Handbook of the Fort Hill Cemetery: Containing Information Respecting the Ancient Mound and Fortification, and the Indian Monument Within the Enclosure. Also the Ordinances of the Board of Trustees |
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... parties to the Catawba and Cherokee terri- tories across the Alleghanies , and as far west as the Illinois . They swept over the whole region included between lakes Ontario , Erie and Huron , north . In the latter case , we know it was ...
... parties to the Catawba and Cherokee terri- tories across the Alleghanies , and as far west as the Illinois . They swept over the whole region included between lakes Ontario , Erie and Huron , north . In the latter case , we know it was ...
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... parties were ad- vanced as far as the fortress of Osco ; and that , at this point , they were repulsed by the advan- * See work on the Iroquois , by L. H. Morgan , Esq . p . 5 . cing columns of the Iroquois , who needed the game 32 THE ...
... parties were ad- vanced as far as the fortress of Osco ; and that , at this point , they were repulsed by the advan- * See work on the Iroquois , by L. H. Morgan , Esq . p . 5 . cing columns of the Iroquois , who needed the game 32 THE ...
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... said that Webster , in his life time , with parties of the Onondagas , frequently visited these grounds , and manifested for them an unusual regard . rounding country , it was a position highly eligible for 34 THE CAYUGAS .
... said that Webster , in his life time , with parties of the Onondagas , frequently visited these grounds , and manifested for them an unusual regard . rounding country , it was a position highly eligible for 34 THE CAYUGAS .
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... to his people . Very little , however , beyond the painful story of her death , is positively known of her . That she was born in this vicinity , and went to Penn- sylvania with the parties of her nation who re- moved.
... to his people . Very little , however , beyond the painful story of her death , is positively known of her . That she was born in this vicinity , and went to Penn- sylvania with the parties of her nation who re- moved.
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... parties of her nation who re- moved thither about the middle of the eighteenth century , may be fairly inferred from all that is more confidently alleged respecting her marriage and tragical fate . But of this there is no tradi- tion ...
... parties of her nation who re- moved thither about the middle of the eighteenth century , may be fairly inferred from all that is more confidently alleged respecting her marriage and tragical fate . But of this there is no tradi- tion ...
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Page 75 - Jesus answered and said unto them : — ** Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Page 93 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice.
Page 74 - Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Page 84 - But man dieth, and wasteth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up : so man lieth down, and riseth not ; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 94 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 74 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Page 75 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Page 75 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 94 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 75 - All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.