Excerpt from The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove: Report for 1857
Some of the members of the, Society being sagacious enough to perceive the dangers that threatened their original plan, determined to organize a new Association which should have but one object, viz: that of establishing and conducting a public, rural Cemetery, upon such principles and under such a system of management as would best accord with the feelings and wishes of the community. These had been excited by the examples of Mount Auburn, in Boston, of Greenwood, in New York, and of Laurel Hill, in Philadelphia, asthose had been by Perela Chaise, in Paris. The design of these rural Cemeteries was to remove from the last resting places of the friends loved and lost that gloom and dread with which a future state was regarded by the ancient Pagans - which made them look forward to the happiest state hereafter as one far inferior to the lowest condi[4.
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