The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-29
QUEER BURYING PLACES
Wishes of the Dead as to Where They
Should Rest.

Mahomet's coffin is said to be sus-
pended betwixt earth and heaven, and
as many good people believe that he
will stretch himself, yawn and wake up
by and by for theI7 he may be said to
be in state OF suspended animation.
The last resting places Of many peo-
pie who are calle1 eccentric because
they chose their own last resting
places-and thereby. no doubt, attain
TO the grewsome satisfaction Of the
gentleman VINO slept in his coffin-are
scattered throughout many odd cor
ners of the British Islands. Laird
Weir of Kirkha'. near Androssan.
Scotland, rests in a clump OF bushes
at mis- road foot" j. e., the place
where the old private road to kirkha
joins the main read. Similarly. in
England, THE Miller's Tomb" near
Worthing, is the name OF a queer lit
tie reservation, where. under plain,
ordinary stone. the owner of neigh
boring windmill sleeps his last sleep
William Liberty-Who. by his name,
should have been an American-se-
leeted the side OF lonely footpath,
running across his estate. near the viii
lage of Faulden, England, for his
grave. Here he was buried in 1777, and
his wife, Alice Liberty, was buried be-
side him in 1909. Immediately before
she expired, this venerable lady ex-
claimed, Give me Liberty or give me
death" All the uther origins" for
that famous saying are apocryphal.
Captain Backhopse, one of John
Company's" faithful servants, bought
an estate in Bucks-which is short"
for Buckinghamshire-o his retire
ment. He died at the age of so. and.
In accordance with his wishes, he was
buried in his own wood. with his sword
by him and, thus placed and equipped.
he defied all the evil spirits in exis-
tence to injure him. The evil spirits
did not bother him. but relative did,
who in after years caused him to be re-
moved to the churchyard. This pious
relative probably thought that conse-
Grated ground was more of defiance
Of evil spirits than was an old sword.
Sir William Temple, who died in
1900, had his heart buried under a sun
dial in the garden of his palace-Moor
Park, near Farnham. Sir James Tillie,
who died twelve years later at Pentilly
Castle, Cornwall. was deposited, in ac-
cordance with his instructions. under
favoTite summer house. seated in a
chair with a table and bottles before
him.
Baskerville, the famous printer, re-
poses beneath a windmill; while
Stevenage farmer named Trigg was
Tapped in lead, and deposited in the
tie-beam of his barn. Many London
ers are familiar with Leith Hill, near
Dorking. and its tower, beneath which
one Hull, bencher of the Inner Tenn
pie, was buried at the end of the last
century. One Faithful. a shepherd
who daily led his flock to pasture on
high summit Of the Chiltern Hills, was
here, by his own wish, laid to rest,
with the epitaph-
Faithful lived and Faithful died;
Faithful lies buried on the hillside.
The hill so wide the fields surround.
On Judgment Day he will be found.
These words were secured" in the
chalk. John Wilkinson, a great iron
founder of Castlehead. was buried in
his garden in an iron coffin, with an
iron monument above him twenty tons
in weight; while the Rev. Langton
Freeman of Billion, in Warwickshire,
was in 1884 wrapped in double wind
ing sheet and carried in the bed in
which he died to his summer house.
where he was deposited. The doors
and windows were locked and bolted,
and the summer house planted about
with evergreens, and fence erected.
The building was kept in repair for
many years, but eventually fell into de-
cay. Thirty years ago the reverend
gentleman still remained there,
skinny-leathery figure.