Meriwether Monument

South face Dec. 4,1852 - July 8, 1876 8212;8212;8212.In Memory of Thomas M Kie Meri wether.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.8212;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.]8212; "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.