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Soon after this visit the regular services of the church were conducted for several weeks, probably by the Rev. Mr. Leonard, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Moss, of Newburyport, Mass., in the "old court-house," then standing on the site of what is now called Gerould's Block.
Among the citizens favoring this undertaking were Elijah Dunbar, Esq., and Dr. Thomas Edwards. Their services, however, soon ceased.
An occasion of marked interest was the fun- eral of Hon. Ithamar Chase, father of the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase.
The funeral service was held in the Congre- gational house of worship, and was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Strong, of Greenfield, Mass., August 11, 1817.
This is supposed to have been the first funeral service ever conducted in Keene according to the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It was largely attended, and is said to have created a very favorable impression of the church.
Bishop Griswold, of the Eastern Diocese, once visited Keene, confirming Dr. and Mrs. Ed- wards.
The Rev. Mr. Barber, rector of Union Church, West Claremont, occasionally officiated in Keene, and administered the sacrament of Holy Baptism. From time to time, also, ser- vices were held in town by the Rev. Nathaniel Sprague.
The Rev. Dr. Sprague was a native of Keene, and improved every opportunity of extending the knowledge and influence of the church in these parts.
Happily, a memorial window was placed in St. James' Church in 1864, when the building was completed, which serves to keep alive the memory of the many good words and works of this faithful servant of Christ.
The Rev. Henry N. Hudson, of the Diocese of Massachusetts, also held a series of services in Keene in the summer of 1850.
These services were sustained by a distin- guished layman residing in Boston,-the late Henry M. Parker,-and were at first held in the town hall; but this room proved to be too large and expensive for the present undertaking, and, after much delay and difficulty, Mr. Hud-
1 The building committee for the new church on Court Street were Reuben Stewart, Moses Ellis, Dauphin W. Comstock, Joseph Foster and John Flynn. The architect was S. S. Woodcock, Boston. Mass.
2 By Rev. W. B. T. Smith.
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son succeeded in securing a more suitable room. This was in the second story of an unoccupied building belonging to the late Hon. James Wilson.
This room Mr. Hudson himself took great pleasure in putting in order, making the furni- ture with his own hands, except the settees, which, greatly to his regret, he was obliged to purchase, which, he observes, was the most un- pleasant part of it all.
The room was large enough to accommodate about seventy-five individuals. Services were held here regularly through the summer and carly fall, on Sundays, morning and evening, and on Saints' days.
These services were well attended and excited considerable interest in church methods. Mr. Hudson rented a small musical instrument, and he remarks that by the good will and favor of some worthy young people, he had " the benefit of a competent choir and reasonably good music."
Mr. Hudson's work was at length interrupted by a call from Bishop Chase to supply his own place as rector of Trinity Church, Claremont, while he himself was absent doing episcopal duty in the Diocese of New York.
There was no attempt to organize a parish in Keene at this time, and when Mr. Hudson was released from duty at Claremont it seemed to him to be impracticable to resume this mission- ary undertaking. And although occasional services had been held from time to time in private houses, by different visiting clergymen, nothing further was done looking to the estab- lishment of the Episcopal Church till the sum- mer of 1858.
On June 24th of that year (St. John Bap- tists' Day) the Right Reverend Carlton Chase, D.D., bishop of the diocese, visited Keene, held evening service and preached.
He was encouraged, by the expressed wishes of those he met, to attempt the permanent es- tablishment of the services of the church.
Accordingly, he invited the Rev. Edward A. Renouf, then assistant minister at St. Stephen's Church, Boston, Mass., to visit Keene and act as his missionary for a few weeks. Mr. Renouf at once accepted the invitation, and, with the
assistance of the Rev. Dr. Fuller, also of the Diocese of Massachusetts, services were soon begun, and, being well attended, were continued regularly through September and October fol- lowing.
At length Mr. Renouf resigned his position at St. Stephen's, and directly after Easter, 1859, undertook entire charge of the work. Mean- while he purchased the estate where he now re- sides (1885), and, in July of the same year, re- moved thither with his family.
On May 13, 1859, the parish of St. James' Church was duly organized and the usual officers chosen.
May 15th certain friends of the church bought of the Cheshire Railroad Company the lot now occupied by the church edifice, for the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, and deeded it to the parish.
May 18th the Rev. E. A. Renouf was called to be rector of St. James' Church, and at once accepted the call.
May 25th this parish was admitted into union with the Convention of the Diocese of New Hampshire, and was represented in that convention by Mr. H. Brownson, as lay dele- gate.
