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Description: Possible comb grave in Speck 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 - Speck Cem 17 - probable ex-comb
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This was one the strangest things I think I've seen. In just a little cut out notch of a bunch of woods are headstones. It's not taken care of at all...and just really looks out of place. In this shot I am standing on the road. These first headstones are in much danger of being run over!
This was one of three places I visited on a nostalgic trip for me, as I grew up in this area of Brighton, so it was interesting to return to the area, and see how things had changed, and discover a few new bits related to my interest in cemeteries and churchyards.
Woodingdean Lawn Memorial Park is another one Iâd passed loads of times when growing up, and is one of the more unusual and interesting places Iâve visited. Itâs main historical feature is several long rows of historic memorial stones going down the hill, that have been joined by a large collection of modern ones, along with several graves.
In one section is an ecological cemetery area, a natural area, with the grave markers all made from wood. A cemetery without any stone headstones or memorials is very unique and unusual, making this an interesting curiosity to visit if your in the area.
Description: Comb graves in Allred Cemetery, Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: February 26, 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 - Allred Cem 1
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St. Placidus' Catholic Cemetery, Hettinger County, North Dakota. Photographs by Dwain Barondeau, NDSU Extension Service, Mott, North Dakota, November 2009.
Metairie Cemetery in the New Orleans area (it's about a minute off I-10 and about ten minutes from downtown) is a large cemetery where many notable folks are buried.
Among the people who chose this cemetery to be their final resting place are jazz musician Louis Prima, Civil War generals P.G.T. Beauregard (and his daughter) and John Bell Hood, Jim Garrison (the only lawyer to bring a case to trial in the assassination of President Kennedy; Kevin Costner played him in the movie JFK), Hall of Fame baseball player Mel Ott, local politician deLesseps (Chep) Morrison, and others.
Jefferson Davis was also originally interred here (where the Louisiana soldier monument now stands), though he was later moved to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
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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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Oakwood Cemtery
Montgomery, AL
This is a very large, historic cemetery in the town of Montgomery. It has the older section and a newer section just down the street called the Oakwood Annex. The cemetery began by donations of land from Andrew Dexter in 1817 and General John Scott in 1819. The early part of the graveyard was known as Scott's Free Burying ground. The cemetery was open for all of Montgomery's people. Many soldiers and prominent people are buried here. It covers about 140 acres.
Grave of Jennie M. Cornwell, d. 1962 and Herbert I. Cornwell, d. 1900, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Rookwood is also considered to be a suburb, close to Lidcombe railway station about 17 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district.
It is estimated that approximately one million people have been buried at Rookwood, which covers an area of over 300 hectares. The "Friends of Rookwood Inc" is a voluntary organisation dedicated to preserving the site. As the largest Victorian era cemetery still in operation in the world, Rookwood is of significant national and historical importance.
Some older sections of Rookwood are overgrown with a riot of plants, early horticultural plants, some now large trees or groves, as well as an interesting array of remnant indigenous flora. This results in quite an eclectic mix of flora to be found within the necropolis.