New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-14

for their accommodation stove and rude tables are
provided in the hollow of the wood. Some aged
apple trees still bear in sunny spot, and robbed
green by the boys, as they robbed the severe old
mans trees while he lived. CoOpeI's father was
the squire republican baron of the village, and
his family tOmbs separated from the general
graveyard by low pale fence, making an inclosure
100 feet by forty. with large fir tree upon its
grass and ems and naples down the fence lines.
The church brick structure painted dove color,
with wooden spre and brick buttresses and long
lancet gothic stained windows. is the foot of
the Cooper lot and it's ransept has been connected
by brick and wooden open colonnade arches
with the more recent lecture room, which fronts
the middle of the Cooper inclOsure Almost in the
centre of the latter two tombs foot high side
by side, of marble slabs, the usual size, each with
cross in relief. To the left is this:
James Fenimore Cooper.
Born September lSth 1884.
Died September 14th 1851.
To the right is this:
Susan Augusta
James Fenimore Cooper
and daughter of
John Peter DE Lanccy.
Died January Goth, 1882.
1t will be seen that Cooper was born five years
before the American CONSTITUTE IN went into effect
and his wife born at the time of Washingtons
second Inauguration. He died at sixty seven, near
the close of Fillmore's Administration she sur
vived him only four months. The family of Mrs
Cooper was of the old Huguenot-Dutch type of Now
York. and their union stimulated HIM the more to
tell the history of the province in such novels the
Chainlearer." That narrative in fiction of the
celebrated Anti-rent episodes especially known
to Cooper from two OF his distinguished ncighbors,
Ambrose Jordan and George Clarke, the latter
great landholder of the Hyde family connected with
Anne Hyde, wife of the Duke of York, otherwise
Duke of New York. She seduced by York,
though the daughter of his faithful minister. Hyde,
Earl of Clarendon. Her bigoted father said she
ought to be bcheadcd for dctoning royaltyn by
such humble connection his. because the
Catholic Church ordered James to marry her. and
her bread face and chest and vouptuous form are
in the two Protestant queens she gave birth
to, Mary and Anne
At the opposite end of Otsego Lake, under Mount
Wellington, sits Hyde Hail. facing Otsego Hall. the
residence of George Clarke, still of the anti
| rent landlords He has purchased the site of
Otsego Hall his wife is said to live in England.
He is descended from a royal Leutenant-( Governor
of New-York who saved his estates from sequestra-
ton by well advised prudence during the Rcvolu-
ton.
Ambrose Jordan one of several very able men
living in Cooperstown neighbors to the novelist
among them John A. Dix, Judge Nelson. of the Su-
preme Court. William 4. Stone and Prentice. edi-
tors. Mr.. Jordan, the counsel OF the anti-rent
rioters at Hudson City, had fight in the courtroom
| them both to Jail. Jordans daughter married
| Edward Clarke, president of the Singers Sewing
Machine Company, one of the wcathiest men in
| the United States, and the most respectful of
| Coopers survivors to his memory. lie has bought
Coopers lake farm and other properties and greatly
improved Them and named his new hotel in
Cooperstown the Fcnimore House, and placed his
| own elegant summer residence on the skirts of
Coopers graveyard.
A of fine vaults Is opposite the noyelists the
tallest of white marble being his father's
| william Cooper
| who departed this life
| on the 22d OF December, 1900,
| Aged 30 years and 20 days.
Tie was therefore born while Washington was n
| young Virg mia officer against the French
| Elizabeth Cooper
| consort Of william Cooper Esq.
| died 18th sept, 1917,
| aged CO..
| The other three tombs are of Coopers brother
| and wife and of his sister Hannah vonnp
daughter of the novelist. named for his mother.
| is buried beside him. Mr.. Coopers sister mar
| rcd George Pomeroy, who died AT eighty
| two; she lived till 1870 and died at eighty-s,y.
They and their children are buried in the same in
closure; also Richard Fenimore Cooper who died
| 1873 Samuel Cooper, died 1919, William Cooper
| 1919, Godsborough Cooper, 1882, and children of
some OF these among others Marmaduke Cooper,
| who was lieutenant OF volunteers during the war;
| and died at Fortress Monroe, aged twenty two
| In this old graveyard, always cool in midsummer
the elm trees make noise like rushing water. the
pine trees sigh like Indian chiefs, the sunlight
| breaks through on the Strawberries in the clover
| grass and the path from the wicket that stops at
Coopers grave. There is little Of him here vet he
is everything. His monument raised by his literary
friends, is i'll the new cemetery half mile from
his remains.
CDOPERANIA.
Prospect Rock which stands on Mount Vision
several hundred feet above Cooperstown, afford.
probably the most exquisite miniature view in tn,
State OF New York,-a bowl OF Cooperstown itse
like assembly of little children coming dow,
from the mountains to wash in the lake The inle
of the Susquehanna, where De Witt Clinton's fathe
damned it up to raise the level of the lake and $,
carry his boats down to the corniieds of the bost
Senecas is plain indie" tation among the gree,
orchards, and close by 1t are the green grass,
wharves OF the little Otsego steamboats, named {,
Coopers characters. The town spans the little rive
upon trceful plain of dark moist green and tn
, paler green of fields and farms. hopyarcis, buck
! wheat patches oats and staked wheat climbs up al
the hollow sides of the mountains cloven here an
, there by wooded shoulders of other mountain,
, The court-h house with its Italian bell to wer
i'll high part of the town, near the palatal faead
of the great Cooper House looking like the front q
the Pdtais Royaie The spires of churches pee
p above the trees, and that where Leather Stocking
creator lies is sharp as the faithful pen he pointed.
4 JOHNNY BOUQUEr.
.. In village near Cork a physician was dis
turbed night by repeated tappings his door m
| on getting up he found laboring Have w
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