The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-12-30
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ssnnlchre,s church, sn London. The slab
svhich covered bis remains, and once 90 e
1 fafnoits epitapb, IS much detaced ana lazy ,ts
wear HE American Antiquarian Society PFC.
nosed 10 nut up a mural tablet 10 tDe
church TO bis memory. Out of this came me
lhe item which has for. some time oeen
po;uv the rounds OF the press N0 sIo el I.
asrEs tie. Grave Of Captain John smsth.1t
IrsdyertentIyithis item was permitted 70 ,get
intor our columns. In the course Of the 1881
fortnight we have received thirty.seven etn'
nhsfia fenials or its Truth, and nineteen tn-;
fiv;dusls have already called at our Office 70
request an immediate correcsions.of o. mis-
statement by which they we're, seyeraily,
reasonably aeprfeyed. Here are Few or
The communications received by yesterday
mail: ss;s 50 - - 10. :.
FxaNsroa. MI, Deeenhe Z Q. Bs4.Tai
TO the EDITOR sGc. :rts,y, istT az t$sl&lsi:SI8
| Desr sir,-Yeur assertion that noassone
marks che grave OF Captain John Sniatn i
without the least foundation. q shanosome
monument was erected to his memory more
than year ago by bis feaow.soldiefs o. g, ssne
Twenty third regiment, State mltfsglsa. III fhe'
monument Is OF marble, in the hooped ODE
ksk style, like General w ofths IL New New
YORK, IT is more, than six feet high above
tho peaestal, and cost almost S200. captain
Smith was one Of our most popular offhscers,
and his surviving friends feel hurt at the I'm.
pulationaof neglect 20 his memory. Please
insert this correction. and you may add 70 II
the enclosed copy Of 1.-the resolutions passed
!hy. the lodge of Good Tenplars. OF which
Captain Smith was AN honored member, oe.
ginning with: 49,. -; ...,.., !, ]
Providence TO remove from; our midst our
late excellent brother, Captain John smith, En,
&c. Is; Yours respectfully, $3.50 .i.Is.8 :.
.ouartermaster Twenty Regiment State T.
Militia. j, ~ #. .esa.:ts. 9E y i.a
.I5 HIS C ASB s,,,g IND, December 1, 1877
Sir.-I have read with Indignation and re
oret, y0ur cruel statement that 90 No. stone
marks the grave of Captain John Smith,, E
NV late husband. Several months before j
was married to my present partner, Mr..
Elflic,tt, and in d fact only 1.-TWO months
after Captain ,smitii's" decease, had
a marble slab set up to- his mem-
orv bin1h our cemetery idatS very consider.
abe cost. / send you for publication q copy
Of the inseri ption, that you may see how un'
ii,stIy have been charged with neglecting
his remains. And I shall be; glad to have
you insert the enclosed obituary notice and
poem, which were printed in our Weekty
Reflector soon after my late bereavement.
MIR. Eldicutt agrees with me that such an in-
inrious reflection should. not pass uncor-
reeted. E<fT With respect, 81 ZnaG%f )
-f.1Iyi s. y, d e HERsrNA Il. ELDIcUFr !
- , '.'@ +. -. formerly Hersina Smith,.
TAxK1HArcHRs, ALA, November 80, 1874.
Toethe Editor Sc. saI-2.a nFs - e.>2aI
6Sir.-Your assertion that &C no stone marks
the grave of Captain John Smith y is the
fabrication of some rascally carpet-bagger.
There Is not particle of truth in it-even
in the spelling of his name, which was not
Smith; but Smyttb, as. the muster-rols OF the
Thirty.seyenth Regiment Alabama Voluu-
teers, C,1S. A., will show.Captain Smytth
fell lighting for the6libertiess of bis state.
He was killed by Yankee bullet, and not
by shot in the back from one OF his oWr
men whom he had foggeda That is anothT
Abolition lie. The northerners should, zoe
satisfied with killing him, without circuiaing
malicious ISLANDERS against his friends He
has monument which, il less costly tnan
the piles of granite heaped over shcddy up
starts of the North, is precious because
reared By loving handsand bedeVed WIN she
tears Of fair maidens of his own sunny South.
& fe1low-offlcer demands ting prompg COT.
rection OF your. miss four ooedte 70
servant, CASTOR D. IBERYnLESorUpD, a.
81 late Major c. S. A.
ee.g. Gay HxRBoR, December 6. 1884,
Afr: Editor: Sir,-Soms people have the
knack of lying by telling the truth, and that
e inst what your story about Captain John
Smith, grave amounts to. If you mean to
COW that he is forgotten by histownfolks, or
hg. any of his old sbipmates, there isn't q
ucnrrf of truth, i'm 10 beRuFe, there's 10
stone marks bis grave" and ifthere was, no
hEav eor1d see the stone unless it was eighty
fstbSms high. You know, if you knowaDy-
thing rabout!iit that Captain Smith was
Knocked overheard by the mainboom when
his schooner was of ,Nap-Tree Point, and
III; s hody wasn'tfound. But be has as good a
na;r NJ prayestones as if he was lying under
them as az one who goes into our grave
uard may see. All the Captains friends hope
you Mn set this thing right, and oblige
yosrs, JEHUDN BUCKLEY. /
| r. AsHBURY, December 5, 1874. !
ITO the Editor: aas - . .:a@rs5t !.
Respected fat the request Of several
members of my congregation I venture to
send you O. brief note, rather of explanation
than Of correction, of q fact stated in your
esteemed journal some days since namely,
that No stone marks the grave Of Captain
John Smith," The fact is, in one regard, I'M
occasionally true, yet, without due qualif.
cation. IL NAV lead to false differences. A
stutement; seemingly upimportant in itself,
NAV vet, in another century, become step.
ping!stone for the inductions Of truth orser.
ror which may move the world, The simile
of the overwhelming circles from the pebble
dropped 10 quiet pool is too familiar to
call for more than mere suggestion. Verb.
SAP But to recur to the special topic of this
communication, which i will endeayor to
make as short as possible, that I may not
unduly trespass on the space which yop
know so we'll how to fill with SO excellent
matter. t~sa III i. @ .s 81
lieutenant Jeroboam Smith Gin the Sc ven
tenth, century reften, written Smithe) was
one of three brothers who are believed to
have come over In the Mayfower, and who
settled III different parts of New, England.
Without pursuing the details Of the. gene
alogy, which may possibly DE of less inter
est 10 general readers than to members of
the Smith famiiy,f note only that of Lieu.
tenant Jereboam's three sons, two-Joseph
and Jeroboam, Jr.-have each numerous de.
sceudants in this and he9adjoining county.
Captain John Smith,a great. grandson of Jo-
seph .sdied In this parish November 2, 1898,
aged sixty-two, having; served with hon
or III the Revolutionary contest-so glo-
riously blest in its issue !! Another Cap.
tain John Smith, grandson of Deacon Jero-
boam, yr., in early life a navigator, deceased