984. His testimony of courage and faith A memorial service for touched many lives as he faced a serious illness. He was al- Hubert (Navada) Kostyal, ways “fine” and had a smile on his face to the end. 83, of Hampton, was held ELTON J. DUHON A special thank you to his Hospice nurses, Brenda Scales, Elton J. Duhon passed Friday, Oct. 9 at Parklawn Angela Overstreet, Gina Rowe and Lydia Foster. Their compas- Wood Funeral Home, Hamp- away on Oct. 13, 2020 at 94, sion and nursing skills were beyond description. They were after a very long and very ton. He died Oct. 4, 2020 four angels sent by God in our hour of need. Thank you also at Riverside Convalescent full life. to his dedicated doctors, Bob Davis, Joe Leming and Lockhart. He was a devout Catho- Center-Mathews. They made his journey possible. Survivors include his lic, a rabid LSU fan and a Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, a memorial service fierce champion of fairness children, Cindy Plessinger, date will be set at a later time. Mark Kostyal, Julie McLane, and honesty. But most of all In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to Cornerstone he was a loving husband, Lorraine Rabe, and Tammy Fellowship Church, 2243 Buckley Hall Road, Cobbs Creek, Va. Shifflett; brothers, James father, pawpaw and great- 23035. pawpaw. Kostyal, and Wayne Kostyal; He spent his life fighting sister, Aleithia Powell; 25 the good fight, first as an grandchildren, and 29 great- 18-year-old combat MP in grandchildren. World War II and then for He was preceded in death the rest of his days as a sup- by his wife of 35 years, Elsie, and his parents, Hubert S. and porter of good causes and JOHN ADAM JENKINS Aleithia Kostyal. progressive candidates. John Adam Jenkins, age 63, The service was conducted by Pastor Chris McMillan of Elton was born in Vinton, La., in 1926 and married Melda of Cambridge, Ohio, formerly Providence Baptist Church, Hayes. Faye Dietz in 1947. They moved to the Miles/Bohannon area of Guinea, Virginia, passed of Mathews County in 1995, where Elton was a member of away on Sunday, Sept. 27, the Mathews American Legion post. Together they attended 2020, under the care of the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church and participated in the Morrison House in Zanesville, West Mathews Community League. Ohio. He was born in Newport Elton is survived by his children, Ferris Duhon (Ruta), News, Virginia, a son of the PATRICIA BLOXOM ‘PATSY’ MEIDER Marvant Duhon (Susan), David Duhon (Laurie Shaffer), late Herbert Jenkins and Kate Patricia Bloxom “Patsy” Kathy Duhon (Bruce Squiers), Kevil Duhon (Kathy Crown), Jenkins. Meider of Gloucester Point, Pierre Duhon (Paula) and Sylvia Duhon (Robin McCormick), John was a waterman most passed away on Thursday, as well as Brad’s widow, Melinda Olds. He is also survived of his life, working for many Oct. 9, 2020, at her home. by 18 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, including area companies and on some She was born at Chinco- Amanda Duhon and Cassidy Duhon (Dan Carter), who lived fishing boats. He was an avid teague, and was the daugh- in Mathews, where their mother, Cindy Gebhard, still lives. poker player and enjoyed ter of the late Woodrow A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. playing cards with his bud- and June Lee Bloxom, and 17, at Smithers Memorial Cemetery in the Cobbs Creek area dies. was the widow of Charles J. of Mathews County. Arrangements are through R. Hayden He leaves his wife, Sophia Meider. She retired from Mof- Smith Funeral Home in Hampton, but there will be no visita- A. Nicholakis; they were married on June 8, 2001; a daughter, fitt Construction as book- tion due to the current pandemic. A more complete obituary Tonya Jenkins of Virginia; two granddaughters, Mackenzie and keeper after 20 years of ser- is available at: https://www.rhaydensmith.com. Leighana; sisters-in-law, Effie Stillwagon, Nancy (Kenny)- Mc vice. She was a member of If you wish to honor him, please consider helping his be- Connell, and Cathy Powell; a brother-in-law, Jimmy (Colleen) Providence Baptist Church. loved Louisiana, which is reeling from two hurricanes, by Nicholakis; two special nieces, Paula Belvin and Christie Jen- Patsy was a member of the making a donation to the Community Foundation of South- kins, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Red Hats, president of the west Louisiana (https://www.foundationswla.org). He would John was preceded in death by his parents, and a sister, Mol- Civic League in Holiday Is- also encourage you to vote. lie Belvin. land, loved Ballroom Danc- The family will have a memorial service at 1 p.m. on Oct. 17, ing, and a very active member of Newport News High School, 2020 at Rosewell Cemetery with the Rev. Art Woltz conduct- class of 1957. She also volunteered at Riverside Walter Reed ing. 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Y M C K 10A GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 OBITUARIES| (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9A) NORA HARRIS THOMPSON ISSAC SMITH JR. Nora Harris Thompson, Issac Smith Jr., 69, of North, 88, of Quinton, Virginia, passed away Sunday, Oct. 4, died peacefully and sur- ROBERT BOSWELL MILLS 2020. He was affectionately Robert Boswell Mills, rounded by family mem- known as “Fig” or “Sonny known to many as “Bobby,” bers at 10:52 a.m. Sunday, Boy” to family and friends. was born on Nov. 20, 1936 Oct. 11, 2020, at St. Mary’s He was an employee of the and passed away on Oct. Hospital in Richmond. College of William and Mary 8, 2020. He is survived by It appears she wanted to dining services for over 30 “Beth,” his wife of 63 years, make the 11 a.m. Sunday years. He was preceded in and his children, Robin and service. death by his parents, Helen Don Seeterlin, Buddy and She was a native of Virginia Lee Smith and Is- Peggy Mills, Elaine and Da- Gloucester, but lived for sac Smith Sr. He is survived vid Wood, DeDe and Kemp many years on Ripshin by two sisters, Joyce Cosby Parrish, Danny and Kim Lake in Roan Mountain, (Roy) and Marguerite Brooks Mills. He is also survived Tennessee—a place she (Robert); one brother, Har- by nine grandchildren; 13 called her “heaven here on old Smith, and a host of great-grandchildren, and earth.” Variously known as nieces, nephews, cousins his brothers, Butch and “Mom,” “Mimi,” “Butchie,” and friends. The viewing was Mac. Bobby retired from and “Aunt Nor’Ann”; what held Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 at J.K. Redmond Funeral Home, Chesapeake Corporation follows are her own words: Shacklefords. The graveside service was held Wednesday, Oct. as a Shipping Foreman after 37 years. He was a successful “I loved the mountains, being near the water, fishing, wild- 14, 2020, at Emmaus Baptist Church Cemetery, North. “gentleman” farmer who started farming at the age of 15 and flowers, animals (wild and domesticated), giving to others, farmed until his recent illness. It has long been thought that cursive writing, being around pleasant people, and especial- his heart hummed to the gentle sound of a tractor. Bobby ly babies and little children—most of all my God and Jesus was a quiet and gentle man, and his love for the Lord was BRIAN MATTHEW THOMAS Christ, my church, and my wonderful two children that God evident in the way he lived his life and treated people. His blessed me with here on earth, Buzz and Sheree, and their Brian Matthew Thomas of families.” family will celebrate his life privately at their family home, Gloucester, was born on Jan. Squirrel Hollow Farm in New Kent County where he was born It is also noteworthy that for many years she was a Grey- 24, 1977 and died Wednes- hound bus rider. and lived his entire life. In lieu of flowers, monetary gifts can day, Oct. 7, 2020. He left this be sent to the Pamunkey Memorial Fund, 11236 New Kent Emancipated as a teenager (both parents died when she world to follow his journey was very young), Nora began her work career at a very Hwy., New Kent, Va. 23124. Tributes may be posted at www. with his Creator. He wore vincentfh.com. young age. Her first job was with Standard Drug Co.; her lat- many hats during his life. He er jobs included the Virginia Department of Education’s Title was a son, a father, a friend, I office and Gordon’s Inc., Johnson City, Tennessee. a cook, a plumber, a painter, She was preceded in death by her parents, Grace Elizabeth a cable installer, a partner, Hogge Harris and John W. “Jack” Harris of Gloucester; three and a lover. He so loved lis- sisters; nine brothers; husbands, William H. “Bill” Thomp- tening to The Grateful Dead son and Frank James “Jimmy” Trexler Jr., and one grand- everywhere he would travel. child, Carrie Anne Newton. Brian is survived by his Survivors include, daughter and son-in-law, Sheree and parents, Harry and Beverly Keith Gostel, Quinton; son and daughter-in-law, Frank James Thomas; his two children, “Buzzy” Trexler III, and Donna of Alcoa, Tennessee; grand- JOHANN E. ODOM Connor Thomas and Kassi- children, Johnny Newton, Wendy Gray (husband, Ron); Har- Johann E. Odom of die Thomas; stepdaughter, ley Gostel, all of Quinton; David Trexler (wife, Elizabeth), Gloucester, passed away Elizabeth Painter; his two brothers, Tom Thomas and Paul Louisville, Tennessee; Elizabeth Pate (husband, Nick), St. unexpectedly and marched Thomas and wife Cathy; uncles and aunts, Janice Jones, and Charles, Missouri; step-granddaughter, Layla Gray (hus- into his heavenly home on George and Louise Calogrides; one niece, Victoria Thomas; band, Gordon), Portsmouth; great-grandchildren, Trey New- Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. He one nephew, Gabriel Thomas, and many cousins. He had part- ton, Katelyn and Adam Gray, Camden James “C.J.” Trexler, was born on Oct. 13, 1958 ners in life, Georgia Painter and Brittney Binns Florence “Flossie May” and Wesley Pate; step-great-grand- in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Brian had a big heart and was willing to share whatever he children, Jewel West, and Kayden and Amalia Gray; sisters- Joseph E. (late) and Ethel had with anyone. He never met a stranger in life for in a few in-law, Betsy Trexler Pastoor (husband, Henk), Richmond, Toney Odom. He accepted minutes with talking with him, he considered you his friend. and Emily Thompson Gilreath (husband, Charles), Carters- Christ at a young age and Brian had the ability if he hadn’t seen you in a few years to ville, Georgia; nieces and nephews of deceased brothers and attended Williams Memo- pick up your last conversation where you left off. He loved sisters, Nan, Marcella, Irby Jr., Rita, Ben Jr., Ronnie, Jody, El- rial C.M.E. Temple and Beth- Gloucester County. He was known by one and all. len, Tim, Michael, Tammy, David, and Linda, and many won- lehem Baptist Church in The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sat- derful, special friends that are too many to name. Shreveport. He enjoyed fel- urday, Oct. 17, 2020, from 2-4 p.m. Services will be private. A private family funeral will be held at Corinth United lowshipping at Rock Church Andrews Funeral Home & Crematory, Gloucester, is in charge Methodist Church, Sandston, Virginia, with the Rev. Dr. Te- in Virginia Beach and Bethel of arrangements. resa Signer Smith conducting; a celebration of life will be Temple in Hampton. Johann held later on Ripshin Lake. graduated from Huntington Domestic violence and homelessness were of great con- High (Shreveport) and Southern University (Baton Rouge, BARBARA ANN TYLER YOUNG-GLOVER cern to Nora, who often kept bags of essential items and ex- Louisiana) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While at- A graveside funeral for Bar- tra cash on hand to pass along to homeless people. She had tending Southern University, he played the trombone in the bara Ann Tyler Young-Glover at times been impoverished in life, and she was a follower prestigious school band known as the “Human Jukebox.” He will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, of Jesus. Thus, in lieu of flowers, donations may be made proudly served in the United States Navy for 10 years and Oct. 17, at Rising Valley Bap- to Bridges of Change, P.O. Box 4, New Kent, Va. 23124; or achieved the rank of Lt. Commander (USNR). Johann began tist Church, James Store. She Corinth United Methodist Church, Attn: Pastor’s Discretion- a second career in teaching Technology Education in various died Oct. 1, 2020. ary Fund, 23 W. Williamsburg Road, Sandston, Va. 23150. school districts (Gloucester, Middlesex, St. Mary’s County, She was a native of Maryland), culminating in Henrico County Public Schools at Gloucester and a graduate Henrico High. He coached and officiated for Track and Field, of Thomas C. Walker High GLOUCESTERMATHEWS Cross Country, Basketball, Football and Baseball throughout School. his careers. He established the Hampton Roads Crusaders Survivors include her hus- Track & Field Club in Virginia Beach. He was a member of band, Melvin Glover; son, various organizations to include USATF, VTEEA and an advi- William T. Young Jr.; brother, sor for the Technology Student Association. He was an avid Herman Latimore Tyler; sis- New Orleans Saints fan. Johann was a member of Omega ters, Geraldine Kissoon Smith, See us on Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Beta Sigma, Fall ’77. Johann exem- Sarah Renee Griffin and Su- plified the Lord’s love and grace to many during his jour- sie Stokes Harvey, and three ney on Earth. He married his soul mate, Ramona Odom, and grandsons. they recently celebrated 36 years of marriage. Johann is the Arrangements are by How- proud father of three sons, Everett, Ian and Alan, and three ard Funeral Home, Ark. daughters, Jessica (Yusef) Echols, Jennifer and Janette. He is Facebook the grandfather of Joseph and Jada Echols. He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph E. Odom; father- and mother- in-law Raymond and Dolores Black of Portsmouth; grandpar- Headlines ents, Claude Sr. and Marguerite Odom of Mobile, Alabama, Read all about it in the Classifieds and Clifton and Helen Toney of Shreveport; aunt, Gwendolyn Business Odom (Harold) Lang of Mobile, and uncles, Thomas Odom GLOUCESTERMATHEWS of Grambling, Louisiana, and Charles Cason of Shreveport. Weather Johann leaves to cherish his memory his beloved wife; chil- Sports dren; grandchildren; mother, Ethel Toney Odom; brother, Editorials Clifton (Inez) Odom of California; sister, Angela Odom-Aus- tin; sister-in-law, Dolores E. 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Y M C K THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 Schools GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL 11A School board requests BOS pass along $1.697M in COVID-19 funds

