Daughter of William Thomas Buxton and Clarissa Snyder Buxton. Wife of William Oglethorpe Butler Sperow
Mother of William Edgar Sperow, Lillie May Sperow, Porter Booth Sperow, Everett Hollingsworth Sperow, Cora Sperow and John Walter Sperow
Julia Ann used to tell her children, one of whom was W.E. Sperow, about living near Eakles Mills near Keedysville, just a few miles from where the sharpest single battle of the Civil War was fought, Antietam. She cried all day when the cannonading was so loud.
Julia Ann said one day she was picking cherries and looked up to see some Northern soldiers coming. One of them said, "Tell us the way to Mosquiterville (Keedysburg)." She was scared and dropped her bucket of cherries. The soldiers helped her down and then ate her cherries.
Also this story, when John Brown was at Harper's Ferry, he had two scouts, Coppoc and Cooke. One day the children saw two men go into the woods back of their home on the farm. They told father when he came home. He took his gun and went back there. Just as he was climbing over the fence he looked into two gun muzzles and was told to turn around and go back. This he did as he expected to get shot in the back any minute, and wondered why they didn't fire. The next day he went out and found a pile of six shells and some wet powder. Evidently they were washing and cleaning their guns. Later, the two men were identified as Coppoc and Cooke. You can read the rest of the story in any history book.
Wendell Bert and Lola Rodgers Sperow
Mother of William Edgar Sperow, Lillie May Sperow, Porter Booth Sperow, Everett Hollingsworth Sperow, Cora Sperow and John Walter Sperow
Julia Ann used to tell her children, one of whom was W.E. Sperow, about living near Eakles Mills near Keedysville, just a few miles from where the sharpest single battle of the Civil War was fought, Antietam. She cried all day when the cannonading was so loud.
Julia Ann said one day she was picking cherries and looked up to see some Northern soldiers coming. One of them said, "Tell us the way to Mosquiterville (Keedysburg)." She was scared and dropped her bucket of cherries. The soldiers helped her down and then ate her cherries.
Also this story, when John Brown was at Harper's Ferry, he had two scouts, Coppoc and Cooke. One day the children saw two men go into the woods back of their home on the farm. They told father when he came home. He took his gun and went back there. Just as he was climbing over the fence he looked into two gun muzzles and was told to turn around and go back. This he did as he expected to get shot in the back any minute, and wondered why they didn't fire. The next day he went out and found a pile of six shells and some wet powder. Evidently they were washing and cleaning their guns. Later, the two men were identified as Coppoc and Cooke. You can read the rest of the story in any history book.
Wendell Bert and Lola Rodgers Sperow
Daughter of William Thomas Buxton and Clarissa Snyder Buxton. Wife of William Oglethorpe Butler Sperow
Mother of William Edgar Sperow, Lillie May Sperow, Porter Booth Sperow, Everett Hollingsworth Sperow, Cora Sperow and John Walter Sperow
Julia Ann used to tell her children, one of whom was W.E. Sperow, about living near Eakles Mills near Keedysville, just a few miles from where the sharpest single battle of the Civil War was fought, Antietam. She cried all day when the cannonading was so loud.
Julia Ann said one day she was picking cherries and looked up to see some Northern soldiers coming. One of them said, "Tell us the way to Mosquiterville (Keedysburg)." She was scared and dropped her bucket of cherries. The soldiers helped her down and then ate her cherries.
Also this story, when John Brown was at Harper's Ferry, he had two scouts, Coppoc and Cooke. One day the children saw two men go into the woods back of their home on the farm. They told father when he came home. He took his gun and went back there. Just as he was climbing over the fence he looked into two gun muzzles and was told to turn around and go back. This he did as he expected to get shot in the back any minute, and wondered why they didn't fire. The next day he went out and found a pile of six shells and some wet powder. Evidently they were washing and cleaning their guns. Later, the two men were identified as Coppoc and Cooke. You can read the rest of the story in any history book.
Wendell Bert and Lola Rodgers Sperow
Mother of William Edgar Sperow, Lillie May Sperow, Porter Booth Sperow, Everett Hollingsworth Sperow, Cora Sperow and John Walter Sperow
Julia Ann used to tell her children, one of whom was W.E. Sperow, about living near Eakles Mills near Keedysville, just a few miles from where the sharpest single battle of the Civil War was fought, Antietam. She cried all day when the cannonading was so loud.
Julia Ann said one day she was picking cherries and looked up to see some Northern soldiers coming. One of them said, "Tell us the way to Mosquiterville (Keedysburg)." She was scared and dropped her bucket of cherries. The soldiers helped her down and then ate her cherries.
Also this story, when John Brown was at Harper's Ferry, he had two scouts, Coppoc and Cooke. One day the children saw two men go into the woods back of their home on the farm. They told father when he came home. He took his gun and went back there. Just as he was climbing over the fence he looked into two gun muzzles and was told to turn around and go back. This he did as he expected to get shot in the back any minute, and wondered why they didn't fire. The next day he went out and found a pile of six shells and some wet powder. Evidently they were washing and cleaning their guns. Later, the two men were identified as Coppoc and Cooke. You can read the rest of the story in any history book.
Wendell Bert and Lola Rodgers Sperow
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