Theodore Parker's monument is visited by tourists in Italy. Captain John
Steel made his last voyage to the port of Hong Kong. John S. Dwight lies
in Mount Vernon; Dr. and Mrs. Ripley in Greenwood. The young couple who
went to California never came back and never will. Robert Shaw fell at
Fort Sumter and shares a place in the trenches with his men; and the
battlefields of the South hold all that was mortal of three others. Not
one found final shelter under the sod of Brook Farm.
The Rev. John Allen on resigning his pastorate to become a member of our
community, was detained for a time by the illness of his wife. When she
died he brought her remains for burial in the little cemetery among the
pines. This was the second funeral I witnessed, and I think there were
no others during the existence of the community.
Some years since I visited the old place with Dr. Codman, and, among the
other well remembered localities we sought out the place where we had
attended two funerals in the long-ago of our boyhood, but the mementos
of these two occasions were not to be found.
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