Wesley Township (part 2 of 2)

Hon. Henry Bohl, then representing Washington County in the State Legislature, procured the passage of the bill May 2j, 1879, so that the assessors in the spring of 1880 were required to take an enumeration of all deceased soldiers who enlisted from this county. A blank was prepared giving the facts. The assessors did their work as well as it could be done after so many years had elapsed since the war. This was supplemented by facts and data, procured at much labor and trouble, from other sources, until a sufficient degree of fullness and accuracy was obtained to justify the record to be made.

*Through the efforts of one" of Jilarietta's publicspirited citizens - M. P. Wells, Esq. - a neat iron fence was, in the spring of 1877, placed around the monument, part of the money to pay for which was donated by the Philomathean society, composed of young ladies of the Marietta high school. The same gentleman then followed up the work so well begun by moving for a donation of four cannon from the United States arsenal, at Washington, to place at the four corners of the monument. The Hon. A. J. Warner, our Representative in Congress from this district (thirteenth), procured the passage of a bill, approved June 8, 1880, donating to the association four twenty-pound Parrot guns. These were received in the summer of 1880, were let into four stone blocks and placed at the corners of the monument, as they now stand.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When spring, with dewy, fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

By fairy hands their knell is sung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there !