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Cemetery at Lake Bolac in Western Victoria.
In Loving Memory of
Eleanor
Beloved Wife of
Robert. Geddes
Died 21st July 1924
Aged 44 Years
Also
Robert Geddes
Died 19th April 1950
Aged 78 years
Description: Comb grave of Joseph France in France Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: May 12, 2013
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#: Obey City Q - France Cem 3
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The Hooglede German war cemetery (Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Hooglede in German) is a military cemetery in the Belgian town of Hooglede, six kilometres northwest of Roeselare. It is located at the east side of Hooglede. It contains 8,241 buried German soldiers from World War I.
On October 19, 1914, Hooglede was occupied by German soldiers. The Hooglede cemetery in the Beverenstraat arose in 1917 when the cemetery in Hooglede was no longer sufficient for the mounting deathtoll. There were some new cemeteries, including "Ehrenfriedhof Hooglede Ost Beveren" along the street. After the liberation by the French, approximately 4100 German soldiers were buried in the soil of Hooglede.
The German cemeteries were supervised by the Belgian military service of tombs, but in 1926 all the cemeteries were the responsibility of the Amtlicher Deutscher Gräberdienst. Between 1932 and 1937, this service was responsible for the German cemetery in the Beverenstraat. Many graves in various cemeteries in Hooglede, Gits, Handzame, Torhout, and Lichtervelde were sent to Hooglede. The graves then were marked by crosses.
In 1937, a chapel was built using stones from a German pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. During World War II, an addition 29 German soldiers were buried at the cemetery. These soldiers were later sent to another cemetery.
After the Second World War, the supervision of the cemetery was again in the hands of the Belgian organization "Nos Tombs". Not much later, in 1954, the monitoring was taken over by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in German).
Numerous German graves dispersed over the country were transferred between 1956 and 1958 from 128 cemeteries to the four cemeteries in the Flemish part of Belgium. Hooglede is one of the four main German cemeteries in Belgium. The others being in Langemark, Vladslo, Menen.
During the renovation works in Hooglede in 1957-58, the entrance arches of the chapel were reduced to nine. This change came in two phases. The crosses were also replaced by nameplates. After 1960, no more major works were performed.
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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The Remsen Cemetery is a tangible reminder of the colonial past of this section of Queens. Typical of the small private cemeteries that were favored by early eettlers, it commemorates one of New York's earliest families and the role it played in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. The plot has been preserved and maintained by various local organizations and citiiins within the community.
The Remsen family ancestors immigrated to America in the 17th century from nor*hern Germany and eventually settled in Queens County. The founding father of th. clan in America was Rem Jansen Van der Beeck; his sons adopted the surname Remset, One son, Abraham Remsen,settled at Hempstead Swamp, as this area of Queens County was then called, and had a son named Jeromus. Jeromus lived on the paternal farm and had a son, also named Jeromus, born on November 22, 1735. It is not known if the younger Jeromus grew up to live on or simply near the family homestead. The younger Jercmus served during the French and Indian War of 1757 and became active in Whig politics prior to the Revolutionary War.
After the Continental Congress of 1774 was established the inhabitants of New Towne (Newtown) assembled at the request of Jarwmus Rempen and appointed a committee to insure adherence to congressional measures within the limits of the town. Jeroraus Remsen was a member and clerk of the county committee. Later he was appointed colonel over half the militia of Kings and Queens counties and joined forces under the brigade of General Greene in Brooklyn. These American forces were routed at the Battle of Long Island and after thei ' retreat Colonel Remsen was forced to flee to safety in New Jersey, where he resided until the war's end. Jeromus had married Ann(a), daughter of Cornelius Rapelje, on April 31, 1768, She bore him seven children of whom only three sons survived infancy. Jeromus died in 1790 while Anna lived until 1816.
The original cemetery lay solely within the property of the Remsen family, and it is typical of the private family cemeteries favored by New York's colonial settlers. In a February 23, 1887 article in a Kings County newspaper the cemetery was described as lying between the old Remsen house and the Suydam homestead, neither of which survive. This small cemetery is believed to have been used from the mid- 18th through the 19th centuries for Remsen family members. The oldest known grave is that of Jeromus Remsen, from 1790. In a survey of 1925, the graves and grave-stones of eight Remsen family members were identified.
