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Two Major New Exhibits at Mount Hope Cemetery Gate TWO MAJOR coupled with holiest memories, where strong men go to meditate and widows and orphans "Men of Color! To Arms!" NEW EXHIBITS go to weep. We have met to strew choice AT MOUNT HOPE flowers, with lavish, loyal, loving hands, Marilyn Nolte. who leads a Civil War CEMETERY GATE- upon the green graves of our brave young tour in Mount Hope each season. prepared men, who, in the hour of national peril, went the "Men of Color! To Arms!" exhibit. It is HOUSE forth and nobly gave their lives, all that men filled with photographs and historical mater by Richard O. Reisem can give, to save their country from dis- ial about the black regiments that were memberment and ruin." recruited and trained, and who fought in the mends of Mount Hope Cemetery Jean Czerkas selected the quotation, Civil War. The exhibit emphasis is on black trustees Jean Czerkas and soldiers and their white officers buried in Marilyn Nolte have prepared two Mount Hope. major exhibits now on display in the north gatehouse of the cemetery . One is At the beginning of the Civil War in called "Men of Color! To Arms!" The 1861, the Union Army consisted of white other is "Within the Sacred Inclosure." troops only. As casualties increased and which is about Frederick Douglass and available white men diminished, it was his family, who are buried in Mount decided to increase the ranks with all Hope Cemetery. The exhibits can be able-bodied men, regardless of color. seen on Sunday afternoons from 1 :30 Black troops, however, did not fight p.m. to 5 p.m. through the last Sunday alongside white buddies; they were in October. It will also be part of a spe- formed into separate regiments. The cial program on Saturday, May 10, at United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) 1 :30 p.m. when a reenactment of was created with white commissioned Frederick Douglass' funeral service will officers to lead them. Many black men in be performed by a group of costumed Monroe County enlisted because of the actors and singers. recruiting efforts of Frederick Douglass . Altogether, 178,985 U.S .T.C. troops Czerkas and Nolte have worked fought in the Civil War. They fought in steadily on these exhibits since last Jean Czerkas and Marilyn Nolte, creators of 449 engagements, 34 of which were major September. They obtained historical infor two new exhibits at Mount Hope Cemetery Civil War battles. Among the 37,300 black mation and visual materials from 25 histori- stand in front of a portion of the men who died in the war, there were 21 ans, Civil War collectors, university "Men of Colors To Arms!" Medal of Honor recipients. libraries, historical societies, and other indi- exhibit . Photo by Eric Logan. viduals. Friends trustee Frank Gillespie pre- If you have questions or comments pared photographs of related cemetery mon- "Within the Sacred Inclosure," from about these exhibits, call uments and historical artifacts. Douglass' tribute to Rochester's Civil War Jean Czerkas at 585-342-1516 or dead as her theme for the exhibit about the Marilyn Nolte at 585-621-3529 . "Within the Sacred Inclosure." Douglass family. Besides the remains of Frederick Douglass himself, the Douglass Frederick Douglass On May 10, 1882, Frederick Douglass plot in Mount Hope contains the bodies of Commemoration Service. wrote the following about Mount Hope his first wife Anna Murray Douglass, his Cemetery: "We call attention to the tact that second wife Helen Pitts Douglass, and his On Saturday, May 10, 1 :30 p.m., the within the sacred inclosure (sic) of Mt. daughter Annie Douglass . In the exhibit, Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery will stage Hope, a place well named and well suited to photographs and biographical information a commemoration service for Frederick the solemn purpose to which it is devoted, is are presented on all four of these individu- Douglass . It will be a reenactment of the ground hallowed by affection, adorned by als. There are several documents on view funeral service given him in Rochester after art, beautified by wealth, skill and industry, that have never been seen by the public. his death in 1895. DEATH AT SEA : There were funeral ser- vices for Frederick Douglass THE McCRAKEN in Washington, D.C., on FAMILY AND THEIR February 24, 1895, and in LOSSES ABOARD Rochester, New York, on February 26, when his body STEAMSHIP ARCTIC arrived by train. In Rochester, by Al Robinson flags were at half-mast, schools were closed, and n a small hill in Section W of throngs of people filed by his Mount Hope Cemetery sits a mod- casket in City Hall and lined est stone obelisk. Two sides of this the streets as the hearse