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1869 Park, William: 63
1859 Patterson, James 64
1865 Paine, Richard. .74
1838 Paddock, James. 67
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C. DE F. BANCROFT.
GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY.
History from: Services at the Dedication of Gree Mount Cemetery, Montpelier. Vt., Sept. 15, 185 Published by order of the Commissioners. Montpe lier: E. P. Walton, Jr., printer, 1855.
1875 Robinson, Nelson A. 63
1840 Safford, Charles .37
1837 Sanders, Otis . 29
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1838 Smith, Dr. Hart. .33
1868 Smith, George H 35
1867 Smith, Leander W .37
1876 Smith, Alexander. . 55
1881 Smith, Walter J .19
1840 Stearns, Lewis. 63
1855 Staples, John W .69
1868 Sterling, Henry
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1830 Stickney, William .55
1874 St. John, Andrew, Jr 27
1868 St. Onge, Mitchell. .67
1880 Skinner, Ephraim C. 39
1875 Sullivan, Timothy. 64
1846 Taplin, Guy C. .. . 42
1839 Thombury, Philip .19
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1881 True, Charles B. .35
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1831 Percival, Thomas
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1855 Phinney, Jay. .26
1845 Potter, Luther .20
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1833 Prentiss, George .24
1879 Reed, James M. .48
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CALVIN J. KEITH, (see page 47) wh died in 1853, left a bequest of $ 1000 in h will for "purchasing a suitable place for burying-ground in Montpelier, and inclo ing and planting trees in the same," ar named Constant W. Storrs with the trus ees of his estate to "lay out the ground in lots and dispose of the same at a reason ble price, reserving a portion to be give gratuitously to the poor. The amount I ceived for lots to be used by said trustees improving said ground and in planting t same thickly with trees." To the liberali and public spirit of this gift, "the toy responded equally liberal, and at the ne annual meeting appointed Hezekiah Reed, James T. Thurston and Stodda B. Colby a committee to act on the beh of the town" with the trustees. The jo committee purchased of Isaiah Silver a cost of $2210 about 40 acres, which now inclosed and constitute Green Mo Cemetery, work on which was commen in the Autumn of 1854. By act of Legislature that same year, the whole m agement was vested in five commissions to be chosen by the town ; Elisha P. J .- ett, Hezekiah H. Reed, Charles Re),
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ames T. Thurston and George Langdon vere elected at the annual March meeting 855, the first board of commissioners. `he town at the same time placing at their disposal to defray the expenses of the Cem- tery $5000. The grounds were so far ompleted as to be dedicated with the isual forms and exercises Sept. 15, 1855.
Dedication Services .- Chant, written for he occasion, by Col. H. D. Hopkins, per- formed by the Union Choir Association, words, Psalm 90, adapted ; reading of the Scriptures by Rev. F. D. Hemmenway :
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth is a flower and is cut down- Job.
And Abraham stood up from before his lead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying : I am a stranger and a sojourner with you, give me a possession of a burying- place, that I may bury my dead.
And the field of Ephron,
field and the cave which was therein and all the trees that were in the field, that cover the certain destination to which we were in all the borders round about were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth .- Genesis. Behold I show you a mys- tery ; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment in the twink- ling of an eye at the last trump .- Ist Cor.
Prayer-By Rev. Wm. H. Lord :
Almighty and most merciful God, the Father of our spirits and Framer of our bodies : it becometh us to recognize Thee at this time, and adore thy glorious Maj- esty. Thou hast formed us out of the dust of the earth, and passed upon us the irre- versible sentence of Thy holiness; dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. We acknowledge the justice of the decree which consigns these earthly tabernacles of our spirits to the darkness and silence of the grave. And as we contemplate the multitudes of successive generations, who have all returned to the earth from whence they sprang, our hearts are impressed with the reality of Thy government over us, and with the solemnity of our present con- dition and future destiny. And most Holy Father, as we are now assembled in this place, to consecrate to our own use, and to the use of the generations that shall follow us, this burial place for the dead, we be- seech Thee, that serious thoughts of the greatness and majesty of Thine adminis- tration, and of our own weakness and frail- ty, may take possession of us. Remind us, we pray Thee, of our personal relations to thy moral law, and to the future before
us. Let not the ceremony, in which we engage, be merely listless and formal ; but enlisting our minds and hearts, may it send them forth to the contemplation of that promised inheritance of Thy people, where there is neither death nor the grave, and where no funeral monument and no conse- crated sepulchre shall ever be seen to indi- cate the mortality and to mark the corrup- tion of its inhabitants. For however beau- tiful and attractive we may make this place of sepulture, we yet confess, Great God, that it is, in all its parts, significant of our transitory and perishing estate, and that its various attractions cannot conceal from our thoughts the solemn use to which it is de- voted, and the still more solemn fact that makes its use imperative. We beseech Thee, that as often as we visit this spot, it may suggest the most serious and salutary reflections, and lead to the most earnest and holy purposes. And while we may here attest our considerate and generous affection for the dead, let this common the home of us all, teach us most impressively our duties to the living. As we here dis-
are all tending, may we learn wisdom to guide us amid the various relations of life, and find fresh and strong incentives to the performance of every duty, and to the cul- tivation of every grace. May we look to Him, Who, from out of the darkness of the grave, has brought life and immortal- ity to light, and in His gospel spoken to us of a resurrection from the dust of the earth. May we here learn to cherish and to value the hope of a better life, revealed in Thy Word, and to believe heartily in Him, Who will soon destroy death and rob the grave of its victims. And when we commit the bodies of our friends to this consecrated earth, may it be with the lively and assured hope, that through the blood of Jesus Christ, appropriated by faith, we may all be reunited in Thy kingdom of blessedness, to go no more out forever.
