the Samuel Thomas Hilton story showing the last two of his homes in West Baltimore not very far from Union Square, the larger home on South Mount St. with the brick front is where he and Samuel and Liza lived I guess until they became disabled and then moved into the smaller house around the corner at 1705 Lemon Street. Lemon Street is a tiny street hardly more than an alley. The amazing thing is that these houses survived and are still there after all these years, for years these houses were sealed up and nobody was living there.
In this photograph I'm standing by the grave of Thomas Samuel Hilton the brother of Richard and Bill Hilton, he would have been Pa's great uncle. Samuel Thomas Hilton was a brakeman on the B&O Railroad and out the outbreak of the CW found himself in Ohio, so he joined the 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he fought at the Battle of Stones River and was wounded by a musket shot to the groin but recovered enough to serve out his term of four years and was discharged from the Union Army during Sherman's March to the Sea, he returned to Maryland, married Eliza Montgomery in Baltimore and is buried at Loudon Park National Cemetery, I have photos of the two houses he lived in in Baltimore, a most interesting story.
I think that is Grandma in the back left still in mourning cloth. You are pushing my memory. She told me the lady in front is somebody famous. I can't remember who. I think the girl in the right rear is the one who tried to slap Taft.
(Pictured above) I came across this Xerox copy from the Warfield Scrapbook of what is believed to be Edmond Warfield and Rose Hilton (Montgomery County Hiltons) who were the parents of Ollie, Effie and Raymond Warfield.
Update on the picture below: I think I have identified the unknown Driver photo, or at least part of the photo anyway. The attached photo is of George Washington Driver, brother of James W. Driver but we still can't identify his wife.
I guess we won't know who the man and women in the second photo were, the man looked like a Driver but there was no label unfortunately but at least we have the James W. Driver and his wife Mary's photo. The first photo as being James W. Driver and Mary Beall Driver.
James W. Driver was the son of Denton Driver and Nancy Ann Lansdale, Denton Driver married Nancy Ann Lansdale about 1837, she was the daughter of John H. and Nancy Ann Warfield Landale. James W. Driver was born May, 1845, Md. and died Feb. 18, 1922 he married Mary S. Beall, born Nov. 19, 1845 and died April 16, 1914. Their children were: 1. Anna L. born abt. 1870, Md.; 2. Lucy Amelia, born April 17, 1871, Md. and died Feb. 14, 1947, she married George Francis Hilton about 1895; 3. Charles S/W, born May, 1872 in Md.; 4. Denton W. born Oct. 1871 in Ohio; 5. Ida V. born Oct. 1882 in Ohio.
James W. Driver and family were living in Bertis Twp., Erie Co., Ohio in the 1880 Census. In 1900 he was listed as a farmer living in the 4th Election Dist., Howard Co., Md. His father Denton Driver who was born April 7, 1813 in Md. and who died June 19, 1894 at Woodbine, Md. James W. Driver returned from Ohio about the time of the death of his father Denton Driver and never returned to Ohio, instead purchased the farm on the Patuxent River in Howard, County at Annapolis Rock which later became the farm of Earl Hilton and his brother James Hilton.
(From Uncle Robert Hilton:) You got me on the pictures. The photo album with the black and white was in my Grandma's steamer trunk when I was a kid. I can remember it well because I sneaked it out and was looking at it, damaged it and caught hell I was probably about six. I don't remember the sepia print.
Strangely enough mostly all that we did was about the Hiltons on the Montgomery County side of the Patuxent River and this was mainly due to the photos being of the Hiltons and related families on that side of the river. I've attached photos of Pa and Ma Hilton's farm so you can see how pretty their place was on the Howard County side of the river. It's my understanding the big Victorian house we lived in was built by James Driver(I sent a photo of him and his wife), the house was built over the cabin that was there that the Duvall heirs and probably other families may have lived in prior to James Driver buying the farm upon his return to Maryland from Ohio and subsequently it was divided between the brother Earl and Jimmy, Earl getting the farm on the Howard County side and Jimmy the farm on the Montgomery County side of the river. It was also my understanding that James Driver died as a result of a fall from the house during its construction, that's what I was told anyway and I believe it. In the basement of the old Victorian we lived in you could see the heavy and solid oak beams of the old house the the Victorian was built over, it was a most interesting place, I could go on about the house for pages but I won't, it was a great house as you can see, so many stories.