slowly monument record the names of five children led the funeral procession to of0Gardner and Eunice McCraken . Only two Central Presbyterian Church of these children, however, are actually (now Hochstein Music buried in Mount Hope. One is buried in School). Milwaukee, and two, Lavinia and Carlisle, lie at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean Five hundred seats in the among the retrains of the steamship Arctic . church were reserved for fami- The events that led to those deaths on the ly, friends, bearers, officials, Arctic shocked our nation . and special organizations. The Frederick Douglass is featured in one of two new exhibits public overflowed the remain- at Mount Hope Cemeterv. The McCraken Family ing seats in the large sanctuary. Copy of historic photo by Frank Gillespie. The service included speeches Gardner McCraken was involved in by Rochester Mayor Merton local Rochester politics throughout his life. Lewis, Mary Anthony, two In 1829, he was a delegate to the Anti ministers, and hymns sung by Masonic County Convention. The Anti- a male chorus. It is this service Masonic party was a political party founded that will be reenacted at the in Rochester in 1828 as part of an anti- old chapel in the north Masonic movement that was growing due to entrance area on May 10. suspicion and dislike of secret societies, Please join us for this event including the Freemasons. The party grew which will include male rapidly and managed to hold a number of singers from Third seats in the U.S. Congress until 1834 when Presbyterian Church. There many of its members broke away and found- will be a reception at the gate- ed the Whig party. Gardner continued his house after the service. and association with the Whigs, and local news- you can view the new exhibits papers reported his attendance at Whig on display there. Colonel Nathan P. Pond was a Rochesterian who led one of the black regiments in the Civil War. He is buried in Section C. Lot /0/, near Susan L3 . Anthony. county conventions in 1835 and 1842 as a every single stone in that whole section is delegate for the 2nd Ward area of Rochester. facing east . Christians were often buried with their heads to the east so that they Gardner died on April 30, 1845, atage could rise facing in that direction when the 59 . His cause of day of Resurrection came . The west-facing death is listed as headstones are probably meant to symbolize "Affection Brain" in the journey west to Wisconsin of the two cemetery records. brothers . His wife, Eunice, followed him in The other three siblings all died in death twelve days 1854. Tracy died on May 21, at age 42 . He later, on May 12, a is listed on the western face of the family victim of tuberculo- monument but does not have a headstone in sis. She was 62 . the family plot . Lavinia and Carlisle, the last surviving members of their immediate fami- Gardner and ly, died months later on the steamship Eunice had five chil- Arctic . dren : Tracy (a son), born in 1811 or The First Titanic 1812 ; Lavinia, born in 1813 or 1814 ; It is hard to overemphasize the impor- Nelson, born in 181 8 tance to the pride of or 1819, Carlisle, American people in the born in 1823 or first few transatlantic 1824 ; and Charles steamships . The 1800s Wright . born in 1825 saw a growing competi- or 1826 . All five sur- tion between Britain and vived their parents, America to build bigger, which is somewhat taster, and more unusual; the death luxuri-ousshipswithwhichto rate of children in cross the ocean. By the that time period was The McCraken family monument late 1840s, Britain had exceptionally high . The in Section IV hegun to produce consis- first of the siblings to tently better boats, so it die was also the youngest . Charles Wright was with great acclaim died on July 9, 1848, when he was 22 . that America welcomed Though he is not listed in the Mt . Hope the launching by the Cemetery records, he has a headstone on the Collins Line of four new family plot . His inscription says that he died ocean-lining steamships . in Milwaukee, which means that he went west to Wisconsin, probably before his par- The largest and ents died . most luxurious of these ,hips was the Arctic, a Nelson also died in Milwaukee, of ship 284 feet long and tuberculosis ; he probably went west with his 2,856 tons in weight . younger brother. His date of death is listed She was built to accom- on his inscription as June 13, 1853, and his modate over 200 passen- The westernface of the McCraken burial date is listed in cemetery records as gers, and the massive obelisk lists Lavinia McCraken Scott and her June 17 . This means they brought his body 35-foot paddle wheels brother.
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