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ASSOCIATION.

"We are 'strangers and sojourners here. We have need of *a poBB^a8ion of a burying-place, that we
aiaj bnry our dead out of our sight,' Let ns hare ' the field and the cave which is therein ; and all the
^ees that are in the field, and that are in the borders round about ; ' and let them be made) sure for ' a
poseesBion of -a burying-,place. — Judge Story ^ ^

BUFFALO:
PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION.
1856.

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OFFICERS.
CHAELES E. CLAEKE, President.
LEWIS EATON, Vice President.
JESSE EANDEL, Sec'y and Treas'r.

TRUSTEES.

CHAELES E. CLAEKE,
LEWIS EATON,
WAEEEN GEANGEE,
MYEON P. BUSH,

SAMUEL EANDEL,
S. V. E. WATSON,
OELANDO ALLEN,
ISAAC P. BETANT,

JESSE EANDEL.

GEORGE BRENNEN, Kbbpeb oi- thb Grounds.

FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.

The grounds in this Cemetery embrace about
eighty acres. They were purchased in 1849, by Mr.
Charles E. Clarke, of the Eev. James N. Granger,
and his brother, Warren Granger, Esq. The price
paid was $150 per acre. They comprise a part of
the "Granger Farm," are located on the north-east
side of Conjaquadie's creek, between Delaware and
Main streets, and are about two- miles and a half
from the city of Buffalo, although they are within
the limits o# the city as recently enlarged.
The Grounds form a bluff or high table, and
are nearly surrounded on the south and west by
Conjiaquadie's creek. They contain about equaj
quantities of forest and lawn: hence their name,
"Forest Lawn." They are beautifully variegated:
a series of knolls extending from the south-east
erly bounds nearly parallel with the creek, to the
north-westerly corner of the same. Between this

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and the creek is a margin of the most beautiful
woodland, varying in width from £ve or six to
fifteen rods. The underbrush and surplus trees
have been cleared out, and the grounds seeded
with white clover. They now present a beautiful
wood lawn, and afford a grateful shade for visitors
in warm weather.
The improvements upon these grounds were
commenced early in the spring of 1850, and have
been prosecuted without any interruption since that
period. They are inclosed with a good substantial
picket fence eight feet in height.
Avenues have been opened through almost every
part of them. About thirty acres have been graded,
laid out into Lots, and improved in the most tasteful
and appropriate manner for purposes of sepulture.
Large and convenient buildings have been erected
at the entrance of the main avenue leaJan^r to the
same, for the residence of the Superintendent and
for the accommodation of the laborers upon the'
Grounds; also a large Mausoleum, or receivino- vault,
capable of containing about sixty coffins, and a neat
Gothic Cottage upon the Grounds, for an oulee, and

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for the use of the sextons, and persons who go to
bury their dead in stormy or inclement weather.
About five hundred Lots have already been
sold, and many of them improved in a manner
highly creditable to the taste and liberality of the
Proprietors. The Grounds were dedicated to the burial of the
dead, August 18, 1850, by exceedingly interesting
and appropriate religious exercises, commencing
with the singing of the following Poem, written by
Miss Matilda H. Stuart, of this city.
Come to this dwelling of the dead,
Thou wand'rer of a day!
Kneel at the threshold of thy home,
And bid thy spirit pray.
Come, while around thee thou canst foL'
The fading robes of life,
And find a place to lay them by —
When worn with dust and strife.
Come from the busy, changeful world,
And leave thy sorrows there,
^Tis meet that thou should'st steal awhilt
Prom turmoil and from care.

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The tender voice of mother earth.
Her child will welcome here,
She hath a lesson for thy heart.
And music for thy ear.
These forest trees, whose boughs go forth
To meet their native sky.
Will lead thy wayward thoughts afar —
To fairer scenes on high.
The flowers that blossom at their feet,
And wither in their blooih.
Will teach the story thou may'st tell,
While treading to the tomb.
The stream that softly wanders through
This place of holy rest,
And holds a gentle freight of leaves
Upon its placid breast,
May whisper of the stream that flows.
Far iu the purer clime»
And bears upon its healing waves.
The weary sons of time.
And here, amid these solemn shades,
The moss and -ivy creep,
And mark the spot where, all unwept.
Thy Indian brothers sleep,

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And thou wilt feel that all are dust,
And all must pass away ;
One Father loves' and watches too,
The children of the clay.
Then followed reading of Scripture, by the
Eev. G. W. Hosmer, and a prayer, by the Eev.
Dr. Shelton.
The Choir then sung the following Poem, by
Mr. Asher P. Nichols:
When Angels, at Bethesda's pool,
Troubled, each day, the waters cool.
All maladies were healed;
To impotence, came strength enhanced —
The halt leaped forth — sweet visions glanced
On orbs in darkness sealed.
Oh Death! Bethesda, where the clay.
And cares of earth are washed away,
The fettered soul set free; —
Set free, to mount and soar, and sing
In rapture, on the buoyant wing
Of immortality —
Thy Treasure-House but holds the dust
Of those we loved, in sacred trust.
The spirit rests not here.

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Thou shalt not keep them! Glorified,
These forms shall rise, and side by side,
Shall fill a holier sphere.
Here morn's fresh breath and golden beams,
And evening's hush, and murm'ring streams.
Their loving watch shall keep;
And Angels, passing to and fro.
Shall pause, and bless this earth below —
The dust of those who sleep.
Then let us, Death! upon thy bowers.
Strew fairest, forest leaves and flowers,
That kindly hands may cull ;
Bid shapes of dread all flee away —
To life, oh Grave ! thou art the Way,
The Gate, called Beautiful!
Mr. Guy H, Salisbury then read the following
Ode, written by him for the occasion :
We consecrate to Death
This Forest-Altar — hence to be
The place of Graves. We yield to thee.
Oh Shadowy Power! this fair domain;
We give thee Wood, and Hill, and Plain,
To gtJier here thy pale array,
The Yanquished of Life's battle-day!

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No more the golden grain
Above these fields shall broadly wave.
But greenly o'er the grassy grave.
The mantling turf shall -wrap the deep
Undreaming sleep
Of thousands, who from Life's unrest,
ShaU seek Earth's sheltering breast —
A refuge blest!
Yet not, oh. Death ! to thee,
As the Grim Monster, and Chimera dread,
Of horrid shape, give we our dead —
<jrive we this consecrated ground.
With Nature's garlands crowned —
Not as the Fleshless Skeleton
All shuddering look upon,
With fearful scythe, and glass of doom —
The Spectral Terror of the Tomb!
Eather, oh, Death! art thou ;
The Weeping Angel, with sad brow.
And drooping torch — -whose tearful eye
Is filled with kindly sympathy
For human woe — whose dark, soft wing
O'er Life's last hour is hoyering.
In pity sent to break the chain
That binds the sufferer unto pain!

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Death! Sleep! of Mercy born —
Ye minister alike to all —
In Peasant's cot and Monarch's hall,
, Ye softly seal the weeping eye.
Ye hush pale Sorrow's anguished sigh.
Ye soothe the wildly-throbbing brain.
Ye dull the quick, sharp sting of pain,
Ye "Knit the ravelled sleeve of care,"
Ye solace even dark Despair!
Twin brothers ye ! though mortal eye
But sees Life's mightiest enemy
In Death, the Weeper! — yet is given
Through him alone, the hope of Heaven !
Thou dark-winged Angel! unto thee
We yield this Woodland shrine —
Sacred to thee and thine!
Here shalt thou, from the World apart,
Gently lay the care-crushed heart —
Aching breast that heaves no more.
Life's wild, "fitful fever" o'er,—
Gnilelesa Infant, blest of God,
Pillowed 'neath the flowery sod —
Beauty's radiant, sylph-like form.
Late with thrilling passions warm —
Manhood's port of dauntless pride.
And withered age — here, aide by side,

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To rest within their narrow bed
TiU trembling Earth gives up its deads
Hither, "Heavy-laden!" come —
To the weary wanderer's home !
As flies the arrow-stricken deer
To thickest shades, so mayst thou here
Find welcome rest: the ceaseless roar
Of warring crowds, shall vex no more
Thy tortured ear: — Ye crave.
E'en from the pitying Grave,
That sweet Forgetfulness that brings
Peace on its healing wingS !
Mourner ! bowed with woe,
That passeth tears and outward show,
Frequent to this calm retreat.
Wilt thou turn thy pilgrim feet.
With nature's self that grief to share,
The lonely heart doth deepest bear:
Love, as strong as Death, shall keep
Yigils where the lovely sleep —
Hope doth watch above the tomb,
Broken Hearted! hither come!
Worldling! 'mid thy giddy round,
From all that tempts, corrupts thee there —
Ambition's lures, false Fashion's glare.

