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| Gray Yard Cemetery |
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| The Gray Cemetery
consists of a scattering of field stone
markers situated in the woods on what
was the farm of one of Monmouth's
earliest settlers, Thomas Gray. None of
the stones discovered to date is
inscribed, but the arrangement appears
to indicate family groups. |
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| "And we look back
through the gloom of a century, and
watch them with peculiar interest as
they gather on the little plot then
sanctified as the home of the dead, but
now, alas! desecrated and put to a
common use, to place in its narrow
tenement the first form the dark fiend
has torn from among them -- the child
of Thomas Gray. The place where this
child was buried was set apart for, and
used for many years as, a burying
ground. In it rest the remains of Thomas
Gray and wife, and many others of the
pioneers; in number between twenty and
thirty.: |
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Harry Hayman
Cochrane, History of Monmouth and
Wales, 1894, P. 37
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