Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-21

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( TuE pITIr.AS ruaopIsT or THE Grave
! YARD.
Good and generous, loving others
more tban himself, was Henry Boyer,
! Of French descent who tells surviving
! races, with irightful ortbegrBphy,
1 "All you that Gums my grave 10 zee,
! prcpnlr yourselves 10 follow me,
| Repent and turn 10 God In time,
| You niay he taken la your prime"
Alexander Latimer, "a lineal dea-
| cendcut IAN Alexandrian said Of the
priest who wax incineratcd at The
stake with Ridley, when one church
WA gibbeting another In old England,
| died In l406, and II thus cmbalmed in
| immortal verse:
Here lies Alexander Latimer,
Who niIllction sore,
Long time he bore,
Physicians wHA In vain,
TIN God was pleased,
Death should him seize.
.tRd ease him Of his pain."
Then the epitaphmakcr, asserting
modestly the effectiveness OF his verses.
invokes Pope, and cxclnims-
| ooh! Death where ~ thy sting?
ONE oR AN EXTtsCr RACK
a good dame sleeps hard by the
modest stone that lits It's tme-worn
shape above the grave of ~. Lalimer,
Esp Much idle vanity was en-
! tombed with her. II she could look
about her Inst resting place how vain
would empty words become, telling
that she wHs related to several OF tho
first iaBuilies of Virginia aud Mary
land" Their names and deeds are now
u dim memory. The Hcur dc lis Of
Southcrn chivalry blossoms no more
forever. The old dominion and its
'ilrst families" are extinct, aud above
their tomb should he lifted n stone
loiticr and proudcr than all these
winch tell of the simple, honest lives
and virtues of men and women who
went to church and said their prnvers
with George Washington, and were
buried here one hundred years ago.
OTHER ALExANDRIAN ToMBs.
lust outside and west of Alexandria.
which IL itself living tomb Of its
former commercial activity, an an
cient gravcy ird has become II potter's
field. Old tonbstones, broken TO
pieces and made TO do service for sue.
tenement, rccitcin broken accents of
woe" the virtue of old Virgininns.
read oH broken slab, Precious
Nicholson, wife of Henry Nicholson.
died October %, 1907" She IL no lon.
ger precious. How Thoroughly forgot
ten IL shown by densnly tangled vines
and grass, making It almost impossl-
bic To read timc-worn inscriptions on
the discolored decuyiug stone. A
great tree has grown out OF u grave
displacing modest hcadstonc, on
which | traced tho words, Harriet
the wife Of Francis Washington
A vague, doubtful smile--.I could
not repress iistolc over my solemn
face when ] read on moas.covered
cracked slab ofgpy granite
Here lies s. liutchins, All obsef. 1901
Blessed ARE the dead who die in the
Lord,
IL Is hardly necessary to remark that
the gentleman thus apothcosized go
nontlnc Ia not the vigorous proprietor
of the Washington Port. But one
could almost ~ readily give assent to
the bcncdiction thus applied "a lend
credencc To the assertion carved on
another stone in letters and figures of
the Atylc of ono hundred years ago:
sacred to the memory of Mildred
Dixon, widow of Tom Dixon, who
died October -, 1910, In the one hun.
dred ana siNtlcth yenr of her age
Why have We not read of Mildred
Dixon, when scientist tell of the sur
vival of the ilttest? Why has not her
name become ns familiar as that of
Ihomhs Parr, who lived only one hun
dreu anti forty years, dying, | believe,
IN the reign OF good Queen Bess?
commissioners may speak falsely
OF human virtues. and nobody
objects, But when they pretend to re-
cite simple facts and diverge from the
truth, the readers Indignation Is
! heightened, because he has already
conceded 10 much in accepting asser-
| lions of the nintchless virtues of the
dead. One can hardly question the
solemn verify of tho yellow, time
| worn, unprctcnding slab that covers
| the ashes OF the ancient Mildred Dix.
on. The very shape of the several
| numerals, the evident ago OF the cary.
ing, and simple modosty of the thick,
J reddish stone used To perpetuatc Mil.
! dtcd's memory, indicate ihe truthful.
/ ness of assertions lettercd above he,
| bones.
rum FEMALE STRANGER
! Here the wild cherry tee of Singh
lar beauty, vigor and freshness. liits
| IA stately form above most attract
I'VE tomb, telling lts story of dcathlcss
love. The tree WAS planted no donht
nv the hand that built the tomb Il
! oNershadows, but tho builder and Ia,
dead are alike unknown. No name /,
traced upon the pondorous nlarhl,
alah resting upon sis supports, two
leet high and based upon heavy
MEX stone covering the grave. m,
whole is enclose by brick wall cap
nrd ny heavy carved blocks of granite
and was designed 10 endure througl
countless years. And Yet, strangely
ennigh, no name IL houorpd. w,
oniy KNOW that n woman sleen,
| thcre, and that she was entnmbed in
one who loved her tenderly. Reyond
this, We can learn nothing. He San,
annually through half y century. IN
the story goes, till tho country was
swept over by dcsolatinu war. N
plant flowers about the grave. HIS
| cyea were then damned by age ana
grieL People saw him Tor tho las,
time, ! am told. discharpmr his ~.
eustomcd silent task, IN spring-time
IN 1900. He removed the dust and
/ MOSS nom tho tonh with tr,,,,lii,,,