| Show MEMORIAL TO SONG WRITER Statue of Composer of Suwanee River Unveiled Thi Th Week V f KyOn Jon June 14 11 this L I week Kentucky pall paid a tribute to 10 the man enshrined hr het in la inpong pong gong Ion wh whon n In the Ir of ot th the thousands who Mho 00 lave lue returned to their native nale stale Mate for tor nome Home Weeks W k there theft nan unveiled n R status Matue tatul of sic Ste Stephen phen Ihen ph n Collins Foster Fo F t ter r who wrote My Icy Iy f Old 01 1 Kentucky item Home Nor will Kentucky lC 1 he be alone In bon hon tiring this roan man whore h melodies have hat the of n mIl millions n y far fSr he ho 0 I Ia n lyond question the mot most t pop popular popular ular sons song writer America AmrI has hoa ever known and his hla music ro l d 1 halt half a century r ago KO go to II an as freab todi tod aa U when It Will nas Gut Art heard Tho The statue of ot letter tOIMI eons from Uw tM children of et f K tucky who vho con f their p pennies t to 10 tb Ute the trod fund The two 10 font conga IOn by It b which Io t r mon moll endeared f himself to in Americans American are Old Home and anti Old Folks Folk at atU U Home the latter bettor known knon as Suwanee River niter While hilt southern In their won scene and sentiment their beauty And nd bathos I thol are arc such ich rh that they are beland be beyond yond land itt H n And they the have long lone lon since In become fart art of or the heritage rt of f song ong oo Rut nut ut It U la I not by b these two songs alone that Ihal Toiler fester r Is h remembered orM for tor there thre are many man others not unknown to the ht present generation and perfectly familiar to th throe we who can an remember tt Ii years yearn bark back that were Mere his bin production Espe I Is 11 this thU M 54 of the negro songs IOn which preserve the most beautiful fea fe f tutus of ot the Ihl da days before the war when the belonged d to his roster master lM Although a Pennsylvania by II birth Porter spent much time In to Kentucky where exl existed t d In IU its happ t form and ani the bond between master mutt r raDd and aDd ulI i was 5 one non of ot love lec 10 All that w was wal tender lender and In 1 pathetic In this at a appealed d t to to Foster KoMer o and Inspired many mUt beautiful tOng songs Foremost are lire tJ these e mentioned In the rid Old 01 Kentucky Home the negro laments the happy harp days that Hr art are gone IDRe The same m sentiment NIl 11 I pervade r pon ad Old 1 lka At home and nd not trot even o Sweet Homo huts hns sunk deeper Into tho the hearts heard of at the homesick than Ihan the tho lines All 11 up n l down the whole Sadly S dl I roam rOIl Still longing for tor the old plantation And Aud for tor the old folks tolk at home I Old Joe JM Is h perfect 1 In It Its aim sim simple I plc pathos and und the crooning chant of ofin i in the old negros Md sad refrain as 11 he h lai la laments lai i meats ments the friends frInd that love have tB departed Im coming Im coming I For Por my m head bead is 18 low lowI 10 I I 1 hear bear their gentle okra calling Old mack Black Joe I The grief gritt of ot the negro tor lot the I kind kindol ol old oW master matter U is continued In Down 1 lii do t cornfield lORI dal dat mournful All the darkly mn sm a w weeping Marwe Mareo In to de d 11 cold colli cold ground en foster wrote his hiM songs song Md sad d ballads were tore funded and he wrote one ont that t tear lean ir to every eTer mothers eyes eyu for tor the tilt M SO years y rs 1 or more that It II was eu sung I Sentimental ballad ballads were let also faor favor KM Ice with Poster Foster The bt best b t remembered re of GI there le It I Coin Corse My I Loe Ioe Lies Lilli Dreaming Others Othern art are Annie My MyOwn Iy Own Lovo LoveI Cora Iora ora Dear Dt r Dull Villi Day Daj DI Ellen n Bayne n Farewell My 1 Little D Dear ar Fi PI For r Thee Lore JoP for Thee I tot Pee Her Still In My 1 Dreams Jennie June