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I was looking forward to a stroll in the sunshine late this morning but by the time I walked the short distance from my house, the clouds had rolled in and cast a very wintry shadow over the cemetery. Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Digital photo. Photoshop (black and white) (2010)
The Photograph
This picture shows an older part of a country cemetery in France. On the left you can see plaques on a more modern grave - some have as many as thirty or more, almost always made out of marble or granite.
The cemetery contains the grave of Comte Roger de Semallé, who wrote a book documenting his travels in the footsteps of Marco Polo.
Description: Flattened comb graves in Robbins Cemetery, Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: June 8, 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#: Alpine Q - Robbins Cem 1 south of Bolestown Ch - six combs laid flat
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Historic Oakland Cemetery is the largest and oldest cemetery in Atlanta. Many of Atlanta's most famous citizens, including Margaret Mitchell, Bobby Jones, and Mayor Maynard Jackson are buried here.
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November 7, 2020 - Green Lawn Cemetery is the perfect place to do Autumn foliage photography and practice social distancing during the COVID pandemic.
"On August 2nd, 1848, a group of local leaders met to form the Green Lawn Cemetery Association. Through the spring of 1849 a charter was granted, 84 acres were acquired from local ranchers, and landscape gardener Howard Daniels was hired to plan the cemetery.
The intent of this effort was to replace earlier cemeteries in the city which had become landlocked, where near the river, and were nearing capacity. Influenced by the Romantic Era in the arts and contemporary poetry, attitudes towards death were changing and cemetery design was moving away from the older graveyards, churchyards, and potters' fields towards more natural and serene settings. This was the Rural Cemetery Movement.
Howard Daniels was a purist of this concept, envisioning winding roads and paths following natural contours through dense native trees and shrubbery. Along the paths openings would dramatically reveal family lots with monumental art or a view of a pond or from a natural prominence.
With the city in the grips of a cholera outbreak, our first burial was young Leonora Perry interred on July 7th, 1849 (Leonora was later moved to a family lot in Cincinnati). It wasn't until July 9th that a grand opening was held, and by July 11th our second interment, Dr. Benjamin Gard who contracted cholera while responding to the outbreak at the penitentiary, occurred. Soon prominent families started moving their deceased from the older cemeteries to Green Lawn, and likewise the former city cemeteries were evacuated and redeveloped.
In 1898 a cast iron bridge was installed in The Ravine, and in 1902 the Huntington Chapel was dedicated. The chapel was designed by Columbus architect Frank Packard and its Tiffany decor was sponsored by board president P. W. Huntington. The chapel was expanded as a mausoleum/crematorium in two phases during the 1960's and 1970's.
Over time Green Lawn would grow to its current 360 acres with over 154,000 interments, making it Ohio's second largest cemetery. The grounds continue to feature a pre-European settlement mixed oak forest, many historic and artistic mausoleums and monuments, and it remains one of Columbus' most important cemeteries. Green Lawn provides the final resting place of founding families, several U.S. presidential families, 5 governors, 5 Medal of Honor recipients, artists, actors, and all other walks of life. Over 6,000 veterans fill seven military sections and other sections represent Jewish, Greek, Black, and other communities or various religious, fraternal, governmental, or charitable organizations.
The cemetery is a registered arboretum, and in 1999 was designated an Ohio Audubon Important Bird Area.
Today the Green Lawn Cemetery Association is a 501(c)13 non-profit volunteer board of directors. Our mission is to preserve, restore, and share Green Lawn Cemetery with the community. We also ensure that the cemetery is operated in a fiscally responsible manner and in accordance with industry standards. Our families are here and we are committed in our responsibilities to "Our Very Special Park". Previous text from the following website: www.greenlawncemetery.org/about-green-lawn/our-history
Grave of Albina Delvecchio, Graziano Delvecchio and Aldo Delvecchio, St. Sebastian Cemetery, Middlefield, Connecticut
Lance Sergeant 2720351 William John McKIBBEN, 3rd Irish Guards died of wounds 19th September 1944 aged 27. He was the stepson of Martha McKibben, and the son of Langtry and Agnes and was the husband of Sarah J of Waterside, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He is commemorated on his step mother's memorial at Dundonald Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland and he is at rest in Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Limburg, Belgium. (CWGC have McKIBBIN)
This is Brown-Randall Cemetery #70, North Stonington CT, taken Oct 2008. No longer used or cared for, the cemetery lies through the woods about 3/4's mile from a dead-end cul-de-sac with no visible path, just south of Hwy 184, east of Stony Brook/Rocky Hollow road into North Stonington. Quite an adventure getting to it. My 4x's great-grandparents are buried here: John Randall IV and Lucy Brown (1st wife) and Thankful Swan (2nd wife). I descend from both wives' lines.
9/2/07
Nothing is sacred anymore...
James Buchanan was the fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). The Surveys of Presidential scholars consistently rank Buchanan among the five worst presidents.
His mausoleum is located in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, PA. I took a spin on my single-speed bike to shot some pictures and thought it was about time I documented this location.
The first community in this vicinity began as a Baptist church settlement founded in 1900. The vast ranch land of the area was divided into lots beginning about 1905. Early settlers called the community "Double Gates" because there were two gates on the road between the nearby towns of Coleman and Brady. A watering hole near the road also attracted travelers.
L. L. Shield built a general store and post office, and the community was named for him. The infant son of J. T. and L. A. (Dillingham) Gilbreath died in June 1908 and became the first person to be interred on land set aside for a Shield community cemetery. One acre of land including the grave was donated to County Judge T. J. White, trustee, in December of that year. The cemetery gradually took on the name Shields.
The earliest graves here are a testimony to the difficulty of pioneer life: almost half the 37 people interred during the first ten years of the cemetery's operation were children younger than three years of age, two more were teenagers and four were under the age of twenty-five. Only one person more than fifty years of age was buried during this period: Susan Winkler McGinnis Godwin died in 1913 at age eighty-two.
Veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War are interred here. Six graves in the northwest corner of the cemetery are believed to be those of Catholic Mexican Americans. The Shield community thrived for a time, and many of its most influential citizens are interred on this site. Though the community declined after World War II, Shields Cemetery remains as a chronicle of its people. (1999) (Marker No. 11813)