The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

Winston Syme married MT. John Henry a native of Scotland and friend of Colonel Syme. Her second marriage was a long and happy one, and she was the mother of nine children. Patrick being the sec- ond son. The oldest daughter Jane, married Col. Samuel Meredith, hero of Princeton and Trenton, who, after peace came to the country he had fought for became the first treasurer of the United States, by appointment of General Wash ington, and held that responsible office until the government removed to Wash ington City, when he resigned to return to his estate in Amherst, Va.
 The highest tribute possible to pay the life and character of Sarah Henry Is a record of the devotion felt for her by this same son-in-law. He cared for her lovingly in later years, begging the hon. or of giving her a home, and when he felt death near begged his wife to see that the body was placed at the foot of the grave of his mother, Sarah Henry
 These two graves lie in the shadow of Winton, the home of Colonel Meredith and were among the first of what Is now large graveyard. Sarah Henry selected the spot where she wished her grave to be, just as did the mother of General Washington, and when she was laid to rest, with his own hands, Colonel Mere dith bricked an arch over the grave, so 1t would not become unshapely in the passage of years.
 Sarah Henry was the Abigale Adams of the south; with. for those days, a splendid education, the gift of eloquence and peculiarly facile pen, she stamped her influence on all who came within the circle of her life.
 Both husbands were men of affairs both were officers of the king. Colonel Henry was the principal surveyor of the county, and for many years the presid- ing magistrate of the county court-in the days when offices were considered a public trust, and were bestowed with peculiar caution. His brother, Patrick for whom the orator was named, was minister of St. Pauls parish. in Hanover the brothers Henry being zealous mem bers of the established church and warm ly attached to the reigning family,
 The brother of Sarah Henry, William Winston, was lieutenant of a company of militia during the last French and Indian war, soon after Braddock's de- feat, and the men were without tents, indifferently clothed and suffering from inclemency of the weather to such an extent as to be on the verge of mutiny clamorous to return to their families and about to carry the threat into ex- ecution, when Winston jumped upon a stump and addressed them with such keenness of invective, and acclaimed with such forceful eloquence on liberty and love of country that the general cry was. ''let us march on; lead us against the enemy;' which he did with splendid re- suits.
 So. with liberty loving brothers, and enthusiastic royalist for husband, Mrs. Henry must have been of splendid boise to have found favor with both parties during the stirring days in which she lived. Her letters are stin preserved and they show keen vision and knowl edge of character quite remarkable for that or any age
 With the qualities of head her heart must have held equal sway, for the first time Patrick Henry appeared as an ora tor he gave evidence of a te5derness of feeling which must have beeN heritage from his mother. It is probably remem-