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The Old Jewish Cemetery (Czech: Starý židovský hřbitov, German: Alter Jüdischer Friedhof) lies in the Josefov, the Jewish Quarter of Prague in the Czech Republic. It was in use from the early 15th century (the oldest preserved tombstone, the one of Avigdor Kara, dates back to 1439) until 1787. Its ancestor was a cemetery called "The Jewish Garden", which was found in archaeological excavations under the Vladislavova street, New Town.
The numbers of grave stones and numbers of people buried there are uncertain, because there are layers of tombs. However, it has been estimated that there are approximately 12,000 tombstones presently visible, and there may be as many as 100,000 burials in all. The most important personalities buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery are Yehuda ben Bezalel known as the Maharal Rabbi Löw (d. 1609), Mordechai Maisel (d. 1601), David Gans (d. 1613) and David Oppenheim (d. 1736).
According to halakhah, Jews must not destroy Jewish graves and in particular it is not allowed to remove the tombstone. This meant that when the cemetery ran out of space and purchasing extra land was impossible, more layers of soil were placed on the existing graves, the old tombstones taken out and placed upon the new layer of soil. This explains why the tombstones in the cemetery are placed so closely to each other. This resulted in the cemetery having 12 layers of graves.
Plot 8: Nasrin Sadat Alemi (41) 1999 – Tutor
(Arabic Inscription)
NASRIN SADAT ALEMI
(Arabic Inscription)
Beloved mother of Shahin Soltanian
In my heart there was a special place for you,
and it will always give me faith and strength
as your memory gives it warmth and light
1957 – 1999
(Arabic Inscription)
(Arabic Inscription)
The remains of twenty-two Royal Air Force student pilot cadets are interned in the Number One British Flying School cemetery located in the City of Terrell Oakland Park Cemetery. It is a little piece of England in North Texas.
Britain needed a safe place to train pilots during World War II and the Texas and Oklahoma area provided that requirement.
The Flickr Lounge-Photographers Choice
Discovered a new road home from the gym today. The trip was most enjoyable and obviously very quiet :) We will take it again instead of using the main road into Trumansburg that can get quite busy.
Hollywood Cemetery is one of Richmond's major tourist attractions. Photo is property of the Valentine Richmond History Center.
Plot 32: Eliza Johnson – Widow
In Loving Memory
of
ELIZA
Beloved Wife of
Andrew JOHNSON
Died 21 Dec. 1942
Aged 79.
At Rest
DEATHS.
JOHNSON.—On December 21, 1942 at a private hospital, Eliza, beloved wife of the late Andrew Johnson, Auckland, and loved mother of Merle, Eva, Ethel, Grace and Wilfred, in her 70th year,—At rest. Funeral leaves Arthur Holmes and Sons' Parlours McColl Street, Newmarket, to-day (Wednesday), for Waikumete, after service at 2 p.m.
Cemetery of the nunnery (monastery of Maria Rast) in Dult near Gratkorn, Styria, Austria – 8 March 2015
Handmade, I can't quite make out the language it's written in- Czech? Polish? St Monica cemetery in Palatka, FL
The Citadel Park (Cmentarz Bohaterów Radzieckich) is home to a large military cemetery of Polish, Russian, and British soldiers from WWI and WWII.
Art Deco Form with Carved Figure and Floral Decoration with Inscription Think and Thank to Margaret R Mitchell Trinity
This community was settled in the 1850s and named for a nearby spring-fed hollow. The cemetery served as a community graveyard for the town, which until the early 1900s contained businesses, schools, and churches. The first recorded burial here was that of Mary J. Burts in 1866. A cemetery association was founded in 1917 about the time annual July 4th picnics began. In 1977 a fund for perpetual maintenance was established. Among the more than 2600 people buried here are pioneers of the area and their descendants and veterans of conflicts from the Civil War to Vietnam. (1994) (Marker No. 11264)
I have to have a headstone put in a graveyard, so, in a ghoulish way, you might say I went shopping. Nothing much took the departed's fancy.
His face is printed on a ceramic oval that's attached to the stone.
Wyoming Cemetery, Malden, Mass.
Description: Comb graves in Good Hope Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: June 8, 2012
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 - Good Hope Cem 4
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Plot 41: Mary Ann Clarke – Mrs
Stuart Samuel Clarke – Warehouseman
Sacred
To The Memory
of
MARY ANNE CLARKE
died 19 Jan. 1956, aged 80 years.
And her loved son
STUART SAMUEL
loved husband of
Mary Bernardette CLARKE
died 26th Nov. 1956, aged 46 years.
R.I.P
CLARKE
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
"Blinded by the Light" (written by Springsteen, performed here by Manfred Mann's Earth Band):
The headstone for a South African soldier whose remains could not be identified.
