Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-24

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cemetery. The hill top is to be lad OF
In drives and walks and Is known as TTr-
lsy's section. On the summit of the hill
3 beautiful pagods VIII stand and q de-
liehtful resting place be provided for
those who visit the cemetery. A little
volume will be published containing s
list of lot owners and 3 hthographic map
of the cemetery. Such guide book will
| enable visitors to find at once any spot in
which friends or kindred repose. The
book will contain many biographical
| sketches OF distinguished men and women
| buried at ElmWoo1, and q copy VIII be
given to every lot owner.
LABoRs OF MANAGERs.
The duties incident to the superinten-
deney of city of the desd, containing
ten thousand inhabitants like ElmWood,
and its numbers constantly augmented,
are infinitely more onerouE Than people
imagine. Titles and maps Of lots are
carefully recorded and registrar of deeds
is employed. There is no recorders
court, but police force; and the grave
digger is always at work. The rapidity
with which people migrate from the city
of the living to to that of the dead is
startling. GO thither where one may,
and the dull, heavy sound of falling clods,
thrown up by grave-diggers, is never
silsncsd, and more impressive still is the
hollowness OF echoes that come up un-
cessingly from cOfhn-ids, telling of lite
that must end so soon in death. SO ad-
mirably well are the records of the cem-
stery kept that none have ever encoun-
tered the slightest difficulty in ascertain
ing the precise spot in which friend OF
relstiva was buried. The names of the
dead ars alphabetically recorded and 50
with those OF lot-OTners. A plst OF each
lot is pses3rvsd, and on it appears each
grave, ygst1 marginal notes below, giving
the name OF its occupant. People from
distant states and cities hRTe often sought
to learn whether soldiers snd others long
uutrsr1 OF slept in EimWood. The facts
ara dig liged 81 once aud many wives and
mothers have derived melancholy plea
sure from the consciousness that their
tears believed the last resting place of
thoss they loved, directed as they were
infsiltbly t. tho proper graves
by The perfectly systemEgizsd books of
ghe ElmwoOd association. OF such body
il Is surely an honor to be member.
PRIVATE GRoUEDs.
A beautiful lot in EImwcod is owned
by the Typographical Union. Wander |
ing, homeless members of this most iD- |
teltigsnt and generous industrial organi- |
zatiOn, are cared for more kindly and lib |
orally thsn those of any other like frster- |
nity, ODD Fellows aud AIssOns have !
more spacious grounds on which taste |
and care have been exhausted in lavish |
decorations. But while men do not for |
get formal duties to their dead brethren /
of different associations, women are most |
and ever to be found Wan
dsring with lightest foots cps among the
graves within the hallUw0d pTeclncts OF
Visit the place where you
may, and in every square, some woman,
with fearful eyes, viii be seen bending, g
very impersOnstiOn Of grief, over some
cherished grave. BY WOmsn little incl
dents are remembered and memories Of
lhe dead are treasured up with religious
care. Every tone of endesrmsnt uttered
by the deSd when living becomes as sweet
As the kisses by hopeless fancy feigneo on
lips that are for others. Woman's tears
rise IN the heart and gather in the eyes
rom the depth Of some divine despair and
% woman is assigned the tenderest, most
ovching tasks OF devotion to the dead.
Mon build monuments, but women sane
.ify them. Vanity does not stand by when
gOmsn, the beautiful, the generous, the
rus--whO in the Madonna imbued the
mind Of our Savior with the first sweet |
essons of love. Vanity suggests no task
If gentle devotion to the loved and lost |
,ssumed by mothers, sisters, wives. Man
nav build & proud msusOleum to tell pos
erity Of his deeds; but woman viii reck
title of its magnihcence when dreamtly
its base with roses. Go TO
snd Iesrn true Womsn's worth.
iENERosITY OF THE ELAfwooD AssoCIA-
TIoN.
One thousand Confederate soldiers sleep {
n ElmwoCd. The ElmEood association
ave the ground and made no charge for
ervicss rendered by their employees. | l
he base of mOnumsnt, hereafter to be {
cared in the midst Of this, ,bivousc of the I
esd, has been prepared for the marble {
baft on whose sides win be inscribed re-
itsls of gallant deeds d0as by those who I
egan here an eternal msrch. Ons other
arge lot was given aEay ia VIOLATION OF c
be rules OF the association IL IS that in Q
7hich were deposited ths moEVsl-ren1ains I
+ James c. Jones, 20 whose energy and
lOCuence Memphis is mainly indebted {
lr a thorough comprehension of the L
alue of railways, he came here in 1919 Z
D when Memphis was q muddy village, i
'ithOut s railway line. He died nine {
ears sfteyw2rd, and city wept beside q
is bier. Its greatest bane!scsOr was no Il
loFs. A marble shaft designstes tee spot Z
There greatness was sntOm bed, and its in !
sTiptions tell the story o. his earnest,
ctivs lie. Twice in bis youth be vas b
Governor of Tennessee, briumphing over .
statesman who was Gftsrward President {
( the United States, and for one term he I
yss Senator in the Congress of the United Q
tates. II WAS bell that the ElmwOod 4
il this violation Of its forms, 3
TESTED the worth Of James G, Jones b
hose epitsph is carved DY railways in q
he everlasting hills. The act OF the as q
OcistiOn wSs honorable 20 themselves as q
was deserved tribute TO the virtues of j
ls illustriOus dead. Others sleep not 1sr '
way whose names were heraidsd by the g
-ump Of ffsme-l2wyers, soldiers and he Y
)es, jurists, ministers Of God, merchants y
no knew no guile, the honest men of
le olden time, women as true to their b
nssions on earth as the mother of our G
; great multitude, rest in d
lmwood, and he who wapders there 9
esds upon holy ground. 9