BY KIM ROBINS ceived funding for COVID-19 related concerns, school divi- The Gloucester County sion technology director Scott School Board voted 7-0 Tues- Mecca said he had purchased day to request that county 1,400 Chromebooks and dis- supervisors pass to it $1.697 tributed 1,250 of them to stu- million in federal funding that dents. He has also purchased the school division is eligible 1,267 Galaxy tablets with for to help cover COVID-19-re- 1,179 distributed to younger lated needs. students. The county would simply The equipment will facili- serve as the flow-through fis- tate online learning and the cal agent for the funds, ac- extra equipment will be kept cording to division assistant to replace any computers that superintendent Chuck Wag- may need repair. ner. Also, Mecca reported said The board also discussed he had ordered 622 Mi-Fi de- the possible use for federal vices for connecting to the CARES Act funds that the internet, with 415 distributed. county has available that In addition, Mecca said he must be spent by Dec. 30. had outfitted one “smart bus,” Bryan Hartley, the division’s which also provides internet MHS Students of the Month director of operations, recom- access, and deploys it to ar- Mathews High School has named its October Students of the Month. They are, mended the division request eas lacking access. clockwise from top, left, senior Kelsey Ryan, junior Desiree Dixon, sophomore Ol- $924,000 of the funds for the Mecca said he had planned ivia Ashbaugh and freshman Madeline Miller. “We wanted to make sure we con- Scholarship recipient purchase of ionization units. for 10 smart buses but now Hartley recommended 122 said he may instead distribute tinued this program, even though we are virtual,” Director of School Counseling Morgan Buchanan of Cobbs Creek received the $2,500 Jeannette McDonald Katelyn Dodge said. Scholarship from the Virginia State Chapter of P.E.O. International. This scholar- rooftop ionization units at the remaining equipment to $7,000 each and 100 interior child care locations that lack ship is awarded to the woman with the highest GPA of those selected by the units at $1,200 each. The roof- internet access, rather than scholarship committee. Buchanan is a nursing student at Rappahannock Com- top units would total $854,000 tying up additional buses. THMS sixth graders munity College and was presented this award by P.E.O. Chapter BW, Gloucester. and the interior units would Many local children must ac- She is a designated scholar for that chapter. P.E.O. is a philanthropic educational be $120,000. Hartley said the cess online learning while in organization that supports women’s education. units help to purify indoor air child care settings. and the rooftop units work In other business, the invited to with existing HVAC equip- school division had an av- ment. He said the rooftop erage daily membership of units could be removed and 4,948 in September, compared ‘Reverse Field Trip’ fitted to new HVAC units if to 5,112 last June. Clemons Pumpkin pandemonium a school needed to replace said the loss of 164 students Thomas Hunter Middle sions. Teachers will have HVAC equipment. could mean a loss of $550,000 School sixth grade students the books available in the The school board did not in state revenue and that he are invited to visit the school school’s parking lot from 10 @ the library vote on the matter but plans expected the loss to be even on Friday, Oct. 16, to pick out a.m. to noon and from 3-6 p.m. to discuss its desire for the higher by March. He also said a free book, get a treat, and Masks are required and equipment with county super- he anticipates a budget loss of visit teachers. social distancing will be en- visors during their joint meet- $340,000 in sale tax dollars for Calling the event a “Reverse forced. The books have been ing scheduled for Oct. 20. the current fiscal year. Field Trip,” teacher Leslie donated by the Riders for Regarding previously re- Hudgins said there will be Readers Program, established approximately 200 books to and managed locally by Fos- choose from during two ses- ter resident Eric Engler.

