The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-03-29

Die leIlCt.
This matter seems TO have especially
engrossed the attention OF the congrcga'
ton at this time, and they were not yet
content with the way 1t was fixed mp, fol
on tho 10th Of October they resolved
"That there DO meeting OF the congregs'
ton on Saturday week NJ 0 o'clock, for The
purpose Of clearing of the graveyard
It Is believed that they made thorough
work Of it this time. We believe thai
when this congregation gets once In ear,
nest they rec that the matter is ATTENDED
to. At all events we hear nothing more
Of the graveyard for twenty.three years
when on the occasion OF the death Of Mrs
Crugar, and on investigating the question
OF title, il was thought best to have sur
vcyed quantity Of ground for church
purposes, not exceeding fifteen acres; &c
secure the title to the same, said title TO be
vested in the Trustees OF the church and
their successors in office. Action 10 this
effect was taken by the congregation June
1st, 1868. Their will in this particular
was carried out, for on the S0th Of August
the Congregation endorsed the action Of
the Trustees in the purchase Of church
property"
After the trial OF various methods
looking to the Improvement aud orna,
mentation OF the grounds, on the I'd oil
June, 1873, the graveyard was transfer
red under certain limitations and restric'
tions to Cemetery Company. Exactly
who was the first one buried there, Is
probably now unknown. Strolling among
these tomb.stones and noting the in
inscriptions, many Of the names that
have appeared in this sketch will there
confront US, Many attained good old
agc-grand old patriarchs-who after a
lie OF eighty and ninety years spent in
advancing the welfare Of the country and
the church, have passed on to their re-
ward. Side by side with these we find the
"infant OF days" sweetly sleeping. Here
are fathers, mothers, children and chill
dren's children to the third and fourth
generation, forming family group with
ia circle constantly extending-there
one out by itself solitary and lonely in
its final resting place.
This hallowed ground, city OF the ST.
lent dead, starting out with that first
grave, has received annual accessions to
It's ever increasing numbers until the con-
gregation hero assembled is vastly greater
than the one that worshipS In the adjoin'
ing church. Here lies the venerable pas'
tor resting from his half century's work
with his partner be,ide him. Here also
are the remains OF the late II. +. Weed
b. D. Here, too, are the faithful coun'
sellers, the Aarons and the Hurs, thatup'
held their hands In the great battle which
they so bravely fought and yictoriously
won. and who in their day so faithfully
carried forward the Ark Of God. Here
are the mothers in Israel, whose reputa.
ton for faith and good works is In all the
church. Illustrious all in life, still more
grand in death, they passed on in the tri'
Imph Of Christian faith.
When the spirit Of God shall breathe
upon these dead and these graves shall be
opened, "when this corrupdble shall have
put on interruption, and this mortal
shall have put on Immortality" and these
dead shall be raised, pleased is he who
shall, with them, take part in this trsl
resurrection.
Passing softly out and round by the
church we find ourselves under tho state
| ly old trees that have stretched out their
protecting branches over assembling wor'
shippers for q hundred years or more
Men have come, and men have gone