The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-13
QUEER BURIAL SPOTS.

The desire to be buried in some spot
other than the usual churchyard, vault
or cemetery, though uncommon. IS 10y
no means uneXampled. Visitors 10
Worthing. England, will doubtless re-
call the miller's tomb on Highdown,
above Goring. where beneath a plain,
ordinary stone the owner of neighhor-
ing windmill sleeps his last sleep. Why
he desired this elevated and lonely posi-
ton neither tradition nor Inscription in
forms us; but. if twas with view OF
fresh air or a sight of a glorious stretch
Of blue water with many passing sail
his desires should doubtless Gf the pow
ers that are allow be daily gratihed.
Another singular instance Is that OF
Mr.. William Liberty, a brickmaker of
ChorIey Wood, in Hertfordshire who Sc
lectcd the side of a lonely footpath rum
ming across his estate near the village
of Faulden, for his last resting place.
Here he was inferred in 1171. and was
joined by his wife, Alice in 1909, and
the spot was at one time undoubtedly
somewhat unpopular with the rustics OF
the district after mghtfan.
Sir William Temple. the distinguished
statesman, who died at Moor park, near
Farnhain, in 100. had ms heart buried
under a sundial in the garden, while
Sir James Tilie, who passed away at
Pentilly castle, Cornwall, twelve years
later, was deposited, in accordance with
his instructions. under a favorite sum
mer house--it has been said. seated in
chair with a table and bottles before
him.
X strange grave was that selected by
one Captain Baclhouse, in Il thick plan
tation near Great Missenden, Bucking-
hamshilp. This gentleman, who is de-
seribed rs stern and warlike," mad
passed many years in the service IT
"John Company" He purchased his cs-
tate in Bucks on his retirement, and,
dying al the age of so, desired to be bu-
ried in his own wood, with mis- sword
Ivy him, and, thus placed and equipped,
he defied all the evil spirits in existence
to injure him." He departed from this
world in 1900; his coffin, containing
his corpse and his sword, was placed
upright in a strange little pyramid
which he had erected for the purpose.
In his case the remains were, however,
subsequently removed by relative 10
the churchyard.
Baskerville, the famous printer, is sta
ted to rep0se beneath a windmill, while
a Stevenage farmer named Tripp was
wrapped in lead and deposited in the tie
beam of his barn, where the coffin might
have been seen some Years ago and may
be so still Many Londoners are famil-
lar with Leith hill. near Dorking, and
its tower, beneath which one Hull. a
bencher of the Inner Temple, was bu-
ried at the end of last century. The
Instances of people being Inferred in
their gardens summer houses and shrub
berries, their woods or fields, are 800 nu-
merous to mention in detail; but it is
fitting TO record the strange sepulcher
OF one Faithful, a shepherd, who daily
led his flock to- pasture on a high sum
NIT of the Chiltern hills; mere his life
was spent in a meditative toll and here,
by his own wish, he was laid 10 rest,
above him being cut this epitaph:
Faithful lived and Faithful died:
Faithful lies buried on tine hillside.
The hill so wide the fields surround.
On Judgment day he will be found"