2 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



The tablet is simple and unpretentious, and bears this 

 inscription : 



In Memory of 



George Sewall Boutwell 



Jan. 28, 1S18 



Feb. 27, 1905 



Governor of Massachusetts 



Representative and Senator of the United States 



Secretary of the Treasury 



Illustrious 

 Citizen, Patriot, Statesman 

 Consistent, Brave and Devoted Friend 

 fjt of Human Liberty. 



The tablet is five feet in height, three feet in width, and ten 

 inches in thickness. 



The exercises began with placing flowers on the grave by 

 the George S. Boutwell Woman's Relief Corps, No. 49, 

 Auxiliary to the G. A. R., the George S. Boutwell Post, 

 No. 48, Ayer, Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., and 

 the E. S. Clark Post, No. 115, Groton, Department of Massa- 

 chusetts, G. A. R. ; and the singing of Sir Henry Wotton's 

 " The Character of a Happy Life " by a choir of boys from 

 the Groton School. 



The exercises were then transferred from the cemetery 

 to the Town Hall, where letters of sympathy and re- 

 gret were read from the President of the United States, 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, the Speaker of the Na- 

 tional House of Representatives, and other distinguished 

 citizens. 



The poem on the occasion was by William Roscoe Thayer, 

 of Cambridge, and is such a just tribute to the many excel- 

 lent qualities of Mr. Boutwell's character, that I am prompted 

 to reprint it in these pages. 



TO BOUTWELL. 



I marvel not that Youth, 



Impassion'd for the Truth, 

 Cleaves but to her, as bridegroom to his bride; 



Recks neither praise nor blame, 



Heeds not the lure of fame, 

 Knows that her smile were worth the world beside. 



