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Plot 3: Mildred May Cleasby
Frances June Sly (94) 2014 – Retailer
In Loving Memory Of
MILDRED MAY CLEASBY
Died April 21st 1958
aged 74 yrs.
R.I.P
FRANCES JUNE SLY
18.6.1920 – 7.9.2014
Loved mother of
Warren, Lesley, Shelley
Best nana of
Mercedes, Richard, Phillip,
Finn, Alexandra
Loved great nana
Wife of Horry
WW2 was over when we reached Okinawa in September 1945. Finding this cemetery was a sobering reminder of some that made victory possible--and who wouldn't return home.
(The following information is compliments of various Wikipedia entries, and the cemetery brochure, which is available to all who visit.)
Green-Wood Cemetery in the western part of Brooklyn is a large (478 acre) historic cemetery. It was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery by Hezekiah Pierrepont. (He's buried on a manmade hillock in the cemetery.)
The cemetery grounds were considered so beautiful that it's usually referred to as the first public park in New York, and inspired the design and creation of nearby (a few blocks northeast of here) Prospect Park and Central Park in Manhattan.
Other places of interest nearby are Prospect Park, directly northeast, the Windsor Terrace neighborhood -- between the cemetery and Prospect Park, and the Park Slope neighborhood, which is considered one of the best neighborhoods in the entire country. (On a tangent, the number of notable people from Park Slope is...impressive.) Accessing the cemetery is also easy. There are four gates -- two of which are city landmarks -- with the main one being at 25th Street in the northwest part of the cemetery. They were designed by Richard Upjohn. The cemetery easily accessible via the NYC subway system as well. Nearest the main gate is the 25th Street station on the DNR lines. The 36th street station on the same line is directly next to the Sunset Park gate. The 9th Avenue station on the DNR line is next to the south side of the cemetery (though I'm not sure if it's near a gate).
Finally, to comment on the cemetery itself? If you were to make a matrix of different characteristics of a cemetery -- aesthetic/natural beauty, historical value, notable interments, architectural aspects -- this may very well be the best cemetery in the country to visit. (It did, after all, inspire the creation of two very famous parks, one of which is known in most parts of the world.) I'll address my above mentioned characteristics with some comments.
Aesthetically, this cemetery has lots of small hills, curving paths, lakes. The highest natural point in all of Brooklyn is located within the cemetery (and is pictured here). The cemetery was expanded a few times, and the only part of the cemetery that's reasonably flat is the southeastern part near the Fort Hamilton entrance. This was acquired last and basically left as is. As the cemetery isn't flat, you can always find some relaxing, distinct panoramic views (of the cemetery alone, or with the surrounding neighborhoods as a backdrop, or even Manhattan framed in a photo or two). The landscaping also has a very diverse collection of flora and fauna, along with trees (the latter of which include European beech, sassafras, tulip, gingko, elm, and others).
The cemetery also has historical value, especially regarding the foundation of the country. There were Revolutionary War battles fought on what would become the grounds of the cemetery, and you'll find some signage on your walk or drive through the park (though walking is certainly better) that can tell you about the localized battles that took place here in the 1770s.
Notable interments? Where to begin? They cover most all aspects of life in this country. African American history? James Weldon Johnson, author of the "black national anthem" Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing is buried with his wife Grace in her family's plot in the eastern end of the cemetery. The Freedom Lots, where African Americans were buried separately are in the southeastern portion of the cemetery. Art? Jean-Michel Basquiat is interred here (also in the eastern end of the cemetery). The Tiffany family plot contains the graves of Louis Comfort Tiffany (stained glass artist) and his father (who founded the Tiffany Jewelry Company (of Breakfast at Tiffany's fame, and also the company that makes each U.S. sports main trophies -- Stanley Cup, Lombardy Trophy, Larry O'Brien Trophy, World Series Trophy, etc.) Notoriety? William Poole, also known as Bill the Butcher (who Daniel Day Lewis portrayed in Gangs of New York) is laid to rest in the southern part of the cemetery. Science? Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph & Morse code is here, along with Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine. Baseball? Charles Ebbets and Henry Chadwick are here, not terribly far from each other. (Both had far-reaching impacts on the sport that are taken for granted today, with the latter being one of two credited as the Father of Baseball.) Civil War history? Major General Henry Halleck (general in chief of Union forces for a year and a half until Grant succeeded him) is here, along with Laura Keene (the actress who was on stage at Ford's Theatre when President Lincoln was shot). Politics? The Roosevelt family plot is a circle of graves in the center of the cemetery that contain the remains of many of Teddy Roosevelt's immediate family including his parents and first wife Alice are here. (Teddy, however, is buried near his Sagamore Hill home out on Long Island with his second wife Edith.) Governor De Witt Clinton (of Clinton's Folly/Erie Canal fame) is also here. Famous for corruption, William "Boss" Tweed is laid to rest here. Music? Leonard Bernstein (of West Side Story renown, among other works) and Pop Smoke (hip hop artist born in 1999 and murdered in a house break-in) are here. The Steinway (of piano renown) crypt is also on the grounds. Native American culture? An Iowan princess/daughter of a chief named Do-Hum-Me is buried in the western end of the cemetery. Also here is artist George Catlin's grave.
