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And today, our regular contributor Bill Brice tells us a story from his little town, Antrim, New Hampshire. Antrim's voters elected me a cemetery trustee in 2018. I'd help two other trustees govern the town's four public cemeteries. It's meant receiving occasional telephone calls from relatives of deceased persons who wanted to be buried in Antrim. Among the usual reasons for this are that the deceased was born, or spent many happy summers in the town.
The callers generally ask about getting the grave dug. I gather the correct term of art is opening the grave. I refer them to a pleasant, good-natured, and compassionate gentleman with a backhoe, who performs this office for a funeral parlor in the neighboring town of Hillsboro, and for anyone else in the area who needs his services. Antrim's public cemeteries are Center, Meetinghouse Hill, North Branch, and Over East. I visited them all before my election.
The town's Department of Highways had maintained them well. Three of the four are now full, with many dark gray, heavily weathered slate markers from the 18th and 19th centuries. Only North Branch is active, which is to say, new customers are welcome. Recently, after a friendly and sympathetic chat with an older woman who wishes to bury her son's remains here, I strolled down to Cemetery Road, a well-kept dirt road that borders my property, just beyond an unnamed stream that flows from my land towards Steele's Pond and the North Branch River. It was amidst the heat wave in mid-July 2019; the slightest breeze was welcome.
As is usually the case with rural dirt roads, the trees lining both sides of the right of way had grown tall, and large enough to form a kind of green tunnel, which I found beautiful and soothing.
Some of the older trees where the top of the hills seemed to have grown as mirrors of one another, their upper branches entwined. Perhaps they are ideal lovers, growing side by side and together, completing one another. I reached the cemetery and found the second gate open, so I entered and found my caller's family plot. It is large, and inspires confidence that her relatives will find room there long after I am gone. When I was a child, my family lived at 57 Columbia Street in Mohawk, New York.
The first house my parents owned, it was across from the Mohawk Cemetery. My mother occasionally noted that whatever one might say about a cemetery, its occupants were quiet neighbors. I often walked through it. I found the markers a kind of history book, nearly all bearing the names of ordinary people whose lives were quietly lived in a small town away from the shouting and tumult of the great world. The Mohawk Cemetery had only one distinguished occupant, Francis Elias Spinner, who had been Hertford County Sheriff, a militia general, a three-term U.S.
Representative, once Democrat, twice a Republican, and Treasurer of the United States under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. He was also the first federal executive to hire women for clerical work on the same basis as men. He was renowned for his flamboyantly elaborate signature, which appeared on millions of United States notes. He had developed it consciously to discourage counterfeiting. The signature appears on his grave marker in the Mohawk Cemetery.
It also appears on the plinth of his monument across the Mohawk River in Herkimer, New York, which also bears this quotation. The fact that I was instrumental in introducing women to employment in the offices of the government gives me more real satisfaction than all the other deeds of my life. Coming back to my summer's day in the North Branch Cemetery, I paused for a few moments to look north, across the valley of the North Branch River toward Campbell Mountain in Hillsborough. Then I went down the rows of stones, noting several fellows who cantered off with the New Hampshire Dragoons during the Civil War, and a quantity who had served in World Wars One and Two. One fellow had served in both.
When I was a boy, such men and women called themselves retreads. There were also a few who had served in Vietnam. There were also a few revolutionaries, mostly identified by the militia company in which they had served. Although I know he's buried in North Branch, I couldn't find a marker for the long-lived George Gates, born August eighth, seventeen fifty-three, and died December thirteenth, eighteen forty-five. He had fought at Bunker Hill on June seventeenth, seventeen seventy-five, among those commanded, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." And help prove, as one British officer wrote, that the Americans are full as good soldiers as ours.
One fellow named Tuttle, an old New England family, had a few small stones placed atop his marker. It's a touching custom derived from the Jews. Flowers fade, stones endure. Perhaps a secular meaning might be found too, as long as one is remembered by someone, one never truly dies.
So I found a suitable pebble in the dirt road I was on and placed it among the others on the Tuttle marker. Two markers were particularly memorable. One read, "Archie F. Perry." 1886-1950, an honest man. There are worse things for which to be remembered.
The other was a bench for a member of an old Antrim family, whose relatives I know. It reads, "Dennis C. Gale, Senior, 1943 to 2008." We sit here, thankfully. He was the man. He didn't have to be.
There were several other benches about North Branch. They reminded me of the 19th century custom of picnicking in cemeteries, bringing the baskets to the family plots. Before Sir Alexander Fleming identified penicillin, death was a constant visitor for many families. Perhaps this custom allowed people to share good times with their deceased relatives. It waned by the 20s as early deaths became less common.
The benches also reminded me of Conrad Aiken. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and man of letters who retired to Savannah, where he had been born, he often sat by his parents' grave in Bonaventure Cemetery, at least in part for the view of the harbor and of the arriving and departing merchantmen. He once saw a ship with an intriguing name heading down to the sea. He did some research at the port authority, where he confirmed the ship's name and looked up her destination. That information gave him a two-line poem.
Aiken's tombstone is a bench; he wanted people to sit and enjoy a martini by his grave. On it is the poem, which is his epitaph: "Cosmos Mariner, Destination Unknown." And great job, as always, to Robbie Davis for his work. Here at Our American Stories, and a special thanks to Bill Brice for this piece. He's one of our regular contributors, and just a great voice. And my goodness, I keep thinking of Archie F.
Perry, 1886 to 1950, and all it says on his grave marker are three words: an honest man. It doesn't get better than that. And by the way, we'd love to hear your final thoughts—stories, stories about death, stories from people who are in their final days. There are not more interesting stories than that, or it could even just be a eulogy. My goodness, the eulogies we heard from the Kobe Bryant memorial, from the memorial of Arnold Palmer, which is some—it's some of the best material we've ever put on the air.
The storytelling is so beautiful. Again, send all of your stories and suggestions to ouramericanstories dot com. Bill Brice, more of his storytelling from the little part of America called Antrim, New Hampshire, here on Our American Story. Power Slab Twenty Four arrives in Las Vegas on Friday, October ninth, at the Chelsea Theater at the Cosmopolitan. If you've never been to a Power Slap event, now is your chance to see one of the most exciting live sporting events on the planet.
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