News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
BURYING PLACES
WISHES OF THE DEAD WHERE THEY
SHOULD REST.

Some Laid Aside at the Turn of the Road
Others in the Fields and on the Hillside
Heart Buried Under a sun DIAL Fam
GUS Printer Beneath a.WindmiII.
Mahomet's coffin is said to be SUI
spended betwixt earth and heaven, and
as many good people believe that he
will stretch himself, yawn and wake
up by and by, for them he may be
said to be in a state of suspended an
imation. The last resting places of
many people who are called eccentric
because they chose their own last rest
ing places-and thereby, no doubt, at
tain to the greWsome satisfaction OF
the gentleman who slept in his coffin
are scattered throughout many odd
corners of the British Islands. Laird
Weir of Kirkha', near Androssan, Scot
land rests in a clump of bushes at his
road foot" i. e., the place where the
old private road to Klrkha' joins the
main road. Similarly, in England
The Miller's Tomb" near Worthing
is the name of queer little reserva-
ton, where, under plain, ordinary
stone, the owner of neighborng
windmill sleeps his last sleep. Will
liam Liberty-who by his name
ed the side of lonely foot-path, run
ming across his estate, near the village
of Faulden, England, for his grave
Here he was buried in 1777, and his
wife, Alice Liberty, was buried beside
him in 1909. Immediately before she
expired, this venerable lady exclaimed
Give me Liberty or give me death
Captain Blackhouse, one of John
Companys" faithful servants, bought
an estate in Bucks-which is short
uckinghamshire-on his retirement.
He died at the age of 80, and, in ac-
cordance 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 existence
to injure him. The evil spirits did
not bother him, but relative did, who
in after years caused him to be remOV-
ed to the churchyard. This pious rela-
tive probably thought that consecrared
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 I'll.
lie, who died twelve years later at
Pentilly Castle, Cornwall, was deposited
in accordance with his instructions
under a favorite summer house, seated
in a chair with a table and bottles be-
fore him.
Baskerville, the famous painter 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 it's tower, beneath which
one Hull, bencher of the lime lem
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 scored" in the
chalk. John Wilkinson, a great iron.
founder of Castlehead, was buried III
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 a 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
decay. Thirty years ago the reverend
gentleman still remained there, a skin,
ny, leathery figure.