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74 American Clan Gregor Society He belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church, devout and steadfast in his faith, and widely acquainted with the history of the Church and its institutions. I believe he knew every psalm by heart, or at least the greater part of them. Almost till the end Mr. Magruder retained his general health. His sight and hearing never failed him, his mind was clear as a bell, he was never troubled with functional disorders. I suppose you can truly say that he died of old age. Within a very few weeks he de(;lined rapidly—with no particular ailment, except that the machinery of life had run its appointed course. On March 28th, 1916 he passed quietly and peacefully away, in the eighty-seventh year of his life. He is buried in St. Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis, where lie his parents and grandparents, his two brothers and his sister. Mr. Magruder, in the 60's married Emily Erving Nicholson, daughter of Colonel Joseph H. Nicholson and Eliza Ann Hagner Nicholson. She died in 1905. They had four children, John Randall (not living), Mary Nicholson, Peter Hagner and Eliza Nicholson Magruder, all of whom reside in Annapolis. My uncle was especially dear to me. I knew him, of course, only in his later years, when the frosts of age had whitened his beard though they had not chilled his heart. Despite the great difference in our ages, we were real companions, for although my uncle had at- tained unto that calm philosophy of life that is the peculiar possession of age, he kept, withal, a refreshing up-to-dateness. . Though he looked the patriarch, with his benign countenance and long flowing beard, there was much of the boy left in him. We both loved to talk politics, avA had many animated—and for me, illuminating—discussions on that engaging topic. He had seen and heard Webster, Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and many other celebrities of a time which seems ancient history to me, and I enjoyed his descriptions of their appearance and their oratorical powers. Another of our hobbies was chess—he was eager to play at any time (except Sunday, and I could never persuade him to break that rule), and I was willing to play anytime I felt serene enough to take a licking. I always used to wheel him out to the polls on election day, and at odd times T used to ride him around town in a bicycle chair. Once I took him to the moving pictures—that was a new experience for him, but he seemed to enjoy it immensely. He was so genuinely grateful for the smallest attentions, his face would light up with such evident inter- est and appreciation, that I could not help but find great pleasure in my frequent visits. An interesting, well-informed talker, a cultured Christian gentleman, as the Chieftain said, a Hero of Peace, he richlj'' repaid me for the hours I spent in his company, by giving me the inspiration of his lovely character, by quickening my pride in the highland race from which he sprung. For he was a MacGregor, with all that the name implies!
Proceedings of Eighth Annual Gathering 76 Genealogy.—John Read Magruder was the son of George Lee Magruder and Henrietta Sanford Eandall, gi-andson of John Read Magruder and Annie E. Addison, great-grandson of John Read Magruder and Barbara Contee, great-great-grandson of James Magruder and Barbara Coombs, great-great-great-grandson of Samud Magruder and Sarah Beall, great-great-great-great-grandson of Aexander Magruder, Maryland immigrant. THE MARCH. By Miss Alice Maude Ewell. Tramp, tramp, tramp! — 'Tis the March of Dreadful Death, On field and fell, by shot and shell, And the deadly poison breath; Tramp, tramp, tramp! In the flower of youth they go In the flower of youth with its love and truth- To risk the fatal blow, Laying their glad life low. Tramp, tramp, tramp! From the gay green fields of France, (Now gay no more) from England's shore On sweeps the great advance. Tramp, tramp, tramp! With dauntless eyes and hearts. To where death flies in the high-noon skies. Or out of the mined earth starts. Where soul from body parts. _ Tramp, tramp, tramp! Old Scotland's heathery hills. Like mother's breast, give up their best, To go this "pace that kills." Tramp, tramp, ti-amp! And who that hath in his veins A drop of the blood of Alpine, could Say "naught to me their pains Their losses or their gains"? —
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