THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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single graves. Experience here has shown that such 
use is only temporary, the tendency being to buy 
lots and re-inter. 
The cemetery has a Receiving vault of a capac- 
ity for 60 bodies. No greenhouses have been es- 
tablished on the grounds. 
The cemetery has always been conducted strict- 
ly on the lawn plan. The graves are generally lev- 
el, though some mounds have been allowed not 
more than five inches high. The lots are designat- 
ed by stones set flush with the ground. No hedges, 
fences, or copings are allowed. Stone grave mark- 
ers must be, if shallow, set ort a stone foundation, 
if of granite, set not less than 3 feet in the ground. 
Headstones are permitted not higher than 2 feet, 
and foot stones not more than 8 inches. No metal 
markers or monuments are permitted. The ceme- 
tery has, generally speaking, a fine display of mon- 
umental work. 
All work about the grounds, including the 
building of foundations for monuments is done by 
employees of the cemetery, and no workmen from 
the outside are admitted, except such as are requir- 
ed to erect monuments. 
That important feature of modern cemetery 
management. Perpetual Care, has not yet received 
due attention, owing to the large capital that has 
been expended on improvements, but it is expected 
that a fund will soon be established. However, 
there are a number of special trusts in operation. 
The cemetery company at present cares for all lots 
equally, whether occupied, sold or unsold, and 
whether for resident or non-resident .owners. 
Women in Westminster Abbey. 
The old gray Minster of Westminster, whose 
records date back over twelve hundred years, has 
found room for numbers of women in its long line 
of honored dead. Ethelgoda, wife of Sebert, King 
of Essex, who founded the Abbey on the site of a 
temple of Apollo, and his sister were the first women 
to be buried within its sacred precincts. Edward 
the Confessor commenced the building of the great 
edifice as it now stands, and Edith his wife was the 
next woman to repose in it. Since that time quite 
a large gathering of historic dames have found a 
final resting place in the old Abbey. Queen Maud, 
wife of Henry I., through whose marriage the Nor- 
mans and Saxons were reunited, sleeps here. Then 
came Henry HI., who from his own purse nearly 
rebuilt it in a splendid manner, and laid therein 
his little dumb daughter. Then we have Lady 
Aveline of Albemarle, wife of Earl of Lancaster, he 
of the Red Rose; Eleanor of Provence in whose 
honor on her last journey. Charing Cross, the twelfth 
cross, was erected; Philippa, mother of the Black 
Prince, founder of Queen’s College, Oxford. A re- 
cumbent statue marks her tomb, to which it is said 
Tennyson bears a strong resemblance. The poet 
claimed descent from this line. The first protestant 
queen of England, Anne of Bohemia, followed, then 
came Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V. The 
first to rest in Henry VIH’s chapel was his wife 
Elizabeth of York, who was followed by her moth- 
er-in-law, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Rich- 
mond and Derby who founded two colleges at Cam- 
bridge and a chair of divinity at Oxford. “Bloody 
Mary” lies in an unmarked grave, Queen Elizabeth’s 
coffin resting on top of Mary’s; Mary, Queen of 
Scots lies near by and both these tombs have life 
size portrait recumbent statues, which distinctly dis- 
play the historic characteristics of the two women. 
It was in Elizabeth’s reign that men and women re- 
nowned in politics, arts and letters were first given 
entrance to the Abbey for final repose. The moth- 
er of Lady Jane Grey lies under a monument erect- 
ed by her second husband. One of the women of 
the Russell family has a monument representing her 
sitting at ease in an osier chair, and her sister who 
was born in the abbey precincts, where her mother 
had taken refuge from the plague, lies near her. 
Catherine Knollys was granted privilege of inter- 
ment in the abbey on account of faithful service to 
Queen Anne Boleyn, and the Norrises, deadly ri- 
vals, because Henry Norris alone of the family 
went with her to the scaffold. Lord Burleigh erect- 
ed a high monument to his wife and daughter, 
whose loss overwhelmed him. He kneels in the 
monument in his robes of state, a picturs of grief. 
The monument of the beautiful Duchess of Rich- 
mond, is a curious one. It is her effigy in wa.x, 
dressed in her conventional robes, accompanied by 
a stuffed parrot, an old pet, the whole enclosed in 
a glass case. 
Mary Beaumont, mother of George Villiers, 
Duke of Buckingham, lies in a splendid family tomb. 
Elizabeth Claypole, Cromwell’s favorite daughter, 
found a place in the abbey, but her illustrious fath- 
er was cast out. The great actress, Sarah Siddons, 
rests in this pantheon, as well as Anne Oldfield and 
Anne Bracegirdle. Perhaps the best known monu- 
ment in Westminster is that of Lady Elizabeth 
Nightingale. That cruel figure of Death stealing 
up from the tomb beneath to cast his dart at the 
girl slipping from the arms of her husband above. 
The family vault of the Delavels of Northumberland 
brings to notice “Wild Lady Tyrconnell’’ who lies 
here. Lady Strathmore, she of the Strathmore se- ' 
cret, was buried in the Abbey in 1800. 
History attaches some important incident to the 
large majority of .silent sleepers here, and no short 
note can do justice to any feature of such history. 
