Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
SCOTT MONUMENT
Dedicated at Waierlown This
 Afternoon By ihe D. A. R.

I
 ters of Daughters of the American
 Revolution, was dedicated this af-
 ternoon at o'clock. The monu-
 ment Is memorial to commemorate l the sufferings and torture inflicted by the Indians upon Jonathan Scott
 and his wife, Hannah Hawks Scott. The sufferings of Jonathan Scott
 have been related again ald again
 and almost everyone in this city and l the surrounding towns is now ia
 miliar with Scott's adventures with
 the Indians, how he was captured and held in Canada for a number of years, and the fate of his children,
 which the Daughters of the keyolu-
 tion have often discussed before. | To keep alive his memory the
 Trumbull chapter of Warertown and l the Melicent Porter chapter of this city with the descendants of the
 Scotts decided to raise money to
 erect a suitable memorial. They succeeded in collecting enough money | to build the monument.
 The address of welcome at the dedication was delivered by Mrs Mer- ritt Heminway, vice-regert of the Watertown chapter. The response
 was made by Mrs Emily A. shannon, l descendant of Jonathan Scott in the sixth generation. The school chill dren of Watertown then sang the
 Battle Hymn of the Republic. The monument was then unveiled,
 Miss Jeanette Cowell, descendant of Jonathan Scott in the seventh gen.
 eration, disclosing the monument to
 the public view. It is handsome memorial and fitting tribute fol whom it was erected.
 The next number was to have been an address on "The Family History
 of Jonathan Scott" by William o.
 Bates of Indianapolis, secretary of
 the society of Colonial Wars of h.
 diana, and also descendant of
 Scott. But he was unable to attend,
 so paper on the same subject was
 read by Mrs Shannon.
 Judge George H. Cowell gave some
 interesting "reminiscences of ancient
 times, and a poem written for the
 occasion was read by the Rev J. G.
 Davenport, D. D. The address of
 the day on "The D. A. R. Memorial
 Work" wss to have been delivered
 by Mrs Sara T. Kinney of Hartford, the state regent, but she was unable to attend because of illness, so her paper was read by Mrs John L. Buell. of Litchfield, the state vice-regent.
 It was in part as follows:
 Memorial Work of the Connecticut
 Daughters of the American Revo- lutiOn.
 Tt is an unusual coincidence that the two interests in which I am most absorbed are represented here to-day by the society of Daughters of the American Revolution and the Con- necticut Indian association. In one and the same ceremony we have commemorated the virtues and the sufferings of Revolutionary ancestors and deplored the vices and cruelties of primeval ancestors whose de- scendants have suffered enough from the hands of the white race during the past 200 years to justify us in now drawing the mantle cf Chris tian charity over the vicious lives and gruesome acts and i1 admitting that until it is sanctified by the grace of God human nature is pretty much the same the whole world over.
 Less than 1000 years ago-and We have it upon the best of authori- ty that thousand years are but as one day-our own Saxon ancestors painted their bodies, clothed them- | selves in the skins of wild beasts, lived upon roots, herbs and berries, | worshipped idols, tortured their en- mics and sacrificed human beings | upon the altar of their false gods
 No one can truthfully affirm that | We are even yet wholly civilized, but | there Is temptation to believe that we are doing fairly we'll at the un- dertaking. And we may be very sure that the lives that were lived | and the deeds that were done twen- ty centuries ago by ancestors white, red, black or yellow--are not the lives and deeds of their descend ants of to-day. Perhaps 1t is not amiss to remind ourselves this afternoon that although it is much slower evolution is much surer than revolution to accomplish neces- sary changes in the nature of prime val man. know quite well whereinI the Indian resembles the ,.ttle girl of whom we read in the story book when he is good, he is very. very good, and when he is bad he is hor- rid"
 The speaker then went on to men, ion the memorial work of the in Connecticut. and what .hese stones and tablets really mean .o the people and to the chapters. She stated that memorial stones have already been erected by the Daugh- CTS of the American Revolution in Iorwalk, Berlin. Norwich. Fairfield. Ansonia, New Canaan. Windsor, Rockville. Sufield. JeNstt City. winsted. Greenwich. East Hartford and East Iaddam. Bronze tablets in a way similar to he wayside stones have been nn- ,viled by the Daughters in New Lon lon. Hartford. Waterbury. Meriden, lanbury, New Haven. New Milford, Norwich, Bridgeport, Fairfield. Will lmantic, New Britain and Rockville.
 She mentioned the fact that Revo- ationary homes still standing have cen suitably marked by chapters in ariOus cities and that masy of the i'd graves in cemeteries have been poked after. Two chapters alone. hose of Hartford and Derby. have 1 estored over 1000 Revolutionary rave stones. and probably another housand would represent the work