Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-03-28
GREENWOOD CEMETERY.
Interesting Facts Concerning Its larry
Occupants.

TO the writer there is always some
thing interesting about the last restiiiS,
place Of those who once lived, lioNe''
and mad their being amid the pusS
scenes OF life. To those who Yet move
among US, there is Il future, ana we
know not what Il day will BRING Iorth'
much may yet be done for sSood OF e\ll'
but, when the last resting place mas
been selected and the last SAD rites
have been held, the Book OF Il1e IS
closed and the history is complete, il
not all written.
Greenwood cemetery placed OH the
hillside, not far from the banks of tn"
little river. must have been an ideal
place to those who selected it. before
there were buildings to SHUT out the
beautiful scenery in the little valley
1t has 4 fine location and many beaUti-
full monuments and stones to testify OF
the loving thouGhtfulness of the living
to these who have gone before.
1t is not of those who have departed
this life in this century. but of those
who died in the early part of the last,
or latter part of the third century from
this that we would write, for be it
known. the inhabitants OF Winthrop
have buried their loved dead there for
part of three centuries.
There are several old stones that are
imreatable, but one of the oldest is in
scrihed
'1n memory of
Joel Chandler
who died April 18th, 1884, aged -.
This was about twenty years after
~. I,
Another old stone is that
sacred to the memory Of John
Chandler died Dec. 10. 1871, who
departed this life ut the age Of
Sc
In quaint old script we read the fol-
lowing lines:
"scho!it beneath the turf lies here,
y tender husband kind and dear,
Esteemed by men. Il friend to all,
For him the voice Of God did call
On the stone of his wife Mrs. Lydia
Chandler, who died Feb. S, 1910, 1T the
:ge of IS, we find the following:
| Loaned She was, and not our own,
Thou hast not done US wrong,
| We thank Thee fur the precious loan
| Afforded us 50 long"
| Mr.. Chandler was Oh the first board
| of ScI"ctmcn when the town WIS incOr-
poratvd in III.
A small. quaint stone near those of
Mr Chandler and his wife is i'll honor
| of two Of their chiidren, both bearing;
the name of Slsanah! The first having
died. agcd ), in Jan, 1774, three years
after the town WAS Incorporated, the
other dying. aged 10, in Sept. 1884.
| A faded flag waves over the grave of
Batchei Bennett, who died in $50, aged
| II. This would indicate that he had
served his country, but L find no record
of it, His wife died i'll 1S25, aged 81.
| on the tombstone Of Cyrus Cole, Who
died in 1911, | find
stop. passengers. rs YOU pass by,
| As you are now, 50 once was |,
| ~, | am now, you soon will be,
Prepare for death and follow me-
James Stevens died in 1880, aged G7.
| His wife died at the same age, but pre-
ccded him three years. She evidently
had been prepared to go, as the follow
ing couplot will testify:
| Jesus can make Il dying bed
l'ecl soft or downy pillows are,
| While on his breast / lean my head
| And breathe my life out there
Samuel JOY, who died in 1S22, evident
| " wished hi; advice to his friends to be
remembered for those who came after
| him can read from time to time
Dear f. fiiends, don't sorrow
! Though I'm no more.
But Jesus Christ always adore,
| Remember what to YOU I've said,
! When | was Oh my dying bed"
His daughter, aged IS, rests close by
his side.
"Almira is gone, her soul has fled,
Her body moudcrs with the dead,
no more to draw carth':' sicilly breath,
No mere TO agonize in DEATH
Gideon | ~ D1hnrt SnlAc.n11n n