SCHOOL BRIEF| Pick up a free pumpkin and decorating kit th Virtual task force Tue., Oct. 20 Margaret Mayes Ann Strawn of Gloucester, a member of the Class of 2021 at Washington and Lee University, has been Mathews Memorial Library meetings to be held named to the president’s list for the recently ended academic Limit one to a family, while supplies last. year. The list includes full-time, degree-seeking undergradu- ates with at least 24 W&L-graded credits with only grades of C (2.0) or higherMiddle in graded courses. Peninsula R.A.C.E. Visit the library’s YouTube channel to Oct. 22 watch a “How-to” video from the Bay The Prevention, Health and awareness task force will meet SAVE THERegional DATE: Adult Oct. & Career 24, Education 2020 Wellness Division of the Mid- from 2-3 p.m., with the opioidAcquinton Elementary School, 18550 King William Road, King William, VA 23086 School on decorating your pumpkin. dle Peninsula-Northern Neck misuse awareness meeting Phone: 804-769-1156 or 888-769-1151 Fax: 804-769-1148 Community Services Board, in from 3-4. YARD SALE partnership with the Coalition Online registration can be E-mail: [email protected] Return your pumpkin for display or for Healthy Virginia Communi- done at https://bayriverstele- Benefiting PEO Scholarships Sep 30, 2020 ties, will hold a pair of virtual health.zoom.us/meeting/reg- send a picture of your creation to task force meetings on suicide ister/tJYvfuGuqz0iHtJRWi96s - Chapter CA\VA will host a [email protected] prevention and opioid misuse 1cpQciEDxNYY4up. For more CHRISTMAS THEMED sale awareness next Thursday, information, call 804-642-5402 Oct. 22. or emailAtt: [email protected]. Tina Nelson For more information call 804.725.5747 The suicide prevention va.us. 8am-1pm mathewslibrary.org at 154 Cove View Ln, Cobbs Creek Sponsored by Gloucester Mathew Gazette(off Rt.198 Journal at Belle Isle Lane near Hudgins) Mathews Memorial Library | The Bay School 1/8 page Nativity set, Christmas Village houses and NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Run Date(s): Oct 15, 2020accessories, Ornaments + much more =$160.00

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ORDINANCE NO. 20-01 more details Contact us: 804-769-1156 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 145-107 OF THE MATHEWS COUNTY CODE TO INCREASE THE [email protected] TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX FROM TWO PERCENT (2%) TO FIVE PERCENT (5%) OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID or visit: mprace.org FOR LODGING; THREE PERCENT (3%) OF THIS TAX SHALL BE DESIGNATED AND SPENT TO INCREASE LODGING AND GENERATE TOURISM REVENUES IN MATHEWS COUNTY. ORDINANCE NO. 20-1 IS CONSIDERED PURSUANT TO THE GRANT OF AUTHORITY YOU can earn: CONTAINED IN VIRGINIA CODE § 58.1-3819.

