Margaret Briggs Farquhar

Margaret Briggs Farquhar (1812-89) was a daughter of Isaac and Hannah Brooke Briggs. She was born at Triadelphia, soon after Isaac Briggs and his two brothers-in-law founded the important mill town. She became the wife of William Henry Farquhar, farmer, surveyor, and gifted author of the first volume of the Annals. Margaret and William Henry built the first home to be called The Cedars. There they raised children Arthur B., Edward, and Henry H., and there she died just before the turn of the century.

Bertha Bishop

Bertha Bishop lived to be a hundred, and lived every year fully. Born to Henry and Alcinda Thomas in 1896, she was devoted to the Sharp Street Church: organist and choir director for 50 years, Sunday school superintendent, organizer of the usher board and first homecoming, and president of the United Methodist Women. Perhaps her greatest legacy was her success in inspiring others to acquire educations and achieve. In recognition she received the Olney Rotary's first Paul Harris Fellowship award. More than 600 people attended her hundredth birthday celebration in 1996, ten months before she died. She and Llewellyn Bishop had three children, Dr. William, Mildred, and Llewellyn, Jr.

Ida Matthews Iddings

Ida Matthews Iddings, shown here in 1890, grew up in Howard County and in 1891 married Dr. Charles Moore Iddings. They lived at Stone Valley House in Brookeville, where her husband practiced both as physician and dentist. There they brought up four children, Hallie Iddings, Mary Louise, Katherine Griffith, and Ruth Matthews. She died in 1942 in her Brookeville home by the mill stream.

Elizabeth Hartshome

Elizabeth Hartshorne poses in her wedding dress at the time of her marriage to P. Garland Ligon in 1915. She grew up at Hillcrest in Brighton. When it burned, she and 'Pete' Ligon built Homestone on the same site, using rock hauled from Triadelphia. Irrepressibly active all of her 96 years, she was President of the Hospital Women's Board, active in the Federation of Women's Clubs, and a tireless member of Sandy Spring clubs: Home Interest, Horticultural, Wednesday Club, and Women's Mutual Improvement Association. The Ligons had five children: Charles, Connor, Daniel, Nell, and John. Betty Ligon died in 1988.