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"Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England. It is perhaps the least famous and celebrated of them. The cemetery is located in the Nunhead area of southern London and was originally known as All Saints' Cemetery. Nunhead Cemetery was consecrated in 1840 and opened by the London Necropolis Company. It is a Local Nature Reserve.
"Consecrated in 1840, with an Anglican chapel designed by Thomas Little, it is one of the Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around what were then the outskirts of London. The first burial was of Charles Abbott, a 101-year-old Ipswich grocer; the last burial was of a volunteer soldier who became a canon of Lahore Cathedral. The first grave in Nunhead was dug in October 1840. The average annual number of burials there over the last ten years, has been 1685: 1350 in the consecrated, and 335 in the unconsecrated ground.
"In the cemetery were reinterred remains removed, in 1867 and 1933, from the site of the demolished St Christopher le Stocks church in the City of London.
"The cemetery contains examples of the imposing monuments to the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common or public burials. By the middle of the 20th century the cemetery was nearly full, and so was abandoned by the United Cemetery Company. With the ensuing neglect, the cemetery gradually changed from lawn to meadow and eventually to woodland. It is now a Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for wildlife, populated with songbirds, woodpeckers and tawny owls. A lack of care and cash surrendered the graves to the ravages of nature and vandalism, but in the early 1980s the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery were formed to renovate and protect the cemetery.
"The cemetery was reopened in May 2001 after an extensive restoration project funded by Southwark Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Fifty memorials were restored along with the Anglican Chapel."
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Originally constructed as "Green Hill Cemetery," this 32-acre expanse of hilly terrain and ancient cedar trees has many stories to reveal. Cedar Hill Cemetery (1802) is an official site of the Virginia Civil War Trails prorgram as it is the final resting place for many Confederate Generals and soldiers
Cord, Arkansas
Listed 9/30/2013
Reference Number: 13000786
The Walnut Grove Cemetery, located approximately 15 miles east ofBatesville on Walden Road, just off Arkansas Highway 25 in northeast Independence County, is being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, Criteria Consideration D, for its significance as a remnant ofthe mid-19th century development period oflndependence County and as the only resource remaining of the community of Walnut Grove. Historically, the cemetery was located on the Old Military Road (Southwest Trail). Until about 1875, most ofthe burials there were of persons related to each other by blood or by marriage. Those families were Hogan, Churchill, Moore, Walden, and Jernigan. Later known burials included Black River Township neighbors and friends of the earliest settlers. The families buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery site were eyewitnesses to a century of American history, spanning the period from just after Arkansas statehood up until modem times.
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Plot 45: Clarice May Parris (60) 1944
Adolphus Parris – Rtd Master Mariner
Eric Edward Parris (69) 19/1/1981
In Loving Memory of
CLARICE MAY
PARRIS
died 2nd Mar. 1944
aged 61.
ADOLPHUS
PARRIS
died 19th Mar. 1955
aged 75.
Loving parents of
John, Eric Edna & Lenore
PARRIS. —On March 2, 1944, at a private hospital, Auckland. Clarice May, dearly loved sister of Stella Melville Boles (Te Kuiti), and loved aunt of Ken and Gwen.
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PARRIS. —Mr. A. Parris and family desire to express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to all relations, friends and neighbours who so graciously sympathised with them in their recent sad bereavement, and express appreciation many telegrams, cards and beautiful floral emblems received. Special thanks to doctors, also to nursing staff of the Aroha Hospital.
Vysehrad Cemetery is the graveyard attached to the Basilica of Saint Peter & Saint Paul in Vysehrad (notes at the end about the Vysehrad complex).
The complex is over a thousand years old, but the cemetery was only established in 1869, which explains the newness of the headstones. It's an active cemetery, though it seems pretty packed walking around. As noted below, this could basically be seen as the Czech pantheon, given the number of notable Czechs interred here from the arts, letters, and medicine.
Among those you'll find here (that non-Czechs may recognize, by name or contribution) are: Jan Neruda (a poet, and the man from whom Pablo Neruda took his pen name), Antonin Dvorak (composer of the New World Symphony), Josef & Karel Capek (brothers, Josef created the word "robot" and Karel used it in his play R.U.R., which introduced the word to the world), Karel Ancerl (conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra), Hana Maskova (1968 bronze medalist in Olympic figure skating), and Jan Evangelista Purkyne (who, in 1839, coined the term "protoplasm"). There are many others of note, and very ornate headstones -- hence this large set. I don't intend to slight anyone, so feel free to do some research on your own if you wish.