These included those of Colonel Jeromus Remsen, his wife Ann(a) Remsen, a Jeromus Remsen -who vas probably their son, three Remsen children, a Bridget Remsen, and Major Abraham Rewsian, who is described as the colonel's brother. Presently the cemetery features a group of three, brownstone gravestones near Alderton Avenue, formerly Orville Stryat. (the two Jeromus Remsens and Anna Remscrj), two along the northwesterly perimeter (Jerome Remsen and Ann Elizabeth Remsen), and the remnants of another tombstone along the southern property line (Bridget Remsen). These tombstones date from 1790 through 1819. Recently, commemorative gravestones have been erected by the Veterans Administration in honor of Col. Remsen, Major Abraham Remsen, and their two brothers Aert Remsen and Garrett Remsen, who were also Revolutionary War officers. A World War I memorial, honoring the community's service in that war, occupies the center of the cemetery. It consists of two doughboy statues flanking a flagpole.
The Remsen cemetery remains an important element in the community commemorating an early New York family and their contributions to our heritage.
- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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.
My love took her to one of the nicest and oldest Dutch cemetry.
It was great!
My love took her to one of the nicest and oldest Dutch cemetery.
It was great!
My love Bingelke took her to one of the nicest and oldest Dutch cemetery.
It was great!
Thank you sweety!
I chanced upon this small cemetery on my way to the church at Grouville. I did venture inside but I feel that I got my best photograph before I did so.
Grave of Maria Bulkley Wilcox, d. 1858, Wilcox Cemetery, East Berlin, Connecticut. Died of consumption (tuberculosis).
Historic cemetery located in the "ghost town" of Bodie State Park in Bodie, California.
Infrared photograph post processed in High Dynamic Range with Paint Shop Pro editing software.
Location: Bodie State Historical Park, Bodie, CA
Website: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509
Camera: Panasonic ZS8 (converted to IR)
Photographer: Dan Kacir
The main entrance to the Tyne Cot Cemetery/.
The name Tyne Cot came from the name given to a barn at the centre of a German strongpoint by the men of the Northumberland Fusiliers - "Tyne Cot" or "Tyne Cottage".
The Allied forces took Tyne Cot in October 1917 during the advance on Passchendaele and one of the German "pill-boxes" was used as an advanced dressing station.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world. It contains 11,956 graves. The Tyne Cot Memorial bears the names of 34,857 men who fell
in the Ypres Salient and whose graves are unknown.
At the suggestion of King George V who visited the cemetery in 1922 the Cross of Sacrifice was mounted on top of the largest of three "pill-boxes" that remain within the site.
The key features of the cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
See: CWGC - Tyne Cot Cemetery and Tyne Cot Memorial
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Tyne Cot Memorial
Sunday 1 April 2012
This isn't even the "pretty" part of Glenwood Cemetery, but the scene suddenly struck me today as quite pretty. This is the new part of the cemetery -- up the hill from the old part. Yazoo City, Mississippi.
St. Roch Cemetery
1725 St. Roch Avenue
At. N. Derbigny
New Orleans, LA 70130 (Bywater)
504-945-5961
Saint Roch, saint of dogs and dog lovers
Feast Day Aug. 16th
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Father Peter Leonard Thevis
Saint Roch Cemetery Chapel
Shrine of healing miracle cures
www.neworleanschurches.com/stroch/stroch.htm
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Grave of James Brown Howard
Erected in affectionate memory by employees of the Royal Lyceum Theatre together with …. professional friends
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.
The first Jewish cemetery in Great Yarmouth is against the Old Town Wall at Blackfriars Road but amongst the large cemetery complex at Kitchener Road is another Jewish Cemetery. This entrance to this Jewish Cemetery at Great Yarmouth Cemeteries is on Kitchener Road. The cemetery is usually closed to the public but was opened on the 27th January 2014 for Holocaust Memorial Day.
In ABCs and 123s: J is for Jewish
The Snoma Finnish Cemetery near Fruitdale was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1985 as part of the Architecture of Finnish Settlement thematic record.
The Snoma Finnish Cemetery is the only surviving site associated with the community of Snoma. Snoma had been established in the late 1880s by a group of Finns, Danes and Norwegians, most of whom belonged to a sect of the Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church which had splintered from the church in Lead. The congregation was led by Benjamin Hasti, Solomon Johnson and Isaac Fardig. Snoma was made a post office in 1890. Until that time the community was called Suomi, the Finnish name for Finland. However, a misreading on the part of the post office left the community with the name Snoma.
In 1911 the Chicago, North Western Railroad passed to the north and through the town of Fruitdale. The post office was moved to this new town and Snoma suffered an out-migration of business. By 1918 the town had died and today all that remains is a Danish cemetery to the north and the Finnish cemetery which carries the name of this vanished community.
A large number of the markers are grey granite and were made by a local manufacturer, the Deadwood Granite and Marble Works in Deadwood.