The age-herald., 1901-03-24


 president of the Continental Congress minister to Holland, captive state pris- oner fin the Tower of London for several years, and one of the commissioners with Franklin, Adams and Lee. who formed the treaty of American independence with Great Britain. was cremated at 'Mepkin,' his estate. by his own request
 At "Hayne Hall" in St. Pauls parish Colleton County, South Carolina, few miles from Jacksonboro, on the Edisto river can be seen the unmarked grave of the Martyr Hayne," who on August 4, liSl, died, intact; but of the homestead it. self only the chimneys remain. the build ing having been>Sburned during the late war. Here, in this secluded and beautiful spot rest the remains of the old signer
 Bolt upright against the wall back of the chancel of the old St Mehaefs church In Charleston we find a plain headstone with this simple inseriation
 25th of February, TAG; died August 1895 This was the grand old Roman who ut tered the famous words. Millions for de- Tense, but not cent for tribute. He was also signer of the constitution of the United States"
 By his side Hes Charles Plnclzney, an- other siguer, with a similar headstone.
 In a secluded burial ground at Ran towra's 8 Bridge, in the parish of St. Paul's, $. C., lies the gallant hero at Cowpen B. Trenton, Eutaw Springs and Hobkirhe Hill, Col. William Washington was led from his cell in the basement of the old postoffice In Charleston, $. C, and exc cuted at Radcliffe's Garden then stu- ated above the old fortlncation lines. now known as Radcliffe street, at a point be- tween Jasper court and Cummings street.
 William Gilmore Simms, the South Car olina novelist and historian. has given the most graphic description of this event in his Katherine Walton. '
 At the south end of Cumberland Island, off the Georgia coast, at place called ' 'Dungewise, now owned by Mrs. Thom- as Carnegie, we find q little fRnily bur- ial plot, containing several dark liehen- covered slabs, upon which the iascrip- tions arc placed. Onaof them covers the grave of the gallant Night Horse Harry Lee, the father of Gen. Robert E. Lee of Virginia.
 General Lee was wounded while trying to quell riot in Baltimore in 1S11 With the hope of restoring his health he took a sea voyage, and stopped at Cumberland Island to visit his old friend and com rade, General Greene, where he died and was buried in the plot containing the graves of his wife and her daughter.
 It is a lovely spot overlooking Gumber- land Sound The walk leading to the bur ial enclosure is lined with banana trees, and is known as "The Banana Walk"
 uiiShl anu JdSDtT groves dTt uu- known. Mount Vernon and the Tomb of Washington were purchased by the ladies of the Mount Vernon Association who have spent thousands of dollars preserv- ing and beautifying the place. It is sad that the old Jefferson mansion, on the summit of Monticello, did not fall into their hands, The old brick structure has been arrested from the tooth of time by stranger, who charges an admission fee to visitors Jefferson's grave was rescued from oblivion by an act of Congress
 On the fly leaf of an old book of ac- counts for TAI was found, after Jeffer- sons death, the following in his hand, which was supposed to refer to the place where he would have his body sleep in peace: Choose some unfrequented vale in the park where is no sound to break the stiffness but a brook that, bubbllng, winds among the woods-no mark of hu- man shape that has been there. unless the skeleton of some poor wretch who sought that place out of despair to die in. Let it be among ancient and venerable oaks; intersperse some gloomy ever greens. Appropriate one-half to the use of my family; the other to strangers, servants. etc Let the exit look upon a small and distant part of the blue noun tains."
 A little way from his old residence. which crowns Monticello, and q little way to the right of the Charlottesville toad, in a thick growth of woods, still and lonely as he could wish, is Jefferson's grave. There is no vale, no brook to murmur, no sound but the soughing of the winds in the evergreens. There are some thirty graves in a space about one hundred feet square, which was enclosed by a brick wall ten feet high. On the south side this wall had fallen into a ruin; on the north and west side it yet stood The iron gates on these two sides were locked in rust Virginia creepers adorned the west wall. The ground of the enclosure was neglected, grown up to grass. shrubs and weeds. Loose bricks and stones and vegetable decay and growth marked the place as a solitude if not a ruin. The tombstones were generally defaced and broken, many of them fallen and over grown with weeds and grass. About the middle of the northern side is the grave of Jefferson, precisely where he had often told Wormley, his old servant he desired to have it. The mound is trodden even with the ground. At the head of the grave was placed a coarse granite obe- fisk, nine feet high, which rested on a base three feet square, The monument was beaten and battered off except the part that tells his birth and death
 After Jefferson's death a rough sketch of an obelisk was found, after which this was patterned. Under the design was this inscription:
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