On another day the paper remarked,

    It is curious to note with what a difference of feeling this work is being viewed by visitors. To some it possesses only a curious attraction, such as one might feel in discovering relics of a by-gone age, while to others more sensitively inclined, it seems to recall the mortality of our poor humanity with a forceful idea, and the mind is busy with thoughts of its own future, as connected with the body in which it dwells. Men who are among the gayest of the gay and most careless a hundred yards from this lonely city of the dead, walk with a softened tread and draw the breath softly when looking upon all that remains of forms that once stood erect, and were as full of life and vigor as their own. The full force of the text is here realized, that as "dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

A total of 329 graves were removed from the one hundred foot strip of ground, at a cost of $2,751.50⁴⁸ leaving for the city nearly $12,000 of the money paid by the railroad. The railroad had men working in the cleared ground by early June and soon was erecting a temporary depot, to serve until the new Union Depot would be completed.

Remarks by the extant newspapers of the era concerning individuals removed are included in the Consolidated list. Green Lawn Cemetery has no records of these removals which were completed under the authority of the court and not by their own employees; their lot books contain only some of the names of those former North Graveyard lot owners in whose names the new lots were purchased. Such lots which have been located have been checked for tombstones and any inscriptions found have also been included in the consolidated list.

 THE DOHERTY TRACT CLEARED

Elias Gaver and his fellow-plaintiffs against the City of Columbus filed a supplemental petition on June 11, 1872, in which they admitted that the North Graveyard was by that time unfit for use as a burial ground and asked that the entire Doherty tract be cleared, subdivided, and sold within three years to pay for the removals. All of the parties in the suit agreed to this and in January, 1873 John Graham was ordered to proceed with the removals and 0. P. Hines was appointed Master Commissioner to subdivide the land into building lots after the removals were completed.⁴⁹ By this time the subject was losing its immediate interest to the citizens and the newspapers did not cover this more extensive removal with the same complete coverage that they had given to the earlier one. Two paragraphs in the Daily Dispatch of May 17 and June 5 indicate that the removals were taking