THE RED CROSS MONUMENT
Built by Stephen E. Barton, Executor of the Estate of Clara Barton in the Cemetery at North Oxford, Massachusetts.
How peaceful and powerful is the grave. Lord Byron.
Her memory deserves a monument. Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.
Her monument is the sign of the Red Cross. Sioux Falls (S. D.) Press.
Clara Barton needs no monument, her fame is written on the world’s battlefields. Albany Press Knickerbocker.
Congress should provide for the erection of a handsome monument to the woman who has served the nation in war and in peace. Baltimore Sun.
The Red Cross will serve as her monument and that is her work which, we trust, will keep alive her merciful spirit through the oncoming centuries.
Boston Journal.
Clara Barton needs no monument; her name will live in the hearts of the people. Jackson (Mich.) Patriot.
The whole civilized world owes Clara Barton more than it can ever pay in the form of tributes or material monuments.
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.
Long after the funeral service, as we passed on the way home, pathways were full of people coming from a distance; and next day hundreds trod the worn by-path in the cemetery to the still-standing Red Cross—a path that the feet of the world will tread to the end of time.
Clara Barton In Memoriam.
“Clara Barton joined the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge man’s search