He most famously documented and glamorized Native American culture through art and traveled the west on subsequent journeys with Meriwether Lewis in the 1800s.
Superlatives? The oldest (at death) person in the cemetery is Sarah Kairns, who was about 40 years old at the beginning of the American Revolution, and breathed her last 7 years before the U.S. Civil War. Margaret Pine, the last enslaved African American in New York, is here as well. And this is just touching the surface of people you'll find here.
Architecturally, you'll find a trove of interesting details here, from the aforementioned gates, to mausoleums and crypts, the chapel, monuments and sculptures, obelisks, and other headstones/grave markers throughout the cemetery. The architectural styles you'll see are Classical, Egyptian, Gothic, and Romanesque, among others.
A Commonwealth War Grave on the old medieval walls.
This small cemetery is the only CWGC burial ground within the ancient walls of Ieper. The cemetery was begun in November 1914 by French troops defending the city and was used by Commonwealth troops from February 1915 until April 1918, by which time the Western Front had moved away from Ypres.
At the end of the war, the French graves were removed and concentrated in the nearby Ypres Necropole National French cemetery. Of the British and Commonwealth troops buried here, all but ten are named; in the case of five of the unidentified, the nationality could not be assertained.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield who was also responsible for the nearby Menin Gate memorial
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 624 acres (253 ha) the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), controls the cemetery.
The national cemetery was established during the Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, which had been the estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee (a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington). The Cemetery, along with Arlington House, Memorial Drive, the Hemicycle, and the Arlington Memorial Bridge, form the Arlington National Cemetery Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 2014.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After the war, Kennedy represented the 11th congressional district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, he published his book Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. At age 43, he became the second-youngest person to serve as president, the youngest person to be elected as U.S. president, as well as the only Roman Catholic to occupy that office. He was also the first president to have served in the U.S. Navy.
Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint-CIA attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He subsequently rejected Operation Northwoods plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba. However his administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered that Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and supported the civil rights movement, but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon Johnson automatically assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's death. Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was shot to death by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both officially concluded that Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups challenged the findings of the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, which included the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy continues to rank highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has also been the focus of considerable public fascination, particularly following revelations regarding his lifelong health ailments and alleged extra-marital affairs. His average approval rating of 70% is the highest of any president in Gallup's history of systematically measuring job approval.
Description: Comb grave of Laura Mainord in Holman Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: June 3, 2014
Creator: Dr. Richard Finch
Collection name: Richard C. Finch Folk Graves Digital Photograph Collection
Historical note: Comb graves are a type of covered grave that are often called "tent graves." The length of the grave was covered by rocks or other materials that look like the gabled roof or comb of a building. They were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is conjectured that these graves were covered to protect them from either weather or animals, or perhaps both. While comb graves can be found in other southern states, the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee has the highest concentration of these types of graves.
Accession number: 2013-022
Owning Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#: Livingston Q - Holman Cem 9
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The cemetery contains many of the graves of the founding families of White Oak Flats / Gatlinburg such as the Ogles who built the first home here and the Reagan's and as you'll see by the headstones that some of the women's name have both names. The easiest access to the cemetery is to enter The Village and follow signs to the restrooms and once you reach that just follow the paved road to the right of the restrooms and within a few yards there you'll be.
Grave of Henry A. Lips, d. 1980, Eleanor D. Lips, d. 1998 and William M. Lips, d. 1996, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
Brinsworth House is a residential and nursing retirement home for theatre and entertainment professionals in Staines Road, Twickenham, west London, England. The house is owned and run by the Royal Variety Charity and has 36 bedrooms, 6 living rooms, a library, an in-house bar and stage, a staff of 64 and is set in 5 acres (2.0 hectares) of land.
