Tag: gravestone
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November 07, 2008 01:53 PM EST --
I am so happy that I could cry. My mom passed away just last December and we hadn't gotten a stone yet. They are so expensive and with 7 of her children we all kept changing our minds on how it should . . .
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September 28, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
On our journey home from California, we stopped for a rest in Ashland, Oregon. We were looking for a bit of shade and headed to what we thought was a city park. It was a cemetary but we decided . . .
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September 02, 2007 11:02 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, I joined Ancestry.com in an effort to research my ancestors. What immediately happened was this: I created a Frankenstein’s monster in my husband. He spends hours on there, looking . . .
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November 02, 2006 08:28 PM EST --
Why anyone would want 'Victim of the Beast 666' put on his or her gravestone is a mystery. However, there is one in a Salt Lake City cemetery that says just that!
The small gravestone of Lily . . .
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November 18, 2007 10:51 PM EST --
Hi, all. I frequent our local cemeteries here in Denver, and I returned to an old favorite again today. It's Fairmount Cemetery, one of Denver's Oldest, with graves as old as about 130 years . . .
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June 01, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
Well, it was extremely rainy yesterday (all day, too), which kind of sucked, but the day before that my boyfriend and I got the chance to walk down to the cemetery and look at all the gravestones. I am . . .
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September 04, 2009 02:07 PM EDT --
Today on my daily walk at the cemetery, I saw a little old man getting out of his car. He had a watering can, which surprised me because all of the flowers I'd seen there before were fake.
So he walked . . .
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November 19, 2006 04:11 AM EST --
I went to the cemetery to visit my brother's plot this afternoon. I had never thought of a cemetery as a place of change but when I drove up today, the small street adjacent to the cemetery was . . .
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May 18, 2009 04:31 PM EDT --
Well, as sad as it may sound, we've lived next to a cemetery for about 7 months now and I just realized about a month ago that it was INDEED a cemetery. xD So we finally went over to explore.
Anyway, . . .
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October 25, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
Games 2 Round 1
In the Porum Oklahoma you'll find this ' lady's ' grave and upon her stone these words, and as an apparent afterthought, her real name - not the . . .
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October 25, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Games 2 Round 2
A simple life - filled with words; a simple death with just two words:
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" Called Back"
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October 25, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
Games 2 Round 3
This famous mortal is buried upon the frounds of the most visited church in the world, Stratford-On-Avon.
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"Good . . .
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December 09, 2008 05:04 PM EST --
Carmella stared at the old photograph. Her father Luigi was in it as he lived. By the oven, holding a loaf of his famous French bread. She could almost feel the heat from the stone oven he carried . . .
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January 31, 2007 09:05 PM EST --
I have a rather odd question for all of the gatherites. I recently had to deal with the death of my grandfather, & I went to observe his grave. I noticed that on the back of his tombstone . . .
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February 26, 2008 01:37 AM EST --
A recent issue of Reader's Digest magazine had a short note with what they called spooky names of real U.S. cities and communities. The source was funnycities.com RD research.
Here is their . . .
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September 12, 2008 10:43 PM EDT --
I live on an old colonial road here in eastern Massachusetts. Sometimes I look out my window at the cars driving through this now-suburban neighborhood and try to imagine what it must have been . . .
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August 22, 2009 07:09 PM EDT --
A girl in a pretty white dress was walking to a dance party.
Two young men noticed the girl and gave her a ride there.
They introduced themselves and she then asked them to accompany her to the party. . . .
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November 10, 2006 01:09 AM EST --
The cave was large, betrayed by it's small, low entrance. Stalactites dangled from the ceiling like hundreds of pointed knives. They dripped water at a melodious pace into depressions of the limestone . . .
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