OUR CEMETERY.

Oxford Observer, Volume 1, Issue III, 31 August 1889, Page 5

OUR CEMETERY.

To tlie Editor-of * The Observer. . Sir,— Now $hat.we have a real local paper, I hope "we shall be allowed to air our grievances— when I say " we," of course I mean my own sex, who are not generally supposed to take any , interest m public affairs. My present : ; grievance,: Sir, is the neglected state of >, \ our Cemetery. Whenever I go to it I. j wonder if the departed have any rela- ; tions here. There are scarcely more! j than half-a-dozen graves that are kept j m decent order. lam sure I have .) i,' seen dozens of funerals, and friends ; " weeping as though they had lost all \ : they cared for on earth, yet m a tew r days they seem to forget their sorrow, ' and when it comes to the cost of a tow giiillings to put a fence round the

grave they button up their pockets. A few years ago the Chairman of the Board allowed some sheep to be put into the Cemetery to eat down the superfluous herbage, which the Board could not aiibrd to have mowd. A great fuss was made by some of those whose graves were least cared for, though at that time the tomb of the Chairman's daughter was about; the only decent one m the C6motory. _ I trust, Sir, that/ my remarks will awaken some of our neighbors to a sense ot duty. Yours, &c. • Martha.