Hear this our prayer, and unto Thy name, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, be everlasting praises ; Amen.
Address-By Rev. F. W. Shelton :
We stand upon a hill-side which, almost yesterday, lay unreclaimed in its original wildness, and now already it begins to look like an embellished garden. Art has redeemed it from its rude estate, with an almost magic transformation. It has its winding walks, and will have its shady avenues. It is the most choice position in this valley, and its natural surface presents the charm of great variety. There is no stretch of landscape, in this neighborhood, around the abodes of the living, which can vie in beauty with this Paradise which you
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now dedicate, as the resting place of your beloved dead. And it is easy to predict what its aspect will be in a few years, when its remaining roughness shall have been assuaged ; when every returning sum- mer shall bring with it a richer shadow, and an added bloom ;- when affection shall have beautified it in every nook, and watered its flowers with tears.
On this occasion, so fraught with sol- emn, yet not unpleasing suggestion, your thoughts will naturally recur to one whose hand was always open with a generous largess, and who devised a portion of his wealth for so benevolent an end. The heart is cold in death which lately throbbed with sympathy for the living, but if no chiselled shaft should rise in gratitude upon the height to bear the record of his vir- tues, this spot shall be his noblest monu- ment. Peace to his ashes.
You, too, have done well, and have re- sponded to a true sentiment in consecra- ting these acres to a purpose so hallowed. Here, indeed, the husbandman shall not put in the grain, nor shall the plough-boy carol, nor shall the waving corn be seen upon these hills. They shall receive the germs of a richer harvest in their bosom. This land shall not change hands. It is the inalienable heritage of the dead forever. It is their riches, their right, their possession ;- theirs, with all its abundant variety of hill and dale, and rocks, and flowing water ;- a little dust, but it is enough to satisfy the wants of many. It will be protected with a jealous care, and none will be so rude in instinct as to pluck a flower. The winds alone shail rifle the buds which grow in this gar- den, and the frosts of heaven shall nip their heads. The laws which truly guard it, are not the statutes inscribed on pillars ; they are those which are graven deep in human nature: and the sentinels which keep watch over the tomb, are the most delicate sensibilities of the heart. Thus shall it descend as a burial place from gen- eration to generation, till it shall become so rich and holy with beloved dust, that all the treasures upon earth would not wrest it from your possession. It is now offered, with all its boundaries which lie beneath these skies. The deeds will be presented by your commissioners.
"This fairest spot of hill and glade,
Where blooms the flower and waves the tree, And silver streams delight the shade,
We consecrate, O Death, to_Thee."
An innate sentiment teaches us to have respect to the ashes of the departed. Thus when the spark of life is fled, the mourner stands long to gaze upon the casket which contained the jewel. Tenderly does he close the eyes which shall know no more
"their wonted fires," and imprints a las kiss on the lips which Death has sealec He scatters flowers upon the silent bosom He enrobes the form of the sleeper in fa and white habiliments, and at last in silenc and in sorrow commits it to the purifyin monld ;- earth to earth,-ashes to ashe -dust to dust. Nor does he rest cor tented when he has put it from his sigl with the latest ceremonials which decend requires. He guards the sacred spot fro each profane intrusion, and there he lix gers long, if he has loved well.
We find a care for sepulture existing t the proof of earliest records.
