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through which the Culpeper - New Market road ran. In this gap, Morrison wrote. “A huge rock looms against the sky, glowering down upon the motorist” Morrison found that this rock was called locally Mary’s Rock, and he gave two versions of how this name came about: one after a young lady who, disappointed in love, leaped to her death from the rock: the other, after Francis Thornton’s wife, Mary, said to be the first non-Indian woman to ride to the rock.
The Thorntons, although early arrivals in the county, had purchased their lands from the first white settlers here, the Jenkins, according to legend.
When Morrison was collecting local stories, one of them said that Thornton had paid the Jenkins . family, a rifle, several pounds of lead and powder and a shot pouch.
The Thorntons built two of the most beautiful homes here. Piedmont, the home of Albert Thornton, and Montpelier, the home of Dr. Phillip Thornton.
Another local figure who caught Morrison’s fancy was Dr. William Amiss, a surgeon who had fought with Stonewall Jackson and was said to have worked tirelessly mending broken bones and dressing wounds during the Civil War.
To Dr. Amiss, who was often paid in turkeys, geese and chickens, is attributed this quote: “A turkey is an inconveniently-sized fowl. It’s too much for one man and not enough for two.”
Morrison also visited The Maples, home of the Newbill ‘Miller family, which was then the home of Clarence Miller. His brother, H. M. Miller, told Morrison about a Civil War episode that occurred at The Maples.
He said: ‘‘Before the skirmish near Washington, Va., between General Wade Hampton’s cavalry and the command of General Pleasanton, in the fall of '63, Captain Hart, chief of artillery under General Hampton, was my father’s guest. Through him, the rumor that my father had some old peach brandy reached the famous South Carolinian. General Hampton sent his orderly to my father and ‘borrowed’ a canteen of brandy.
’I' “Years later, when the general was Senator Wade Hampton. I met him in Washington. D. C. I recalled 1116 ‘brandy borrowing’ and the general said: ‘Yes, sir! I remember. The brandy was fine, too’.”
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