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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
Bidadari Garden at 10 Vernon Park, Singapore 367812. For detailed descriptions, see the Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gravestones_in_Bidada....
This is Avery Cemetery near Preston, Connecticut, where my 10th great grandparents, Thomas Parke, Sr. (1615-1709) and his wife Dorothy (Thompson) Parke (1624-1709), are buried. The exact location of their graves are lost to history.
Early Los Angeles pioneers, The Chapman Family. Alfred Beck Chapman, LA City Attorney, and D.A., in his partnership with Andrew Glassell (who he met in in Greensboro, Alabama) developed much of Los Angeles and Orange County. The city of Orange, California was named after his father, Robert Chapman's hometown of Orange, New Jersey and Andrew Glassell's birthplace of Orange, Virgina.
Placerville received its name because of placer mining in the vicinity. The ghost town is located 17 miles East of Horseshoe Bend. The townsite was selected December 1, 1862; and by December 16 there were 6 cabins in the camp. By the early summer of 1863, the town had 300 buildings and a population of 5,000. At the meeting of the first legislature held in Lewiston in 1863, the citizens obtained a charter for their city. Father Mesplie, a Catholic priest, held the first church service January 4, 1864, and in that same year a stage line was established between the Basin and Wallua to carry Wells Fargo express. It ran every other day from Placerville and went through in four days. By July 1864, 4500 claims had been recorded in the that district.
Mulkey Cemetery is a small historic cemetery located in the south hills of Eugene, Oregon, United States, in the Hawkins Heights portion of the Churchill neighborhood.
The hilltop, with sweeping views of west Eugene, the Willamette Valley, the Coburg Hills, and the Cascades, was first used as a cemetery in 1853. The cemetery property was deeded to the Bailey Hill School District in 1891. Management was taken over by the Mulkey Cemetery Association in 1925. The Association still maintains the land, and became a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2008.
The cemetery is located at 3335 South Lambert Street. (www.mulkeycemetery.org/)
Gone but not Forgotten
Confederate Cemetery in San Antonio Texas. Citizens of Texas did fight in the Civil War. This cemetery is for veterans of Confederate army and their families. approximately 950 are interred.
Side A
In 1818 three Wilson brothers John, Matthew and Samuel, came from Virginia to purchase large farms in this area. The plantations of John and Matthew joined near this cemetery. All three brothers and their families are buried here. Inscriptions on two gravestones tell of a Civil War atrocity when, on April 30, 1865 two local Union guerrilla gangs tortured and murdered John Wilson and his nephew, Matthew Jr. Two others in the house were shot, yet lived to tell the story. The plantation overseer was murdered the following morning.
Side B
A number of slaves are buried here adjoining the south wall of the Wilson Cemetery. There were 160 slaves on the two Wilson plantations at Wilson's Crossroads (now St. Florian). The graves of Christopher Brewer and his wife are probably located here. They were the maternal grandparents of William Christopher Handy. Florence's famous "Father of the Blues". Brewer a freeman was with John Wilson in 1865 when the family was terrorized by guerrilla gangs. Brewer was wounded but survived to lead the Wilson heirs to where the family valuables were buried.
Cemetery: Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado
Photo taken: 2002
Source: Terry Hill
Resting place of: William James Hannan, Margaret Beatrice (Kane) Hannan, Marion Julia Hannan, Ernest Talfred Hill, Margaret Beatrice (Hannan) Hill, June Marion (Hill) Hughes, Margaret Emogene “Peggy Gene” Hill, Robert Parke Hill.
The old Creede, CO cemetery sits high on the mountain above downtown Creede. Seems like a lonely, yet peaceful place to spend eternity.
"A spirit as big as the Mountain Sky lives on forever" RIP, Bob.
St. Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen, France. Pictured here are the War Graves of the British and Commonwealth forces. There are 1000's of graves in this cemetery, most are from the 1st World War. I took this in March 2009 when I was visiting Rouen.
Nunhead Cemetery is perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. It contains examples of the magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common, or public, burials. Its formal avenue of towering limes and the Gothic gloom of the original Victorian planting gives way to paths which recall the country lanes of a bygone era. - Friends of Nunhead Cemetery
Matthews and Robert Shanks of Alabama settled here with their families in 1859. A small farming community developed, and in 1870 a school was built on a one-acre site donated by R. C. Murray. Land beside the schoolyard became a public burial ground, known as Shanks Cemetery after Shanks Post Office opened in 1896. The earliest recorded burial was Burgess A. Whatley (1854-1892). In 1893 G. W. Bell deeded another half acre east of the graveyard. The school building was torn down in 1917. Shanks Cemetery Association has maintained the site since 1935. (1977) (Marker No. 9904)
The grave of John Edward Hollenbeck. (Luckily, his grave has managed to escape having a freeway built over it.) A very good wikipedia entry on Mr. Hollenbeck: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Hollenbeck