Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14


vague depths where so many memories
abide that somewhere under the tangled
~ ,es in that ancient burial ground the
bsnes of Wolfe Tone. Irish patriot were at
rest. The sexton was found and was
asked the necessary question. The name
Of Wolfe Tone was not familiar one
to his ears. 1t was strange name.
He knew Of no such tomb in the cerne-
terry, though il might be there. because
he himself had not been sexton very
many years, and when he came hundreds
Of graves had long been buried under
mats and tangles of honeysuckle and
ivy He had cleared away these growths
from many graves. but in the western
part of the grounds. where are the older
graves. such stones as remained were
still hidden under vines.
Records? Why the records of the
cemetery. ne said. did not reach back
many years, the early register of
buriais having been destroyed by fire.
Tho loss OF records is one of the COM
monest hindrances TO research. After
a complete search of the jungle part
Of the cemetery the Rambler found no
stone marked Tone" The sexton said
that bones from many graves had been.
in the course IF years. removed to other
cemeteries. The Rambler bearing this
IT. mind, stopped in Mount Olivet the
next time he was travelling that way.
There was no record of a man named
Tone having been buried there. In the
beautiful and solemn grounds the
Rambler met Grave Digger Broderick.
who has seen as many tears and heard
as MANY grave-Side signs as any other
grave digger in the District He has
been digging graves there for forty
years.
"Ah. Wolfe Toner Frederick il as
much Of an Irishman as his name in
dicates. and the name Wolfe Tone"
had no strange sound to him Wolfe
Tone. he said. was not Catholic. He
was a Presbyterian, and was buried in
The old Presbyterian cemetery in
Georgetown. They took him up with
other patriots and they brought them
over here and buried them yonder-
pointing-and then took them to New
York and gave Wolfe Tone a monu-
ment"
Broderick was right about Tone being
a Presbyterian, as were very many or
the Irish patriots. but Broderick's
statement that Tones remains after
exhumation from the Presbyterian ceme-
terry had found sepuicher at Mount
Olivet increased the perplexities of the
case But to give over story after
1t would not be good practice.
The next thing the Rambler found in
his search was the following death notice
IN the National Inteiligencer Of october
IL. 1873:
ION the 10th instant Capt. William
TheobaId Wolfe Tone, in the thirty
seventh year of his age formerly an
officer In the French imperial army. lie
shared with others his quota Of suffer
ing in the disastrous battle of Leipsic.
Since the second restoration of the
Bourbons he has resided in this asylum
of oppressed humanity, mostly in
Georgetown, where the mildness and
amiabiiity of his character have con-
gerted each acquaintance into friend.
a most rare example of filial devo-
ton and unostentauous erudition. he has
left in manuscript work, should 1t ever
be published. which will place his name
high in the ranks of literature.
His friends are invited to attend his
funeral from his late residence, 1st
street, Georgetown, this afternoon, at
o'clock.
This notice made clear that the man
who died in Georgetown was not