Meriwether Monument
Hero of the Hamburg Riot
[South face ]:
Dec. 4,1852 - July 8, 1876
———
In Memory of
Thomas McKie
Meriwether.
Who on 8th July 1876,
gave his life that the
civilization builded by his
fathers might be preserved
for their childrens
children unimpaired.
[East face]:
In youths clad mourning the
unfinished years of manhood
stretching before him, with
clear knowledge and courageous
willingness, he
accepted death and found
forever the grateful remembrance
of all who know high
and generous service in the
maintaining of those civic
and social institutions which
the men and women of his
race and struggled through
the centuries to establish
in South Carolina.
—
What more can a man do than
to lay down his life.
[North face]:
In life he exemplified
the highest ideal of
Anglo-Saxon civilization.
By his death he assured
to the children of his
beloved land the
supremacy of that ideal.
—
"As his flame of life
was quenched,
it lit the blaze of victory"
[West face]:
This memorial is erected
to the young hero
of the Hamburg Riot,
by the state, under
an act of the general
assembly, with the aid
of admiring friends.
Marker is on Carolina Avenue near W. Forest Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
