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Elmwood Cemetery
Norfolk, Virginia
Listed 8/27/2013
Reference Number: 1300643
Elmwood Cemetery is a 50-acre municipal cemetery established in Norfolk County (now in the City ofNorfolk), Virginia, in 1853. It is contiguous with Norfolk's first public cemetery, Cedar Grove, established in 1825. Elmwood is filled with an abundance of Victorian funerary art and displays a wealth of material culture relating to the Victorian attitudes toward death and mourning. It contains the graves of individuals and groups who made noteworthy contributions to the city, state, and nation. The works of both local and nationally recognized artisans, sculptors and stonemasons may be found there. It contains abundant resources for the study of the social, political, economic, cultural and ethnic heritage of the area. Elmwood continues to serve as an active city cemetery. Elmwood Cemetery is locally significant under Criteria A and C and areas of significance are Social History, Art, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. The property is locally significant under Criterion B as the final resting place for numerous individuals whose contributions to Norfolk's development are significant, as well as historic figures who achieved prominence on a statewide or larger scale, in particular the following individuals: Littleton Waller Tazewell, Sr., Hugh Blair Grigsby, James Barron Hope, David Minton Wright, Walter Herron Taylor, Robert Morton Hughes, William Sloane, Williams. Forrest, and Lycurgus Berkley, Sr. Elmwood Cemetery meets Criteria Considerations C and D as it derives significance from its association with historic events and individuals and its design characteristics. Elmwood's period of significance begins with the establishment of the cemetery in 1853 and ends with the construction of the Superintendent's Office in 1931.
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Description: Comb graves in Wright Cemetery, DeKalb Co., Tenn.
Date: September 28, 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#: Campaign Q - Wright Cem 1
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I remember Jeremy Beadle well. You couldn't miss him on British television when I was a teenager. He rests in Highgate Cemetery now.
Jewish Cemetery, Salgótarjáni St, Budapest, Hungary
Established in 1874 the Salgótarján St Jewish cemetery was the resting place of the Jewish elite of Budapest. The cemetery is located just behind the Kerepesi cemetery.
The entrance of the Art Nouveau cemetery was designed by Lajta Béla. It is facing to the Salgótarjáni St, a dead end street connecting some railroad yards with the city.
Many Holocaust victims were buried here in 1944-45. The mass graves are located at the back of the cemetery.
The last burials took place in 1950. The place is covered by an abundant vegetation and guarded by some ferocious dogs.
Coconut vendor in Cemetery of Angel. As much as there was death in this cemetery there was also much life. A young woman mans this vendor of coconut sweets, something that would be unheard of in a US cemetery.
Photo credit: Karin Orr, 2010 Peace Fellow
Description:
Across US Route 431 from the Stroud Family Cemetery. The intersection to the right is US 431 with US 62.
History:
[T]he Stroud Cemetery [...] contained the family remains of John Stroud, the founder of modern Central City. The cemetery was removed in the early 1960s when North Second Street became the main route for US Highway 431, replacing the old crooked route which once followed North Second and Harrison to the “Y” in Central City. The graves were moved to Mt. Zion Cemetery, east of Central City.
According to Margaret Vaught, historian of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, many of the monuments for the Stroud family could not be found in the old cemetery, so a collective monument was erected to the Daniel Stroud family, which marks the spot where the remains from the old cemetery were re-interred. Nearby is the marker for Lucinda Stroud dated June 19, 1813 to May 3, 1843. Also in the cemetery are the remains of John, Mary and several of their children, with burial dates as early as 1858. Mrs. Vaught said the Strouds were early members of this church and some were originally buried there, while others were buried in Central City and later removed to Mt. Zion.
From "Old Cemeteries Hold Key to Muhlenberg History" by Bobby Anderson (The Leader-News [Greenville, KY] 19 Nov 1997)
Subjects:
Cemeteries.
Central City, KY.
Duvall, Barry, contributor.
