. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ave not been numerous. In 1868, a number of bodieswere brought from the Carpenter Street burying-ground, which had been used for forty years to relievethe churchyard from overcrowding. This was the lastconsiderable number of interments. Three reasons led to the gradual closing of thechurchyard as a burial-ground. The first and mostimportant of these was lack of space. Then, the Boardof Health had an ordinance of Councils passed, pro-hibiting the interment of persons who had died ofc
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ave not been numerous. In 1868, a number of bodieswere brought from the Carpenter Street burying-ground, which had been used for forty years to relievethe churchyard from overcrowding. This was the lastconsiderable number of interments. Three reasons led to the gradual closing of thechurchyard as a burial-ground. The first and mostimportant of these was lack of space. Then, the Boardof Health had an ordinance of Councils passed, pro-hibiting the interment of persons who had died ofcontagious diseases in city churchyards, and of anyburials whatever in crowded graves or vaults, or abovea certain depth. Then, families began to acquire lotsin the cemeteries in outlying districts. But there were some who held their lots in fee sim-ple, and these have since used them, subject to therestrictions of the Board of Health. To-day the num-ber who enjoy this burial right, as it is called, are few,and it will not be many years before the Old PineStreet churchyard opens its last grave. Occasionally,.
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