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West Hill Church was built in 1905. It held services until 1983. A new church was built and the old church closed it's doors. In 2005 the cemetery suffered some vandalism having some 100 headstones pushed over and some damaged beyond repair. My wife organized a gathering of residence and companies along with the police and firefighters and rebuilt the graveyard and headstones. She also repaired the interior of the 100 year old church. The old church reopened it's door on it's 100th anniversary and held 1 more Sunday service and a wedding. It has been closed ever since that day. Well unexpectedly I got inside today to look around and i just happened to have my camera
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.
Hollywood Cemetery is one of Richmond's major tourist attractions. Photo is property of the Valentine Richmond History Center.
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Handmade, I can't quite make out the language it's written in- Czech? Polish? St Monica cemetery in Palatka, FL
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
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
The Old Jewish Cemetery of Frankfurt is located at Rat-Beil-Straße ("Councillor Beil Street") directly adjacent to the oldest parts of the gentile Frankfurt Main Cemetery. Together, Frankfurt Main Cemetery, the Old Jewish Cemetery and the New Jewish Cemetery constitute one of the largest cemetery areas in Germany. The Old Jewish Cemetery is noted for many monumental graves and includes the graves of many notable individuals. The Old Jewish Cemetery is the largest of Frankfurt's twelve Jewish cemeteries.
About a third of the cemetery’s original tombstones, dating from the 13th century to 1828, survived Nazi depredations; many still lean at crazy angles. Pick up the key at the Museum Judengasse; you’ll be asked to leave ID as a deposit. Men are requested to wear a head covering.
The exterior of the cemetery’s western wall is known as the Wand der Namen because it is studded with row upon row of metal cubes bearing the names of 11,000 Frankfurt Jews who died in the Holocaust. Visitors often place pebbles atop the cubes to indicate, in accordance with Jewish tradition, that the deceased is still remembered.
It was opened, together with the Main Cemetery, in 1828. By 1928, when the cemetery was closed for new graves because it was full, there were around 40,000 burials on the cemetery. Since 1928, interment has only been possible in already established (family) graves. In its place, the New Jewish Cemetery was opened in 1928.
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.
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.
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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.