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J. Gleason, president; J. C. Poole, vice 
president; Solomon Sax, treasurer, and 
Dr. N. C. Bulkley, secretary. The ceme- 
tery site consists of about 13 acres, lying 
a short distance north of the city. 
At a meeting the City Council of Bi- 
loxi, Miss., has decided to take immediate 
steps to open the new cemetery at the naval 
reserve and will have the twenty acres 
platted into lots. 
Ground has been broken for the new 
Evergreen Cemetery on the Preston Street 
Road, Louisville, Ky. The new cemetery 
comprises 240 acres. All modern ideas will 
be carried out in laying out the drives and 
drainage. The officers of the company are : 
G. A. Ellerkamp, president; Alvis S. Ben- 
nett, secretary; Philip E. Allison, treasurer, 
and John L. Lynn, vice president and gen- 
eral manager. 
The Catholic diocese of Buffalo, through 
Bishop Charles Colton and Monsignor Nel- 
son T. Baker, has purchased a 20 acre plot 
at Pine Hill, Cheektowaga, N. Y., for an 
Italian Catholic cemetery. Improvements 
costing $25,000 will be started immediately. 
They will include an ornamental approach 
to the cemetery, an administration building 
and a chapel. The contract for the im- 
provements has been given to Edward Jor- 
dan of 1964 South Park avenue, Buffalo. 
“First Rural Cemetery in America.” 
In a copy of Howard Evarts Weed's 
book, “Modern Park Cemeteries,” that has 
just come into my hands I read that “The 
first rural cemetery of America was es- 
tablished in 1831 at Boston. If, as the con- 
text would seem to indicate, by “rural 
cemetery” is meant a plot of ground set 
apart for burial purposes, and more or less 
remote from the churchyard, although not 
necessarily outside the geographical limits 
of the city, Mount Auburn was not the 
first such cemetery. “The Grove Street 
Cemetery” — now so-called — antedates it by 
thirty-four years. In October, 1797, there 
was incorporated “The Proprietors of the 
New Burying Ground in New Haven,” 
one of whose first acts was to authorize 
a committee to “Ornament thegrounds with 
such kinds and so many rows of trees as 
they shall judge advisable.” The first per- 
son buried in this cemetery was Martha 
Townsend, who died November 9, 1797. 
The moving spirit in the establishment of 
the “New Burying Ground” was Hon. 
James Hillhouse, afterwards Member of 
Congress, United States Senator and Presi- 
dent pro tempore of the United States 
Senate. The foregoing statements are 
taken from E. E. Atwater’s “History of the 
City of New Haven.” Their authenticity 
and correctness are beyond dispute. If 
Mount Auburn was the first rural cemetery 
it is because the old Grove Street Ceme- 
tery does not fit the designation and not be- 
cause of earlier establishment. 
Thos. H. Smith, 
Asst. Librarian, Free Public Library. 
New Haven, Conn. 
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