Tag: cemeteries
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October 02, 2007 10:00 PM EDT --
Today after school I rode over to a cemetery close to my school. It's an old cemetery that lies behind the Union Church, the first church in Carver. The Church was built by the Savery Family . . .
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September 20, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
In every cemetery I’ve seen
a stone with my name
over a long-occupied grave.
(It’s a common name; still,
I’m glad to see the spot’s
already taken, and not mine.)
I found this . . .
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May 12, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
Ken and I were wandering around the historic district in Savannah, snapping pictures. I was particularly wanting pictures of the squares that the original city planners built Savannah around. One of the . . .
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January 07, 2009 02:17 PM EST --
This post, as well as this group, is dedicated to my friend, Pam, who began a business called Grave Matters in my hometown of Franklin, La.
A few years ago, some folks stopped at my . . .
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April 26, 2009 07:01 PM EDT --
Yesterday, Ken, Rozi, our friend Crystal, and I went to Marietta to take photos for my History Press Ghosts of Marietta book. First, we went to Johnnie McCracken's, a pub in Marietta that is in the . . .
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June 17, 2007 07:52 PM EDT --
Songs About Ghosts
The problem seems to be in telling the spirits that I intend to take a picture. Had I just snapped one, I imagine they would not have felt the need to immediately drain all my battery . . .
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July 09, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
I have transcribed Greenwood Cemetery in Belmont, NC.
There are over 3800 people buried in the cemetery. I started transcribing 5 yrs ago. I went several times a month for a couple of hours . . .
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April 24, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Hey, I saw a headline about the Wicca symbol now being allowed in national cemeteries. I didn't see anything about it here at Gather, though. What do you think? Don't you think . . .
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May 13, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
Two days before Mother's Day, I called my older sister Fran and asked her what we were doing for Mother's Day for our 90 year old Mom. It was a ruse...unknown to Fran, her husband Fred was . . .
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May 29, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
When did I stop being afraid to go to cemeteries? Was it when I began doing genealogy, or after I attended enough funerals of people I loved and knew? I think it was a little of both. Jim and I started . . .
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May 01, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
I am finally taking the time to finish posting the photos I have not had a chance to post of the Salem Burying Ground next to the Witch's Memorial as well as the other burying ground,which is near . . .
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July 14, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
Rosie, my daughter, had a shoot with a photographer named Jessy in a fascinating cemetery in Newnan, Georgia. It is a Confederate cemetery. The pictures are, I think, quite amazing.
One . . .
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November 10, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
This Saturday, before we went to the concert at the Masquerade, we spent several hours at the Bones and Brew Tweetup at Oakland Cemetery. The event was a benefit for the Oakland Cemetery Foundation, which . . .
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August 11, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
Tracking down African-American, Native American or racially mixed ancestors can be difficult, especially when these family . . .
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January 15, 2009 10:21 AM EST --
The Jackson Burial Plot
Today (December 30, 2008), was another meeting of the Mantua Cemetery Walkers and boy did we visit an incredibly odd cemetery. The Jackson Burial Plot in Pepper Pike, Ohio. . . .
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May 26, 2009 05:50 PM EDT --
These little cherubs are all from the former Holly Springs Methodist Church cemetery, which is now in fr ont of Emerson UU Church in Mari etta, GA, which we attend sometimes.
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June 08, 2009 11:53 PM EDT --
Ok ..I have a few without any p eople in them(don't have permission yet)
In this one shot...the front of the pic is normal and the back is blurred..now none . . .
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August 30, 2008 09:58 PM EDT --
One of my stops today included finally visiting inside the walls of Marietta National Cemetery. I've driven past this place at least a hundred times, but never stopped to view it. These photos are . . .
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January 11, 2009 04:17 PM EST --
Newport's ancient dead, scattered here and there throughout the town, Jew and gentile, Catholic and Protestant and Quaker, sleep the long sleep in hope of the resurrection. Today they snuggle deeper . . .
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January 09, 2009 02:28 AM EST --
This is an excerpt from an article called Headstone Symbols - Fraternal Orders from the New England Oddities Website. I found this website fascinating because it is all about New England.
http://newenglandoddities.com/2008/05/25/headstone-symbols-fraternal-orders/#more-63 . . .
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