Excerpt from Address at the Dedication of a Monument to Rev. W. B. O. Peabody, D. D: Delivered at Springfield, September 29, 1861

The monument erected in the Cemetery at Springfield, to the memory of the late Rev. William B. O. Peabody, D. D., was dedicated with appropriate services, on Sunday afternoon, September 29th, 1861. It was designed to have these services occur on the first Sunday in September, that being the twentieth anniversary of the consecration of the Cemetery in 184] on which occasion Dr. Pea body delivered the address, but unavoidable delay in the prosecution of the work postponed its completion till the day already mentioned The order of services will be found at the end of this preface. They were listened to by an assemblage of about three thousand persons. The beauty of the day and of the season contributed much to the success of the occasion. The foliage of the Cemetery had lost little of its summer verdure, and the autumn sky was without a cloud. The interest of the services was heightened by the presence and partici patiou of the venerable Dr. Osgood, senior pastor of the First Church, the only surviving clergyman of the city, who was the con temporary of Dr. Peabody. His remarks illustrative of the intimate, social and religious fellowship, existing between himself and Dr. Peabody, and his closing prayer were a tribute welcome to the friends of both, and formed an appropriate conclusion to the exercises.

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