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field” was taught by Mr. Lewis F. Hite, wiio is now minister in the Sweden Borgian faith, and a teacher in one of the institutes of learning in Massachusetts.' The students were the same as those taught by Miss Denton.
Charles Browning, who married Mary Wade Strother, was horn in 174!) and died in 18d!». He lived at “Greenfield” (then in Culpeper County) and was Captain of the Virginia line during the Revolutionary War. ^
John Armistead White, a direct ancestor of the husband of the present owner of “Greenfield” was a major in the Revolutionary War and tqok part in the actions at Valley Forge and Yorktown.
At “Greenfield” when the Federal soldiers robbed the meat house — the hams and shoulders having been treated with dark molasses and black pepper wer£ left, as they thought the meat had been poisoned. The soldiers burned some of the outbuildings at “Greenfield.” While the buildings were burning, Mrs. John A. Browning, the mother of nine children, was weepinjj, her fiveyear-old daughter, Mary Landon, tried to comfort her by saying, “Mama, they can’t burn Heaven.” A poem by this title was written by John M. Patton, in memory of the little girl, who died at the age of six.
This magnificent old mansion, with its large rooms and handsome mantels, is replete with historic relics of great value and association. In the upper room is a bed which was occupied during the war between the states by General Butler of South Carolina, while a guest at “Greenfield”, and later on Colonel John S. Mosby, was its occupant ’ for three weeks.
Tlie late Justice George L. Browning of Orange a former member of the .Virginia Supreme
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