The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-12


ration of the Graves of the Soldiers
Who Sleep in Beautiful lakewood.
TO the memory Of the heroes who fell
in defense of the Southland, the people
of Raleigh yesterday paid their loving
tribute.
Metropolitan Hall was deel<ed in
eyergreens and garlanded with flowers
in honor OF 4he sanred dead The speak
er's stand was draped in white with a
Tyre of living green outlined in ferns
and ivy on its base. Over the box on
the right hand was hung the battle
flag of the Confederacy, the Southern
Cross The left box was draped in
Confederate flags, and from its centre
was suspended the blood-stained, battle
SCARED standard of the famous Bethel
Regiment of which General Leven-.
thorpe was sometime commander.
Just under this flag, on an easel, stood
an excellent portrait of the honored
General, and this was tastefully drap--
ed. On the frame was fastened the
sword he wore while in the service OF
Her Majesty i'm the army. of Great
britain.
Among those seated on the stage
were: Capt. s. A, Ashe, Chief Marshal.
Col. Edmund Jones, the orator of the
dav; His Excellency, Governor Elias
Carr: DR.. Eugene Daniel, Chaplain OF
the Memorial Association: DR.. p. E.
Hines. Commander Junius Daniel
Camp. G.. Y. A.: Capt. G. B. benson,
Justice Al. G. Avery, Justice wa. Mont
gomerv. Ex-Chief Justice James Z,
Shepherd. Col. John G. Scarborough,
Mr.. Samuel J.. Patterson, Commission
err of Agriculture, f. II. Busbee, Esq,
and Others.
The Junius Daniel Camp of Confeder-
ate Veterans, the veterans from the
Soldiers Home, and the old soldiers
from Wake and surrounding counties
we're seated in body in the right of
the hall
Mrs. Collett Ieventhorpe, widow of
the General found it impossible to att
tend. and she was represented by her
lzinspeople, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel i.
Patterson, of Caldwell.
a choir of twenty voices rendered
as a prelude There is a Land Of Pure
Delight"
Rev. DIR. Eugene Daniel, Chaplain Of
the Ladies' Memorial Association, of
fered prayer.
This choir sang abide With Ne"
General Leyenthorpes fayorite hymn.
Capt. S. A. Ashe, the chief marshal,
then introduced Col. Edmund Jones, Of
Lenoir, the orator Of the day.
Col. Jones subject, tThe Life and
Public Services of General Collett
Leyenthorpe,n was inspiring enough
for any speaker, and he did it full JUS
-. r
and excellent delivery. and combines
with them the force OF logic and the
charm Of eloquence.
1T is to be regretted that we have
space for only short summary Of his
excellent address, which will later be
printed in pamphlet form.
Mr.. Jones said, in part:
Across the wide ocean from Old
Albion early in the year 1643, there
came young and gallant Englishman
to the new world, full of that spirit
Of adventure common to all generous
minds seekin recreation, the knowl-
edge of men gained by travel, and
perehanee fortune. He was no ordi-
nary immigrant escaping from narrow
chances and adverse circumstances
from class restrictions and political
repression. but a scion of one of the
Oldest and knightliest houses of that
illustrious land, from which we draw
our laws, our customs. our religion,
our institutions, and the blood that
feeds our hearts.
ssCoIlett Leventhorpe, Brigadier
General in the Confederate Army, was
born on May 18th, 1915, at Exmouth,
Deyonshire, England, where his par
ents were Temporarily residing for the
benefit of his fathers health, and was
the youngest of three children. He
was descended from a very ancient
and knightly family, of Leyenthorpe
Hall, Yorkshire, who afterward set
tied I'm Hertfordshire at Shingey Hall,
in the reign of Richard il. By James
/ they were created baronets.
Sir John Leyenthorpe was one OF
the twelve executors of Henry ",
bluff Prince Hal of Shakespeare's great
play. Doubtless he was familiar with
many of the mad pranks of that royal
scapegrace, il not in company with
rare. old John Falstaff and Pions, Nym,
Bardolp and Ancient Pistol, at the old
Boar's Head Tavern, at least with boon
companions more real, if less pictures
que than the inimitable creations of
Shakespeare's genius.
His mother was Miss Collett, who
was descended from the first Lord
Suifield, and also from the same family
as John Colet, Dean OF Saint Paul's,
the great reformer.
'.Collett Leyenthorpe was educated
at Winchester College, and afterward
studied three years under a private
tutor. The soldier element of his na-
ture early showed its predominance;
and the military instinct which was his
from long line Of brave ancestors
turned early to that profession so al
Turing to young men of his birth and
antecedents. In September, 1882, when
only seventeen years of age, he re-
eeived from William ", then in the
third year of his reign, a commission
as ensign in the Fourteenth Regiment
of foot in the royal British army; the
commission bearing the autograph
signature Of King William and of his
prime minister, Lord Melbourne. In