The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-06
HHH DESERTED GBMHTBRY
At the East End Of Sixteenth
Street Talked Over
BY THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE
Which Is US Much at "a Loss as Is the
Public In General MS to What
Should bc Done with It...Its
Deplorable Condition,


The special council committee APP
pointed to look into the matter of the
old East Wheeling cemetery, at the cor
ner Of NIcColloch and Sixteenth streets,
with q view to %pscertaining il some
means can not be found whereby that
locality can be rid of that very disagree
able eye-sore, met last evening and
spent over an hour discussing the situa-
ton, There were present Captain Raw
ling, chairman; Messrs, Capps, Arkle,
Happy and Bailey, Of the committee,
and Solicitor White. Some time since
Colonel White made report to Council
relative to the cemetery, considered as
q nuisance. While all who have ever
seen the place, will agree in calling 1t a
public nuisance, yet 1t appears that
viewed from a legal standpoint 1t can
not be considered such, for the reason
that it is not prejudiclal to the public
health, Last evening Colonel White
supplemented that report with another
brief one, addressed 10 the committee,
bearing on the manner in which the
property came to be used for burial
purposes,
II seems that the graveyard consists OF
lots known upon the original plan us lois
numbered 2l0, I'll, 2l9, 2l3 and 2l4,
fronting on Sixteenth street about 800
feet, and running back to the Central
Glass Company's oficei the property
embraces o~ne.QuRrtel OF the square, and
were 1t free OF the bodies contained in
It, would probably have q market value
OF not less than $50, 900, while surround
ing property would be considerably mp
preciated in value. AS nearly as can be
ascertained there are the remains OF l25
bodies still inferred in the property. In
Cludcd in this number are the rCmains
OF several whose near descendants, in
some cases SONS and daughters,
arc residents OF this city,
and who are financially able
many times over 10 have the remains oil
their relatives removed to u more snita-
bic burial ground. 1t Isl matter of sur.
prise and comment that the remains oil
such are allowed to remain in such Il
disrcputable place rs the old East
Wheeling cemetery. Nearly every one
in the city knows tho disgraCeful Condi'
ton the place Is in. East Wheeling
hoodlums have destroyed the fence,
animals browse off the rank vegetation
that grows in portions OF the ground and
other parts arc used for ash dumps by
the people livingnear. The stones have
nearly all fallen down and neglect is ap.
parent everywhere. No one Is charged
with looking after the place, and Its con,
dition Is growing worse and worse all
the time.
The lots were conveyed at the time II
was decided to use them for cemetery
purposes, away back In 1890, by the own.
ers TO Henry Moore, as trustee, ior q
burying ground and for no other pur.
pose. The trustees CoyGnantcd from
time to time with the assent OF the
grantors, their heirs, etc., TO grant unto
such persons rs may desire to purchase
the same, suitable and convenient sec.
lions or parts OF said parcel OF ground TO
be used and occupied by such pur-
chasers as private or family burial pur.
poses, but for no other purposes what.
%soeyer;" and the deed further provided
that the proceeds OF all sales OF lots
should be equally divided between the
grantors. Lots were sold Off by the
trustee, the deeds providing that they
should be used and held for the purpo.
sesof a burial ground as provided in the
deed to Moore, the trustee. 1t was
explicitly provided In these deeds that
the lots should never 10 use for any
other purposes,
In It's day the East Wheeling GENE.
terry was tho leading one in this section.
Nearly every one Of any note who died
in the long ago was buried there. AS
before stated thoremains Of all but about
1875 bodies have been removed.
The committee considered last even.
ing the adyisability Of putting u new
high fence about the PROPERTY and thus
hiding II from public view, but that
proposition was abandoned for the rea.
son that no board fence, however strong
or high, could be put up and allowed to
remain unmolested by tho hoodlum
element that predomlnates in that par.
tiCular part Of the city. Colonel White
stated that no action could be had by the
State Legislature that would provide a
way out Of the difficult situation tho city
finds itself IN in trying to improve the
eastern part Of the city by removing the
cemetery, and pointed out the danger Of
litigation OF an expensive nature that
would DO liable to attend other causes OF
action that were discussed,
The committee finally decided to
recommend to Council the adoption Of
tho following resolutions
WHEREAS, Tho graveyard known as
the East Wheeling cemetery has practi.
cally become abandoned for burial
purposes and has become an open com.
mon unattended to by anyone,
ReS0lred, That all persons who feel
an interest in tho dead whose bodies
remain IN the said graveyard be, and arc
hereby requested to remove such
bodies to some cemetery or other place
Of interment within four months from