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Michigan OAKLAND COUNTY
It is not always safe to eulogize the living, especially when your remarks are personal. You arouse so many slumbering enmities, so much latent jealousy and criticism, that it is often better to leave their praises for the hereafter. But let the faults of the dead be buried with their bodies, and let us remember only their virtues. All over this town, inside the inclosure of farms, you may see mounds of stone, brick and rubbish, splintered by fire. These mounds are sometimes upon rising ground; often by the banks of some stream, and almost always where • two ways meet. How often you come across them when cultivating the soil; your team shies around them, your plowshare shows them to be quite deep in the earth. If you take the time and trouble to remove them you will find ashes, bits of coal and crockery, and other witnesses that here was once a living hearthstone. That solid walls of maple, beach or oak once rose around them, with garret and roof above them.
Oakland Co. Michigan
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