New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-05
EDW4RDSS BIRTHPLACE.
Connecticut Village of South Wind-
sor-EGercises To BE Held There.

South Windsor. Conn. Oct (SpeciaD-South
Windsor, East Windsor. as 1t was called at
the time of the birth there of Jonathan Edwards,
lies strung out along the broad street connecting
Hartford and Springfield AS one glides along the
street on the Springfield car one is never certain
when has entered South Windsor and when
has left it. The entire town., as recent VS.
itor described IT, seemed to be situated on the
turnpike. At short intervals stood houses OF the
various New-Engand types-houses with gambrel
roofs with pillared portices; houses severely
plain; houses with big chimneys: houses with old
fashioned narrow double doors and fanlights up
among the trees. One house of brick was almost
entirely covered with cinging vines. The vines
were so thick that one could hardly the brick
At side a beautiful old fashioned garden
in full blossom The prevailing color pink
for pink phloX abounded-but there were white
phlox, striped ribbon grass and light green clus-
tiers of coming hydrangea blossoms In the rear
were trumpet flowers.
Between the houses were fields of tobacco Some
OF the fields stretched the hill beyond ones
ken. in seemingly interminable rows. In many
fields men were busy topping the plants, for there
many of the pink tubular blossoms to be seen.
Tobacco, to all appearances, was the chief crop.
Il had determined to take a photograph of the
edifce of the Congregational Church. of which
Timothy Edwards. the father of Jonathan Ed
wards the first pastor. and get picture of
the grave of Roger Wolcott, and asked the
ductor of the car to Jet me off at the South Wind
sor church. We swung past typical New-Eng-
land church. and had run along perhaps a chird Of
a mile. when the conductor rang the bell to stop
the Moving along the running board TO a
point opposite the seat where 1 sat, he remarked
with ingenious air: I didn't suppose you
wanted to stop just at the church. 1t is back
couple Of blocks / thanked him for his courtesy
in a spirit of forgiveness which Jonathan Edwards
himself could not have excelled. dismounted, and
lugged my bag, camera umbrella and book back to
the church.
THE church is naturally not the building IN
which Timothy Edwards preached during the sixty
years OF his pastorate in the first half of the
eighteenth century. and in which his illustrious
heard in his fathers later years. 1t is
surrounded three sides with cemetery. in the
tangled weeds OF which l sought for half hour
in vain for the grave of Wolcott. only to learn at
the end OF that time that there was another oider
cemetery about mile away in which his bones
might possibly rest The basement doors OF the
church were open, and stole UP stairway. smell
ing Of the kerosene with which the building is
lighted, to the main auditorium suppose Ihe
sexton fed his lamps on that stairway 5Ts dag
memorial and stained glass wtndowsoone to the
After spending an hour about the church and yard
[ boarded another trolley car bound for Spring
At the time Jonathan Edwards vent back to
toner's gave II as their opinion that aIIhouSn NI;
Edwards was perhaps the more learned man ana
more Sb.maed IN 4s THAT y' the Rev Mr.
Timothy. who said of his resources In connection
withal my sixty feet Of daughters must be clothed
was anxious for the progress of his son iona than
his studies is manifest from the following letter
addressed TO his wife:
''To Mrs Esther Edwards. the east side OF
the Connecticut River at Windsor desire thee
to take care that Jonathan don't lose what he hath
learnt but that he has got the accident and about
two sides OF 'Propra quae Maribus' by heart 90
that he reap what he hath got would therefore
have him say il pretty often TO the girls
Early in his teens Jonathan Edwards left South
Windsor TO enter Yale College, and did not return
TO live there continuously.
Services held to-day and viii be held to-
mn in
of the birth Of Jonathan Edwards, in the FIRST
Congregation Church. of which the Rev.
G a Joquth is pastor. This evening Dr.
George NJ Stone preached on Jonathan Ed
wards as an Evangelist" Tomorrow there Will
be services in the church in the afternoon at
which there will be greetings from Yale University
by Professor Lewis O.. Brastow. from the First
Church Northampton, by the Rev. DR.. Henry I.
Rose and from the descendants Of Jonathan Ed
wards by Professor Theodore S. Woolsey. and an
address by the Rev. DR.. A. Z. Dunning, editor or
'fThe Congrega tionalist." The exercises will be
followed by visit TO the birthplace Of Jonathan
Edwards and to the grave Of his father the Rev
Timothy Edwards In the evening there Will De
brief Informal addresses and historical address
by Judge John A. StouShton.