Cemetery

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The congregation – black and white – had sung Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika – as his coffin had been carried out of the plain weatherboard church and across the small churchyard, before being buried in the deep red soil of his beloved adopted homeland as the sun set beyond the western hills. Back at the homestead, as the moon had risen over the grasslands and the mourners sang and toasted ??’s memory, ?? had slipped away to their bedroom, laid her pounding head on his pillow and fallen deeply asleep.…

fighting ground during the civil war. In 1854, the city of Richmond opened Oakwood Cemetery as a public burial ground for the entire city and the Committee on Burying Grounds was put in charge of overseeing the administration and affairs of Oakwood and the other cemeteries in the area (1). When the war broke out, a lot of blood was shed on Richmond’s soil. Therefor, in 1861, the committee offered to have the cemetery opened on a greater scale specifically for confederate soldiers who had either…

best possible results when taking those important pictures. Locating Cemeteries Your first challenge might well be just getting to the cemetery. Hopefully you have an obituary or burial record for your ancestor that gives the name of the cemetery. Depending on how old the record is, finding the cemetery can be very easy or impossible. There are some tricks that can help you. Start with an Internet search for the cemetery. Try searching the major mapping sites as well as regular search…

is set during a dark winter night. It is about a man named Ivan who would go to a tavern everything night and would not walk through the cemetery that was located next to the tavern. His house was located on the opposite side of the cemetery but would not dare walk through it. In line 8 the young Cossack lieutenant gave Ivan a challenge to walk through the cemetery and stick the lieutenant’s saber in the ground at the biggest tomb and they would check in the morning to see if the saber was still…

Summary: In Gulfport, FL a woman named Vanessa Gray started to clean up and abandon cemetery, Lincoln Cemetery. Lincoln Cemetery is a historically black graveyard in her neighborhood. Vanessa started to restore the cemetery in December of 2015, by sweeping dirt, restoring plots and headstones, and picking up litter. