Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-06-10
TRIBUTE TO DAVIS
MEMORY OF CONFEDERATE
CHIEFTAIN HONORED.
A Park Bearing His Name Opened
at Fairview, Kentucky, With Ap-
propriate Ceremonies.


propriate Ceremonies.
At Fairview. KY, among the trees
which have grown up above the
birthplace OF Jefferson Davis since
the year, early in the nineteenth
century, when the Davis family re-
moved to Mississippi. the ererson
Davis Memorial Park was simply
dedicated Thursday. Northeast
across the State, Is Hodgenviile,
near which Abraham Lincoln was
born eight months after his grea.
opponent. Fairview Is still a tiny
town trimmed with forests and slop
ing gently. toward the grass-grown
battlefields of Tennessee.
In September, 1907. when the
grey grown and enfiladed ranks of
kentucky's famous 'orphant brig
ade" met In Glasgow KY, at the
grave Of Gen Joseph n. Lewis, their
commander. former Governor Boil
var Buckner, of Kentucky. broached
the plan of the Jefferson Davis Mem
onal Association. Subscriptions
were started, the women of the South
aided nobly. and when all but $4,000
had been raised. to purchase seven
teen acres at Fairview, Gen. Ben
nett II. Young. commanding the Ken
lucky division of the Confederate
veterans. advanced that sum and
made. the memorial possible.
Oratory, music and flowers made
the day notable. a basket dinner
and barbecue were provided by the
people OF Todd and Christian conn
ties, which share equally the town
OF Fairview, and when Col. w. A.
Milton, of Louisville. as chairman
In the absence of Gen. Young, who
was detained in Chicago, opened the
meeting, the homestead of the Davis
es was crowded Gen. Young n
prominent Louisville lawyer. wrote
the chief address of the day. and
1t was read by Col. Milton. He as
serted that every Southern State
should rear shaft to Jefferson Da-
Wis, whose character aud sufferings
he dwelt upon sympathetically. He
paid high tribute to Lincoln. saw
Ing that the time had come when
men might speak kindly and truly
of the past. He said the message
which the united South gave to the
world today was one of everlasting
peace.
The plan is to raise $4,000 more
with which to build a memorial tenn
pie to contain all the records of the
Confederacy, and to remodel a two
story residence upon the Davis farm
to house the widows of Confederate
soldiers.
The seventeen acres which are to
enclose the memorial buildings to
be erected adjoin the original min.
acres, which were the remains of
the plantation upon which Samuel
Davis. father of the President, set
tied when he came from Virginia
in 1898. These nine were given by
Mr.. Davis to Bethel Church on the
occasion, June 2l, 1886, of his last
visit to his first home. To the peo-
pie OF the neighborhood this church
stands as memorial to their great
neighbor, and to his pride In his
old Kentucky home they ascribe the
fancy which led him to call his land
along the Mississippi shore of the
Gulf "Beauvoir."
The site of the memorial slopes
softly from a splendid grove. which
crowns it's heighest point. 1t is In
the heart of Fairview. and the pres
ent plan is to place all the records
of the Confederacy in the temple
to be built. within the shadow of the
trees. A two-story residence is also
on the land, and the intent is to
make of this home for the widows
of the Confederates whom age has
rendered decrept and from whom the
years and the war have taken hus-
bands and sons