Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-22

sion on the road that leads to Lexington,
nearly opposite Orchard House, which
have just described. After his death IN
1883 ii was occupied by his daughter,
Miss Ellen Emerson, who died last winter,
and in her will provided that 1t shall be
the home of Mss Legatt and Miss Heard,
teachers in the Emerson School as long
as they live 1t will then revert to her
brother, DIR. Edward Waldo Emerson,
physician, who retired from practice sew
eral years ago, and has spent MS later
years writing. picking up curios ana en-
leisure. Dr. Emerson married Miss
Keyes. daughter of an eminent lawyer
and judge in this part of the state and
they continue to keep nome In CONCORD,
although they have lived a good oeai
abroad.
The mansion has recently been painted
white, with dark green blinds. and is as
good new, although it was oniit IN the
:sOS. 1t looks like a house in when E'nef-
son would want to live.
Emerson was buried in Sleepy Hollow
cemetery. where his grave is marked by
a huge block of pink quartz prone
ablet riveted to the stone bears this IN
scrption:
The Passive Master lent his hand
To the Vast Soul that Ger him planned
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Born. Boston May -. 1SU'
Died Concord. April 81, 1SS2.
Nearby is an ordinary stone marking
the burial place of E.merson's second
wife-"Lillian, daughter of Charles and
Lucy Cotton Jackson as the epitarh
reads. Born September -. 1893. close by
Plymouth Rock as she loved to remem-
Der Died November Il, 1892 in Con-
cord
Clerk in Custom House.
Hawthorne lived i'm what is called The
Wayside Cottage next door to the Al
colts, from 1852 to 1864. and after his
death his family remained there for some
time Hawthorne spent his early Gays
in Salem. where he was clerk in the
custom house. and from there went TO
Liverpool. having been appointed Jnlted
States consul through the influence OF
Daniel Webster and the congressman of
his district. Upon his return to this coun-
try he sought a consenial home at on
cord where he spent the remainder OF MS
life in literary work. His study was IN
the tower of the house. where he wrote
'Septimus Felton, and all of his later
works The Scarlet Letter was writ
ten at Salem, when he was in The Gus
tom house.
Hawthorne is buried in the lot next TO
the Emersons in Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
in company with TWO of his Srandchil-
dren. Mrs Hawthorne died abroad. Inere
is no monument or suitable tombstone
simply small marker at the mead or ms
grave bearing the name "HaWthOrne.
His tomb is inclosed by woven-w wire
fence sustained by ugly posts. whics! IS
more appropriate for a poultry yard than
for. burial place for man of his fame
Beside his grave is sisnboaro, WIN an
inscription painted in back letters
Visitors are kindly requested not to
pick the evergreens from about this lot
out of respect for the living, If not for
the dead
Opposite is the burial lot Of the Alcotts.
with one handsomely carved central stone
bearing the family name Back of IT is
a row of little markers containing the I'M
tails of the members of the family who
lie beneath.
The Thoreau family also are buried in
the immediate neighborhood. with six
names on single stone-father, mother,
Henry, Helen, Sophia and john
Hawthorne House for Rent.
The house in which Hawthorne lived is
for rent and is in dilapidated condition.
The Concord grape, which is grown
in this country, originated In
the garden of Grapevine Cottage, which
stands in the center Of a tousled yard
next door to the Hawthorne place, and
that too. is in a dilapidated condition
This early instance of botanical develop
ment is due to the genius of Ephra1m
cord, who was always ''putterlng around
his garden and doing funny things with
plants" He lies as he lived, beside his
neighbor Hawthorne, and his epitaph
reads:
'Ephraim Wales Bull
The Originator of the Concord Grape
Born in Boston. March 4, 1906
Died in Concord Sept 20. 1880
He Sowed and Ohters Reaped.
| understand that an association has
been organized to rescue the Wayslde
Cottage. in which Hawthorne lived, but
was not able to get any definite informa-
ton on the subject.
AS have already told YOU the late Sem
ator Hoar was born in Concord. The
family mansion still stands in good con-
dtion and is occupied by the family OF
his brother. Judge lockwood Hoar, who
always lived here. while the senator spent
most of his life in Worcester, where he
practiced law, and in Washington, where
he served his country in Congress for
more than thirty years. Mr.. Hoar Is
buried in a corner of the family lot in
Sleepy Hollow cemetery, which is filed
with the bones of his ancestors. His
tombstone is a modest cenotaph of gram
ite.
Near Mr.. Hoars grave is tiny image
of a sleeping child carved in marble and
protected from the elements by a glass
globe. The base upon which it rests Is
inscribed:
God has taken Baby Ella
For His own sweet Bud.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody is buried
nearby. Her epitaph tells us that she
lived in Concord from 1904 to 1894, taught
three generations Of population and IN
troduced the kindergarten into America
Every humane cause mad her sympathy
and her az tive aid.