Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — SETS EXAMPLE TO COUNTRY [ARTICLE]

SETS EXAMPLE TO COUNTRY

Boston Guards With Jealous Care the Burial Places of Men Great in American history. There is not another town in the i United States, and probably none in the world, which has cherished the resting places of its great dead as has Boston. There are no less than a dozen cemeteries In and close about | ti*e City which . bear on their headstones the names of famous men and | women, many of whom died centuries ago. Most of these cemeteries are no s longer l burying grounds, having been | for long years crowded to the utmost ■ with white marble memorials to older ; generations; but they are preserved with the utmost care, no matter how [ valuable they may become for other ' purposes. Some of them front upon I busy streets, and are surrounded by high business? buildings; but rever- ! once for the great names on the headj. stones keeps them intact- ! One, *»f the oldest of them, all is the Granary burying ground, so called because the town granary once stood near ft. In this little plot of ground ■ tie the remains of three signers of the rvdaratim of Independence John j llano *‘fc. Samuel Adams a fid Robert I n»im> N.n,» gu-pmur! tnrlnrij ing the famous Governor Hancock, are j buried here, and so is Samuel Sewall, , who sternly condemned so many itvjj-Os to death, and wrote such an ! “nteresting diary abotft it. Here, too, lies John-. Hull, the colonial mint master- who gave to his daughter when j she married Bewail her weight in I Pine Tree shillings. Peter Fanueil [•and Pan! Revere are buried here, too, ! and the most conspicuous monument I of all is the one that Benjamin Frank- | tin erected to his parents. Here is an .acre of soil sirn with the bones of , men that made American history. No ' wonder B don cherishes It well.