Place Window in Virginia Church as Tribute to Famous Fighter.
San Francisco Call, Volume 50, Number 60, 30 July 1906 — Page 3
ROAXOKE. Va.. July 19.— A handy<*ne window as a memorial to General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson was unveiled in the Fifth-Avenue Presbyterian Church ( negro) today by the pastor. Rev. L. L. Downing. The money for its purchase came wholly from negro*s. The exercises were largely attended by both races, the Confederate camps of^ Roanoke and Salem and the chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy of the same places being well represented. Downing's father and mother were members of a Sunday-school class of negro slaves taught by Jackson at Lexington before the war, and today's exorcises marked the realization of an ambition Downing has had since boyhood to pay fitting tribute to the Confederate commander. The picture presented in the window is that of an army camping on the banks of a stream, the inscription underneath being Jackson's last words, "Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees."