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From lust of Wealth, and schemes of Pride».
One brief hour turn aside —
And, hearts subdued, with thoughtful eye.
Here learn how soon Life's vanity
ShaU cease its mockings — teach thy soul
To win a worthier goal —
And on Death's solemn Threshold see
Glimpses of Immortality!
Peace to this Place of Eest!
'Tis common earth no longer now.
The gleaning sickle, and the laboring plow
Here cease their toil — for holy grounds
Are Gardens of the Grave — the bounds
'Twixt Life and Death — the awful "bourne
From whence no traveler doth return,"
Is peopled with dim mysteries —
The Spirit-Eealm around us lies!
. Peace to these Shades! these hills and Dell*,
Where silence, like a Presence, dwells!
Eest to the Sleeping Dead !
The billows of the stormy World
Urge their frail barques no more
To bleak Oblivion's shore.
Where Empire's shattered wrecks are hurled— ¦
They tranquil lie, moored in strange rest,
Upon the Dead Sea's waveless breast.

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Worn voyagers! burdened with life's woes,
BattUng long with countless foes.
Seek ye, at the conflict's close,
Eepose — Eepose !
The Hon. G. W. Clinton delivered the following
Address :
The formal dedication of our new Cemetery,
my friends, may well inspire mingled emotions
of mournful solemnity and chastened joy. It is-
an occasion favoring individual meditation, and
religious musing, rather than promising profit from
a lay discourse. I feel that this beauteous scene
is hallowed. It is already consecrated by twa
graves, marking the indiscriminate destructiveness
of insatiate Death. Here, "after life's fitful fever,"
a man reposes from the vicissitudes of a long and
troubled being, and "sleeps well" — and here, too," a
tender child — an opening bud, which was withered,.
and exhaled its perfume untimeously to heaven —
is passing into dust : and the wide interval between
these, its first tenants, will soon be filled, and this
City of the Dead grow populous from the ranks of

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those who toil, enjoy, and suffer in the neighbor
City of the Living. Truly this is holy ground,
and it becomes us reverently to put off our shoes
as we approach it, and to stand upon it in all
humility as we devote it to the dead forever.
In the judgment of unfeeling reason, it may be
indifferent what treatment the living render unto
the dead. " Can storied urn and animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust.
Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?"
True, indeed, it is, that it matters nothing to
the insensate body, bereft of spirit, whether it is
mourned over and bewailed, and then reluctantly
committed with sad funeral rites to the bosom of
the earth, or thrown carelessly aside to be devoured
by dogs, or thrust upon a dung-hill. It may be
true, that the immortal spirit can feel no sympathy
with its deserted tabernacle — that the soul feels
not any insult or indignity the corpse may suffer,
and is touched not by any honors that are paid

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to it. But, thank God! men are in these, as in all
high and holy things, governed by a loftier reason
than that which rests in mere material knowledge
or in logic — by that instinctive reason, incorporate
¦with our being, which we call sentiment — which
subserves higher interests, and leads to purer joys
than any the mere utilitarian consults, or aims at,
in his barren speculations. Grant that the mournful
tribute we pay to the corpse of one who has left us
sorrowing is naught to it, and that the enfranchised
soul as it soars upward into immensity of being, qasts
not a look behind; yet the paying of that tribute
abates the edge of anguish, strengthens us for life's
battle, encourages us to heavenly contemplation,
and tends to prepare us to submit with hopeful
resignation unto death. What, we ask with awe, is
the adoration we poor worms pay to our Maker, to
Him! How can the withholding of it detract from
His infinity! But, were we to deny that worship,
how infinite our loss! It is good to mourn — and
mourning and reverence for the dead, commanded
by nature, are instruments of blessing to the living.
The soul, as it wings its way from earth, like Elijah

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when he went up by a whirlwind into heaven, dropa
a mantle, with which, if we will but use it rightly^
we may smite the Jordan, and divide its waters
and go safely over,
'Through the dear might of Him who walked the waves."
Death is a mystery that six thousand years have
shed no light on. Faith may blunt its sting, but can
not divest it of its awfulness. When it first invades
a family, and strikes down a victim, the bereaved
hang over the body, with the same astonishment
and anguish that agitated our first parents, when
they drooped over murdered Abel. Divme religion
is not stoical. It is best felt when it encourages
us to weep, and sheds its balm upon our wounded
souls, and teaches us to mourn as those should mourn
who have hope beyond the grave. That philosophy
which would lead us to regard the dead as alien
to us, and to treat them as mere clods of the
valley, is as false and powerless as that which
would repress the young mother's tears, as she
bends over her first-born, but yesterday so full of
life, and now, "so coldly sweet, so deadly fair."'

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Such stoicism is not merely irreligious — it is brutal
and inhuman — it is worse than brutal, for even
dumb animals mourn for their young, and linger
around their bodies. It is impossible; or consists
only with devilish despair, or mere barbarity. The
tiger eschews it; the cold-blooded snake is too
warm to exemplify it; and it can reign only in such
living things as have no heart, and no sensorium.
In all time, in every corner of the world, the great
truth has been manifest, that "man was made
to mourn." The most ancient of human records
concurs with all history, to corroborate our own
experience of this truth. And yet it is but a
necessary corollary from the prior truth, that man
was made to love. Human love — the love of
kindred, of friendship, of the sexes — reigns every
where, and everywhere Death enters, and scarce
one of his fell darts has ever failed to bring woe
to others than its immediate victims. The voice of
lamentation for the dead has been perpetually
ascending from the earth since the destroyer gained;
admission to it through sin, and it will continue
to ascend forever until Death himself is slain by
the Eedeemer. /

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Man is "half dust, half deity," and the body
is -the temple of the soul. Apart from love, this
temple, when deserted by its divinity, has always
•been regarded with a religious feeling,' except,
perchance, here and there, in the darkest corners
of the earth, by a few tribes, who were so degraded
.as to make civilized man question their humanity,
or to serve as the semblance of an argument for
that atheistical skepticism, which contended that
our race is but a material improvement upon,
or higher condition of the brute, and altogether
-earthy — that the organization of the Caucasian is
but a little superior to that of the African — "God's
image cut in ebony" — the African's but a remove
above that of the Boothian, and so would trace
us, by regular downward steps, through the Terra
del Fuegians, the Shoshonic digger, and the Aus
tralasian, to the great Ape, or the Man of the
Woods, and prove us to be merely a more cunning
composition of dust, elaborated by a something it
calls Chance, or Nature. How strange — that man
can so delude himself as to claim honor from
mortahty, for proving it a thing of ashes, and not

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a phoenix! or to imagine that, with all the proof*,
we have of immortality, and all the wonders of
creation and sublimities of revelation spread before
us, the Christian's Deity can be dethroned by
the attribution of his mighty works to Chance or
Nature! — as though Chance, or Nature, could
mould, and animate, and sustain the world, and
govern it as it has been and is governed, and not
corroborate the revelation deigned to us, and be,,
in all essential attributes, a God — the God of
Abraham, the God of Israel, our God!
But, to return. With the few barbarous
exceptions I have indicated, the corpse of man
has alw^ays been regarded as sacred, and the living
have put it out of sight with sad solemnities, and
funeral celebrations, varying ever with the climate^
with local circumstances, and with religious tenets..
Even in the rare cases where apparent indignity
awaited upon death, there was, perchance, some
superstitious reason which purged offense and
made it consistent with love and veneration for
the departed. Fire was the Persian's God, or
emblem of divinity; and he feared to pollute it by

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,the burning of the dead, so common in all but the
very earliest ages, and so prevalent in neighboring
countries! But we would greatly err, if we attrib
uted to him irreverence, in placing corpses in
buildings open at the top, to the end that the
birds might aid corruption. He had for this
some warrant in his creed; and even murder and
cannibalism, extended by the Terra del Fuegian
to friends and kindred, when old age withers
and famine gnaws them, may be so founded.
The poor Indian, who exposes the dead warrior in
a canoe upon some hill-top by the Columbia, pleads
affection and religion; for he believes that the dead
will wake to life again, and wishes him, at the
instant of his rising, to see the salmon crowding
the waters of the renovated river. In short, the
doctrine of man's immortality, once universal,
has been utterly lost by few, if any, of the
¦offshoots of the great human family, however
benighted; and, wherever the least trace of it
exists, no matter how deformed it may be by
superstition and priestly folly, it combines with
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the dead. Brutes, perforce, leave their dead to be
preyed upon by carrion birds, and beasts, and
insects, and to rot just as they fall; but man
everywhere throughout the world,— if to bury
be, as lexicographers assert, "to put into a place
of protection, safety, or defense" — so far bury theirs
as to shield them from everything by them regarded
as peril, or as insult.
In ancient times, and apparently among all
nations, this religious feeling was so strong, that
to be deprived of burial, or the funeral rites, was
regarded as a great calamity, or as a punishment
due only to atrocious malefactors. The entrance
to Elysium was closed against the unburied Greek
and Eoman, and their ghastly shades were com
pelled to wander and suffer for a century by the
sullen Styx. Where Christianity has not mitigated
the ferocity of human nature, hatred has pursued
its victims beyond death, and found pleasure in
mano-lin^j: and insultino; their remains. Homer's
Achilles was intended as the protrait of a hero;
and yet Achilles is represented as dragging, by
the heels, dead Hector, around the walls of Troy,"

