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Started in 1840's still used by founding families.
Graves include those of Texas patriots Francisco Antonio Ruiz, 1836 acting mayor, whose father and uncle signed declaration in Independence; and Blas Herrera, who alerted the Alamo defenders to Santa Anna's approach. (1967) (Marker No. 4387)
The Trafalgar Cemetery in Gibraltar. Buried here are some of the Royal Navy Sailors and Royal Marines who died of wounds from the Battle of Trafalgar in Gibraltar. The other dead were buried at sea of course, Admiral Lord Nelson's body was returned to England where he is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. Real historic stuff
Lawrence Cemetery (before 1832)
216th St. at 42nd Ave. (originally 4th St. at New St.)
Bayside, Queens
One of three Lawrence family cemeteries in Queens.
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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.
Every Memorial Day, Boxborough has a very small ceremony at this cemetery. The older I get, the more poignant I find the ever-growing list of names.
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.
My departed wanted just a rock. There are several in this cemetery that are very pink. The plaques don't look very good.
Wyoming Cemetery, Malden, Mass.
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.
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The cemetery follows traditional Jewish Burial Customs: No embalming permitted. Shroud, Taharah and all-wood caskets required. Outer burial containers may not include a bottom.
Cemetery requires an outer burial container.
One of the most important elements of a proper Jewish burial is the Tahara, preparing the body by the Chevra Kaddisha for its final rest, until the Resurrection of the Dead in the era of Moshiach. A proper Tahara includes cleansing, ritually washing, and dressing the deceased's body. Those who perform this Chesed Shel Emet (true act of kindness) recite special prayers, beseeching G-d to lift the soul into the Heavens and eternal rest. Unlike in other religions and practices, a Jewish person is not buried in his or her usual clothing. Similarly, jewelry or other adornments are not worn. According to Jewish tradition, a deceased's body is dressed in plain white Tachrichim (traditional shrouds). These garments are hand-made from linen or muslin and are considered fitting for someone who is about to stand before G-d in judgment. In addition to Tachrichim, a man is also buried in his Tallit (prayer shawl).
It is a Torah commandment to return the body to the earth upon passing, as it it written "Unto dust shall you return" (Genesis 3:19). In Israel, this is still the prevailing custom. In America, most, if not all, states mandate the use of caskets by law. Jewish tradition requires that the person be buried in a plain, modest, casket. The casket must be made from material that will disintegrate in the ground, allowing the body to return to the bosom of the earth as quickly as possible. Some religious authorities do not even allow metal nails or bracing in a wooden casket. In their opinion, metal is the material of weapons and war, and one should not go to one's eternal peace aided by elements of war. In addition to being made of wood or other organic material, the casket interior should be plain and unadorned. It should not be lined nor filled with pillows.
An outer burial container, also known as a vault, is the container that surrounds the casket in the grave. Many cemeteries require that such a container be used so that the grave does not sink.
The Tradition vault is constructed without a bottom to allow the casket to come in full contact with the Earth. This unique container provides the benefit of a burial vault while respecting the teachings of certain faiths and personal beliefs.
19th-century tombstones in the Bonshaw Pioneer Cemetery, Prince Edward Island. Note that both of these ladies died on the seventeenth of March, three years apart.
The grave of Company Serjeant Major George Ash (6759), 5th Reserve Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in Bury Cemetery (memorial reference number 153. E. 6693), the son of Robert and Jane Ash of Sydling, St. Nicholas, Dorset; husband of Elizabeth Ash of 8 School Brow, Bury who died on 8th March 1915. Tuesday 30th June 2009
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Mulkey Pioneer Cemetery is a small historic cemetery located in the south hills of Eugene, Oregon, United States, in the Hawkins Heights portion of the Churchill neighborhood. The hilltop, with sweeping views of west Eugene, the Willamette Valley, the Coburg Hills, and the Cascades, was first used as a cemetery in 1853. The cemetery property was deeded to the Bailey Hill School District in 1891. Management was taken over by the Mulkey Cemetery Association in 1925. The Association still maintains the land, and became a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2008. The cemetery is located at 3335 South Lambert Street. (www.mulkeycemetery.org/)
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)
The leading cause of death in the United States in the first decade of this 21st century is Heart Disease, followed by various forms of Cancer. Your humble narrator has some small experience with the first and has resigned himself to the inevitability of the second, as he lives on a continent where Nuclear Testing was conducted.
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If all the Atomic tests are considered together when calculating radiation exposure to the civilian population of North America, a full scale nuclear war might as well have been fought here, and the bell curve of nuclear testing lays neatly into the rates of cancer experienced 25-30 years later. Tourist groups may visit the Frenchman Flats testing site- a “national sacrifice zone” for excursions amongst the cratered sites of Atomic detonations, I’d rather drink a glass of that queerly coloured effluviam which flows lugubriously through a crucible of dictatorial capitalism called the Newtown Creek.
Congenital illness, which medicine hasn’t figured out how to deal with -yet- notwithstanding, that which kills you these days is not an infected mosquito bite- or any of the leading causes of death in the 19th century- Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, and Diarrhea – instead its eating too much of the wrong food… which is plentiful.
Back in 1900, life expectancy was 49. Heart Disease was almost the number 4 killer, and strokes were number 5.
Number 5 is “accidents”, today. Life expectancy is almost 80.
from wikipedia
When the last of the soft-tissue has been removed from the body, the final stage of decomposition, skeletonization, occurs. This stage encompasses the deterioration of skeletal remains, and is the longest of the decomposition processes. Skeletonization differs markedly from the previous stages, not only in length, but in the deterioration process itself.
The strength and durability of bone stems from the unique protein-mineral bond present in skeletal formation. Consequently, changes to skeletal remains, known as bone diagenesis, occur at a substantially slower rate than stages of soft-tissue breakdown. As the protein-mineral bond weakens after death, however, the organic protein begins to leach away, leaving behind only the mineral composition. Unlike soft-tissue decomposition, which is influenced mainly by temperature and oxygen levels, the process of bone breakdown is more highly dependent on soil type and pH, along with presence of groundwater. However, temperature can be a contributing factor, as higher temperature leads the protein in bones to break down more rapidly. If buried, remains decay faster in acidic-based soils rather than alkaline. Bones left in areas of high moisture content also decay at a faster rate. The water leaches out skeletal minerals, which corrodes the bone, and leads to bone disintegration.
At the dry decay stage commonly found insects include Sphaeroceridae, Acarina, Nitidulidae, Cleridae, Dermestes caninus, Trogidae, Tyroglyphid mites, and the Tineid larvae. The soil-inhabiting arthropods are Collembola, Dermaptera, Heteroptera, Coleoptera and their larvae, parasitic Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Diptera larvae, Pseudoscorpiones, Aranae, Plectochetos, Acari, Pauropoda, Symphyla, Geophilidae, Protura, and Aphididae.
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