[58] _Ibid._, pp. 242-3. Reprints a letter from Thomas Moss to Captain Walter Frankland describing a fight near Front Royal as follows: "We charged and routed the guards, and I was fortunate in saving Beattie's life by shooting a man who had a pistol within 12 inches of Beattie. I then caught a horse ... [and] Beattie and I ran down the road a short distance and went up into a piece of pine woods." [59] John Mosby Beattie, August 22, 1968, interview. Fountain Beattie's wife, Annie Elizabeth Hathaway, was the daughter of James Henry Hathaway of "Western View" in Zula, Virginia, between Rectortown and Middleburg in Fauquier County. Annie Hathaway was born and married at this home place. Her son, John Mosby Beattie, states that his father bought Green Spring Farm with money realized from the sale of "Western View" on the death of Mrs. Beattie's parents. [60] Fairfax County Deed Book W-4, p. 271. Also see Hannah C. O'Brien v. John W. Green, Fairfax County Circuit Court, 1878, Suspended File No. 10. [61] Moger, _Rebuilding_, p. 51. [62] Virginia Good Roads Convention, _Programme_, p. 8. [63] John Mosby Beattie, August 22, 1968, interview. John Beattie recalls that his father, Fountain Beattie, sold garden produce to the local grocery store of one John Carter, located on the Little River Turnpike (Route 236) approximately where it now crosses Shirley Highway (I-95). [64] W. C. Funk, "An Economic History of Small Farms near Washington, D.C.", U.S. Department of Agriculture Bulletin 848 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920), pp. 16-17. [65] John Mosby Beattie, August 22, 1968, interview. Mr. Beattie does not recall the date of this fire, but remembers the event vividly from his boyhood days. [66] Mosby served as Consul in Hong Kong from 1878 to 1885. He was an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1904 to 1910. [67] _Official Register of Officers and Employees of the Civil, Military and Navy Service_, issued biennially, lists Fountain Beattie as an employee of the Internal Revenue Service in the registers issued during the years 1875 to 1913, inclusive. Beattie's Service Record Card (Treasury Form 426) shows the first employment record date as 1872. His appointment was discontinued in 1914. [68] E. L. Templeman, _Arlington Heritage_ (Arlington, 1959), p. 74. [69] _Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington_, 1879. [70] "Fairfax County as Portrayed by the Virginia Business Directory and Gazetteer--1906. Published by the Hill Directory Company, Richmond, Virginia," _Yearbook of the Historical Society of Fairfax County, Virginia_, v. 10 (1969), pp. 92-104. [Illustration: Front View]