Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-12-16
NUMBER IL.
For the Spectator.
The Glebe.

| The Glebe is one of the oldest buryiug
grounds in Augusta; it was granted by the
English Sovereign for church the church
was never erected but the place was used as
a place of interment, and is still used, though
| there are no recent graves; Mrs. Thompson
and Mr. Jas. A. G. Scott being the latest
| The burying- ground is on small. rather
fat hill, surrounded by other higher hills, ap-
pearing like jewel in setting. Some four
miles away the North mountain rears itself
| up proudly; every shape showing; the hol-
ows looking dark, the rounded out slopes gleam-
| ing out brightly in the autumn sun.
The brilliancy and beauty of the autumn
were fading into the russet and brown before
their falling from the trees; some already
bare and eafess.
1t reminded me of a fine poem l once read,
commencing
within the sober realms of leafess trees,
The russet year inhaled the balmy air;
Like some tanned reaper in his hour of ease;
When all the fields are lying brown and bare.
1.-THE gray barns looking from the hazy hills
Ger the dun waters widening in the wales,
| Sent down the air greeting to the mills,
| On the dull thunder of alternate fails
"All sights were mellowed, and all sounds SUBJ
dued,
The hills seemed further, and the stream sang
low,
As in dream the distant woodman hewed
His winter log, with many muffed blow.
'The embattled forests, erewhile armed with
gold.
Their banners bright with every martial hue,
Now stood like some sad beaten host of old.
Withdrawn afar in Times remotest blue"
All unheeded was the fading beauty of the
year; all unheard the sounds of merry, joyous
life by the silent dust reposing beneath the
slabs of curious rock, marble and sandstone
marking the graves.
[ noticed the graves of ten Ewings; one
Martha, wife of James Ewing, was born 1741.
In another place dark mountain rock, fiat,
the size of the grave, had the following in
scription
n ere ys the body of COL John Wilson,
who departed this life in the yare of our Lord
l773 in the ~ yr of his Gag having served
his country q yrs. A representative in the
Honorable Hous of Burgesis In Virginia, &c."
Likewise is ''intar,d the body of Martha his
we'll beloved wife who departed this life July
ye 10 1855 in the LX yr of hir life, &C."
| noticed several with Young engraved on
their tomb-stones Several of the McCutch-
an family sleep their last sleep in this place.
The oldest grave [ saw was covered with a
mountain rock, covering the grave in the shape
of coffin, with an arrow piercing heart
in the corners. The following inscription |
COpl6u IrOm IL
Here lyes, the body of Mary Trimble, who
departed this life in the year of our Lord
ITO.
All you that come my grave to see,
AS [ am now, so must you be,
Repent in time, make no delay,
In the bloom of youth was snatched away"
By this is the grave of John Trimble. In
another part is the grave of Lewis Shuey, and
by his side is his wife with German inscrip-
tion on her tombstone. Near these are the
graves of Jas. A. G. Scott; Mary Thompson
Thomas Thompson, with the quotation from
Job, Il know that my Redeemer liveh. &c.
by this was the grave of Fannie Thompson.
George Kirk patrick's, VIM. Cochran, aged
sc, and Jane Ann Cochran's graves were near
the entrance; the inscription on the first cut
in rock, almost obliterated with rock-moss.
Near the middle is tombstone with the in
scription Major James Brown, with the square
and compass cut in the stone-died in 1915.
Many graves are sunken, unmarked by any
head-stones the yard is iuclosed and attended
to, as the briars, &C., had been cut out.
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