Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-03
In Memory Of
THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX,
Who Died 1882,

| And Whose Ashes
! Repose Underneath This Church,
Which lie Endowed"
He has been descrbed as lover feet
I san, Of fine address, and possessing the
hereditary Fairfax distingue appearance"
His was a SAD llfe, for the fates ham
died HIM roughly. on account of losing.
through an act OF his mother. the estates
handed down nom a long line Of soldier
lords. he WINS Tilted by a faithless woman
upon whom be had lavished all the affcc-
ton Of his noble nature. The marriage
| contract had been signed. the trousseau
! ordered and even the guests invited. Sew
| oral years ago this contract was found
| In the dusty garnet OF q dilapidated old
| Virginia house. 1t was musty and yell
! low with age. yet still decipherable. With
| the consideration worthy his honorable
| character. Lord Fairfax had erased the
| lady's name, but left his own. as though
! 10 witness the loyalty Of his love. For
| this reason no left the society he was en-
| inently fitted 10 adOrn. and buried himself
| in the wilds Of Virginia.
He was intensely loyal 10 England, and,
! yet much interested IN the success Of
| Washington. TO whom he had become
deeply attached. IN October. 17S1, when
he learned that CORVALLIS had surrond-
| orod 10 General Washington. he exclaim-
! ed. That BOY that boy! The English do
| minion in North America overturned by
| that curly patow Then, turning 20 his
| old servant. he continued: Take me 10
bed, John; II is time for me to die" y
| few weeks later he died, at the age OF u.
| And now approach with reverence
| Alount Hebron. for beneath its trees
| sleeps General Daniel Morgan. the victor
Of Tarls.on, and the friend of Washing
! ton-ths Jackson Of the Revolution. His
| grave. in a square TO itself, Is marked
| only by a broken slab. sunk in the grass:
Major. General DANIEL MORGAN.
Departed This Life
On July the 9Th, 1902,
In the 67th Year of HIS Age.
Patriotism and Valor Were the
! Prominent Features Of His Character,
and
The Honorable Services He Rendered
During tho Revolutionary War
! Crowned Him with Glory, and VIII
Roman In the Hearts Of His
Countrymen.
A Perpetual Monument
10 His
Memory.
| Noqr the grave Of Morgan arc the ruins
! Of The old Lutheran church which was
used Us q barracks during the Revolu-
ton. it was begun I'm 1894 and burned
nearly a century later one ivy-clad wall
| IS sun Standing, ana JHe Otlelh BIC q H0"'P
! OF stones beside it.
Forming o. part Of Mt. Hebron is the
| "St0nowau Confederate Cemetery the
first one. either North or South. dedicated
| 10 those who fell in the civil war. 1t
| was formally opened October g. 1886 eX-
| Governor Wise being the orator Nir-
| ginia and Maryland have both erected
| beautiful monuments to their dead but
! the finest Of an is the shaft. surmounted
by q lfe-sza statue Of a Confederate SOL
der "to the unknown dead" No poet
| has ever exceled he pathos and depth Of
meaning of the sentiment inscribed upon
| its marble face:
"WhO they were none know.
What they were all know"
| Winchester in her time has snubbed
! royalty I'm $3.50 Louis Philippe d'Orleans,
| aftcrw1rd King of France and his bro