ORDINANCE NO. 20-02 • GED Credential • AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 58-4 OF THE NorthStar Digital Literacy Certificate MATHEWS COUNTY CODE TO INCREASE THE FEE IN EACH • Child Development Associate (CDA) Certificate CRIMINAL OR TRAFFIC CASE FROM TEN DOLLARS ($10) TO TWENTY DOLLARS ($20) FOR FUNDING OF COURTHOUSE • Improved English Language Skills SECURITY PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE § 53.1-120.

Copies of Ordinance Nos. 20-01 and 20-02 are available on the Mathews County website at Internet access is your door www.mathewscountyva.gov, or by contacting the County Administration Office at 804-725-7172, or by emailing [email protected]. Written comments may be submitted to the County To FREE teacher facilitated classes & new skills. Administrator at [email protected]. All interested persons are invited to attend and Now is your time! participate in these public hearings. Any person with a disability requiring assistance in order to participate in these public hearings is asked to contact the County Administration office in advance of the public hearing so that appropriate arrangements may be made. Following the Serving: Essex, Gloucester, King & Queen, King William, Mathews, & public hearing the Board of Supervisors may take action to approve Ordinance Nos. 20-01 and 20-02. Middlesex Counties & the Town of West Point Class & Testing FREE for Active Adult Enrolled Students Citizens can also submit comments by clicking on the following link: https://www.mathewscountyva.gov/FormCenter/Administration-8/Board-of-Supervisors-Public- Space & funding is limited. Comment-49. Comments must be received NLT 9:00 am October 27, 2020 Register & reserve your seat today.

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12A GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 RCC Educational Foundation welcomes new board RCC to hold class on members estate planning Rappahannock Community look like while they are here During the September meet- The EFI champions RCC’s College’s Rappahannock In- and what they want their lega- ing of Rappahannock Com- mission to strengthen com- stitute for Lifelong Learning cy to be when they are gone,” munity College’s Educational munity, transform lives and will hold a class focusing on said Baker. “These are simple Foundation, six new members inspire excellence through estate planning and planned questions to ask, but finding were introduced and wel- programs that develop stu- giving called “Living Large the answers to them is any- comed to the Board of Direc- dents’ skills, confidence and and Leaving a Legacy.” This thing but simple. Our goal in tors. employability. For the 2020- course will be held on Nov. 10, these sessions will be to sort Board members may serve 2021 academic year, the foun- 17 and 24 from 1-3 p.m. virtu- through these complex mat- for two consecutive three year dation awarded over $500,000 ally through Zoom. ters, make things understand- terms. The board consists of a in scholarships to RCC stu- In this three-session class, able and actionable, and have diverse group of people span- Amy Dubois Dr. Melissa Mason Mike Jenkins dents. Tom Baker from Virginia Com- some fun in the process.” ning the 12 counties serviced Other initiatives supported monwealth Bank will provide Advance registration and by RCC who oversee and con- by the foundation are pro- the information needed to payment of $35 is required to tribute to the foundation’s as- Science, Master of Divin- and is a member of the Vir- fessional development and make confident financial de- take this course. Register at sets, goals and mission. ity and Doctor of Ministry ginia Northern Neck Chapter program funds for faculty cisions before the end of the www.tinyurl.com/rillfall2020 Among these new board degrees from Virginia Union of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and staff, the Rappahannock year. or call Michele Inderrieden members are Amy Dubois and University; she also earned Inc. Institute for Lifelong Learn- Topics covered include es- at 804-333-6824. Payment can Dr. Melissa Mason, both of an MBA from Averett. She is a Jenkins is a Middle Penin- ing courses, and financial and tate planning in easy to under- also be made with a check Mathews, and Mike Jenkins of 2016 Princeton Black Theolo- sula native. He was a mem- partnership resources to help stand terms, avoiding a real payable to RCC EFI, Attn: Gloucester. gy Leadership Institute Fellow ber of RCC’s first graduating the RCC community meet life (post death) “family feud,” RILL, P.O. Box 923, Warsaw, Dubois is chairman of the and a 2015 Emerge graduate. class in 1973 and transferred strategic plan goals. In addi- retirement planning in a low- Va. 22572. Provide name, ad- Mathews County Board of She is employed as a Program to James Madison University tion, financial support subsi- yield environment, cash flow dress, phone, email and the Supervisors. She is a profes- Analyst with the Common- where he earned a bachelor’s dizes RCC’s food pantry and and your lifestyle, creating a class title. sional project and contracts wealth of Virginia’s Depart- degree in political science. free rides for students on Bay family value system and the For more information on manager who has worked ment of Housing and Commu- He enjoyed a career in work- Transit. joy of charitable giving. RILL programs visit www.rap- for government contractors nity Development, and is an force development for more To meet the financial goals “I enjoy helping people de- pahannock.edu/rill. of all sizes for over 30 years. associate minister at Emmaus than 40 years and retired as and needs of the foundation termine what they want life to Dubois has helped small busi- Baptist Church. Executive Director for the Bay and RCC, money is raised nesses win and manage gov- A native of Mathews, Ma- Consortium Workforce Devel- through donations through- ernment contracts in many son served as chair of the opment Board, Inc. Jenkins out the year and the annual industries. Currently, she is Mathews County School also served on the Gloucester Preakness Party fundraiser 25 Mathews students the director of the contractor Board. In 2019, she was elect- County School Board for 12 held in May. For more infor- management office for a small ed to the Mathews County years and currently serves on mation visit www.rappahan- disabled veteran-owned busi- Board of Supervisors. She the Gloucester County Pub- nock.edu/foundation or con- ness who largely provides ser- also serves on the Mathews lic Schools Education Foun- tact Sarah Pope, VP of College receive a Fresh Start for vices to the Veterans Adminis- County Social Services Board dation and the Gloucester Advancement at spope@rap- tration. and the Middle Peninsula County Telecommunications pahannock.edu. Mason holds Bachelor of Planning Commission board, Committee. school Hands Across Mathews the itemized receipts and the and Mathews County Social gift cards. Services joined forces during Lauren Oden with Mathews TOGA seeks entries for middle school essay contest September to hold the annual Social Services said that this After seven successful Mid- 6, 7 and 8. Home-schooled stu- winners’ parents, a mentor, them to enter,” Lewis said. Fresh Start Back to School process went very smoothly dle School Writing Contests, dents are welcome to enter. or teachers may be guests of “Previous year’s winners and Shopping. and that the parents and chil- the Tidewater Oyster Garden- “This continued increase TOGA for the presentation some of their schools are In a usual year, the selected dren were extremely pleased ers Association (TOGA) and in prize money indicates the event. The winning entries now growing oysters in the 25 Mathews students and an and grateful. C&F Bank will again spon- commitment TOGA members will be read by the students floats they won for their es- accompanying volunteer ride Funding for Fresh Start was sor a Middle School Writing have to emphasize education at the awards program during says. This is a great way to school buses to Walmart to supported through a grant Contest with significantly in- for our young people,” said the annual meeting. encourage youngsters to get buy clothes and necessary from the Mathews Community creased prizes. TOGA president Terry Lewis. The three top winners will involved with oysters, learn items for the start of school Foundation and anonymous Awards will be $500, $250 “Reaching young people at an be published on the TOGA about the ecology of the bay, then return to the county for donors. Fresh Start coordina- and $100 for the top three es- early age is very important to website, and may be pub- and help improve our envi- a picnic lunch. tor Shirley Ryan said she is says, an increase from previ- start a lifelong interest in ecol- lished in other publications ronment.” This year the format was thankful for these gifts that ous years. The theme is “Con- ogy and the importance of the or websites, including the The article should be written changed because of the coro- provided a “fresh start” for sider the Oyster” and rules health of the bay,” he said. Virginia Outdoor Writers As- in Word format and attached navirus and social distancing these children for this year’s state that the essay must be Depending on the pandem- sociation website. to an email. The submissions requirements, a release said. educational adventure. based on oysters. ic situation, winners will be Essays can be written about can be made between now Each parent signed a contract Contributions for this Additionally, the school of announced and awards pre- oyster life, history, recent de- and the Dec. 15 deadline. For and received a Walmart gift program are accepted year the first-place winner will be sented at the Tidewater Oys- velopments, or even recipes more information, visit www. card allowing for in-store or round. They can be sent to awarded $200 to spend on ter Gardeners Association with background from how oystergardener.org. online purchasing. By the end Hands Across Mathews, P.O. educational aids. annual membership meeting the recipe came about. of September, every parent Box 1303, Mathews, Va. 23109. The competition is open to at the Virginia Institute of Ma- “If you know middle school had complied by returning all Virginia students in grades rine Sciences in January. The students, please encourage If you have a special message, advertise in the ‘Hope, GAZETTE- JOURNAL Healing and “MESSAGES” Optimism’ Prices start at $10.00. For more information, call webinar on 804-693-3101 or 804-725-2191. We reserve the right to refuse any material. Oct. 23 “Navigating the Future Through Hope, Healing and Optimism,” a free webinar sponsored by the Prevention, Health and Wellness Divi- sion of the Middle Peninsula- Northern Neck Community Services Board, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Fri- day, Oct. 23. Dr. Jim Harris, owner of Op- portunities Consulting Servic- es and the Associate Director Keeping our buses clean, of the West Virginia Autism th Training Center at Marshall Happy 25 University, will lead the dis- cussion. For online registra- Birthday Cole! tion, visit www.surveymon- key.com/r/drharris2020. We Love You! and you safe! Rr

