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Description: Comb graves in Hayter Cemetery, Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: January 2, 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 - Hayter Cem 5
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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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Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.
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Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness
ID:MHG28426
Type of record:Monument
Name:Tomnahurich
Grid Reference:NH 65580 44150
Map Sheet:NH64SE
Civil Parish:INVERNESS AND BONA
Geographical Area:INVERNESS
Found an unmarked cemetery on a recent hike. The family's name is Crabbe. Here is a close up of the Patriarch's headstone of this small cemetery:
Friends of Newark Cemetery Interpretation Centre is going to open these September 2010. The Heritage Lottery Fund grant (£50k) has been received and works have commenced in the East side former Chapel.These has been presented to a contractor to repair and fit out as appropriate. Technical documentation was prepared by our Architect, Ros Nicholson, for the works tender which was won competitively by Longthorne Limited of Derby.
The Chapel Interpretation Centre will now be fitted out with audio visual and interpretation boards, displays and DVD presentations which will be designed by James Fountain of Bazzoo. Text and ideas for display boards and leaflets etc are being provided by Friends of Newark Cemetery (FoNC). These design works have been running in parallel with the building works. It is anticipated that the boards would show information and images on the history of the Cemetery and Chapels, origins of the practice of burials/cremations etc, famous people buried in, or associated with, the cemetery and flora and fauna in the cemetery. It will also feature
pieces regarding the polish connections (Air Bridge and General Sikorski), the commonwealth war graves commission, the travelling community and the memorial to the fallen.
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Greenwood Cemetery is located in the "cemetery district" at the north end of the Canal Street streetcar line. One of the oldest cemeteries in the city, it was founded in 1852 as an overflow cemetery for neighboring Cypress Grove Cemetery. (Both were founded by the Firemen's Charitable & Benevolent Association.)
As it was founded by the FCBA, there are a number of monuments/tombs of social groups located here in Greenwood, and across the street at Cypress Grove. Among the ones in Greenwood (mostly located at the southern end of the cemetery facing City Park Avenue), you'll find: the Confederate Soldiers' Monument, which houses the remains of approximately 600 unclaimed Confederate soldiers; the Firemen's Monument; the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; and the Police Crypt.
A handful of notable (in their time) folks are also buried here, including some jazz musicians, Major League Baseball players, Confederate soldiers, and John Kennedy Toole, who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces (which won a Pulitzer).
This is an active cemetery so, should you visit, please be respectful of funerals and, as a general rule, always be respectful of the families who have members buried here.
Headstones as far as the eye can see at Arlington Cemetery in Washington D.C. The cemetery has soldiers buried going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Photo by Leslie Adkins
Handley Cemetery in East Ft Worth Texas. the Town of Handley was incorporated into the City of Ft Worth. This cemetery is within the confines of a TXU generation station on Lake Arlington
The cemetery was laid out in 1840. The lodge shown here was originally described as a chapel
The building stands by the entrance gates, which are at the eastern side of the cemetery.
Both the lodge and the gates were designed in 1839 by John Stephen (of Scott, Stephen & Gale).
Greenwood Cemetery open in 1869 after being converted from a farm, and covers 43 acres. It is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. Benjamin Rush (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) lived on the farm in the late 1700s. Over the years, Greenwood's fortunes declined. The cemetery became a target for vandalism and many headstones were toppled and broken. Maintenance became sporadic and vegetation began to consume the cemetery. Only the front third of the cemetery is cleared enough to walk through unimpeded. The rear of the cemetery has reverted to forest with trees springing up through the middle of graves. It is not an unusual sight to see a headstone pinioned between two trees. The Knights of Pythias, upset over conditions at Greenwood, tried unsuccessfully to have their name removed from the cemetery. The court has appointed Gloria Boyd & Kevin Lynch custodians of the cemetery on a temporary basis. They are in charge of getting the grounds in repair and arranging burials. The decision on a permanent owner will be at a later date.
One of many beautiful tombstone statues in Fairmount Cemetery in Huntingburg, Indiana. Photo taken November 9, 2012.