as remembered

Note: When I had this picture scanned in July 2017 in preparation for the reunion, I realized that there were more than just “a couple” standing at the corner of the house. It might have been the entire “staff” lined up there, standing just outside the frame. Black History Month   February 2017 In honor of…… Continue reading Standing in the Shadows

Memories of Alec Green by Robin Brundage I spent a good amount of time with Alec (Alexander Hamilton Green) in my early years.  My memory is that his wife was Viola (maybe?) and they had three sons – in order of birth (I think) – they are Joe, Duty and Harry.  They lived 4 blocks…… Continue reading Alec Green

Robert Fleming Fleming ll, Uncle Rob as he was later known to the Fleming children, was 19 at the time the family moved to The Plains. In 1885, when he was 27, Mary Fleming bought another neighboring farm known as The O’Bannon Tract. This was for Rob. Uncle Rob never married. I was told he…… Continue reading Robert Fleming Fleming II

Frances Lee Fleming Carter Allen Boswell as remembered by Beverley Carter Coffman The photo above is of Frances in her early twenties My grandmother, known to all of her grandchildren as Mamere, was born on January 30, 1883 in The Plains, Virginia.  She was the first child of Richard Bland Lee Fleming and Harriot Jane…… Continue reading Frances Lee Fleming Carter Allen Boswell

The “Ravenscroft” of Robert Henry Downman C.S.A. Robert Henry Downman, younger brother of Harriot Jane Downman Fleming of Green Mont, was the second son of Robert Henry Downman C.S.A of Fauquier County, Virginia. Their family home was called Ravenscroft, a frame house located about a mile north of Remington, VA, and just across the road…… Continue reading Ravenscroft

My brother, R. B. Lee Rust, has a clearer memory of where that 1/4 ton of sand we picked up from Piedmont Lumber in the 1931 Model A Ford pick up truck was dropped off. He thinks it was not for the bridge project but for a sandbox, up under the tree next to the…… Continue reading The bridges, and the blocks

The Corner Cupboard The backstory to Roberta Fleming’s antique store and tea room is that, her sister Mary was an antique furniture enthusiast, to say the least. Her accumulation of antiques overwhelmed her household. Such a surplus was generated that she engaged her sister Roberta to sell off the excess, which conveniently allowed her to…… Continue reading The Plains, Va. of the Flemings