The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-12-04


oddsFeilowe Cemetery.
Ay attention being recently attracted to
the Odd Fellows Cemetery, the thought oc-
CURED that It would Be well 10 suggest toits
owners, that tlisis the season most favorable
for trapsplanting shrubbery, & for advancing
such Improvements as are 50 much needed to
beautify this tastefully arranged, but new
and unadcrned burying ground.
TO strangers, visiting objects Of interest in
and about our growing town, no place is
more worthy Of remark, and none perhaps
elicits more saddened admiration than this
quiet City Of the Dead, twas purchas-
ed, but few years since, BY that philan-
thropic Brotherhood the Odd Fellows,
and originally dedicated as q permanent bu-
rying place for theiroBn Order particularly
1T is, significantly, laid off into links; and
these are divided into lots, separated from
each other by walks Or streets; and the
whole Of it is kept inneat order at the ex-
penseof the fraternity. They have recently
extended to citizens, the privilege of purchas-
ing lots at a low rate Many have ayailed
themselves Of this privilege, and removed
the remains Of their friends from the old
burying ground to this site 50 much more
elevated, and entirely free from inundotion,
and which presents the additional advantage
+ Of being under the special supervision Of a
society, which tits to be hoped, for the sake
Of humanity, willlongexist society which
we esteem the noblest relic of the spirit Of
the chiyalric age; an embodiment Of its
most benign virtues seeking as it does to
ameliorate the condition Of at least, por-
ton, Of our race, and to garland the af1ic-
tive and austere realities Of life with the I'M
fading yerdme of g Friendship, Love and
Truth. 2
In passing, roycrentially along the seclu-
ded walks Of this little region, one is involun-
tarily led to review of the past, as well as
to solemn contemplation of the future
Here lie some with whom we have been in
timately associated-the companions of oul
youthful festivities, ere we had realised the
despotic sway Of this worldwide monarch
over those We loved. Here lie too, friend:
of our ripper years, as well as the little favor
ties and fondlings of our social hours and
dearer than all, the little ones that had nestled
in our own bosoms; that were nurtureo
! around our own Preside; that had brighten
ed our own home with their innocence, theil
Joy and their loneliness. There are heart
histories buried here, to be revealed on tn
e page of eternity, alone. In one spot repose
one whom many knew as the humble, unos
tentahous christian, the devoted friend an
faithful wife, whose dearest lore was the SC
enco Of making happy home. A holy res
is hers Not far distant slumbers buddin
boyhood by the side of withered age: I'll
extremes of a broken link, that was full {
beauty and of worth. She was taken first
but age and childhood soon followed in h,
+. footsteps; and though discovered on cart
are now reunited, Son, Mother and Gran
Of sire, an unbroken chain in Heaven.
5, Another should be here. One whose pE
" " lanthropic sympathies led him to become O
of the earliest pioneers in this division
ne Odd Fellowship. One whose kindly hea
r. ever prompted him to befriend the helple
and unfriended; whose whole life was Vi
: form complication of honor and of Writ
We knew and loved him we'll But Meth
his exalted worth, nor the coronal of q Frier
n. ship, Love and Truth" which adorned
mature manhood, could save him from an |
timely and undeserved fate; and his dust
II poses far away from the brethren who KIN
~ and loved him.
on Here, under this freshly broken sod,
consigned the Mother and the wife, VIII
: virtues gained her friends far from the no
IL Of her birth But neither skillnor kindn
+, could arrest the destroying angel. Her vo
will no more greet the household circle
How desolate is that home! A little
Their on, is the grave of one whose infar
~ and childhood was one gladstone day of 6
tleness and love. Lovely and beloved
life, she was even more beautiful and m
beloved in the calm sleep Of death. Isat
!. her fevered couch and watched her heaY
chest, and labored breathing; saw the
glaze, the check grow pale, and the lip Ii
and heard the voice that was won't to NJ
2 music Of the nameo " Mother, utter t
word with hoarse and feeblecry. Isaw
DDS, little one breathe her last. She had bee
I st n g well-spring Of joy in her home.
.oss Death exhausted the fountain, and here
I lsaa Iliess
aass Infancy, childhood, maturity and old
iekss are here. Each has had its hopes, its fe
we'd ITS joy andsorrow; and all have been mel
i into the only certainty Death. WI
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