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 Michael J. Barry - Moore County Disaster Memorial - Dumas, TX Posted by:  YoSam.
N 35° 51.481 W 101° 58.376
14S E 231539 N 3972282
Memorial to a terrible refinery fire...
Waymark Code: WM130J3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2020
Views: 1
County of memorial: Moore County
Location of memorial: 8th St. & US 87 (Main St.) courthouse lawn, Dumas
Memorial Text: But whether on the plains so high
On in the battle’s Van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for Man
Dedicated to those who gave their lives in
the Moore County Disaster on
July 29, 1956
Ray Biles
Lewis A. Broxon
O.W. “Shine” Cleveland
Gilford Corse
Billy Joe Dunn
Claude L. Emmett
Alvin W. Freeman
Sam A. Gibson
Durwood C. Lilley
Charles W. Lummus
Oliver Milligan
Paschel Poole
James E. Rivers
M. Wayne Slagle
Wayne Thomas
Donald W. Thompson
Gayle D. Wier
Ruebert S. “Cotton” Wier
Joe W. West
This quote comes from the poem The Place to Die by Michael J. Barry, and published in the collection titled The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844. Vol. II. P. 809
Poem:
HOW little recks it where men lie,
When once the moment’s past
In which the dim and glazing eye
Has looked on earth its last,—
Whether beneath the sculptured urn 5
The coffined form shall rest,
Or in its nakedness return
Back to its mother’s breast!
Death is a common friend or foe,
As different men may hold, 10
And at his summons each must go,
The timid and the bold;
But when the spirit, free and warm,
Deserts it, as it must,
What matter where the lifeless form 15
Dissolves again to dust?
The soldier falls ’mid corses piled
Upon the battle-plain,
Where reinless war-steeds gallop wild
Above the mangled slain; 20
But though his corse be grim to see,
Hoof-trampled on the sod,
What recks it, when the spirit free
Has soared aloft to God?
The coward’s dying eyes may clos 25
Upon his downy bed,
And softest hands his limbs compose,
Or garments o’er them spread.
But ye who shun the bloody fray,
When fall the mangled brave, 30
Go—strip his coffin-lid away,
And see him in his grave!
’T were sweet, indeed, to close our eyes,
With those we cherish near,
And, wafted upwards by their sighs, 35
Soar to some calmer sphere.
But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle’s van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man!
Address:
715 S. Dumas Ave.
Dumas, TX 79029
Website: [Web Link]
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