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ture, or any other plan yet adapted for disposing of 
the human corpse, and here was one of his most re- 
markable singularities or peculiarities as I termed them 
in the first paragraph of this memoir: for it was whilst 
he was considering, or had perhaps determined on, 
cremation for himself that he was planning the trans- 
fer of the remains of his father from Paris, where 
they had for many years previous been interred in [I 
think] the Pére la Chaise Cemetery; and those of his 
mother from her supposed last resting place many 
years earlier in Philadelphia, to the older portion .of 
the Laurel Hill Cemetery of our city, where he wished 
their remains to be interred side by side, and where he 
expressed to me many years ago the desire that any 
ashes which might remain from the cremation of his 
own body should be used in sprinkling their graves, 
and causing the flowers and turf thus to grow fuller 
and more perfectly over them! Such was his respect- 
ful and affectionate reverence for both father and 
mother |! 
Peculiar and even paradoxical as Mr. Seybert some- 
times appeared to be, he had the high respect and re- 
gard of those who knew him well, and during his last 
serious illness, he was not only comforted, but his life, 
it is believed, prolonged by the thoughtfulness of 
ladies, who sent him delicately prepared food which 
nourished and sustained him, and without which he 
would probably have died some months earlier than he 
did, but which made his more sanguine friends, even 
