The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-28

gests another thought. We speak of great
men going to their final resting place"
and yet it seldom, if ever occurs to us
that sometimes their lifeless bodies travel
about considerably before final resting
place is found" Washington was buried
in 1899, but it was not until 1887 that it
found it's present resting place. Gen. An
thony Wayne, for a time citizen of
Georgia, was buried at a military post
on the shore of Lake Erie in 1895, and
his remains We're removed some ten years
later, to old Saint David's Church Gene
terry at Randor, Pa. His wife, Mary
Wayne, who died three years before his
death, is also buried there. jefferson Da-
Wis was first entombed al New Orleans,
and later on, his body was carried TO
Richmond, Va, and there re-interred The
remains of Count Pulaski. whose monu-
ment is one of Savannah's historic relics,
were, / think buried at sea, and in such
cases the first place of burial is indeed
the final resting place" OF Moses it was
said, mo man knoweth his sepulchre,"
and the same, j fear is too true Of many
great men whose neglected graves have
become lost to recognition.
am always glad to be corrected when
wrong by the readers of these letters who
are better informed than / am on certain
points No man is expected TO know ev-
erything, nor to be correct In all that he
thinks he knows, my thanks are therefore
due Mr. Charles S. Hardee, a prominent
citizen of Savannah for the following val
liable corrective facts: "In your very in
teresting letter of March 81 in
speaking of Capt. Henry Coppee (Cop-a) Of
Georgia. and Gen. Stephen V. Benet
(B-na) Of Florida, you say they were
among the most eminent graduates of the
University of Georgia. or old Franklin
College. As rule you are very correct
in your statement of facts connected with
the lives and services of our illustrious
dead, but in-regard to both of these names
! think you are mistaken when you cay
they were graduates. II. C.'s
name does not appear in the official cata-
loguc OF 1850, either as a grad
uate or matriculate, but the honorary de-
gree OF A. NJ. was conferred upon him in
1913. Gen. V. matriculated in 1874 but
did not graduate. He remained there
little less than year. when he left and
entered West Point Military Academy on
July /. 1916, ] knew him personally while
at Franklin College. for / entered the
same year he did. The degree OF
A. NJ. was conferred upon him by the
University Of Georgia IN 1856"
Mr. bardee ~ probably correct IN bis
statements, and have only 70 say that
the old Latin "caiaogus colleEll Frank
llnieRsir Athens" published In 1865, IN rs
peculiar arrangement Of tho Alumni"
WAS what led ma Into the errors be- has
kindly corrected. The names ~ file out
Fiderf upon whom honorary degrees were
conferred are 70 inlKed up with fho grad
uateH thar d requires more than . pass
lf.a al a. fssl
study ~ thia catalogue on MY par would
haye prevented tho Nrrafs npmsd iu fhiH
catalogue : nna she namfs ~ several Sol.
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