Stroud Family Cemetery -- Muhlenberg County, KY.
1960s.
Muhlenberg County Kentucky History Group:
Greenwood Cemetery open in 1869 after being converted from a farm, and covers 43 acres. It is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. Benjamin Rush (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) lived on the farm in the late 1700s. Over the years, Greenwood's fortunes declined. The cemetery became a target for vandalism and many headstones were toppled and broken. Maintenance became sporadic and vegetation began to consume the cemetery. Only the front third of the cemetery is cleared enough to walk through unimpeded. The rear of the cemetery has reverted to forest with trees springing up through the middle of graves. It is not an unusual sight to see a headstone pinioned between two trees. The Knights of Pythias, upset over conditions at Greenwood, tried unsuccessfully to have their name removed from the cemetery. The court has appointed Gloria Boyd & Kevin Lynch custodians of the cemetery on a temporary basis. They are in charge of getting the grounds in repair and arranging burials. The decision on a permanent owner will be at a later date.
Holt Cemetery is one of a number of potter's fields in New Orleans that serve the poor/indigent community. (Sadly, that means the majority buried in these cemeteries are Black.). Of the potter's cemeteries, most are defunct or closed to new burials.
Holt Cemetery was officially founded in 1879. As those interred here were from poor backgrounds, very few (almost none) have above ground tombs, many don't have markers, and almost all are in a state of disrepair. The burials tend not to be deep, so during heavy rains and flooding, it's possible to even see human remains afterward.
There are reports that Voodoo and Santeria are performed at this cemetery. Ghost hunters are also known to come haunt the cemetery (though I can't say the same for ghosts), and there are frequent reports of grave robbing.
Of the headstones, you'll find a few who are actually former soldiers and have a standard headstone that you'd find in any national cemetery. You'll also see graves marked and delineated by families with PVC pipe or wood. Some of the grave markers are simple stones that look like they've been inscribed with a nail or something similar.
There are a handful of early (pre-Louis Armstrong) blues and jazz musicians who were buried in unmarked graves here, the most notable of whom is Buddy Bolden, whose marker is pictured here. Robert Charles, the center of a 1900 race riot was once interred here, though was subsequently dug up and incinerated. Four of the thirty-two victims of the 1973 Upstairs Lounge (a gay bar) arson attack were buried in a mass grave here.
This cemetery, located on City Park Avenue (directly behind Delgado Community College) is definitely worth a visit simply because it presents a different side of burial culture in New Orleans. It's visually arresting and sad, amplified by the neglect of the graves of those buried here.
Description: Comb grave in Adcock Cemetery, DeKalb Co., Tenn.
Date: Aug 4, 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#: Sligo Bridge Q - Adcock Cem 4
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This is the older section of our local cemetery from the 1800s. Some of the gravestones are hard to read because of weather erosion from the last 100 years. I just wanted to take a few photos before they are lost to history.
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Fixing up the Cemetery at Fort Fillmore, south of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Early settlers of the Mesilla Valley, as well as soldiers from the Civil War are buried here.
Runyan Pioneer Cemetery - Sharonville, Ohio
Here are two grave markers...One is Runyan, after whom I think some of the places are named...especially this cemetery!
This burial ground originally served the family of T.B. White. His wife Elizabeth (d. 1857) and her father Henry Kirby (d. 1854) are interred here. White sold ten adjoining acres to the Salem Association in 1853 as a site for construction of a masonic lodge hall and academy. The site became a public cemetery after that date. The earliest marked grave is that of Jane McCullen (1788-1851). Also buried here is Francis J. Cooke, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. A cemetery association was established in 1949 to provide maintenance for the burial ground. (1980) (Marker No. 11378)
Abbey Cemetery, officially the Cemetery of St. Peter and St Paul, was laid out by John Claudius London in 1843. The chapel at the top was designed by G.P. Manners in the then fashionable Norman Revival architectural style.