The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-06-10
PARSIPPANY, N,

IA Mr.. EDITOR. Excuse me for bringing
il into public notice through your columns
Il that little spot Of ground wherein, for
y five generations, we Of this secluded ham
Il let have laid our beloved in their last re-
Il pose How perfectly in keeping with all
\ true grief seems itsand seem al It's -
roundings. Embosomed in wooded hills
| you come upon it as by surprise. There it
lies, secluded, like one in abandonment OF
sorrow not wishing to be seen. You can
| not view it afar off with many SUBMITS
obelisk crowned, and the long, low hills
that grit it in the distance seem prone in
veriest sympathy. ConeWith me through
i this gate of tears, which breaks for a little
space that well-kept hedge of arbor-yitae
over which you catch sight of some of the
higher monuments within. Here, as out
sidc everything bears the characteristic
stamp of unobtrusiveness. The occn-
lpied portion does not lie near the entrance,
but stands, as if withdrawing at your APP
i proach behind broad strip of green lawn,
unbroken as yet by the graye-digger's
spade The three broad ways which
/ give access to the different parts Of the
aground are unnamed, but call one Via
DoIorosa because have trodden too often
therein, not joyfully. How rank and
| green seems every form Of vegetatiye life
about us. Can it be that the constant
grief showers that fall upon them urge
to more vigorous growth,or does the dust
that here awaits the resurrection call
burst. recalcitrant, through the clods that
cover it, and in the varied forms OF blade
and flower, foreshadow the time pro-
/ claimed in that thunderous burst OF apos-
| tolfe exultation, 'swhen this corruptible
shall have put on interruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality I!
Unnumbered barrows glistening some
times in the winter snow, verdant and
blooming sometimes with summers leaf
and flowers, cover theunnamed dead, and
by far the greater part of the memorials
lare of the humber sort, though here and
there tomb or shaft of the more preten-
| tious kind reminds us that
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum Ia
bernas
Regnmque {turTes.
Among theselast mentioned latelY erected
you will notice the handsome tablets Of
the Benedict, RICHTER and Parker fami-
lies, as also the stately one of granite lately
put up in memory of John A. Cobb bear
ing the truthful inscription Faithful and
beloved"
At the date of my earliest memories Of
the place but few memorials of marble
were to be seen, they being for the most
i part of brown sandstone, and conspicu-
4 GUS among them were three tomb-like
structures erected respectively to the
nemory of John Cobb, Esq, Col. Lemuel
Cobb and Euphemia Afabella Leonard,
the latter, as remember, bearing upon a
large horizontal tablet choicelY COM
posed and tender inscription stating that
1 the memorial had been there placed BY
| Susan Faesch to the memory of the best
of mothers The two first still remain
but the last disappeared some years since
from the place of its erection, and, it be-
ling an interesting relic of local family
i history. your correspondent has been
Emuch concerned about it and hath made
many inquiries about it which have re-
suited at last in the discovery that this
tender offering of daughters affection
now forms broad and convenient door
tstep to the cottage of one John Waldron,
i a gentleman of Hibernia antecedents,
This residence and premises were recently
purchased by Mr.. Waldron of Stephen Il
Card, who formerly welded the mattock
and spade within the sacred enclosure,
and this fact will, perhaps, account fol
, the "milk in the cocoanut." Mr. Gard
can no doubt give full statement of the
facts of this strange transfer, but no pre-.
tentions which he may put forth can
r mitigate the general feeling of indigna-
J ton which prevails hereabout at this
: outrage upon common decency and siflz
suit to the tenderest feeling OF humanity
This Arabella Leonard was sister o.
:, Capt. Kearney, who in the beginning o.
the present century lived at Irish Lot,neal
: land had family burying ground on Ms
premises which may be seen at the pres
ent day. At the date OF Mrs. LeonaTdt
: death the Captain was already deceased
!, and the estates about to pass out of thu
, family, and in this emergency, she re
} auested, upon her death bed, that her re
: mains should be taken to the family bury
1 | ing ground at Morrisana, ON; New Yorl
Island, and there inferred, dreading thl
y Dissertation which might follow TIN
/ transfer of her brothers estate. She il
said, moreover, to have threatened Il
haunt those who should venture to disre.
gard this dying request. but tie Weathe
: being warm and the journey to New \ al
: being at that time performed by stag
. and sloops, it was found impossible Il
convey her remains so great distance
: but deemed advisable to comply with he
i | request so far as not to bury her upol
1 her brothers estate, hence her sepultur
Q at Parsippany, where it took place nea
Q the Brinekerhoff familY,o which she wa
/ | a relative, at the date set forth on he
: memorial stone.
It is to be desired that the gentlemanl'
a and heightened Board of Trustees, aWh,
! must be held guiltless in this ouJfage0us
! affair, will see to it that this Vaiuabh
: relic is returned to, or as near as pOssibl
2 to, the place Of erection, lest the wraitl
2 of this high born and high spirited lad.
Of the olden time may put in appearance
}. perhaps through the columns Of tn
n / CHRONICLE, for ghosts do strange thing
(. sometimes. OLD PARsIPPANY.
I, Two thousand dollars reward for Dal
! Rowland, dead or alive, is offered By th
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