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Title: Reminiscences of Nathan T. Frame and Esther G. Frame
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Frame, Nathan T., 1835-1914
Subjects: Frame, Esther G. (Esther Gordon), 1840-1920
Publisher: (Cleveland : Arthur H. Clark co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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had a most delightfultrip along the Kanawha Valley, with the moun-tains on either side, and the train sweeping aroundthe curves, running close up under the beetling cragsand towering, majestic rocks, crossing little gems ofvalleys and being carried over deep ravines, on highbridges, with the tops of the trees sometimes beneathus, giving one the sensation of flying, and alightingon the opposite ridge. Then there were woodedslopes of the mountain sides covered with the giantsof the forest, the sheltered coves, the home of deli-cate and lovely ferns, shut in from the rough windsand storms, and watered by the silver cascades flow-ing over the ledges of rocks. New Garden is historic ground. Near wherethe Friends meeting house stands was the battlefought between Cornwallis and General Greene, inwhich the English general was defeated. GeneralGreene took the Friends meeting house, which wasthen unfinished, for a hospital for his wounded men,and there were some of the boards that had been pre-
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&q O Historic Meeting-House. 169 pared for sealing overhead. These he took to maketables on which to lay the wounded who needed sur-gical operations. The blood stains were left on. theboards, which after the army had gone were used forsealing the meeting house. We visited this old meeting house, and thougha century had passed we saw on the ceiling the im-print of hands in many places. A hundred years hadnot sufficed to erase these blood stains. It was a veryremarkable occurrence. We went to the Friendscemetery, where some of the Revolutionary soldiershad been buried, and great trees were growing ontheir graves. Beside them slept many of the oldFriends who had battled nobly for the cause of lib-erty, whose lives had been a sacrifice for their coun-try and for humanity. But their weapons had notbeen carnal, but spiritual, and mighty through Godto pull down the strongholds of sin. As we lingeredat this historic old cemetery and read many of thesimple epitaphs on the low tombstones an

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