An Historical Guide To Laurel Grove Cemetery South PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...the impress of their being on our sphere, And each of every clinie, colour and of race Will at the judgment take his place." O Saviour! when that fearful morning Shall show thee on the coming cloud, -And the last trumpet's awful warning, Pierce the slumber of my shroud; And earth and sea, with all their glories pass away, Be thou, O Lord! this trembling spirit's stay. SECTION C. The southern boundary of this section is on a line with the front of the chapel. It is subdivided also, by an avenue running parallel with the carriage-road into two plots. On the south-east termination of this portion of the ground, immediately overlooking the carriage-road, rises the monument of Oscm Douemss, a Philadelphia fireman, who was killed by the falling of a wall, while in the discharge of his duty, January 23d, 1841. The monument is decorated with several creditable' pieces of sculpturing. The ornamental wreath surrounding the name "Douglass" on the south, and the two hands on the north front, are boldly and correctly executed. The memorial sets forth that the deceased " fell a sacrifice to his zeal as a fireman, in the twentyseventh year of his age, at the conflagration of January 23d,1841, in Market Street above Third," and that this tribute was "dedicated August 2d, 1841, in respect to his many virtues, by his fellow-members of the Philadel phia fire company," and the " Light Artillery corps of Washington Grays." Following the carriage-road, we have a short distance further west, the monument of MAJoR LEVI Tw1ees, U. S. A., who fell leading his command to the assault at the storming of Chapultepec in Mexico on the 13th of September, 1847. This rich and appropriate tribute of...