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Originally constructed as "Green Hill Cemetery," this 32-acre expanse of hilly terrain and ancient cedar trees has many stories to reveal. Cedar Hill Cemetery (1802) is an official site of the Virginia Civil War Trails prorgram as it is the final resting place for many Confederate Generals and soldiers
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.
Grave of Edgar Monroe Congdon, d. 1939, Myrtle May Hall Congdon, d. 1940, Bertha Ellen Congdon, d. 1893, Ellen Martha Congdon, d. 1967 and Alice Congdon Ford, d. 1975, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
First, the verbatim description from the signage at this cemetery (which is a national monument):
This is the second-largest Jewish Cemetery in Europe, after the one in Prague.
The year in which it was open is recorded as 1630. The primary sources for the study of the cemetery have been looted and destroyed, particularly in 1941, when the "Book of the Dead" which had been meticulously copied out by Mose Altarac, secretary of the Sephardi Community and of the "Hevra kadisha" funeral society, was burned in the ruins of the Great Sephardi Synagogue in Sarajevo.
The cemetery came into being alongside a medieval necropolis of stechak tombstones in Borak, by the old quarry in Satorija. The tombstones of Bosnia's Sephardi Jews differ in form and in the motifs they bear from Jewish tombstones in other parts of the world. The likely reason for this is the intermingling of diverse cultural surroundings in which the Sephardim lived with their own Jewish traditions.
In 1952, a monument to the victims of fascist terror, the work of Jahiel Finci, was erected in the cemetery. The large mausoleum was designed by Zlatko Ugljen in 1962, and was erected following the exhumation of the old and new Ashkenazi cemeteries. The cemetery was closed to further burials in 1966.
Now...that's the stated spiel. What you see here...lots of interesting tombstones, in Hebrew -- of which I can read nothing, though I once learned the Hebrew alphabet. I would dispute the claim of the "second-largest Jewish cemetery" they propose here. Prague's is, I believe, pretty large. (There's an Old and New Jewish cemetery there.) I've been to a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw that seemed larger than this one -- though I did only have a chance to see a small corner here.
In some of the pictures here, you see headstones with lots of pieces chipped out. These are bullet holes from the siege (1992-95). When you read about "Snipers Alley" in Sarajevo, this was the snipers' nest. The Serbs set up in the Jewish Cemetery, so the bullet holes in the tombstones are return fire.
If you can get by that horrific little episode (though the bullet holes will certainly remind you off the recent past), this cemetery is quite beautiful, and offers a nice view of downtown Sarajevo.
Description: Comb grave in Honey Springs Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: February 11, 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#: Crawford Q - Honey Springs Cem 2
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Crowley Family Cemetery
Located at the site of the old Columbia Mall, now a Wal Mart at Columbia Dr and Memorial Dr.
The site has become run-down and trashy. It is conveniently obscured by some new tree plantings in the SE corner behind the NAPA store.
Interesting and unusual design. Most tree-like markers are from Woodsmen of the World, but this isn't one (and there weren't many at Riverside)
A part of the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Association Medical Center, the cemetery was established in 1871 as Soldier Home Cemetery to inter the remains of soldiers who died while under care in the medical center. In 1937, it was renamed Wood Cemetery in honor of General George Wood, a long-time member of the Board of Managers for the center. It became a National Cemetery in 1973 and is currently operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Right. This is the godfrey cemetery from the edge of the GC woods. The trees encircle the cemetery
extensively.
The majority of the headstones were broken, falling over, barely propped up, and laying completely flat on the ground.
POTD June 28, 2016 Made my first sale of a bnurial plot at Sharp's Cemetery to former co-worker Bob Carroll and his wife Ruthalee. They got a nice corner lot on top of the hill. Got some backup assistance from Tom Swan and Bud Moore.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Montmartre Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, Passy Cemetery in the west and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.
Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt. The cemetery epitomizes the artsy, quixotic, gentle, almost whimsical Paris that every romantic visitor secretly cherishes.
A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area.
Took my camera to a local cemetery after dark. Came back and played with the colors a little.
Despite the darkness of this shot, I was motivated by a wonderful funeral today, for a 90-year-old woman who used to walk all over town, making friends with everyone. Very community-minded, she said that she'd started the local food pantry. The funeral service consisted mostly of telling stories, repeating things that she had said, and laughing with her wonderful sense of humor. The funeral director remarked that he'd never experienced such a joyful remembrance.