Mount Auburn one more time

Mount Auburn, the first Garden Cemetery in the United States 1831

Longfellow

Mary Baker Eddy looking out over Halcyon Lake

Consecration Dell

hints of Pere-Lachaise in Paris

Torrey Monument revisited - Mount Auburn - updated 1/7/2016

Two views of Edward Torrey's subtle yet powerful monument in Mount Auburn Cemetery. The first is a 1853 daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes and the second is my photo from 2010.

Epitaphs:

Ch's. T. Torrey.

Born at Scituate Nov. 21 1813,

Graduated at Yale College Aug. 1833.

Ordained at Providence March 1837

Arrested at Baltimore June 24, 1844.

Died in the Penitentiary of that city May 9, 1846.

The friends of the

American Slave

erect this stone

in his memory,

a martyr for Liberty

"Where NOW beneath

his burthen

The toiling slave

is driven.

Where now a tyrant's

mockery

is offered up

to heaven.

THERE shall his praise

be spoken,

redeemed from

falsehood's ban.

When the fetters shall

be broken,

And the slave shall

be a MAN."

According to mountauburn dot org Torrey is buried directly below the monument.

Mt. Auburn

Livermore

Bourne - Mt. Auburn

Isabella Stewart Gardner - Mt. Auburn

Harriot Kezia Hunt - Mt. Auburn

"The Goddess Hygeia"

Harriot Kezia Hunt "For forty years a physician in Boston"

Joab Hunt and Kezia Wentworth - Mt. Auburn

Joab Hunt died 1827 Kezia Wentworth Hunt died 1847

Lieut. Edgar Marshall Newcomb - Mt. Auburn

"Until the day break and the shadows flee away. . . "

"Edgar M. Newcomb, Lieut 19 Reg Mass Vols Died Dec 20, 1862 at Falmouth, VA of wounds received in the battle of Fredericksburg aged 22 years."

Binney - Mt. Auburn

Amos Binney MD, died at Rome Feb. 18, 1847, aged 41

Henry Prentice Binney died April 17, 1878, aged 40 years William Greene Binney died Aug 3, 1909, aged 75 years

Caroline Veazey Ward - Mt. Auburn

R. S. Wade - Mt. Auburn

James and Emma Gay - Mt. Auburn

A stroll through Mt. Auburn in early Spring

Along Hazel Dell Path. . .