Show Living Relatives of Washington Many kindred of ot George Washing Washington ton toli dwell on and about the original Washington plantation in Westmore Westmore- Westmoreland land county Virginia John Washington Washing ton of ot Brighton parish Northampton t C shire England came to Virginia in r r 1657 1651 and bought a farm on ou the tho Potomac Potomac Potomac Poto Poto- mac river between Bridge creek and Popes Pope's creek In III what was then North timberland county but which long li i ago g became Westmoreland land c coun- coun un n. n ty Sty He bought the farm from Col re Pope a great landholder In the early I colonial era and ancl whose daughter sr 1 ti Anno Anne Pope became the wife of ot tho thor immigrant John Washington c tt 2 were tho the great grandparents of George Georgo George 4 WashIngton the tho Great John Vash lugton through his marriage to A Anne no h t r p i f Pope obtained lands outside of ot th the 1 c V r t farm rm purchased by h him m. m The o original original t. t farm is owned by John E. E Wilson who 1 married Miss Betty netty Washington I tk t t k i granddaughter of or William Augustine Washington a n nephew of ot George GeorgeY Y a Mr and Mrs Wilson Wilson are advanced In years year A score or more mor of ot live lIvo on their ancestral l Inlands la within ln rifle shot of ot the spot where George Washington was born ti t J. J Some of ot these people writes Guy E. E Mitchell in Technical World Magazine i I 1 are prosperous farmers and protes t- t nal men others are aro not prosperous They are all nil plain and simple folk tf who have the good will and respect of or ori i their theia neighbors A peculiar thing l' l v about this family is that all its mem memo h bars hers have the distinctive Washington features tures r. |