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This is an overgrown cemetery located in a parking lot, and completely surrounded by an apartment complex.
I have driven through the area many times without noticing the graveyard. It was not until my Dad pointed it out that I realized how strange the location was.
He told me the developers could not get permission to move the graves, so the cemetery had to remain undisturbed while apartments went up around it.
I don't know the name of the cemetery, but it is located in the Plantation Place Apartments on Ellis Drive in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. If you know what it's called or who is buried there, please let me know.
Quogue Cemetery
Quogue, New York
Listed 12/11/2013
Reference Number: 13000914
The Quogue Cemetery, which was laid out c. 1750, is historically significant as a representative example of settlement period burying ground associated with the early spread of communities throughout the Town of Southampton. The cemetery is significant under Criterion A in the area of settlement and social history for its association with the Quogue Purchase (1659), one of the Southampton proprietors first major land acquisitions after founding their plantation in 1640, and for the significant individuals buried at the site during its period of significance. The cemetery, which is active and privately owned, was established in the mid-eighteenth century and preserves historically significant grave monuments associated with Quogues founding settlers and their descendants. The cemetery is additionally significant under Criterion C in the area of funerary art as a site that contains excellent examples of preserved materials, iconography, and craftsmanship associated with early styles of gravestone carving. One of the oldest surviving headstones in the Quogue Cemetery is that of Jonathan Cook, who died on March 7, 1754. Cooks grave is marked by a tall sandstone monument, handsomely carved, that typifies the funerary art of the period. Jonathan Cook was one of several large landowners in Quogues early period; his gravestone and others like it representing the Cooper, Herrick, Howell, Post and Rogers families characterize the significant colonial era distribution of the original Southampton colony, which began as a concentrated settlement of eight miles square in 1640.
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Entrance Gate (1886)
Cypress Hills National Cemetery (1870)
625 Jamaica Ave.
Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
Burials date from 1862. The cemetery was originally part of the private Cypress Hills Cemetery. Both Union and Confederate dead were interred here, though the area became known as the Union Grounds. It was deeded to the U.S. government in 1870.
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The grave of Private Herbert John Hastings (DM2/096916), M.T. Depot (Grove Park) Royal Army Service Corps in Bury Cemetery (memorial reference number K.P.130. 2368) (born in Bury, the son of Michael and Margaret Hastings; husband of Mary Hastings of 23 Wyndham Street, Bury who died on 22nd October 1916. Friday 19th March 2010
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Chinese cemetery - Manila
Lane with graves
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...
West Wrentham Cemetery, Wrentham MA
The Captain's wife, who outlived him by 47 years.
"Life makes the soul dependent on the dust:
Death gives her ways to mount above the spheres."
Tombstone for Anna Lee Nelson McWhorter. Bethel, NC. Wife of Z. D. McWhorter. Daughter of J. R. Nelson and Jeanette Whichard Nelson, wife of Zach Davis McWhorter, mother of Winnie Eugenia McWhorter Cox, grandmother of Zach Davis Cox, and great-grandmother of John N. Cox
St. John's Cemetery, San Mateo, California. I guess not actually an angel, no wings, no star on the top of the head, but she looks angelic.
This frontier community cemetery was established in the early 1850s. The earliest recorded burial was that of a child, Martha Jackson, in 1853. Georgia native Samuel Lumpkin Wells and his wife, Eliza Bennett (McGinty), an Alabama native, left their Mississippi home for Texas about 1860. By 1867 the Wellses owned the land containing this graveyard. The previous year their 23-year-old daughter, Mae Wells, had been buried at this site.
Among the 40 or so marked gravesites in this cemetery are those of at least three veterans of the civil war and that of Seawill (Pipkin) Wells, for whom the former local community of Seawillow was named. At its height, the community boasted a post office, school, church, and store. Many pioneers of this community, including Samuel and Eliza Wells and their descendants are buried here. They represent the Foreman, Long, Kirksey, Kelly, Franks, Patterson, Jones, Chapman, Rogers, Wallis, Misenhimer, Dillard, Hendricks, Perry, Tally, Watts, and Henderson families. The last burial was that of Nicholas Perkins Ridout in 1934. Descendants of many of the early settlers interred here formed the Wells Cemetery Association in 1988 for the purpose of maintain the grounds. (1993) (Marker No. 15225)
Description: Comb grave in Fredonia Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: November 18, 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#: Okalona Q - Fredonia Cem 12
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The cemeteries of Ontario Canada tell an interesting Historical story. There are often grave markers from some of the original pioneers, since we are such a young country. ~ "In Memory of Emily, relict of the late Richard Browne, who died March 26, 1898, aged 96 years." (seen in St. James Anglican Cemetery, Brooke-Alvinston, Ontario.)
The State Mental Hospital at Osawatomie Kansas goes back 150 years. Until 20 years ago, death in the asylum meant burial in a cemetery where you became merely a number. It was both cheaper and avoided the shame associated with mental illness for families. Now the hospital is fairly impoverished while mental illness has become a hot topic in the United States due to the tragedies caused by guns...
Also known as Gatchell Cemetery and/or Old New Meadows Cemetery, this burial ground is located on the former Naval Air Station Brunswick in Brunswick, Maine. Some good info. about the cemetery on this website: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mebrucem/cem9.html
Cemetery of Cavtat, at the highest point of the small village. From up there, you get a really beautiful view over the Adriatic Sea!
Originally named Pleasant Grove Cemetery, this burial ground was at first associated with the Pleasant Grove community. The settlement's school was also once located on this site. By 1872, residents organized the Pleasant Grove Church, which met in the schoolhouse. Members later merged with a nearby congregation to form Mt. Zion Baptist Church, worshipping several miles east of here.
The current name for this cemetery can be traced to Madison Murray (1821-1987). A Civil War veteran who in the late 1860s moved here from Mississippi with two brothers. He became a community leader and educator, obtaining possession of the Pleasant Grove schoolhouse and operating it as a private institution. After Mt. Zion Baptist Church formed, this burial ground became known as Murray Cemetery.
The earliest marked grave here, that of Nancy Phillips, dates to 1856. Other notable burials include Joseph Cook, a Rockdale blacksmith, and George Banzhaf, a celebrated Milam County
Agricultural Extension Agent. Also interred here are early area pioneers and veterans of conflicts dating to the Civil War. The cemetery features Woodmen of the World markers, vertical stones, curbing and interior fencing.
Although the Pleasant Grove community declined, the cemetery later also served the Bushdale and Bethlehem settlements. In 2004 the Murray Cemetery Association organized to care for the burial ground, which remains a memorial to the early settlers of Southwest Milam County. (2007) (Marker No. 14256)