CHAPTER VIII.
SEVEN EPITAPHS.[ToC]
We have passed the most notable monuments of the Owen epoch, and come now to obscurer graves. Doubtless many of the little Communities that followed New Harmony, and in a small way repeated its fortunes, were buried without memorial. We have on Macdonald's list the names of only seven more, and their epitaphs are for the most part very brief. We may as well group them all in one chapter, and copy what Macdonald says about them, without comment.
EPITAPH NO. I. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, 1825.
"Located at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Founded on the principles of Robert Owen. Benjamin Bakewell, President; John Snyder, Treasurer; Magnus M. Murray, Secretary."
EPITAPH NO. II. FRANKLIN COMMUNITY, 1826.
"Located somewhere in New York. Had a printed Constitution; also a 'preparatory school.' No further particulars."
EPITAPH NO. III. BLUE SPRINGS COMMUNITY. 1826-7.
"A gathering under the above title, existed for a short time near Bloomington, Ind. It was said [by somebody] to be 'harmonious and prosperous' as late as Jan. 1, 1827; but as I find no trace of it in my researches, it is fair to conclude that it is numbered with the dead, like others of its day."
EPITAPH NO. IV. FORRESTVILLE COMMUNITY. (INDIANA.)