Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-22
DEPARTED GREATNESS.
some or the Quaint nnd Picture qus
Inscriptions from F.Imwood
Avenue Ccmcter~

st Joseph's marks the inexorah,e boura.
the stream Of men and women ebb, and
| flows past. while within It's fence ~ iron
pickets Elmwo0d Avenue cemetery lie.
In the calm and peace that is OF death.
The ladies' and gentlemen OF old Bur.
iington OF many stately. white pillared
Ola house-rest here, Obvious to tho
mellow voice of the bell and the COM
! Ing and going OF the later generations
! Tho very wind seerns to move reverent,v
I ana 10 touch with tenderness the tree,
TINT here ana there rise among tho
/ 'ichen covered monuments
The eighteenth century speaks from
more than one q.onc Of which ,bo
/ quaint letters and stlll moro ouai,tlv
( expressed thought arc tho work ~ hands
md brains thet have long since become
/ less than memory. And with these SER
ious minded men Of the eighteenth cen-
fury. and of the nineteenth too, epi,aph
flourished In all its pristine glory They
inscribed above their dead. seriously and
| nwkwar1lv. sentiments that would grace
the pages ~ comic paper witness tho
case ~ l'tt'n White who gave up thu
breath Of lifn sometimes IN ie25 aged
fifteen months and eight DAYS One is
led to think that Willie must have been
a petunia or an apple blossom. for CHS
| eIleu az tne nOrtCf0 O. we a'fNn tnaf
marks his grave Is this inscription:
"Mourners. TO vow this cheering hops
f. given.
He sank to earth freshly 70 bloom in
| heaven"
A gentleman who departed this life"
in ls47 with seventv-four years. no
doubt Of usefulness, to his credit Is thus
described:
"He left this vain world without .
tear.
without n struggle OF n fear
And In mingled with tho dead"
That he should leave. at a. without
many tears is not to be wondered AZ. bu.
that he should look calmly on the PROS
pect Of being mingled with the dead" IS
O. little gruesorne The apotheos,s Of
naivete Is reached IN that afterthought
There is one sleeper whose character
evidently wns not oil that characters
should be esrecially New England char
acters. for the following Is Eravely In
scribed beneath his name and accom-
| plishments:
| Let this he n warning to all
To he prepared when God doth CALI
Elizabeth Arabella. daughter OF some-
one II Is lrnma tertal whom, died at the
immature age Of FIVE years, and II is an
! UOH0'tI IN Ueep carved letters tlat she
's unseen but not dead" One shudders
with horror to think OF Elizabeth Ara
bella struggling all these years within
the narrow confines Of her little coff1n.
six feet beneath the good city Of Bur
l'ngton. She must. by this time, have
passed all alone through the cycle of
Group, md measles and whoopcough, and
long since have outgrown the little pima
fore IN which she was buried. Arabella
should. for the comfort Of those above
ground. die.
One epitaph speaks for Itself:
Erected TO the memory OF Miss Ann
Park. late Of Boston in Massachusetts,,
who deceased In this town on the 18th Of
January A. d. 1909. In the 18th year OF
her age"
A self-evident touch OF hunor follows
in some verses. which are evidently ad.
| dressed to tho general public on behalf OF
| Ann:
I'VE feeling few whose eosoms glow
And beat with sympathetic woe.
While with a trembling heart you tread
| With reverence Ger the sacred dead
! Oh don't refuse the falling tear:
Youth. Joy and hope lie mouid'rins heN4
The Joyful gertrude with which oul
forefathers looked forward to the awful
| last uaN is UldSHl!lCentlN eAeTlpilNen III
the lires which adorn one moss covered
stone:
Her amable qualities served to EN-.
bitter the tear Of friendship at her pre-
mature death Calmly she resigned hcI
breath In joyful hope OF a glorious res
direction when death and he'll shall Ia
swallowed UP IT victory"
| II Is possible II one has q strong i'm.
gination, TO conceive Of that erlbittered
tear rolling down some pens!ve cheek,
but II is a little too much to attempt
| to picture the lady herself resigning hei
breath with mirth and glee
Near the street an obel'sk-llke tomb.
stone bears the representation Of an urn
sculptured near It's top. with the legend
"Martha's Urn" After giving the usual
data with reference to her NE and death
the inscription goes on to state that she
died after seven years mental deranse
men, There Is no family skeleton close
eted here for. 10. it stalks abroad proud
ly. One can imagine the family or'ns
as bearing among other things, an in'
sane ASYLUM rampant
And the summation Of Condensed
praise. through which runs favor OF
cvnic,sn1 whtct smacl,s u the Book Of
Fcclesiastes runs thus:
This modest stone WNht rev VAN i'i'''
! bles can
With truth may say here lies an honest
| man
Calmly Re looked on either life and here
Saw nothing 10 regret. md nothing there
10 fear"
Rut 70 he moro serious The Rev.
Paddock Thompson WAS buried, more than
! half century ago. in the quiet OF Fine
wood and tho changing seasons have
! passed ava rc7assed IN review MANY times
| over his little thought-of grave Fat tho
man is not forgotten, nor VII he 10 willis
| there IS q Verr1, nter to take er Intelligent
| pride In the history Of his state. II was
| Zadock Thompson who compiled the work
/ known ns ''Thompson's Vermont" and
he Moods no hette- monument than this.
Joseph Earron also les here IN fitting
, COMPANY, for to h'm belongs much II
! TIVE glory ~ 'he battle ~ Flat sburgh. He
WIS That pilot on the flagship Saratoga"
! OF McponouFh's neet TO whose skin tho
! victory vas more than n littlo owing HG
was killed on September - 1874 almost
/ IN tho hour Of his achievements
The list Is little more Than begun, for Il
would he possible to III reaws with
names worthy ot remembrance But an
ord mus. no made and perhaps Il Is most
/ citing 10 conclude with the wife Of cloud
compelling Ethan Allen. The wife OF tho
! patriot rests beneath quaint. sars
| cophagus-li like monument marble slab.
n foot or more above the ground. Informs
the reader that beneath this stone rest
| the remains Of Frances Montezuna. wife