Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.”
As a grateful tribute to the memory of Colonel Buncombe, the General Assembly of North Carolina, at its session of 1791, created a new county just westward of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and called it in his honor. This is a monument which will stand when the proudest memorials of our day have become misshapen masses of stone. For ages it will tell of the brave soldier who fought for his country’s freedom and now sleeps in a forgotten grave, awaiting the last summons when the earth and the sea shall give up their dead. Peaceful be his rest!—and may generations yet to come draw inspiration from the life he led.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincey, Jun., by his son Josiah Quincey, pp. 120, 121.
[B] Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. IX., p. 60.
[C] These portraits were afterwards destroyed in a fire when the residence of Dr. Edward H. Goelet, of Goldsborough, N. C. was burned—M. DeL. H.
[D] Mrs. Ann Booth Pollock Cox is interred in the old burial ground of St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, N. C. On her monument is an elaborate inscription relative to the military record of her grandfather Colonel Buncombe.