87

BC 70

sure what and where that is. It is a guess that it was on
that part of Beaver Creek bought from Abram Penn, abouit
two miles north of Martinsville. Penn sold the 350 acres
when he moved out of Henry County, he named his
new home place Poplar Grove. This suggests that he may
have thought "Grove" a good suffix for a house site.
On their way home from taking the girls to Salem, Marshall
and Ann spent one night at "your Uncle Watkin's,
Thomas Watkins who married Ann's sister, Letitia.
When they stopped by the post office. They received a
letter from Major Jubal Early, Ann's nephew, one from
Elizabeth Stuart. To show the many connections who were
cultivated by this family, we also are told that they saw
Elizabneth Reamy's carriage, but could not wait for her to
return to it. She was a daughter of Peter and Ruth Stovall