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and as yielding the corpse for burial, only upor»
entreaty, such as might have drawn "iron tears.-
down Plato's cheek." Even in Jewish history-
there are, in this particular, sad proofs of the
malignity of the human heart. Even now, in
some countries called Christian, criminals, after-
suffering the extreme penalty of the law, are-
gibbeted in irons, or mangled and exposed to
moulder in the public gaze. We need not go
far back in history to find men called Christians,.
in the name of Christ, wreaking a posthumous
vengeance. Surely men, when they forget charity,
may become demons! Perhaps, in the insanity
of intolerance, burning was resorted to as a
punishment of heretics, not merely because
it inflicted the most exquisite and prolonged
tortures, and was an apt type of the eternal
flames, but because it more completely dispersed
the body, and enabled the executioner to trample
upon its ashes. According to Fuller, " The corpse-
of John Wickliffe had quietly slept in his grave
about forty-one years after his death, till his bodyr
was reduced to bones, and his bones almost to dust,"

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when the council of Constance "cursed his memory
and ordered that his bones be taken out of the
ground, and thrown far oft' from any Christian
burial." "They come, summer, commissary, official,.
chancellor, proctors, doctors, and their servants,
(so that the remnant of the body would not hold
out a bone among so many hands,) take what was
left out of the grave, and burn them to ashes, and
cast them into Swift, a neighboring brook running
hard by." •••Thus" adds the exulting history, "this
brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avou
into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, then into
the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wickliffe
are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is
dispersed all the world over." I fear me to inquire
whether Protestantism, in the fierce contentions of
the Eeformation, assumed not also, at times, a
persecuting spirit — whether it did not sometimes
bear the sword, and light the fagot — whether its
professors were altogether guiltless of such horrible
atrocities committed upon the living, and of such
sacrilegious crimes against the dead. Cromwell was^
exhumed, and hatred, that was overborne in life.

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spent itself idly upon his bones. These shocking
excesses of fanaticism, whether religious or political,
may have been the result of policy, rather than the
fruits of vengeance; but either position places in
the clearest light the fact,- that, in the judgment of
those times, as in our own — in the hearts of the
men of those days, as in our hearts — a tranquil
grave was precious.
Meaner motives than love and pity have some
times contributed to this universal disposition to
honor and protect the dead. The remnants of
humanity might be put to fatal and unholy uses.
The witch and sorcerer were supposed to draw
from them most potent materials for spells and
incantations, by which they controlled the course
of nature, caused individuals to pine and waste
away, and played their cantraps and did the
pettiest mischief Then, again, perturbed spirits
had power, and roamed abroad at night, to punish
those who had wronged them living ; they guarded
their own tombs, and avenged with supernatural
visitations, the violated quiet of their graves.
But away with all such superstitions! It is

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-enough for us to know that human love extends
beyond the grave, and concurs with natural piety
to demand respectful treatment of the dead; — that
it requires that the corpse, so lately animated by
that "which bore the likeness of divinity, should be
committed to the tomb, before "Decay's effacing
fingers" have swept away the last lingering traces
of nobility — that the grave should be kept inviolate,
at least until corruption has done its perfect work,
and dust is rendered undistinguishably to dust.
Corruption must come. It is not desirable, if it
were possible, to avert it; but it should ravage in
darkness and concealment, so that man may not
become in death an object of disgust to, or offend
the senses of his fellow-men, — so that our last
recollections of the dead may be pleasurably
solemn, and have no "touch of horror.
The doom of the body, "Dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return," is just. Every
portion of it is draAvn from material nature, and
it is ever changing. We are constantly laying
aside old, and drawing new matter into our frames,
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down the last one only in the grave. God gives
the body as a tabernacle for the spirit, and when
He recalls that spirit, nature, that power which
draws all things to herself, will resume, through
corruption, the else useless atoms, and take them
into her vast laboratory, and work them into new
shapes of beauty and utility. The instant life
terminates decay commences, and the opposing
constituents of the animal, which were harmonized
and held together by life, contend and separate.
Art can not keep them in their old union. It may
as well undertake to move Mount Atlas. Of our
composition, about twelve-thirteenths, by weight,
are liquid, and, when the remaining matter, re
soluble into air by heat or time, has vanished,
the earthy residuum is but a few poor handfuls.
Charcoal — the skeleton of plants — when imbedded
in the earth, seems indestructible ; but our skeletons
soon fall asunder, and waste away, and vanish in
the soil. Eternity is not for this body, and its
dissolution can not endanger the formation of that
spiritual body which will clothe the soul in bliss.
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perpetuate it. Their utmost skill sufficed only to
preserve a shrunken, discolored, unsatisfying , re
semblance of the huihan form, defective in all
likeness, majesty, and beauty. In their processes
the essential organic moisture was dissipated, and
they removed the brain and more perishable organs,
so that, in fact^ the most perfect mummy presents.
us with even less of the last dust of the body than
the sarcophagus, without the embalming, would
have retained. Unaided nature, for some reason,
and by some process we do not understand, often
outstrips, in this, Egyptian skill. Coffins which
have been entombed for centuries, when opened,
have disclosed bodies perfect in form, and in all the
freshness of recent death ; but, they were but insub
stantial images of corpses, and soon crumbled in
the air into the dust they were. Indeed, the quick
decay of the body is so natural, that superstition
has brought strange charges against the dead in
whom it was wanting. Nations, remote from each
other, have beheved in vampires — that demons
sometimes take possession of and preserve dead
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night to suck out the lives of men: and, upon such
suspicions, corpses that decayed not fast enough
have been exhumed, staked through the heart, and
burned, and their ashes given to the wind, in
Christian Europe, not centuries ago. In this age,
then, we strive not to preserve the frail carcass
from corruption. We cheerfully consent that it
should sink to ashes, in the firm faith that so
much of it, if any, as shall be necessary to that
mysterious reunion of the soul and body which
makes the resurrection, will be conserved by God.
" Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and
pompous in the grave." But how far avail posthu
mous splendor and funeral pomp ? A name may be
perpetuated through time, but monuments can not.
The moralist may ask, what is long-enduring fame to
the departed 1 Is Lazarus more happy in Abraham's
bosom, or Dives less miserable in Hades, because
their story is written where it must be read until
the last trump sounds 1 But be this as it may, vain
hitherto have been all efforts to secure a permanent
record of the last resting-places of the great ones
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nothing outward tells of human clay." Dispersed
over three continents at least, are "high barrows,.
without marble or a name." Of these, some,
probably, were erected over heroes, conquerors, and
kings, who fondly trusted to tradition to preserve
their fame and point out their tumuli ; and now,
antiquarians delve for the miserable remnants of
their bones, and wonder what people heaped up
these hills. The river which, by Attila's command,
was turned from its course to whelm his tomb,
scarcely hastened the oblivion which was sure to
cover it. Brass, and marble, and porphyry, and
granite, have been invoked in vain to be perpetual
witnesses. Where are all the monuments of old
antiquity ? How many known graves are there in
Europe, which were dug a thousand years, or even
five centuries ago? Where is the stone that Jacob
set up for a pillar in Luz? — or the two stone tables
of the lawl — or the great stone which Joshua set
up "in Shechem, under the oak that was by the
sanctuary of the Lord, as a witness unto the people,
lest theV should deny their God?" Who can point
out the field, and the cave in Macphelah, where

