Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-18
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ome Of the Good People Who Have pa.s.,

| some of the Good people Who Have Passed
Awsy-a Pretty Grave.
WHITE Rock, May ls.--Death has been
busy in these parts since spring His list
has already included Samuel Wood, of Gosh
en-, Mrs. Robert Gibson, Mrs. Robert Black,
william Winchester, Jesse u. Kirk, tho last
two aged citizens living Just over the line In
Chester county. Then last Friday one ol
the largest funerals ever rendered private
citizen In this neighhorhood, We buried j.
Joseph Andrews, OF Colerain. tie, IKE
Jesse Wood, was the last Of his generation oI
a name whose history is contemporaueous
with that of Colerain. For many years the
name of Andrews has been an honora
ble and prominent one in the develop
ment of the educational, religious ana
agricultural progress OF Colerain, while
Joseph has stood prominent for his
strict and sturdy integrity, hard common
sense and genial kindly heart Yet another
must be added TO the list, Mrs. Miller iIar-
rar having peacefully passed away a short
time since, leaving a host of friends to mourn
her loss, and q family of children who alone
cal know her worth.
PRETTY GRAVE.
Apropos of these many deaths, am re-
minded of funeral | lately attended down
on the Peninsula, near Middletowu, Del,
where the mode of burial was so Strikiuglv
and pleasantly different from our own
that | must describe it. Tho grave is dug as
we dig it, but all the clay is removed to q UoN
not far of 10y barTOws. Then the grave il
lined with brick half way up alternate rows
of brick being laid at an angle to the front to
give tasteful appearance to the wall, such a3
we see in the corner OF brick hOu ses. The
brick work is painted or washed a snow
white, and prettily trimmed with running
vines, blooming roses, pinks, etc.
The undertaken has box without bottom,
also white, which slips down from the top
and rests on the brick wall. This ia also
decorated with green vines, and hides the
balance of the earth from the brick wall up
10 the green grass at the top which is in pret-
ty contrast TO the unsigbtly piles of earth and
clay so prominent at our graves. When the
friends looked down for the last time on the
fower-covered casket they saw it resting in a
beautiful tomb as II were robbed of all that
cold, unsightly, furbdding aspect that last
look in our graves reveals. Thus they leave
the loved one, literally repOsing in y bright
and beautiful grottO of flowers and immOr-
telles. When ALI the friends have gone, the
top lining is removed, rough wooden arch
is placed on the brick wall, so that a perma-
neut arch of brick is laid in cement over all,
and the upper half Of the grave filled in with
clay thoroughly tramped in and at once
sodded leaving the vines and flowers undis-
turbed to wither and fade in their own
fragrance beneath the arch Of brick, which
for "A hundred years will hold up the weight
OF earth above and keep it from crushing
through and mingling with the dust OF the
loved one beneath.
This struck us as being wonderful i'm
provement over our method, simple and in.
expensive too, and to any one who has ever
| assisted in removing bodies, a few years ate T
| burial, its great advantage will at once ap.
| pear. And it seems 10 me if there could be
| anything that could rob death of its honor
| and the partiD z of its keenest pangs, 1t would
| De to leave the loved ones calmly rest in
| sepulchre so fresh and beautiful as we left
| our friend that lovely April morning, to the
4. G-E-H-
| the air redolent with the scent of the peach
and cherry blossoms.