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Caspar Cemetery, Caspar, California
"Established in the 1860’s at the time the Caspar Mill was established. At one time it overlooked the bay but trees now obscure the view. There are approximately 680 burials and is the only cemetery that allows “Green Burials”."
The German War Cemetery in Langemarck has more than 44,000 soldiers are buried there.
The village was the scene of the first gas attacks by the German army, marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
During the First Battle of Ypres (1914) in World War I, inexperienced German infantry suffered severe casualties when they made a futile frontal attack on allied positions near Langemarck and were checked by experienced French infantry and British riflemen. Contrary to popular myth, only fifteen percent of the German soldiers involved in the Battle of Langemarck were schoolboys and students. Legend has it that the German infantry sang the first stanza of what later (1919) became their national anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles," as they charged.
The cemetery, which evolved from a small group of graves from 1915, has seen numerous changes and extensions. It was dedicated in 1932. A mass grave near the entrance contains 24,917 servicemen, including the Ace Werner Voss. Between the oak trees, next to this mass grave, are another 10,143 soldiers (including 2 British soldiers killed in 1918). The 3,000 school students who were killed during the First Battle of Ypres are buried in a third part of the cemetery. At the rear of the cemetery is a sculpture of four mourning figures by Professor Emil Krieger. The group was added in 1956, and is said to stand guard over the fallen. The cemetery is maintained by the German War Graves Commission, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.
The Grieving Figures in the background oversee the mass grave. The small stone crosses are symbolic.
The shorter square-topped stones are unknown soldiers from the Civil War.
Beaufort National Cemetery
Beaufort, SC
Nov 2016
This bench sits outside a waiting area at Troon Cemetery!
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This week, for the first time, I had the opportunity to visit the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. This is the largest green space in all of Atlanta at ~48 acres. The entrance I entered through took me by the tombstones of soldiers who died as part of the Civil War. It's estimated that there are 6,900 Confederate soldiers interred here (3,000 unknown), 5 Confederate Generals as well as several (16) Union soldiers. A very somber sight to see... this is just one view of the rows upon rows of headstones marking their graves. Cropping the photo to display as a panorama provides some idea of how the tombstones, all lined up in rows, seem to go on as far as you can see.
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The flags flank the grave of Washington Irving, one of the first great American literary figures
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was recounted every Halloween of my childhood. The Headless Horseman, chasing Ichabod Crane through a cemetery, past a church, and over a brook leaves an indelible mark in the imagination of a little kid.
I knew the village was still around, but never knew that specific places featured in the tale actually existed. And less than 30 miles north of Manhattan!
And I certainly didn't realize the high status of some of the people buried here since the story was written - Washington Irving, the story's author, and the man who first referred to NY as "Gotham" and old-school NY'ers as "Knickerbockers", is obvious. But here also lie Andrew Carnegie, Walter P. Chrysler, Elizabeth Arden, Brooke Astor, Leona Helmsley, to name a few.
Interestingly, among this elite crowd is also buried Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL.
August 5, 2012
#352 - Letchworth Village Cemetery – The grave markers of this cemetery are numbered, the names intentionally unlisted. This “village” was built in 1911 with the good intentions of creating a humane treatment center for the “feeble-minded and epileptic” (referred to today as mentally handicapped). It rests on 4 square miles of beautiful NY State farmland and consisted of over 100 buildings. Well intentioned at the start, it quickly suffered from underfunding and reports eventually surfaced of mistreatment of patients including neglect, abuse, severe overcrowding, and medical experimentation. Sadly, at one point over half the patients were children as young as 5 years old. The first polio vaccine was administered to a child here in 1950. Hence, the reason the names were left off the grave markers of the poor souls who died here; to protect those families names from embarrassment. A new large wall of name-plaques has been added to the grounds now listing all of the names of those interred here. The institution was closed in 1996 and is now abandoned and the structures are quickly decaying. I’ve lived 30 minutes from this place for many years and never knew it existed.
The McLaughlin headstone in frontal view.
White marble headstone of a simple gothic style with an arched top and pilasters on each side, trefoil shaped medallion in the centre with a relief carved passion flower, carved inscription uses lead-inlaid lettering in a combination of gothic, roman and italic scripts. Signed by the mason: Acton, Lithgow.
Inscription reads:
In Memory of
My Dear Husband
THOMAS McLAUGHLIN
Who Departed This Life
29 May 1912
Aged 67 Years
Also My Daughter
ALICE
Who Departed This Life
24 October 1910
Aged 34 Years.
Rest. Perfect Rest.
Links: www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2488226/megalong-cemetery/photo
Plot 10: Alfred Finlay (66) 1944 – Rtd Baker
Nellie Ellen Finlay (64) 1948
In Loving Memory of
ALFRED FINLAY
died 5th May 1942
Also his loved wife
NELLIE ELLEN FINLAY
died 16th Aug. 1948
FINLAY. —On May 5, at a private Hospital, Alfred, dearly-beloved husband of Nelly Finlay, 31 Brentwood Avenue, Mount Eden, and loving father of Alf, Jim, Dick (overseas), George, Allan and the late Frank (killed overseas); aged 66 years. Funeral will leave W. H. Tongue and Son's Chapel to-day (Saturday), at 11 a.m. for Waikumete Cemetery.
nrhp # 69000292- Historic Congressional Cemetery was founded in 1807 by eight civic-minded residents of the new Capitol Hill neighborhood who recognized the need for a local burial ground. Its first burials included the master stone mason of the new United States Capitol building, the wife of the Navy Yard Commandant, Senator Uriah Tracy and the infant daughter of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the Capitol. In 1812, the cemetery was deeded to Christ Church † Washington Parish, and over the next 100 years it grew from 4.5 to 37.75 acres.
Among those buried at Congressional Cemetery are 16 Senators, 68 members of the House, and Vice Presidents Elbridge Gerry and George Clinton. Congressional Cemetery is also the final resting place of many other notables including Tobias Lear, personal secretary to George Washington; Commodore Thomas Tingey, first commandant of the Washington Navy Yard; Generals Jacob J. Brown and Alexander Macomb of the U.S. Army; General Archibald Henderson, commandant of the Marine Corps for thirty years; William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol, and Robert Mills, architect of the Washington Monument. Several prominent Native Americans who died in Washington during diplomatic missions were buried at Congressional Cemetery, including Push-ma-ta-ha, Chief of the Choctaws, who held the rank of General in the U.S. Army, and Kan-Ya-Tu-Duta (Scarlet Crow), a delegate of the Dakota Sioux nation. More recent burials include Matthew Brady, Civil War photographer; Belva Lockwood, first woman to practice law before the Supreme Court; John Philip Sousa, conductor of the U.S. Marine Band; and J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI.
Built with money from Congress, the public receiving vault at Congressional Cemetery temporarily held the remains of Presidents John Q. Adams, William H. Harrison, and Zachary Taylor, as well as First Ladies Dolley Madison and Louisa Adams.
from nps.gov