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ration of its first year: for we have a copy of the Gazette Gazette. of Oct. 22, 1825, Vol. II., No. 1 (and whole number 53) ; printed and published by David V. Monlton ; size, twenty-five by twenty inches ; and with larger type than the Visitor of the year before, but same member of columns. Its departments are " Morality and Religion " (including another " Proclamation," one and a half colmans, from Gov. Morrill, for Thanksgiving) ; " Foreign News" ; " The Gazette " (editorial) ; " The Recess " (poetry) ; and " Miscel- lancons." A few more advertisements than in the copy of the Visitor above referred to. This paper is rendered especially valuable to anti- qnarian or town historian by the " Remonstrance " of thirty-one citi- zens against being set off to form the new town of Franklin. (See Chap. XXIII. p. 253 ) How long either of these newspapers contin- ued, we have never been able to ascertain.
CHAPTER XXX.
CEMETERIES.
" Beneath those whispering pines," that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
"The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clariou, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed." - GRAY.
Two ideas or customs seem to have prevailed in the towns of Cen- tral New Hampshire respecting the burial of the dead ; first, that of having one general or central place of sepulture for the whole of a given community, like the churchyard of a parish. This may be called the Massachusetts idea, first borrowed from the English towns and cities ; earliest realized for this country in " Burial Hill," at Plymouth, Mass., and reproduced in those towns of New Hampshire which, like Concord, were originally settled by Massa- 'Two custolud in the sche. tion of burial places. chusetts people, and under Massachusetts anspices. The other, which may be termed the New Hampshire idea or enstom, is that of every family's possessing a burial place of its own somewhere on the ancestral farm or homestead, - originally borrowed from the manors or country-seats of England. To this cas- tom it is presumed that the early colonies of New Hampshire were more inclined, inasmuch as we find it prevailing in the eastern towns of the State which were offshoots.of those colonies ; and the first set- thers of Sanbornton very generally adopted it. The ruggedness of the country, and the difficulty, in a large township, of carrying the dead to any one central burying-yard, like that at the Square, may also have strengthened this enstom. At any rate, it now seems probable that prior to 1800 there was scarcely a farm of size and value in this town, at
* The first line of the fourth stanza of Gray's " Elegy " has been printed thus, being hardly less poetical and more appropriate to many of the valley cemeteries of New England. (See Marvin's " History of Winchendon, Mass.") In the original however, it stood, -
" Beneath those rugged clus, that yew-tree's shade."
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any considerable distance from the Centre, which did not have its own burial place. It was an unfortunate arrangement, though at first con- venient. It may have answered in the English rural districts, where one estate will remain in the hands of the same family for hundreds of years ; but in a country and amid a population subjected to such continual changes as are those of New England, the other custom, of establish- ing central cemeteries in every town or parish, is altogether the more desirable, and is that towards which our communities are fast drifting. It leaves one melancholy reflection ; viz., that so many of the ancient burial places, scattered all over a given town like Sanborn- Dreay of the old Sanbornton ton, are neglected and suffered to decay. The plough- evmeteries. share is known in some cases actually to have passed over the graves of foriner generations in this town ; while a tendency is growing every year more strongly marked on the part of various fami- lies to desert the old burial places on the farms and in the neighbor- hoods, for the purpose of obtaining more eligible lots in the larger ceme- teries near the villages of Tilton, Franklin, and Laconia, or in a few central localities of Sanbornton. The change seems to many justitia- ble, because in these latter cemeteries there is a certainty - not found in the old burying-yards, as observation shows - that in future years the graves of themselves and their kindred will not be given over to entire neglect.
The object of this chapter is to resene the old burial spots from oblivion, by presenting as nearly as possible a complete record of the places in historie Sanbornton where the dead of former years Object of this have been interred ; with more partienlar notices of a few chapter. of the cemeteries which are still kept up, and are likely to be, with increasing interest and attractiveness, as the years move on.
Taking the school districts of Sanbornton and Tilton, as at present numbered, and then the Sanbornton part of Franklin as a whole, we will first give the names or designations of those cemeteries in which gravestones with inscriptions or epitaphs are now found. These inscriptions have all been copied off, with the exception of those iu the newer cemeteries of Tilton and Franklin which were known not to be of Sanbornton people, and are mostly given with the genealogical records of Vol. II. (where, also, see Appendix II. p. 873).