On Sunday, August 7th, the Holy Com- munion was celebrated in this parish for the first time. On the Sunday following (August 4th) the Sunday-school was organized with four teachers and sixteen pupils present.
In October, 1860, plans for a stone church, with seating capacity of about five hundred, were sub- mitted for approval by C. E. Parker, architect, of Boston, Mass., at an estimated cost not to exceed twelve thousand dollars, which, after some modifications and no small difficulty and delay, were at length agreed upon, and ground was broken Ascension Day, May 14, 1863. The corner-stone was laid by the bishop of the diocese, assisted by the rector and several clergymen of this and the Diocese of Vermont, June 30, 1863, at which time an able address was delivered by the Rev. Isaac G. Hubbard, D.D., rector of Grace Church, Manchester, N. H. The building was completed and made ready for use during the following summer.
The first service was held in it August 21,
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1864 ; but the chancel furniture and other ap- pointments were still incomplete, and there re- mained an unliquidated debt of seven thousand dollars, which delayed for several years the service of consecration.
On April 17, 1868, the Rev. Mr. Renouf tendered his resignation of the rectorship, to take effect on the 31st of May following.
During Mr. Renouf's rectorship of nine years there were of baptisms in St. James' par- ish, 95; confirmations, 58; admitted to Holy Communion, 96; marriages, 32; burials, 64. The whole amount of offerings, exclusive of the cost of the church building-lot, was seven thou- sand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
The Rev. George W. Brown was called to be rector October 19, 1868. During his rec- torship the church was decorated within, and, after prolonged effort, the money needed to liq- uidate the debt was raised, the late Hon. Wil- liam P. Wheeler having pledged one thou- sand dollars toward the whole amount needed, provided the parish would raise the rest. Ac- cordingly, the church was consecrated by Bishop Niles, November 22, 1877.
Mr. Brown resigned the rectorship April 13, 1879.
May 9th of the same year the Rev. A. B. Crawford was called to be rector, and resigned April 9, 1882.
June 19, 1882, the Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Jr., rector of St. Paul's Church, Minneapolis, Minn., was called to be rector of St. James' Church ; accepted, and entered upon his duties as rector September 1, 1882. Mr. Tom- kins resigned March 1, 1884, in order to accept a call to Calvary Chapel, New York City.
September 15, 1884, the Rev. W. B. T. Smith, rector of Union Church, West Clare- mont, was called ; accepted, and entered upon his duties as rector Sunday, November 23, 1884.
GRACE METHODIST CHURCH was organized in November, 1835, with thirty members.
The present church edifice was erected in 1869 at a cost of forty thousand dollars.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH .- There is also a Roman Catholic Church here, with Rev. J. R. Power as pastor. 4
CHAPTER V.
KEENE-(Continued).
BY WILLIAM S. BRIGGS.
The Cemeteries - Gravestone Inscriptions - Historical Notes-Reminiscences.
To guard properly, and care for the resting- places of our dead is alike the dictate of affec- tion, Christianity and our common humanity. This is the duty first of friends and families ; but these all die, while the towns, the State, remain.
I find in the records of the proprietors of the town of Keene that it was voted, February 23, 1762, that the neck of land where Isaac Clark and Amos Foster were buried be appro- priated and set apart for a burying-place for the town. This lot, I think, must be the one now belonging to the farm of Captain Robin- son, at the lower end of Main Street. Captain Ephraim Dorman, one of the original proprie- tors of the town, living in Keene in 1738, died here in 1795, and was buried in this place. This burying-ground was probably used by the town to bury their dead for more than thirty years. The burying-ground on Washington Street was not used, as I can learn, until about 1795. Visit our beautiful new cemetery on Bea- ver Street ; look at the costly monuments in granite and marble, the beautiful trees and flow- ers, planted by the hand of affection ; ask that mourner that is shedding tears above the new- made grave, or the present owner of any of the lots in this beautiful place, if they could believe any one that should tell them that in less than one hundred years all these monuments will be removed far from this place, the graves all leveled and the grounds ploughed and planted, and the bones of their dear ones go to fertilize the soil, that a good crop of corn and potatoes might be raised,-no one would believe this story ; and he that was bold enough to tell it would be looked upon as a false prophet, or one that should be confined in an insane asylum as a dangerous person. Yet this same thing has been done in this very goodly town of Keene. On that neck of land set apart by the
