Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-23

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trouble 10 hist Il, and cal
kilate it'll hey 10 stay sot."
And with regard 10 the old house,
which had come 10 an untimely halt In |
the midst of its moving, Deacon Manley |
was no more easy TO be entreated.
"That air 3 the old HadlOck house, |
and the Hadlocks has kinder died out,
he said. "Luke Hadlock's wife died |
while he was a movin' on Y, and Luke's
sprawl seemed TO kinder gin aout all 10
once. He went over 10 the main to live
with mer1ied darter, and she up and
died, and then he died too. They
brought him over here TO be buried,
and u was a dretful mournful
kind of funeral, seein' that all
his family had kinder died out be.
fore him. When Hosea Lyman called
out for the mourners TO foller him 10 the
grave it seemed real kinder lonesome
that there want none. And he sung
'em all out, real spTy and cheerful.
Hosea alwus likes to hev things done up
ship-shape, and he's q master hand to
a funeral, Hosea is, 'Corpse's parentsl'
he sung out, and they didn't come for
rud, seein' they'd been dead more'n
forty year. 'Corpse's brothers and sis
tersl and there want none o. them,
seein' he never had none except little
. Cyrus that died when he was a baby.
And when he come to 'cOrpse's cousins
there want nobody but half-witted Jake
Hadlock, a-gigglin' because he was
dressed up in his Sunday clothes and
thought twas a singin'-school
" So you see there really hain't no
body to see to the old house, s'posin'
twas in the way"
The enterprising business man had no
interest in the "dying out p" Of the Had
lock family, and the deacon's prolidty
and gentle moderation irritated him, es-
pecially as it was evident that it had a
substratum of obstinacy which no argu-
ments Of his could prevail against. He
shook the dust of Barberry Island off
his feet, or would have if there had been
any, and firmly resolved TO leave the
degenerate Barberry Islanders hence
forth to their own devices, though they
should all take up their abode in the
middle of the main street.
A fence suddenly arrests our foot
steps. There is a gate, fastened only
by feeble and frayed rope, but there
is little temptation to venture beyond IT ;
marshy land, beset with bogs and pit
falls lies on the other side. The grassy
road has come to an end-Dvvauso, oa
Deacon Manley informed us, there
didn't seem to be no pertickler reason
for its goin' no further"
1t is Just beyond the burying ground
that the road comes to an end, as if,
having brought its travellers to that
peaceful bourne, its mission was accom-
plished.
The cemetery looks neglected. Evi'
IDENTIFY Luke Hadlock was not the only
corpse" " whose relatives had "died
out" A tangle of grass and weeds anC
running vines links the graves together
the paths are "past finding out
graves. This is in memory of seS
captain who was born on Barberry Isl
and, and died in Australia; this of three
fishermen drowned off "the Banks.
Another, of three Barberry Island boy
who were soldiers in the civil war, anC
sleep in unknown southern graves
Here is one in memory of Californii
miner killed by his comrade in the early
days of the gold fever. And this il
erected to twin brothers, one of whom
was drowned off Eagles Head, scarcely
mile away, and the other died of ship
fever at Constantinople. "Lost at Sc;
from ship -n is the inscription ol
many stones. Wanting altogether is tn,
familiar inscription of country church
yards;
Affections sore long time he bore,
Physicians were vain, etc.
Certainly, in the old days Barberr,
Island men had sufficient enterprise Il
seek what goods the gods might Civ
them in the four corners of the earth
and it was given to but few of them b
die in their beds.
But the women Jared differently
Here is an inscription that reminds u
! irresistibly of the countess who
Lived to the age of hundred and ten,
And died of a fall from cherry tree theI
I Bathsheba Ann, the widow, respective
, ", of Capt. Seth Rundlett, Zacharia
Lyman, Capt. Jacob Trueworthy, ,Luthe
Rodick and Abijah Manley, died at tn
age Of eighty of the whooping-cough
! 1t is one of the hideous, old, blac
stones with a grinning deaths head uT
on it, and directly underneath the sku
( is written,
: : They that have seen thy look in death
No more need fear to die.
s Most of the women have died at
r good old age, whooping cough not hay
S ing intervened to carry them off. Th
e widow of Seth Manley, who wa
}, drowned at the age of twenty-four, wa
r buried beside him at the age of ninety
9 one.
Q In an obscure corner we come sue
d denly upon new grave. IL causes
8 shock Of surprise, for the ancient date
l. on the stones have beguiled us into th
j. fancy that nobody dies on BarberT
l. Island nowadays. And on the Islan
p of Calm Delights, so far from the jal
q and turmoils of the world, thel
wouldn't, as Deacon Manley would sa.
l. "seem TO be no perikler reastSl WI
10 people should not live on forever. III
h headstone has been very recently Sc
3 but the date upon it is of year ag
d " Jonas Battles. Aged 46. browne
Il off Dead Mans Point, Aug. 13, 1S1-.
h Probably fisherman whose boat WI
d overtaken by q sudden squall; such a
" cldenlS are common enough hlOnB IN
ie rocky coast. But sudden recollectiC
is strikes us that we have heard of a ms
N who saved young girl from drOwniI
Is here last summer, and lost his own lif
ie Only half remembering the detail
IS and feeling an interest in Jonas Batd
r and his fate, we 60 over 10 Deacon Ma
X ley's store to make inquiries. The De
b; con is living chronicle Of all the even
ii which have transpired on Barber
10 Island for the last fifty years. His sto,