Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-11-04
Bill APPS Weekly Letter
CALLS ATTENTION TO NEG
LECT OF SOLDIERS
GRAVES.
mi Should Have HeadStOleS.
A VIRGINIA.; ASKS FOR INFORMATION
AND WILLIAM REQESTS SOME
ONE 70 ANSWER.


stock. Va, writes me that 'COlone.
William Holt of the Eighth or per
haps the Teulb Georgia volunteers,
died at his mothers home DUNG
the civil war. Ills body WAS ell
deily buried, foe he was soldier,
"A gentleman aud Christian, aud
we b, came much attached TO bin.
| think he was from NJ aeon, but We
have never heard from his kindred.
was then boy of sixteen, and
now there are o0iy CwO OF MS Nv.
ing VITO know of his grave. The
headDoard that marked IL has
gone to decay. Recently learned
that your wife was a Holt, aud
possibly may be related 10 or
Known OF this Colonel William
Hol, and hence | wnte to YOU"
WHO can respond to this letter
and who will mtlk that soldiers
grave7 Ny wife was not a H1It,
bat her mother was, aud as ali tn
G~or.id Holts are kin, either near
OF remote, she wishes me to make
inquiry aud do something tor this
forgotten man. She says: "Mr.
HO>hOur and his mother 0ave DeeD
kind aud thoughtful, aud now that
grave must be GENIAL ked. 1t will
cost only a dOtar or Two for "A
marble headstOue. | wonder what
branch OF the Holt family this
Colonel William Holt belongs to-"
| have looked over Colonel
Ayer,'s catalogue and find that
! CAPTAIN Willis o. HOlJ command.
ed company G. in the Tenth Ga.
regiment; hat he Afterwards he.
came maiIr aud then colonel OF the
regiment. Tuls regiment was com
manded first 3y Colonel Lafayette
McLaws, uext toy Alfred Cum
mlng, next 10y Juhn r.. Weems,
next by W. G.. Holt ana last 10y A
J. McBride. Of course some sur
wing comrade cau tel US abOrt
this Holt, aud will write to MI.
HoshOur. If the spirits OF The dead
30 hover around heir graves. ho -
near,l less II is 10 neglect them. j
Il sad enough to be uurled 10y
strangers altar from home aud
kindred. aud sadler sill to be
amony he unknown aud unre'
corded dead. o. course tnls can.
nor be avoided during var, Oul
lhere is 10 excuse for negitctiug
tue graves of klnrTed who are
buried within easy reach Of home.
If there be ghosts aud haunts
auG spectres tIequentiug grave
yards. they must come from these
uegl4cled graves Respect for the
boue Of the dead-tbe graveyard
The cemeIery-is one or tue besl
evidences of civilized and Klud
hearted people. Graves do not re
0uIre monuments, out they 40
silen ,ly demand attention. They
should be p'otec,ed trou wantOu
intrusion. There is grave here
uow in 20 abandoned cemetery, a
DotteI's field, over which rude aud
careless teet tramp daily, aud III
this grave Was Oured the loved 10
Georgia. A broken, mildewed
marble sla6 that has mis- name and
age lies upon The ground where il
nas fallen. l. is hlemisb upon the
family name that this grave OF tue
ancestor mas been so long neglect
ed. Ouce wrote % Il man aud
sug ggested that a simple shaft OF
tom hstone be placed over bis
fathers grave-a father dlstip'
Q ,isbed ln his d y-aud be wrote
one hat the wants of the living
we're more important than senti
mental bOuOIs to tho dead.
That man was wealthy. | bad 4
marble headstOne placed to mark
that grave. Woman has more
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