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fathers, and at that time (1762) the owners of the town, these men, with their wives and chil- dren, were buried ; costly monuments (for the times) were erected, with their good deeds and their virtues inscribed thereon ; for many years their graves were strewn with flowers, and tears were shed for the loved ones by their chil- dren's children ; but can one of the descend- ants of these patriots tell where the bones of their ancestors now rest ? Not one of them ; for their monuments have been removed, the ground leveled, ploughed and planted, as any other part of the farm, and their dust goes to enrich the land. Could towns be made to suffer, as indi- viduals, for wrong-doing, I don't know of any penalty too great to be imposed on the town of Keene for this great wrong. I remember more than forty years ago hearing the old people talking about the old burying-ground, and saying that it was a disgrace not to protect it ; but nothing was done until the annual town- meeting March 12, 1844, when William Lam- son (a man who, while living, always protested against the deseeration of these graves) made the following communication to the meeting :
"Mr. Edwards (Thos. M. Edwards, moderator) : I intended to request the selectmen to insert in the warrant for this meeting, 'To see what the town will do with the old burial-ground on the farm now owned by Sam'l Robinson, Esq.' There is a bottom of a stone wall that once enclosed it, but in such a condi- tion that cattle walk over it; many of the grave- stones have been broken off, but few are now stand- ing; one of these is that of Capt. Dorman, whose life is the history of our town. I now present this, hoping that the town will choose a committee to ex- amine into its situation, and make a report at our next town-meeting. I would recommend that the committee be elected from our citizens advanced in life, and who may know something of the history of the town."
A committee was appointed at this meeting consisting of Calvin Chapman, Salma Hale and Aaron Hall. At the annual town-meeting held March 11, 1845, the subject was referred to the same committee, who were authorized, if they deemed it expedient, to fence the old bury- ing-ground at the expense of the town. No- thing was done that year. At the annual town- meeting March 14, 1846, it was voted that the selectmen be directed to cause a proper fence to
be constructed around the old burying-ground near Mr. Robinson's, at the south end of Main Street, " provided Mr. Robinson consents, and the expense shall not exceed seventy-five dol- lars." Nothing was ever done-why, I know not ; but I think it was ascertained that the town had lost their rights in the " bones of the original owners." After this the grave-stones that could stand alone were taken up and set against the fence; and those that knew the graves know them no more. A few years ago Mr. Stephen Barker, then having the care of the new cemetery, to save the few remaining monuments (thirteen in number) caused them to be removed to the new cemetery and set up in good order just north of the receiving-tomb. On one of these monuments you may read, " Here lies the Body of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev. Clement and Mrs. Eliza- beth Sumner, who departed this life Feb. 26th, A.D. 1767." Now I propose to add to this inscription-" I once lived, I died and was bur- ied, but where my bones are now crumbling into dust no mortal man can tell." Now who was this Captain Ephraim Dorman, whose life Mr. Lamson said was the history of the town ? I have searched the records of the proprietors of the town of Keene, and find that he was born in 1710 and lived in Keene in 1738; in 1740 the proprietors voted him and thirty-eight others ten acres of upland for hazarding their lives and estate by living here to bring forward the settling of the place.
The following is an extract from the " An- nals of Keene," published in 1826 :
" Early in the morning of the 23d of April, 1746, Ephraim Dorman left the fort in search for his cow. He went northwardly along the borders of what was then a hideous and almost impervious swamp, lying east of the fort, until he arrived near the place where the turnpike now is. Looking into the swamp he perceived several Indians lurking in the bushes. . He immediately gave the alarm by crying 'Indians! In- dians!' and ran towards the fort. Two who were concealed in the bushes between him and the fort sprang forward, aimed their pistols at him and fired, but neither hit him. They then, throwing away their arms, advanced towards him ; one he knocked down by a blow, which deprived him of his senses; the other he seized, and, being a strong man and able wrestler, tried his strength and skill in his favorite
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mode of 'trip and twitch.' He tore his antagonist's blanket from his shoulders, leaving him nearly naked. He then seized him by the arms and body, but as he was painted and greased, he slipped from his grasp. After a short struggle Dorman quitted him, ran towards the fort and reached it in safety."
Ephraim Dorman was one of the original proprietors to call the first legal town-meeting in Keene. At this meeting, held on the first Wednesday of May, 1753, it was "Voted that the sum of eight dollars be paid to Ephraim Dorman for his services in going to Portsmouth on business relating to the charter. Voted to Benjamin Bellows one hundred and twenty-two Spanish milled dollars for his services and ex- penses in getting the charter of Keene. Voted to raise one hundred and twenty-two pounds, old tenor, for the use of preaching the present year. Chose Ephraim Dorman one of the assessors of the town."
