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FOUGHT WITH WBoone Rears a Monument to AnotherRevolutionary Hero.The last restiDg place of John Leap, a revolutionary soldier, in Mt. Tabor cemetery, near Fayette, is marked by a massive monument, erected by Hoone county and unveiled with appropriate exercises last Sunday afternoon. A large number of people were in attendance, surrounding a temporary platform erected in an adjoining grove, when C. M. Zion, of the committee appointed by the county commissioners, called the meeting to order at a few minutes past ~ o'clock. After a few introductory remarks by Mr. Zion, prayer was offered by Rev. G. W. Lumpkins. Miss Nanette Herr recited a patriotic selection, and James Farrell, Perry township's eloquent orator and teacher, delivered an address on “The Lessons Taught by the Fathers of the Revolution. It was a beautiful tribute to the pioneers of our splendid civilization and to the perma-Lency of our government. The exercises concluded with a patriotic address by Alva Swope, of Clinton township, after which the people moved to the cemetery, and the veil was lifted from the moDnment by Win. D. Leap, a grandson of the hero of 1776. Ivan-hoe Division, I. R. K. of P., was in attendance and rendered valuable assistance.John Leap was born in Germany, in lT.ir» and came to America at the age of twenty-five. He was a quarter-master general under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He came to Boone county in 1439, and lived with his son until bis death in 1445. He united with Mt. Tabor Baptist church at the age of 104. There were present at the unveiling ezercises last Sunday, of his grand children, Wm. D., Edward, and A. J. Leap, Mesdames Eliza Chambers, Barbara Dickerson, Martha Shoemaker, Virginia Slagle, Eliza Swails, Mary Frances Johnson and Rose Ann Mount. Of his decendants one son served in the war of 1412, thirteen grandsons in the civil war and seven great-grandsons are enlisted in the present war with Spain.The monument is the same style as that recently erected over the grave of Jesse Robertson, at Hopewell. It is of Bedford stone, plain but massive, and cost the county 540. The work is to be pushed forward until the grave of every Revolutionary patriot in Boone county is marked by a stone.
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Lebanon Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 07, 1898
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