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Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Eebekah, Jacob
and Leah, that most illustrious congregation of the
dead, were buried; or assure us of the safety of their
ashes'? That which is shown at Jerusalem, as the
sepulcher in which Christ's body rested, is apocry
phal. If such sacred monuments have perished,
or are forgotten, what duration, or remembrance,
can be hoped for, or desired, for the memorials of
ordinary events or worth?
Time eats into the massy monuments, and
obliterates the inscriptions of vanity and pride —
the sea invades the land, and swallows them —
storms uproot or dash them down — the solid earth
shakes, and they crumble. If nature spares them,
man intervenes for their destruction. In the fury
of revolution, and of conquest, he breaks them to
fragments — he tears off the cerements and scatters
the ashes of long buried kings. In his inquisitive-
ness and lust of gain, he pries into tombs, despoils
them, and traffics in their ornament and dust. In
the mutations of empire, history is perverted or
becomes oblivious, and languages are lost, and
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become dumb and undecipherable. The pyramids
would seem to have secured, so far as human art
and massive structures could, repose and the remem
brance of mankind co-enduring with the earth, for
the kings for whom they were upreared on their
huge bases. But how long was it after their erection
¦ere their history perished, and faithless tradition
forgot them utterly? And now, after a long obliv
ion that antiquarians, with great labor, read imper
fectly their fading epitaphs, where are these kings ?
It was truly said long ago, "Mummy has become
merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh
IS sold for balsams." Truly, it was well said by
Sir Thomas Browne, "Oblivion is not to be hired.
The greater part must be content to be as though
they had not been — to be found in the register of
God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven
names make up the first story," — are all that are
recorded in the world's history, from the creation
to the flood. With this sentence we are content.
We aim not to secure, against all chances, a resting-
place forever, and an unfading memory of it. We
.ask but rest for our bones until they're crumbled —
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an undisturbed possession of a befitting grave^
until all who may hallow our memory, and wish
to visit it, are gone., Then let the gravestone-
fall, the monument disappear, and the vacant space
they guarded be again devoted to the uses of
living man.
Funeral obsequies, have been differently cele
brated by different nations, but cremation and inhu
mation have been the common modes. Burning
prevailed among the Greeks and Eomans, though
they sometimes buried without it. It had these-
ad vantages in the eye of reason — that it did at
once the work of slow corruption, and rendered the
dead innocuous to the living, while the ashes and
relics of combustion could be religiously collected^
inclosed in urns, and buried in the earth. Still, in our
view, it seems to violate the body, by anticipating
the course of nature. Burial, or direct interment,
is the more ancient, and always was the more
extended custom; it leaves the corpse unviolated,
to dissolve under the gentler operation qf the natu
ral laws controlling it; above all, our Saviour, when
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have always recognized it as the Christian mode of
disposing of the lifeless body.
We owe a large debt of gratitude to those who
have preceded and may precede us to the grave,
and we hope that those who may perform our
obsequies will recognize a similar debt to us. How
and where shall we bury our dead? — how and
where would we wish to be buried ? We love to
testify, when death has bereft us of our loved ones,
our sense of our bereavement — our estimation of
their value in life — the fervor and tenacity of our
affection — the bitterness of our grief, grieve though
we may with hope. We rejoice that our separation
is but for a season, and, with the natural belief that
the spirit rejoins the body at the place of interment,
we desire that our ashes should be laid by theirs —
that we may be placed "in the sacred storehouse
of our predecessors" — that our children may sleep
around us — that we may be surrounded by our
friends and kindred. We would do great things
for the dear dead. Shall we content ourselves with.
a grassy mound, a heap of stones, or a rude cross,
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38 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.
plea that our affection will distinguish the grave;
or be satisfied with putting at the head a simple
stone to point out the spot, and so preserve, for
absent friends, an indication of it — and say that
aught more is waste and folly? Human nature is
not so satisfied, and never has been so satisfied.
Laws were never necessary to compel decent burial,
or to enforce funeral mementoes; but laws have
been made to restrain the extravagant expenditures
of grief upon the dead. Let Nature, then, have
way, and pile up the monumental marble, and
beautify the grave! Indulge the full luxury of
grief, and begrudge not to the dead all fitting
memorials of their virtues and your love. It is
well that the world should have accumulated and
enduring proofs of undying reverence for the dead ;
and that piety which pursues them, and hallows
their memories, however extravagant, brings holy
lessons. Surely we would not, with Plato, banish the
dead to the most barren lands; nor would we pen
them within the city's bounds. The ancients,
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the dead, forbade intramural interments, and spe
cially permitted interments within the walls as a
rare honor. It is too true, that a crowded burial-
place in the heart of a large town is very apt to*
become a nuisance, dangerous to the public health ;
while, in the free air of the country, and with the
liberal space allotted for burial in rural cemeteries,
there can be no accumulation of noxious vapors.
We ask for our tombs some permanency; but how
long will they securely stand, in the center of a
crowdedj and busy, and ever-shifting population,
now shaken by the fear of pestilence, and now
fevered by the rage for alteration and improvement ?
Alas! in other cities, graveyards have been too
frequently torn up to make way for streets and
houses, and mouldering bones and ashes have been
sold, by the cartload, for the meanest uses.
We have a graveyard in the city, nearly full.
One would think a glance at it would dispose
forever of all question on this subject. It is a
square, green place, inclosed by a brick wall, and
hemmed in by houses that look down upon it.
Its walls are well cared for, but it seems to receive

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no tendance; and it is too open and exposed to
be resorted to by the shy mourner. But one tree
grows upon it — an unthrifty oak, cleft, and wide-
gaping below, and hollow beyond the heart.
Cattle poach upon it, and you will find there,
rotting railings, broken monuments, and falling
and tottering headstones. It has no beauty, and
seems an unwelcome intruder in the thickening
haunts of men, who are, or soon will be, anxious
to get rid of it, as a deformity. And yet, there
sleep, among the many nameless dead, some who
were dearly loved, and are now sacredly remem
bered — some who were bright examples in their
generation, the odor of whose sanctity is yet fresh
on earth — and some brave men who died in battle
for their country. Would that the sacred relics
it embosoms could forthwith be disinterred, and
reverently removed to some secure and fitting
resting-place; for it is too evident that, long before
another generation shall have passed away, it
will be a mass of hideous desolation, if it be
not unholily uprooted.
The dead are entitled to pleasant possessions,

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and to the friendly visitations of the living. When
Abraham stood up from before his dead, and
acquired a burying-place, he had assured to him,
not only the field of Ephron, and the cave which
was therein, "but all the trees that were in the
fields, that were in all the borders round about."
The Hebrews seem to have been particularly
wedded to rural burial. But the love of nature,
and the desire to lie, in death, in the pleasant
scenes we loved in life, seem almost universal.
Christ was buried in a garden; and surely the
Christian should desire that the grave should be
stripped of the terrors with which superstition
would encompass it — that the place of graves
should be made attractive, so that the great
lessons it teaches may be more widely taught,
and take a deeper root.
We can not but desire all pleasant things to
surround our lost ones. Not for them should be
"The churchyard's lonely mound.
Where melancholy with stiU silence reigns.
And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground"

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When memory recalls a buried friend, our first
wish is, " Green be the grass above thee." Mindful
of the resurrection, in our climate annually typified
by Nature, we would place our dear ones to slumber
among the flowers, by the running streams, on
the hill-sides, among the monumental oaks, where
the birds build their nests and sing, the zephyrs-
play, and all is peaceful beauty: We would that
the first "roses of the year" should shed their
fraarance over their tombs — that winter's snowr
should lie lightly on them, and that returning
spring should "deck their hallowed mould" with
a fresher, and a sweeter sod, than Fancy's foot
has ever trod."
The proprietors of this most beautiful domain
have sought to gratify these most natural and
laudable feelings, and to supply what was, till
now, in truth, the prominent deficiency of Buffalo.
For one, from the bottom of my soul, I thank
them. Here, in these "arched walks of twilight
groves, and shadows brown,"
"The rude ax, with heaved stroke,
Will ne'er be heard;"

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But the dead will repose in solemn quietude and
safety. There is, too, in the lawn above us, the
rich fields, and the waving woods, a variety that
can never stale, and Taste has full scope and
ample room to gratify Affection's every wish. I
can not assert that more beautiful grounds have-
nowhere been devoted to such sacred purposes r
but will you not justify me in saying, that there
could not be, in the vicinity of Buffalo, a more
appropriate and precious offering to them, than,
this Forest Lawn.
May it be ever sacred! For here, "the weary will
be at rest, and the wicked cease from troubling."^
Here grief will experience comfort, and the wounded
soul find balm. Here careless sleepers will wake-
from holy dreams, exclaiming, "Surely, the Lord is
in this place." May it be to them, to us, to all,,
"none other than the house of God," and prove
"The Gate of Heaven!"
In the name, and at the request of the propri
etors, with your concurrence, in the presence of
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reverently sever this stream, these groves, aud
gently swelling knolls, these ample fields, that
smiling upland, and the deep-seated, rocky Uidge
that skirts it, from all ordinary uses, and dedicate
and devote them to the dead, forever.
After the Address, the choir sang the following
Hymn, by Eev. Dr. John C. Lord:
Place for the dead! —
Not in the noisy City's crowd and glare.
By heated walls and dusty streets, but where
The balmy breath of the free summer air
Moves murmuring softly o'er the new-made grave,
Rustling among the boughs which wave
Above the dwellers there.
Rest for the dead —
Far, far from the turmoil and strife of trade.
Let the broken house of the soul be laid.
Where the violets blossom in the shade.
And the voices of Nature do softly fall
Over the silent sleepers all — I
Where rural graves are made.

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Room for the dead —
Away from the crowded and ghastly caves,
Where the dead lie heap'd and thick strewn graves
Do jostle each other like following waves —
In the place where earth's broad bosom yields.
Room for the dead, in woods and fields,
Which dying nature craves.
Place for the dead —
In the quiet glen where the wild vines creep,
And the desolate mourner may wait and weep,
In some silent place, o'er the loved who sleep ;
Nor sights, nor sounds profane, disturb their moan —
With God and with the dead alone —
" Deep calleth unto deep."
Eest for the dead —
Away from all walls — where the wUd bird singa.
And the hurrying cloud its shadow fiings
O'er streamlet and rock, where the ivy cUngs
To the ancient oak — the dead should Ue,
TiU on the ear of death the cry
Of final judgment rings.
Eoom for the dead —
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The beautiful, together soon must throng
The doors of death, and they who mourn, ere long
Must lie with kindred dust, and soon or late.
All pass the ever open gate —
Eoom — Eoom — Oh! give them room!

The whole was concluded with a Benediction^
by Eev. Prof Seager.

HISTORICAL DETAIL.

