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Terlingua, TX
April 15, 2013
©Dale Haussner
Terlingua Cemetery -
This cemetery dates to the early 1900's when Terlingua became a flourishing mercury mining town. It served the district as the final resting place for residents and mine workers that succumbed to dangerous working conditions, gunfights and the influenza epidemic of 1918. Life was good but could take harsh turns in the remote, untamed region known as Big Bend.
The Terlingua Cemetery is still used by the local community - evidenced by the newer graves. Each November 2, people gather here to celebrate the Day of The Dead and offer their respect for the departed.
The Terlingua Cemetery is part of the Terlingua Preservation Foundation. Your generosity will help the Foundation to preserve and protect this important National Landmark.
* from the plaque at Terlingua Cemetery.
Description: Comb grave in Looper-Speck 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 - Looper-Speck Cem 2
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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...
Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.
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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...
First, the verbatim description from the signage at this cemetery (which is a national monument):
This is the second-largest Jewish Cemetery in Europe, after the one in Prague.
The year in which it was open is recorded as 1630. The primary sources for the study of the cemetery have been looted and destroyed, particularly in 1941, when the "Book of the Dead" which had been meticulously copied out by Mose Altarac, secretary of the Sephardi Community and of the "Hevra kadisha" funeral society, was burned in the ruins of the Great Sephardi Synagogue in Sarajevo.
The cemetery came into being alongside a medieval necropolis of stechak tombstones in Borak, by the old quarry in Satorija. The tombstones of Bosnia's Sephardi Jews differ in form and in the motifs they bear from Jewish tombstones in other parts of the world. The likely reason for this is the intermingling of diverse cultural surroundings in which the Sephardim lived with their own Jewish traditions.
In 1952, a monument to the victims of fascist terror, the work of Jahiel Finci, was erected in the cemetery. The large mausoleum was designed by Zlatko Ugljen in 1962, and was erected following the exhumation of the old and new Ashkenazi cemeteries. The cemetery was closed to further burials in 1966.
Now...that's the stated spiel. What you see here...lots of interesting tombstones, in Hebrew -- of which I can read nothing, though I once learned the Hebrew alphabet. I would dispute the claim of the "second-largest Jewish cemetery" they propose here. Prague's is, I believe, pretty large. (There's an Old and New Jewish cemetery there.) I've been to a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw that seemed larger than this one -- though I did only have a chance to see a small corner here.
In some of the pictures here, you see headstones with lots of pieces chipped out. These are bullet holes from the siege (1992-95). When you read about "Snipers Alley" in Sarajevo, this was the snipers' nest. The Serbs set up in the Jewish Cemetery, so the bullet holes in the tombstones are return fire.
If you can get by that horrific little episode (though the bullet holes will certainly remind you off the recent past), this cemetery is quite beautiful, and offers a nice view of downtown Sarajevo.
Cemetery of the Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar in Бахчисарай (Bağçasaray Багъчасарай Bakhchysarai)
Addison P. and Melissa Hester deeded two acres of land to the Creek Community (then called Georgia Camp) for a school in 1887. Their infant son, Sydney Hester (d. 1889), was the first person interred here. An additional acre was donated in 1930. Creek Cemetery contains the gravesites of many local pioneer settlers, as well as veterans of the American Civil War and World Wars I and II. Neighboring communities, and many local residents who are descendants of pioneers buried here, continue to use and maintain the cemetery. (1993) (Marker No. 11088)
The Jewish Cemetery Groningen is a part of the Noorderbegraafplaats Groningen. The addres is: Moesstraat 98A - 9741 AC Groningen - The Netherlands
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.
Robert Corbett BOYLE . Chief Steward Merchant Navy of S.S. Refast (London) killed by enemy action 26th January 1942 aged 25. He was the son of William John Rush and Wilhelmina. His parents and siblings were living at 43 York Road, Belfast in 1911. He is commemorated on his parents memorial in Dundonald Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland and he also commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London
Full abstract of his WILL held by the PRONI
Boyle Robert Corbett of care of Mr Reid Ashfield House Castlereagh county Down chief steward merchant navy died 26 January 1942 at sea Administration Belfast 7 June to Thomas Rush Boyle docker. Effects £568 0s. 11d.
Bukit Brown Cemetery is the largest Chinese municipality cemetery in Singapore. It is threatened to be destroyed by the building of a highway through it and that would mean the loss of a great natural eco system and cultural heritage as the cemetery has graves from all different Chinese clans and many of the Singaporean forefathers are burried here.
An interesting "modernistic" area in The Princeton Cemetery (Princeton, New Jersey). I didn't see a sign indicating anything about this.
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Grave of Earl Griswold Boardman, d. 1984 and Dorothy MacFarlane Boardman, d. 2007, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
it's not just a slightly unfortunate juxtaposition of signage, but a historical quirk. Interestingly, Leys Park Road was originally called Cemetery Road - leading, surprise ye-not, to Dunfermline Cemetery.
The Poorhouse, or Poor Law Institute, above, is depicted on OS mapping as the Dunfermline Combination Home & Hospital by 1925, when the road still had its original name. It would seem that it was thought inappropriate to have a home and hospital on Cemetery Road (giving out the address must have been awkward), and by 1938 the road had been renamed.
This cemetery, probably named for noted pioneer educator D. R. Wood, was established with the 1858 burial of Sarah E. Shipman, wife of prominent local rancher John K. Shipman. More than 20 additional burials were recorded before John Shipman deeded 11.5 acres here for cemetery, church, and school purposes in 1877. The cemetery contains grave sites of many area pioneer settlers and their descendants and veterans of the Civil War and World Wars I and II. Wood Cemetery remains active and is maintained by an association of descendants of persons buried here. (1994)