Identifier: biennialreportof03wes (find matches)
Title: Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History
Subjects: Archives
Publisher: (Charleston) : The Department
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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upon the dell, Where heroes fought and brave Charles Lewis fell Today when rains have swollen the rivers tide, The rich soil crumbles from the waters side;There white and gastly, bedded in the clay, 254 Archives and History. (W. Va. The bones of those who fell that Autum day;And ere they sink beneath Ohios wave, The sunlight, for a while, gleams on the graveOf sires of noble sons, and sons of noble sires; A nations incense. All her altar firesCan scarce repay the labor of that day, From dewy dawn, till sunlight fled away. A nations song, through all the coming time Can scarce give language to thy thoughts, sublime,As standing there beside the crimsond rills You thought of dear ones far across the hills,Of West Augusta homes, where warm and bright The firelight gleamed on household gods at night,And dawn awoke each weary, weary day When bright eyes, waiting, watched the western wayFor forms those eyes might never, never greet; For forms then stark in death, where two great riversimeet.
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STATTTTC OF FRANCIS HARRISON PIFRPONT. IN STATUARYHALL IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. It was executed by Franklin Simmons, an American sculptor residing in RomeItaly, under a contract entered into August 11, 1902, with the Pi&rpont Statue Cammission which was created by act of the Legislature passed January 22 iTni rtShi 30, 19?0. Ped6Stal N°Vember 29, 1903 in the Hal1 of Fame- and was unveiled APPENDIX II THE STATUE OF HONORABLE FRANCIS H. PIERPONT INTHE HALL OF FAME IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Biographical Sketch—Erection—Unveiling, Presentation byWest Virginia—Acceptance by Congress. Francis Harrison Pierpont, the Governor of Virginia under theRestored Government, and Avhose statue in marble, presented by theState of West Virginia to the Nation and which stands in the Hallof Fame in the National Capitol, was born, January 25, 1814.about five miles east of Morgantown, in Monongalia county, WestVirginia. He was the third son of Francis and Catherine (Weaver)Pierpont; the former bor

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