Tag: tombs
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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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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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June 25, 2009 10:45 AM EDT --
Here is an article I found while cruising the net about cemetery or gravestone symbolism.
Click Here or cut and paste into your browser:
http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html
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April 01, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
Leeville, La is about 45 minutes or so from my house, almost to the very end of our parish that extents out into the Gulf of Mexico. I found this cemetary since I started making deliveries way back in . . .
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June 25, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
This is the first pet cemetery I have ever been to and it was quite large. It has 10 acres and 10, 000 burials.
Veterinarian Dr. C. W. Woodruff started Animal Kingdom in1918 on a five acre plot . . .
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September 03, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
The James A. Garfield Monument is the final resting place of the 20 th President of the United States of America and his family. This is one of Lake View’s most famous monuments and was . . .
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March 19, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
Legend/history (as I heard it) of the Moriarity tomb in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA:
Mr Moriarity was an Irish immigrant who came to America as a young person. He helped out in a . . .
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August 23, 2009 10:30 AM EDT --
West Lawn Cemetery is five acres and has about 5385 burials. It was laid out in 1854, the same year it was purchased by Mantua township trustees from Doctor A.J. Squire. In 1874 the area to the . . .
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May 01, 2008 12:59 PM EDT --
For those of you who have not already read the story of Riddick, you can view it here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977331575&nav=MyGather
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June 21, 2009 09:27 AM EDT --
201 W Oglethorpe Ave Savannah, Georgia 31401 (912) 651-6843
This is the oldest cemetery on Savannah (1750) and is filled with beautiful magnolia trees and was turned into a park in 1986. The cemetery . . .
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August 23, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
East Lawn Cemetery encompasses about .25 acres and has about 200 burials. The oldest is 1815. The land for the cemetery was donated by Hezekiah Nooney Sr. to bury the first child who died in Mantua . . .
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September 03, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
The Jeptha Wade Memorial Chapel is the greatest architectural treasure at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The peaceful elegance of the building belies the glittering grandeur of the interior, . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:04 AM EDT --
Hogsback Cemetery is everything an old graveyard should be. It is dark, at the bottom of a hill and very ominious looking. It has 4 acres and 65 burials, yet most of the headstones are . . .
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May 15, 2008 12:38 AM EDT --
I know a lady whose family has purchased on her behalf a grave site and tomb stone. This lead to my wondering, if one were to be given the chance to write on your tomb stone, what would it be?
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June 11, 2009 12:42 PM EDT --
Gates Mills North/Riverside North Cemetery has 371 burials so far and encompasses 2.9 acres, with 5 more acres for future burials. The first and oldest burial was Daniel Judd in 1810, and it is . . .
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January 31, 2009 11:08 AM EST --
Bruton Parish was formed in1674 by merging earlier parishes in Williamsburg, Virginia, dating to 1633. It was named for an English Parish on the River Brue in Somerset, where it's founding fathers, . . .
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June 11, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
Gates Mills South Cemetery has 2.7 acres and the number of burials is unavailable. The First and oldest burial is William W. Eddy, age 3 in 1835. The earlier settlers of Gates Mills were . . .
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January 16, 2008 12:50 AM EST --
I have been a member of the group for a while not but haven't gotten around to posting any of my photo essays. I'm going to try to get caught up over the next couple of days.
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January 16, 2008 10:11 AM EST --
Week two of the Photo Scavenger Hunt - Graveyard Edition was Statuary. Since Angela M and me are from the same town, and visit the same cemetary, we end up getting photos of the same stones. I try . . .
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August 16, 2007 07:57 PM EDT --
Recently during a business trip to Buenos Aires, I had the opportunity to visit La Recoleta Cemetery. This is an above-ground cemetery located in about two square blocks of an exclusive neighborhood, . . .
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