JAMES MAUD ELFORD

[St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina.]

In
Memory of

CAPTN. JAMES MAUD ELFORD,
A native of Bristol, England

But for many years a respectable
Citizen of the United States.

Who died in Charleston 25th. Jany. 1826.
Aged Fifty-Four Years.

When this experienced and successful
Sea Captain retired from Navigation,
It was only to study and reveal its theory,
And lend the lights of his genius to

His brethren of the Ocean.

He was the author of several scientific
Nautical inventions,

Particularly of an admirable system
Of Marine Telegraphic Signals,
Which afford the Sea the same
Facilities of language
As the Land.

He was prosperous and happy

in domestic Life,

And his Widow and twelve Childre
Mourn his decease.

Skilled in the Stars, in useful learning wise,
He serv'd the Earth, by studying the skies,
To know them well his best pursuits were given,
He studied first, and then he entered Heaven.

MRS. JAMES MAUD ELFORD

[St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina.]

Sacred

To the Memory of
MARGARET CHARLOTTE

ELFORD,

Wife of

JAMES MAUD ELFORD,
Who departed this Life 9 May
1817

Aged 43 years 4 months and 20 days
Leaving a Husband with seven
young Children to lament
their irreparable loss.
She was

In Childhood Obedient.
In Wedlock Virtuous.
In Prosperity Humble.
In Adversity Resigned.
In Sickness Patient.
In Death Happy.

HENRY W, GRADY

[Monument in Atlanta, Georgia.]

[Front]

HENRY W. GRADY

Journalist, Orator, Patriot

Editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Born in Athens, Georgia, May 24th, 1850. Died in Atlanta, December 23rd, 1889. Graduated at the state university in the year 1868. -He never held or sought public office"When he died he was literally loving a nation into peace.'

[Rear]

"This hour little needs loyalty that is loyal to one section nd yet holds the other in enduring suspicion and enstrangeGive us the broad and perfect loyalty that loves and

Lent.

trusts Georgia alike with Massachusetts-that knows no South, no North, no East, no West; but endears with equal patriotic love every foot of our soil, every state in our Union." Boston, December, 1889.

"The citizen standing in the doorway of his home-contented in his threshold—his family gathered about his hearthstone—while the evening of a well spent day closes in scenes and sounds that are dearest-he shall save the republic when the drum tap is futile and the barracks are exhausted." University of Va., June 25th, 1889.

CORNELIUS HARNETT

[Erected in Wilmington, North Carolina. Dedicated May 2, 1907.]

ROBERT Y. HAYNE

[St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina. This inscription is from the pen of the late Right Reverend Stephen Elliott, Bishop of Georgia.]

[West Side]

Beneath this Marble,

the too perishable Monument of a Widow's Love,
are deposited the bones and ashes

of ROBERT Y. HAYNE.

No sculptured stone is needed to perpetuate
the memory of this illustrious name.
The Archives of his Country

are ennobled by his Honors,
and his public services are stamped
for Immortality

Upon the face of his native State,
and upon the Institutions of the Union.

It is the smitten Heart

that would relieve its anguish
by this record of his rare virtues,

his real nobleness, his incomparable excellence.
That heart alone can know how far

The wisdom of the Statesman, the eloquence of the Senator, and the courage of the Hero

were transcended by those sublimer qualities
which made him the Idol of his Wife,

the Pattern of his Children

the Guide of his Friends,

the honest, incorruptible Patriot.

The Wisdom which counselled Nations, ruled his Home, The Tongue which swayed the People, charmed his Fireside, The Heart which nerved a state, allured his Household. His Widow and his Children

could find no consolation in his loss

save in the humble hope

that they have given him up to that God
who is the Father of the Fatherless.

[East Side.]

No son of South Carolina

Was ever more cherished by his noble Mother
Than the subject of this memorial.

Her honors were heaped upon him in early
and rapid succession.

Elected at his majority to her House of Representatives
He soon became its Speaker;

And was thence transferred to the responsible
station of Attorney General.
When just old enough to claim his seat,
He was chosen to represent Her
In the Senate of the Union.
Having eloquently vindicated her Principles,
In her moment of extreme peril,
She entrusted her Honor to his keeping,
laying upon his shoulders

the burden of her Government.
No sooner was the sword sheathed
than she summoned him to advocate the interest
of her Agriculture and Commerce.
In the fulfilment of these trusts

He sacrificed his Life

having lived long enough for his own fame:
having died too soon for his Country's good.

BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL

[At State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.]

[Front]

BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL
Born September 14th, 1823.
Died August 16th, 1882.
This monument is erected by his

Fellow citizens in commemoration
Of the indomitable courage,
Unrivaled eloquence and devoted
Patriotism characterizing the
Illustrious dead.