JOHN HENRY BONER

[In the Moravian churchyard at Salem, North Carolina. The tribute is by Edmund Clarence Stedman.]

John Henry Boner,
Born in Salem, N.C.,
January 31, 1845.

Died in Washington, D.C.
March 6, 1903.

That gentlest of minstrels,

Who caught his music from the whispering pines.

EVELYN BYRD

[In the old churchyard of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia, among other interesting monuments, are those to the Byrd family, notably Evelyn Byrd, the heroine of romance, and William Byrd, her father, who ran the boundary line be tween Virginia and North Carolina.]

Here in the sleep of peace,

Reposes the body of Mrs. Evelyn Byrd,

Daughter of the Hon. William Byrd, Esq.
The various and excellent endowments

of Nature

Improved and perfected by an accomplished education formed her for the happiness of her friends, for an ornament of her country.

Alas Reader,

We can detain nothing, however valued,
from unrelenting Death.

Beauty, fortune or exalted honour

See here a Proof,

And be reminded by this awful Tomb; that every worldly comfort fleets away, excepting only, what arises from imitating the virtues of our friends and the contemplation of their happiness.

To which

God was pleased to call this Lady
On the 13th day of November, 1737,
In the 29th year of her age.

WILLIAM BYRD

Here Lieth

The Honorable William Byrd, Esq., being born to one of the amplest Fortunes in this Country, he was sent early to England for his Education; where under the Care and direction of Sir Robt Southwell, and even favored with his particular Instruction, he made a happy Proficiency in polite and various Learning. By the means of the same noble Friend he was introduced to many of the first Persons of the Age, for Knowledge, Wit, Virtue, Birth or high Station, and particularly contracted a most intimate and bosom Friendship with the learned and illustrious Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, he was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple, studied for some time in the Low Countries, visited the Court of France, and was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society.

Thus eminently fitted for the Service and ornament of his country, he was made Receiver-General of his Majesty's Revenues here, was thrice appointed public Agent to the Court and Ministry of England, and being thirty-seven years a member, at last became President of the Council of the Colony, to all this were added a great Elegancy of Taste and Life, the well bred Gentleman and polite Companion, the splendid Economist and prudent Father of a Family, was the constant Enemy of all exorbitant Power, and hearty Friend of the liberties of his Country.

Nat. March 28th, 1674. Mort. Aug. 26th, 1744. An Etat 70 years.

CABIN JOHN BRIDGE

[Inscription on Cabin John Bridge, six miles west of Washington, D.C. The name of Jefferson Davis was erased in 1862, and restored in 1909 by order of President Roosevelt.]

IFirst abutment]
Union Arch

Chief Engineer, Captain Montgomery C. Meigs,

U. S. Corps of Engineers.

Esto Perpetua.

[Second abutment]

Washington Aqueduct
Begun A. D., 1853.

President of the U. S., Franklin Pierce.
Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis.
Building A. D., 1861.

President of the U. S., Abraham Lincoln.
Secretary of War, Simon Cameron.

JOSEPH CALDWELL

[Inscription on the monument erected in 1847 to the first President of the University of North Carolina. The monument is of marble and stands in the center of the campus. The President of the United States and the Governor of North Carolina, referred to in the inscription as alumni of the University, were James K. Polk and William A. Graham.]

[North Side]

In grateful acknowledgement
of their obligations to

the first President of this University

JOSEPH CALDWELL, D. D.

The President of the United States
The Governor of North Carolina
and other alumni

have erected this monument
A. D. 1847.

[West Side]

Born at Lamington, New Jersey
April 21, 1773.

Professor of Mathematics in this
University 1796.

Died at Chapel Hill
January 27, 1835.

[South Side]

He was an early

Conspicuous and devoted advocate of the cause of Common Schools and

Internal Improvements in North Carolina.

HENRY CLAY

[Erected at Lexington by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, A.D. 1887.]

"I can with unshaken confidence appeal to the Divine Arbiter for the truth of the declaration that I have been influenced by no impure purpose, no personal motive—have sought no personal aggrandizement, but that in all my public acts, I have had a sole and single eye, and a warm devoted heart, directed and dedicated to what in my best judgment, I believe to be the true interests of my country."

"I know no North, no South, no East, no West-nothing but our country."

GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH

[St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina. The first eight lines of this inscription were written by the English poet, Arthur Hugh Clough. His eldest brother, Charles, wrote the last four. Both were brothers of George Augustus. The Cloughs had lived in Charleston many years before, but had returned to England.]

GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH
a native of Liverpool

Died suddenly of Stranger's fever
Novr. 5th. 1843.
Aged 22.

Of all thy kindred at thy dying day
Were none to speed thee on thy solemn way;
Yet ever lives distinct and deeply dear

Their sight with them of this thy corner here;
Each heart so oft hath come and sought and seen
That Ocean space hath shrunk to naught between,
And more their own seems now the stranger's shore
Than when with thee they dwelt on it before.

Since God doth early break the golden bowl,

And loose the silver cord that links the soul

To earth, His will be done. Oh, may he rise
A chosen vessel to a heavenly prize.