Brady Family Reunion and Fragments of Brady History and Biography (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Brady Family Reunion and Fragments of Brady History and Biography In all ages of the world's history shrines have been visited by worshiping pilgrims, and the anticipations of years were realized on the eighteenth of August, when the descendants of Hugh and Hannah Brady gazed with reverence and affection on the time worn paths and sacred haunts of their forefathers. Five miles from Shippensburg, in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, is the homestead, the Blue or Kittochtinny Mountains, two miles to the north, and the romantic windings of the Conodoguinet Creek, outlining, like a silver thread, the green fields, a hundred yards to the south. Beautiful in its grandeur, sublime in its tranquil glory, the valley stretches eastward to the Susquehanna, southwest into Maryland, and is most charming and picturesque at this spot. In 1744 and 1745 two hundred acres of land were granted to Hugh Brady, who came from Delaware prior to that date. Some years later two sons, Hugh and Joseph Brady, came into possession of the western part of this land grant, and disposed of it in 1794. The old log house, around which clusters hallowed associations, stood within sight of the creek, and afforded a secure hiding place from the Indians. The greater portion has long since gone to decay and has been supplanted by a frame dwelling house, but the living room remains unchanged, its low ceiling and small windows bearing testimony to the architecture of a hundred and fifty years ago. The southern wide quaint stone chimney, built by our ancestor, is also a relic of those early days. Gazing into the fireplace, where huge logs burned and made bright the evening hours in that dim dead past, we drifted in memory across the intervening years, and looked into the hearts and faces of those who had woven life's great story within its glow. The most magnificent landmark is an oak tree, peerless in beauty, spreading its branches as though in loving protection to shield the earth from summer heat and wintry blasts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.