Outline history of Utica and vicinity . rtained them. It is fitting here to speak of the grave of Steuben. Thiswas first made according to his wish in a secluded spot onhis own grounds in the township of Steuben. When theopening of a new road made a removal necessary. Col. JonessAnnas, . i i • pp. 439-4q, 445, Benjamm Walkcr made the re-mterment and placed an ?***? iron railing around the grave. He also leased fifty acres of land to the First Baptist Society of Steuben on condi-tion that five acres, including the grave, should be pro- E. and F., p. tected and kept in a state of nature. ^^^ In
Outline history of Utica and vicinity . rtained them. It is fitting here to speak of the grave of Steuben. Thiswas first made according to his wish in a secluded spot onhis own grounds in the township of Steuben. When theopening of a new road made a removal necessary. Col. JonessAnnas, . i i • pp. 439-4q, 445, Benjamm Walkcr made the re-mterment and placed an ?***? iron railing around the grave. He also leased fifty acres of land to the First Baptist Society of Steuben on condi-tion that five acres, including the grave, should be pro- E. and F., p. tected and kept in a state of nature. ^^^ In the Coluvibiari Gazette of May 3. 1825, preserved in the Historical Society Library, is a notice of a meeting attended by a very respectable number, to consider thepropriety of erecting a monument over the remains ofBaron Steuben. It was held at Shepards Tavern,(Baggs Hotel, kept for the time by Abraham Shepard),andWilliam Clarke, Esq., President of the Village, was calledto the chair. Resolutions were passed, one of which read :. MUNSON-WlLLIAMS MEMORIAL. Oneida Historical Society. LIBRARY ; HISTORICAL SOCIETY ; ETC. lOQ Resolved, That subscription papers be circulated, andthat no one pay more than two dollars. A committeewas appointed which agreed to accept no subscription un-less accompanied by the money. This doubtless indicates the part which Utica took in jongg-g^nnaisraising funds for the monument to Steuben erected byPW^-subscription when LaFayette visited this country. JudgeJones says, The tablet is about seven feet by four, andnearly a foot in thickness, of the purest limestone, and j^,j^p^^^he appeals to the honor of the town and the county to give itthe needed repairs. This stone was inscribed, Major-General Frederick William Augustus, Baron de Steuben. Some years before the Civil War, the State Legislatureappropriated a sum of public money for the erection of amonument, and this was afterward turned over to an asso-ciation which completed the work, large credit b
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