Show SOUTH OF PIRTH BIRTH OF 01 JEFF HIS memorial park in kentucky town purchased cd by admirers of con federate chieftain Is for mally dedicated js ib ia pali view ky tho the treca w which havo have grown up about tile tho birth ha 14 place ot of jefferson davils since the f year early in the nineteenth century when the davis family demov removed 0 d t to 0 the jefferson Jorfe raon davis davi s M me e mortal park was dedicated on thursday Y NoWie northeast ast across tit the c Is 14 1 1 1 hodgenville Hodg enville near which lincoln was born eight months otter his hia great opponent i i po tient i in september 1907 when ft hen the gray ranks of Kentuck ys famous orphan brigade met in glasgow ky ICY ot at t tho he grave of general joseph 11 lewis U wis i their commander former governor bucknor of Ien kentucky tucky broached tile tho plan of the jefferson davis dails memorial association isso asso catlon clation subscriptions were i started stai ted the women of tho the south ably and when all but had been raised to purchase seventeen acres at fairview general bennett 11 II toung loung commanding the Nen kentucky tucky division islon united confederate veter ans advanced that surn sum and made the J memorial memo ilal possible oratory music and flowers fl made 1 the ony day potable A basket dinner and f a barbecue were provided by the people of todd and Christ christaan lan counties A which share shaie equally tile the town of pair fair view general young a former lie lieutenant ute nant of the gray wrote the chief address of the day and it was read by colonel milton alliton general young asserted that J every southern state should rear h a shaft to jefferson davis whose char acter and sufferings lie he dwelt upon he paid high tribute to lincoln say t ing that the time had come when men might speak kindly and truly of the past C the plan is to raise more with ith which to build a memorial temple to contain all the records of the confederacy and to remodel it a two story residence on the davis farm J to house the widows of confederate erato soldiers |