The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-22


leveller than a cemetery An afternoon
spent in one will convince any one that
there are pomps and vanities in death
as in life and that very often that which
was the best cared for in life is given
the least attention in death. AS in
city one passes the tidy premises, the
neat house. and gets jar at the very
next dwelling by reason of it's unkept-
ness and lack of touch with the round
about world. so it is in the cemetery
the general scheme of neatness is mar
red by the utter lack of care by some
The imposing headstone or shaft rises
from weeds, while but few yards away
the unassuming monument, hardly more
than mere marker of a grave, fears
it's whiteness above the trim kept turf
and we'll watered plants and flowers.
But this a mere preface to story;
the story of Raleighs two cemeteries,
the City and lakewood, generally term
ed the old and the new. The old has
undergone in the past four years Won
derful transformation. This all started
with the enclosing of it by the fence
which up to 1898 was around the Capitol
square The State wisely concluded to
do away with the fence. AS a result
proved and so is the old cemetery.
The City, or DID, cemetery was laid
out in 1892, when the city was. Its great
oaks stand now pretty much as they
then stood, but it was then in the sub
urbs, beyond the city limits, and liter
ally in the woods. Now it is near the
city's heart. Three sides are true. but
one is broken upon by some rambling
nd OH A drU
way, very narrow, divides it into two
parts to the left the white dead lie,
and to the right the colored. The lat
ter's graves are marked in the rudest
way, and not few of the headstones
are sunk so low that barely line or
two of the inscription remains. Those
were the days when all were buried to-
gether; when Raleigh, the capital, yet
but village, had it's pastor to the
CITY," who preached to all and buried
all for $500 a year, and who was also the
teacher to the city" This good man
was Rev. Mr.. McPheeters, who sleeps
there among his old parishioners and
friends and contemporaries. The ceme-
terry is no doubt better cared for than
any old one in the State. Burials in it
are now very infrequent.
There are queer gravestones and
equally queer graves. Really one can
walk and study there for hours. The
very narrow walks, bordered with
stone, smooth with macadam and with
green turf rising in a terrace, are only
wide enough for a vehicle. Every form
of grave and memorial. the great ceno-
taph, the 'storied urn," the angel beck
oning heavenward, the lamb or lambs
in often almost impossible shapes, the
weeping willows, the clasped hands, the
books opened at particular pages, are to
be seen in infinite variety, many so
venerable that all the care of the cleaver
is needed to keep them legible.
A little tomb marks the grave of
"Bry Teunt, son of Ferreby Teunt" and
quite near it is monument to a little
girl, which bears upon it's face her photo
graph being under glass, a silver frame
holding both the glass and picture in
place.
Many of the monuments, once upright,
have fallen, and lie prone upon the
ground, but are as is a rule carefully
laid. In such wise is the monument to
Rev. William E. Pell. one of the noted
Methodists of the State, the founder OF
The Christian Advocate, born at Eden
ton, 1871 died at Raleigh 1870.
Other monuments close to this are
those of DR.. w. T. NJ. Dalton and to the
older members of the noted Tucker
family, one w. C. Tucker. born 1892,
died 1860.
A stately marble tombstone like a
table, is over the grave of Ellen Brent,
wife of Daniel G. Fowle, and daughter
of Richmond NJ Pearson; born 1889, died
1862. 1t is in a handsomely enclosed
space.
There are vaults also One of those
is that of Josiah Ogden Watson, born
1884, died 1854. He lies in it and so does
Elizabeth Obedience Watson, born 1918,
died 1886. Most of the bodies are in
metallic collins, some of these almost
exactly like the Egyptian mummy-cases.
In fact the earlier iron caskets were
made in that shape, very like the out
line of the figure.
Here is the lot of the noted Haywood
family. The tombs, all of white marble
table like in design, are very fine. and
the cutting of the letters is remarkably
excellent. Among the monuments are
these of William Henry Haywood, Uni
ted States Senator, born 1770, died 1857:
Ann, his wife. died in 1866; Eliza r.
Dudley, consort of Edward B. Dudley
born 1896, died 1910; Governor Charles
Manly with the simplest inscription
possible, merely Charles Manly, born
May r. 1895, died May 1, 1877" Side by
side lie two of William H. Haywood's
sons, Duncan Cameron Haywood, killed
at the battle of Cold Harbor. and Will
liam Henry Haywood, Jr., died of wounds
received at the battle of the Wilder
ness.
Over the grave of Richard Hines rises
a very fine shaft of white marble. He
was born 1892. died 1851.
Another noted family burial-place is
that of the Shepards. The inscriptions
are lofty in language and in the old and
prolix style. The monuments are again
table like, of the finest marble. An in
scription says: This monument marks
the hallowed spot wherein are deposited
the mortal remains of Jacob Shepard,
fother of the Hon. William Shepard, of
Newbern." An imposing shaft of mar
ble one of the finest here. surmounted
by great urn, draped, is to Robert
DonneTl who departed this life October
To- 1864, aged IS years. Justis sinus
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