Brinsworth House was built in 1850; it opened as a retirement home in 1911. It is owned and maintained by the Royal Variety Charity, which was founded in 1908 to care for members of what was at that time the variety and music hall profession. The charity and the house are funded by the Royal Variety Performance, by voluntary donations and, since 2007, by part-proceeds from phone voting from ITV's Britain's Got Talent.
Many of its former residents have their last resting place in this special memorial area within Twickenham Cemetery.
Former residents (not necessarily buried here) include:
Teddy Johnson (died 2018)
Alexander Kok (died 2015)
Robin Stewart (died 2015)
Jack Wilson (died 1970), of Wilson, Keppel and Betty fame
Hylda Baker (died 1986)
Charlie Drake (died 2006)
Alan Freeman MBE (died 2006)
John Hewer, best known for his role as Captain Birdseye (died 2008)
Dame Thora Hird (died 2003)
Kathy Kirby (died 2011)
Mick McManus (died 2013)
Emily Perry (died 2008)
Ben Warriss (died 1993)
Derek Cooper, journalist, broadcaster and food specialist (died April 2014)
Marjeyoun is a Lebanese town and administrative district in Southern Lebanon south of the River Litani. Marjeyoun stands majestically at a hill facing Mount Hermon to the East, Beaufort Castle, the 1000-year old Crusader Castle above the Litani River and overlooking Mount Amel (Jabal Amel) to the West, the summits of Rihan and Niha and the rest of the Mount Lebanon range to the North and the fertile plains of Marjeyoun that extend southward into the Galilee plains and the Golan Heights. Marjayoun is home to the historic Cathedral of Saint Peter.
Inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Maronite Catholic and Roman Catholic Christians, the town is surrounded by a number of Christian and Shi'a-majority villages and is located in the former Israeli-occupied south Lebanon.
On June 10, 1179, during the Battle of Marj Ayyun, an Ayyubid army commanded by Saladin defeated a Crusader army led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem on June 10, 1179. The Christian king narrowly escaped being captured in the rout.
During the Lebanese civil war the town was shelled by Palestinian militias.
It also was the headquarters of the South Lebanon Army, the Israel-affiliated militia that controlled southern Lebanon during Israel's occupation of the region after the 1982 Lebanon War until Israel's withdrawal from the region in 2000. It has a population of 3000.
After cease-fire negotiations stalled on August 10, 2006, Israeli forces took control of Marjayoun. Next day, a convoy of 3,000 people fled from the town. The convoy was attacked by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) at Joub Jannine. The attack on the convoy of approximately 759 vehicles containing Lebanese police, army, civilians, and one Associated Press journalist is known as the Marjayoun convoy incident.
The main burial site before the inception of Oakwood was Rose Hill Cemetery, which covered 11.8 acres in the north side of the city. People became dissatisfied with Rose Hill due to inaccessibility, the lack of natural beauty and the fact that it was not easily improved. Also within a few years, the growing city would encroach into the surrounding area. Between 1841 and 1935, 10,561 burials were made and only a few were moved to other cemeteries when it closed. In the 1950's, city workers buried most of the head stones in the interest of safety. The city planners wanted to make the land into a park but that could not happen until all of the bodies were removed which would involve obtaining permission from all families of those interred. Today, Rose Hill occupies about a city block and is a barren hillside with some tombstones at the top.
American Civil War Soldiers
about Albert Rofe
Name: Albert Rofe ,
Enlistment Date: 27 Oct 1861
Enlistment Place: New York City, New York
Side Served: Union
State Served: New York
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 27 October 1861 at the age of 18.
Enlisted in Company B, 1st Mounted Rifles Regiment New York on 28 Oct 1861.
Mustered Out Company B, 1st Mounted Rifles Regiment New York on 29 Oct 1864 at Varina, VA.
Sources: 14
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
about Albert Rofe
Name: Albert Rofe
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment Name: 1 N.Y. Mounted Rifles
Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, New York Mounted Rifles
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number: M551 roll 120
You will have noticed I have been dumping quite a lot of New Orleans images from last summer. Please do not feel you must comment.
It is less than six weeks until I am down there again so I feel compelled to share oldies with you & clear room for the 2013 images. I have been to New Orleans for the last 10 summers and never run out of things to photograph - New Orleans is like a candy store full of colour & flavours.
Went out to investigate an old cemetery I have driven past hundreds of times. Really gets to me when I see headstones toppled over. So much history in these spots. If only we could connect the dots.