The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-14

small heads, all adorned with crowns,
contains inscription as follows:
"Reuben Wood, Sept II, l7T7, years,
"Annie Wood, Sept. 28, l777, year,
"Mary Wood, Oct. is, III, 3 years,
Three cherubs."
In the little cemetery at Woodfor1
is an original inscription on the head
stone OF child IL attracts the Az
tention aud note book of everyone that
passes by:
ale tasted Of life's bitter cup.
Refused to drink the potion up.
But turned his little head aside,
Disguised with the taste, and died.
There stands in the Protestant ceme-
terry at st. Adams monument with q
bitter arraignment of Abraham Lincoln.
1t was erected by the father of union
soldier He thought the president had
allowed his son to die in prison.
The basis for this belief was the fact
that when Lincoln had an opportunity
to exchange some of the Andersonville
prisoners for southerners held captive by
the Union army, he declined to do so,
saying they would return home and en-
courage the South TO keep up the fight
The marble shaft to which reference
is made is white and without carving or
establishment. One side of the stone
contains the Biblical quotation:
Vengeance is mine, will repay saith
the Lord
No other words appear on that side
of the stone nor on two other sides.
Around the capstone OF the monument
is carved the words:
Honor the faithful and brave soldier
Just below these words and on the
face of the stone is cut the following
story of death, sorrow and bitterness:
Joseph Partridge Brainerd, son OF Jo
seph Brainerd and his wife, Fanny Par
fridge; a conscientious and brave Union
soldier. was born on the It'll day of June,
1910 graduated from the University of
Vermont, and in August, 1862, enlisted
into Co. L. of the lst Vermont cav
airy; was wounded and taken prisoner |
by the rebels in the Wilderness May ), |
1864, was sent to Andersonville prison /
pen in Georgia on the 18th day OF Sep |
TENDER, 1864. entirely and cruelty ne /
elected by President Lincoln and muir |
1ered with impunity by the rebels with |
OF our loyal soldiers, by star
Vation, privation, exposure and abuse"
The erection of the monument, which |
not long after Brainerd's death
,reated much feeling in the town at
that time. and the words attacking
President Lincoln were partially hacked
)f the stone by those who believed that
he president should not have been held I
for young Brainerd's death.
rhe whole inscription is still legble,
however
BY curious act OF nature wild |.
vine grew up beside the
,tone. and It's branches and leaves have
covered nearly all the inscription eX-
.epting the words Honor the Brave
ind Faithful Soldier" Recently, how
,ver. the vine was cut down.
In the yard surrounding the "Od
south church in Windsor, stone is
Inscribed. II
"In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth, Wife
f Capt. Dean. Who died Dec 22d. 1866,
n the Gath Year of her Age, the first :
Death in Windsor.
Attic | sleep in dust awhile,
Beneath this Barren Clod,
Gre long ! hope to rise and smile :
TO Sec my Savior God" :
On the tombstone OF William Dean,
Tho died Dec. 6. 1913, is this verse:
Now | lie Buried Deep in Dust, =
My flesh shall be thy care; b
hese Whitening Limbs With Thee | ]
trust
To Raise them Bright and fair
On the stone of Capt. William Dean,
tho died in 1904:
Friends retire. PREPARED be
Then God calls you to follow me,
or Deaths Debt 10 nature due
Which / have paid and so must YOU
Among others are:
Sally. wife OF Ebenezer Carpenter, =
Died in 1913, :
lie how short, Eternity how long !