burial ground

Nearly 10,000 people, most of them freedmen, gathered in the freshly landscaped burial ground to commemorate the dead.

The burial ground was empty except for the occasional horse-drawn caisson being pulled through its quiet lanes.

Over a decade ago, Abdel-Alim donated the land that is now the ceremony to the Islamic society for use as a burial ground.

Dryburgh Abbey was at one time the property of the Scott family, which accounts for its use as their burial-ground.

He died in Washington years after, again a Senator, and is buried in the Congressional burial ground.

The new grave now looks very neat, slabbed all over; and the old burial-ground is ready to build on whenever good times arrive.

Beside it is the mossy burial-ground, where prim old ladies walk on Sunday afternoons, with sprigs of sweet-william.

It has been mentioned that a portion of the burial ground must be left unconsecrated.