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EVANS, Evan. (M.M.) Lance Corporal 3419 Post Office Rifles, London Regiment died of wounds in France 24th September 1916 aged 21. He was the son of Evan and Lucy Ann of 7, Owen Road, Wolverhampton. He is commemorated on his parents memorial at Merridale Cemetery, Wolverhampton, and is at rest in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.
Leland W. and Delila Larsen Brigham City Cemetery. Floyd Larsen's Brother - the one with the cigar
Cemetery Headstone Pictures
St Marys Cemetery Brussels IL. Tombstone for the deceased children of M. andE. Gleeson: Dennis,Martin,Marvin and Michael.
Carrion crow (Corvus corone) in Brompton Cemetery during the Month of the Dead
Brompton Cemetery is one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries, formed after an act of Parliament for the interment of the dead.
The site proposed for this cemetery was surrounded by fields and market gardens and was bordered to the west by the Kensington Canal. The majority of the land, which belonged to Lord Kensington, was acquired by August 1839. An additional c 2ha on the south side was bought from the Equitable Gas Company. The land, formerly the site of brickworks and market gardens, was flat and lacked the varied topography of Highgate (qv) and Nunhead (qv) Cemeteries. It was described as 'having no natural attraction whatever ... not a tree and scarcely a shrub adorn the place'...in 1838 the Board of Directors decided to hold a public competition. This was won by Benjamin Baud (1807-75)...To overcome the constraints of the site his scheme relied on architectural drama for its impact. Brompton was a classical conception with dramatic vistas and spaces, in a rural setting...Building work started in 1839 and the cemetery was consecrated in June 1840, the first burial taking place a few weeks later. The building works and the landscaping were far from complete however and the North Lodge had to be used as a temporary chapel, the Anglian Chapel being eventually completed in 1842. Baud's extravagant ideas and a slow initial uptake of burial plots appears to have led the directors into financial difficulties. Baud's designs were therefore altered, building specifications were skimped, and serious faults appeared in the catacombs; in 1843 Baud was dismissed.
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The Winnemucca cemetery is right on the main street at the west end of town. You can't miss it and some of the graves, like this one on the front, are from the 1800s.
Was out doing some Volunteer Photos for Find-A-Grave Today and my adventures took me to the Pursely Church Cemetery, in Wayne Township, Greene County PA and the Pine Bank Cemetery in Gilmore Township, Greene County PA. Most of the photos from Pine Bank are my Carpenter Relatives as well as some allied families.
Located to the south of Regent Road in Edinburgh, to the east of the Canongate kirkyard, is the New Calton Burial Ground. Opened in 1820, this cemetery was created in part to re-inter the remains which had been excavated from Old Calton Burial Ground to permit the building of Waterloo Place. It includes some early 18th Century monuments which had been brought from lost sections of the old cemetery and a watch-tower to guard against the theft of bodies for anatomical classes, a popular practice at the time. Notable residents include architect David Bryce (1803-76).
Mount Zion Cemetery is a Freedman's cemetery, located at 27th Street and Q Steet, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Georgetown neighborhood.
In 1808 the Dumbarton Street Methodist Episcopal Church purchased the property. Mount Zion United Methodist Church leased for 99 years the east end of the Dumbarton Church Cemetery in 1879. The west end was purchased by the Female Union Band Society, for the burial of free blacks. Interments ceased in 1950.
The Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation conducted an historical study of the Mt. Zion section of the cemetery. The cemetery became an Historical Landmark of the National Capital in 1975, and was placed on the National Register of Historical Places, on August 6, 1975.
Restoration is underway, by Dumbarton Church as the owner, Mt. Zion, and the Society for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown.
The historical cemetery in front, with a small batch of a "living"/current cemetery visible in the back of the shot, more uphill. Life returning after all.
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)
2nd most visited cemetery in the US after Arlington. The entire cemetery is a National Historic District
nrhp # 92001366- Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic public cemetery located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1832. The cemetery contains more than 400 graves with monuments dating from the late 1700s to the present. Its memorial markers include small tablets, ledger stones, obelisks, columnar monuments and mausoleums. They include notable examples of Greek Revival, Late Victorian, and Exotic Revival funerary art.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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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.