The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-22
RaIeigh's Two Cemeteries.
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taken away" On another side is his
family arms, a dog, the personification
OF faithfulness, and the family motto,
"Semper Fidelis.' Col. Burgwyn's regi-
ment suffered at Gettysburg the great
est loss of any regiment of all on both
sides in the civil war.
The third of this group of monuments
to noble trio OF dead. is also OF gran
lite, and is that over the grave of Capt.
Shotwell 1t bears the inscription:
randolph Abbott Shotwell, late captain
Company /, Eighth Virginia volunteers,
C. S. A. born 1S43 at West Liberty, Va,
died 1885 at Raleigh. A patriot whose
honor and constancy no sufferings could
weaken, no advantage tempt, no loss dis
nay. and in whom all the attributes of
.rue greatness were so nicely adjusted,
SO exactly placed, that it was not until
he had passed into life eternal that men
saw he had reached the full stature of a
man. This monument is erected by the
people of his adopted State"
A few feet outside of the Confederate
cemetery is monument to George B.
Anderson, brigadier General, C.. S. A.,
born 1881. died of wounds received at
the battle of Sharpsburg'' A furled flag
monument, which is white marble
shaft; the earliest erected here to
general officer
Unmarked, is the grave of Col. j. |.
Baker, late of the Third Massachusetts,
Cavalry, only few yards from that OF
the Second Independent church IN
Charleston. born 1855. died 1920
A grave which will attract attention
is that marked by massive marble
slab, raised two feet above the ground,
"To the memory of Joseph Gales, an
Englishman by birth but for period
of nearly 40 years a resident OF Raleigh
Born 1861. died 1872 He was one of
the most noted editors the State has
ever known and indeed as one of the
owners and editors of The National In
telligencer. had a national reputation.
Weston r. Gales, his son, born 1902, died
1914, lies near.
With the Masonic square and COM
pass deeply engraved on a massive mar
Bile slab, which is horizontal, is marked
the grave of David w. Stone. Near this
grave is that of ELAN Alexander. born
in Mecklenburg county, 1874, died in
Raleigh 1927.
prisoners, and they reciprocated this
fully. He died here and was given
military funeral. His body after SER
vices in Christ church was taken to the
cemetery on a gun caisson, the casket
wrapped in national flag, and under
military escort and buried on the
Cameron lot, Cameron and Atkinson be-
ing pall-bearers.
Near the entrance to lakewood is the
burial place of Stanhope Pullen, who
gave to the State the spacious and noble
site for the Agricultural and Mechanical
College and gave the city Pullen Park,
with it's 20 acres. 1t is the largest pri-
vate lot, with a triple terrace. and the
granite shaft is 20 feet in height. He
had all this prepared many years before
he died.
On entering the main part OF the ceme-
Bishop Lyman A massive marble slab,
Bishop Imam. A massive marble slab.
placed fiat on the ground. bears this
inscription under a bishops mitre, pas
toral staff, cross and keys. and that cir
Gle which is the sign of the beginning
and the end, eternity, the cycle of life:
'In memory of the Rt. Rev. Theodore
Benedict Lyman, d. D., LIZ D., ID. c. L.,
fourth bishop of North Carolina, born
November, 1873, died 18th December,
1884,
In few feet is the incomplete monu-
ment over the grave of l.. l.. Polk, the
States first commissioner of agriculture
and a pioneer in the once great Farm
ers' Alliance and also in the once ex-
tensive Populst movement. Only the
sub-base and base of the monument are
in place. The shaft is yet to come. The
monument is of polished granite,
and is under a white oak literally
swathed in ivy. The inscription reads
thus: "Leonidas Lafayette Polk, born in
Arson county. April "a, 1897 died in
Washington, d. c., January II, 1892.
Editor. orator, Christian. The friend
of popular education and civil liberty"
On another side Is an extract from a
speech he made July A. 1890.
A fine group of monuments marked
the burial place of the Mordecai family,
once power here. There are two mar
bic monuments of antique FORM like a
table with six-legs, rising 2h feet above
the ground. One of these is ''inscribed
to the memory Of Moses Mordecai, attor-
ney at law, in whom were united in
tegrity, talents and modesty with every
virtue to render him admirable, as a
son, a husband and a parent. In the
10th year of his age, at Sweet Springs,
in Virginia, on the LIST day of September,
1924, death severed these earthly ties.
May they be resumed in heaven" His
wife is buried beside him, with tomb
like his. She was a daughter of Henry
Lane. The graves of George w. Nor
decai, born in 1901. died in 1871; and of
Ellen Mordecai, daughter of Jacob and
Judith Mordecai. born 1870, died 1884
are near by. An antique sun dial stands
amidst the monuments.
A stately granite shaft, surmounted
by statue, marks the grave of Jona-
than MCGEE Heck. born 1881 in Mecklen-
burg county, Va, died in Raleigh, Feb
ruary 10. 1894. A Confederate flag placed
there on Memorial Day. flutters at the
foot of the monument. There are scores
of such flags in Oakwood.
An Irish cross. of brownstone, of the
shape seen in the very oldest pictured
monuments in England, is over the grave
of John Devereux, born in Raleigh 18th
December, 1915, died April 10, 1898" His
arms and motto "Virtutis Comes In
vidia," are on the monument.
Another cluStar of hpadStOnaS p1arIc