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The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Appendix I: General Dearborn's Report. (search)
ed, Abraham purchased the field of Ephron, in Machpeiah, with all the trees that were therein and the borders round about, as a burying place, and there he buried his wife; and there they buried Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah and Leah; and when Jacob had blessed his sons, he said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron. Deborah was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak, and the valiant men of Jabesh-gilead removed the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Bethshon and buried them under a tree. Moses was buried in a valley in the land of Moab; Joseph, in a parcel of ground in Shechem; Eleazer, the son of Aaron, in a hill that pertained to Phinehas; and Manassah, with Amon in the garden of Uzza. The planting of rose-trees upon graves is an ancient custom: Anacreon says that it protects the dead ; and Propertius indicates the usage of burying amidst roses. Plato sanctioned the planting of trees over sepulchr