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Y M C K THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 2020 Sports GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS GAZETTE-JOURNAL 13A Gloucester race car driver breaks two land-speed records

BY TYLER BASS pass of the run, the car had a motor issue and broke down. After a fast-paced weekend Hoegerl himself had better in Arkansas, race car driver luck over the weekend, set- Adam Hoegerl has returned ting land speed records in the to Gloucester with two land- half-mile and mile events. He speed records to his name, said the rules of land speed one in the mile and the other racing are that the car must in the half-mile. start from a dead stop, and Hoegerl, along with racing the fastest speed at the fin- partner James Diggs, trav- ish line wins it. He broke both eled to Blytheville, Arkan- the half-mile and mile at 145.5 sas, to compete in the ECTA mph. half-mile and mile events from Oct. 2-4. As reported He said he had the time re- last month, the duo raced a cord set for the same events, Pro Stock ’94 Trans Am and but it was then broken by an- a custom sprint car powered other driver at the event. by a 302-small block Chevy. Hoegerl and Diggs plan on They traveled the distance in heading back to Arkansas hopes of breaking land speed next year to take the records records. they missed out on, and de- Hoegerl said that in the fend the ones they have. Until Trans Am, Diggs hit a record- then, Hoegerl said that they breaking speed during a prac- will finish the season racing Adam Hoegerl and his racing partner James Diggs took their Pro Stock ’94 Trans AM and sprint car to Arkansas to set land speed records in the ECTA half-mile and mile tice run, but on the second at Langley Speedway. racing events.

