Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-05
Memorial Day at St. ClairSVille.
Eloquent Grafton.

May 30th this year was an unusually
pleasant day, and all nature seemed to
smile benignly upon the grizzled veter-
ans, and those who joined with them in
paying their annual tribute to their dead
comrades. Business was suspended at
least for portion of the day, and many
residences and business houses were
decorated with flags and bunting. While
there was not an elaborate outward show
of patriotic feryOr, there was ample proof
that every one recognized and respected
the occasion.
Memorial services were conducted un-
der the auspices of Drummond Post, No.
203, g. A R., John J. Rennard, Comman-
der, and it was half-past one o'clock
when the veterans, about 20 in number,
formed at their headquarters and march
ed to the schOol-house, where they were
joined by large number of school chill
dren, and thence proceeded to Court
House Hall, where the exercises were
held in the presence of an audience which
crowded the hall Rev. DIR. ]. H. Hollings-
head pronounced fervid prayer, and SO
little girls attired in white with sashes of
red, white and blue, carrying handsome
silk flags, gave beautiful flag-drill I'M
der the management.of Miss Lide Ander-
son. Adjutant Henry NJ. Davies read
the Memorial orders from National and
Department headquarters, and other ex-
ercises were had, during which at inter-
walls male quartet, composed of Messrs.
J. B. Longiey, W. B. Gilmore, d. H. Mil
ligan and J. B. McMechan, with Mrs.
Jessie M. Carroll at the organ, rendered
some beautiful and appropriate vocal
music.
Rev. DIR. G. c. Sedwick, who was the
orator of the occasion, delivered an ad-
dress full of patriotism and replete with
good advice, which was warmly applaud
ed. The substance of the Grafton will be
found below. AT its conclusion the aud
fence was dismissed, and the soldiers
formed into line and were each furnished
with pot of flowers which they bore to
the NJ. E. Cemetery. Here, as is the Gus
tom, the service of remembrance took
place at the grave of Captain Thomas
Drummond around which the veterans
stood with barred heads while the ritual
of the G. A. r. was being read in an i'm
pressive manner, and upon which the
freshest, brightest flowers of May were
scattered in profusion. The funeral ser
vices at this grave over, the comrades
with their colors wended their way
through the cemetery, and seeking out
each patriot tomb, planted upon it a pot
of geraniums, and covered it over with
beautiful flowers" not forgetting the
grave of Col. Ebenezer Cooper, of Revolu-
tionary fame, which for the first time
was sought out and decorated. The work
of decorating the graves at the M. E.
Cemetery over, the Post, headed by the
drum corps, which furnished the martial
music for the day, proceeded to the
Union Cemetery, whence a great many
friends of the deceased loved ones had
gone, and remembered each soldiers
mound with flowers. The duties of the
day fittingly performed, the "bOys," with a
more unsteady step than they had twenty
five years ago, marched to their quarters
and "broke ranks" more firmly resolved
than ever to keep sacred the memory of
those who went out and never came back
DIR. sEDWICK's ADDRESS.
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