Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-18
CALDWELL RELIC
IS DISPOSED Of
AT NELSON SALE
Old Journal Had Epitaph for
Wife of Hero Parson of
Springfield Battle.

The sale of autographs and other
American of the famous collection of
William Nelson, the Paterson his
torian, was concluded at the Ander-
son Galleries in New York yesterday
afternoon. The grand total of the
sale was $13.11O.50.
f. A. Thompson paid the highest
prize of the day, 1925. for fine holo-
graph letter written by George Wash
inGton In Philadelphia on May 81,
1887, to General Henry Knox. In 1t
Washington announces his election
as President of the Constitutional
Convention.
George Lowell paid $3.50 for another
fine Washington Telegraph letter
dated Mount Vernon, September %,
1889, and addressed to Laurence
Lewis, Washington's nephew, who
married Martha Washlngton's grand
daughter, Nellie Parke Custis. 1t was
written only a few months before
Washington's death.
One of the relics of historical In
terest to New Jersey that was sold
to F. w. Morris, of New York, was
an old copy of the New Jersey Jour-
nal printed September 10, 1880. This
newspaper contained an epitaph to
Hannah Caldwell, wife of Rev.
jones Caldwell, of "Give them
Watts" fame, in the battle of Spring
fed, N. }. Mrs. Caldwell was slain
during a battle between the Revolu-
tionary forces and the English
troops. Her husband was murdered
as the result of British plot.
The verses In the New Jersey Jour
nal 1874 years ago are entitled IAN
epitaph on the death of the wife of
Rev. James Caldwell, accidentally
shot during a battle" The verses
fc low:
FOR MRS. CALDwELL's TOMB.
(By Friend)
Sacred to the memory of Mrs
Hannah Caldwell, comfort to the Rev.
James Caldwell, of Elizabethtown, in
y. j., who fell a victim to her coun-
try on the 7th of June, 1880, aged
forty-two years and nine months.
Passenger I.
Thou tread'st Ger the remains of a
woman whose fair character
and final catastrophe
merit a monument
More durable than brass or marble,
and which will remain
lndelibly engraven on the breasts of
her countrymen
To the last period of recorded time
She was, among her sex, uncommonly
distinguished.
This peaceful daughter of heaven.
shocked by the tumult of war,
Retired to her sequestered and hal
lowed apartment;
Here seated,
In calm and pensive contemplation,
cherishing, too, q lovely, innocent
In her own innocent bosom, weeping
Der the effusions of human blood,
depreeating the calamities of
her country and imploring
heaven for the pardon
of its enemies, she
was
(Hlush ye spirits of their ancestors, at
the horrid tale)
by the ensanguined hands of
British ruffian,
Instigated by malice, cool, deliberate
and Internal,
In one fatal moment
Dispatched,
Like her divine Saviour, thro' a path
of blood, to her long wished
for native skies!
Leaving an affectionate companion
and nine children
In their tender and uniformed years,
to bewail their unutterable,
their irreparable loss.
Through the whole course of her
earthly race, bright constella-
lation of the female virtues.
With undertaking punctuality
She performed every religious, social
and relative duty:
To a numerous offspring, the ten
derest of mothers;
To her servants and domestics, a kind
and intelligent mistress;
or conjugal fidelity and affection, the
most exemplary model.
But what singular lustre to an as
semblage of virtue was that con-
descending affability, that sweetness
of temper, that heaven born benevo-
lence which We're here her charac-
teristics and distinguishing qualities
serene and placid aspect, Joined
with the softest accents of expression
ever disarmed the refinement of her
weapons. and repressed the ebulitions
of censure and malevo,ence.
These engaging manners attracted
the peculiar love and esteem OF her
extensive acquaintance, among whom
she found not a single enemy. But,
as her browning glory, adding
divinity to her graces, she was a
sincere Christian!
On that memorable day Ian era
never to be forgotten in American
annals) when the army of the British
tyrant entered into this State, and,
with merciless barbarity, desulated
these fertile fields
READER!
II thou art a man
Thou can'st not refrain a sigh