The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-07-21

In the l4rh civil district of the Empire
county of Tennessee, on the north side
Of, and but q few yards from the main
highway that leads from the quiet and
pleasant little village of WilliAmsport
to the tlourishing, busy and gay city of
columbia, and about two miles from the
5Drmer, the Traveller in passing may OBJ
serve the spot where Tepose the re-
mains of as gallant hero as ever drew
2 Ilade in defense of his country, OF
tipped his hat to the patriotic strains OF
the Star Spangled Banner. We speak
Of the gallant, dashing, daring and in
trepid Brigadier General Richard VIM
It revolutionary fame and native son
Of South Carolina, who after brilliant
career in the cause of his country's
struggle for independence, and long
period of faithful service in the halls Of
Congress from his native State emf
grated TO Tennessee, to possess his
tights which generous and good gov
eminent had donated to him in the
shape Of five thousand acre grant of
her virgin soil. And upon which he
lived and passed the remainder of his
days in that peace and comfort which
j most certain to follow those who are
soncious of having performed their duty
70 God and their country. Now to the
strange parting wish of this brave and
yrue man. 1t was his last dying request
that his grave should be dug North aud
South, and so it was, and to this day
and by it alone, except by a patch of
bushes, briars and brambles can his
resting place be designated. There are
aut few now living who are familiar
with these facts. In feet the writer
knows of but one who could with any
degree of certainty identify the spot,
and that one is Esq. James Brinu, nov
citizen of the district and who has
been for more than fifty years worthy
and of whom we have obtained the
facts of this article. Although no left
aous and daughters who married and
,aised families none OF them, nor theiI
descendants ever, from some cause OF
Dther, did as much,as stick stake OF
mark a rock by which his grave could
@e identified. Is it not dark spot upoI
the fair escutcheon OF our glorious uniOl
and singing rebuke to pOsterity
Then is it not stranger than fiction tina
not one of them nor their descendants
Eat this time) own or possess in any
way one single solitary square iuch o
THAT priucely estate; for such. ale thu
Acts. But does it matter whether they
10 " not, or whether his grave was duj
North and South, East or West, o
whether his resting place be known by 1
ehsft Of enduring granite with his nam
sngraven upon block OF Parian mar
Me, or whether by patch Of bushes
5riars and bram0es? IT'S all the sam'
~ him for it is indsibly inscribed upol
that living tablet, and along side Of
those OF his cOmpatriots whose names
are Washington, Lee, Putnam. Greene
Sumter, Marion and others and Their
I will shine in living characters unit
the sounding of the angel Gabriel
trumpet is heard saying that time is II
more. Now tell me you professors @
Gle sciences, you thinkers of the differ
snt creeds, you solvers of abstrus
problems if you can, why his last rt
luest? If it was not that he foressw, o
Mad a knowledge of the slow and snail
like movements of the ponderou
machinery of our great government
and that he believed, that the tim
would come when his country wOul'
desire to know where he was laid, 5
That fitting tribute could be erecte
30 his memory, or, at least, sOmethin
more creditable to the government, thu
he helped to establish and loved :
well, than patch of bushes, briars an
5rambles.