Gloucester PRT PRLGA holds Croquet Pro Tour comes to Hartfield championship hosts ‘Boo’tiful The first Professional Cro- game called paille-maille, quet Association Pro Tour language now archaic for tournament event in the region is sched- “ball-and-mallet.” Adopted The Piankatank River La- Night for a uled to be held Oct. 22-25 by the English, the sport dies Golf Association held at the Chesapeake Bay Cro- became so popular that an its annual championship quet Club in Hartfield. entire area of the city of tournament Oct. 7-8 at the Movie This event is attracting the London now bears the name Hartfield course. Twenty-one The Gloucester Department best croquet players from Pall Mall, in recognition for members participated in the of Parks, Recreation and across America. Profession- the large public croquet 36-hole tournament on two Tourism will host a “Boo”tiful al male and female croquet court once constructed beautiful fall days. Night for a Movie on Oct. 23 players will compete for a there for the entertainment Top winners were Nina and 24 in the Gloucester High purse of over $2,000. While of the citizenry. Carter (overall gross) and School student parking lot. this may be small for some The number of American Chrystal Welch (overall net). Tickets for this Halloween- pro sports, it is a step for- croquet clubs has risen Winners by flight were: themed movie are $15 per car. ward for croquet, according from five in 1977 to over First flight—Regina Custis The gates open at 6 p.m. and to a release from PCA presi- 300, White said. The game (first gross), Gloria Matthews the movie is set to begin at dent Macey White. being played on the PCA (second gross), Christy Pitts 6:45. No tailgating or outside Prequalifying require- Pro Tour differs from the (first net) and Judy Spain seating will be allowed. Wear ments have been lifted and backyard variety. The fa- (second net). a mask to access concessions the tournament is open to miliar backyard version of Second flight—Lisa Lavery and restrooms. all players. Competitors will the sport involves as many (first gross), Bobbie Stuck The department will also play an international form as six players, each playing (second gross), Kim Harris be re-starting its gymnastics of croquet called Associa- a differently colored ball (first net) and Ann Stanley program on Oct. 26. Sessions tion Croquet. through a course of two (second net). are available for ages three to The game stakes and nine wickets— Third flight—Chong 18 years and will be held at “Croquet is a game of ample wickets that allow as Hudgins (first gross), Donna Botetourt Elementary School. strategy and skill for ev- much as six inches of clear- Lange (second gross), Carol The deadline for registration is eryone, men and women, ance for the ball. In profes- Sennott (first net) and Lynne Oct. 22. For more information with no age limit. Croquet sional tournament play, one Richardson (second net). and session offerings visit the emphasizes precision, skill stake and six narrow, unfor- Golfers getting closest to Gloucester Parks, Recreation and intelligence rather than giving wickets allow only the line were Christy Pitts and Tourism website and strength. Some people call one-32th of an inch clear- (first flight), Ann Stanley click “register and pay.” croquet a blend of chess ance. (second flight) and Bev and billiards on the lawn,” Hudgins (third flight). Those said White. Spectators awarded closest to the pin Croquet that is played to- Visitors are welcome at on Wednesday were Vicky day has ancient roots. The the Chesapeake Bay Cro- Current American National Champion Matthew Essick will compete in the Pro Gunn (first flight) and Don- name “croquet,” in fact, quet Club during the Pro Tour Croquet event in Hartfield on Oct. 22-25. na Lange (third flight). On comes from a French col- Tour Event and play will be- Thursday, those closest to loquialism for the hockey gin each day at about 8:30 the pin were Judy Spain (first stick, literally “little hook.” a.m. The club is located at For directions or more club pro Macey White at flight), Kim Harris (second The modern-day sport de- 1860 Twiggs Ferry Road in information on the tourna- [email protected]. flight) and Lynne Richardson rives from a 14th century Hartfield. ment or the club, contact (third flight). NPS looking for temporary park guides in Hampton Roads WE BUY GOLD hazards; and, The National Park Service park guides to fill multiple —Presenting tours and talks GREAT SELECTION is looking for temporary positions in Hampton Roads, including introductions to including openings with films, map talks, and exhibit OF NEW & USED the Captain John Smith interpretation. Chesapeake National Historic Some local travel will be Trail. required and kayak/canoe FIREARMS The positions will tentatively experience is a plus. DON’T BE CONFUSED! start in April 2021 and end The vacancies will go live on SEARS around late September 2021. the USAJobs.gov website on THERE IS ONLY 1 Job responsibilities and pay Nov. 2 and will close on Nov. CONTRACTING CORP. are at the GS-5 level. Duties 6. When applying, be sure to COURTHOUSE PAWN SHOP will include: select “Northeast Region/ F Gray Crushed Stone —Staffing the information Interior Region 1, Group 3.” • SINCE 1989 • counter in a visitor center and The application period will 6743 Main St. FScreened Top Soil F Fill Dirt FSand answering visitors’ questions; be open from Nov. 2 to Nov. 6 Gloucester C.H. 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READERS’ SPECIAL|

