Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-05
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
THE CITY CEMETERY.
Something About the Improve
ments Going On There.
A Joint Meeting Of the City Council ana
Lot Owners Suggested -Hobsr
Reflections.

City Cemetery Keeper G.. Holle
man Is now engaged in a lsudabe
enterprise, and he is meeting with
encouragement both from the City
Council and the lot owners. He Ii
cleaning up the cemetery and, though
It IL big job, he is leaving his tracks
wherever he goes. This cemetery ia
many places has been little lese than
a wilderness for the past ten years,
and 1t is difficult to get Ii cleared,
even at this late day. MIR. Holleman
has undertaken the job, however,
and great heaps OF vines and UNDER
growth are now marking his track.
Jno. s. Neblttt, who Is chairman Of
the cemetery committee, Is also using
his efforts in the same direction, and
the two combined are changing the
appearance of this city Of the dead.
There Is much work to be done and
1t Is believed to be the best policy to
have a joint meeting of the niemhers
OF the City Council and lot owners at
an early day, and let them together
adopt some plan by which this work
can be completed. The city author
tiles have delicacy in going into q
private lot and making such changes
as they may think necessary and they
want the cooperation Of the lot
owners In the work. There are
many trees that should be cut out In
order to have enough sunshine to
prevent the monuments from decay
ing, and to allow the grass, that will
naturally sping up, to grow health
lily. This Is a thing that should not
be allowed to drift along any longer.
The citizens owe II to the ones who
are buried there 10 see that their
graves are not allowed to pass into
oblivion. There are many people
buried In this cemetery who have no
relatives left behind to see that their
graves are not forgotten, and they
are people who were leading spirits
in the settlement of the place. A re-
porter violated a holy Sabbath morn
ing not long since in making tour
Of this cemetery just for the sake Of
getting matter for newspaper arti-
Gle. He found many slabs there that
bore date as far back in the past as
1907. Some OF the names were fa-
miliar and some were not.
1t Is but reasonable to suppose that
the names that have passed out from
the history Of the city belonged to
people who had Cast their lots with
the little colony in trying to convert
a wilderness into thriving CONNER
cial center. The others have de-
scendan.s here now who should move
first In this direction-that Of putting
the city cemetery in good condition.
These old slabs help to make Clarke
ville's history. Most any man Of
ordinary intelligence can spend an
hour protitably In stroll among
them. He will find monuments 40
old that the inscriptions have almost
been erased by the rains Of nearly
century. The grave Of "Count"
Reynolds,a former congressman from
this district, is situated on the hill
overlooking the graceful windings Of
tie beautiful Cumberland. BY refer
ence to the inscription on the monu-
ment it will be learned that he WAS
a lawyer and that 10 1916 he Was elec-
ted to the Congress of the United
States, and that he also served In
1923. Clustered around this m0nu-
ment will be found the last resting
places Of the people who elected him
to Congress. They were the pioneers
who marked out the track of civili-
zation in this country and planted
the flag OF the white man on the
banks OF the Cumberland. They en-
countered many hardships, endured
many privations ofwhich the present
generation know but little. 1t 70 to
perpetuate the memories Of these pee.
pie that the cemetery should be kept
up, II for no Other reasons. There
are various other reasons, however,
why the place should be better at
tended to, and chief among them Is
the fact that this Is cemetery d.
rectly under the fostering care Of the
city, and from business standpoint,
II from no other, 1t should be subsi-
died sufficiently for 1t to appear at
tractive to the visitor and to those
who have their dead buried there.
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