Difficulties to be Overcome— First Bdrial— Progress and
Growth. Previous to the dedication of these Grounds, a
number of the avenues were laid out, partially made,
some portion of the same graded and surveyed into
Lots for burial purposes; but no person seemed
disposed to purchase "a possession for a burial-
place," and the prospects of converting them into
a home for the dead were anything but flattering.
Many stalwart obstacles arose, and public sentiment
was decidedly unfavorable to the location of a
Cemetery so far from the city, and the success of
the enterprise was regarded as very doubtful.
While Mr. Clarke, the projector of the Cemetery,
and who planned and directed all the improve
ments, was exerting himself to the utmost to
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many of his personal friends cheered him in the
prosecution of his favorite scheme, by expressing
their admiration for his energy and enterprise,
and their sincere sympathy in case of a failure,
which appeared self-evident. The Grounds, they
said, were becoming beautiful, as the improvements-
progressed; but who would bury their dead in that
lonely place? Aud it did certainly appear doubtful
for a time whether any person would procure a.
burial-place there.
But while doubt and uncertainty hung over the
undertaking, an old and highly respected citizen
was removed by death. In his lifetime, he was
a generous, noble-hearted man. Affluence had
rewarded his labors, and he was regarded as
among the fortunate few who are above want.
But the terrible reverses of 1836 swept away the-
accumulations of former years. Before he died,
he visited "the new Cemetery," approved the plan
of establishing a burial-place in a quiet rural
spot, far away from the noise and tumult of a
great city.
He admired the Grounds, and pointed out a

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knoll, which he thought ''appropriate and pleasant
to sleep in, when the trials of life should he ended."
After his decease, the proprietor tendered his family
a Lot on the knoll which he had indicated. One
summer afternoon, a funeral train entered the
Grounds for the first time. It paused at the
entrance. A procession was formed under the
skillful charge of him who has laid to rest so many
thousands. It moved slowly up the hiU, preceded
by the Eev. Dr. Shelton, who read the burial
service. The grave was reached — around it was
gathered a weeping family, and a large number
of old friends, who came to perform the last offices
of friendship and affection for the departed. As
the sun went down, the grave closed forever over
the remains of -John Lay, Jr. Forest Lawn had
an occupant, and the place became dear to a
bereaved family. This was the commencement of
the peopling of a "city of slumbering mutes."
Those who accompanied their old friend to
the grave, were favorably impressed with the
appearance of the Grounds, and their pecuhar
adaptation for a burial-place for the dead.

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Dr. Shelton, as he stood near the newly-made
grave, surveying the Grounds, and seeing the
improvements that had been made, remarked,
significantly, to a bystander, "What a tide of
grief will be poured forth here." From this time
the sale of Lots commenced, and Forest Lawn
began to reckon up its silent census. Some fourteen
hundred of our inhabitants now rest in Forest
Lawn beside those that were removed from the
old burial grounds in the city. This fact is
significant, as it shows the change in public
sentiment, and demonstrates the influence which
the beauty and appropriateness of Forest Lawn
have finally exerted.
Although comparatively new, this cemetery will
not suffer in contrast with any of its class or age,
and is, in fact, superior to many. Great changes
and improvements are taking place. The older Lots
are improved, and many of them highly embellished ;
new ones, of circular, square, triangular, and various
other forms, are laid out, unsymmetrical knolls
rendered fair in their proportions, artificial stairs
made up the side hills, and beautiful walks and

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paths running in all directions. Some novel designs
have been perfected in regard to the improvement
of portions of the Grounds yet rough and uncouth:
and when they are all laid out, improved, beautified,
and adorned with fences, monuments, and every
thing which art and affection can create, they will
be all that can be desired as a final abode for the
dead. The Lots which are now being laid out and
improved embrace some of the most eligible portions
of the Grounds, and selections can be made on the
beautiful and picturesque knolls in the groves, which
will accommodate families, or groups of families, as
numerous as desirable.

IMPEOVEMENTS.
About eight hundred Lots have been graded
and improved in a manner beautiful and most
appropriate for burial purposes. In the grading
of the Grounds, special care has been taken to
preserve their original appearance as far as possible.
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Scarcely any ridge or knoll has been lowered
materially in grading. The portions which were
lacking in fullness of grade have been filled, so as
to give them a beautiful and symmetrical form,
and adapt them to the uses for which they were
intended. It has been the design, in laying out
the avenues, to run them through the ravines and
most depressed portions of the Grounds, so as to
give them the greatest appearance of variety and
picturesqueness possible.

EXPENDITUEES.
About twenty-four thousand dollars have been
expended in improving the Grounds, including
fencing, erection of buildings, receiving vault, and
the construction of a macadamized road leading
from Delaware Avenue into the Cemetery.
The amount expended by private individuals
in adorning their Lots can not be computed with
any degree of certainty, but is very large, taking
into consideration the short period that has elapsed
since the Grounds were laid out. Already many

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very costly monuments have been erected, which,
for beauty and variety, will compare favorably
with those in many older cemeteries.

OEGANIZATION OF
FOREST LAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
This Association was organized on the ninth
day of February, 1855, under the "Act Authorizing;
the Incorporation of Eural Cemetery Associations,,
passed April 27, 1847," by the election of Orlando
Allen, Stephen V. E. Watson, Myron P. Bush,
Lewis Eaton, Warren Granger, Isaac F. Bryant,
^muel Eandel, .Jesse Eandel, and Charles E.
*^^ke. Trustees. At the first meeting of the
£^stees, Charles E. Clarke was elected President
of the Board of Trustees, Lewis Eaton, Vice
President, and Jesse Eandel, Secretary and
Treasurer. The object of the organization was;
to invest the Board of Trustees with the title to
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control of a corporation legally constituted by
the laws of the state.
The Association applied to the legislature for
the passage of an act authorizing it to purchase
all the unsold lands in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
An act was accordingly passed, April 12, 1855, of
which the following is a copy :
The People of the State of New York, represented
in Senate and Assembly , do enact as follows:
Section 1. This Association may purchase all
the unsold land in Forest Lawn Cemetery, a private
burial ground in the city of Buffalo, and may pay
for such lands, as the purchase price thereof, a
sum not exceeding two-thirds the proceeds of all
sales of Lots or plats hereafter made from such
lands. An account shall be kept of the sales of
Lots or parcels of land in said Cemetery, and, as
often as ouce in six months, the moneys arising
from such sales shall be divided between the original
proprietors and the Association, in the proportions
agreed upon, until the whole of the Grounds
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sold. The portion thereof belonging to the
Association shall be appropriated and applied to
the improvement, embellishment, and protection
of the cemetery Grounds, the avenues leading to
and through the same, to defraying the incidental
expenses of the Cemetery, but to no other purpose
or object. Sectiox. 2. This Association may, from time
to time, add by purchase such other lands to the
present Grounds of Forest Lawn Cemetery, from
the lands adjoining the same, as the Trustees may
deem fit and expedient, not exceeding two hundred
acres in all; but none of the proceeds of sales of
the Grounds included in Forest Lawn Cemetery
shall be applied to the improvement of any of the
lands which may thereafter be added to such
Grounds, other than fencing the same, until all
the Grounds included in Forest Lawn Cemetery
at the time of the passage of this act, shall be
improved in a manner suitable for cemetery and
ornamental purposes, without the consent of the
original owners of Forest Lawn Cemetery Grounds
shall be first had and obtained.

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FOEEST LAWN CEMETEEY.

Section 3. This Association may, from time
to time, invest such surplus moneys as' may arise
from the sale of lands which it may acquire, in
bonds and mortgages, secured on unencumbered
real estate in the county of Erie, at half its value,
cfor the purpose of providing a fund for the
preservation and maintenance of its Grounds.
The value of all real estate on which loans may
be made shall be determined by two disinterested
freeholders residing in said County of Erie.
Section 4. The owners of Lots or plats in
Forest Lawn Cemetery prior to the sale and
transfer of the same to this Association, shall be
entitled to the same rights and privileges, and be
subject to the same rules and regulations, as
purchasers of Lots or plats in the said Cemetery
Grounds after they shall have been transferred to
this Association.
Section 5. This act shall take effect immedi
ately. On the first day of July, 1855, Charles E.
Clarke conveyed all the unsold lands in Forest

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Lawn Cemetery to " The Forest Lawn Cemetery
Association of the city of Buffalo," in trust, for
the uses and purposes of a Cemetery, and for no
other use or, purpose whatever.
This conveyance embraced all the buildings,
receivmg vault, and improvements upon the
Grounds, and they are now under the entire
control of the Association.
One-third of the proceeds of the sales of Lots
subsequent to the first day of July, 1855, with all
the revenue arising from the improvement of private
Lots, the digging of graves, use of receiving vault,
¦etc., are to be apphed to finish the improvement of
the Grounds, avenues, walks, groves, etc., and to
constitute a fund to preserve and keep the Grounds
in order when they shall all have been sold.
Estimating the revenue derived from sales already
made, and comparing these with the expenses of
improvements completed, it is evident that a fund
Avill be created amply sufficient to finish all the
improvements in the most perfect and permanent
manner, and to preserve and keep the Grounds in
order through all time.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

I. All Lots shall be held and used as burial-
places for the Dead, and for no other purpose ; nor
shall any person be allowed to be interred therein
who shaH have been executed for any crime.
II. The proprietor of each Lot shall have a right
to inclose the same with a wall, not exceeding one
foot in height above the surface, or with a railing,
(except of wood;) but the Trustees request that all
such railings be light, neat, and symmetrical.
III. Proprietors shall not allow interments to be
made in their lots for a remuneration; nor shall any
transfer or assignment of any Lot, or any interest
therein, be valid, without the consent, in writing,
of the Association first had and endorsed upon such
transfer or assignment.
IV. No disinterment shall be allowed, without
permission being obtained at the office of the
Association,

