Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-04 | Page 3 | Historic Chapel of Washington's Time Marked by Shaft

Historic Ch Chapel pel of Washington's Time Marked Markedly by Shaft CHARLES TOWN W. W Va Sept 4 JP la P In front of the ruins rums of the little chapel where stately equipages once deposited first families of Virginia for Sabbath worship the Daughters of the American Revolution today unveiled an historical marker Quiet ceremonies commemorated early days of the edifice edifice- old edifice old St St. StGeorge's Georges George's chapel on the Middleway pike in what is now the eastern panhandle panhandle pan- pan handle landle of West Virginia It was there that the the he Worthingtons the Davenports the the and other T. T F. F Vs worshiped in m revolutionary war days and where Samuel Wash Wash- Washington Ington brother of George Washington served as senior warden Although Samuel Washington was wasa a leading spirit in the little congregation congre congre- gation gatlon it was Colonel Robert Worthington Worth- Worth ington whose zeal and energy led the churchmen of Frederick Parish in what was then Frederick county count Va to build the chapel And today Colonel Worthingtons Worthington's ons on's great granddaughter Charlotte Worthington of West Falls Fall's Church Va unveiled the marker She was wasby escorted by Harry and Jerry Wily Wll- lams lIams grandsons four generations removed removed removed re re- re- re moved of Fighting Parson Thurston Thurston Thur Thur- ston one one of the chapels chapel's early minis minis- ers The chapel known in in early times as the English church was completed In 1769 1759