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The Gingle Family
From the mid-19th century the families of three brothers named
Gingle (or Gingell) lived near the small brook just south of the
NLM site. An 1865 map shows Joseph Gingle living just north of
the brook, while Madison, his wife, Artemesia, and 12 children,
and Henry, his wife, Jane, and 7 children lived further south
near Old Georgetown Road. Madison's farm, Woodmont, gave its name
to nearby Woodmont Avenue. An 1879 map shows Henry Gingle living
in a house near the brook. By 1894, that house had
disappeared.
Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County,
Maryland. Baltimore, 1865
G.M. Hopkins. Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around
Washington, Including the County of Montgomery Maryland.
Philadelphia, 1879.
Courtesy Montgomery County Historical Society
Several members of the Gingle family, including Madison and
Artemesia, are buried in the small graveyard by the Bethesda
Church, just north of the NIH campus.
Some of the items dug up in the 1983-4 excavations, such as
ceramic fragments, glass, bones, and bricks, may have come from a
Gingle family trash pit.
Courtesy DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical
Research, National Institutes of Health
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