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Description: Comb grave in Old Union Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: November 3, 2012
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#: Hilham Q - Old Union Cem 1
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The Jewish Cemetery Groningen is a part of the Noorderbegraafplaats Groningen. The addres is: Moesstraat 98A - 9741 AC Groningen - The Netherlands
I found this quote online about the hand gesture:
Hands with thumbs (and sometimes forefingers) joined. On Jewish tombstones you will sometimes see a symbol showing two hands arranged for the priestly blessing. This is a symbol of the kohen (Hebrew for "priest"). The plural form is kohanim. Kohanim are assumed to be direct male descendants of Aaron, who was the first kohen and the brother of Moses. Some Jewish surnames frequently associated with this symbol are Conn or Cohn (Kohn), Cahn (Kahn), and Cohen (Kohen), but you will find the symbol on the grave markers of people with other surnames. Today families can sometimes verify a priestly lineage from the tombstones of ancestors that have this symbol.
Woodlawn Cemetery- Detroit
The Boltons were my grandparents landlords in Highland Park- interesting random find! I wasn't looking for theirs, I was looking for Edward Gray's, Henry Ford's Chief Engineer from 1909 to 1914 went I saw this one. My first thought was that it couldn't be the same family but looked around back- and sure enough, George and Mary! And in front, their daughter-in-law Edna!
Views around the Royal Navy Cemetery on Portland. The headstones with the flowers in front are all the crew members killed in an accident on HM Submarine SIDON.
Description: Comb grave of G. W. Christian in Holly Springs Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: November 18, 2012
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#: Hilham Q - Holly Springs Cem 3
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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.
Bonaventure Cemetery is a semi-rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia.
The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book. It is the largest of the city's municipal cemeteries, containing nearly 160 acres (0.65 km2).
The cemetery is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall, Jr., sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) Bonaventure Plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907 the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
The grave of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock. The memorial stone is the largest marker for a single individual in Boston's Granary Cemetery. Hancock, who signed his name extra large so that "King George could read it without his glasses on", would no doubt find a degree of humor in the situation. The stone reads, " This Memorial Erected AD MDCCCXCV By The Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Mark The Grave of John Hancock".
Plot 93: Annie Whiteman
John Henry Whiteman (96) 26/2/1956 – Sugar Worker
R.I.P
Sacred
to the Memory
of
ANNIE
dearly beloved
wife of
John H. WHITEMAN
died 24th Dec. 1925
aged 63 years
WHITEMAN.—On December 24, 1925, at her residence, 37. Haslett Street, Eden Terrace, Annie, the dearly beloved wife of John Henry Whiteman. R.I.P. Interred this day at Waikumete.
I was here to search for a geocache. Didn't find it.
This is a nice cemetery with graves dating back to the 1860s. It is situated at the intersection of US20 and Coombs Road. The intersection was reconfigured a few years ago. Hopefully the roadways will never encroach on the cemetery.
Photos from Locktown, a small rural village in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA. The old Baptist church was built in 1819, but the congretation goes back to 1742. The town got its name from two fighting sections of the congregation who changed the locks on the church. Read more here: www.locktownstonechurch.org/
This graveyard has been here for many, many years.