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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.
Close up of a marker.
Ohio County, West Virginia
Located at Roney's Point on Point Run Road
It was used as a cemetery for the county farm, TB sanitarium, paupers, and a relocation spot for Wheeling cemeteries that were in the way of Interstate 70.
Approximately 800 people are buried here.
The cemetery is also located on the old estate of Henry Schmulbach.
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, HI (1949). Congress approved its construction in February 1948 and it opened the next September. It now holds the remains of about 53,000 veterans. Interments include over thirty medal of honor recipients.
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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Jewish Cemetery Baisingen
Cemetery view.
Baisingen, Germany
Baden-Wuerttemberg
N48 30.655
E8 46. 238
JCEAA ID: C060232
10 September 2006
Juedischer Friedhof Baisingen.
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
Mount Jackson, VA in the Shenandoah Valley
Memorial lists names of all buried here.
Established in 1861. Contains about 400 graves. The white marble statue of a Confederate soldier was erected and dedicated in 1903, with money raised by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. By 1910 they raised additional funds to erect an entrance archway and an iron fence with iron gates at the front and a white picket fence around the remainder of the cemetery. The original iron fence and archway were destroyed by a truck accident in 1963; they were not replaced until 1990.
All of the soldiers buried here have been identified, and there are no longer any unknowns.
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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One of the things I love most about back road rambles is coming across the unexpected. When I was on our wildflower trip the weekend before last with Pat Conner, Judy Conner and Margaret Reed we came across this little country cemetery covered in wildflowers. What a beautiful place this was to be especially on this day. Not only were the wildflowers in full bloom but there is a historical marker that tells the story of the church and school that used to be there as well as a marker that had a photo of what the building used to look like. I have often seen photos of people on their headstones but never one of a building and it is a testament to the people who worshiped there, went to school there and whose loved ones are buried there that they wanted this to be remembered, very special indeed
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.
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.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
I don't know the significance of this alligator. He was lying there beside bricks that are presumably the remains of a grave-marker of some kind. Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
I added two almost-identical pictures because I was curious to see how different they might look online. This one was taken with the regular camera, the other one with the telephone.
Christian symbolism will never do, but look at how the guy is carved inside of the rock.
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.
Wyoming Cemetery, Malden, Mass.
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...
Swampscott, Massachusetts
Listed 03/06/2013
Reference Number: 13000051
Swampscott Cemetery retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and meets criteria A and C for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, at the local level of significance. The cemetery qualifies for listing under Criterion A due to its strong association with the history of the town of Swampscott, which was set off from Lynn in 1852. Early burials in the area that is now Swampscott took place in Lynn's cemeteries. Swampscott Cemetery was established in 1852 as one of the first acts of the new community, and has continued to serve as the town's only cemetery for 160 years. The cemetery meets Criterion C as a well-preserved late 19th- and early 20th-century cemetery that reflects the evolving design of burial grounds and funerary monuments in New England during this period. The integration of natural and built elements is a reflection of the 19th -century rural cemetery movement as adapted to a municipal cemetery. While Swampscott Cemetery has four sections (A, B, C, and D) that reflect the chronological evolution of the grounds, only sections A, B, and C are included in this nomination. Section D, which is physically separated from the rest of the cemetery by Capen Road, is excluded because it postdates 1963, the end of the period of significance.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
Swampscott Cemetery, Swampscott, Massachusetts, Summary Page
Ohlsdorf Cemetery (German: Friedhof Ohlsdorf or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the quarter Ohlsdorf of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the second-largest cemetery in the world after Wadi-us-Salaam in Najaf, Iraq.[citation needed] Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there are also a large number of victims of war from various nations. [Wikipedia]
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