Some musings on past World Series games

BY JIM HOLT With legendary sports- which every game resulted Phillies. He told “Mr. Mack” perlative innings, limiting the It is highly unlikely that a caster Bob Costas hosting in a shutout. Hall of Famer (as he was called by his play- Bronx Bombers to four hits, future series game will be Last month, the Major the show, and with several Christy Mathewson hurled ers) he could defeat the team before losing, 1-0. played under three hours. League Baseball Network re- former players of the game three games in the Giants’ from the Windy City. Other World Series occur- Parenthetically, the average broadcast the seventh game present, the audience saw conquest of the As. Ehmke responded with a rences not likely to reap- length of a game in 2019 was of the 1960 World Series be- the Pirates climax their series Likewise, two other pitch- 3-1 victory, striking out 13 pear include the feat accom- 3 hours and 5 minutes. tween the Pittsburgh Pirates victory with an exciting 10-9 ing oddities are not likely to Cub batters, setting a new plished by New York Yankees Conversely, the length of and the New York Yankees. win. reoccur. series record for strikeouts. outfielder Reggie Jackson. the third game of the 2018 My interest was piqued In the 1929 World Series That record stood until In the sixth game of the World Series lasted 18 in- when the former players won by the As, 4-2, over the Brooklyn Dodger ace Carl 1977 Fall Classic, Jackson nings and 7 hours 20 minutes LOCAL TIDES proudly proclaimed that no hard-hitting Chicago Cubs, Erskine fanned 14 Yankees blasted three consecutive before the Los Angeles Dodg- Mobjack Bay, East River Entrance one struck out in this 19- A’s manager Connie Mack se- in the third game of the 1953 home runs on three consecu- ers edged the Boston Red HIGH LOW run, 24-hit pressurized game. lected Howard Ehmke, a ca- Series. tive pitches off three different Sox, 3-2. This record-setting Thursday 8:12 a.m. 2:00 a.m. 10/15 8:36 p.m. 2:29 p.m. Even the pitchers in five offi- reer .500 pitcher, who threw Even more astounding was Dodger moundsmen, leading game in both innings and Friday 9:02 a.m. 2:47 a.m. cial plate appearances failed only 54 innings during the the initial game of the 1950 his team to the title. time seems secure for the 10/16 9:26 p.m. 3:22 p.m. to whiff! season. Mack passed over his World Series when Phillies As a result of Jackson’s epic foreseeable future. Saturday 9:52 a.m. 3:34 a.m. It is doubtful in this upcom- ace starter, Lefty Grove, who manager Eddie Sawyer se- achievement, he received the Perhaps this year’s World 10/17 10:16 p.m. 4:14 p.m. Sunday 10:43 a.m. 4:22 a.m. ing 2020 World Series that compiled a 20-6 won-loss re- lected his season-long game moniker, “Mr. October.” Series will result in an un- 10/18 11:06 p.m. 5:07 p.m. this will occur again, given cord and led the American closer, Jim Konstanty, to op- Another facet of baseball in usual happening which fans Monday 11:35 a.m. 5:11 a.m. the propensity of strikeouts League in earned run average pose the slugging New York recent years is the extended may very well say can never 10/19 11:57 p.m. 6:00 p.m. in present-day baseball. and strikeouts. Yankees. length of the games. be duplicated. We’ll just have Tuesday 6:02 a.m. 10/20 12:20 p.m. 6:56 p.m. It raises the question what Ehmke believed, as a right- Sawyer was forced to In game 5 of the 1908 series, to wait and see! Wednesday 12:52 a.m. 6:57 a.m. other World Series occur- handed pitcher, he could choose Konstanty due to his won by the Cubs over the 10/21 1:26 p.m. 7:55 p.m. rences will not likely be re- neutralize the predominantly three top starters being over- Detroit Tigers, 2-0, comple- EDITOR’S NOTE: Jim Holt, a peated. right-handed hitting Cubs’ of- worked in late September tion of the game only took 1 resident of Lewes, Delaware, Tide adjustments at other points: For example, the 1905 Fall fensive attack. because of a hotly-contested hour and 25 minutes. Even has made a lifelong study of Classic between the victo- Ehmke had scouted the pennant race with the Dodg- the above-mentioned Pirates- baseball and is a faithful read- York River, Tue Marsh Light—Subtract 5 minutes. rious New York Giants and Cubs late in the season when ers. Yankees game took only 2 er of the Gazette-Journal. York River, Yorktown—Add 5 minutes. the Philadelphia Athletics, in they played the Philadelphia Konstanty pitched eight su- hours 36 minutes. York River, Allmondsville—Add 1 hour, 5 minutes. York River, Entrance to Perrin River— Add 1 minute. Brown’s Bay—Subtract 7 minutes. S.W. Branch Severn River—Add 4 minutes. County issues trick-or- Ware River—Subtract 4 minutes. North River—Subtract 4 minutes. New Point Comfort—Subtract 1 minute. Piankatank River, Cherry Point—Add 1 treat guidance hour. Piankatank River, Dixie—Add 1 hour, 33 minutes. Halloween trick-or-treating that involve large gatherings Urbanna—Add 2 hours, 50 minutes. in Gloucester is suggested to of individuals such as large take place between 5:30 and Halloween parties, haunted THE SUN THIS WEEK 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. houses, etc., can increase Sunrise Sunset 31, according to Sheriff Dar- the risk of transmission of 10/15 7:13 a.m. 6:28 p.m. rell Warren. COVID-19 and are not recom- 10/16 7:14 a.m. 6:27 p.m. 10/17 7:15 a.m. 6:25 p.m. It is important to note that mended this year. 10/18 7:16 a.m. 6:24 p.m. it is not illegal to trick-or- Given this guidance, the 10/19 7:17 a.m. 6:23 p.m. treat, even outside of the des- trick-or-treat event typically 10/20 7:18 a.m. 6:21 p.m. ignated timeframe, and that held each year along Main 10/21 7:19 a.m. 6:20 p.m. the recommended hours are Street has been canceled by THE MOON THIS WEEK Moonrise Moonset of a suggestive nature only the Gloucester Main Street 10/15 5:34 a.m. 6:11 p.m. for the safety and well-being Association. 10/16 6:48 a.m. 6:45 p.m. of all involved, a release from Gloucester County Admin- 10/17 8:03 a.m. 7:20 p.m. the county stated. istrator Brent Fedors encour- 10/18 9:19 a.m. 7:59 p.m. 10/19 10:33 a.m. 8:43 p.m. According to the Virginia ages those who are inclined 10/20 11:45 a.m. 9:33 p.m. Department of Health, events to participate in Halloween 10/21 12:50 p.m. 10:29 p.m. activities to do so with cau- OCTOBER MOON PHASES tion, and in alignment with Legion community VDH and CDC recommenda- Full moon 10/1 tions, and further suggests Last quarter 10/9 The Baystars U11 Hammerheads won their U11 bracket and took second place overall in their division of the River City breakfast Sunday that trick-or-treaters should New moon 10/16 Cup last weekend. The team includes, from left, Evan Lawson, Ryder Talbot, Cole Christensen, Haydin Arquette, Caden First quarter 10/23 in Gloucester only approach homes that Full moon 10/31 have their front doorstep Thompson, Bryce Fischer, Connor Duval, Jackson Mandell, Aaron Hines, Ashton Taylor and Drew West. American Legion Post light on. Households that 75, Gloucester, will hold wish not to entertain trick- its community breakfast or-treaters are encouraged Baystars Hammerheads win U11 bracket from 8-11:30 a.m. Sunday to leave their outdoor lights at the post headquar- off during the peak trick-or- The Baystars Hammer- such as the Richmond Kick- heads were Aaron Hines, Ca- Voter ters off Route 17 south of treating hours on Oct. 31. heads won their U11 brack- ers, Richmond Strikers and den Thompson, Ashton Tay- Gloucester Court House. For more information, con- et and placed second over- Rush Nero, and outscored lor, Bryce Fischer and Drew registration The cost is $8 for adults, tact Gloucester’s Community all in their division of the their bracket opponents, 16-3. West. Fischer and West shared $5 for children ages 5-10 Engagement and Public Infor- River City Cup soccer tour- Scoring for the Hammer- the goalkeeping duties. and free to children 4 and mation office at 804-693-5730 nament held last weekend deadline under. Take-out is avail- or qsheppard@gloucesterva. at Ukrop Park in Richmond. able. For more information, info. The Hammerheads faced Pier Masters, Inc. extended to Paul Miller at 757-660-2480. teams from large clubs, Piers, Bulkheads, Jetties/Groins, Boatlifts, Floating Docks, Riprap, Living Shorelines, tonight Repairs/Additions & Permitting Services. Pier Accessories also available. The voter registration deadline for Virginia has been extended by two days, P.O. Box 412 Steve Ryan, owner until 11:59 p.m. tonight, be- Coming Events 210 Turpin Lane 804-815-5563 Port Haywood, VA 23138 Free Estimates cause of a registration sys- For listings, call 804-693-3101 or email [email protected] tem outage that occurred on Tuesday, the previously Website: www.piermastersonline.com scheduled final day to reg- ister. PUBLIC CALENDAR| According to a press re- lease from the Virginia At- torney General’s office, the Tuesday online via the Zoom Board of Supervisors will hold a extension was the result of THURSDAY platform. For information how joint meeting with the Gloucester Trailer Repair consent decree filed by AG to join in the meeting, email rob- School Board at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mark Herring and approved SOCIAL SERVICES: T h e [email protected]. the T.C. Walker Education Center and Parts by Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Gloucester Social Services Board HISTORICAL COMMITTEE: The auditorium. Wednesday morning in the will meet at 7:30 this morning at Gloucester County Historical U.S. District Court for the Gloucester Library, Main Street Committee will meet at 2 p.m. WEDNESDAY Eastern District of Virginia. Center. Tuesday at Gloucester Library, In the consent decree, TELECOMMUNICATIONS: The Main Street Center. SOCIAL SERVICES: The Mathews Trailer World Herring agreed that the Gloucester Telecommunications SCHOOL BOARD: The Mathews County Social Services Board will commonwealth would take Committee will meet at 5 o’clock County School Board will meet meet via the Zoom digital plat- 804-642-6461 all necessary actions to today in the third-floor confer- at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Harry form at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, extend the deadline from ence room in County Building 2. M. Ward Auditorium at Mathews Oct. 21. For more information, Oct. 13 to Oct. 15, take all High School. call 804-725-7192. necessary actions to inform TUESDAY PLANNERS: The Mathews County EMERGENCY PLANNING: • Boats • Utility the public of the extension, Planning Commission will meet Gloucester’s Local Emergency and provide information to BROADBAND: The Mathews at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the historic Planning Committee will meet at the public and to voters at- County Broadband Advisory courthouse on Court Street 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, • Enclosed • Dump tempting to register using Committee will meet at 9 a.m. SUPERVISORS: The Gloucester at the Communications Building. alternative methods to reg- ister in the event that there is another system outage COMMUNITY GROUPS| during the extension pe- riod. Can we offer you a lift? Herring’s actions were THURSDAY Covenant Presbyterian Church, information, call Colanne Bun- taken in response to a law- 6470 Main Street, Gloucester. ting at 804-725-3407 or Elizabeth suit filed by several Virginia MCRC: The Mathews County Doors open at 6:30. New and Roane at 804-695-7612. For in- voter advocacy organiza- Resources Council will meet via prospective members are wel- formation about DAR and the tions. He agreed that it was Zoom at 9:15 a.m. today with comed. Cricket Hill chapter, visit.crick- important to make up for login time beginning at 9. Su- ethill.vadar.org. the time lost to the outage. perintendent of Schools Nancy FRIDAY Urbanna, Va. “Over the last several Welch will provide information (804) 758-1099 or (800) 718-5737 WEDNESDAY www.eastcoastboatlifts.com months, I have worked relative to the challenges the DAR: Cricket Hill Chapter, Daugh- hard to reach agreements school system is addressing this ters of the American Revolu- CIVIC LEAGUE: The West and take other actions to year. Peggy Newsome, who rep- tion, will meet at 2 p.m. Friday Mathews Community League Boat Lift Features Boat Lift Types protect Virginians’ right to resents the National Alliance on at the Put-In Creek Pavilion in will meet for a covered-dish sup- • Aluminum or Galvanized • Aluminum Overhead Beam vote,” he said. “We are 21 Mental Illness, will discuss efforts Mathews. A notice said the meet- per at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, Steel Construction • Galvanized Overhead Beam days away from the most of the advocacy group. To join ing will take place rain or shine in the league building at Bohan- • Stainless Steel Cables • Low Profile important election of our the meeting, call 804-210-9169 with masks required. In conjunc- non. The agenda includes dis- • GFCI Protected Motors • Jet Ski Lifts lifetimes, and I want to for login information. tion with the DAR Day of Service, cussion for the upcoming Fall • Enclosed Covers (rotation & standard) make sure that every Virgin- REPUBLICANS: The Gloucester members are asked to bring non- Festival on Oct. 24, which will in- • Standard & Custom Design • Boathouse ian who wants to vote has County Republican Committee perishable food items for dona- clude clam chowder sales, plant • Optional Remote Controls • Boat Lift Replacement Parts the opportunity to do so.” will meet at 7:15 tonight at Grace tion to local agencies. For more sale, yard sale and live music. (motors, switches, cable, beams, etc.)

