Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-16
THE PINKERTON BURIAL PLACE.
A Well-Kept Spot In Grace1and Cemetery
Operatives Buried There.

A Well-Kept Spot In Grace1and Cemetery
Operatives Buried There.
fFrom the Chicago Herald.l
On Fair View Avenue, in Graceland
Gem etery, near the southwest corner
of that beautiful city of the dead, there
are two large lots. The silent sleepers
under the green sward have a history
which is of more than passing interest,
having taken conspicuous part in some
Of the greatest events which marked
the nations development. There are
about twenty graves in these two lots,
and the we'll kept flower beds and
streets, the plain but tastefully executed
marble slabs show that the memory of
the dead is kindly cherished and ter
derly nurtured by the living. The main
lot, which is on the south side of Fair
View Avenue, right off j. V, Farwelrs
beautiful red granite shaft, bears the
simple inscription: "Pinkerton's Ma
tional Police Agency" It contains the
grave of Isabella Pinkerton, died Feb
uary 4, 1868, aged rs years; Mary Pink
erton, died July II, 1854, aged 2 years
and months; Joan Pinkerton, died
March 4, 1856, aged years; Isabella
McQusen Pinkerton, died May %,
1868, aged 10 years and 9 months.
They are the mother and children of
Allan Pinkerton, whose remains will be
added to those of his loved ones who
died before him. To the left of the
family grave is small one, the marble
slab of which contains the words:
"Joan, daughter, and Willie,
son of Robert A. and Lizzie
Pinkerton," the grandchildren of Allan.
In the rear of the family resting place is
the grave of Robert Pinkerton, born at
Gorbals, Glasgow, February 25, 1915;
died at Chicago September 6, 1868. He
was a brother of Allan Pinkerton. In the
southwest corner of the family are two
graves, the memorial tablets of which
tell simple but impressive tale of gen.
uine devotion and heroic deeds. One
of these tablets bears the following in
scription: Timothy Webster, the pa
triot and martyr, born in 1921, in New
Haven, Sussex County, England; emf
grated to America in 1888; entered
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency,
at Chicago, in 1856. On the night of
February %, 1861, ALLEN Pinkerton, Tim
othy Webster and Kate Warn safely es-
corted Abraham Lincoln-a conspiracy
having been discovered for his assassi
nation from Philadelphia to Washing
ton, where he was inaugurated presi-
dent of the United States, March 4,
1861. He was the Harvey Birch of the
war of the rebellion, and was executed
as spy by the rebels in Richmond,
Va, April %, 1862. He enjoyed the
confidence of Abraham Lincoln and
sealed his fidelity with his blood" The
grave of Kate Warn is adjoining that
of Webster. The maidstone is marked:
"Kate Warn, born at Chemung County,
New York; died at Chicago, January %,
1868, thirty-eight years of age. For
thirteen years superintendent of the fe-
male detective department of Pinker-
toms National Police Agency, a brave,
true woman, and possessed of rare
merits"
Immediately east and adjoining the
family grave of the Pinkertons is the
grave of George Fl. Bangs, the super
intendent of the Pinkerton force, who
died about year ago. The simple
marble tablet which makes the grave is
almost completely hidden by shrubbery
and the grave is covered with flowers.
''In memory of the employees of Pink
erton's National Police Agency, De-
cember, 1867" reads the inscription of
large lot south of the family resting
place. 1t contains seven graves of en-
ployes of Pinkerton's men and the
graves of several children of employees
all well kept, and the whole embow-
cred in shrubbery which forms
natural canopy of dark green leaves
ever the graves. Everything in the
surroundings denotes kind care and
tender recognition of the dead, one of
whom has paid with his life blood for
his true devotion. It is Joseph W.
Whitcher, who was murdered near In
dependence, Mo, on the night of
March 10, 1874, while in pursuit of the
Jesse James gang of desperadoes.
Louis Lull, VINO was murdered by the
same gang, is buried in another GEM
etery. Then there is the grave of
Botella Olson, the Norwegian detective,
who died May 6, 1862, only twenty
seven years of age; John McEwan, a
Scotchman; Julius Wunstorff, Ger
man; Charles f. Fox, James A. Forrest,
and r. r. Davies are the other Pinker
ton detectives who are buried here.
Each grave is marked by plain mar
BILE slab with an appropriate inscrip-
ton, and the plain words chiseled in
the marble speak more than volumes
would. Once in each year the graves
of the earnest workers who rest here
are decorated with profusion of
flowers, but tender care sees to it that
all the graves are kept green during the
interval. The little colony of graves
is certainly one of the most interesting
spots in the cemetery.
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