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Danville National Cemetery in Danville, Virginia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995
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Grave of Lyman Bulkley Wilcox, d. 1875, Maple Cemetery, Berlin, Connecticut. Civil War veteran and Andersonville survivor.
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Cleveland Standard 24th November, 1934
"LAST OF THE “ALARM BOYS”
Death Ends Career of a Gallant Lifeboatman
William R. PICKNETT
Over half a century ago Redcar heard for the last time the beating of the drum sounded by the Redcar lifeboat “alarm boy”. That boy, the last to parade the streets of the town drumming out the crew of the lifeboat to do their duty was William R. Picknett, whose death (reported briefly in last week’s “Standard”) occurred last Thursday last.
A native of Redcar, born in South Terrace, where he lived for the whole of his 69 years, Mr. Picknett came from generations of fishermen, and throughout his life he was closely associated with the sea. He joined the Redcar lifeboat as a youth of 17, and before that was the “alarm boy,” whose duty it was to call in the crew of the lifeboat by parading the town beating the drum, a practice which was later replaced by the rocket system of alarm. He was the last of the “alarm boys.”
As a seventeen-year-old member of the lifeboat crew Mr. Picknett had his first taste of duty when the lifeboat was launched to the rescue of those aboard the “Priscilla”
This was the beginning of a career that ended Thursday night with the record of 44 years active service as a lifeboat man, during which time he had helped to save no fewer than 112 lives. His record was suitably recognised by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution when he was presented with illuminated vellum recording their appreciation. Mr. Picknett was ill at the time and the presentation was made privately at his home three weeks ago by Captain J. T. Shaw, secretary of the Redcar Lifeboat Committee. There was to have been a public ceremony later.
WITH THE OLD “EMMA”
Mr. Picknett started his “life saving career” with the old “Free Gardeners” lifeboat “Emma,” which was, in those days, stationed in what is now the old boathouse. The lifeboat was privately owned.
He was about nineteen years of age when he had to go out with the lifeboat to what is considered to have been one of the worst shipwrecks known in this part of the coast. The ship in distress was the “Semarang,” and it had got into difficulties in wild seas off Saltburn. The lifeboat of the Institution at Redcar, the Free Gardeners’ and the Saltburn boat went out and 14 lives were saved.
Mr. Picknett received his training with the privately owned “Emma,” and before joining the Institution crew he had helped to save some scores of lives.
It is difficult to estimate the number of lives he has actually saved or helped to save, as his role as a life-saver included what would have been called “petty rescues” of bathers in difficulties and people stranded on the rocks, cut off by the tide. Of these incidents no records were kept and it is safe to say that over 200 people owed their lives to the pluck of Mr. Picknett.
As a fisherman Mr. Picknett had his own life to save on several occasions. He was one of the men in the tragic fishing disaster of a few years ago when the crews of two fishing cobbles, six fishermen in all, were drowned. He and his two mates managed to get ashore at Marske.
In January, 1901, Mr. Picknett and 6 other fishermen were going out to assist a trawler near Marske when their boat capsized. Three men were drowned Mr. Picknett was one of the four who were saved.
Mr. Picknett after took part in sea rescue with his brother in an ordinary fishing cobble before coming a member of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew.
THE FUNERAL
With full honours accorded by the R.N.L.I. the funeral of the ‘gallant gentleman’ took place at Redcar. The service was held at the Parish Church on 22nd, January, 1934, and internment at Redcar Cemetery. The coffin was covered with a R.N.L.I. flag pennant whilst outside the Lifeboat Station was at half mast.
The cortege head was led by the Coastguards followed by crews of the Redcar & Teesmouth Lifeboats.
A notable figure at the funeral was Mr. Thomas Robin Picknett, uncle of the dead man, who was now nearing his 90th birthday. He was a member of the Lifeboat crew for a very long period."
1890 - United Free Gardeners' Life Boat, "Emma"; Thomas Picknett, keeper; Richard Picknett coxswain.
1890 - Free Gardeners Life Boat "Emma" - Hon. Sec., W. A. Picknett; Coxswains, R. and H. Picknett.
1890 - Picknett Wm. Allan (Picknett & Wynn), 114 High Street, Redcar. Builders Picknett & Wynn, High Street and Wilton Street, Redcar.
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Green-wood Cemetery was established in 1838 and continues to be active today. The grounds are beautiful, with hills, valleys, and some views of the harbor and Manhattan. Early in its history, well-to-do Manhattanites would come here as a park, and this partially inspired the construction of Central Park.
It's always been a cemetery of some prestige: "It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood" Notable burials here include, among many: designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, the infamous William "Boss" Tweed, piano company founder Henry Steinway, composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, artist Jean Michel Basquiat, and morse code inventor Samuel Morse.
