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The inscription reads: "5th Alabama Battalion" In memory of those men from Calhoun County who fought and died in Company B Calhoun Sharpshooters from Jacksonville, Alabama and Company C White Plains Rangers from White Plains, Alabama. The two companies were placed in the 5th Alabama Battalion of Archer's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Light Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Jewish Cemetery, PĂ¡ty, Hungary
PĂ¡ty had a small Jewish community in the 20th century. Many of them were killed during the Holocaust. Their cemetery was abandoned. The gravestones disappeared and the cemetery was covered by the abundant vegetation in the early 90s.
The major of the village helped to clean up the cemetery. Some gravestones were "rescued" and a commemorative obelisk was erected. Recently the cemetery has been abandoned again. Once a year a remembrance is organized in the village, when the cemetery is cleaned up. During my visit we found a lot of broken glass and trash.
I hope it will be cleaned up again. They lived here, they paid their taxes here, they were members of this community. They deserve to be remembered.
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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In Memory Of The Abercarn Colliery Explosion On 11th September 1878 When At Least 268 Men And Boys Were Killed
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."
The grave of Able Seaman John Reddy (D/JX 368844), H.M.S. Drake Royal Navy in Bury Cemetery (memorial reference number Sec. K.P. 131. R.C. Grave 2184), the son of George and Emma Reddy of Woolford, Bury; husband of Edna Reddy of Woolford, Bury who died on 3rd February 1946. Friday 19th March 2010
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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
A Victorian cemetery, now also a nature reserve in Mile End, E London. Fascinating and well worth a visit
There was something spooky about this cemetery. I took this picture early in the morning in August of 2011. This was taken about a month before Tropical Storm Irene devastated the area with violent flooding. I'm not sure if this cemetery was damaged.
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)
Another fine child's headstone sculpted in white marble by F W Rose of Wollongong, the fern is a symbol of humility.
MR. F. W. ROSE, KIERA-STREET, WOLLONGONG. (1912, February 22). The Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942), p. 38. Retrieved September 30, 2016, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105180669
Pet Cemetery outside The Haunted Mansion in Liberty Square at Magic Kingdom Park. This photo was taken during the Happy Haunts Ball Event on October 30, 2002.
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...
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 Willemsoord colony was founded in the 19th century as a place where poor families could start a new life.
"de Pol" is the location of a small Jewish settlement in the Willemsoord colony. The cemetery is the only reminder.
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
Japanese Headstone which reads (RIKIMATSU OKAMURA-BORN SEDA VILLAGE-KIKUCHI PREFECTURE-DIED: JUNE 8,1913-AGE UNKNOWN) I hope I got that right.
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)
The cemetery is located on the former site of Bonaventure Plantation, originally owned by Colonel John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall III sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. The first burials took place in 1850, and three years later, Peter Wiltberger himself was entombed in a family vault.
Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907, the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
In 1867 John Muir began his Thousand Mile Walk to Florida and the Gulf. In October he sojourned for six days and nights in the Bonaventure cemetery, sleeping upon graves overnight, this being the safest and cheapest accommodation that he could find while he waited for money to be expressed from home. He found the cemetery even then breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring and wrote a lengthy chapter upon it, "Camping in the Tombs."
"Part of the grounds was cultivated and planted with live-oak (Quercus virginiana), about a hundred years ago, by a wealthy gentleman who had his country residence here But much the greater part is undisturbed. Even those spots which are disordered by art, Nature is ever at work to reclaim, and to make them look as if the foot of man had never known them. Only a small plot of ground is occupied with graves and the old mansion is in ruins.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent, planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, flies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light."
- "Camping in the Tombs," from A Thousand Mile Walk
Greenwich Cemetery became an addition to Bonaventure in 1933.