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This is a billboard advertising a cemetery called Pleasantview Memorial Gardens. The sign was only up for a month or so, I noticed today it is gone! It just shows a picture of a coffin and says Think Outside The Box. I laughed when I saw that.
Ridge Cemetery on Williamsburg Hill in Illinois.
An excerpt on the history of Williamsburg Hill and Ridge Cemetery from www.prairieghosts.com/w-hill.html:
The village of Williamsburg, which was also called Cold Spring for a time, was laid out in 1839 by Dr. Thomas Williams and William Horsman. It was located on the south side of the large hill and for about 40 years, was a bustling community of about four square blocks. At one time, there were two churches, a doctor‘s office, a saloon, a post office, a blacksmith shop and a number of modest homes.
The Main Street of the community was once part of the "Old Anglin’ Road", a stage route that ran from Shelbyville to Vandalia. It was this stage line that brought prosperity to the village for many years but when the stagecoach died out, Williamsburg followed suit. The end came in 1880 when the Beardstown, Shawneetown and Southeastern Railroad constructed their line to the east of the village. The residents of the village moved along with it and most settled three miles to the east in the now burgeoning community of Lakewood.
Ridge Cemetery has been part of the lore that makes up Williamsburg Hill for many years and has long been considered a frightening place. It is located back off the main road and down a wooded lane that is very dark for those curiosity-seekers who venture down it at night, braving the sheriff’s deputies who regularly patrol the road and graveyard. Cases of vandalism, and some say darker things, have forced the authorities to close the place after dark. There have been reports of cultists using the cemetery and this has sparked both gossip and concern in small, surrounding towns. As far as I know, there is little evidence to suggest these stories are true, but once such rumors get started, they are hard to stop.
Plot 7: Rosetta Taylor
Lenna Olive Taylor (93) 1999 – Rtd Bookeeper
In
Loving Memory
of
our dear mother
ROSETTA MIRRIAM
TAYLOR
died 11th March 1931
aged 57 years.
At Rest
plaque:
Also her Daughter
LENNA OLIVE ALICE TAYLOR
20th Jan. 1906 – 29th July 1999
Loved Sister of William & Irene
TAYLOR.—On March 11, at her late residence, 126, Mount Eden Road, Rosetta Mariam, beloved wife of the late John Taylor, of Eltham; in her 58th year.
Funeral will leave the above address at 11 a.m. to-morrow (Friday).
Hull General Cemetery Spring Bank West, the burials and history into this cemetery continues 22 August 2019
Another old stone. Neil McLarty was a twin, and a brother to my G-G-G-Granmother. (Kilmartin Cemetery, Middlesex County, Ontario) His twin brother's memorial stone is much more magnificent than this one, but also from a later date, and in another township.
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.
The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary, located in a cave in the tuff hillside in the Materdei section of the city. It is associated with a chapter in the folklore of the city.
November 01, 2014. The Palenik family and family marker is right next to the Cermak (my) family/marker. I do not know who they are.
John P. Bontrager, born February 1, 1872 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was a Bishop for the General Conference Mennonite Church and a preacher at Winton's Sharon Mennonite Church for many years. Died June 8, 1949 in Atwater, CA at 77 years old. Married Amanda Hilty on September 13, 1896. Amanda was born December 17, 1874 in Rockport, Ohio, died August 19, 1950 in Atwater, CA They had 6 daughters: Catherine, Fannie, Mary, Martha, Mabel and Jeanette.
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.
I'm using the instructions from Casa De Sade with a few slight modifications. My posts are about a foot taller, and I decided to cut the two full sections in half and make four smaller sections with an archway in the middle. I still had 13 holes, but I left out the smallest post that would have been in the middle and used that hole for the arch supports instead.
Here's the cut PVC tubes I used for the posts.
TIP - if you paint them all at once before assembling the fence, you'll save on paint. Some of it will strip off when you insert the tubes into the wooden crosspieces, but you can touch those bits up.
Jesmond Old Cemetery
Son of William and Anne Pattinson of New House, Felling, near Gateshead
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One of the markers to the Georgians who died at Gettysburg who were reburied in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, GA.
As settlement along Spring Creek increased after the end of the Civil War, land in this area was set aside for a Missionary Baptist church, a school, and this cemetery. According to local tradition, the first burial was that of a horse thief hanged in the vicinity. The earliest marked tombstone, however, is that of 2-year-old Will Bullard who died in 1881. In its role as a reflection of the area's heritage, Spring Creek Cemetery is the burial site of many early settlers, war veterans, school teachers, and church members. (1986) (Marker No. 5014)
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.
Plot 45: Phyllis Feek (11) 1917
IN
Loving Memory
of
PHYLLIS
(Maisie)
the dearly beloved
only child of
George & Jennie FEEK
died 24 March 1917;
aged 10 years & 11½ months
“Safe in the arms of Jesus.”
FEEK.— March 24, at the Auckland Hospital, Phyllis (Maisie), the dearly-loved and only child of George and Jennie Feek, of Pukekohe; aged 10 years and 11 months.
A little sufferer at rest.
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Link to close up image of Maisies headstone:
www.flickr.com/photos/discoverwaikumetecemetery/513129361...