This ground is also notable as the site of some of the fiercest fighting in the Battle of Brooklyn (of Battle of Long Island) which roared through here on August 27, 1776- almost exactly 234 years ago. It was the first pitched battle of the American Revolutionary War, and the first battle the United States fought as an independent nation, having come officially into existence only a month and a half before.
After successfully driving the British force from Boston, George Washington concentrated his Continental army around New York, as the British strategy was to divide the colonies through the Hudson Valley. On August 22, 1776, The British landed near Coney Island and came inland towards where the American troops were fortified in the hills around what is now Green-Wood cemetery. The fighting reached a peak on the 27th and the Americans were eventually defeated, but held off long enough for the majority of the army (9,000) to escape undetected across the East River on the early morning of August 30 in a legendary episode that bolstered Washington's reputation.
This is a Polaroid taken this fall at Bellefontaine Cemetery at 4947 W Florissant, St. Louis, Missouri.
La Recoleta Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and a granddaughter of Napoleon. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's best cemeteries, and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world. (Source: Wikipedia) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jewish Cemetery Bloomington
Fred B. Loeb (1931-1996).
Bloomington, Illinois
USA
N40 27.435'
W89 00.326'
JCEAA ID: C040163
20 August 2004
Located on southeast corner of S. Morris Avenue and Greenwood Avenue.
Gettysburg National Cemetery is located on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, with the support of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin, the site was purchased and Union dead were moved from shallow and inadequate burial sites on the battlefield to the cemetery.
It was originally called Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
The cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863. The main speaker at the ceremony was Edward Everett, but it was here that Abraham Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. The night before, Lincoln slept in Wills's house on the main square in Gettysburg, which is now a landmark administered by the National Park Service. The cemetery was completed in March 1864 with the last of 3,512 Union dead were reburied. It became a National Cemetery on May 1, 1872, when control was transferred to the War Department. It is currently administered by the National Park Service as part of Gettysburg National Military Park and contains the remains of over 6,000 individuals who served in a number of American wars, from the Mexican-American War to the present day.
3,512 Union soldiers were buried in the cemetery; of these, 979 are unknown.
Sergeant, Pilot 1177546, David Edward Barry AUGUSTUS, Royal Air Force (VR). He is commemorated on his grand parents, George and Catherine Forsythe memorial at Dundonald Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland. His death is inscribe as, killed in action 6th March 1941 aged 18. The CWGC has died 7th July 1941 aged 18. He was the son of Walter and Myra of Chelsea, London. He is at rest in Dalston Road Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland.
Plot 6: Dragana Jevtic (61) 2014
DRAGANA JEVTIC
17.04.1953 – 31.08.2014
Zauvek u nasim
srcima I secanju
She lives with us in
memory and our hearts.
Forever missed by
her children
Jelena, Ivan,
Toza, Ivana
and husband
Dragan
Description: Comb graves in Robbins Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn. Picture taken in 1980.
Date: August 12, 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#: Livingston Q - Robbins Cem near head of Nettlecarrier Creek 1980
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Arlington National Cemetery is located in Virginia across the Potomac River from Washington D.C. The more than 600 acre site is home to brave patriots who gave their lives in our nation’s conflicts beginning with the Civil War. The cemetery was established during the Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, which was the estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his wife Mary Anna Custis Lee. Mrs Lee was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, George Washington’s wife.
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Homewood Cemetery is a large cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pa. It was opened in 1878 on part of the 650 acres of land that belonged to Secretary of War William Willkins. Wilkins is 1 of many notables buried here.
Greenwood Cemetery
Canon City, Colorado
Listed 9/4/2013
Reference Number: 13000661
Greenwood Cemetery is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for its association with Canon City's Exploration/Settlement and early Social History. The cemetery is also eligible for listing under Criterion C for its representative collection of funerary Art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Criteria Consideration D applies as the resource derives its primary significance from its association with settlement, social history, and funerary art as defined by Criteria A and C since the founding of the community. Greenwood Cemetery is the final resting place for some of Canon City's earliest and most influential settlers, including those involved in shaping the local economy, politics and culture. With miners, politicians, prisoners, religious leaders, socialites, fraternal members, veterans and business people interred within the grounds, the individuals and families buried in Greenwood represent a cross-section of early of Canon City development and society. Greenwood cemetery also contains significant examples of funerary art that embody the prevalent aesthetic characteristics of traditional funerary design during the period of significance, which often also reflect each individuals' fraternal associations, spiritual beliefs, military service and social position. Documentation and interpretation of these important aspects of Greenwood Cemetery can provide further contextual understanding of the early development of Canon City.
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Grave of Lyman Bulkley Wilcox, d. 1875, Maple Cemetery, Berlin, Connecticut. Civil War veteran and Andersonville survivor.
Taken at the Historic Oakwood Cemetery, Here in Raleigh, NC on 11/04/06 .. www.historicoakwoodcemetery.com/
Went out to play around with my new camera some more... a 'getting to know ya' sort of deal. Loving the new camera, but still have alot to learn with it. In time it will come!