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an old pioneer cemetery just east of the hamlet of Harlan, nestled in the Coast Range of western Oregon ...
I can just imagine this guy, as a young man, bringing his family - just like his name - overland to western Oregon ...
I have no idea if it happened this way, but my imagination will continue to believe it ... just because I can ...
OK, I just had to check on ancestry.com, and did find a listing on the 1910 and 1920 census that shows a man by this name residing in Lincoln County, Oregon that was born in Nebraska ... maybe he did make the overland journey to Oregon after all ...
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of the June 25 and 26, 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn, near Crow Agency, Montana, in the United States. It also serves as a memorial to those who fought in the battle: George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry and a combined Lakota-Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho force. Custer National Cemetery, on the battlefield, is part of the national monument. The site of a related military action led by Marcus Reno and Frederick Benteen is also part of the national monument, but is about three miles southeast of the Little Bighorn battlefield.
August 2012
Brompton Cemetery, consecrated by the Bishop of London in June 1840, is one of the Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. The cemetery is Grade I Listed on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The 39-acre (16 hectare) site lies between Old Brompton and Fulham Roads, on the western border of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, then a distant suburb and now a populous and diverse community in the heart of London.
Description: Comb graves in Liberty Church Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: November 25, 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 - Liberty Church Cem 8
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Prominent Gettysburg residents became concerned with the poor condition of soldiers' graves scattered over the battlefield and at hospital sites, and pleaded with Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin for state support to purchase a portion of the battlefield to be set aside as a final resting place for the defenders of the Union cause. Gettysburg lawyer David Wills was appointed the state agent to coordinate the establishment of the new "Soldiers' National Cemetery", which was designed by noted landscape architect William Saunders. Removal of the Union dead to the cemetery began in the fall of 1863, but would not be completed until long after the cemetery grounds were dedicated on November 19, 1863. The dedication ceremony featured orator Edward Everett and included solemn prayers, songs, dirges to honor the men who died at Gettysburg. Yet, it was President Abraham Lincoln who provided the most notable words in his two-minute long address, eulogizing the Union soldiers buried at Gettysburg and reminding those in attendance of their sacrifice for the Union cause, that they should renew their devotion "to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.."
"We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground "
~Emily Dickinson
Oak Hill Cemetery
Owosso, Michigan
Remains of the Chinese Cemetary at Yale, dating back to the construction of the railway in the 1800s. Almost all of the bodies have been repatriated to China. A few more recent graves remain in an enclosure, the rest is hollows filled in with trees and other growth. 131027-027
Type of cemetery developed in North America in the 19 century, Beechwood is characterized by a rolling terrain and winding roads. It is the location of a national military cemetery, RCMP cemetery, ethnic Christian cemeteries, Buddhist cemetery as well as large public space where many notable Canadians are interred. It is a national historic site
We had a great student tour guide through this website: www.myparisiantour.com/pere_lachaise_cemetery_famous_grav...