For some of the more popular cemeteries, websites can be treasure troves of information. Even smaller cemeteries, such as the one I described as being near my home, may have websites created by a local resident who simply wanted to document the neighborhood’s history. It may come as a s...
A local legend gets more specific. It says that when the nunnery was dissolved during the Dissolution, the Mother Superior was executed for her opposition to King Henry VIII’s policies and her head was placed in a spike on the site near the green where the inn was built. While the use ...
Years ago, when I started writing about my cemetery adventures, I visited Wesley Cemetery near Westport, Indiana. I initially wanted to explore this cemetery because I drove by it one day and the stone wall and steps that border the front of the cemetery caught my eye. A photo I took in...
As far as cemeteries go, I have quite a few offerings for you in August. Look for my videos concerning cemeteries near a giant treehouse and cemeteries near a courthouse where a famous trial took place. I will post them here and on myCemetery Detective YouTube Channel. The Minister’s Tre...
This procedure started to change in the 1830s with the creation of Mount Auburn near Boston, which initiated the aforementioned European kind of cemetery. Ethnic and Cultural Variations It is common to equate home with the place where the ancestors are buried. This is salient at old rural ...
Marshall Center Cemetery A-Z Selected user submitted pictures (2/19/2007) Near Home City Cemetery A-Z Selected user submitted pictures (2/19/2007) Reedsville Cemetery A-Z Selected user submitted pictures (2/19/2007) Wells Cemetery A-Z Selected user submitted pictures (2/19/2007)P...
“..all along the borders of the two branches….on or near the residence of the friends of the deceased.” Despite reports of attempts to remove bodies upon closing this graveyard, human remains were unearthed during construction of the Ohio street extension (600 north) of the Kennedy Expressw...
My Great Great Grandmother, Pilar Nava Luna who died in 1918, was the first to be buried in Section 3 Lot 1054. Some Mexican Americans purchased lots located near the “city grounds” along Comal Street, which was one of the last areas of Oakwood to be developed. ...
I visited Perrin cemetery in Louisiana tracking down a locationless. It is said to be the place where Napoleon, the pirate Lafitte, and Jean Paul Jones are buried -- albeit in unmarked graves: Hopper Slave Cemeteryhad a lot of history: ...
Burial practices in France in the early modern period were marked by two key characteristics, namely (i) the near-monopoly of the Catholic Church over funerary matters, and (ii) the preference for intra-muros churchyard burial, even within the church, or adjoining it. The latter feature was ...