Vysehrad is a pretty neat place to visit in Prague, in my opinion -- especially if you want to relax away from tourists.
It has a combination of things that make it wonderful for me. Its history, its current use, its location (and views it affords), and what's left on site -- taken individually, warrant a visit in my world. Collectively? Winner.
We'll start with what Vysehrad was, which involves local beliefs and legends. The (unproven) thought is that this is the original site of Prague, founded by Duke Krok in...who knows what year? Duke Krok is a myth, though may have been real. And since he's a myth, his daughters, too, are mythical. One of them is Libuse, who has a "bath" here, and she can be found in some architecture around town. I recall seeing her on a building on Karlova.
Duke Kroc was the first duke of the Czech people. Princess Libuse, the youngest (and wisest) of his three daughters later became queen and married a ploughman named Premysl, founding the Premyslid dynasty (interesting...she's royalty, he's a commoner, yet the dynasty is named for him because he's a man...yea for sexism?). The three sisters had special powers (one a healer, one a magician, and Libuse could predict the future). She prophesied the founding of Prague in the 8th century. So believe the Czechs.
What does history tell us? Well, this fortress-castle has been here for a thousand years give or take. Precise origin dates are unknown (or I can't seem to find them). One of the buildings here -- St. Martin's Chapel -- is known to have been built sometime between 1060-1090, so we can say it's conservatively a thousand years old.
Part of the fun of the legend that could support its continuing existence is its location high on a bluff directly overlooking the Vltava River. It was a perfect place to build a defensive fortress, that eventually became a royal castle. As the city grew, and Prague Castle was built, Vysehrad's importance waned.
The two castles competed (kind of) for two centuries to be the most important in Prague. The heyday for Vysehrad was in the late 11th century (when St. Martin's Chapel was built). Vratislaus II, the first king of Bohemia (until him, all were dukes or duchesses) moved his seat of power here from Prague Castle, at which point the original Vysehrad fortress received a major upgrade: a new palatial home, a church, a chapter house.
Growth continued, but only for a short time. Vratislaus's son, Duke Sobeslav (I'm not sure why he was duke, if his dad was king) moved the royal seat right on back to Prague Castle.
The death knell for Vysehrad (as a royal residence) came when Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (yeah, the same one for whom Charles Bridge is named) renovated Prague Castle to its current dimensions. Vysehrad was abandoned. However, Charles did renew the fortifications with new gates, a royal palace (though never official seat of government), and started repairing the basilica. This was early 14th century. About a hundred years later in 1420 at the start of the Hussite War, Vysehrad was rancasked. And again, a few decades later. Finally, Vysehrad was left to ruin...
...Until the Austrians came along. Austria-Hungary gained Czech lands as a prize of the Thirty Years' War, remodeling it as a baroque fortress, to use as a training center for their troops.
The main building that dominated Vysehrad (to this day) is the Basilica of St. Peter & St. Paul. It's pretty big. Hard to miss, for sure. Like St. Martin's Chapel, it was also (originally) built in the 11th century. Unlike little St. Martin's, though, the big fella was remodeled in the late 1300s and, again, by the Austrians in 1885 & 1887. It's now a neo-Gothic church. Also dating to this baroque renovation are the Tabor and Leopold gates.
So...what do you get when come to Vysehrad now? A city park, really. It's free to come and go (though I think going inside the church may cost a little money).
The bastion walls are fantastic to take a walk around and enjoy panoramic views of every part of the city, the river, the bridges, just to reflect on the here and now, and the past. The bastions are big enough, and long enough, that you can take some time to just do that alone. There are also benches if you want to relax and enjoy the view.
Inside the fortress walls, you'll find mostly wooded land (thanks to its having been abandoned) with the aforementioned church and chapel, plus some other historic recreations, a few trails, and...well, all around, pleasant places to be. There are a handful of statues around the grounds, including Good King Wenceslaus, and Princess Libuse.
Being as that it's a church -- and a large one -- there's also a church cemetery attached directly to the side and back of it. Creatively, it's called "Vysehrad Cemetery."
