[249] Simmons; Minutes of Farmer's Club #1, June 6, 1910; and Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.
[250] Rogers/Corbat, et al., June 12, 1970.
[251] Ryder, "Some Thoughts About Frying Pan Baptist Church"; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979; and Schneider, _Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia_, 8.
[252] _Floris United Methodist Church: An Historical Account, 1891-1974_, (Herndon, Virginia, 1975), 40.
[256] Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; Peck/Netherton, January 23, 1978.
[257] Telephone conversation with Louise Ryder, January 25, 1979.
[258] _Ibid._; R. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[259] Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; and _Herndon News-Observer_, May 13, 1926.
[261] Gladys Spencer to Louise Ryder, February 15, 1979; and note to author by Louise McNair Ryder, n.d., (spring, 1979).
[262] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979 (notes taken after interview); and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[263] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; and Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.
[264] Farmer's Club #1, Minutes, August 21, 1913.
[266] Schneider, _Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia_, 27-28.
[268] "Fairfax County Fair," _Herndon News-Observer_, September 23, 1926.
[269] Derr Report, 1931; and Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.
[270] Program, Fifth Annual Floris Community Fair, Thursday, August 24, 1939, copy in Beard Report, 1939.
[272] Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.
[273] Nearly everyone spoke enthusiastically of the Floris fair. See especially Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.
[274] Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; and Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[275] "Family Reunion at Floris," _Herndon News-Observer_, May 5, 1927; "Events in Floris," _Herndon News-Observer_, March 21, 1935.
[276] Simpson, _Virginia Country Life and Cooking_, 52.
[277] Among those who chose such careers were Joseph Beard and John Beard (county extension agents); Franklin Ellmore, on the staff of Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Chester McLaren, head of agricultural education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and Jack Patton, of the Fish and Wildlife Commission in North Carolina; see Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.