Aged 84 Years.
THE DEAD OF PATRIOTS’ DAY[[23]]
APRIL 19, 1775[[24]]
| NAME | AGE | WHERE KILLED | TOWN FROM | WHERE BURIED |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ensign Robert Munroe | 63 | Lexington Common | Lexington | Lexington Common |
| Jonas Parker | 53 | „ „ | „ | „ „ |
| Jonathan Harrington | 30 | „ „ | „ | „ „ |
| Isaac Muzzy | 31 | Near Lexington Common | „ | „ „ |
| Samuel Hadley | 29 | „ „ „ | „ | „ „ |
| John Brown | 25 | „ „ „ | „ | „ „ |
| Asahel Porter | „ „ „ | Woburn | Woburn | |
| Capt. Isaac Davis | 30 | Concord Bridge | Acton | Acton Centre |
| Abner Hosmer | 21 | „ „ | „ | „ „ |
| Capt. Jonathan Wilson | 41 | N’r Brooks’ Tav’n, Lincoln | Bedford | Bedford |
| Daniel Thompson | 40 | „ „ „ „ | Woburn | Woburn |
| Nathaniel Wyman | 25 | „ „ „ „ | Lexington | Old Cemetery, Lexington |
| Asahel Reed | 22 | „ Hartwell’s „ „ | Sudbury | Sudbury Centre |
| James Hayward | 25 | Fiske’s Hill, Lexington | Acton | Acton Centre |
| Josiah Haynes | 80 | Concord Hill | Sudbury | Sudbury Centre |
| Jedediah Munroe | 54 | Lexington | Lexington | Old Cemetery, Lexington |
| John Raymond | 44 | N’r Munroe’s Tav’n, Lex. | „ | „ „ „ |
| Joseph Coolidge | 45 | East Lexington | Watert’wn | East Watertown |
| Henry Jacobs | 22 | Menotomy | Danvers | Danvers |
| Samuel Cook | 33 | „ | „ | „ |
| Ebenezer Goldthwait | 22 | „ | „ | „ |
| George Southwick | 25 | „ | „ | „ |
| Benjamin Daland | 25 | „ | „ | „ |
| Jotham Webb | 22 | „ | „ | „ |
| Perley Putnam | 21 | „ | „ | „ |
| Daniel Townsend | 37 | „ | Lynn | Lynnfield |
| Reuben Kennison | „ | Beverly | Danvers, Ryal Side | |
| William Flint | „ | Lynn | Menotomy, now Arl’gton | |
| Thomas Hadley | „ | „ | „ „ „ | |
| Jason Russell | 59 | „ | Menotomy | „ „ „ |
| William Polly | 30 | Mill Pond, Op. Menotomy | Medford | Medford |
| Henry Putnam | 70 | Menotomy | „ | „ |
| Benjamin Peirce | 37 | „ | Salem | Menotomy |
| Lieut. John Bacon | 54 | „ | Needham | „ |
| Sergt. Elisha Mills | 40 | „ | „ | Needham |
| Amos Mills | 43 | „ | „ | Menotomy |
| Natheniel Chamberlain | 57 | „ | „ | „ |
| Jonathan Parker | 28 | „ | Dedham | „ |
| Elias Haven | „ | Dover | „ | |
| Abednego Ramsdell | 25 | „ | Lynn | „ |
| Jabez Wyman | 39 | „ | Menotomy | „ |
| Jason Winship | 45 | „ | „ | „ |
| Moses Richardson | 53 | Cambridge | Camb’dge | Cambridge |
| John Hicks | 50 | „ | „ | „ |
| William Marcy | „ | „ | „ | |
| Isaac Gardner | 49 | „ | Brooklyn | Brooklyn |
| James Miller | 65 | Charlestown | Cha’stown | Charlestown |
| Edward Barber | 14 | Charlestown Neck | „ | „ |
THE MEMORIAL TREES AT WASHINGTON
How to identify memorial trees has become an interesting question with the Washington authorities who have charge of the public grounds. While this city has no elm under which Washington took command of the army, and no oak that saved the charter of colonial liberties, it has not a few trees about which exceedingly interesting history gathers.
The Russo-American oak, planted a year ago, by President Roosevelt, assisted by Secretary Hitchcock, in the lawn near the west terrace of the White House, has a novel history. It is a lineal descendant of a native American oak, which overshadowed the old tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. Acorns from this oak were sent by Charles Sumner, while a Senator, to the Czar of Russia. Secretary Hitchcock thus tells the rest of the story:
“While ambassador at the court of St. Petersburg I made inquiry with respect to the acorns that Charles Sumner, while Senator from Massachusetts, sent to the Czar, and I found that they had been planted on what is known as ‘Czarina Island,’ which is included in the superb surroundings of one of the palaces of his Majesty, near Peterhof, and there I found a beautiful oak with a tablet at its foot bearing a Russian inscription which reads: ‘The acorn planted here was taken from an oak which shades the tomb of the celebrated and never-to-be-forgotten Washington; is presented to his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russias, as a sign of the greatest respect.—By an American.’
“I was fortunate at the time of my visit, which was in the fall of 1898, in finding a number of acorns on the ground. Gathering a handful I sent them home, and secured from the seed thus planted a few oak saplings, one of which I planted, with the permission of President Roosevelt, in the grounds of the White House, while another I planted near its grandparent, which is still in existence at Mount Vernon. Both of these young trees, I hope, will reach such age and strength as will, for years to come typify the continued friendship of the Governments and people of the United States and Russia.”
A superb specimen of the Oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis) originally planted in 1862, in the United States Botanic Garden by direction of Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, now forms one of the chief attractions of Lincoln Park. Having suffered from an overflow of the Potomac in 1870, which threatened its destruction, it was removed from the Botanic Garden to Lincoln Park, then an unimproved Government reservation. In 1872, when this park was improved with walks and ornamental plantings, a part of the plan of improvement adopted was the construction of an oval mound in the center, intended to form the site of a colossal statue of Abraham Lincoln, if an appropriation could be secured for that purpose. This tree was bare-stemmed, with a few small branches near the top, about eight feet from the original ground surface. The mound was made around it, and from this bare stem, which subsequently was covered with earth, it speedily sent out roots, and began a growth of phenomenal rapidity, which has continued till it is now over seventy feet in height, with a nearly equal spread of branches.
Trees as well as statuary may serve as monuments. In the parks and gardens of the cities of Europe there are many such trees. In Washington, the official home of our Presidents, and the temporary abiding place of so many distinguished statesmen and men of letters, exceptional opportunities have been afforded, and there are many trees notable for the historic interest attached to them.