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ROSEWELL: The ruins of a once-magnifi cent mansion on the York River

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A were lived there, with a group But there are many more size and scale of the original of girls sliding down the stair items that haven’t yet been home. The work is being over- rail on the night of a ball in displayed. Judd pointed out seen by project manager Eric one photo, a child’s pram in pieces of punch bowls owned Kuchar of Mesick Cohen Wil- the corner of a room in an- by the Page family, a water son Baker Architects of Wil- other. One photo shows Nelly bottle from the 1700s, a small liamsburg. Dean Taylor Greaves, the “last bottle of seeds preserved for Judd said that Rosewell, belle of Rosewell,” with some posterity. The archaeological built between 1725 and 1737 of her friends, all dressed as study room also houses a chil- by Mann Page and his son, men as they re-enacted the si- dren’s area, with mini bricks Mann Page II, was once one lent fi lm “Path to True Love.” that can be put together with of the largest mansions in Vir- These photos and more are “mortar” and large styrofoam ginia, at 12,500 square feet in part of an exhibit now in de- bricks that children can use three stories. It had 33 rooms velopment that aims to “give to build their own versions of and 17 fi replaces and was people something new to Rosewell. marked by a Palladian-style see,” she said. “We’re slowly bringing window in the east wall, the “We speak so much of things in and creating new ex- reinforced frame of which re- the exterior,” she said, but hibits,” said Judd. mains, along with a carved Rosewell was once a home A further effort to offer a keystone at the apex of the where people lived their lives. glimpse of the interior of the arch. In addition to pulling out home is still in the making—a “It was larger than the Gov- old photos to show visitors 3-D hologram of Rosewell that ernor’s Mansion in Williams- what life was like at Rosewell, visitors will be able to con- burg,” said Judd. She said that Judd has been busy catalog- struct themselves. The tech- Thomas Jefferson had spoken ing artifacts from the home nology for that is still being fondly of visiting Rosewell and creating an archaeologi- worked on, said Judd. and of the infl uence it had on cal study center in one of the his architecture. rooms of the visitors’ center. A project to restore the Interior photos of the man- Inside glass display cases in once-beautiful gardens at SHERRY HAMILTON / GAZETTE-JOURNAL sion that were taken before the main exhibit room are Rosewell is on hold because A three-dimensional model of Rosewell is just one of the exhibits on display at the Rosewell Foundation’s visitor center in the 1916 fi re show the enor- pottery and a serving plat- the funds aren’t available, Gloucester. Elizabeth Judd, Executive Director of the foundation, has been busy all summer cataloging artifacts and combing mous archways, the grand ter once owned by Mann said Judd, “but we still have through old photos to create still more exhibits. staircase, the great fi replace, Page I, the original builder of the daffodils in the spring. As said Judd, but they also of- Rosewell, along with pipes, a we raise money we can con- fer a glimpse of the lives that keyhole plate, a belt buckle. tinue on.”

SHERRY HAMILTON / GAZETTE-JOURNAL SHERRY HAMILTON / GAZETTE-JOURNAL Old photos of former residents of the Rosewell Plantation are being prepared for the exhibit room at the Rosewell Founda- Elizabeth Judd, Executive Director of the Rosewell Foundation, prepares to show visitors Merrick and Addy Johnson, the tion’s visitor center in order to show people what the interior of the majestic home was like. Some of the photos will be children of Larry Johnson Jr. and Janet Johnson of Gloucester, how to mortar bricks to build their own version of the Rosewell enlarged for easier viewing. mansion.

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