AMERICAN HERO

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 7

AMERICAN HERO

FOUNDER OF GEORGIA

EXHUMATION IN ENGLAND

A FRIEND OF THE OPPRESSED,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRI6HT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 10th October.

The coffins of General Ogelthorpe and his wife have been found in Cranham Church, at the expected spot. The name-plates were still bright and easily decipherable, and bore the words "General Ogelthorpe, 1785. Lady Elizabeth Oglethorpe, 1787." Dr. Jacobs, president of the Ogelthorpe University of Atlanta, who was present at the excavation, told a "Daily Chronicle" interviewer: "For me nothing compares with the solemn reverence I felt when I entered the tomb. It came to my mind that James Edward Ogelthorpe was no longer a heap of dust and bones, but once again was the most powerful personality in .Georgia. I believe his influence for good will bo wider and more powerful m the next two centuries than in the two which have passed." It is expected the bodies will be taken to Savannah in an American warship.

J -J? m£L? dward Oglethorpe (born 1696, died 1785) was an English general, bc»n m London. He joined the army of .Fnnce Eugene in 1714, and became, thro"Sh recommendation of the Duke of Marlborough, the Prince's aide-de-camp He served with distinction against the Turks in 1716-1717, and on ?^ o lletu T r" was elect«d to Parliament in l'^. Me devoted much attention to the improvement of the circumstances of poor debtors in the London prisons, and for the purpose of providing an asylum for those who had become inBolvent and for' oppressed Protestants on the Continent, he projected the settlement of a colony, now Georgia.