Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-07
JEFFERsoN's MONUMENT.
Designed by Himself, Il Now Stands
at the Missouri University.

Designed by Himself, Il Now STANDS
at the Missouri University.
The original monument, designed by
Thomas Jefferson, and eretsed over
his grave at Monticello, now stands
upon the campus of the university of
Missouri at Columbus. 1t is simple
obelisk of granite, eight feet in
height, and without the slightest at
tempt at adornment. The monument
VIII form the center of the Missouri
university exhibit at st. Louis In
1908. Two miles from the spot where
Thomas Jefferson was born, near the
junction of the Rivanna and James
rivers. in Albemarle county, Va, on
the lands which he inherited from his
father. rises Monticello, or the Little
Mount, sos feet high, the home for
more than go years and the final rest
lng-place of the patriot and states
man.
During the long summer DAYS of the
year l765, on a rustic bench near its
summit, beneath the branches of a
majestic oak, could be seen two young
men, in the early bloom of manhood.
students of the law and devoted
friends. The one was Thomas Jeffer-
son and the other Dabney Carr. SEN
ator Vest thus described the scene:
Lifting their eyes from the pages OF
Cole on Littleton, they rested upon a
landscape of enchanting beauty, on
the right the lowlands of Virginia
stretched away In an unbroken plain
to the ocean, with the Rivanna and
James like threads of silver, whilst
on their left the Blue Ridge, ROBBED In
azure hue, looked down upon the
billowy hills that nestled ut their feet
1t was here that the two friends made
solemn compact, mutually pledging
their sacred honor, that beneath this
oak should be their burial-pace, and
here their ashes rest" Dabney Carr
died first. He married Martha, sister
of Thomas Jefferson, and eight years
later, at the very commencement of
what promised to he a most brilliant
career, died, leaving to the care of his
distinguished brother-in-law a widow
and six children. Fifty-three years
later, after Al years in public service.
Thomas Jefferson died and was buried
beside his boyhood friend under the
great oak. Among his papers after
death was found a rough sketch 10 ink
OF an obelisk, together with this in
scription, for marble tablet: Here
was buried Thomas Jefferson, author
of the Declaration OF American In
dependence, OF the statute OF Virginia
for religious freedom, and father OF
the University of Virginia"
The marble tablet which formerly
was attached to and formed part of
the granite obelisk, Was badly broken
when the university buildings we're de-
by fire on January 8, 1892. It
now, for safe keeping. rests under
glass in the fireproof vault of the proc
tor of the university. Thomas Jeffer-
son died bankrupt beautiful Mon
ticello passed into the hands OF
strangers, and the simple gravestone
was neglected and mutilated On
April IS, 1SS2--in the birth.month of
Jefferson-Congress appropriated &c.
900 for the erection OF a suitable
monument and to make other suitable
improvements over the grave of Thorn
as Jefferson at Monticello, Virginia"
When this new monument was erected
the original shaft was presented by
the Misses Randolph, the residuary
legatees of Thomas Jefferson, through
DR.. s. s. Laws, president, and DR.. A.
+. Fleet, professor of Greek In the
university of Missouri, to that institu-
ton. II was shipped from Monticello
by DR.. Fleet on July 4, 1888, and un-
yelled on June 4, 1885, upon the Mis-
souri, university campus with cere-
monies in which Senate, Vest, Thorn
as F. Bayard. then secretary Of state,
Senator Stephen b. Elkins and other
eminent Americans participated.
Aside from this tablet, the only in.
scription upon the obelisk is the sunk
en- figures showing the date of the
birth and of the death OF Thomas JET.
ferson. The shaft proper is 5Ik feet
high and rests upon base three feet
square. II had been Clipped some
what by relic hunters before it's re-
moval from Virginia. The tablet is
two feet by Is inches In size, and OF
highly polished marble. The monu-
ment stands in beautiful grass plot
on the east side OF the quadrangle of
the university campus. Not far from
1t is the original monument from the
tomb OF David Barton, the first United
states senator from Missouri, TO
placed at Boonville by a handsomer
shaft erected at state expense
Walter Williams In Portland OREGON