Photo Scavenger Hunt: Graveyard Edition Week One [Months]

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.

Week one of the scavenger hunt, the challenge was to find tombstones with the owner being named after a Month of the year. At first I thought this was going to be near impossible, but I had quite a bit of luck.

May Johnson Baird was the only 'female month' name I could find.   I know I saw a June a few weeks ago but I forgot where and couldn't find it on my last trip.   So May has the honor of being the only lady in this essay (with a month name anyway).

I thought it was interesting that Julius Arbogast was born in the month he was named after. Maybe it was the reason he was named so?   

Henery Augustus Wolfe is interred in the Soldier's Circle of Greenlawn Cemetery.  

Robert L. and Patricia Augustin.  I don't know if Patricia is still alive since there is no death date on her stone, or maybe it was never completed.

This family stone is in another section of the cemetery far away from Robert and Patricia, so I am not sure if they are related or not.

Closer view of the detail on the above marker.

Augusta Jacobs rests in the Jewish section of the cemetery.  I thought it was really neat that there is a hebrew incription above the English one.

I really love the obelisk monuments in Greenlawn.  To me it seems like we have an unusualy large percentage.   This is one that often ends up in my wide shots and today I just happened to catch whom it belonged to:

I had never heard of anyone being named August.  Now I have :) I thought it was really neat.

Well that is all for my first essay!  I hope to catch up (with the photos I have, I don't think I'll be taking any walks for a week or so because it is suposed to get very cold in the next few days) soon.

If you have a new years resolution to get out and be more active, walking is a great way to do it!  Take your camera along and take a long walk through your local cemetery (bonus points if you have access to a historical cemetery.  You can spend hours trying to find local well known and sometimes nationally known famous people. I'm currently trying to locate all the 'who's who' of my town's history.   The perks of walking in the cemetery are you get a chance to have some peace and quiet, a nice long walk, and who knows you may get an interest in tracing your family history.  Or maybe you will 'make friends' with an older, interesting tomb who's resident may have stopped getting visitors years ago.  I'm sure even though you may not be blood family, those who have passed on love to be remembered by anyone who wants to spend a few moments near by.  Maybe I'm just an oddball :)