The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-07-03
mental in saving the remnant of
Braddock's army.

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Abraham Steward, road supervisor of
Wharton township, was repairing a
road about nine miles east.of Union
town. Fawcet, a very old man then,
joined him. eff you'll dig right there"
Hadden quotes him as saying as he
indicated the spot, you'll find the
bones of General Braddock."
Fawcet was right, Hadden says, for
the workmen uncovered a skeleton.
Lying about it were the trappings of
an English general, red sash and all.
The remains were reinterred in new
grave and marker erected on the
spot. Private Thomas Fawcet, late
of the Forty-eighth English Regulars,
and Major-G General Edward Braddock
had met for the last time.
Fawcet seemed doomed to go on
forever, garrulous and ever repeat
ing to each succeeding generation his
story of that eventful day in July of
1855. Fayette county records reveal
that he was alive in 1874 public
charge. "Since there were no poor
houses in those days." writes W. S.
Rafferty,, of Connellsville, Pa, in a
1926 issue of the Baltimore and Ohio
Magazine, che (Fawcet) was sold
each year to the lowest bidder" Rec
ords show that on March 20, 1912, a
James Wear agreed to keep Fawcet
for one year for the sum of $3755,
exclusive of clothing. The next year
Samuel Spaugh agreed to keep the
old man for the same sum. In 1914
the cost went up to $57, but by 1919 it
had fallen to $28, to which was added,
according to the auditors report, so
cents for noticing his sale and 25
cents for tobacco"
The coming celebration recalls a
somewhat similar event on October IS,
1918, one in which Braddock again
had the spotlight. On that day a
notable company gathered at point
on the National Highway eight miles
east of Uniontown. Among those
present were Lieut.-Gen. Sir Alfred
Edward Dodrington, former colonel of
the Coldstream Guards, Braddock's
old regiment; John X. Tener, then
Governor of Pennsylvania; the late
Senator P. C. Knox and representa-
tives of the British Embassy in
Washington. They were assembled
to dedicate an imposing monument set
down in the midst of public park
of some twenty-five acres.
Here lieth the remains of Major
General Edward Braddock, who, in
command of the Forty-fourth and the
Forty-eighth Regiments of English
Regulars, was MORALLY wounded in
an engagement with the French and
Indians under the command of M. de
Beaujeau, at the battle of the Monon-
gahela, within 10 miles Of Fort Du-
quesne, now Pittsburgh, July 9, 1755."
A hundred feet distant is a small
tablet. 1t announces:
"This tablet marks the spot where
Major General Edward Braddock was
buried July IA, 1855. His remains
were removed in 1904 to the site of
the present monument"
That is the year Fawcet is credited
with pointing out Braddock's first
grave.
On the outskirts of Ohio Pyle Falls,
Pa, some five miles distant from the
Braddock memorial, is a very old |
burying ground-the Rush Grave
yard. There is a headstone tells the |
world that
Tho. Faucet
died
Mar. %
1922
Age 100
9 Mo.
And so, not many miles apart, if |
the inscriptions on monument and the |
headstone are correct, Major
al Edward Bradock and Private Tom |
Fawcet are making their last camp.