Marais Du Cygne Martyrs Memorial
(Front):
Rev. B. L. Read
John F. Campbell
William Colpetzer
Michael Robertson
Patrick Ross
William Hairgrove
Asa Hairgrove
Charles Snider
William A Stilwell
Amos Hall
Austin Hall
(Side 2):
On the 19th day of May 1858, the men whose names
appear on this monument were taken from their
daily avocations by a band of armed border
ruffians and marched to a deep ravine four miles
east of this place and there shot and left for dead.
Their only offense was was they were Free State men.
(Side 3):
Ad Astra Per Aspera
(Side 4):From the hearths of their cabins,
The fields of their corn,
Unwarned and unweaponed,
The victims were torn,--
By the whirlwind of murder
Swooped up and swept on
To the low, reedy fen-lands,
The Marsh of the Swan.
On the lintels of Kansas
That blood shall not dry;
Henceforth the Bad Angel
Shall harmless go by;
Henceforth to the sunset,
Unchecked on her way,
Shall Liberty follow
The march of the day.
Marker is on U.S. 69 0.1 miles south of Trading Post Road, on the left when traveling south.
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