At the second meeting Dorman was one of a committee to see that the proprietors' title to lands in the township be lawful and good ; if so, to give them liberty to have them recorded in the proprietors' " Book of Records." Feb- ruary 23, 1762, he was on a committee to draw lots for a division of lands among the proprie- tors of the town. March 7, 1769, he was moderator in town-meeting. In 1773 he was captain of the foot company of Keene, number- ing one hundred and forty-six men; was also one of the first to start a company for the seat of war after the fight at Lexington, April 19, 1775.
Now does not this man deserve a monument of marble or bronze, with this inscription on it : " He gave his property, his life, his all, to Keene ?" Captain Ephraim Dorman died in Keene May 7, 1795, aged eighty-five. To show the contrast in patriotism one hundred years ago, as compared with the present time, read the following : "At a town-meeting held in Keene Sept., 1773, voted to give Dea. David Foster liberty to lay out three acres of land on the West Beach Hill, in the common land, in such place as he may choose, in recompense for his services done for the proprietary in eight years past."
The following are the inscriptions copied from the thirteen old slate monuments brought
from the old burying-ground, and now in the new cemetery. I have numbered them to keep them distinct :
No. 1 .- Elizabeth Sumner.
No. 2 .- William Sumner.
No. 3 .- In memory of Abner, son of Mr. Nathan Blake, who died July 7th, 1766, in the 6th year of his age.
No. 4 .- Here lies the body of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Revd. Clement and Mrs. Elizabeth Sumner, who departed this life Feb. 26th, A.D. 1767, aged 7 years and 4 days.
"In the midst of life we are in death.
O happy child, how soon thy race was run !
Now free from anxious care and sorrow,
While with thy Saviour and forever blest."
No. 5 .- In memory of ye Widow Betsey Fair- banks, ye wife of Capt. Nathan Fairbanks ; she decd. Feb. ye 26th, 1772, in ye 69th year of her age.
No. 6 .- Here lies the body of William, eldest son of the Rev. Clement and Mrs. Elizabeth Sumner, who died December 13th, 1765, the day of his birth.
"Time how short, eternity how long !"
No. 7 .- " In memory of Mrs. Zipporah, wife of Mr. Ezra Harvey, who decd. Oct. ye 30th, 1778, in ye 27th year of her age.
No. 8 .- In memory of Zipporah, daughter of Mr. Ezra Harvey and Elizabeth his wife; she died Janu- uary 21st, 1778, aged 2 years 7 mo. 21 dayes.
No. 9 .- In memory of David Baker, son of Thomas Baker, Esq., and Mrs. Sarah, his wife, who died January ye 27th, 1789, in ye 20th year of his age.
" Time was I stood where thou dost now, And viewed the dead as thou dost me ; Ere long thou'lt lie as low as I,
And others stand and look on thee."
No. 10 .- Capt. Ephraim Dorman, died May 7th, 1795, aged 85. Capt. Dorman was one of the first settlers and an original proprietor of the town of Keene.
No. 11 .- Mrs. Hepzibah Dorman.
No. 12 .- In memory of . Mrs. Abigail, wife of Genl. James Reed, who departed this life August 27th, 1791, in the 68th year of her age.
" There's nothing here but who as nothing weighs.
The more our joy the more we know it's vain ;
Lose then from earth the grasp of fond desire, Weigh anchor and some happier clime explore." Mrs. Abigail Reed.
No. 13 .- Memento Mori. This stone is erected to perpetuate the memory of Madam Ruth Whitney, who departed this life in the 72d year of her age. She was successively married to the Revd. David Stearns, of Luningburg, and the Revd. Aaron Whit- ney, of Petersham, both of whom she survived. For diligence, patience, piety and knowledge, she was
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eminently distinguished. As this stone cannot tell all her virtues, suffice to say that as a wife, she was prudent and faithful; as a mother, discreet and ten- der; as a neighbor, friendly and charitable; as a Christian, intelligent and exemplary. A life thus spent terminated with composure on the first of No- vember, 1788.
"The righteous shall be had in everlasting remem- brance."
