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Woodhaven and Yellowstone, Queens
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
T. H. Zanderson and city namesake Jourdan Campbell bought the 40,000-acre Toby Ranch in 1907 and laid out the town of Jourdanton. The original plat included two blocks designated for use as a cemetery. The Artesian Belt Railroad built through the site and the town grew quickly, with a lumberyard, cotton gin, grocery stores, bank, restaurants, hotels, churches and a school among the early establishments. The railroad improved shipping of livestock and produce to San Antonio and other points. In 1910, citizens voted to move the Atascosa County seat from Pleasanton to Jourdanton.
The Jourdanton City Cemetery was originally used by all denominations; Lutheran and Catholic cemeteries were later established in other locations. The earliest marked graves here are those of Roland Purgason, an infant who died in 1910, and William P. White, who died in 1911. The Jourdanton City Cemetery Association organized in 1918, with John Moore as first president. The association added acreage to the cemetery in the 1950s, enlarging the graveyard to more than three city blocks. About one hundred veterans buried here have been identified, at least seven having served during the Civil War. Notable burials and gravestones include members of fraternal organizations and several law enforcement personnel, including four sheriffs and one deputy who was killed in the line of duty. Grave markers vary from simple wooden crosses to curbed family plots. The Jourdanton City Cemetery shows the cultural and economic diversity of this South Texas town, built rapidly because of the railroad and attracting people of varied ethnic backgrounds who made the site their home. (2008) (Marker No. 15165)
Southampton Old Cemetery is very unkempt which produces a lot of photographic possibilities with regard to shape, texture and lighting.
May, 2008.The American cemetery in Normandy, France, is located on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel. It covers 70 ha (172 acres), and contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II. The graves face westward, towards the United States. Read more about the cemetery here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memo...
April 12, 2015 - For over 300 years this was the only burial ground permitted for Jews in Prague. The last burial occurred in 1787. It is thought that over 100,000 people were laid to rest here, due to lack of space bodies were buried one on top of the other and records indicate there are up to twelve layers.
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
Sinking Springs Cemetery in Abingdon, VA. I've passed this cemetary dozens and dozens of times and never stopped until now, almost 17 years since I first passed it. I do not really photograph grave yards, I came to the sole purpose of photographing a Kappa Sigma grave stone.
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.
Something about the arrangement and light around these tombs draws me to shoot them again. Locksbrook Cemetery is pretty big and rather run down. Near my house, it makes for a peaceful diversion on the way to the shops.
There are a couple of monochrome versions of this view in my collection.
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 Vienna Central Cemetery (German: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world, largest by number of interred in Europe and most famous cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries.(Wikipedia)
Junior Engineer Officer, William LOUGH. Merchant Navy on M.V. Cingalese Prince (London) Lost at sea as the result of enemy action on the 20th September 1941 aged 29. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-111. He was the son of Alexander and Elizabeth and brother of Robert (Bob) who fell in 1916. He is commemorated on a family memorial at Dundonald Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland and also on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
i've never seen this in a cemetery before - picket fences around certain plots. in some plots, the headstones were long gone, but a little fence still maintained.