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V. The proprietor of each Lot shall have the
right to erect any proper stones, monuments, or
sepulchral structures thereon, except that no slab
shall be set in other than a horizontal position;
that no vault shall be built entirely or partially
above ground, without permission of the Trustees
of the Association; and that all monuments and
.all parts of vaults above ground shall be of cut
stone, granite, marble, or iron. The proprietor of
each Lot shall, also, have the right to cultivate
trees, shrubs, and plants, in the same; but no tree
growing within the Lot, or border, shall be cut
down or destroyed, without the consent of the
Trustees of the Association.
VI. If any trees or shrubs, situated in any Lot,
shall, by means of their roots, branches, or otherwise,
become detrimental to the adjacent lots or avenues,
or unsightly, or inconvenient to passengers, it shall
be the duty of the Association, and they shall
have the right, to enter the said lot, and remove
the said trees and shrubs, or such parts thereof as
are detrimental, unsightly, or inconvenient.
VII. If any mLonument, effigy, or inclosure, or

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any structure whatever, or any inscription be placed
m or upon any Lot, which shall be determined by
the major part of the Trustees of the Association
for the time being, to be offensive and improper, or
injm-ious to the appearance of the surrounding Lots
or Grounds, the said Trustees, or a major part of
them, shall have the right, and it shall be their
duty, to enter upon such Lot, and remove the said
offensive or improper object or objects.
VIII. It shall be the duty of the Board of
Trustees, fi-om time to time, to lay out or alter
such avenues or walks, and to make such rules and
regulations for the government of the Grounds as
they may deem requisite and proper to secure and
promote the general objects of the Institution.
IX. The proprietors of Lots, and their families,
shaU. be allowed access to the Grounds at all times,
observing the rules which are or may be adopted
for the regulation of visitors.

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IMPEOVEMENTS.
To insure the proper regulation of the Grounds,
the grade of all Lots will be determined by the
agents of the Institution.
All workmen employed in the construction of
vaults, inclosing of Lots, erection of monuments,
etc., must be subject to the control and direction
of the agents of the Institution; and any workman
failing to conform to this regulation will not be
permitted, afterward, to work in the Grounds.
To protect the Grounds and for the improvement
of Lots, the Trustees will provide responsible persons
to do all work and labor necessarily required thereon.
Under this arrangement, the work will be done better
and at less expense than otherwise, the labor being
performed by men who are thoroughly acquainted
with their business. Owners of Lots, however, may,
if they prefer to do so, employ other persons, except
for the improvement of Lots and making excavations
for vaults and monuments.
All earth and rubbish accumulated by proprietors

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 62)
of Lots, or their agents, must be carefully removed
as soon as possible, and deposited within the
inclosure, wherever the agents of the Cemetery
may direct.
No wall exceeding one foot in height above the
surface of the ground may be erected upon any
Lot, nor may iron railings be erected exceeding
three feet in height, without special permission
being previously obtained.
Wooden inclosures will not be allowed.
No slabs will be allowed, unless placed in a
horizontal position;* and no head or foot-stones will
be permitted exceeding eighteen inches in height
above the ground.
Tombs erected whoUy or in part above ground,
must be furnished with shelves having divisions,
allowing interments to be separately made, and
perpetually sealed, so as to prevent the escape of
unpleasant effluvia. Such portions as are above
ground must be faced with cut stone, granite,
marble, or iron.
•This shall apply to those already erected.

54 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.
The Trustees have no wish to interfere with the
taste of individuals in regard to the style of their
improvements; but yet, in justice to the interest
of the whole, they reserve to themselves the right
of preventing or removing any erection or inclosure
which they shall consider injurious to the immediate
locaHty, or prejudicial to the good appearance of
the grounds; and also of removing or pruning any^
trees or shrubbery which may obstruct, or mar the
effect and beauty of the scenery, or may otherwise-
prove injurious, unsightly, or detrimental.

INTEEMENTS.

A receiving tomb is provided at the Cemetery,-
for the accommodation of those who intend to
purchase Lots.
I. Before the deposit of any adult body in the
tomb, ten dollars will be required to be paid to
the keeper, or at the office; or if a child under
ten years of age, eight dollars.

*
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 35
II. After deposit, bodies may remain thirty
days; and no body will be allowed to remain for
a longe^' period, unless by special permission first
obtained. III. After the thirty days named as the period
of deposit, all bodies must be removed. If the
removal be made by the company, the body will
be decently interred in the public grounds, and
with all proper care and respect.
IV. If an adult, and removed by friends, eight
dollars will be returned, on application to the
general agent; if the body of a child under ten
years, six doUars will be returned, — two dollars^
in each' case, being retained for the use of, and
opening and closing the tomb; — or the said sum
will be allowed in the purchase of a Lot. At the
time of deposit, the coffins are all numbered, and a
registry made of them, with a view to distinguish
them readily when finally removed, and thus
prevent their being previously disturbed. In this,
as in all arrangements pertaining to interments,
care will be taken to avoid every thing that
might be unpleasant to the feelings of relatives

66 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.
and friends, and to consult, as far as practicable,
their peculiar wishes and views.
These regulations are made, from necessity, —
as the experience of all Cemeteries show, — to
prevent the abuse of the privilege of deposit in
the tomb.
V. The Superintendent of Interments resides,
with his family, at the Cemetery, and will see
that suitable persons are in attendance at every
interment. VI. In each case of burial, a statement, giving
the iianie^- /place jof nativity, residence,', with the
number of the street, ^'e, and ^^isease, of the
person to be interred, and also whether married
oj^junniarried, must be handed to the Superinten
dent of Interments, that fan accurate registry ma^
' be made of the same.
' VII. Whenever interments are to be made,
previous notice should be given at the office of the
Cemetery, or to the Superintendent of Interments,
at the Cemetery, on the day previous to the inter
ment, if possible. The size of the coffin, on the
top, or if in a case, the size of the case, should be

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 67
particularly mentioned. And when interments are
to be made in private Lots the location of the grave
in the Lot should be noted.
PUBLIC LOTS.
Single graves may be had at the following
prices : Adnlts,  . > $8
Children under ten years of age, . . 6
In all cases, the usual charge for opening the
grave is included in the prices named for single
, , graves. Graves purchased in any of the public Lots may
be used for other interments, by paying the usual
cost of opening graves, as hereafter mentioned.
If Lots should afterward be purchased, the full
cost of the graves vacated will be allowed, after
deducting the expenses for originally opening the
graves, and for the disinterment of the remains.
Tickets, admitting a family at all proper times, are
given to all who purchase graves.
VIII. All interments, except those in Public Lots,
5

68 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.
will be subject to the following charges, which, in
all cases, must be paid at the office of the Cemetery,
or to the Superintendent of Interments, at the time
of notice of interment.
OPENING OF GRAVES.
Opening and closing graves for stone boxes, . . $3
Opening and closing all graves of usual depth, . 2
Opening and closing children's graves, usual size, 1.50
Opening each vault or tomb for the purpose of
interment,  1.50
Note. A suggestion to Lot owners, respecting interments
in their plots, may here be of use. It frequently occurs that
messages are sent desiring that graves should be opened adjoining
or near the grave of persons previously interred. Where graves
are not designated by stones, or other-wise, it will be impossible
to comply with the direction thus given, unless some system
designating every grave be adopted. It is recommended, there
fore, that each Lot owner make a drawing of his plot on a blank
page of his deed, and record on it every interment, with name and
date. Upon the occurrence of future interments, let a transcript
of this map, with the place marked where the grave is desired to
be opened, be duly sent. In this way, every difficulty will be
obviated, and an interesting family record will be made and
preserved for future generations.

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 69

VISITOES.
Each proprietor of a Lot will be entitled to a
Ticket of admission into the Cemetery with a vehicle
raider the following regulations, the violation of
which, or a loan of the ticket, involves a forfeiture
of the privilege.
I. No vehicle, or person on foot, will be ad
mitted, unless accompanied by a proprietor, or a
member of his household, with his ticket,^ or unless
presenting a special ticket of admission, obtained
at the office of the Cemetery.
IL Children will not be admitted, unless with
their parents, or with persons havmg them specially
in charge; nor will schools, and other large assem
blies of persons, be admitted.
III. On Sundays and holidays, the gates will
be closed. Proprietors of Lots, however, and
persons accompanying them, will be admitted by
applying to the Porter.
IV. None but Lot owners and their households
will be admitted on horseback; and they only by.