A photo of Pa as a little boy. George Earl Hilton b. 24 Dec 1901 d. 20 Apr 1984
These are photos of Ma and Pa Hilton's farm, the last and small landscape photo is a shot taken from Pa's farm across the river showing the Bill Hilton farm or Raymond Warfield farm at the top of the hill and if you look closely at the bottom of the hill is the Cost Warfield farm and these two farms figured so prominently in the earlier blog photos, the Snyder place would have been over the other side of the hill from the Bill Hilton farm and out of the shot, the road ran up the hill from the Patuxent River from the Cost Warfield place to Raymond's place at the top of the hill and down over the hill to the Snyder place which you have photos of taken from the Park website
Here are three photos of Jimmy Hilton (Pa's brother) with my mother (Mary) in the middle of all three photos, I've never seen such a complete photos of Uncle Jimmy and the entire group of his clan together before, I don't know if Bill Hilton has seen any of these photos before but he would be one of the little kids in the one photo.I remember the day these photos were taken, it was a Sunday and mom drove over to the farm across the way to see Uncle Jimmy and everybody, I didn't go with her. I think the photo with my mother and all of Uncle Jimmy's kids and grand kids is remarkable. All of them together like a reunion, hard to believe all the adults are deceased. I can still picture his (Bill Hilton) mother Nellie and all her little kids searching in the fields for wild flowers, a sweet memory I'll never forget.
Update from Bill Hilton: I always wondered what happened to those sheep. I remember visiting the Snyders and seeing all those sheep. When Pa Snyder died in 1958 we moved into that house. I think the sheep were still there for a short time but I never knew what happened to them. Glad now that I didn’t know. When my mother died in 1965 we left the house and moved in with James and Annie Mary who more or less raised us. The Snyder house has been vacant ever since 1965. I got drafted in 1968 and never lived in either house again. When my father Charles Hilton went into the nursing home in 2009 my brother John and I renovated his house and John’s daughter Jenell and her family moved in. Upon the death of Charles Hilton his house became the property of John and the remaining part of the Snyder farm became mine.
Here are the names for the picture with all the adults and kids.
Kids left to right Otis Norwood Jr, June Norwood, Judy Hilton, Bill Hilton, Anna Norwood, Mickey King
Adults l to r Henry Hilton holding James Hilton II, James Hilton, Nellie & Charles Barney Hilton, Almeda Snyder King & Henry Ford King, Almeda Hilton Norwood, Mary Hilton, Nancy Hilton, Otis Norwood Sr, Oliver Hilton, Annie Mary Snyder Hilton, Esther Harrison Hilton holding Paul Hilton
Here are the names for the picture with just adults
Esther Harrison Hilton, Henry Ford King, Oliver Hilton, James Hilton, Nellie and Charles Hilton, Annie Mary Snyder Hilton, Almeda Hilton Norwood, Mary Hilton, Nancy Hilton, Almeda Snyder King
I think these pictures were taken in the fall of 1952.
Lucy Driver in the upper left, Lizzie in the upper right, Charlie in the lower left and Denton in the lower right. All Driver brothers and sisters, my Dad's Great Grandmother.
Annapolis Rock School House 1911
Top: Elaine & Thurman Warfield, James Hilton, Miss Bosley (teacher)
Middle: Amoss Millinix, Blanche Harrison, Windsor Burdette, Anna Mary Snyder, Louse Harrison, Emily Pickett, Louise Warfield, Leland & Leroy Pickett
Bottom: Ralph Driver, Fletcher Mullinix, Newman Mullinix, Earl Hilton
It was James Driver who gave the land for the one room school house. Over a whole lot of years all the kids went there including my mother and Butch was in the last class to go there, that's how long that old building was used and the structure is still there as a house now.
These first 3 pictures were taken 12/1973. There are more photos of this Hilton farm on Annapolis Rock Rd. but they wouldn't transfer.
I know this place well, this is what is called a "telescoping house" the original cabin was built and the two other additions added as the family grew and yes it did originally belong to the
Etchisons and we're also descended from the
Etchisons whose original name was
Atchison and they were from Scotland and who settled in Maryland from Pennsylvania, why they substituted the E I can't tell you.
In my youth I used to visit the Snyders, I would walk over there and they would give me a cold drink and we would sit and talk in the backyard, I can't ever remember going into the house which was tiny but I probably did at some point, I used to sit and talk to Ile (rhymes with Isle) Snyder and Aunt Tish (Oliver and Laura I believe) as they were called but they were quite old when I used to visit them and in the days the farm was kept up and beautiful.
