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A short distance from this cemetery, just back of the Presbyterian Church, is another. This is enclosed by a neat, white paUng, and is kept in good order. I found here only one old stone. The following is an exact copy : —

" MEMENTO MORI

HERE RESTS

IN PEACE, THE HON'IBLE

WYSEMAN CLAGETT, ESQ'''

FORMERLY

ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE KING

AFl'ERWARDS

FOR THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE

DECEMBER 4TH, ANNOQ DOMINNI

1784"

Leaving the main road, a short drive leads to another grave-yard, where the celebrated Rogers Tomb is situated. A brief history of this tomb may perhaps prove interesting to the reader. Cyrus Rogers was a well-to-do farmer of Litchfield, and was often heard to remark, during his life, that he should take his money with him when he died. No one knew what he meant, not even his own family ; but it was found, on opening his will after his decease, that he had left ail of his property — excepting what the law would give his widow — to build a tomb to enclose his selfish bones. A flagging of hammered granite, each stone complete in itself, is in front of the tomb. The stones composing this flagging are six in number, and the whole measures ten and one half feet by fifteen feet. The tomb is granite, and is twelve feet high and fourteen feet long. There are four beautifully polished Scotch granite columns in front, which rest each on a granite plinth and support the jutting granite roof. The entire front is /'r7//>//("<'/ granite, also the door, which is six and one half by three and one fourth feet. The sides are blocks of hammered granite, cemented with a black cement, containing either lead or iron. The top is composed of granite stones, each fourteen feet long, about two feet wide, and having a slope each side of perhaps six inches. Altogether it is a solid structure. " ROGERS, 1 881" is carved on the upper part, above the door. lam unable to state whether Mrs. Rogers is to be allowed to lay her bones to rest inside its walls, if she should choose to do so.

This cemetery is situated in the midst of dense, pine wood, and enclosed by a fence in good repair. The side where most of the old graves are located slopes tovv'ard the northeast, and is carpeted with a growth of red lichen and grey moss, from three to six inches deep. The following are exact copies of inscriptions found here : —

��"here lies the body of molly chafe daughter of lieut samuel

CHAFE AND M"* MOLLY HIS WIFE WHO DIED AUG : 5TH, I775,AGED 42 YEARS 4 MONTHS & 23 D

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