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AL (Dallas County)
The Azion Baptist Church sits on the west side of Dallas Co. Rd. 21 and less than a mile north of Alabama Rt. 22 at Martin Station. Behind the church are several fairly recent graves, but across the road is an extensive cemetery that covers perhaps an acre of what is now wooded land not visible from the road in summer. It is the cemetery that was originally adjacent to the Protestant Methodist church (now long gone) and the St. Luke's Episcopal Church (originally built in Cahawba, later moved to Martin, and recently (ca. 2008) returned to Cahaba. (1)
References (1) Find A Grave www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2345421/azion-baptist-church-...
A beautifully-kept and peaceful cemetery, where Commonwealth War Graves are mixed with memorials to other comrades who served and died outwith the world wars.
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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Cemetery in Aktobe, Kazakhstan. We were told this is where many prominent government officials were buried. Photo taken in 2004.
St. Helena's Episcopal Church, 505 Church Street; Beaufort, South Carolina; Oldest marked grave is 1724.
Buried in the churchyard are two British officers, killed in the battle of Port Royal at Gray’s Hill during the American Revolution (February 1779); Also buried in the churchyard are two Confederate generals. Best known is Lieutenant General Richard Heron “Fightin’ Dick” Anderson (1821-1879). The other is Brigadier General Stephen Elliott, Jr. (1830-1866). During the Civil War, Union Forces seized the church and used it as a hospital. Flat gravestones were actually used as operating tables.
Detail of the left pillar on the west-facing facade of the McClellan Gate at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.
U.S. Army Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs had authority over Arlington National Cemetery after the American Civil War. At that time, the eastern boundary of the cemetery lay where Eisenhower Drive is located today. In 1871, Meigs ordered the a main ceremonial gate to Arlington be constructed just east of what is now the intersection of McClellan Avenue and Eisenhower Drive. Built of red sandstone and red brick, Meigs named it the McClellan gate after Major General George B. McClellan, who organized the Army of the Potomac and served from November 1861 to March 1862 as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Meigs ordered the name "MCCLELLAN" inscribed into the gate's east=facing rectangular pediment in gilt letters. In the left main column of the gate's west face, Meigs had his own name inscribed as a tribute to himself.
In 1900, the federal government transferred 400 acres of Arlington National Cemetery which lay between McClellan Gate and the Potomac River to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which used it as an experimental farm. In 1932, Memorial Drive and the Hemicycle (now the Women in Military Service to America Memorial) were built as a new ceremonial entrance to the cemetery. The 400 acres were returned to Arlington National Cemetery just before World War II, which required the abandonment of the McClellan Gate as Arlington's main gate.
Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Lt Col Sir Anthony Gadie (1868-1948), Lord Mayor & Freeman of Bradford.
Eliza Ann Gadie (d1923), Lady Mayoress 1920-21.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Anthony Gadie was a businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was self-made man. Born in a small cottage in Skipton, he became a builder and then an estate agent, a Lord Mayor of Bradford and a local councillor and Alderman for 45 years. He served as an army officer in France during World War I and as a Member of Parliament in the 1920s, but is best known for his involvement with construction of the Scar House Reservoir.
He was a member of Bradford City Council from 1900 to 1945 and was the Lord Mayor of Bradford from 1920 to 1921. He also served as chair of the Corporation's Water Committee, playing a big part in establishing the Scar House Reservoir, which was completed in 1936. Scar House was the second of two reservoirs built at great cost by Bradford Corporation in Upper Nidderdale to supply the city's needs. The reservoir was dismissed by some as a waste of money, and known as "Gadie's Folly". However, during the droughts of 1933 and 1934 Bradford had all the water it needed.
Gadie was Chairman of the Bradford Conservative and Unionist Association from 1924 to 1947 and at the 1924 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Bradford Central, winning the seat from the sitting Labour Party MP. However, Labour re-gained the seat at the 1929 general election and after his defeat Gadie did not stand for Parliament again.
He was knighted "for political and public services in Bradford" in 1935. He was a freemason and was awarded the freedom of the City of Bradford in 1946. He died on 24 August 1948, aged 79, He lived at "Oakwood", Toller Lane, Bradford.
Known as Pine Grove for the Baptist church that was focus for community in the area, this burial ground was in use in 1860s. Tombstone of Mrs. Harriet Hobdy Kelley is dated 1869, but there may be earlier, unmarked graves. Land donors were (1886) J. L. and Eveline Mansfield. War veterans here: the Confederates Richard Butler, Henderson Green, and W. T. Wasson; also Wasson's son, Brosig T. Wasson, Grimes County's first fatality of World War I. When the church disbanded in 1929, the cemetery was renamed for area's defunct post office. At least one family has 3 generations here. (1974) (Marker No. 8563)
I like the phrase "passed to the spirit life," as if she's there with the fireflies and the night moths banging against the summer screen door.
"It's Aunt Lizzie," the girls say.
Built c1911 this chapel stands in the heart of the Council run cemetery at Ogwell Cross near Newton Abbot. It is as at May 2011 in it's centenary year undergoing repairs.
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...
ROER college Schöndeln excursie HAVO-3 naar Ieper.
Passchendaele Musuem, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Ieper, Caterpillar Mine Crater, Hill 60.
Chinese cemetery - Manila
Ever seen? ... Buddha and Jesus in the same temple ...
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 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
Ref no Canon EOS50D 2nd series - IMG_2766
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.