The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-03
WITH HIGH HONORS
REMAINS OF GEN. GREENE WILL
BE COMMITTED TO EARTH.
IN THE SOIL OF GEORGIA
TIE SACRED DUST OF THE SOL
DER AND PATRIOT WILL REST.

Reinterment TO BE Under the Shaft
That Typihes savnnnah's Respect
and Reverence for His Memory rs
Outlined Last ApriI-Descend n N :
Have COnfided Arrangement to
Sons and Daughters of the RevO-
IutiOn-EIabOrate Civic, Military
and Masonic Ceremonies to 1IarlS
the Refinement of the Remains.
President Roosevelt and Governor
Gambler to he Asked to Attend.
AT the annual meeting of
the Sons of the Revolution at the De
Soto Wednesday night, the proposed
refinement of the remains of Gen. Ma
thanael Greene will be discussed.
By the unanimous voice of the sur
viving lineal descendants of Gen.
Greene the ceremonies attending the
refinement of his remains have been
confided jointly to the Georgia Society
of Sons of the Revolution and the Sa-
Savannah Chapter of Daughters of the
American Revolution
The plans for the occasion are yet in
their incipiency, but it has been prac-
tically determined that the refinement
will take place in May and that the Ee-
mains will be deposited under the
stately shaft that the people of Savan-
nah have reared to Gen. Greenes MEM
DRY and 'in honor of his great services
to the American Revolution" This was
the outline of the plan suggested last
spring.
Since the remains were discovered by
the committee of the Rhode Island So
ciety of the Cincinnati, headed by Col.
Asa Bird Gardiner, in April, they have
lain in the safety deposit vault in the
Southern Bank, pending the time when
the question of their ultimate DISPOSE
tion was determined.
There have been two strong appeals
made to the descendants of the Revolu-
tionary hero for the privilege of REIN
tering his remains. One of these came
from Rhode Island, the state of Gen.
Greene's birth, and the other from
North Carolina, in which the battle of
Guilford Court House was fought and
where some of Gen. Greene's most vail
liable services were rendered. The
state of Rhode Island has offered to
place the remains in a magnificent sar-
cophagus, to be erected in the new cap
itol at Providence, and in addition to
this to raise a monument to the MEM
DRY of the hero. A similar proposition
has come from North Carolina.
The descendants of Gen. Greene have
preferred, however, that his remains
should rest forever in Georgia, the
state he himself selected as his resi-
dence, where he lived the last years
of his life and died, and which he had
learned to love and reverence with all
the zeal and fervor of the native
Georgian.
They have so expressed themselves
in letters to Mr.. Robert 7, Waller, who
has interested himself, as the husband
of one of them, in securing their views
and wishes on the subject. They have
ali said they wanted the remains to
stay in Georgia and in Savannah.
These living descendants of Gen.
Greene are Mrs. NJ. r. Troup, of New
York, Mrs. George Harrison, of New
York. Mr.. J. A. K. Nightingale of
New York, Mr. William Nightingale of
Brunswick Mrs. r. j. Charlton, Sr,
Of Columbus, Miss E. M. tombstone of
Savannah, Mrs. Robert 7. Waller of
Savannah and Mr.. Louis B Morel of
Tallahassee.
There will be stately and elaborate
ceremonies attending the reinterment
L
the programme after that which was
followed when Gen. Greene's body was
laid to rest in the vault of the old CO.
lonial cemetery. The President of the
United States, the Governor of Geor-
gia, with his staff the Mayor and
Council of Savannah, the members OF
the Rhode Island Society of the Gin
cinnati, distinguished men from all
parts of the country, will be invited
20 h.w An1r
monies, and the sacred dust of the pa
triot and soldier will be committed to
its final resting place with high civic
military and Masonic honors.
There will be addresses by men OF
national reputation, and the Chatham
Artillery, which paid a soldiers trib-
ute of respect at the funeral of the
dead hero, will fire the salute.
The national conference of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Will be held in Washington, Feb. IT.
and Mrs. Edward Karow, regent OF
the Savannah Chapter, will bring the
matter to the attention of the dele
gates. 1t is possible that the national
society will determine to take some
part in the ceremonies, and be repre-
scented by delegation when they are
held. The annual state conference of
the society will be held in Savannah I'm
may anu the present purpose is TO Tx
the date for the reinterment for a day
on which the conference will be IN
session.
In this manner the ceremonies viii
be arranged and conducted, and with
all possible dignity and impressiveness
the remains of Gen. Greene. first bur
led more than a century ago, and for
nearly a century lost to the world in
the old cemetery vault, will be COM
Naaft f@.1 g.. H. e