Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-11

the original trustees. and March p the
committee in charge reported that the
burial ground was free from debt and a
resolution was adopted that Mr.. Ingle
present to the parish the ground, with the
proceedings OF the committee. Mr.. Ingle
did so few days later. giving the neces-
sary deed. The vestry at that time was
composed of Rev. Andrew T. Mccormick,
rector: Commodore Thomas Tingey. Peter
Miller. Griffith Coombe, Samuel N. Small
wood. Joseph Forest. James Young and
Henry Ingle. Among those inferred there
prior to that time were Uriah Tracy.
senator from Connecticut. who died in
1907, the first buried here. and Senator
Franciss Malbone of Rhode Island, who
died In 1909; Representatives Ezra Darby
of New Jersey. 1908; Gen. Thomas
Blount OF North Carolina. 1872; Elijah
Brigham, Massachusetts,. and Richard
Stanford of North Carolina. who died in
1916. and Vice President Clinton Of New
York, who died April 20. 1911. and whose
body was removed to New York a year
ago. There we're also Samuel A. Otis,
secretary OF the Senate. and Vice Presi-
dent Gerry of Massachusetts,, who died in
1914. and Col. Tobias Lear, secretary to
President Washington, who died in 1916
Sites for Members of Congress.
In this year the vestry appointed a COM
mittee to select 100 burial sites to donate
to the government for the interment of
members of Congress, and four years lat
er the same privilege was extended to the
heads of the departments and members
of their families and those of members
or congress. BY this time it was thought
advisable to inclose the square with a
Drlck wall. but the money received from
the sale OF sites did not justify it. Vari-
GUS measures looking to this improve
6sa1t.S were .r suggested and i was finally
the rector. Rev. Mr.. Allen: Commodore
Tingey and Capt. Smallwood were ap-
pointed. November 3d. 1923, to ask for
tins aid May "a. Congress appropriated
5000 for that purpose. With this APP
preparation bond was required, securing
to the United States 400 sites for the
lnterment OF members of Congress and
other government officials. The sites pre-
viously donated had been located in the
northeast portion of the grounds. and
December Is the vestry set apart the
additional 800 sites The bond was duly
executed and In May. 1924. the wall was
erected. BY this time burials had become
SO numerous as to require the whole time
OF the sexton and his assistants.
Among those buried there up to 1925
were Benjamin Moore, who had estab-
lished the Washington Gazette prior to
1900. and who died in 1912; BENJAMIN G.
Orr. once mayor of Washington; 4 daugh-
ter OF Henry Clay. a child of John C.
Calhoun. Benjamin King. master smith of
the navy yard; ex-Mayor Smallwood, Col.
Frank Wharton, commander of the Ma
rine Corps; John Crabb. Thomas Dunn.
Beall. Frederick Greuhm, the Prussian
minister; Mime. Bresson, wife of the sec
rotary Of the French embassy; Push
ma-ta-ha, Choctaw chief. who died in
1894: DR.. John Harrison, who for twenty
years was in the United States Navy
Senator'S Burrill Of Rhode Island 1870,
Gen. W. A. Trimble of Ohio and William
P1nkney of Maryland. who had a rifle
corps at Bladensburg and was minister
to Russia. in 1922; George Mumford of
North Carolina. David Walker of Ken
lucky $500, N. Hazard of Rhode Is
land $500, Jesse Slocum of North Caro-
line $500. William L. Ball of Virginia
1S24), representatives: Elias B. Caldwell
clerk of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, and DR.. Cutbush, United
States Navy
AS may be supposed. the streets in that
section were in primitive condition,
generally on a natural grade At that
time. there being few public conveyances.
the funerals were mostly what were called
walking funerals. Seldom were there any
teams other than the hearse, and not i'm
frequently so little settlement had been
made that they came over meandering
roads.
The old Young house. on e street be-
tween 18th and 18th streets. was then
occupied by Richard Spalding, and east
ward of this was a small house belonging
to Richard Barry. Near the latter was
the old naval magazine. near which Ed
ward Barry resided as the keeper. Some
idea OF the small expenses Of funerals
and interments in that day may be had
from the price of sites. as stated above.
more. An undertaker's bill. on file at
the courthouse, reads: ITO one coffin
$40: three carriages. 50; total. 49," And
this the funeral of a prominent citizen!