SANBORNTON CEMETERIES.
District No. 1.
1. The: WILLIAM BURLEY CEMETERY. Near the late Peter Burley's.
2. THE CALEF CEMETERY. Near Jeremiah B. Calet's. .
3. THE Mrrnew Thoursos CEMETERY. Near Charles HI. Marden's.
4. THE MOSES THOMPSON CEMETERY. Near Jeremiah S. Thompson's.
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6. Ti: Manen Crukrans. Year David C. Clough's.
6. The Husky CEMETERY. North of George 11. Brown's.
District No. 2.
7. THE CENTRE CEMETERY. Near the ohl Town Meeting-House site.
District No. 3.
8. THE PERKINS CEMETERY. North of Andrew J. Sanborn's.
9. THE DAVID HUNKINS CEMETERY. South of Jason R. Houkins's.
10. THE ROBERT HUNKINS CEMETERY. Near Moses B. Glhinau's.
11. THE COLBY CEMETERY. Near Perry Colby's.
12. The JosErH Pum.mRok CEMETERY. Near the late George Patterson's.
13. THE PHINEHAS DEARBORN CEMETERY. Near John S. Dearborn's.
District No. 4.
14. THE WALLIS CEMETERY. Near John S. Wallls's.
15. THE CHASE CEMETERY. South of James C. Burleigh's (Meadow).
16. THE MOSES GILMAN CEMETERY. Near' Orville M. Smith's (Bay).
17. THE JEREMIAH GILMAN CEMETERY. Near the late John Dalton's.
18. THE Moses MewyIrr CEMETERY. South of Nathaniel Leavitt's.
19. THE DOE AND FORD CEMETERY. North of the late Oliver Calet's.
District No. 5.
20. THE JONATHAN R. SANBORN CEMETERY. Near the late Jonathan Sanborn's (3d).
21. THE BAY BAPTIST CEMETERY. West of the Second Baptist parsonage.
. 22. THIS HUSE CEMETERY. Near Dea. Daniel Huse's.
23. THE ODELL CEMETERY. North of William M. Odell's ( Roxbury).
24. THE NEW BAY CEMETERY. In valley northwest of William S. Wood- man's.
District No. 6.
25. THE CHRISTOPHER SANBORN CEMETERY. North of Dea. Joseph P. Sauborn's.
26. THE CLARK CEMETERY. Near William H. Eastinan's.
27. THE JONATHAN MORRISON CEMETERY. South of Luther Morrison's.
28. THE SANDERS CEMETERY. South of Dea. James W. Sauders's.
29. THE ABEL EASTMAN CEMETERY. Near the Meredith towu live.
District No. 7.
30. THE JOSEPH LEAVITT CEMETERY. West of Sally Leavitt's.
31. THE STERLE CEMETERY. West of Benjamin M. Burleigh's (Steele's Ilill).
32. THE TAYLOR CEMETERY. West of Arthur C. Taylor's.
33. The Gies Cumgrey. East of the Nicholas Giles place (old road).
34. THE SHIUTE CEMETERY. East of Noah J. Shute's (Jewett's Corner).
District No. 8.
35. THE REUBEN ROLLINS CEMETERY. West of Clark's Corner.
36. Tis FIRST BAPTIST CEMETERY. Near the Rev. Johu Crockett home- stead.
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District No. 9.
37. THE DAVID L. MORRISON CEMETERY. West of D. L. Morrison's. 38. The: SonTh CEMETERY. East of Harrison White's (now overgrown with trees).
39. THE CHAPEL CEMETERY. North of the Chapel Mills.
40. THE JOSIAN SANBORN CEMETERY. Near A. C. Leavitt's (northeast corner of Franklin).
41. THE CASS CEMETERY. North of Frederick F. Osgood's (Cass place).
District No. 10.
42. THE ABRAMS CEMETERY. Near Hill Bridge.
43. THE PREScorr CEMETERY. On the hill near Taylor C. Prescott's.
District No. 11.
44. THE SWAIN CEMETERY. Near Jeremiah S. Sauborn's.
45. THE OSGOOD CEMETERY. East of Josiah Osgood's.
46. THE NEWTON CEMETERY. Near the old Samuel March homestead.
47. THE BECKMAN CEMETERY. North of Ezra M. Beekman's.
48. THE WEEKS CEMETERY. Near homestead of the late Curtis Weeks.
49. THE JOTHAM ROLLINS CEMETERY. Near homestead of the late Levi Rollins.
District No. 12 ..