" ABRAHAM stood up, and bowed hir self to the people of the land, even to tl children of Heth. And he commune with them, saying, 'If it be your mir that I should bury my dead out of m sight, hear me, and intreat for me 1 Ephon the son of Zohar, that he may gi. me the cave of Machpelah, which he hat which is in the end of his field ; for much money as it is worth he shall give me, for a possession of a burial pla among you.'"-Gen. 23, 7-9.
All people have exhibited the like tra of humanity, The dreamy Turk will lea the living crowd which is by the Bosphory and sit all day beside the graves of l kindred. The red man of the forest che ishes within him the same germ and att bute of a higher civilization : for as a ha fate drives the tribes still onward to t " Father of Waters," the last thoughts their hearts is directed towards the sp where rest the bones of their fathers.
He who does violence to such a ser ment, lacks even the refinement of 1 savage. It is the tendency of the age disregard in some things that which 1 past held sacred, and to bear them down a vast development of physical means a physical energy. That utility is short-sig ed which shall ever trample on the dicta of a genuine decency. The pyramids sl rise sublime, with no better base than sands of the desert; but we must o look for ruins where Mammon builds $ altars on a dead man's bones.
When we gaze upon this crowd, in c nection with the object which has broult them here, and consider how large a It of it shall, at some time or other, be (- solved and mingle with this surround, dust, it awakens a throb of feeling which words cannot do justice. Ther s a poetry, it is true, connected with the tivation of rural cemeteries ; but I tist that it is something better than the se (- mentalism which is without depth d vapid. For it is not the charm, which e may throw around these melancholy plas,
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hat can deprive death of its sting, or often one shadow on the brow of the King of Terrors. It is not that the dark- ess of the grave can be mitigated, because he outside of it is beautified like a garden, or that the sleeper will rest more softly on bed which is perfumed with violets. It vill be as cold and hard and dark beneath he clod, as if no garlands were above t. But the teachings of a holy faith can ive a meaning to such adornments, and urround them with a tender solace, as the mblems of an immortal bloom.
It is because of the effect which they vill have upon ourselves, and not for any rood which they will do the silent sleepers. fo be occupied in such pious rites, is to lisengage us a little from the world's in- rustations ; to break asunder from the onds of a prevailing selfishness ; to pay hat which is due to memory, and raise our yes to the halo which invests the future. t is to gain strength for ourselves to look lown fearlessly into the portals of the sol- mn tomb ; to pay in thought, and study, nd reflection, something of what we owe o the characters of the good and noble. We know that man but poorly, whom we have only known when he was living. The pest may be said only to begin to live when he grave has closed upon them. I speak hot this of their own destiny, but their najor influence is given forth, only when hey have ceased to be. It is the memory of their lives, more than their very lives, which can sink at last into our hearts, br fully exhibit their own. They are ike those things which we might not have noticed, if they had not passed y. So, the river rolls on over an arid andscape, but when its chiefest volume has left the banks, then the vegetation prings up. It is from the past, the past, hat we gather all our wisdom, and live a housand years in a day. Thus we see hat it springs from a refined motive, and hat its tendency is salutary, when we seek o adorn a spot like this. It is to cherish he memory of those who have gone before is, and to show that love is not an empty lame.
" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod."
In surveying this spot, and the uses for vhich it is designed, some might be dis- posed to inquire-what need of these ex- ensive domains ? At a little distance from where we are now standing, among these vild Green Mountains, there is a humble village in the valley. It is full of thrift und industry, yet when centuries shall have
passed away,-from its location by nature, it will be only a village still.
This place shall be a city ; the youngest here present may live to see how it shall outstrip the other, in the number of its inhabitants. There will be no such compact masses and ranks of men in yonder streets as shall be assembled here. Thus death gains upon life in all places, until life shall gain the final victory over death.
On the border of that village there is already a cemetery of the dead, but it would soon be overcrowded. It clamors al- ready for a larger domain. Thus necessity itself has coincided with feeling in selecting a more ample and eligible place. There are many tender and touching associations, no doubt, connected with that spot, for its consecration is coeval with the settlement of this village. How many tears have fallen on its hitherto untroubled and quiet graves. There the child slumbers, and the young man, cut down in the nobility of his strength ; there the blossoms of the almond tree have fallen ; there the lovely daughter has been borne away, when bursting into the grace of womanhood, and when
Consumption, like a worm In the bud, Preyed on her damask cheek."
There, truly, are deposited the richest treasures which you had on earth.
