Cousins Meet in Pacific; Littletons Honor Visitors

Cousins Meet in Pacific; Littletons Honor Visitors

©The Washington Post Feb. 4, 1945

By Nina Carter Tabb

Lieut. Welty Carter Whitin, USN, Northbridge, Mass. and Pfc. Welty Carter Wood, USMC, Baltimore, Md., first cousins who have spent all of their summers in Virginia, met recently in the South Pacific.

Private First Class Wood has been stationed at New Caledonia for some time, and Lieutenant Whitin, who is on a mine sweeper, looked his cousin up when his boat was off the island. Both young men have written home of their visit together.

They have spent much time at Crednal, near Middleburg, the home of their grandparents, the late Colonel R. Welby Carter, Confederate States Cavalry, for whom the boys are named, and Mrs. Carter.

Captain Robert Bradford, USAAC, and Mrs. Bradford spent the past weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Littleton, Jr. at their Middleburg home.

Captain and Mrs. Bradford have been spending his three weeks leave skiing in the Adirondacks. They spent several days in New York City and stopped in Middleburg en route to Houston, Tex. where Captain Bradford is stationed.

Mr. and Mrs. Littleton entertained at a dinner party Saturday evening in honor of their guests, taking them afterwards to a coasting party on the Snickersville Pike. At midnight they roasted hotdogs and made coffee at the.Old Chimney, a landmark on the pike.

Pfc. Lewis Duffey, USA, who has been in the service for two years, has been released from the Army in order to assist his father, Harry J. Duffey, on their farm, Mount Olivet, near Middleburg.

Private First class Duffey has been stationed at the Remount Depot at Front Royal, Va. and more recently at Camp Lee. His many friends are delighted to see “Louie” back home.

Mrs. Otway Byrd of Upper Brandon on the James River is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Major and Mrs. James Keith, at Fairfax Court House. Mrs. Byrd was the guest of honor at a dinner party given by Mrs. B. Lauriston Hardin, at her home in Washington Tuesday evening.

After dinner, Mrs. Hardin and her guests attended the concert at Constitution Hall. Other guests at the party included Mrs. Taylor Scott, Keith of Warrenton and her mother and houseguest, Mrs. J. Bilisoly Huggins of Norfolk.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lemmon is spending the weekend in Baltimore, where she went to attend the dog show, and to show some of her “boxer” dogs. She is visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Brooks while in the city.

Mrs. Lemmon attended a dinner party last evening given by the Potomac Boxer Club at the Belvedere Hotel. Mrs. Lemmon was accompanied to Baltimore by her sister, Mrs. H. Gwynn Taylor, who is visiting Mrs. R. Julian Roszel.

Nina Carter Tabb (1883-1950) lived in Middleburg and is buried at the Sharon Cemetery. She wrote for The Washington Post. This article is reprinted with permission.