As far as cemeteries go, I've been to many, and this one has some of the most interesting headstones I've seen. Not only that, as far as Czechs go, this could almost be their Pantheon. While royalty are buried elsewhere (Prague Castle, for starters), the literati all seem to be buried here -- except Kafka. He's in the New Jewish Cemetery. And, not every famous Czech is buried here, of course, but quite a few prominent ones from arts and letters are taking their dirt naps here. At the end of the day, this is a big, beautiful public park, well worth a visit, and the locals love it. This seems to be one of the places they come to celebrate New Year's Eve. I love that it's not overrun by tourists, though hope that anyone who has read this can make it there and see for yourself.
OBITUARY.
MR, C. T. HOLDEN. The death occurred at the Auckland Hospital yesterday of Mr. Charles Thomas Holden, of Waiohua Road, Green Lane, at the age of 47 years. A returned soldier, who saw three years' service in Mesopotamia and France with the wireless engineers attached to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, he suffered from almost total blindness in recent years and regularly attended the Jubilee Institute for the Blind. Born in London, he went to sea at the age of 12 and after voyaging several times round the world he became quartermaster on the cable-steamer Iris in New Zealand. He entered the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department 21 years ago and on his return from the war he was stationed at the Pukekohe Post Office. He is survived by his wife and one son.
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Plot 58: Charles Thomas Holden – Telegraph Foreman
18418 Spr
C. T. HOLDEN
Wireless Troop
died 4-3-1932
N.Z.E.F
aged 47.
HOLDEN.—On March 4, at Auckland Hospital, Charles Thomas Holden, dearly-beloved husband of Florence Holden, 17, Waiohua Road, Green Lane.
Funeral will leave residence at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow (Sunday), for Waikumete Cemetery. Friends please accept, this intimation.
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This cemetery is probably the most well known cemetery in the United States. It has over 300,000 burials and sits on 624 acres. It is a national cemetery and has at least one person buried there from each war the US has been in. It sits on the grounds of the Arlington House which was the estate Robert E Lee lived in. When Lee went away for war, the Union took over the house and started burying Union soldiers there. The cemetery was established June 16, 1864. It is still open to military personal and their families. Many notables are buried here including presidents Howard Taft and John F Kennedy. Also, the Tomb of the Unknowns are buried there.
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris.
From Wikipedia:
Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement.
Created from three farms in 1824, the cemetery at Montparnasse was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the closure, owing to health concerns, of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786. Several new cemeteries outside the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19th century: Montmartre Cemetery in the north, Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south. At the heart of the city, and today sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, is Passy Cemetery.
Montparnasse Cemetery is the eternal home of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also monuments to police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris.
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They never made it home. They are buried in orderly ranks at the base of a hill in the old city cemetery in Macon MS. At the top of the hill in equally ordered ranks and under ancient Magnolias are the pointed top markers of their adversaries in gray.
Greenwood Cemetery open in 1869 after being converted from a farm, and covers 43 acres. It is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. Benjamin Rush (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) lived on the farm in the late 1700s. Over the years, Greenwood's fortunes declined. The cemetery became a target for vandalism and many headstones were toppled and broken. Maintenance became sporadic and vegetation began to consume the cemetery. Only the front third of the cemetery is cleared enough to walk through unimpeded. The rear of the cemetery has reverted to forest with trees springing up through the middle of graves. It is not an unusual sight to see a headstone pinioned between two trees. The Knights of Pythias, upset over conditions at Greenwood, tried unsuccessfully to have their name removed from the cemetery. The court has appointed Gloria Boyd & Kevin Lynch custodians of the cemetery on a temporary basis. They are in charge of getting the grounds in repair and arranging burials. The decision on a permanent owner will be at a later date.
Wardsend Cemetery in Hillsborough, Sheffield, was opened in 1857, as a detached churchyard for St Philip's Church, as the churchyard had become full. By 1900, about 20,000 interments had taken place on this steep hillside and the cemetery was extended to higher ground on the other side of the railway tracks. There are a number of soldiers from Hillsborough Barracks buried there, along with a number of victims of the Sheffield Floods of 1864.
In 1862, the cemetery was the focus of what was known as the 'Cemetery Riots', following the gruesome activities of the Sexton, Isaac Howard, who had been exhuming bodies (mostly those of children) for sale to the local medical school. He was discovered when his lodger complained of the smell coming from the stables under the room in which he lodged, where the Sexton had been storing the bodies. The mob broke into the Sextons house and set it on fire.
This fantastic place is now wildly overgrown and has the appearance of something of a lost world.