Dedication of the Bellefontaine Cemetery: Address of Professor Post, and Other Proceedings on that Occasion; Also, the Charter of the Association, &c.; with The Proceedings of the Second Annual MeetingT.W. Ustick, 1851 - 69 ページ |
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66 nine feet amid Annual Meeting avenues beautiful Bellefontaine Cemetery Board of Trustees bosom burial place by-laws Cemetery Grounds cents CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS church class lot color consecrate Corporation Court Darby dead death dedicated dust earth eight feet eloquence embowered erected face fence flowers forever genius gentle God's garden grief hallowed hallowed ground hundred immortal improvements INCLOSURES interment James James E James Harrison L. M. Kennett lots sold Louis County M'Adamizing M'Pherson marble memory monuments mortal mourner nature obelisk paid persons posts purchase purpose railing Receiving Tomb remove repose road Rural Cemetery Association Saint Louis sale of lots Samuel scenes Secretary and Treasurer SECTION seemly selection sentiment sepulture shade shadow Shepley shrubbery shrubs Single graves six feet solemn soothe sorrow spirit Stockholders stone Superintendent tastes and feelings tears thousand dollars tion trees voice walk Wayman Crow William WILLIAM BENNETT William H Yeatman
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11 ページ - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
1 ページ - And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
47 ページ - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
3 ページ - But the grave of those we loved — what a place for meditation ! There it is that we call up in long review the whole history of virtue and gentleness, and the thousand endearments lavished upon us almost unheeded in the daily intercourse of intimacy ; there it is that we dwell upon the tenderness, the solemn, awful tenderness of the parting scene.
3 ページ - ... then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan and pour the unavailing tear, more deep, more bitter because unheard and unavailing. Then weave thy chaplet of flowers and strew the beauties of Nature about the grave ; console thy broken spirit, if thou canst, with these tender yet futile tributes of regret ; but take warning by the bitterness of this thy contrite affliction over the dead, and henceforth be more faithful and affectionate in...
1 ページ - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you : give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
34 ページ - Trustees, from 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.
52 ページ - ... and shall not be liable to be sold on execution, or be applied in payment of debts due from any individual proprietor.
27 ページ - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour — The path of glory leads but to the grave.
51 ページ - Middlesex, be punished by a fine not less than Five Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars, according , to the nature and aggravation of the offence ; and such offender shall also be...