The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-10

 Lie here inferred. They lived lovingly together in wed lock fifty-five years, And without an estate or any gainful employment,
 By constant labor and honest industry. Maintained a large family comfortably, And brought up thirteen children and
 seven grandchildren respectfully. Be encouraged to diligence In thy call
 ing,
 And distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man, She q discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son
 In filial regard to their memory
 Places this stone.
 This inscription was nearly oblit erated and a number of citizens as mark of respect to Benjamin Franklin. placed there a granite shaft with this inscription on a bronze plate:
 Franklin.
 A very attractive stone for children looking for history and fact. reads:
 Paul Revere
 Born
 in Boston
 January, i734,
 Died
 May. ISIS.
 )n the right gate we read Granary Burial Ground
 1860.
 within this ground are buried: John Hancock. Samuel Adams and Robert Treat Paine, signers of the Declara- tion of Independence.
 Then follows a list of Governors of Massachusetts and several prominent ministers.
 For years the only marking of the grave of the President of the Provin- clAl Congress was this simple inserip- ton on a bit of rough stone: Tomb of Hancock. Tn 1895 the Commonwealth erected iine steel monument over his grave. The grave of another of the signers. Robert Treat Paine, Is near that Of | Hancock. He was Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in | Supreme Court.
 One of the most famous boulders placed here by the Sons of the Revo- | lution of Massachusetts is to Samuel Adams and reads: Here lies buried l Samuel Adams. Signsr of the Declaration of Independ- ence. Governor of this Common wealth. l leader of men, and an ardent patriot. 1 Born. 1732. Died, 1908. | This same society placed another stone or boulder to the memory of James Otis. Tho plate reads; James Otis. i Oratorical patriot of the Revolution. 1 Famous for his argument against the | Writs of Assistance. Born. l725. Died | 17s3.
 In April. 19o4. in the garret of the l old Robbins house in Acton, Mass. was found a yellow manuscript which reads | as follows:
 I've. the subscribers. do solemnly 1 agree and promise that we will ob- l serve and conform to the. Association | of the Continental Congress" and do 1 hereby make 1t our own particular act | and covenant, until we obtain an am 1 pie redress Of our grievances as Is specified in said association--as wit ness our hand this fifth day of Decem- ber, 177t--oG the twenty-seven sigma lures to this paper, the one autograph most impressive is that of Isaac Davis. who fell at Old North Bridge the 18th of April. TITS.
 Lexington was on the line of march nf the Kings army. hence here occur red the first clash of arms. Here. too were peacefully sleeping in the parson- axe John Hancock and Samuel Adams whose capture was greatly desired. Other guests at Parson clark's that night were Madame Lydia Hancock aunt of the patriot. and Dorothy Quin- cy. his betrothed. but fortunately the minister's house was not visited.
 There is a bronze statue. command I modern sculptor's conception of the minute man, while the stone cannon by the school house and various tab let's aid in telling the story from one generation to another. The marble statues of Hancock and. Adams seen 1T Memorial Hall. placed there on the Gen tennial. April 19, 1875. and the old par. sonage. "Clark's Tavern" as the British called 1t. serve to enhance the interes of our generation.
 The first. and for many years, thu only memorial at Concord was a sim pie granite monument. hewn from 1 ! boulder near the town, and erected or the bank of the river where the Brit Ish stood because of the marshy na ture Of the land where the Amerieani were located.
 The little town of Bedford. not faI from Lexington, has. as a memorial the old colonial banner under whicl her seventy-seven men fought so faith fully.
 Among the almost unknown heroe: of that skirmIsh at Lexington was thl minute man Ramsdell who ran in hi stocking feet from the marsh where he was gunning, all the way to Lex lngton., faced the British in the mddl' of the road, fired once, and fell fiddleC with bullets His story has not beer told in letters of iron or stone. bu like the traditions of the Indians, ha been handed down from father to son and can never be forgotten while descendant of the Lexington battl, lives.
 "By this time the whole country wa fired by the passion of war. Mer armed of their own accord and within d few days an army of twenty thou sand patriot soldiers gathered abou Boston,"
 John Stark came down with tn, militia of New Hampshire. Old Israe Putnam. with his leather walStcoat on hurried to tho noarost town, mounte, q horse and rode to Cambridge, a dis tance of one hundred miles. in eighteen hours. Rhode Island sent her men un der Nathaniel Green. Benedict Arnol' came with the ProNincials of New Ha velI."
 Ethan Allen made war In the othe direction. Generals Howe, Clinton an Burgoyne reached Boston on the 25tl of May. just beginning to feel that tn Americans were a fearless foe and mus be fought in earnest Then came tn battle of Bunker Hill with Colone Prescott at the head of the Provincia forces. General Putnam and Genera Warren arrived too late. and lnstea of taking the lead as their rank woul suggest. allowed Colonel Prescott | carry out his plans and took thel niaces as privates and fought long an we'll General Warren losing his If for his country, bu: his fame has livec and every school boy and girl know the story of his patriotism. Bunke HIll monument tells 1t every day t It's many visitors.