Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-02
A LOVING TRIBUTE.
DEDICATION OF A MONUMENT OVER
MISS RANDoLpg's GRAVE.
PLACED THERE BY HER PUPILS.
The Address of Judge Duke on the
Occasion - Confederate Memorial
Day ut Observation-Disclosures and
Funerals.
Funerals.

CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA, June l.
| CSpecial)-Last November the Misses
Giles. OF Hagerstown Nd. and Miss Cally
T.. Ryland, OF Richmond, who had been
| pupils of Miss Sarah Nicholas Randolph,
wrote to 200 or zoo Of the girls who had
been students at Patapsco Institute, or
in Miss Randolph's later school in Bal
timore. and suggested a monument to her
| memory, and asked a contribution to a
| fund to be devoted TO that purpose. Every
one responded-a high tribute to Miss
| Randolph, as it showed how enduring IL
| her hold upon these ladies' which her gen.
tie and Invaluable services had won.
The monument was made by Wray, of
Richmond 1t is sdrcophagus shaped and
on one side is n raised cross; on the other
a record of the birth and death. The fol-
lowing sentiment from Lowell is inscrib-
ed: "As one lamp lights another, nor
grows less. so nobleness enkindleth no
beness," as also "In loving memory of
Sarah Nicholas Randolph, by her pupils"
THE DEDICATION.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon the monU-
ment was dedicated in the cemetery at
| Monticello. The religious exercises were
| conducted by the Rev. II. b. Lee, Of
Christ church. this city, and the address
was delivered by Judge r. T. w. Duke.
Judge Duke, after reviewing the splen-
| did work of Miss Randolph as a teacher,
said: Not content with being mere
| teacher. she gave to literature two Of the
| ablest biographies OF her time. Her Do
nestle Life Of Thomas jefferson has
| made the world know her grand ancestor
as the tender husband, the loving father
the high man. Shaking from his memory
| the SCOT and ashes with which the Chin
| ney-sweepers of biography and so-called
history had vainly attempted to blacken
1t. she exhibited the great author of the
Declaration Of Independence in his true
light. Before the searchlight of her affec-
tionate yet bold and independent scrutiny
the bats and night-owls that ever flock
about the majesty of a great life, at
tempting to belittle it. have fled into the
darkness, which is their fit dwelling place,
and their chirps and filthy outcries have
been shamed into silence.
Her life of that other great Virginan,
'Stonewall Jackson whilst not so widely
known, is no less deserving of notice.
Couched in exquisite English. of marked
simplicity, yet forceful dignity, it is not
unworthy OF a mace beside her life OF
Jefferson"
The speaker next referred TO the patti
ence and fortitude with which Miss Ran
dolph bore the long affliction Of a painful
disease, and concluded as follows:
"To-day her old pupils have erected this
monument as testimonial of their graft
tude and affection, and 1 as one who knew
and loved her bring to her memory the
poor tribute of my voice.
Monuments said Chateaubriand, are
for little men; for the great a stone and
a name.
Nowhere does the sentence find an
apter illustration than on this spot.
"Yonder lies one who filled not only the
highest station in the gift of his Common
wealth and of the Union, but whose fame
as political philosopher man of letters,
and transcendent statesman, grows as
the years grow. Jefferson dead is to-
day greater than ever was Jefferson
living, and yet above his ashes is a
simple shaft which bears emblazoned as
his noblest epitaph. not his rank as Gov
ernor or President and Minister and
statesman. not his titles as member of
learned societies, but the name of two
of the productions of his pen and of one
creation Of his genius-independenc in
dependence In education. By these. and
these only, he asked to be remembered, |
and by these will his memory last |
throughout all time
Here within the shadow of the shaft |
the people of the Union have erected to |
his memory the loving hands and hearts |
of her former pupils have placed this |
monument, bearing but a simple inscrip- |
ton, TO show TO future time where sleep |
the ashes of the great statesman's great |
descendant. For she was great-great in |
her own quiet life as he was i'm his life. |
against which beat the dread white light |
of fame; great in self-repression in self
sacrifice; great in purity; great in gen
tleness and tenderness, in sweet, pure
great in perfectness of suf-
fering and Of sorrow, and great in in
huence.
THE influence Of her ancestor is felt to-
day wherever human thought seeks new
outlets for human endeavor.
Her influence is felt at a thousand
and In a thousand lives, and
will grow and continue with those who
never hear the name.
who can tell where the teachers in
huence ends? Who may estimate the
force of character and thought and con-
science rightly led-for education as the
word signifies is but a leading He can
only answer, who can tell us where ends
the circle made by the stone cast into the
broad Atlantic, to whose touch alike the
Arctic and the Tropic zones respond? SO
the influence of this life of hers shall
grow and grow in circles widening here
and spreading there, until the last wave
shall die along this earthly shore, and the
daylight dawn Of the eternal morning"
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL-DAY.
At 5 o'clock this afternoon Confederate
exercises were held at the Uni
yersity Cemetery, where about 1000 sol
Hers are buried. The address was by Mr.. |
!. c. Taylor, of Richmond, at present
student at the University Of Virginia.
The funeral OF Mrs. Virginia Preston
deans will take place at noon tomorrow
rom Smthfield, near Blacksburg A dele
,aton of the alumni of the Miller Manu-
i Labor School will attend, and act as
Mrs. Means, who died In
Ala, Monday evening was
or many years matron of the Miller
school, and was known of the boys of
hat orphan school as Nanny Jennie.
j. c. Smith, of Rochelle. Madison coun-
y, brother of A. G. Smith, died on the
9th, and was buried to-day. He was un-
married.
Miss Lucy Ann Childress, sister Of the
ate Clif. Childress, a former Sheriff of
Albemarle, died at 500 west Main street
t an early hour this morning, in the 18th
ear of her age. She will be buried near
arters Bridge at IL o'clock tomorrow.
Virginia. infant daughter of Mr.. NJ. f.
arman, died this morning, after pain
III illness.