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Mrs. Hannah Hoar, wife of John Hoar Jr. & eldest daughter of Mr. Edmund Barnard.
Born August 21, 1780. She lived respected & died greatly lamented June 5, 1803, aged 22.
"Her life was like a morning flower
Cut down & wither'd in an hour"
At the Green Hill cemetery in Union, WV, this beautiful grey cat was walking around keeping an eye on us. It had also been said that the night before, he was playing in my great-grandfather's grave.
Highgate Cemetery opened in 1839, as one of the "Magnificent Seven" - a series of modern cemeteries to hold the bodies of London's dead. The original design was by Stephen Geary, and the cemetery comprises of two parts - the East and West parts. The West Cemetery holds the Egyptian Avenue and Circle of Lebanon.
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Hettinger County, North Dakota. Photographs by Dwain Barondeau, NDSU Extension Service, Mott, North Dakota, November 2009.
For the almost four million people who visit annually, Arlington National Cemetery represents many different things. For some, it is a chance to walk among headstones that chronicle American history; for many, it is an opportunity to remember and honor the nation's war heroes; and for others, it is a place to say a last farwell during funeral services for a family member or friend.
Xcaret Eco Park on the Riviera Maya in Mexico.
The Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret is one of my favourite areas of the park. I don't think it's a real cemetery, although I wonder if families have put forward to have their people featured ...
But it really does illustrate Mexican graves, which are wildly imaginative, and representative of the deceased as an individual. Day of the Dead is a very important festival in Mexico and Central America. Here, the deceased ancestors remain a vital part of the living family.