The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-23
GRAVE OF MOSES CLEAvELAND.

"A Movement in Ohio to Restore the
Cleaveland Lot in Canterbury's Gem
etery.
Eleven years ago public and perma
nent acknowledgement of the obliga-
tons the f1ourishing city of Cleveland
owes to the worthy citizen of Connec-
ticut who located the site, laid out the
plans and gave his own name to the
first town on the Western reserve or
New Connecticut, was made by the in
auguration of the bronze statute of
General Moses Cleaveland, which orna-
ments the public square. Three years
ago Cleveland devoted fourteen days to
displays and festivities commemorative
of the completion Of century since
Moses Cleaveland and party of his
explorers and surveyors landed at the
mouth of the Cuyahoga and, with pre-
scient Judgment, chose the table land
overlooking the right bank of the riv-
er as the site for the future city One
of the days was specifically dedicated
to the memory of ''the Founder" when
the story of Moses Cleaveland and his
services to his native state of Connec-
ticut, and to the New Connecticut on
the shores Of Lake Erie was told to the
assembled thousands.
1t was news to many thousands of
those who took part in the celebration
of the name and fame of Moses Cleave-
land that "the Founder had, after his
work well done in the west, retired to
the home of his family in Canterbury,
Conn, and was there gathered to his
fathers" in the old cemetery of that
quiet place.
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that the only mark of his last resting
place is oss-grown slab, the inscrip-
ton on which is scarcely decipherabIe
and that the condition of the grave is
discreditable from utter neglect.
1t was strange oversight in the ar
rangement of the Cleveland centennial
Celebration that no thought was given
to the condition of the last resting
place on earth of ''the Founder" 1t
would have been easy then to make
provision for putting and keeping it
in better condition, so that Cleveland |
err visiting the spot would not feel |
scandalized and Inundated |
A recent report of the condition of |
the cemetery at Canterbury, Conn, |
caused Prof Elroy M. Avery of this |
city, at the instance of the Plain Deal |
Gr, TO Make d pig IlIlldSt W Canterbury L
and report for this paper the actual |
condition of the grave of General Moses |
Cleaveland, with suggestions as to /
what could be done to put it in con-
dition more creditable to the reputation |
of the prosperous city he founded and 4
which bears his name.
The result of that pilgrimage is to |
be found on another page of this issue
of the Plain Dealer where Prof Avery i
describes what he found in fluent and /
graceful language and supports his de-
scription with evidence furnished by
the camera.
The facts, as he found them, are re-
lated attractively, but they are not |
pleasant to contemplate. The little |
cemetery where rest the remains of |
Moses Cleaveland, with those of his
wife and his father and mother is
wholly neglected. 1t adjoins farm !!
and is practically unprotected from the
incursions of the farm animals. The
graves of the Cleavelands are over
grown with rank grass and weeds and |
worse vet, are used as convenient
place for the sailing and feeding of the
sheen The Cleaveland family seems
TO be extinct in the township, and
there is no one to take an interest in
the memory of the founder of the pros
porous city of 100000 people, at the