50. THE PIPER CEMETERY. On the old Weeks's Corner, opposite school- house site.
51. THE CHASE WEEKS CEMETERY. North of the last, near the old Josiah Shaw place.
59. THE DUSTIN CEMETERY. Near the present school-house (Brook).
53. THE CAWLEY CEMETERY. West of the late Joseph L. Cawley's.
54. THE LANE CEMETERY. West of the old Dea. Samuel Lane homestead (Upper Range road).
District No. 13.
55. THE CAWLEY POND CEMETERY. Near the Dea. Jonathan Cawley homestead.
50. THE NORTH SANBORNTON CEMETERY. East of the Third Baptist meeting-house.
57. THE BROWN CEMETERY. Near the David Brown homestead (Old Mountain road).
58. THE JOSIAH DEARBORN CEMETERY. West of the late Samuel J. Dear- born's.
59. THE GEORGE CEMETERY. Near the late homestead of Sylvester Brown.
60. THE FARNHAM CEMETERY. Near Horace P. Swain's (turnpike).
61. THE CAVERLY CEMETERY. Near Wiggin S. Gilman's (last place, north, ou turnpike).
62. THE PLUMER CEMETERY. North of Luther Plumer's.
63. THE JOSIAH BURLEIGH CEMETERY. Near the late homestead of E. F. Plumer.
District No. 16.
64. THE MORRILL CEMETERY. North of David Shaw's (River road).
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TILTON CEMETERIES.
District No. 1:
65. THE TIN CORNER CEMETERY. Near Charles Smith's.
66. THE CHASE AND RUNDLET CEMETERY. North of Charles G. Durgin's.
67. THE TAYLOR CLARK CEMETERY. Near Mrs. Susan W. Griffin's.
District No. 2.
68. THE SANBORN ROAD CEMETERY. East of the present school-house.
District No. 3.
69. THE PLAINS CEMETERY. Near Ellas S. Buswell's.
70. THE BAMFORD CEMETERY. Southwest of the East Tilton post-office (Chase Rollins's store).
District No. 4.
71. THE JOSIAH PHILBRICK CEMETERY. East of Joslah H. Philbrick's.
72. THE GALE CEMETERY. East of the highway near Benjamin F. Cass's.
Union District.
73. THE PARK CEMETERY. West of Tilton village, on the Franklin road. District No. 5.
74. THE UNION BRIDGE CEMETERY. North of the East Tilton Methodist meeting-house.
75. THE REUBEN PHILBRICK CEMETERY. East of the late Jacob B. Phil- brick's.
76. THE BENJAMIN PHILBRICK CEMETERY. Near HI. Q. Dalton's (Bay shorc).
77. THE EBEN. SANBORN AND DAVID PHILBROOK CEMETERY. Near llazen L. Philbrook's (Sauboruton).
78. THE CRAM'S CORNER CEMETERY. Near Alonzo B. Philbrick's (San- - bornton).
79. THE JOSIAH SANBORN AND ELISHA LOUGEE CEMETERY. West of J. T. G. Sanborn's (Samboruton).
FRANKLIN CEMETERIES.
80. THE SANBORN AND DARLING CEMETERY. Near the original Cate homestead (late Edward C. Wyatt's).
81. THE FRANKLIN FALLS CEMETERY. On the blut, back of the late Dear- born Sanborn homestead.
82. THE FRANKLIN CEMETERY. On the highlands east of the Republican Bridge.
83. THE WARD CEMETERY. Near the late Dea. G. C. Ward's.
84. THE MORRISON AND THOMPSON CEMETERY. South of the late Nathan S. Morrison's (River road).
85. THE NEW BOSTON CEMETERY. North of Thomas P. Thompson's (Gale Ilill).
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The following places of burial, within the limits of the present town of Sanbornton, have also been made known to the author; most of which are now entirely deserted, and in many cases are no longer found within their original enclosures (if they ever were enclosed). The graves in these burial places now appear as little hillocks in some
Deserted burial pastures, with rough head-stones which never were in-
places in sau- seribed ; or else in some cultivated fields they have dis- borntou. appeared entirely. This catalogue will be numbered con- tiunously from the last, though it has not been extended over the territory of Tilton and Franklin. It is to be understood that no inscriptions are to be found in these burial places, and that most of them were never furnished with tablets ; with the possible exception of Nos. 93 and 101, marked with (*), which should probably have been given in the former catalogue, as having gravestones. These are the only two cemeteries in town the inscriptions of which the author has failed of securing. Beginning in the northern extremity of Sanbornton, we continue our catalogue of burial places, or rather of localities where they are known to have existed or are still found, as follows : -
Old New Hampton Road. District No. 13.
