Pieces of the Past: Revolutionary War period family heirloom survives

Pieces of the Past: Revolutionary War period family heirloom survives

Susannah Gardiner Key Neal is a native Carroll Countian with ties in the area going back many generations. She was named for an ancestor, Susannah Gardiner (Key) Bruce, who was born in St. Mary’s County in 1742. Her grandmother married a Scotsman named Normand Bruce and they moved to then-Frederick County in the 1760s. They built a house south of Taneytown next to Big Pipe Creek. That house, known as Myrtle Hill, still stands more than 250 years…