Nature requires and humanity suggestsThat such a home be preparedNot only for ourselves but for our brethren,Our friends, the rich and the poor,Even the wayfarer and the stranger within our gates;And we are proud to note the factThat some of the citizens of aspen,Perceiving the necessity, long since conceived the planOf preparing a cemetery which will be at once a resting place for the departed and a “thing of beauty” and an object of interest to the living. “
The Aspen Grove Cemetery” Aspen Daily Chronicle September 28th, 1889