cemeDowning’s Elegy in a Country Cemetery 1915

[Daily Record, June 9 .]

[Cambra, Pa., May, 30.

Editor of the Record:

The people of Mossville had a cleanup day at the graveyard last Saturday. I wrote a little poetry of the affair. If you will print it in your paper I will be very grateful.

George Downing.]

CLEAN-UP-DAY AT MOSSVILLE CEMETERY

The graveyard at Mossvile

Had long been neglected:

On Saturday last a large

Crowd there collected.

With Shovels and picks

And tools that were needed,

The ground was tore up

And much of it seeded.

They toiled and labored

With pleasure and glee,

And did other business

Right up to a T.

Lewis Creveling had died

So had Moss J. T.

Casper Griedly was left

The only trustee.

Ruben Creveling was named

To fill first vacant space,

He and Friedly another

Will soon put in place.

The Pennington Post

Some flags gave out.

I. N. Mingus was delegated

To place them about.

The dinner they served

Was surely immense,

The proceeds will go

To buy a new fence.

To buy some tools

And a shed to cover them

Some money was collected;

Will soon be erected.

To those who sent money,

We would like to say,

It was wisely spent

Before the close of the day.

You may call it a f relic,

A bee or a spell,

The imporvement made

Would be hard to tell.

But seeing is beleiving,

When passing this way

Just gaze at the cemetery

In its new array.