Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-18
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was once the home Of John Elliot,
1.-The apostle to the Indians" and
translator of the Bible into the Indian
language. 1t is a quaint little settlement
OF three or four hundred people. lying
around the shores of a stagnant pond,
but has beautiful golf links. The present
rector Of the church. Rev. G. w. Goddard,
was out upon them taking his daily exer-
else, so could not see him. But the
wife of the sexton, with her baby In her
arms, led us through the forest of grave
stones, and opened for us the old church,
which is one of the quaintest and most
picturesque I have ever seen. There is
nothing OF particular interest there. how
marriage. and the marriage of his sister,
Sarah Elliot. to William Curtis. founder
Of the clan of that name in America, who
accompanied his brother-in.law to America
on the ship Lion in 1880.
In the churchyard / found several curl
Gus epitaphs One Of them. upon the
tombstone of Elizabeth. wife of George
Standingford," read as follows:
Behold the tomb: It doth Embrace
A virtuOus wife, with Rachels cOmey face;
Sarah.s obedience: Lydis's open heart;
Martha's care, but Mary's better part
Nearby. on the tombstone erected to the
memory of Charlotte Hunt. aged eighteen
years. was the following inscription
Il left this world in blooming years.
And all my friends In food Of tears
Repent We then while ye have time
For left the world while In my prime.
Bennett Elliot, father of the Apostle
of the Indians" was a well-to-do farmer
with considerable property at Nasing as
we'll as at Milford, Herts county, where
he married Lettes Elliot his wife. John,
their eldest son. was born at WidfOrd,
entered Cambridge University in 1919.
where he fell under the influence of the
Rev. Thomas Hooker, and became a nom
cOnformist, Or as one of his, biographers
says: "A man of primitive piety. zeal
and modification. he broke through the
bonds of the system round him.
In the little church at Widfor6 his de-
scendants have erected panel to his
memory and a window of beautiful glass
representing the baptism of Christ and
the last supper
Memorials in Westminster.
One of the most beautiful windows in
Westminster Abbey was given and erect
ed i'm 1888 to the memory of James Rus
sell Lowell. The theme is from his poem
THE Vision of Sir Launfal." The abbey.
as everybody knows. contains bust of
Longfellow in the poets corner and a
window given by George w. Childs' of
Philadelphia in memory of George Her.
bert and William Cowper, the poets,
George Peabody of Baltimore, the Ameri-
can philanthropist, is buried in the nave,
and Sir Henry NJ. Stanley, the American
explorer also enjoys that honor.
One OF the most beautiful of the many
beautiful tombs in Westminster Abbey
contains the dust of Mai. Andre. The
sarcophagos was mutilated many years
ago ''by some school boy fired with the
raw notions of transatlantic freedom. -
One of it's faces was decorated by a re-
lief, representing the trial of Andre. from
which the figure of Washington has been
knocked out.
Near Andres is the tomb of Gen. Wolf
hero of Quebec, and Viscount Howe
.'hrigadier general Of his majesty's
forces in America. who was slain July g.
ITS. OH the march. to Ticonderoga In the
thirty-fourth year of his age"
Capt. John Smiths Epitaph.
Capt John Smith is buried under one Of
the aisles in the Church of st. SepuIchres,
on Holborn viaduct nearly opposite the
Old Bailey prison. Adjoining the church