80. CAWLEY PASTURE.
87. MCCLARY PLACE.
88. EMERSON FARM.
89. EMERSON FARM. Opposite the last.
North Sunburnton. District No. 13.
90. BARTLETT K. TAYLOR PLACE. Rear of buildings.
91. THOMAS WEBSTER PLACE. Rear of buildings.
92. DAVID W. BUNKER FARM.
93. STEPHEN PLUMER PLACE. (*) Above Chase P. Brown's.
94. QUIMBY FARM.
95. DUDLEY FARM.
96. On land between the last and North Sanbornton village.
District No. 12.
97. WADEktan FARM. Original homestead.
98. Late EILAS RUSSELL. PLACE. Rear of buildings.
99. Site of the present school-house. Separate from [52].
District No. 11.
100. JOSEPH MASON FARM. South of buildings.
101. BENJAMIN CALLEY PLACK (*).
102. WILLIAM B. MASON'S. Opposite side of highway.
103. ALDRICH PLACE. Near house site.
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District No. 9.
101. Puiscorr FARM. North of Harrison White's.
District No. 8.
105. CLARK'S CORNER. Southeast of the old Clark house.
100. EBENEZER BROWN FARM.
107. CHARLES CAWLEY (formerly Tilton) FARMI.
District No. 7.
108. ARTHUR C. TAYLOR FARM. Ten rods from [32].
109. SAMUEL TAYLOR FARM. East of dwelling.
110. TIMOTHY SMITH PLACE. West of Obadiah Eastman's.
District No. 6.
111. JONATHAN EDGERLY PLACE.
112. SIMON R. MORRISON FARM. Reur of barn.
113. JOSEPH S. CLARK PLACE. North of Win. II. Eastman's.
114. OLD TOWN's FARMI (present Stephen M. Woodman's).
115. CHARLES S. BATCHELDER FARM.
District No. 5.
116. JOHN WOODMAN FARM. North of Ira Woodman's. Transferred to [2+].
District No. 4.
117. WILLIAM FORD PLACE (late Oliver Calef's).
118. JOSIAH SANBORN FARM. Near the present Smith Neal's.
District No. 3.
119. EBENEZER COLBY FARM. North of Otis S. Sanborn's.
120. WILLIAM MOORE PLACE. North side of road.
121. CENTRE SQUARE (original). North of A. J. Sauborn's.
District No. 2. .
122. SAMUEL. P. CALER PLACE (Square). Adjoining blacksmith's shop. Formerly a tomb on this spot; transferred to [7].
123. JOHN PERKINS FARM. Old road southeast of dwelling; in Tilton.
121. Kmiky LEDGE (southeast) .* North of William Payne's.
125. Finsr BAPTIST MEETING-House (original site). East of Charles B. Perley's. -
District No. 1.
126. JEREMIAH B. OSGOOD FARM.
127. PASTURE. Northeast of Ebenezer Burleigh's.
* We have recent information that an old-fashioned slate-stone inscription has been deciphered within a year past on this spot, " In memory of Edward Kelley Jr., who died June 29, 1797, in the 35th year of his age."
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A few remarks will be added upon the above catalogue as a whole, or nyon individual cemeteries, designated by numbers.
A stone is now shown in Andrew J. Taylor's field, at the rear of [125], said to mark the first grave ever opened in town, for a Mrs.
Smith. Others have claimed for Enoch Ela, who lived
Earliest deaths where Jolm P. Lane, at present in Tilton, the distinction in town. of being " the first man who died in town "; said to have been engaged at the time to Mary Hayes, who afterwards mar- ried Capt. Jacob Tilton. Joli Gibson, though drowned at what is now Union Bridge, is named as the first person buried in the Centre C'emetery [7].
