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Rose Marie Martin, a young teenager in the early 1950s, and her mother, Marie Meadows, who worked as a waitress at the restaurant, were close friends of the Clevengers. So was • Rose Marie’s husband, William H. Martin. Harry Racey, a foster son of the Clevengers, and Harry’s wife, Shirley, who also worked for Mrs. Clevenger as a waitress, were full of stories about Charlie and Bertha.
We all sat around a kitchen table in the Martin’s home in Culpeper, and they reminisced about things that happened 50 years ago, while looking through photo albums and sharing other mementos of the time.
Served in WWI
Charles A. Clevenger was bom November 22, 1896, and served in World War I in Company E, 19th Engineers, U.S. Army. He once mentioned to Harry Racey that during his service in France, he was a driver for then-Colonel George S. Patton (later General Patton), who by the end of the war was in charge of the U.S. Army Tank Corps.
After the war, Charlie Clevenger spent most of his career with the Veteran’s Administration, retiring in 1948 after 28 years of service.
First ‘weekenders’
Bertha, who preferred to be called “Jane,” was Charlie’s second wife. Bom in 1905, her father was a coal-miner in Welch, West Virginia. No one could remember how Charlie and Bertha met, or when they married, but they did move to Amissville about 1937, according the Harry Racey.
A 1944 newspaper item mentions they had purchased the Isaiah-Corbin farm in Amissville a few years before, had made many improvements, and planned to spend weekends there. Charlie appears to have been one of
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