The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-23 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

'filE PROPOSED CEMETERY FOR STOURBRIDGE
AND UPPER SWINFORD.

To the Fditor of the " Observer.

Is in.—A meeting was held at the Oldswinford Schools
en 'Tuesday last, of ratepayers of the j Ant townships oi
Upper Stratford and Stourbridge, to consider the best
means of providing additional banal ground for the in-
habitants of those townships. It lutist have occurred V.
any one who was there that though the schools might be
supposed to exert • humanising and civilising influence in
that district, yet both men and women showed by their
conduct that the schoolmaster was abroad to a very
limited extent, and that the first rudiments of civilisation
and decent behaviaur were most imperfectly under-
stood.

ith regard to the meeting itself, although Mr. Pres-
cott, who was the leader of the opposition on that Occa-
sion, complained of the time of meeting as being incon•
veniesit, he was yet fortunate enough to secure a colloid •
erabie muster of his friends and supporteis. the resu t
of the meeting might have been foreseen. It uouid
have been ail the ; • i e, I believe. if. in. earl of proposing
to provide a burial ground, it had been proposed to buil,
a school or a church, or to perform any other art of cis .•
hued society. It was sulticieut, apparently, to make a
proposal iu the interest. of decency and the proper iut r•
meet of the deadon order to be met by a negative within
the school-room, and by expressions of insult without.
It is to be hoped in charity that some of those present
did not understand the question ; and this seems very
prehable from what I subsequently heard that many per.
seas thought It was a meeting to carry out the new theory
of cremation, which has beets lately advocated in this
town. It is unnecees try to observe that there ICIIS no
more connection between the object of the meeting and
that theory, than between Teuterden Steeple and the
Goodwin Sands. We were met to consider how to bury
the dead, not how to burn them. Any reason, however,
or rattier no reason was sufficient for the purposes of
those who came to negative the proposal of • burial
ground, and to be regaled with half an hour of personali-
tiesost their neighbour's expense. In vain were appeals
made to Christian feeling, to argument, and to common-
sen,e. If these had been piled up to an unlimited ex-
tent, they would have produced on the tusjority of the
meeting as little effect as those cartloads of wholesome
instructions which the genius of Bunyan has represented
as being flung to no purpose into the mire of the Slough
of Despond.
At the close a poll was demanded, which has been fixed
for Wednesday, the 27th inst. It now rests with the
ratepayers of the two townships whether they will have •
burial ground worthy of the town and neighbourhood,
and Nisch as is possessed by nearly ell the other towns of
the kingdom. The additional ground which was provided
in Gldswinford Churchyard, a year or two since, will be
tilled up in shout two years Twice within my recollec-
tion has that burial ground keen enlarged. I believe it
cannot be enlarged again, and if it could, it seem.a to be
most undesirable to do so. The spirit of the age and of
our legislation is against crowding interment* into the
immediate neighbourhood of town. and populous local,
ties, and as no mass would wish to have a burial ground
els acts his own house, as neither should he wish to thi ust
it upon the dwellings of others, whether of the rich or
the poor. Besides, any enlargement of the present burial
grousel, if it could be done, would only put off for •little
while that which at no distant time must inevitably come,
and those who by delay and obstruction are throwing
hindrances in the way on the alleged ground of economy
are only increasing that expenditure, which they profess
tbetnaeives desirous 51 keeping down.
It has been said that Arublecote and Wollaston are
open to the public, but persons living out of those
parishes have no legal claim for interment in them, and
can only be buried there with the cemsent of the Incum-
bents, and on payment of double fee.. These places
would, also, be soon filled up if the inhabitants of Up; Cr
&milord and Stonrbridge were to be buried in them
There is no ground for the apprehension that the fees for
interment in such a burial ground as it is proposed to
have, would be higher than those charged for burial in
churchyards. It would not be for the interest ef a Burial
Board to fix the scale of fees at too high a fign-e.
The queation, then, before the rate-payers of the two
township. is pimply thia, not whether any additional
burial ground shall be provided, for in a little time that
must necessarily be done, bat whether they will now take
steps, before the present burial grosei in filled up, to
provide a fitting place in the neighbourhood, where per-
sons of al classes awl opibions may bury their dead fir
maoy years to come, and on which they may bestow that
affectionate care and consideration, which the last resting
places of those whom we have loved and list, seem to
claim at our hands.

I am, Sir, yours obediently,
HUGH SHERRARD.
St. Thomas' Vicarage. Stourbridge,
May :21st, 1374.
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