K Kat Katy ty Well lIell I Laura ura Lee w MH Me I May II Nellie lily UI Nell and 1 I IO O 0 Open en Thy Th Lattice L n Sweet Lt 11 Lttie d t tie tit Maid Id of ot the Mountains She Was Wasul All ul the World to Me 1 le Thou thou Art the Queen of My Iy Heart Theres There No o Such I Girl an III a Mine In j Foster 10 wrote wrol cOmic songs also though thu h they HIt differed vastly from the comic sorgi bungs of today Koiter was waB an ardent man mn and contributed many war songs The bIt best known wan w A as We Are Coming lather Father Abraham Three Hundred Th More Mons Others were For the Dear DearOld DearOld Old Flag I Die My I Boy Doy Is Ii outing rum From the V r 1 The Soldiers Home Weve n a Million in fn the Field J Vaa V AI s My IT In III the Rattle Battler Wb When n the he theDr Dr Dreadful War Is Ended A number of ot hymns and sacred son songs ns KB are Included among those Foster Jf ller left lell The Tho Shore Shout There Is III a aLard 1 Laud Lard of ot Love loe Tears firing llna Thoughts of or maven We Will All sal Mi Meet t our Sa Savior vior are some Foster Foiter was U born July Jul 4 UK m In Law Ia w Pi I which ua WaK as founded by b his hll father MaJ laJ William Manlay Fop Fos Foster ter lIr two IWo and one miles from Pittsburg bul lie He wan wall a musical mUI l prodigy prod I In U til his babyhood he h evinced A II strange t fondness for tor tousle music and It was an II about the only thing that Interested him in 11 later inter years oars ats He lie went to school In Tow Towanda Towanda anda Pa Later he completed his hi education at 1 Jefferson college oll e Cannonsburg CAnnone bur Pa 18 where he was all a II classmate of James G N H NI Blame DIllin From college he went It to 10 where Abere he h secured A position m as no AIrl clerk rl k Ills His song gong I appeared tard In hi entitled Open Thy Th lattice Love when he was II 16 o For a It considerable time thus the Iho Old bid Folks Jolk Bt lit H found little fuser for with the public but bul finally 11 nail Thomas M Nully ull r placed laced It upon the Ih minstrel mn stag singe S pay 1184 payIng payIng Ing Foster JEW Ii for the In n Ut 19 1 Footer Fester Fo wrote the Ihl song al opens the s heart h att My Iy Old 01 Kentucky k Mh NO The house In which Foster Jo derived the thoughts embodied In My Iy Old Kentucky Home still IIII stands standa and Is It known as u Federal Hill nail and for tor al almost almost most n a century has hu been owned by the Rowan family Foster fo r waa married d In 1160 to Miss Jane JIm Denny McDowell daughter of cf Dr Ir Andrew Andre N McDowell leading I physician Man Ian of ot Pittsburgh Pittsburg lie He removed to New ew fork Yirk aid w nt to housekeeping hou k but after ft a 1 year car the old fondness for tor home and mother mothr was to 10 strong for rr him to 10 torr rr rC t run Ce hue day la he suddenly pro posed to lo his hiI wife that they the return to fo Pittsburg He lie H brought a dealer to 10 the house houfe sold Bold out everything In t the WU uy of ot furniture and within 4 1 hours was waa WR on In the road to 10 Allegheny lIFt He never went wIll away awty from tram home horns again and stayed ai as a along long as his mother mOlher and father In III January while in New eW York h hl he was wall taken with an ague ngue and fever feer and nn taken to 10 the tho tx Bellevue hospital where he died Jan IS 11 1564 1161 He lie left one cne child chUd cht n a daughter Marlon the Ibl wife of Walter Welsh of ot Allegheny City Pa JIl Ills body bod lies beside bt ld the mother and N J f father he loved 1 so much and near the th ij spot where h he was wa born botn A AThe The statue of Foster Foater U It It shows show him seated in a I chair which In la Inthe I lathe the reproduction of ot one In which he Mt set I t I At t Federal Hill while composing the Ih l song The statue will be placed pia reo In the lite I new If capitol which Is III being bd built buill at |
