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Visit to Emmanuel Church Cemetery, near Sutton, Nebraska
4 August 2010
Photographs by Michael M. Miller
Memphis, Tennessee
Once Memphis fell under Union control, it became a convenient location to care for the sick and wounded troops flooding in from surrounding areas. General hospitals capable of caring for thousands of men at a time were set up in and around the city. A board of officers who purchased 32 acres northeast of the city chose the cemetery site. It was originally known as Mississippi River National Cemetery. At the end of the war, burials included reinterments from camps and hospitals throughout the region.
Memphis has the second-largest group of unknowns interred in any national cemetery. The large quantity of unknowns may be attributed to the long interval between battlefield burial and reinterment at Memphis National Cemetery. Often, the crude wood markers that identified original burials had been removed or deteriorated to the point where they were no longer legible. As soldiers were not required to carry personal identification, it was often difficult to determine the identity of the remains.
Memphis National Cemetery is also the burial place of the victims of one of the nation's most tragic maritime disasters—the explosion of the USS Sultana. On April 23, 1865, after undergoing boiler repairs, the vessel had picked up a number of Union prisoners of war released from Andersonville prison in Georgia and Cahaba prison in Alabama. The captain, a part owner of the vessel, was paid $5 a head for enlisted men and $10 for officers, so he did not baulk when the steamer was overloaded with passengers. The USS Sultana was certified to carry 376 passengers, but it carried well over 2,000 soldiers anxious to return home.
The steamer left Vicksburg and reached Memphis on the evening of April 26, where the passengers heard the news of President Lincoln's assassination. From Memphis, the ship stopped at a coaling station on the Arkansas side of the river, bound for Cairo, Ill. About 2 a.m. a boiler exploded and the blast toppled the smokestack and cut the deck in two. Many men were killed instantly by the fire and steam, others began going over the side. Many of the wounded were put over the side to avoid the inferno, only to drown miles away. Only about 800 persons survived.
Information copied from: www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/memphis.asp
Sir Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, politician (bap at Newport, RI 27 Dec 1774; d at Halifax 16 July 1860). By relationship and marriage an integral part of Nova Scotia's elite, he advanced rapidly: was admitted to the NS Bar, 1803, appointed a supreme court judge 1807, member of the COUNCIL OF TWELVE 1815 and chief justice 1833. Though generally moderate in religious matters, politically he was an out-and-out Tory, and this raised suspicions that his ideology might colour his judicial conduct. Presiding over Joseph HOWE'S trial for criminal libel in 1835, he expressed the opinion that Howe was guilty which, although right in law, the jury refused to accept. Not brilliant as a judge, he was at least highly competent and in 1851 even Howe called him a "capital judge." His last honour was a knighthood conferred in 1859. Taking it for granted that the chief justiceship was a lifetime position, he died still in office in his 87th year. (Canadian Encyclopedia).
The Halliburton Hotel (built 1809) on Morris Street is his former home.
Note the Robin's wing.
Name:LABERGE, JOSEPH EMILE LUCIEN
Initials:J E L
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Sergeant
Regiment/Service:Le Regiment de la Chaudiere, R.C.I.C.
Date of Death:26/02/1945
Service No:E/110016
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IX. G. 12.
Cemetery:GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
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.
My love took her to one of the nicest and oldest Dutch cemetry.
It was great!
My love took her to one of the nicest and oldest Dutch cemetery.
It was great!
My love Bingelke took her to one of the nicest and oldest Dutch cemetery.
It was great!
Thank you sweety!
The establishment of this cemetery in 1874 provided for the burial of travelers and residents of western Travis County who did not have family graveyards. The land was donated by early Eanes area settlers William and Sophia Teague, who also deeded part of their property for a church and school. Some of the burial sites. Are marked only with fieldstones, while others are identified by limestone or granite markers. The earliest legible tombstone, that of Mike M. Teague, dates to 1895. (1986) (Marker No. 6470)