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Show Henry Clay's Daughters. Says a gosslper in the Cincinnat. 2imes-Stars "Henry Clay has a daughter daugh-ter buried at Lebanon, Ohio. She died while Henry Clay and his family were on their way to Washington by stage coach many years ago. She was a girl twelve years of age, and her loss was a sad blow to her father, who at the time was so pressed with business cares that he was compelled to bury tho body and go on to Washington, intending in-tending some day to return and ro-movo ro-movo it to Lexington, Ky. But he never did so, and the grave may be seon yet in the old burial ground, surrounded sur-rounded by wire fence. Tho tombstone tomb-stone is oue of the flat tablet stylo aud relic hunters have so marred it that now it presents a dilapidated appearance. appear-ance. To such an extent was this spirit of relic-seoking carried on that the graveyard authorities at last set posts every two feet apart around tho grave and wrapped them around with wire strands to tho extent of twenty or more, so that it is almost impossible impossi-ble for anybody to climb over and chip off a piece of the gravestones. As the old burial ground is being rapidly abandoned it is ouly a question of a few years until Henry Clay's daughter will be the only occupaut." |
