Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-19
Tho Consre..tons, Cemetery.

ii This place was known in the year 1900
8 and for some time thereafter as Tingley's
burlal ground. The frst tombstone erect.
! ed there was in the year 1909. The plac,
Tor few years preTicrsiy had been US
ed as common burial ground for those wh,
had occasion to bdfy their dead, on the sam,
plan as is common in ali the country pSr
ishes- The good people of Christ Church
Navy Yard, in the year 1912, took the grouns
in hand, and L vas thereafter called "Ths
Washington Parish Burial Grcand.' They
adopted certain regulations for the purpose
of protecting the place, and enclosed il with
e brick wall. .-...
{ he ground then comprised q very limited
space, and as it gradually filed up, ortions
of adjoining land were purchased and added
| 10 it, until it covered an extent of about sew
en- acres.
Congress began to bury its dead here,
and since that time it has been called the
Congressional Cemetery, and appropriations
have been made from time to time by Con-
gress, for the purpose of putting it in repair
The last purchase made amounted to about
seven acres, in addition to the old ground,
and now the entire grounds extend over
/
the sunny side OF ridge which skirts the
| western shores OF the Anaeosta, it slopes
gracefully eastward till its verdant edges
meet and embrace the waters OF that beanti-
fal stream, in whose mirror-Iike depths its
| cypress and fHrneral monuments are sadly
repeated.
The remains of some of the most dfstin-
| guished men in or eountry',s history, lie in
their long sleep, within the Congressional
6rrist ground, and monuments in memory
OF those whose voices were wont to be
heard at the forum in the hot debate of Con-
gressional legislation, arise on every side,
pointing out to man the importance Of his
boasted greatness and wisdom, and show
like leaf we fade" Since the federal
government was removed to the District
there have died during its sessions some one
hundred and thirty members of Con gress.
In former times, the old Rock Creek grounds
were used whenever occasion required
What number or Congressional intermenas
were made there is not known.
Among the monuments on the Congress
sional ground, one of the most prominent is
fhe exqusitely modelled marble tomb, snr-
rounded by occasional column, indicating
where rests the remains of tire eloquent
VIM. Writ.
Near by, among the Congressional mon-
uments, we note the inscription upon the
ionb of the brilliant, eccentric, and most
unfortunate Felix G. Mcconnell, of Ala.
bama.
In the old part of the grounds near the
sfnenuments 10 George Clinton and Elbridge
Gerry, sta nds, oVershadowed by cedar,
plain granite monument, bearing the follow
Ing inscription: ''Push: ma -ta-ha, Choc-
staw Chief, lies here. Push-ma-ta>ha was
a warrior Of great distinction; he was wise
in council, eloquent in an extraordinary de-
gree, and on all occasions and under all
circumstances the white mans friend."-
On the reverse side the last words of the
great chietain are cut in the granite
"When am dead let the big guns be fred
over me-" The great Chief was the princi.
pal of delegation from his nntion to the
General Government in the year 1924
Close beside this monument stands an
other, erected by Frederick William of
Prussia, to the memory Of Frederick Greuhm
Prussian Minister to- the United States in
the year 1928. 81. .... -...-.. -.--
Here. in Republican soil, rests the re-
rnains OF Henry S. Fog, the British Minis
fsser; who died in Washington in 1916.
A long monotonous row of untasteful
7aonuments serve TO bear the funeral record
of Congress, but in most cases the ashes of
those whose names are here inscribed, rest
far away. ..- ..