New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-19

Mind The es great acher death and God adore
| Here is another with livelier movement but
| still with gloomy idea:
Though ae. must de, youth also may
Death ana p, shs udsm51i Sa =; Hannah
relict Of the late Thos Billings, who died In
| 1892, I found this
"Thns shall our mouldrInc members teach
ro, What That. n sNS o 9sSe. eS c@dcst Breach
Mans infinite concern
They had Independent spoilers In those days.
On neghboring stone l noted the word "un-
| scrinsing.' IN the same cemetery there is fam
lily plot containing grave later than 1900, in
which the fathers Christian name was Levi and
the mothers Mehitable They named their two
oldest children Agrppa and Ozias respectively.
Then came the reaction, and the next was named
| Molly and the next Lucy. This is on one Of the
| head-stones:
"There time, that time Is paet
When. youth bloomed IKE thee
When thou shall fade like me-"
| But not all Of the inscriptions are 80 gloomy. l
found this on the stone set up for Mrs. Polly
| Daniels, who died in 1893:
Fare we'll, my spouse and daught. dear,
| I've left this world OF pain,
May virtue be your practice here
TIL We do meet aSai.
Here is another with swinging rhythm
| Death is.s sweet sonoIous sound,
TO those who have salvation fouma.
Whore all is Joy and happiness.
As evidence that the schoolmaster. II abroad In
| the land, must have neglected the first class in
spelling, have only to quote this " In memory
OF Mis- Hannah wife Of Mr.. Walter Avery and
| daug to Dean Moses johnson. who died on
| Wet from Duxbury, Vermont, March 81, 1900. In
the 36th year Of her age.
A hcsband and five children dear.
Here In this world / leave.
And prav the Lord 10 be their
Now they Of mem bcieav'd."
| found this in q cemetery near Northampton
In the fair regions Of the blest.
We hope she takes her quiet rest,
That rest sublime with her TO share
Is her fond husbands earnest prayer.
| IS reared to show his tender care.
Unfortunately the good man selected marble for
| the stone which exempned his wifes virtues and
! left no provision in his will for having it kept
clean, and l grieve to say that have seldom
seen o more black and spotted stone. II her
virtues were really like the stone in It's present
condition the amount of food which her conduct
| must hive furnished the early century sewing
society must have been frghtful 10 contemplate
Listen to the stately measure of this the stone
| of Mr. Stephen Martin. who died OF consumption
| Dec, 1907"
Beneath the vigils OF a sculptured stone
In the cold grave sleep alone
Consigned 10 dust my body lies,
TIL the last trump shall bid 1t rise.
Friends and physicians could not save
This mortal body from the grave.
Nor can the grave conhne 1t Eere.
When Christ commands 1t TO appear
| One of the oldest graves found was in q little
wayside cemetery near the village of Coleraine, in
| Northern Massachusetts,. 1t was large, reddish
| stone and was erected I'm memory of Mrs.
Rebcckah Hinsdae, the Virtuous and Arniable Con-
| sort Of Mr.. Samuel IIndsdalc. who died Aug
| 10th, 1860, In We 4sth Year Of Her age
is IN Her
Death Is Debt to Nature due,
| Which have Paid and so mnT you
| This last is a favorite short inscription-I saw
| it twenty times. Here are some other short ones
| which seem to have been very popular:
Here moulder in the clay
Prepare, my friends. TO follow mo
| Though Wondering In the dust La
| speak to all, prepare to die
Beneath this turf his body lies
Among the Just we hope he'll risS
Refrain your tears.
For glory thirst
Prepare for death
For die you must.
| In the cemetery near Coerainc is one little
slate stone about two feet high and threequarters
| Of an inch thick, bearing date Of 1868, through
which there is 8 bullet-hole The ball struck it
| from the back and made a hole about half an
| inch in diameter, splitting off some of the face
| where It came through and nearly oblitcrating
| the name of the month in the inscription l liked
| to think that some stray bullet in some battle
Of the Revolution struck it, though / suppose that
| the chances arc rather that a stray boy, with a
| ruset for the first time and without the fear
Of the scectmen before his eyes, rested the weapon
on the fence and blazed away. In little cemetery
| close to the road, with perhaps not above fifty
graves in it, and almost up TO the Vermont line,
found O small white stone, with this Inscription
Daniel snead. IT,, Died sept l. 1900. Ae. -. lie
had completed his collegiate course at Williams Col
ece and candidate for the Baccalaurcate, which
WAS 20 be conferred the next week
Later / got acquainted with an old man in the
neirhborhood, who is over ninety years Of age.
| Learning that his name was Smead, inquired il
| the young man whose grave ] had just seen was
| lis brother, and found that lie II seemed
| strange to find a brother Of a man so long dead
| The old man remembered his brother well. The
| family and the neighborhood at large had had
great hopes of the young man and were very proud
| OF him but he died. In the same cemetery were
the graves Of Captain Quintus Allen and bis wife
| Thankful The captain was highly and apparently
| sincerely spoken Of In few wellchOsen words.
Ky the side of their graves were four little head
stones telling of four OF their children, between
the ages OF three and eight, that had died within
one week In the year 1902. Some epidemic like
scarlet foyer. with which the medical science Of