The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-07-06
WILLIAMSBURG IS
HISTORIC PLACE
QUAINT OLD TOWN IN VIRGINIA
WHERE PAST AND PRESENT
ARE SUBTLY BLENDED.
WREN DESIGNED COURTHOUSE
Interesting Memorial Tablets In 6rt.
ton church-Wythe House, the
"Powder Horn" and the College OF
William and Mary
BY EDWARD g. CLARK

WashingtOn.-A majority Of the
presidents of the United States have
received degrees from the old college
Of William and Mary, Virginia in
Stitution founded in the early days at
Williamsburg. Williamsburg is not far
from Washington, so far as time and
distance are concerned. Members OF
congress and other government off,
cials occasionally go there, lured by
the historic associations Of the old
place, by the sights to be seen and by
ings.
1t Is only three miles across coun-
try from jamestown island, where the
first settlement in Virginia was made,
to Williamsburg. Jamestown Is large
~ memory, while Williamsburg is both
memory and reality. The past and the
present are met in its streets and
there is subtle blending Of the two in
to mid-time atmosphere. Happily,
the Virginians have held to the love Of
the old things. It is worth something
to know that the main street still Is
known as Duke of Gloucester street.
Ut Is a fine thoroughfare and on 1t
stands courthouse designed by Sir
christopher Wren, the architect OF
Saint Paul's cathedral in London, Eng
land, and many of that city's churches.
BrutOn church, in which Is the font
used at the baptism Of Pocahontas at
jamestown, also stands facing Duke
of Gloucester street. 1t Is an appeal
ing structure. The building is clad
with the ivy Of England, which grows
and thrives In this latitude. A church.
yard, as quiet as that of the "Elegy,"
1ies without its walls. 1t is supposed
that the church was named by one Of
the early secretaries of the colony
who was born in Bruton, England.
Some Bruton Church Tablets.
In the churchyard Is tomb with
this inscription:
"Under this marble neth the body
of Thomas Ludwell, Esqr., Secretary
OF Virginia, who was born at Bruton,
In the County Of Somerset, in the
Kingdom Of England. and departed
this life In the year 1873"
Close to the north door Of the
church are the graves Of two children
of Mrs. Martha Custis who, when
widowed, became the wife Of George
Washington. 1t Is not the intention to
make a neurology Of this writing, but
1t is barely possible that two inscrip-
lions, which appear on tablets inside
the Bruton church, extolling the vir-
tues Of the dead, may have living In
terest. Here Is one of them:
"Near this marble Ives ye Honble.
Daniel Paeke, Of We County Of Essex,
Esqr, who was one Of his masters
Counsellers and sometime Secretary Of
the COLONY Of Virga. He dyed We 9Th
lof March, Ammo 1879. His other feleci-
tyes were crowned by his happy mar
ridg with Rebecka, the daughter Of
George Evelyn. Of the County Of Sur
ry, Esqr. She died We End Of Janu-
larry, Ammo 1872, at Long Ditton, in ye
county Of Surry, and left behind her
most hopeful progeny"
The other tablet bears this:
"MDCCLIL. Inscribed to the memory
of Doctor william Cooke, an English
physician, born Of reputable parents
lMDCLXXI, at Sudbury in Suffolk, and
educated at Queens College, Cambridge.
lie was learned and polite Of undis-
puted skill in his profession and un-
bounded generosity in his practice,
(which multitudes yet alive can testify.
HE was many years Of the Council,
land Secretary Of State for the Colony.
lin the reign Of Queen Anne, and Of
!, King George, he died suddenly, sitting
a Judge upon the bench Of the General
\ Court, in the capitol, MDCCXX. His
Hon. friend Alexr. Spottswood, EsQr.,
then Gown, with the principal gentle
Imen of the country, attended his flu
neral, and weeping, saw the corpse In
Iterred at the west side Of the alter In
this church."
Wythe House and "Powder Horn"
Almost within the shadow Of Bruton
church stands the Wythe house, for
some time the headquarters Of George
washington during the siege of York
town, which, with its historic MEM
Iories, lies only few miles away. The
iseeds Of history were sown thick here
tabouts.
Just back Of the church and at a
jpoint easily reached from Duke Of
lGloucester street stands the old "Pow-
der Horn" built by Governor Spots
wood in TIA. This magazine, put up
lby the British governor, was used aft
lerward by Washington to store pow
jder which subsequently was rammed
Into cannon to hurl shot at CORVALLIS
behind the breakwaters Of Yorktown.
THE Virginia Society for the Preser-
walton Of Antiquities has restored
1.-THE Powder Horn, and it is now mu-
Iseum for relics Of the past.
If a loyal Williamsburger lends his
sightseeing aid you will not be al
lowed to leave the "oldest incorpor-
lated city In America" until you have
visited the College Of William and
MARY, the oldest college in America.
barring only Harvard.
Veteran Indian Fighter.
Soon there viii be held In Wash
hngton meeting Of the Society Of In
{<fson xVars From all over the conn