Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1959-07-03
CEDAR NECK
Mrs. Serena Hayes
Phone: GA 2-4749

Job 1929.
Thought for the Day
In the experiences of this day,
the living Christ is speaking to me.
Master Rusty and Phillip Kraus
of Arnold, Md, spent Wednesday
night and Thursday with their
grandmother, Mrs. Edna NJ Weis-
chedel at Sunset View.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sharp, Jr.
and two children are spending
three weeks in the Sharp cottage
at Slaughter Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. V. Wilkerson,
Kay Maull, Emma Horvat and
Serena Hayes visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Wilkerson and sons at
their cottage at Shorts Beach on
Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weischedel have
had a garage and utility room at
tached on the end of their ranch
type house and are enjoying the
use of it very much at this time.
Take it easy on the Fourth. Be
alive on the Fifth"
Thomas Jefferson, famous author,
journalist and everlasting cham
pion of our American way of life
Almighty God who has given
US this good land for our heri-
tage; we humbly beseech thee that
we may always prove ourselves a
people mindful of thy favor and
glad to do Thy will. Bless our land
IND n
learning and pure manners. Save
us from violence, discord and con-
fusion; from pride and arrogance
and from every evil way. Defend
our liberties and fashion into one
united people the multitudes
brought hither out of many kim
dreds and tongues. 'EndoW with
the spirit of wisdom those to
whom in thy name we entrust the
authority of government, that there
may be justice and peace at home
and through obedience to Thy
law we may show forth Thy praise
among the nations of the earth.
I'm the time of prosperity, fill our
hearts with thankfulness and in
the day of trouble, suffer not our
trust in Thee to fail; all of which
we ask through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
This is the end of Thomas Jeffer-
sons Prayer.
God bless our country.
Jefferson's greatness is exempli-
fed it seems to me, by his epitaph
on the simple shaft that marks
his burial place not by what is
written on it, but by what he him
self did not write on it.
On July 4th 1826-exactly on the
anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence
hollow reverberating boom of the
cannon fired down in Charlottes-
vile signaled the death of Thomas
Jefferson. He had died at Month
cello at the age of 83.
Mount the winding hilltop road
to his famous home, Monticello
restoration extends even to the
American flag that flies by the
house-a flag of 20 stars as it
flew in the days of the new Repub-
lie, when Jefferson still labored,
planning that one day more states
and more stars would join the
Union.
Stop half way up the wooded
glen in this valley, far from greed
and fear. Stand in the small en-
closure on the grounds. There,
where he lived, he is buried.
Read the epitaph chiseled in the
simple grey stone. Jefferson him
self wrote this epitaph with his
own hand. He gave the wording
for it himself to his daughter,
Martha Randolph, just two days
before he died.
With deep warmth in his glance,
when Jefferson called his daugh-
ter to him, he told her that the
following inscription and not one
word more was to mark his rest
ing place:
Here was buried Thomas Jeffer-
son, Author of the Declaration of
American Independence, of the
statute of Virginia for Religious
Freedom and father of the Univer-
sity of Virginia. That's all that
appears on the simple shaft
The gardens were restored in
1889 according to Jefferson's plans.
Several drawings found among his
papers show schemes he ultimate
ly executed, including oval and cir
cular beds near the house which
Jefferson himself laid out in 1907.
Jefferson listed the plants in
tended for each bed.
The Prayer Book is owned today
by Christ Episcopal Church of
Charlottesville of which Jefferson
was a YeStrYman