Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-07-15

tive to public cemetery. We arr
glad to know it has been thought OF
in this way.
We find that the towns Of Ken.
ova and Ceredo are making rapid
progress along most lines of dcvcl.
opment and Improvement, but We
are sorry to say that the one thing
We lack most at present seems to be
wonderfully neglected by those
whose influence would be felt most.
We are informed by those who
are in q position to know, that there
are from 2,l0o to 2,4OO people liv-
ing in kenova and Ceredo, 40 the
death rate of this large a number of
people would be quite a good deal
each month. Why don't our people
provide some place for the burial
of the dead which we can reach by
buggies--so the friends and relatives
of the deceased can reach them and
plant flowers on their graves?
The writer has had some very sad
experiences in funeral processions at
Browns Hill Cemetery. In many
cases We have had to get out and
help hold the frantic horses while
trains would pass, and amidst the
screams of mourning friends who
were jumping out of the buggics and
carriages, We have been almost un-
nerved from sympathy with the
friends and lack of patience with
the people for not having better
roads leading to the cemetery. We
remember in one instance, a youuo
man, whose father was being car
ried to his last resting place, was
compelled to hold the team while
the trains were passing.
We have anxiously waited for
some movement To be made along
this line, but az yet ones hopes are
blasted. We would not want to saw
anything about the present state
of things at the cemetery on the
hill above Ceredo in critical way,
but we are well enough acquainted
with the people whose loved ones lie
sleeping the sleep of death to know
that they are waiting the develop
ment of our towns in regard to this
much needed Improvement.
There are many good, reliable
citizens who are willing to do their
part toward good cemetery, and
will do 80 at their very earliest OPP
pOrtunity.
What shall be done? Is the ques-
tion very often asked. To this the
people have responded i'm many
ways, some of which we would men
tion here. One is, great many are
taking the dead to other places for
burial. In this matter the writer
has as good, if not better, chance to
know than anyone else. We believe
We arc safe in saying that one-half
of the dead who die here and at
Ceredo are taken elsewhere for IN
terment. This should not exist at
all. A great many of those who
die here would be buried here If we
only had place where we could
reach them with some degree of
ease and safety.
Another answer il, we will bury
here, and when new or an apprO-
pirate place is secured we will re-
move them to it. This certainly
must be discoursging to to the rel.
atives. II is as trying az humanity
should have TO bear TO see the cOrpses
put away when they have been prop
erly prepared for burial, but TO take
them mp after decomposition and de
cay has taken place it seems to me
to be exceedingly trying and EN-.
barrassing.
While another answer has been
made which we regret more than all
others. The poorer Of our people
have been forced from circumstances
TO submit and be satisfied 70 leave
their dear ones, who are just az dear
TO them a. IL they were milIionaires,
lie in tombs which will be unpro-
tected and uncared for.
We ask again, what shall be done?
We will suggest one answer. IL will
be remembered by the citizens Of our
town and Ceredo a. we'll, that a
movement was talked Of some time
ago about money being raised to