70 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.
obtaining a special ticket of admission at the office
of the Cemetery.
V. No vehicle will be allowed to pass through
the grounds at a rate exceeding four miles the hour.
VI. No person having refreshments of any kind
wiU be permitted to come within the Grounds ; nor
will any smoking be allowed; nor will dogs be
admitted, nor will any person be permitted to enter
with firearms or fishing apparatus.
VII. Persons having baskets, or any like arti
cles, must leave them in charge of the Porter.
VIII. No horse may be left by the driver in the
Grounds unfastened, nor fastened except to posts
erected for the purpose.
IX. All persons are prohibited from picking
any flowers, either wild or cultivated, or breaking
any tree, shrub, or plant.
X. All persons are prohibited from writing
upon, defacing, or injuring any monument, fence,
or other structure, in or belonging to the Cemetery.
XI. Any person disturbing the quiet and good
order of the place, by noise or other improper
conduct, or who shall violate any of the foregoing

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 71
rules, will be compelled instantly to' leave the
Grounds. XII. The Porter is charged to prohibit the
entrance of aU improper persons, as well as of
those who, though presenting tickets, may be
known to have, at any time, willfully transgressed
the regulations of the Cemetery.
XIII. The gates are opened, for entrance, [at
sunrise, and are closed, except for egress, at sunset.
Visitors are reminded that that these Grounds
are sacredly devoted to the interment of the dead,
and that a strict observance of the decorum which
should characterize such a place, will be required
of all. Tickets for admission to the Groimds can be
obtained on apphcation at the office of the Cem
etery, free of charge.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

The following article was written by Anson G.
Chester, Esq., associate editor of the Express, and
published in the same number of that paper which
contained the obituary of the illustrious Clay — so
the dead and the place of the dead meet together.
The sonnet which succeeds it is also from the
same pen. FOEEST LAWN.
The imprdse which leads us to seek out and
beautify some attractive spot for the resting-place
of the departed, is as commendable as it is natural.
It is difficult for us to divest ourselves of the idea
that, after all, the dead are, in some degree, con
scious of the circumstances which surround them —
and our affections naturally reject the place of burial
which is gloomy and unpleasant. It is among

74 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.
the beauties of the heart — this sweet reverence,
and delicate care for its lost ones.
We have a treasure of a spot, selected and
consecrated to those who die in our midst. But a
short time has elapsed since Forest Lawn was
commenced; but through the faithful industry of
its projector, Charles E. Clarke, Esq., it has already
become a place to be desired for the holy purpose
which led to its establishment. There are many
beautiful points about this city of the dead, and
these will be augmented as its population increases.
Away from the busy town, a very nook of nature,
with its soft turf, babbhng stream, rusthng leaves,
and fresh-blown flowers, it seems a place most
meet and fitting for the sleep of those "whose voice
is not heard."
It is well to make these places lovely. It seems
not so hard to die when the weary head may rest
on such a bosom.
" The grave itself is but a covered bridge
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness."
K this may be the reflection of the decaying
mind, how athletic shall it be, even in the weakness

NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 75
of the final hour! and it is such spots as Forest
Lawn that suggest and enforce this wise and inspir
iting philosophy.
"The living know that they must die." Let
them, therefore, choose, while they may, the place
of their final slumber. Let them adorn and em-
beUish it, until it shall seem so inviting that they
shall long for its repose, and when the last solemn
moment comes, shall smile at the gentle prospect
of its perpetual enjoyment, and "lie down to
pleasant dreams."
In its comparative newness. Forest Lawn is yet
beginning to answer its original intention. Already
is its surface flecked with monuments, and stones,
and "mounds without an index." These shall
multiply. Let those who would make the home
of the dead lovely, prepare it here. Blessed is he
who hath a citizenship within its borders, for he
shall dream amid beauties, and out of beauties
hasten to his reward.

76 FOREST LAWN CEMETERY
FOEEST LAWN.
If it be sweet to hail the Judgment morn
From the wide desert and the boundless sea,
It were thrice sweet to welcome it from thee.
Fair chamber of pale sleepers — "Forest Lawn!"
Thy beauty half removes the sting of death;
It is not dying when a spot like this
Offers its quietude, its peace, its bliss.
To careworn exiles, yielding up their breath :
Thou shalt be peopled; in thine ample breast
Fair babe and wrinkled man shall lie, until
The trump of Gabriel every heart shall thriU,
And call the nations from their dreamless rest ;
Blessed is he to whom it shall be given.
To pass from thy bright precincts unto Heaven.

MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

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lihester, Anson G.,
Church, Levins S.,
Donald, Thomas,
Dow, Wm. F. .
Demarest, Wm. C.
Day, Ebenezer, .
Outhie, James, .
L)ole, John A., .
Dinsmore, Jacob,
Janforth, 0. C, .
.)e Long, John, .
Oorr, Eben P. .
Davock, Maria, .
Dutton, Edward H.
Duiick, Mrs. James,
Dodge, Tabitha, .
Davison, Benjamin F
Darragh, John, .
Dixon, William, .
Dunlap, James, .
Dascomb, Hiram,
Dickinson, Thomas,
Downs, Edward, .
Dunn, Jane, P., •
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Ely, John, . . .
Emeigh, Michael,
Evans, Oliver B.,
Eggert, Benjamin F.
Evans, Henry B.,
Evans, Margaret H.
Elliott, Barnard, .
Fellows, Elizabeth,
Felton, Charles E.,
Foster, Thomas H.,
Foltz, George W.,
Follett, Oran, . .
Fobes, William D.,
Fox, Watson A,. .
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Hall, Nathan K., .
Haven, Solomon G.,
Hammond, Mrs. J., .
Hodge, Benjamin, .
Harris, Asa P., . .
Hodge, Valorus, . .
HoUoway, Isaac,
Holloway, Mrs. John,
Heiser, John, . . ¦
Howell, Stephen W.,
Henderson, John J.,
Held, Frederick, . .
Hicks, John B., . .
Hill, G«orgiana H.,
Hollister, John J., .
Howard, Ethan H.,
Hall, Sarah, . • •
Heiser, Godfrey,. •
Hodgkins, William, .
Harris, Charles, . •
Holman, Edward D.,
Hauenstein, John, .
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Henderson, Albert N.
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Ludlow, Capt. , . .

1 . 19

1 S

1 Miller, F. S., . . . .

. 18

1 B

Laverick, William, . .

. 17

1 A

Marvin, L. G., .

. 13

A

Lovejoy, Sarah, . . .

. 2

A

i Marvin, G. L.,

• ,

Love, Levi, ....
. 22
B
i Mills, William M.,
. 62
B
Lathrop, Solon H., . .
. 9
B
i Milliken, C. A., .
. 13
E
Leavitt, J. S., ...
. 3
A
i Morgan, Abel G.,
. 76
B
Lewis, Morgan G., . .
. 92
D
1 Maoy, J. B., . .
. 24
B
Lytle, John S., . . .
. 17
L
1 Muzzy, Mrs., . .
iof52
B
Levine, Douglass A., .
l-of 26
D
Mason, Daniel, . .
. 12
B
Larkin, Mrs. L. H., . .
. 28
H
Miller, Philip, .
. 11
C
Langdon, George W., .
. 137
D
1 Mills, William I, .
. 4
I
Lee, Cyrus P., ...
. 37
B
1 Manley, Charles, . .
. 25
E
Lamphear, Hiram H., .
iof57
B
i Moore, Andrew B., .
. 9
E
Lord, John C, . . .
. 33
B
{ Millington, Edward H.,
. 3
E
Lovering, William, Jr., .
. 21
E
Marshall, Orsamus H.,
52, 53
F
Love, Maria, ....
• 6^ ¦;
F
Miller, Elizabeth, . .
82-3-4
F
Latta, Robert, . . .
. 18
L
Montgomery, Robert, .
. 8
E
Landsittel, Anthony, .
• '^
D
Moore, A. C, ...
li
25, 26 i
J
. 37 1
J
Moore, G. A., . .
li
Lynd, Adam, . . . i
iof46
D i
McKay, Alexander, . .
. 16 i
J
Iiorenz, Philip G., . . |
iof56 1
B 1
Meeker, Henry N., . .
iof6 1
J
.Longhurst, William, . i
. 44 1
L
Morse, Parker, . . .
i-of20 1
D
Lewis, D.,  1 1
• 1 1
M i
Mulligan, Henry S., . .
}
3, 4, 6
L
Lewis, George M., . . j i
Mulligan, Eugene, . .
Morgan, Amos, . . . 1 1
. 10 1
A 1
Mixer Sylvester T., . .
ioU \
F
Morgan, Harris, . , . J |
Martin, John, ....
' 2 1
F
.Morrison, William P., . i
iof66 1
B 1
Moore, Chester, . .
.
4of4i
F
MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

Sd

jPTopcCetocs.
Matteson, Henry H.,
Maharg, John,
McBride, William,
Mcintosh, R., . .
Morse, JuUa A., .
Morgan, Hannah,
McArthur, A.,
McArthur, J^ . .
Mercer, William, .
McMillan, Hugh, .
Norton, Sophia, .
Norvall, John,
Notter, George H.,
Nibeker, John P.,
Nickles, William,
Nesbitt, Samuel, .
Otis, N. T., . .
Oatman, Sarah, and othe
Olson, Gndtchalk,
Oliver, Jerry, . .
Osborn, Marietta,
Palmer, Edward W
Putnam, James C,
Patchen, E. A., .
Phelps, Orson, .
Postal Caroline, .
Piatt, Samuel F.,

aot No.

. 28
^of37 . 10
. 57
. 8
^of 29
.117. 9i
. 85
. 1
. 30
iofl5 i^of 39
. 7
. 10
. 15
I of 28
iof61 . 27
. 48
.36^ . 34
^of28 . 1
. 100
, 15

Sec.