They weren't the last owners, Barney Hilton took over ownership and raised his whole family there, they must have lived there at least 25 years or more. When Uncle Jimmy died Barney and family moved down the road to the family home which was only about a quarter of a mile away down Rt. 94, Barney is now in a retirement home and his son Bill Hilton lives there. There's something else about this place, there's a cemetery in a little grove by the spring with the graves of three little children, so sad, I'm not quite sure where the graves are in relation to the house but I would like to visit one day. As I mentioned this house is at the bottom of the hill along an old part of Rt. 94 on a curve when the road at one time was straight and went to the now defunct town of Bootjack, 94 now goes out to the Damascus Road. A farm road went through the property between the house and barn, it shows in the photo, the farm road went on up the hill to the Bill Hilton farm at the top, now burned down, where most of the photos were taken, it was a beautiful farm, the farm road went on down the hill on the other side toward the Patuxent River to Cost Warfield's (pictured below) place, I don't know if there's anything left of the Cost farm or not. From there the road followed along side the river on the Montgomery County side past the old tobacco barn crossing the river at the old Warfield place (foundation only now). The newer Warfield farmhouse up on the hill was still there the last time I was there to see Miriam as it was so back in the day. There would have been lots of movement from one Warfield house to the next. From the Warfield farm on the Howard county side of the river the road continued on out to Rt. 94 at the old school house so the Warfields if they wanted could travel through their farms from one county to the other without using the county Rt. 94 and there were other roads no longer in use that would have taken you even further afield and around, it was just knowing them. I should add one more footnote that the Hiltons (Lloyd Hilton and sons) had a cabin there on Daniel's branch (Etchison property) and farmed for Perry and John Etichison and even took care of their mother and that's probably how Uncle Bill came into ownership of one of the Etichison farms, most interesting.
Barney Hilton is Charles F. Hilton (born 1923), one of the sons of James Francis Hilton, Pa's brother. Uncle Jimmy 1896-1872 married to Annie Snyder 1903-1976, they were married in the house photographed above. Barney was married to Nellie Wright (1929-1965), she died of cancer. I thought Nellie was the sweetest woman who ever lived.
There used to be 20 mule team wagons in the early days when they hauled that building stone out of Annapolis Rock, the stone was hauled to Woodbine where it was off loaded onto trains bound for Annapolis where many of the state buildings were constructed from it.
"Pa" is my Dad's Grand-father on his mother's side, my great-grand father who I did know, as he died in 1984 when I was 19 years old. George Earl Hilton "Pa" (1901 - 1984) married Estella Virginia
Mullinix "Ma" (1905 - 1999).
Bill Hilton (above). Pa's father was Francis (1866-1901) and his father was Richard (1827-1903) and Richard was the brother of Bill Hilton so he would have been Pa's Great-uncle. On the old maps Bill Hilton's farm would have been owned by the
Etchison family who at that time owned much of the land around and as that family died off the land was sold and made into small farms. Pa's farm at the beginning was probably about 300 acres and was on both sides of the
Patuxent River in both Howard and Montgomery Counties and was owned by Pa's grandfather Driver, when he died the land was divided between Pa and his brother Jimmy, Jimmy getting the Montgomery County piece and probably the best piece with Pa getting 100 plus acres on the Howard County side and no road front plus Pa and Ma had to care for Mrs. Lucy Driver has she aged along with some others including Uncle Charlie Driver who was kind of crazy, I knew both of them and Lucy would have been my great-great grandmother I believe. There was a third piece of the Driver land and that went to Maude Driver and it was the road front property in Howard county that bordered on Pa's farm, it was owned by Maude and Ralph Driver, it was a beautiful farm in its day and is still there, it was the farm on the right as you came off the county road toward Pa's farm, there was probably at least 125 acres or more of that so there must have been at least 300 to 350 plus acres or more when the farm was one farm, Maude was always Aunt Maude and her husband was Uncle James Driver, their son was Ralph.
William Harrison Hilton, born March 13, 1836, died July 1, 1919, buried Damascus Methodist cemetery with his wife. Married to Elizabeth Alder Warfield, born August 14, 1841, died December 22, 1919, daughter of Wilson D. Warfield (1818) and Louisa Warfield (1816). William and Elizabeth had been married for thirty-six years and she had been the mother of two children, both surviving. Also in the household was Lizzie W. Day born February, 1871, a niece.
The children were:
a. Rosa B. Hilton, born May, 1854, married in Montgomery County by license dated November 16, 1813 to Edmund W. Warfield, son of Robert Warfield and Mary Hobbs. Married for sixteen years, she was widowed, in 1900 living in her parents household, with three children (all buried at Mt. Labanon Cemetery): 1. Mary Olive Warfield, born September, 1883, died July 7, 1963 2. Effie W. Warfield born September, 1887 and died 1966. 3. Raymond C. Warfield, born March, 1891, and died 1969.