This headstone bears the four standard elements for one where it was not possible to identify the name and unit of the soldier, or the date of death:
(1) The Springbok emblem
(2) The words "A South African Soldier of the Great War
(3) The Christian Cross
(4) The words "Known Unto God" first used by Rudyard Kipling (who lost his own son in in WW1)
See also: www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/61100/DELVILLE%20WO...
Delville Wood Cemetery
Saturday 31 March 2012
There are 100 or so people burried in this cemetery, but most graves are now unmarked. Jim Cummings in the front grave in this photo brought horse racing to the town and he was the great uncle of the famous horse-trainer Bart Cummings (ref. www.wilmap.com.au/atts/stuart_cemetery.html) I used to live very close to this little cemetery. It is now quite overgrown and neglected and the signs have all gone, hopefully to be replaced because this cemetery is part of the old Stuart town history. The first person to be burried here was Frederick Spicer who died as a result of a horse riding accident on Undoolya Station in 1889. The cemetery closed in 1932 and Stuart was renamed Alice Springs in 1933. Anyway, the cemetery is on a little corner of George Crescent looked over by the railway line as it comes into the Alice Springs railway station.
Cemetery, New Prague, MN
The town of New Prague was founded by Bohemian and Bavarian settlers between 1856 and 1877. The community was inhabited exclusively by immigrants. In 1880 it has a 387 residents. According to the census of 1880 the oldest Minnesota born resident was 17 years old. There were no residents with any of their parents born in Minnesota. The habitants of Nova Praha came mostly from the Hapsburg empire (Bohemia). Others were of Prussian origin (many of them were from Luxembourg).
There were some residents from Wurtenberg and one from Scotland and one from Sweden. There were no analphabets. The population was dedicated to farming, but there was a hotel, a saloon (with billiard) a family owned cigar manufacture, a beer saloon, a store and a lumber agency. The first steam operated mill was built in 1875 near the present-day mill.
The most common cause of death was "old age" (with 79-85 years) according to 10% of the immigrant files of the New Prague. Some people were hit by trains (others by bulls) and there was a death caused by car accident in 1904.
In 1905 the old church of New Prague was destroyed in a fire. The new church was one of the largest churches in the state. Its stained glass windows were imported from Europe and has inscriptions in Czech. Today the Czech cultural heritage is still visible in New Prague. There are ten murals from the early 20th century depicting life in New Prague.
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i have a lovely historic cemetery very close to where i live. i had never gone in, but when my friend came to visit, we took a stroll. it's quite beautiful, and some famous people from this area (oscar meyer, montgomery ward, robert sears, charles schwab to name a few) are buried there. it's very old, so there are some very cool gravestones.
Elmwood Cemetery
Norfolk, Virginia
Listed 8/27/2013
Reference Number: 1300643
Elmwood Cemetery is a 50-acre municipal cemetery established in Norfolk County (now in the City ofNorfolk), Virginia, in 1853. It is contiguous with Norfolk's first public cemetery, Cedar Grove, established in 1825. Elmwood is filled with an abundance of Victorian funerary art and displays a wealth of material culture relating to the Victorian attitudes toward death and mourning. It contains the graves of individuals and groups who made noteworthy contributions to the city, state, and nation. The works of both local and nationally recognized artisans, sculptors and stonemasons may be found there. It contains abundant resources for the study of the social, political, economic, cultural and ethnic heritage of the area. Elmwood continues to serve as an active city cemetery. Elmwood Cemetery is locally significant under Criteria A and C and areas of significance are Social History, Art, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. The property is locally significant under Criterion B as the final resting place for numerous individuals whose contributions to Norfolk's development are significant, as well as historic figures who achieved prominence on a statewide or larger scale, in particular the following individuals: Littleton Waller Tazewell, Sr., Hugh Blair Grigsby, James Barron Hope, David Minton Wright, Walter Herron Taylor, Robert Morton Hughes, William Sloane, Williams. Forrest, and Lycurgus Berkley, Sr. Elmwood Cemetery meets Criteria Considerations C and D as it derives significance from its association with historic events and individuals and its design characteristics. Elmwood's period of significance begins with the establishment of the cemetery in 1853 and ends with the construction of the Superintendent's Office in 1931.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
Mount Jackson, VA in the Shenandoah Valley
Memorial lists names of all buried here.
Established in 1861. Contains about 400 graves. The white marble statue of a Confederate soldier was erected and dedicated in 1903, with money raised by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. By 1910 they raised additional funds to erect an entrance archway and an iron fence with iron gates at the front and a white picket fence around the remainder of the cemetery. The original iron fence and archway were destroyed by a truck accident in 1963; they were not replaced until 1990.
All of the soldiers buried here have been identified, and there are no longer any unknowns.