Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-08

posite the residence of Edwin Soule
 lpew owned and coupled by E. c. Wh.ting) on the Hopeyille road. In connection with the investivat4ons or { thts committee the following story from a local pen was published in ! The Bulletin of November IS. 1898. A
 number of distinguished people v sit ed the different cemetery sites on ',
 TussdaySMany are surprised to learn
 that thsre are about fifty graves in
 the old Johnson buFying ground on
 the High Banks. Here sleeps Deacon Henry L. John sons father and mother. also his H. lustrjeus grsndfatbeg and grandme-f ther: Some years before his death, Deacon Johnson Fealaeed the auaiHI old crumhlilg stales which marked
 the last resting place of his father 1 and mother with two new marble slabs gut with the inseFiptiens from
 the eFigiaal ones, but these have loRg l since been broken and removed. The
 stenes of his gTaadparents still stand ! and are lA a fair state of preserve 1 tloa, Ehey wsreE eapsain Steven Johnson. who died Nov. l2. 1909. aged 1 sS years. and on the stone in script letters full of moss ara these lines: .'Tha sweet remenbraHee of the just
 Shall flourish when they sleep in
 quSts
 Side by side with the above is the grave ea f.s wife, who Mied June 1e !leI4. aeed s4 years. The stone. pears
 these Gaes:
 My flesh shall rest in hope.
 l For my RedeeIner iiyeth.n
 + Tfere Is the grave of Captain Am hrese Blunt, who, according to the 4n : scriptien on the crumhlins stone died in ye year tsoo another. the grave q Mrs. Joanna, ceRsort <of Captain Am prose Blunt, who departed this life March IT, 1900. aged s1 years. This . verse Is scarcely to be made out: Dear Jesus. Thou hast power tc In Thee I trust while in the grave. ? Although my body turns to dust, hope te rise among the just" ? On the captains tombstone. Is thi. , verse, hardly iegible:
 3 rpeath will through time is triumph ride,
 And here it's prisoner must abide. ? I'll Christ the awful bands shal burst
 And raise to life this sleeping dust. The only other inscriptions are or , small rough stones rising not over si e'ght to twelve inches above the sod and are comprised in the following: Martha c. Whitman. who died Sept , f5, 1928, and two brothers of the late Deacon Henry Johnson, William and
 Daniel who died. respectively, in the
 years 1S16 and iS0S
 The remaining fifty odd grave: :, have no marks, or a very small stone Here there rest four of Deacon P Johnson's ancestors who were over ] 50 years of age when the Revolution fl broke out. In this Johnson site there n are nearly 100 acres as level as any f similar tract of land within many : mile of this place. It is seventy five
 feet above the Aspinook pond. and or
 the north and west is fine vein fol , miles over some of the finest farms In the towns of Lisbon and Canter- bury. eTars ago when all the stones ] were intact, many old dates appeared
 a"d also many rhymes which 1T | themselves were 8 sort of reminder II of years gone before. One cause O II l destruction for this landmark is tht x tact of it's being situated on the rivel | bank. and that teo. some seventy -flv, fl feet above t. And why Ses Becaust
 almost every boy or man who rasse,
 1 that way finds himself possessed O ! an almost iFFes,st'f,ie desire to rel
 ~flown a stone. That many yielded t,
 this craving the scared trees ant
 filtered river bottom could testif! before the trees were cut and tn,
 river raised by the Aspineek dam. I ! has always been g source of wonde, Il to people who appreciate antiquity o
 this kird why anybody should wlsl \ to mar it's seciusien.
 ' In addition to tn g ground there ar,
 many old Indian burying places ii X this vicinity of more or less note, Il I fact there are few more noted place
 among relic hunters for arrow heads