The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-19
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~, 1852. The arms of the Washngtons woven in
10 the fabric OF Solgrave manor-house, show three
stars ana TWO red stripes on white ground. In
the hltle church at Bringon they appear three
times. In the mortuary chapel of the Spencers-
there, amid many noble tombs, is one tomb on
which repose full length figures of Baron Spencer
and his wife, who was Washington Among the
arms carved on this tomb the Washington and
Spencer arms are CHARTERED together. In the chan
Gel of the church they appear again over the tomb
of Lawrence Washington and under the mating
in the center AISLE down which the feet of the vii
layers pass every Sunday, they cover the remains
of Robert Washington, brother of Lawrence There
they are engraved on brass shield of which the
picture here published is rubbing. The simple
inscription touching record of happy life reads:
Here lies inferred We bodies of Elijah. Washing
ton, widdowe who changed this life for INNER
talitie We 10Th of March, 1922. AS also We body Of
Robert Washington, gent, her late husband, second
some of Robert Washington of Solgrave in ye
county of North who departed this life We 10th
of March, 1922, after they lived lovingly together
in this parish"
The arms of the knights of Washington-the
stars and bars-were worn on their shields. On
their helmets they bore q crest-sometmes ra-
ven, sometimes an eagle. The Herald's college of
London, the authority on all matters of heraldry,
says: I'm the red and white bars, and the stars
of the shield, and the eagle issuant of his crest,
borne later by General Washington the trainers Of
the constitution got the idea of the Stars and
Stripes and the Spread Eagle of the national EN-.
blem'
PERSONAL GLIMPsEs OF WASHINGTON.
In a historical tribute of more than usual inter-
est on Washington as Colonial Magnate,' writ
ten by E. N. Vallandigham, the following Is the
striking Introductory sentence: THAT great river,
the Potomac, in its tidal course fifty to typi
fly the life and character of the majestic man,
Washington. who was born within sight of its
banks, whose permanent home for most Of his
life overlooked many miles of its course, and whose
tomb now dominates its waters"
The sketch concerns itself almost exclusively
with the home side of Washngton's career and
will be read with interest by many persons accus-
toned to think of the father of mis- country only in
his regimental uniform or in the presidential chair
at the capital.
"Magnate as he was and the neighbor of ether
magnates who were VIGOROUSLY pleasureloving and
fond of display, says Mr. Valandigham, as his in
teresting article is near its close, washington re.
tanned the business instincts and habits OF his fam
ily Before he was Ia he had familiarized himself
with business forms and methods, and from his
early youth he was a strict and infinitely careful
accountant During much of his life at Mt Vernon
he rose at daylight breakfasted at seven in sum-
mer and eight in winter, dined at two upon meat
and vegetables drinking beer or cider and two
glasses of old Madeira, and went early to bed.
He helped Peter, the slave blacksmith. to make
new kind of pow and was SO eager to try It that