LOOKING BACKWARDS
GEORGIA’S EARLY HISTORY. EXHUMATION OF GENERAL OGLETHORPE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrig it LONDON, October 10. (Received Oct. 11, at 7.35 p.m.) The coffins of General Oglethorpe and his wife were found at Cranham Church at the expected spot. The name plates were still bright, and were easily decipherable. They bore the words: “General Oglethorpe, 1783,” “Lady Elizabeth Oglethorpe, 1787.’’ Dr Jacobs, President of the Oglethorps University of Atlanta, who was present at the excavation, said to a Daily Chronicle interviewer: ‘Tor me nothing could compare with the solemn reverence which I felt when I entered the tomb. It came to my mind that James Edward Oglethorpe was no longer a heap of dust and bones, but was once again the most powerful personality in Georgia. I believe his influence for good will be wider and more powerful during the next two centuries than during the two which have passed.” It is expected that the bodies will be taken to Savannah in an American warship.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18991, 12 October 1923, Page 8
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