The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-06

the business and its receipts are not sui
ftcent to employ one to lock after the
affairs of the office; therefore the super
intendent is the handspring that drives
the entire bushes.
AS I have previously stated, the diff
cuties that confront us are very nu-
merous, and perhaps | have not done
Justice by naming those / have, but we
are assigned to our duty and we should
fulfill it, even if our surroundings seem
dark and our capabilities do not fully
compare with the counsel and advice
which we have often had the pleasure OF
receiving from others.
In conclusion it is fitting to say that
most of our time seems clouded with
various difficulties which are not as
pleasant as we would have them, but
there is one time in the year when we
are permitted to lay aside all cemetery
work, brush the cemetery dust from our
shoes throw down the shovel and the
pick, and last, but not least, meet in an
nual convention with our brothers who
compose the American Cemetery Super
intendents' association.
j. A. Thorne was to have read a pa
per entitled, Influence of the Individ-
ual Superintendent in His Cemetery,
but he was unable to attend the con-
vention and paper entitled Influence
of Modern Cemeteries by N. c. Wilder
was read in it's stead.
Mr.. Wilder's paper was to have been
read at the session last night The
paper was very interesting one and
will be given tomorrow.
MIR. BEECHER's ADDRESS.
The address of the afternoon was CIV
en- by Edward c. Beecher of the New
Haven City Burial Ground. Mr.. Beech
er's paper, "The Early Cemeteries of
New Haven" was splendid one and
was greatly enjoyed by all present Mr..
Beecher spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of This
Convention:
In behalf of 1.-THE Proprietors of the
New Haven City Burial Ground" we ex-
tend to you one and all warm and
hearty welcome to this historic, City of
Films.
The programme laid out for you by
the reception committee for this after
noon is a visit to Center Church Crypt
and the Grove street cemetery Before
ldhlllS you OUT Ou tHlS pliS liilidSe, tlleit
you may be the better informed of the
places of interest we shall visit, | have
been requested to give you brief his
toric account of the early cemeteries of
New Haven.
/ will promise to be brief and follow
the injunction which the old gentleman
gave the clergyman who was to conduct
the funeral services of his wife, with
the request that he 'should be" very
brief but farvent.
In writing of early burial grounds, it
may not be embarrassing to mention the
fact that the Indians Of this locality
also had a place of burial, which was
located on Beacon Hill, now known as
Fort Wooster Park. This property was
afterwards owned by my own ances-
tors, and / recall an incident related in
my childhood by my grandmother. 1t
was the custom of the Indians never to
bury one of their number unless some
one could say a good word Of the dead.
One of them died and was left unbur-
ed for several days because no one
could speak we'll of him; finally one old
indian came along and pronounced him
as having been a good smoker, Then
they planted him in a sitting posture
md facing the east.
New Haven has had an existence bor-
lering on to three centuries. In the
spring of 1888 the first settlers sailed
rom Boston, arriving here the latter
part of April In that year, and landed
n boats at the foot Of College street, |
within two blocks of this place where |
We are now convened. A memorial tab |
ct marks the spot.
Among their first enactments was to |
ay out the town In nine squares, and to |
he Town Born of New Haven are |
till known as the Mine Original |
Squares" in the center of which they |
aid out a market place; (the present /
Iew Haven Green). They then estab-
shed a church, schools a whipping
'ost and a burial ground, all adjacent
o each other; the two latter are rather
uggestive, coming as they did from
hese good Boston people.
The first burying ground was located
nder and in the rear Of the present
ENTER church on the Green, as you will
ee by the accompanying map. The
ce are recorded on marble tablets in |
he vestibule of the church. Among
he noted dead of their day and genera
ion, under that church can be seen the
erected to the memory of
fargaret, the first wife of Benedict
.rnold. In the rear Is monument to
'olonel John Dixwell, one of the reg-
ideS who signed the death warrant of
ling Charles the T. of England On the
ear of the church are tablets marking
he spot where Theophilus Eaton, the
rst governor of New Haven colony,
nd his deputy governor, Stephen
We're buried. These grounds
ere used as a common place of burial
'om the first settlement of the town in
1873 to the beginning Of this century. :
he last interment here made was in ,
49,
In the year 1862 Trinity parish Gin
with the Church of Eng
ND erected a church edifice on it's
nd located on the easterly side of
hurch street, south of Chapel. 1t also
ad church yard in connection with
s parish church, but no record APP | ,
ears how long and to what extent 1t :
as used. The following votes passed ,
Y it's vestry in 1885 establishes this
atement where it was voted:
"That there be no further burialS I'M