Confederate Soldier Takes His Last Journey--Home

In a somber homecoming that bore testament to the strength of family ties, the exhumed remains of Confederate soldier Cyrus Graham Clark were carried to Gainesboro, Tenn., for reburial next Saturday after lying in a Kentucky graveyard for 123 years. Family members had last heard from Clark--a member of Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s cavalry--in March, 1863, when he wrote a letter to his wife. He was later captured and taken to the Union military prison in Louisville, Ky., where he died at age 36. In 1972 the family learned of his fate from a friend who had happened upon his grave in Cave Hill Cemetery. This year they decided to bury Clark’s remains next to his wife, who never remarried. “We care for our ancestors,” said Eurie Smith, chaplain of the John Hunt Morgan Camp 1342, who delivered a eulogy at the ceremony. “We want to know who they are, what they did and where they rest. . . . It is an emblem of the enduring love of the Southern family.” About 100 people attended the exhumation ceremony. When the hearse transporting Clark to Tennessee arrived at the border, men dressed as Confederate soldiers walked with the coffin across the line into Tennessee, Jim Birdwell, a descendant of Clark’s brother, said. “They wanted the feeling of bringing him home again,” he said. “A feeling came over us when we arrived back in Tennessee. To know that we were bringing him back to his home and were ending a 123-year search.”

--Sportscaster Frank Gifford, co-host of ABC’s “Monday Night Football,” and Kathie Lee Johnson, co-host of a program on the network’s New York affiliate, have married, her manager said. The private wedding Saturday in Bridgehampton on Long Island, N.Y., was attended by a small number of relatives and friends, David Martin said. Johnson, who was formerly on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and now hosts WABC’s “The Morning Show,” will be known professionally as Kathie Lee Gifford, Martin said.

--Memorial stones bearing lines from Robert Frost and Nathaniel Hawthorne marked Sunday’s induction of the two writers into the American Poets’ Corner at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. One stone was inscribed with “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” from Frost’s “The Lesson for Today.” The other bore the words “On a field, sable, the letter A, Gules,” from Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” Frost (1874-1963) and Hawthorne (1804-1864) were elected by a group of 12 American writers and the cathedral’s poet-in-residence William Jay Smith. Already in the American Poets’ Corner are Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving and Herman Melville.