The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-02-28
BUFFALO CEMETERY.
a Private Company Regularly
Inc0rporatcd-NO Public Gem
etcry In stanford.

etcry In stamford.
Bsaor Iaaeri. Jownaii
When the Buffalo Spring Cemetery Com
pany was organized, the following persons
composed the company, viz DR.. Thomas y.
Montgomery, Roye Stewart, Horace $. With
crs, q. II. Mckinney, Jsmes Paxton, Wesley
Rout, John Baughman, J. A. Lyle, and the
late Thomas W. Napier and Henry q. Helm.
Very recently John Baughman and Wesley
Rout resigned, and Henry Baughmsn and
Joseph II. Rout were elected In their stead.
John $. Murphy and James u. Owens have
DIR. Thomas B. Montgomery has been elected
President and q. II. Mckinney Secretary, and
the remaining members compose the board Of
directors.
IL is a private company, regularly incorporated,
and they purchased the land comprising the
cemetery proper, which lies between the turn
pike and the old dirt road running across the
cemetery. The Buffalo Spring Presbyterian
Church (now Of stanford) owns the old bury
ing-ground and the company aforesaid never
had any control over IL any further than to
get permission from said church to inclose IL
at he ernPmy's erpmse, and to include il with
the cemetery with one commop fence. for the
rea.on that many Of tbcir friends and rel,-
tives were buried therein. This old burial
ground has, in consequence Of long neglect,
become oycrrroun with br;sr. bushes weed.
and other 6ltb. MANY families tina, have
friends and relations buried there have he.
come extinct bv death or ,cmov,l from the
country. willis, manv other. l.f, !, On, com.
munity. rho n,ry .yp,ct 10 d;, also have friends
and relatives whose asbes arc resting ,bere;,
and are amongst those who arc loudest in
their COMPLAINT. relative 10 the voful condi.
ton Of the same. And vet these sam. dear
people have never been known to contribute
one cent. or even rive an bour's labor IN ..s;s,
in cleaning off said ground: showing plainly
thereby that thew have wholly neglected IN
give snv attention to the graves Of their do
parted friends This remark doe. not opplv
to a few individuals who are well known 10
have given the graves Of their departed friends
the proper attention.
Our COMPANY has never donated mr. cot
apart any portion of this ground for a public
cemetery but on the contrary. have sold off
lots TO any and every white ner.o, xbo,bor
they paid for them or not. None have been
refused. Now, you not being member of this
company, and having no interest therein. we
deny your right to demand an expose of our
financial affairs, any more than YOU have to
make such demand Of a private individual.
TIIOS. b. MONTGOMERY, Pres't.
@. III. McKISSEY, sec'y.
Ii is true we have no lot or marcel in the
Buffalo Spring Cemetery. A place there is
about the last thing we desire. - Our comment
in the last issue, to which the officers of the
corporation have taken exception. was made
in no spirit Of disrespect to members of the
corporation. but was simply suggested by the
dilapidated condition Of the cemetery grounds,
We had heard complaints made bv divers
persons, some Of whom were members Of the
body corporate and polite" and we took il
for granted they knew whereof thew snake
1t has become a common expression among
our citizens that "the Buffalo Cemetery is a
disgrace to the county.n We acted upon the
hypothesis that "what everybody saws must
be true.p
In the act of INCORPORATION the usual pr;v;.
leges and exemptions are GRANTED 10 the chr.
poration. The grounds arc exemp, from
taxation; they are free from, anv interference