The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-22


Jones, died 1917; one to Leonard Smith,
of HEREFORD, died 1927; one to John ].
Bonner, of Hyde, died 1927; one to Wal
ter Adams, of Guilford, died 1884. All
these died while attending the session.
Many yards away is a marble shaft, in
lot bordered by rought granite blocks
which we're evidently once the founda-
tion of an iron fence, this being to the
memory of "Absalom Tatom, Esq, who
departed this life 1902. member of
the House of Commons for the town of
Hillsboro. Aged CO." Another monument,
quite large is to Gen. Frederick Grist,
of Beaufort county, who died while at
| tending the Legislature, as Senator in
1911"
Southey Bond, who three quarters OF
a century ago or more, was a leading
merchant, lies under a costly slab OF
marble, we'll carved, which tells that he
was born in 1870 and died in 1926. other
monuments near by are to Rev. James
| w. Thompson, who died in 1916 (erected
by the Presbytery of Orange, to Fere-
| bee Pugh Williams, the consort of Col.
John Pugh Williams, died 1918; and to
REV. Anthony Forster. late pastor of
| Of a cluster of massive granite shafts
| taken from the quarry near by which
| furnished the stone for the Capitol, that
to the memory of Rev. William McPhee-
| ters, D. D., is the most noticeable. He
was born 1878, died 1912, and was the
pastor to the city," a man of great
| force and moral worth.
| John Rex, a tanner, who gave his for
| tune for the establishment of public
hospital here. known as the REX Hos
pital," lies under a carefully kept slab
| of white marble. He died in 1929. The
| inscription sets forth that he was a ma
| tive of Pennsylvania and was one Of
Raleighs earliest and most devoted citi
zens, and that "he devoted the fruits
of his industry and economy to the pur-
poses of benevolence and charity"
Other monuments near that to Rex
are to "Oel A. Buck, a captain IN the
North Carolina Regiment of Volunteers
| in Mexico, died 1852; to Rev. Erastus
H. Foote, died 1S47. and to Samuel Sloan,
| born 1887. died 1915.
Beside a driveway is an deliberately
| inscribed monument, Gin memory of
Jonathan Cushing, president of Hamp-
dem Sydney College, Virginia; born in
Rochester, New Hampshire, 1898, elected
president 1921, died in Raleigh 1885.
Erected by the trustees to record their
grateful sense of his virtues, talents
and services to his institution"
The monument to Rev. Mr. Meredith.
one of the most noted Baptists this
State has ever known, is in this ceme-
terry.
Very near the western boundary OF
the cemetery is a brown stone shaft,
some feet in height, with the letter.
ing rapidly becoming dim. 1t is at the
grave of the father of q President of the
United States-that President Andrew
Johnston. The President was here when
this monument was erected and a sort
of tradition has it that in an address he
made then he said this man, said to
have been my father" But gentleman
who was present says he said no such
thing. The monument bears this simple,
in fact pathetic, inscription: I'm men,
DRY of Jacob Johnson. An honest man.
beloved and respected by all who knew
him. Born -, died January -. 1872,
from disease caused by over-effort in
saving the life of his friend"
One one side Of this Johnson grave is
one with a queer inscription: Patrick
Larimour, of county of Antrim Ireland.
Died Flint" 1t was in regard to this
grave that one Of the oldest imaginable
coincidence occurred. The writer was
reading Sir Walter Scott's "The Anti
quarry" and came across the words He
was a Flint" Walking out to this old
cemetery, perhaps an hour later, this
inscription on Larimour's monument
met the eye. 1t is said that a Flint"
is a person who will never work for less
than union wages"
monument which is touching evil
dence of love and devotion is near that
of Johnson. 1t is built up of rejected
pieces of stone, fitted with all possible
care, with little marble slab fastened
to the granite by screws, and all is kept
whitewashed, the rude border Of the lot
being also whitewashed.
lakewood Cemetery was laid off in
1866, and a portion OF it was set apart
as a Confederate cemetery. The burials
in the latter were among the earliest in
the State of soldiers killed in the civil
war. and in 1870 monument was reared
to the memory of these. 1t is massive
rather than lofty, and of unpleaSaing
design, being composed of a number of
pieces of white marble badly Joined to-
gether On it's western face are these
lines by the late George M. Whiting, a
local poet:
sleep, soldier, Sleep the struggle,
The battle-cry is hushed,
Our standards have been lowered
Our blooming homes been crushed;
Sleep for thy name is cherished
BY the bravest and the best,
And soldiers hearts and women's love
Are with thee in thy rest"
On the north face is the inscription:
In memory of our Confederate dead.
Erected A. D. 1879
All around are the low and square
granite headstones, each numbered,
which mark the graves. Two stones.
little higher, bear the words Arlington
Dead" and beneath them are the bodies
of the North Carolina soldiers brought
from Arlington in 1885 and received
with much ceremony. There are fresh
graves amid the greener mounds; the
graves of local veterans and of inmates
of the Soldiers Home The latter in
stitution has in the past ten years added
many graves to the number already
dotting the little cemetery on the hill.
There are three large monuments in
tbic Confodnrate cometerv One is that