The original Centre Square [121] was designed by the proprietors, in part, for a burial plot. The remains of a few individuals, ont of respect to this original design, are said to have been Centre Square deposited there ; among others, those of Master Abraham Cemetery. l'erkins, at his own request. But being at the top of a ledgy hill, it was soon disused, and Mr. Perkins's remains were removed to [8], nearer to his homestead.
Sarah Burley's (Vol. 1I. p. 60 [17]) is among the nameless graves in cemetery [6]; said to have been the first person there interred.
In nearly all the above cemeteries whose inscriptions have been copied, as far mp as [85], there are many of these nameless graves ; i. e., mounds, with no tablets or inseribed gravestones to
Nameleed tell whose dust is sleeping beneath them. In some of the graves. older yards these graves fully equal, and in others far out- number those furnished with lettered headstones.
A large majority of the older cemeteries of town are in a state of sad neglect. Iron gates and fences or face-walls have been supplied to but few. The Centre Cemetery [7] and the Sanborn Road [Os] have been recently enlarged. The new Bay Cemetery [21] is the best laid out of any in the present town of Sanborn-
Cemetery im- provements. ton, - into six rows of six square lots each, or thirty-six in all. It also contains several costly monuments. An association was formed several years ago for the improvement of [7] ; but it soon ceased to have a constitutional existence ! This yard is peculiarly inter- esting as being the last resting-place of the first three pastors of the Congregational church, and their farailies. A similar interest attaches to [36], as containing the graves of Rev. John Crockett and many of his worthy colaborers of the First Baptist church. This cemetery is, however, quite full, and needs enlarging.
The Shute Cemetery [3] is also one of the largest in town, and quite well furnished. Among the smaller yards that are attractively laid out, and in some cases adorned with momments, cultivated lots,
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stone margins, and flower-beds, - or at least are substantially walled in, - may be mentioned [5], [10], [27], [43], [55], and [5], in Sanbornton ; [69], [71], and [79] in the Tilton districts ; and [80] and [$3] in Franklin.
A large bowlder, as Nature's monument, has always maintained its place in the front part of [19]. Au apple-tree stands, or was standing a few years since, among the other more appropriate vegetable or AArt is. Nature. arboreal attractions of [27].
The condition of [33] is somewhat anomalous : sur- rounded by one of the best walls in town, so broad and smooth on the top that a wheelbarrow might be trundled along its whole extent ; yet only four graves with inscriptions, and the whole enclosure fast growing up to forest trees.
luge blocks of granite, twenty-four feet long, three feet high, and two feet thick, encompass the new part of [29]; while the Chapel Cemetery [39 ] was several years ago supplied with two elaborate iron gates, that on the north side being labelled " Asa Weeks," that on the south, " Joseph Chapman," as the supposed donors.
Among the old burial places of the catalogue (second part), no less than twenty graves are said to have occupied [98], and at least thirty persous were originally buried in [127], though the remains of quite a unmber of these were in after years exhumed and reburied in other places.
The largest and most attractive cemeteries now found within the limits of the old town are the three nearest to the large villages of Franklin and Tilton. Of these [82], with which Sanboru- teries of Frank- ton has least to do, is the most extensive. Several San- Village come- lin aud Tilton. bornton families, however, have finally tixed upon this as their place of family burial, by purchasing lots, and some of the most expensive mounments as yet in this cemetery have been erected over the graves of citizens of other towns ; witness the moumneut to the memory of Mr. Johnson, of Hill, and that erected by their son for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Evans, of Sanbornton. The generosity and enterprise of the late N. II. Sanborn, Esq., secured a noble monu- ment, in cemetery [81], in honor of his ancestor, who settled so near the same spot.
A more extended notice of the Park Cemetery [73], in Tiltou, may appropriately conclude this chapter. Its " Association" was first formed July 8, 1851, in these words : -
" We, the subscribers, hereby voluntarily associate ourselves together for
The Park the purpose of providing, holding, and keeping in repair suitable Countery As- grounds and other conveniences for the burial of the dead, on sociation. the following conditions [ seven in number, of which the two first are] : First, The same shall be located on the south side of the high-
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way leading from Sanbornton Bridge to Franklin, ou the farin of Benjamin [B. ] Dearborn, and the lot purchased shall contain at least four acres, the price of which shall not exceed $75 per acre. Said location is in the town of Sauboruton. Second, The said grounds shall be deeded to a committee maised for that purpose, who shall hold the same as such committee and shall convey the same in separate lots to the subscribers, as large as shall be agreed upou, which shall be so settled upon at the first regular meeting of the associ- ation."
