The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-08-20
Correspondence Of the Boston Daily Mai.
The Two Graves.

DEDuAM, July %, 1880
Jason Fairbanks, died September 10Th,
1901, aged 2l years"
Miss Elizabeth Facs, daughter of Mr..
Nehemiah and Mrs. Sarah Fales, who was
found murdered May Is b, 1901, in the 10Th
year Of her age"
Beneath this inscription are the following
lines:
Sainted shade, Of heavenly birth,
Of matchless innocense and worth
Since God decrccd you should be slain
Well cease to mourn, nor dare complain
In my last promised history of these
two graves, between the tenants of which
many happy hour has passed in life. Many
delightful evenings have they spent in each
others society, amid joyful nnticipations of
future domestic happiness. Jason was the
lover Of Elizabeth, and his love was by her
fully reciprccated But objections to the
contemplated union were male by the par
ents of Elizabeth, particularly by her moth-
er, and Jason was finally forbidden TO enter
the house. After thisthey managed 10 meet
sSNltbN a. iuc HDuSc Vi MT. L one
Of ihcir near neighbors, whose door was ever
open to the youthful lovers. This was fl
nally discovered and broken up. In this
state Of doubt and uncertainty time passed.
on, and both were writhing in the agony of
disappointed love. The morning star had
just risen brightly on lifes horizon, and, in
conjunction with its rising, the star of Hope
had set TO rise no more forever. After a
long time they met by appointment under
green tree in field lying on the road known
rs EAST street" in this village. They met.
She was found in the morning dead..-The
sun which went down the night before Oil
beautiful girl of nineteen summers, beheld
her on his return, lying cold and lifeless in a
field by the roadside. From the arms of af-
fcction and love, she had gone to the arms
Of death.-Jonas was arrested, tried, convict
ed and hung for the murder,
To the charge of murder, he plead not
guilty. But jury, on the evidence, deci-
ded otherwise. His version Of the affair was
that they had mutually agreed on selfde-
struction, and that she, agreeably to this ar.
rangemcnt, inflicted death upon herself with
a knife; and that he, after making one or
two Intellectual attempts upon his cwn life,
finally dessted.
One thing is certain, he was found in the
morning with his throat severely cul, nearly
as lfeless as the girl by his side, and many
believe to this day, that his version of tho
terrible tragedy was correct. No one was
ever more truly loved by another than Liz
zy. as he familiarly called her, was by Jason
Fairbanks, and if his hand did inhct the
blow it was only when The agony of despair
had, to borrow "A passage from an unpublish-
ed poem,
'Obscured the light which reason shed
And then with quick and hurried breath,
She must be NINE he madly sad
AT least be mine in DEATH
But guilty or moth has suffered the dread
iul penalty, and appeared before that tribu-
nal from which there is no appeal and there
| leave them lover and loved one, in the
hands of a mercilu God,
Where we ma. safely hope his sin
Is pardoned in the court above;
There is mighty meaning in
The sentcnce-GoD is Love"
might have said more. might speak
of the parents, whose interference led TO this
unhappy end. But entered not this sa-
cred enclosure for judgment. This place is
too holy for censure or criticism. The par
ties have all passed away from earthly scenes.
and lie whose right it is alone has sat in
Judgment.