Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-12
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.


Lodge No. 3S9, Knights of Honor, on Friday
night last, the following officers were installed
by Deputy Grand Dictator W. B. Wilson,
Sen, to serve the present year:
Dictator-A. Springs Withers
Vice Dictator-GeO. w. s. Hart.
Assistant Dictator-Withers Adickes.
Reporter-A. w. Ingold.
Financial Reporter-J. r. Lindsay.
Treasurer-L. M. Grist.
Chaplain-Rev. Robert Latham.
Guide-John G.. Ferguson.
Guardian-John F. Oates.
Seatinel-.A Cody.
Medical Examiner--J. F. Lindsay, NJ. d.
Trustees-Jos. F. Wallace, G. E. Spencer,
James Mason.
Representative to the Grand Lodge-H. W.
Hope. Alternate-C. E. Spencer.
At the last meeting of Home Lodge No. 90,
Knights and Ladies of Honor, the following
officers were elected for the present year, and
will be installed at the next regular meeting,
to be held tomorrow night:
Protector-Geo w. S. Hart.
Vice Protector-Mrs. r. L. Ferguson.
Guide-Mrs. S. B. Allison.
Secretary and Finan. Sec.-J. G. Ferguson.
Treasurer-T. G. Dunlap.
Chaplain-R. J. Latta.
Guardian-Miss A. E. Ferguson.
Sentinel-Oscar Moltke.
Medical Examiner--Dr. j. F. Lindsay.
Trustees-H. w. Hope, ]. A. Mclean and
J. G. Kuykendal.
YORKvILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
We invite the attention of the citizens OF
Yorkville and the immediate vicinity, to the
notice given in our advertising columns by the
Yorkvile Cemetery Association. The torma-
tion of this association, under charter grant,
ed pursuant to law, and the fact stated in the
notice nowpublished, make an epoch in the his
tory Of our town. Previous to 1926, there was
not grave within the present limits OF York
vile, the citizens of that day preferring to inter
the dead in the churchyards at Bethel and Beer
sheba In the year 1926, the first interment
was made in the small graveyard attached to
the Methodist church, on College street. This
graveyard soon came into general use and
continued so until the erection OF the lnde-
pendent Presbyterian church, on Liberty street,
to which a graveyard was also attached by the
gift of the late MI Ben. Chambers. This was
supplemented at later date by donation OF
land Dy Mr.. William Hackett.
The first graveyard being nearly all occupied,
the latter came into general use, not only by
the citizens of the town, but also of people
living in the surrounding country.
To the peculiar and irregular manner in
which this spot has gradually assumed the
character Of general burying place for the
community, is, no doubt, to be attributed the
absence of all appearances of order and care
about the graveyard as whole While many
individuals have marked the resting place OF
their beloved ones in becoming manner, the
want of plan and general oversight give the
place. nevertheless, an unattractive, disorder
ly, uncared for appearance, alike dlscredltaDle
to our town, and out of harmony with tine
spirit of the age. What had come to be re-
garded as public property seemed to be under
nobody's care, and it has been with much diff
Guilty that money enough could be raised by
subscription to keep up the semblance OF an
enclosure and to keep down the weeds. The
common, open board-fence, put up some fif-
teen or twenty years ago, has rotted away, and
the place being now practically unenclosed,
affords a convenient sshort cut" to night pc
destrians who have no fear of "wraiths'' and
no respect for the sanctity of Gods acre. A
condition of things still more unpleasant to
contemplate, arises from the fact that no one
being entitled to any more land than is actual
ly occupied by grave, there is no protection
from undue crowding, or the sad alternative
of separating the deceased members of fami-
ly. The time has come, therefore, when
Yorkville, like all other progressive towns,
chou1d obandon tha old haDhaZard Dlan and
establish well-regulated cemetery proportion.