The grave of Warrant Officer Class II (R.Q.M.S.) Alfred “Kit” Humphreys (3438134), The Lancashire Fusiliers in Bury Cemetery (memorial reference number Sec. F.P. 65. Grave 893), the Son of Alfred and Alice Humphreys; husband of Doris Humphreys of Elton, Bury who died on 10th February 1945. Friday 19th March 2010
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Chinese cemetery - Manila
Een wandeling in de straten van de Chinese begraafplaats is onthutsend. We kuieren traag en onbegrijpend doorheen een echte dodenstad. We zien er de laatste rustplaats van veel welstellende Chinezen in Manilla. in lange lanen zie je door het vele traliewerk de sarcofagen van hun dierbaren opgesteld in huizen en soms riante villa's. Soms staat de wagen van de overledene voor de deur geparkeerd. Sommige huisjes hebben airconditioning, stromend water, keuken, douches en een brievenbus ... In de weekends en op speciale feestdagen komen familieleden hier samen om gezellig bij elkaar te zijn en om te eten en te drinken ... met hun geliefde doden ... dit allemaal om de doden nog een goede 'eeuwige' tijd te bezorgen ...
De begraafplaats kent tevens een crematorium waar dagelijks crematies plaatsvinden van afgestorven Chinezen, maar ook van Filippino`s.
A true city of the dead, the Chinese Cemetery is an amazing area where the dead are venerated in houses instead of graves, and where the family still comes by regularly for more than just laying fresh flowers.
The big street still had all the noise and pollution that can be found in many parts of Manila.
from:
www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/manila-chinese-c...
On voit des pierres tombales de différents styles, de différentes confessions (on voit 2 pierres juives sur cette photo), et parfois des noms de femmes : ici, femme et fille de militaire. En général, Arlington est un cimetière militaire, ou de personnes ayant rendu un service particulier à la nation. Comme on le voit aussi sur cette photo, ce ne sont pas des militaires nécessairement morts au combat.
Chinese cemetery - Manila
Ever seen? ... Buddha and Jesus in the same temple ...
Een wandeling in de straten van de Chinese begraafplaats is onthutsend. We kuieren traag en onbegrijpend doorheen een echte dodenstad. We zien er de laatste rustplaats van veel welstellende Chinezen in Manilla. in lange lanen zie je door het vele traliewerk de sarcofagen van hun dierbaren opgesteld in huizen en soms riante villa's. Soms staat de wagen van de overledene voor de deur geparkeerd. Sommige huisjes hebben airconditioning, stromend water, keuken, douches en een brievenbus ... In de weekends en op speciale feestdagen komen familieleden hier samen om gezellig bij elkaar te zijn en om te eten en te drinken ... met hun geliefde doden ... dit allemaal om de doden nog een goede 'eeuwige' tijd te bezorgen ...
De begraafplaats kent tevens een crematorium waar dagelijks crematies plaatsvinden van afgestorven Chinezen, maar ook van Filippino`s.
A true city of the dead, the Chinese Cemetery is an amazing area where the dead are venerated in houses instead of graves, and where the family still comes by regularly for more than just laying fresh flowers.
The big street still had all the noise and pollution that can be found in many parts of Manila.
from:
www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/manila-chinese-c...
Arlington National Cemetery was established during the Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, previously the estate of Mary Anna Custis Lee, a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of Robert E. Lee. The cemetery, along with Arlington House, Memorial Drive, the Hemicycle, and Arlington Memorial Bridge form the Arlington National Cemetery Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places #14000146.
Round Mound Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Jones County and is located near the site of the former Deadman Creek of Round Mound settlement. The name "Round Mound may derive from the highest point in the area, which is located approximately one half mile southwest of cemetery, or may refer to the smaller mound on which the cemetery is situated. In October 1889, the two-acre plot already being used as Round Mound Cemetery was officially designated as such by property owners Mr. & Mrs. W.T. Connally. Hinton and Rachel Manly deeded as additional acre of land to the cemetery in March 1896.
The two earliest marked burials are those of Fannie C. Harry and Charity E. Hinds, who both died in 1882. These graves are located in the northeast quarter of the cemetery. The sole fenced family plot in the cemetery contains graves of cousins Nona Bell Manly and Ruby Harvey, who died in 1895 and 1900.
The tabernacle at the center of the cemetery was built in the early 1900s and was used for shelter during funerals. Arborvitae evergreen trees were also planted at the cemetery at this time. During the 1950s a chain link fence and arched metal entrance gate were constructed and additional undeveloped acreage was acquired across FM 1082. Arizona cypress trees were planted in the early 1960s. Along with the traditional grave markers located throughout the cemetery are numerous native stone markers, as well as decorative urns, veteran plaques, benches and folk decorations. (2007) (Marker No. 15905)
The cemetery dating to the 15th century is among the oldest and best-preserved Jewish cemeteries in the country. The oldest legible tombstone is from 1647. A total of 1,077 tombstones are arranged in 21 rows of unequal length, including a tomb from 1844 and large tombstones from the mid-19th century. The last burial took place in 1940. The tombstones, especially the older ones, are mostly from sandstone; the newer stones are from marble. Inscriptions are in Czech, German, Hebrew, and their various combinations. A mortuary from 1838 is situated approximately in the middle of the cemetery. The mortuary holds a communal coffin, thanks to which Jews were able to circumvent the decree from Emperor Josef II that all individuals must be buried in coffins. The communal coffin was used only for transport; afterwards burials were conducted in the traditional shroud. The site also features a restored funeral vehicle and several display cases that inform visitors about Jewish ritual customs and symbols.
Video footage of Netherlands American Cemetery.
The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands.
The cemetery's tall memorial tower can be seen before reaching the site, which covers 65.5 acres. From the cemetery entrance visitors are led to the Court of Honor with its pool reflecting the tower. At the base of the tower facing the reflecting pool is a statue representing women who have suffered loss. To the right and left, respectively, are the visitor building and the map room containing three large, engraved operations maps with texts depicting the military operations of the American armed forces. Stretching along the sides of the court are Tablets of the Missing on which are recorded 1,722 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
ABMC video.