Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-01

unfortunately, no trace Of them can now b
found. SON Of w. r. Graham. MT. Graham
OF the District water Office some years ago per-
mitted the writer to have made q photograph
OF plat Of the cemetery, owned by him, and
. very interesting relic.
The other public cemetery which was I'm
square 1926 located between H and and Thir-
tenth and Fourteenth streets northeast and
known as the Eastern Cemetery, was laid out
ON ground which seems to have been marshy
and quite unsuitable for the PURPOSE and
though 1t was used for q number of years. vet
few burialS, comparatively, were made in it
and it was finally abandoned for cemeterial
purposes.
Burials were made around several Of the
churches at the very beginning of the city. st.
P2tr1cks Catholic Church, on street near
Tenth northwest, maintained o cemetery for
awhile in the old Masonic Temple block, and
until 1t began burying In its new graveyard on
the north side of Florida avenue bewteen First
and Second streets, or what used to be known
as LIE Drott avenue, and extending back a block
and half. which it purchased in 1870 This
old cemetery was near what was called Moore's
lane, sttn remembered, no doubt, by many q
person just little beyond middle life.
Pearce's family burial plot has already been
spoken Of In q previous article. However, not
far east Of the White House. on the south side
OF + street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, just little to the west Of Dr. Laurie's
Presbyterian Church, later known as willard
Hail. several intermentS are said to have taken
place around 1907.
Bodies are also said to have been buried at
very early period hanking st. Peters Church,
on Capitol Hill. but for quite awhile later On,
the regular burial place Of this church was in
the block between 81 and and Fourth and
Fifth streets northeast, and the German Luther
ans had their Gods acre in the block to the
south, which they established about 1880 and
air taiY INIT
ing In their cemetery on Lincoln road, known
as Prospect Hill. This they acquired in 1855.
noWN in the Southeast section, near the
Congressional Cemetery previously written
about, was the East Methodist or Ebenezer
Cemetery, for colored persons, between SIX
tenth and Seventeenth and G and d street,
Immediately opposite the Congressional Gene
terry was also cemetery for white persons,
and nearby was Potter's Field, where the city'S
poor were buried subsequent to 1883 when the
bodies Of the poor and those who died from
the epidemics of 1882 and 1888 were removed
from the square bounded by NJ and N and
sixth and Seventh streets northwest, where
the poorhouse had previously stood
st. Johns Episcopal Church at Sixteenth and
H streets, had its cemetery in the square bound
ed BY Twelfth and Thirteenth and and
streets northwest and in this same part of the
city was the burial plot of st. Matthews Catho-
lie Church, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
and U and streets, while Old Foundry M. e
Church buried its dead in the block to the
north Of this. The Mount Pleasant Plain
Cemetery, otherwise known as the Free Young
Mems Burial Ground, originally stood in the
square now occupied by the Childrens Hospital
until the cemetery near the Adams Mill en-
trance to the Geological Park was opened Duo
to the restriction upon burials in this latter
place, and for other causes, the bodies were re-
moved from this old cemetery quite awhile ago.
and today all that remains behind as remind
er Of its former usefulness is few tombstones,
an old brick vault and the cobble-stone drive.
way which extended east and west through
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