The Red Cloud chief., 1880-02-26

fSptfuDSN VI Dut-V1-tne-Wdy NIX
"Charsbers's Book Of Days" we End
sone curious facts concerning burials in
unconsecratea ground. As the book i
not IN the hands Of every one, we can
not do better than present orr readers
with . brief summary :. some of the
principal Gaze. recorded.
The first is hat of a I" modest looking
altar tomb" built Of bricks, and abou,
two feet and a half high, standing on
the dreariest spot 81 a lonely footpaih
that leads across the ne.ds from q so,all
Hertforashire village, called F1aunden,
10 another viilage-nanne NJ. given. A
large stone slab 81, forth that this tomb
is sacred TO the memory Of ms Mr..
William Liberty, who was buried here
A, ID. 1777, by his cvn aesire, and 10
whose rstre!as were added those Of his
widow, Mrs. Alice Liberty, deceased.
thirty-two years later-namely, 1909.
"About a mile from Great Missenden, a
large Buckinghamshire village, stands n
queer looking building sort of dwarf
pyramid-which Is locally called capt.
Backhouse's Tomb It Is built Of fints,
strengthened with bricks; it is about
eleven feet square at the base: the walls
no to about four or five feet are perpen-
dicular, then they taper pyramidically,
but instead of terminating in a point.
a fat GLADSTONE, about three feet
SQUARE, forms the summit" II j. COW
cred with ivy, and has two small Gothic
windows 10 The nbrth and south. Ii
was the tomb Of a certain Mr.. Back
house, who built it during his lifetime.
"'I1n have nothing to do said he.
with the church or church-yard, Bury
there. in my own wood on the hill.
and my sword with me, and III defy all
the evil spirits In existence to injure
met He died at the age of 80, on the
sist Of June, 1900, and was buried, or
rather deposited, In the queer sepulcher
he himself had erected. His sword was
placed in the coffin with him, and the
coffin reared upright within a niche or
recess in the western wall, which was
then built MP in front, so that he was in
fact i.hinured." Seven years later his
son. Lieut.-Gen. Backhouse, took the
body from the mausoleum. and had it
buried in the church-yard at Great Mis-
sender, along with otherdecent Christian
folk.
Sir James Tillie, who died at his
place, Pentilly Castle, Cornwall, was
buried by his own wish under a tower
or suihrier house, where he had passed
many joyous hours with his friends.
"a BarOnet of some military fame, who
died in a midland county, 1928" ordered
that his body should be covered with a
sere-cloth, and buried without a
coffin In a particular place in the
park, his grave to be sown with fine
acorns, from which the most promis-
Ing plant vas To be selected so
" that after my death my body may not
be entirely useless, but may serve to
FEAR a good English oak" He left a
small legacy to his gardener to "see
that the plant is well watered. and kept
free from weeds" His friends buried
in the churchyard instead of the
park; but the acorns were sown rs he
desired. and on his grave now stands a
line oak tree. Baskerville, the famous
printer, is said to have been buried by his
own desire under a windmill near his
dfitu. IIC uftu III ltto. clI1luct
Johnson, not the photographer, but a
lancing master in Cheshire, who died in
was buried in a plantation forming
,art of the pleasure grounds Of the Old
Hall, at GawswOrth, near Macclesfield.
His gravestone Is yet TO be seen. "A
armer named Trigg. of S~tevenage,
t1erts. directed his body to be inclosed
n lead and deposited in the tie-beam"
If his barn, where it may still be seen.
And another member of this odd sect of
what we may call anti-churchyard inter
nent "rests on a table in the summer
rouse belonging to a family residence in
Thomas Hollis,
gentleman of considerable property
'enOvolent and eccentric, a warm
liberal and as religious as liberal,
ell dead In the field where
was directing his workmen to dig his
which then was to be plowed
'ver SO that no trace of his last resting
lace should be found. He vas buried
S desired. Mr.. Booth, of Brush House,
n Yorkshire, was buried in his shrub-i
DR.. Kenny, a physician at New
'Ort Pagnel, Bucks, was buried in his
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Faithful lived and Faithful died,
faithful lies buried on the NIL side;
imthe dsv OF judgement he'll be found.
"A farmer ana MS Iefnaie servant, ios'
q the moors near nope, IN D~eIoyshire'
ere buried IN the peat "nere .ney were
'uhd. lwehty-hine years ai.er; tneir
raves were opened, ana their oodies
IN perfect preservation; and Iorty-
years after they were sun as 1reSh
before. Howei Seie was buried IN the
INK OF a tree Dv MaNOc. the friend |