Ollie, Effie, and Raymond are Bill Hilton's grandchildren (pictures below).
b. William Edward Hilton, born July, 1865, died 1950; buried in Mt. Lebanon Methodist cemetery between Etchison and Damascus. In the 1930 census of Laytonsville District, he was single, living in the household of George W. Gillis (1895), listed as a boarder. The Gillis household was only five households removed from that of James Francis Hilton (1896).
Bill Hilton lived to the ripe old age of 83 which wasn't too bad for those times. Pa remembers him delivering the mail on horseback wearing a big heavy military wool coat called a Great coat. Uncle Bill Hilton was born over the hill only about a quarter mile from his farm which then was owned by the
Etchison family. He and all his brothers and sisters were born at Wolf Den on Daniels creek over the hill but still in Montgomery county, he lived his entire life in one place and on one farm which is pretty amazing. I mentioned Melvin before as also living with Olive, Raymond and Effie but he was a
Ridgley and not a
Warfield, I remember all of them when Pa and I would go visiting, mostly to discuss who was sick and who was dying and some about farming, that was pretty much what life was all about in those days.
The
Warfields were dirt poor way back and lived in a cabin down by the river that would have flooded every time it rained and the river flooded, I remember Grandma Eva
Mullinix laughing about that as she told me of them living down there, (the foundation of their house is
still there) later they built a beautiful farm house up on the hill and it's in one of the photos, those where the days when little wagon roads ran up and down the river from
Mullinixtown to Annapolis Rock, roads long gone now along with
Mullinixtown but some can still be followed by the indentations in the forest and I loved following those roads when I was a kid.
Costly Johnson
Warfield, (born July 2, 1851, died Sept. 3, 1933)
"Aunt
Eldry" who had a home in Washington, D.C., supposedly her home was near Mary
Surratt's house and she knew her.
Effie
Warfield
Francis (Frank)
Warfield
Nancy
Beall Warfield, Miriam
Warfield's grandma.
Olive or Ollie
Warfield
Warfield sisters: Katie
Warfield, Rose
Warfield, Louise
Warfield, Almeda Snyder, Ollie or Gladys Young (Miriam is not among them as I had thought but she sure looks like Almeda)
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Raymond
Warfield
Oliver Snyder and his wife Laura Snyder plus daughter Almeda who married King, their other daughter
Aunt Mary married Uncle Jimmy, Pa's brother.
Landscape looking from Raymond's farm toward Pa's farm and the
Patuxent River, Costly
Warfield's farm is in the photos on the Montgomery County side of the river nearest but maybe in the far distance is the top of Pa's barn across the river.
probably Raymond feeding pigs
Thurmon Warfield's mother, Aunt Fannie
Warfield Day, (b. 1852 d. Dec. 20, 1942)
Raymond with horse
Raymond with Mr. Snyder.
Photo of Joseph Hennings Mullinix probably on his wedding day.
Newspaper article about Ruth Bowie who was a slave owned by our g-g-g ancestor Asbury Mullinix. For some reason the Mullinix-Mullineaux family was heavy into slave ownership and some like Jonathan Mullineaux were over sears, he was an over sear for Charles Carroll of Carrollton whereas ancestors like the Hiltons and Watkins family didn't own slaves prior to the Civil War but may have owned them further back but with the Mullinix family it was continuous right up to the Civil War. 
I don't have many Mullinix photos unfortunately but strangly enough I do have the ruins of the house that Asbury Mullinix was born in on Windsor Forest in about 1810. The house was built in part of an old land grant called Windsor Forest and there's still a Windsor Forest Road there near Long Corner in Howard County. Asbury was married to Elizabeth Fleming or Flemmen as the name is sometimes written at the time. Asbury was probably the best known of the Mullinix family, he was born about 1810 at Windsor Forest and died Oct. 21, 1884 at Mullinix Mill, he was born in Howard then Anne Arundel but was very wealthy and owned an enormous amount of property and slaves in Montgomery County. His father was Charles Mullenaux and his mother was Elizabeth Cramlett.
Asbury's line of the Mullinix family married with the Purdom family, another family from Scotland and with the Browning family of Browningsville. Among our Browning ancestors is probably one of the most famous hunters ever in the US, Meshack Browning and I've sent some information related to him also as attachments. 
Backtracking a little to the Youngs which I mentioned before, it's a real shame because there are some Youngs I can't identify and I know they're closely related to us because their photos are original and not copies, attached are three of these unidentified Young photos. The last Young photo wouldn't attach, I didn't realize that I had attached so many photos I must have run out of space so I'll have to send the last photo separately.
