Pocopson Families

Article #3 - Oration of the Leaf

 

 

                        Oration of the Leaf

 

Though I’m but a simple leaflet,

            On the very lowest bough,

Yet my days are swiftly ebbing,

            So I’ll tell about them now,

 

If you’ll call it not presuming,

            In one so small as I,

While there’s larger, and there’s brighter, ones

            Much nearer to the sky.

Article #2 - Study of science or litrature (sic)?

 

Which is the most useful the study of science or litrature [sic], I think that science is the most useful, for if we have not science we cannot very easily obtain litrature and we should take particular care of it when we have it and try to improve ourselves in reading and all the other useful studies, and many useful and good studies will come to us from a higher power than

man or script                (signed)            A

 

Article #1 - Thoughts on writing essays.

 

Darlington homestead -former location of Lindencrest School

Jennie Darlington used an upstairs room in her home to run a private school for children of local farm families. The school room was located upstairs on the right end of the building pictured here. The children would leave their coats in the room in the lower level and access the school room through a winder staircase.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Larkin Dugan

Mary Larkin Dugan of Marlborough Village, East Marlborough Township, was the daughter of Joseph Palmer Larkin and Verna Hess Larkin, she was valedictorian when she graduated from Unionville High School, and later a teacher in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, retiring in 1993. She was placed on the Wall of Honor in the high school. She had Bachelor and Master’s degrees from University of Delaware.

H. William Sellers

H. William Sellers, was a leader of efforts to preserve the rolling beauty of rural Chester County.

As director of the Environmental Management Center of the Brandywine Conservancy from 1975 to 1998, Mr. Sellers helped pioneer a movement to ask owners of rural estates to sell or give away development rights - put their land in trust - so property would remain in its natural state.

Article #49 - Devoted to Literature

 

 

 

In this busy season of the year having so much other business to attend to I have had but little time to devote to selecting matter for this journal.

            To the donors of the communications which I have received I feel thankful.    J B

 

            The Skies      -- Bryant

Ay, gloriously thou standest there,

            Beautiful boundless firmament!

That, swelling wide o’er earth and air

Charlie Moore

 

 

 

Charles Moore, grew up in Pocopson Township and participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.  He won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdle with a time of 50.8 seconds, narrowly missing the world record.

Armistead Willis Browning, Jr.

 

Eusebius Barnard

Sara Painter and Eusebius Barnard

Eusebius Barnard was born in July of 1802 and educated in Chester County.   He attended Westtown School and devoted his energies to the farming interests in his community.

He is widely known as a strong abolitionist and an earnest advocate of womens rights and temperance reform.

He was also a strong community leader.  Eusebius signed the Petition for the Division of Pennsbury Township on November 3, 1848 which resulted in the creation of Pocopson Township.  He was described by Gilbert Cope as “a man of great force of character”

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