Early times in Raleigh : addresses delivered ... at the dedication of Tucker Hall, and on the occasion of the completion of the monument to Jacob Johnson with maps of the city of Raleigh, for the years 1792, 1834 and 1847 - Page 36 |
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I trust I shall be suspected of no want of gallantry to
the living if I venture to intimate that among the nymphs
that illuminate the page of memory and imagination, 1
find pictures of beauty and grace and refinement q& ite
equal to the best specimens of modern times, or even in
poetic hallucination, " some brighter days than modern
days, some fairer maids than living maids."
Capt. Peace reposes by the side of his aged brother
without as yet a stone to tell his name. He was I suppose
at the time of his death, the oldest citizen of Raleigh, as
well as the oldest man who has passed from the living city,
to the city of the dead.
I have never yet met with a man whom I supposed to be
a hundred years old. Various colored persons have represented
themselves of greater age, but their computations
would not bear scrutiny. The late William Henry Haywood,
the elder, died at the age of 87, and Mrs. Haywood in her
90th. year. The honored name of their only son, the late
Senator in~ Congress, was given at the baptismal font to the
senior proprietor of the HALL, in admiration of early promise
by a discerning father. The suit of clothes presented to the
child by the Senator in acknowledgment of the compliment,
is in a state of perfect preservation, and will be kept as an
interesting illustration of the habits and customs of other
days. We are to be instructed by grave lectures in every
department of science and art; shall we not have a minature
museum, a portrait gallery and a niche for the preservation
of specimens of the antique, among which the best bib and
tucker of earlier times may find an appropriate place ?
John Rex was one of the earliest citizens of Raleigh. My
acquaintance with him was slight. In appearance he
