New-York tribune., 1907-10-06
TRAGIC BURIAL
IN WAR TINE.
GIRL READS SERVICE
OYER HER COUSIN.
Her Ozcn LOCer Shot Dead While
Guarding Her at the Craze.

On the old Berryville Millwood turnpike in the
historic Shenandoah Valley Of Virginia stands to-
day one Of The first places Of worship ever built
IN tlat part Of the state the "Old Chapel as II
Is c. He'd. 1t built about 1870 in what is now
CIarlle County, Va, the county famous for
the many battles fought its acres in the Civil
war the county that Governor Spottswood and
his knights Of the Golden Horseshoe first saw
when they gazed with delighted wonder from, the
summit of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains
upon the vale of the Shenandoah the garden of
the Old Dominion, the county in which live the
descendants OF those old Virginia families which
made the state famous in the history of the
nation
In this old timeworn stone chapel services are
still held. II has been the scene of MANY
strange and odd adventure. In its peaceful crave
yard the sound OF cashing sabres the Quick rattle
of carbines, the groans of the wounded and diving
were heard IN the stirring days of 81 to 65 more
than once. The blood of Mosby's dashing troopers
has dyed the grass in the chapel cemetery
On the plain oak floor OF this simple house of
prayer have knelt such fighting generals as Rob
ert Edward Lee. "StonewalI' jackson Pickett
Ashby Mosby, that blunt old bulldog Early and
tha. dashng cavalier J. E. B. Stuart
Ir its graveyard lies the dust Of many of Vir-
ginia's most promising sons, men cut off in the
prime Of life in the service Of their state or coun-
Try. On the ton bstones reads with startling
frequency rt5 S@c1 @ lmscTp.lons as Killed at York
town. Died from Wounds Received at the Bat
tie of New Orleans KILLED at First Manassas -
Killed in the Battle OF the Wilderness Killed
al cold HarbOr." Killed al Antietam"
Many Of the graves are unmarked They are
those Of the unknown dead. Soldiers who. killed
in some szir-nish or battle near bv have been
buried there, and now sleep the endless sleep in
this historic Virginia graveyard. Their names VII
never he known; their graves viii ever be hon
ored.
On sames eternal camping ground their silent
Ana Giory guards with the blvouao
Before this chapel was built there stood on the
same site an cid log cabin which was used as
meeting place. This cabin may have been erected
about 13S, although there is some doubt TO the
dste.
ministers had trouble frequently with their parish
toners. About the year 1852 OF them called a
vestry meeting, and the vestry not approving Of
some Of its pastors plans. became engaged in a
heated argument, in the course Of which the min
ise- himself assaulted OF the wardeus. The
assault is best described in the words Of old
chronicle of that time:
he tthe 1ninister) did lay on with one Of the
vesrrymen. a high dignitary and gentleman Of note
IN the neighbOrhood, who did wear high top boots
well creased, and shifting him first with words, he
did later personally assault him. tearing off his
Wig and scattering it like chaff before the breeze
Also ne did strike him upon the right eye, black
e!tng Il, and smiling him again powerfully on the
taw he did PROSTATE his antagonist upon the floor
aid when he sought TO rise the minister sInote
HIM again and laid him low. ON the next Sab
bath he preached from Nehemiah g. 5-25: And
I coEtended with them and cursed them and
smo,e certain Of them, and plucked off their
hair"
The present chapel appears to-day pretty much
II did when first built It is rectangular stone
building, with a sloping shirgle roof. The pews
are made OF unVarTiShed oak, with straight backs,
and are as uncomfortable as could well be. TIE
pulpit IS Of the high. old fashioned ones, with
winding steps leading up 10 it. Instead Of plates
t6ng used 10 gather the collection. ''alms bags
were made. and s1in used. They small
leather bags attached 70 oak sticks about three
feet IL length, and il is recorded that one oc-
cssioa a yestryman, becoming wroth with one Of
the congregation, did ''snite him grievOusly over
the head with the aims stick, spillirS the money,
which rolled the floor. and necessitatag
duel the day following. which ended with the
wounding Of one of the contestants The docu-
rnent does not specify which
II is also recorded that the minister received a
yearly salary OF sixteen hundred pounds OF to-
bacco. which was then worth about f2li