But if in love and tenderness you shall disturb those ashes, to bring them here, it will be only as when one shall rearrange a couch, that they may rest more sweetly and securely and quietly forever. Here you will come afterward to smooth their narrow bed, to recall their virtues, to re- new your vows of constancy, and to say,- "My Father! my Mother! my Brother ! my Sister! my Child! forget thee !- NEVER."
Hither will you come with every chang- ing season of the year to renew your pil- grimage. Hither, when the winter is past, when the rain is over and gone, when the flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; hither, when the autumn dyes the foliage with mellow tints and hectic colors ; and you will reflect upon it without a pang, and you yourselves will covet no better lot than at last to lie down with these sleepers.
Who ever thought these rocks and jagged hills, which Nature fashioned in her wild- est moods, should so suggest the idea of quiet? No love of sordid weal could have accomplished that which you have this day achieved by your affection. Well may yon Mount,* which towers sublime, remove the blue veil from before his eyes,
* Camel's Hump.
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to gaze on this assembled multidude. Here shall the rough rocks be transformed to snowy marble ; but if no sculpture mem- orized the dead, these glorious hills would be a monument. Yon silver stream shall chant a constant requiem. What spot more silent and select than this among the gorgeous scenery of the mountains, where Summer paints her richest contrasts, and Winter strews her costliest jewelry around the realms of Death! There is an Echo here which mocks the ear, but wakes up sympathies within the heart. The chaunt- ing voices and the rich harmonic chords, which just went up into the open sky, re- turned in undulations, fainter still to mor- tal sense, but never obsolete. Even now comes stealing back the soul of wild flowers on the soft, Septembral breeze. It is Death alone which dies. This is the Christian's solace. This shall cheer the mourning crowds which wind through yon- der gateway, when they come to lay be- neath the turf the loved and lost. All who are in the grave shall come forth, for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on IMMORTALITY.
Presentation of the title deeds by H. H. Reed, Esq., in behalf of the commissioners. Dedication .- By Rev. Dr. Lord.
SIR: We receive these Title Deeds as representing and describing these beautiful and extensive grounds, which have been se- lected with so much taste, and enclosed and arranged with so great propriety and · beauty, for the purpose of a burial place for our dead. The munificent provision of one of our citizens, together with the un- usual and noble liberality of the town, in furnishing the large means to procure and embellish such a spot as this, have been equalled only by the energy, the economy and discretion with which you have ap- plied them. In reaching the close of your labors, you have far exceeded our anticipa- tions ; and now present to us a lot, in it- self, and in all its arrangements, perfectly adapted to the use for which it was de- signed, and most fit to be consecrated for- ever to the purpose of christian sepulture.
It has ever been the practice, both of humanity and of religion, to commemorate the dead by material monuments, and to regard the spot, which furnished a resting place for their bodies, as peculiarly sacred. The enclosures wherein the spirit of love and mourning has perpetuated, by the planted flower, by the rude cross, by the simple stone, by the marble shaft, or by the magnificent massive monument, some traces of the affection of children, of par- ents and of friends, and which recall the images of youth and beauty, of wisdom and
goodness, and relate their worth and varie excellence ; are ever hallowed in the mind of men. We do, then, give utterance the common sentiments of human natur when we comply with your request, ar formally consecrate and set apart, to its d signed and appropriate uses, this Cem tery.
We do now, therefore, dedicate all th ground, herein described, stretching fro its rocky battlements on the east to flinty ramparts on the west ; from its lo northern boundary, along down its slopi sides ; with its central mounds, its alluv heart, and its interval reaching near to t banks of the beautiful river that flows at base ; with all its trees and rocks, its v leys and hills, its springs and ravines ; w all its arranged and still unfinished lots ; be a perpetual possession unto us and our children, as a place where we m piously bury our dead, and rear over the ashes the symbols of our affection, af the mementoes of their worth. We de. cate it, as a place of reverent and mou)- ful, yet sweet recollections, of the departe; of high and solemn contemplation up the uncertainty of human life and its (- tain destiny ; of serious purposes of h living and preparation for death ; of che- ful and glorious anticipations of that tie when the graves shall be opened, and e dead, both small and great, shall cce forth to the promised resurrection, and 1 new, amid scenes far brighter than the, the holy affections and the pious frie - ships of their primeval abode. And we we consecrate .it to the dead, we comit it also to the generous care of the livil; with the hope, that it may be preservedn its present loveliness ; with the prayer, it whenever its turf may be broken, it s Il be but to receive to its keeping the by of one who believes in our Lord and viour Jesus Christ, as the Resurrection d the Life.
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