The old burying-ground on Washington Street has been used as a place for burying the dead since the year 1788. I remember almost every one that has been interred here in the last fifty years, and the number is between two and three thousand. As I first remember it, it was surrounded on all sides with a stone wall, the same kind that may be found to-day on almost all our hill farms. There was a small building in the back part of the yard, painted black, to keep the tools in for digging the graves, also for storing the biers. There were two biers, one for adults and one for children. At a funeral the coffin was placed on the bier, and a black cloth, called a pall, spread over it. Eight persons were selected, called the pall-bearers, four to carry the body, the other four to walk on before to assist when necessary, the mourn- ers and friends following behind on foot. Thus the funeral procession moved along until it reached the grave, when the last ceremony was performed, the church bell tolling all the while. In those days the bell was also tolled in the morning of the day of the funeral as a notice to the people of the town that a funeral was to take place on that day. After striking the bell a few times in the morning of the day of the funeral, the age and sex was struck,-if for a male, one blow ; if for a female, two ; then the number of blows corresponding to the number of years the person had lived. So the bell tolled its story and those hearing its sound could tell who was to be buried on that day.
around. There are probably at this time the remains of about one hundred bodies in these tombs. These receptacles for the dead are now but seldom used. I will begin on the right- hand side as we go in through the gate, and give the names of the owners and inscriptions on their tombs :
No. 1 .- Phinchas Fisk.
No. 2 .- William Lamson.
No. 3 .- Thos. Edward and John Hatch.
No. 4 .- John Elliot.
No. 5 .- David Carpenter.
No. 6 .- Noah Cooke.
No. 7 .- F. Faulkner and R. Montague.
No. 8 .- Aaron Hall.
No. 9 .- C. Chapman, D. Heaton, J. Towns.
No. 10 .- J. Wright, E. Wright, E. Wright (2d).
On the left-hand side :
No. 1 .- Samuel Dinsmoor.
No. 2 .- James Wilson.
No. 3 .- John II. Fuller. John II. Fuller died Feb. 24, 1869, aged 77 yrs. and 4 mos. Pamelia, wife of John H. Fuller and daughter of Rev. E. Conant, died July 27, 1829, aged 30. Foster A., their infant son, 1829. Sarah A., their daughter, December 25, 1838, aged 19. James G., their son, Jan. 25, 1853, aged 27. In memory of Lucius D. Pierce, Attorney at Law, Winchendon, Mass., died May 8, 1858, aged 38. Fred K. Bartlett, Attorney at Law at St. Croix Falls, Wis., died Dec. 1, 1858, aged 39, husbands of Lucy and Sophia, daughters of John H. Fuller.
No. 4 .- Charles G. Adams.
No. 5 .- Joseph Dorr and Ormand Dutton.
No. 6 .- Eli Metcalf, died August 3, 1835, aged 85. Elizabeth Metcalf, died Feb. 13, 1842, aged 86. They gave their whole property in charity.
No. 7 .- S. Hastings, L. B. Page, A. Dodge. No. 8 .- Abel Blake and Nathan Dana.
In May, 1853, just before the centennial cel- ebration came off, the tombs, being in rather a dilapidated condition, through the efforts of Rev. Z. S. Barstow and others, were put in good condition and whitewashed, so as to appear decent on that occasion. I think nothing has been done to them since. In 1847 the town voted to build a new fence around the yard ; so the old wall was removed and the present fence put up ; the old black hearse-house has since been taken away.
About 1830 the tombs on the west side of the yard were built ; those on the south some years later. These tombs were used for many years, but it was always a very unpleasant duty to open them ; coffins would soon decay and fall in pieces, and many times in the spring of the In 1855 the town purchased of Thomas M. Edwards what was then called the old muster- year I have known the snow to melt and run in at the door and cause the bodies to float I field, for the new cemetery on Beaver Street,
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and many of the remains have been removed from the old grounds to the new, as the old yard was nearly full. The writer at the time the land for the new cemetery was bought was one of the selectmen of the town, and, with a few, urged the necessity of purchasing more land,-that is, going as far as Beach Hill,-but the very wise men told us that this lot would answer for fifty years at least.
On one of the first monuments we see in going into this old cemetery we read, " To preserve from oblivion the memory of Wm. M. Pierce." Now it was from this old grave-stone that I selected my text, and by copying the inscrip- tions on all of the monuments, will do my share towards preserving them. I will let each stone tell its own story, and should there be among your readers those that find the name of a dear relative or friend among this long list, I am confident they will do what they can towards keeping the old burying-ground on Washing- ton Street sacred. Let it be a pleasant place for us to visit while living, and a safe place for our bones when dead. When this last shall take place, we will simply leave this injunction to body-snatchers and gossips : " Let our dead alone-resurrecting neither our bodies nor our faults." I have arranged the list alphabeti- cally, also giving the oldest date first in each case :
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