Man The Mausoleum Dedication

Author : William E. Barton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330132173
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Married Lincoln's Parents written by William E. Barton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Man Who Married Lincoln's Parents: Delivered at the Dedication of a Monument at the Grave of Rev. Jesse Head and Jane Ramsey Head, His Wife, in Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Thursday, November 2, 1922 We are assembled in a place appointed for the burial of the dead, but we have not come to mourn. The man around whose grave we stand came to the end of his earthly life in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in its season. He had lived his three score years and ten and had continued four years longer upon borrowed time. His faithful wife, who sleeps by his side, lived until she was more than four score years of age. There was r.o occasion for bitter grief at the time of their death; they had lived their honest, virtuous and completed lives. Death had for them no terror, and the grief of those who remained behind was grief without a sting. Even if there had been sorrow at the time, and there appears to have been no occasion for it, there would be no reason for it now. It is more than eighty years since Jesse Head died. Mark Anthony at Caesar's funeral is supposed by Shakespeare to have said that he came to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Quite other is the case with us. We came not to bury Jesse Head, but to pay him a tribute of honor. We are assembled to unveil above the hitherto unmarked grave of Jesse Head and his wife a simple but dignified and durable monument that shall perpetuate the memory of the last resting place of these two simple but sincere and earnest servants of God. It is not the memory of a funeral that calls us together; it is rather a reminder of a wedding. That wedding was one of the many in which Jesse Head had a share. The court records of this county of Mercer, as well as those in Washington county, bear witness to the frequency with which he was called upon to solemnize marriages. The one we have in mind was at the time in no important respect different from the others. It was a backwoods wedding and it was celebrated after the usual boistrous fashion of such festivities, on the Beech Fork, in Washington county. The house in which the marriage occurred then stood in the name of Richard Berry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.