People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — WESTON CEMETERY. MODERN FARM RESIDENCE OF BENJAMIN F. GIFFORD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WESTON CEMETERY.

MODERN FARM RESIDENCE OF BENJAMIN F. GIFFORD.

Located on a sightly prominence on the high banks ‘of the Iroquois just below the falls to the west of Rensselaer, is Weston Cemetery, naturally an unexcelled plot lor the home of the dead, and recently made more beautiful by the expenditure of much labor and money. Weston s a very old cemetery and contains a few graves of persons who died in the eighteenth cen tury, their remains having been removed here from other places. There are many very fine monuments. Few towns of like population employ a salaried sexton whose whole time is devoted to caring for the cemetery and beautifying the grounds, as is the case here. The present cem etery trustees,. (Edward D Rhoades, pres., John Eger, treas., John R. Vanatta, secy.,)

are now serving in their second year and have wrought a wonderful change during their administration. Graveled driveways, walks. 500 feet of ornamental iron fence, a new tool house, an arched gateway, etc , are part of the results achieved by them. Now all the shade trees are nicely trimmed, the grass well sodded, the graves frequently dressed with a lawn mower and a general tidy appearance maintained. and all this is accomplished without cost to the town, the cemetery being made self sustaining through the good financeering of the committee. Nor is this all they hope to accomplish. Their plans include a green house and floral landscape decorations, and this too will undoubtedly be made selfsustaining through the liberal patronage-of the citizens.

Occupied by Levi B. Hewitt, four miles north-east of Valma, Jasper county, similar to 110 others on his tract of 30'.000 acres of reclaimed land. SeePinamink Drainage, page six. | . . _ ft - 1 '. . :—-

RESIDENCE OF WM. WASHBURN. (SEE SKETCH.)