In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city . s Seventh Regiment, proceeding bythe Ericsson. Old members of that gallant corpsstill remember the service for its heat and discomforts. The visitor, perhaps, will be apt to linger longestabout vaults 191 and 192. Here rest the unknown,unclaimed remains of the early burghers of NewAmsterdam. What a stir you fancy there must havebeen among the ghosts when the edict for clearing outthe vaults of the Old South went forth. A hundredand more years they had rested undisturbed. Genera-tions had come and gone. A city h
In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city . s Seventh Regiment, proceeding bythe Ericsson. Old members of that gallant corpsstill remember the service for its heat and discomforts. The visitor, perhaps, will be apt to linger longestabout vaults 191 and 192. Here rest the unknown,unclaimed remains of the early burghers of NewAmsterdam. What a stir you fancy there must havebeen among the ghosts when the edict for clearing outthe vaults of the Old South went forth. A hundredand more years they had rested undisturbed. Genera-tions had come and gone. A city had grown up aroundthem. Their descendants, like their property, hadbeen scattered over the earth, and now none remainedto care for their bones. The church authorities,alarmed at the encroachments of the city on theirproperty, ordered a removal to the new cemetery uptown. Then came a day when the vaults were openedand the old sexton descended with his box to gatherup the dust. There are other vaults in the yard prolific of mem-ories. In the Morton vault lie the remains of General. E o W q-t 0) as J=-T3^ ?^ a. ^ o -C c3 ^ £? h --^ o Two Marble Cemeteries 35 Jacob Morton, who commanded the military at theobsequies of ex-President Monroe. The receivingvault held for some years the body of the Spanish-American General Paez, who, after the usual stormycareer of generals in his country, fled to New York, tofind the death he had escaped in far more warlikescenes awaiting him here. The body was in disputeamong the relatives, it is said, and when the questionwas settled it was removed to South America for Eagle of the navy is buried at the westend of the yard, and near him lies Commodore BuUus;the latter, with his wife and three small children, wason board the Chesapeake when the Leopard made hermurderous attack. They were on their way to aMediterranean Consulate at the time, and during theaction Mrs. Bullus and her children were removedfrom the cabin to a place of safe
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