L
|D L
D
MD D A
DH LBF
D C
AD B J F
D B B I
D G

j^i'ojtitfetors.

Peet, Ann, . .
Petrie, William, .
Payne, George, .
Post, William,
Phillips, Sophia, .
Provost, Samuel A.,
Pratt, Pascal P., .
Powell, John, . .
Palmer, Elias.W.,
Parker, Perry G.,
Perkins, Thomas G.,
Powell, Moses H.,
Powell, Egbert H.,
Pitkin, Joseph F.,
Pfeifer, George F., .
Pfeifer, Henry P.,
Pollard, John,
Parmelee, Horace,
Pfeifer, Louis,
Potter, Heman B.,
Poppenberg, Albert
Peter, Elizabeth,
Paxen, Ahaz, . .
Pierce, Loring, .
Pagan, Louisa, .
Quails, William, .
Ralph, Andrew, .

aot No.

I Ser,

. 21
. 20
. 41
, 19
iof64 . 6
13, 14
.141
I of 43
. 8
43, 44
12,^11 75,76 . 10
iof 20
^of 16
iof 61
95, 96 87, 5

13
23

90

FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.

^togxUtoxs.

aot No.

See.

jlcojprtetors.

aot No.-

Sec

Reed, John S., . . .

iofS

C

Robson, Robert, . . ,

iof38

A

Robertson, Margaret, .

. 9

A

Randel, Samuel, . . .

21-2-3-4

N

liadcliff, Jerry, . . .

. 18

A

Randel, Jesse, . . .

13-4-5-6

N

;R,»nsom, Amasa R.,

. 42

B

Smith, John S., . . .

. 2

C

Ransom, Elias, ... I

. 11

A

Sawin, Silas, ....

. 14

E

Ransom, John G., . .J

Salisbury, Guy H., . .

. 30

B

Rainey, Hamilton, . .

. 3

G

Scott, Francis B., . ,

. 108

D

Rathbone, Richard W.,

^of 29

B

Strong, John M., . .

iof59

B

Reynolds, A., . . , .

. 9

C

Strow, Elizabeth, . .

. 30

D

Reed, Nelson, , . .

iof26

D

Spaulding, E. G., . .

11, 12

G

Rochester, James H., ,

. 10

B

Stevens, Albert, . . .

iof25

D

Robson, James 0., . .

. 27

D

i Sutton, Elizabeth, . .

. 135

D

Randall, Nelson, . . .

. 24

B

i Schoellkopf, Jacob F., .

. 49

F

Rich, Gains B., . . .

.1,2

G

1 Sternberg, P. L., . . ,

. 31

B

Rogers, John, ....

. 115

D

i Stanard, Walter W., .

. 25

H

Renwick, Ralph, . . .

. 15

D

Sutton, William A., . ,

. 38

B

Robbins, Levi R., , .

. 33

A

Swatn, James, . . .

iofl8

D

Rider, John A., . . .

. 36

A

Stone, Kendall P., . .

. 64

B

Riley, Arabella, . . .

. 16

E

Smith, Charles, . . .

. 49

A

Roesser, Jacob, . . .

34

A

Shelton, Dr. William, .

. 27

E

Rubins, Henry, . . .

^ofl9

J

Stockton, Thos. W., . .

. 27

A

Rathbun, Thomas, . .

.4,5

Gt

Sweet, Silas, ....

. 94

D

Rudeg, John, ....

. 63

B

Sloan, William, . . .

. 39

A

Richardson, George, . .

. 7

F

Seaver, William A.,

. 7

E

Rudolf, Jacob, . . .

. 37

J

i Sheldon, James, . . .

• 48

B

Reyburn, Thomas C, .

. 98

F

1 Swan, Adin, ....

. 68

B

Raze, Ansel S., . . .

. 7

M

1 Smith, T. G., , . . .

. 32

A

MEMBEitS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

91

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1

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^rojttetots. j

aot No. i

Sec. 1

33voi)efetotff. | aot No. 1 Sec,

Shearman, Robert H., . i

. 24 i

E i|

Sutherland, Anson, . .11

. 88

D

Staring, Sylvanus, . . j

. 46 i

D ii

Sutherland, Brush, . . J j

Sears, Thomas P., . . 1
• 5 i
E 1
Stewart, Marabella, . .
. 38
D
Stucki, John, . . . . ;
41,i-40 j
F i
Strong, Mrs. Marion, .
. 8
G
Stocking, Sarah B., . .
• 2 1
L i
Tyler, Mrs., ....
. 20
B
Schanzlin, Jacob T., . .
21-2-3-41
I I
Tryon, M. C, . . . .
. 6
A
Sloan, ^YiUiam M., . .
• 3 :
J 1
Thomas, C. F. S., . .
. 14
.A
SUinthrop, John, . .
* i
A
Tobins, William, . . .
. 27
D
Schrodt, Maria, . . .
iof5 1
J
Thompson, Harry, . .
. 5
K
Smith, George W., . .
. 9
D
i Thompson, Augustus P., .
. 4
K
Sully, Robert, . . .
. 32
D
i Tibbey, Ann, ....
^ofl5
B
Spencer, James, . . •
. 72
F
1 Thayer, Charles H., .
iof69
B
Studdiford, William T.,
. 20
F
i Townsend, Hosea W., .
. 7
C
Sterling, Ambrose S., .
1 43, 44
F
i Thurston, Hiram, . . 1
iof24
A
Slayton, S. V., . • •
o 10
C
1 Thompson, James E., .
. 16
J
Sutton, William, • •
. 36
F
i| Tostevin, 
ioiS
C
Smith wick, R. S., • •
. 37
i A
ii Taunt, Emory, . . .
. 2
I
Smith, James F., • •
iof3
|. F
li Thompson, I. W., . .
. 36
B
Stevens, MUo, ¦ • •
iofl
i P
li Tiegilgus, Joseph, . .
. 22
J
• c
B
1 Taintor, Charles, . . .
^of 16
I^
Stone, Ira C, • • •
Sloan, James, • • •
. 100
F
li Thompson, Edward C, .
. 2
Iu
Swartz, John, . • • •
ll Trier, Catharine, ... 1
. 13
J
Swartz, A. S., • • •
li Trier, John G., . . .J
Swartz, Samuel, . • ¦
i . 6
M
II Tucker, Chandler, . .
• ®
i M
Swartz, Jacob, • • •
ii Vanderventer, Mrs., . .
1 . 102
i D
;l
Swartz, G. W 
Swartz, feeph 
|i Veller, Peter, ....
i| Van Benthuysen, J. H.,
1 • ^^
. 45
1 ^
A
FOREST LAWN CEMETERY.

i 

A 
JSrOjprfetors.
K ...  i  . 
aot No.
|see.
1 JProprietors,
i aot No.
Sec,
PValentine, Frederick, .
. 41
L
1 Whittaker, Thomas, . . '
. 17
D
Valentine, Jabez, . .
8
L
Whittaker, James, . .
Van Allen, Henry, . .
6
0
Wood, Asa D., . . .
. 12
I
Verplanck, Isaac A.,
14
K
i Wallace, William, . .
. 96
D •
Volokman, Alfred, . .
70
D
1 Williams, John R., . .
. 40
B
Viele, Henry K.. . .
4
K
Webb, William, . . .
.43i
B
Wheeler, J. H. H,, . .
7
A
Wood, Roba I 
iof65
B
Ward, Hiram P., . .
43
B
Waters, Henry, . . .
iofl8
D
Ward, Samuel, . . .
iof28
B
Williams, Gibson T., .
. 34
F
Wright, S. S., ..."
iof27
B
Williams, Ortix, B., . .
^of40
F
Wilber, L. D 
. 3
C
Whitcomb, George, . .
I of 24
A
Williams, 0. H. P., . .
. 138
D
Williams, Watkins, . ,
iofl7
J
White, Lavinia, . . .
J of 24
D
Williams, Maria L., . .
iofl7
J
Waterman, Gladding, .
i-of29
D
Waterman, Maria, . .
iof53
B
Waud, M. M., ... 1
. 22
H j
Wenz, James, . . .
. 50
A
Wand, George A., . .J
Watson, S. V. R., . .
. 70
F
Waters, Levi I., . . .
. 82
H 1
Whitcomb, Joshua M., .
14, 16 i
F
Wadsworth, James, . .
41-4-5 1
B i
Williams, James, .
iof42 1
L
Walker, Jesse, . . .
. 31
H
White, Betsy, ...
. 25 1
B
WyckofF, Cornelius C, .
. 26
B 1
Wage, John F., . . . i
• '^ \
J
Worcester, Caroline T., .
. 50
B 1
Washburn, George E., .
. 62 1
D
Wilkeson, John, ...
• 1
K j
Waterman, D. W., . .
• 6 1
M
Walbridge, W. D., . .
• 14 i
H 1
Wilkeson, Samuel, . .
• 1 1
K
Walbridge, W. C. L., .
¦ 12 i
H
Wilkeson, William, . .
• 1 i
K
Wiswell, Mary A., . . i
. 15 1
D 1
Warren, Edward S., .
• * 1
K
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