The third condition pertains to the reconveying of lots to other individuals. The fourth prescribes prepayment of subscriptions as necessary to the obtaining of deeds. The fifth promises that the association shall take the powers of a corporation as soon as possible. The sixth fixes the price of each lot at $10, and the seventh makes provision for the first meeting to be notified by the first Original sigu- two subscribers. The following thirty individuals theu erD.
signed the above conditions of association, most of whom will be readily recognized as Sanbornton men, and no more than four of whom are now (1882) certainly known to be living ( marked *). One share was assigned to each name, except as otherwise stated : -
JOSEPH L. CONNER. J. G. TILTON.
JAMES P. TILTON.
R. G. L. BARTLETT.
ALEXANDER II. TILTON.
CORBAN CURTICE.
MARK BAKER.
ROBERT GRAY, two shares.
SAMURL TIL.TON.
B. M. COLBY.
DAMUS DOCKHAM. (*)
JEREMIAH TILTON.
EBENEZER M. HALL.
BENJAMIN F. EASTMAN.
JOHN TAYLOR.
JAMES G. SANBORN. (*)
JEREMIAH CROSS.
JOIN II. VARNEY,
LOWELL LANG.
JOHN F. EASTMAN, (*) Que share.
NATHANIEL. HI. CLARK,
N. PEABODY.
SAMUEL D. CLARK,
one share.
ASA P. CATE.
WILLIAM JONES.
JONATHAN GAGE.
W. II. SMITH. (*)
CONNER, TILTON, AND CROSS, four shares.
The association was more fully organized, and named the " Park Cemetery," at its first regular meeting, at J. P. Tilton's inn, Oct. 18, 1851 ; and at an adjourned meeting, Nov. 8, Nathaniel II. Clark and B. M. Colby, committee, reported a code of twelve by-laws : the third providing that the officers shall consist of three trustees Otticers and (one the presiding officer), a secretary, and a treasurer ; lots.
and the ninth and tenth designating that the burial ground shall be divided into thirty shares, each one hundred and twenty feet in length from cast to west, and thirty-seven feet in width from north to south, so that each of the twelve lots in every share shall be thirty- seven feet in length by ten in width. The above by-laws being
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adopted, the following were elected as the first offleers of the associa- tion, Nov. 12 : trustees, Mark Baker, Joseph L. Conner, and Jere- miah Cross ; treasurer, Darius Dockam ; secretary, Nathaniel H. Clark.
The records and accounts of this association have been faithfully kept ; the copies of the original deed from Benjamin B. Dearborn, and of all deeds for the several shares and lots, being engrossed
Jocords of in full. The first record book, of 214 pages, is just filled. Lion. New members have been admitted to the association by vote from year to year.
Nathaniel II. Clark continued secretary till 1855 ; then B. M. Colby till his decease in 1803 ; and William T. Cass from 1863 Officers, 1531. till 1879. The present officers, elected by ballot at the annual meeting, May 28, 1881, are A. S. Ballantyne, Moses Garland, and E. L. Sanborn, trustees ; C. C. Rogers, secretary ; and S. B. P'ea- body, treasurer.
A full and graphic description of this cemetery and its tombs and monuments was given in the Merrimack Journal of July 31, 1874, from the pen of MI. B. Goodwin, Esq. Speaking of the first family tomb, erected some twenty years previously by Samuel Tilton, Esq., he says : -
"It is built of dressed Concord granite, and located In n most delightful spot, down in the ravine, with the rivulet, some twenty feet distant, unceas- ingly souuding its music in close proximity beneath the over-
M. D. Good- shadowing forest trees. The walk up through the yard, enclosed
win's deserip-
tion. with a handsome iron fence, to the entrance of the tomb, is paved with ilnely dressed granite, and there is a night of steps from the yard down to the little artitleial poud in the stream. The yard is beautifully embellished with trees and shrubbery, and on the stone door of the tomb was hung a fresh wreath of flowers, at the time of our visit there, the other day. Everything about the tomb and place is evincive of the very best taste. Above the portal, the name Tiltou, and date, in plain, well-cut letters."
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