According to Quaker custom, a plain slab marks John Whittier’s resting-place, exactly similar to the stones erected to the memory of the other Whittiers near by. Of that unpretentious monument Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:“Lift from its quarried edge a flawless stone,
Smooth the green turf and bid the tablet rise,
And on its snow-white surface carve alone
These words—he needs none other—
HERE WHITTIER LIES!”
F W Boreham, I Forgot To Say (London: The Epworth Press, 1939), 196.
Image: The Whittier Family Burial Plot in Haverhill, Mass., USA.