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Old Captain Waldron
Kept Woodville Clean
"When it comes to the history of Rappahannock County, I just know that it started from Culpeper County in 1833 and they wanted in the plan to have the county seat at Woodville. In fact, the streets were laid off. My great grandmother’s father. Captain John Waldron who lived out at Glen Farm three miles out from Woodville was quite a power in that whole part of the county. He owned land from Woodville clear over to Peola Mills. You could walk on old Captain Waldron’s land without getting off, like the Lanes own all that now, you see, only they have ten thousand acres. My great, great grandfather had about five thousand acres. He didn’t want the county seat at Woodville because he had nine children and he said that the county seat was not the right environment in which to rear families on account of the lawyers playing poker all the time and the drinking that went on in the court sessions - and which was true, you know. But then they wanted it at Washington, and the people up there wanted it, and it went to Washington. The streets were laid off and all that.
“An interesting story was that the day that my father drove me in a horse and buggy, and dirt roads then, on September the 15th, 1919, when I went to Washington to start work with the Rappahannock National Bank. The eleven mile drive took two hours with a horse and buggy. He was telling me all the time going there, ‘Harold, you’ve been a good boy so far, all your life, good man, but you’re going up to the county seat, which is a place in which you’ve got to try to live a righteous life. You’ve got good people there, and you've got bad people.” He says, “What you’ve got to remember is what I'm telling you now. I have been one of the best doctors in the State of Virginia and I’vp taken great pride in it and I’m recognized to be. I want you to become one of the best bankers in the state of Virginia. In order to do that you’ve got to continue to work hard and study as you have done and when you get to Washington, avoid the poker players. Don’t get in with any of that crowd. Don’t get in with any of the liquor drinking crowd and keep away from women without character.’ And I have never forgotten it. I mean what he told me that day, I always remembered, to keep away from temptation."
Harold Brown
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