Daniel Budd, employed by the Sandy Spring Store, frequently traveled by wagon to Baltimore to purchase meats and took pride in careful stewardship of store funds.

Liddy Budd and her husband Daniel founded Cincinnati's six-generation Budd family.

The image of George Budd, brother of Christy and Richard Perry, appears in a rare tintype.

Christy A. Budd Merritt was a sister of Richard Perry Budd.

Known as a dapper dresser, Walter Perry Budd grew up on Brooke Road, obtained an education in the District of Columbia and at Hampton Institute, and became a policeman in Pittsburgh.

Callie Budd Cooper of Cincinnati wears 1880s finery that doubtless was made in the home: woolen top with salvaged, non-matching buttons, gathered bustle skirt. Families black and white of a century-plus ago sought out photographic studios as far away as Baltimore and Washington.

Cornelius Awkard was the great-great-great-grandfather in a long line of Sandy Springers who spell their names Awkard, Awkward, and Offord. The family's initial land holding was on Brooke Road across from the Ross Boddy Center--land that Offords still hold today.

Tolbert T. Awkard/Offord, son of Cornelius, farmed the Awkard land on Brooke Road and tenant-farmed at Brooke Grove. On a lawyer's advice he changed his branch of the family name to Offord. He died in 1972 at age 95. His wife Ada, long the head cook at Montgomery General Hospital, lived to be 106.

The Hopkins sisters, daughters of Phillip and Laura Bell Hopkins, queue up. From left, Nora, Elsie, Beulah, Mary, Georgianna, and Phyllis.

Built as a wedding present, Springdale was a gift of the Thomas Leas to son Edward and bride Deborah Peirce. Both young people were innovators: Edward introduced one of the first threshing machines into the county, and Deborah in the 1850s pioneered the preserving of applesauce in jars as an improvement over drying fruit. The house name stems from a strong spring that rises on the land; during the terrible drought of 1930 it sustained five neighboring families. The Mannings, then Weeklys succeeded the Leas at Springdale.

Twenty-one Lethbridges assemble in the early 1940s at the family farm Osceola at the corner of Brooke and Chandlee Mill Roads. The family began farming Osceola as tenants in a log cabin, moved to a Rockville dairy farm, then later returned to buy Osceola. Family members recall when youthful Mike Lethbridge mounted a pony and drove a herd of cattle from Rockville to the farm, arriving that evening in time for milking. Front row, from left: James Millard, Charles, Jean, Ann, Janice, Frank, and John; second row: John and Annie (Disney), Hilda (Peters), Violet Richardson, Eva (future wife of Clayton Watkins), and Marie (future wife of George Windsor); back row: Doris (Thompson) and Charles, Nellie (O'Neale), Francis Richardson, Harold, Louise (Bryan) and Louis "Mike," and Richard.