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plac*** i»f Interest.On Memorial Day wewant to tli«^ grave | Vard at ('amp Columbia 1 had the plcaa ure of mating several *hlg iruna’ among whom vsa* General l*ee, tin* orator of the day. 1 woa on tin* a tain I.We could npt hold any memorial e«jr* vice* at the cemetery (Colon) where the Maine sailor* and aoldlei* are burial. We liave vlaited the place, however, obtained aome hkulln and cnwn bolter from the tame pile and hail our picture* taken there. When they bury tin* dend here, they otwn th** caakot at tin* grave, lemovc the biHjy mnl place it in an excavation* cover It with ilitie uUnit hIx Inches deep and till up the grave. If. however, the frbmda of the «*ead are poor and fall to puy the grave rent ivguiarly. the renntina arc dug up and th own Into thl* tame pile, which Ih about MO feet olt;|uarc and Ih *urrouudlt;*d by a thl«*k Htone wail ten feet high it la, ac. «'ordl(ig to the next on, abo*it thirty f**et deep with bonoa, but Ucil Brooke had itcovered with hIx feet of «*arth The people who cannot afford to rent grave, him-ply hire it cortln and grave for the day, then the Ixnly t* lakcu up ami taken to the dead bonne and pul in winked lime, the Umicm eventually And their way to the hone pile.
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Conshohocken Recorder
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jun 20, 1899
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