d on Mrs. Barnard's grave,
long scattered and lost, were discovered, cemented together and placed
upon her new grave. The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age,
accompanied by his daughter, was present. Standing upon the graves of
the martyrs, with tremulous voice and moistened eyes, he gave to the
assembled multitude a history of their early missionary toil in the
abodes of savagery. It was a thrilling story, the interest intensified
by the surroundings. The half-breed women who prepared Mrs. Spencer's
body for the burial and who washed and dressed the little babe after
his baptism in his mother's blood, were present. The same half-breed
who dug Mrs. Spencer's grave in 1854 dug the new grave in 1888. Several
pioneers familiar with the facts of the tragedy at the time of its
occurrence were also present.

"The Martyr's Plot," the last resting place of these devoted servants
of our Lord Jesus Christ, is a beautiful spot, on the hillside, in the
Presbyterian Cemetery at Walhalla. It is enclosed by a neat fence, and
each of these three martyr's graves is marked by a white stone, with an
appropriate inscription.

The Rev. Alonzo Barnard retired to Michigan, where he gave five years
of missionary toil to the Chippewas at Omene and many other years of
helpful service to the white settlers at other points in that state. In
1883 he retired from the work of the active ministry and spent the
remainder of his days with his children.

He died April 14, 1905, at Pomona, Michigan, at the home of his son,
Dr. James Barnard, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. There is a
large and flourishing Episcopal Indian church at Leech Lake, Minnesota,
the scene of Mr. Barnard's labors from 1843-52.

The rector is the Rev. Charles T. Wright, a full-blood Chippewa. He is
the eldest son of that famous chieftain, Gray Cloud and is now himself,
chief of all the Chippewas. "Thus one soweth and another reapeth."

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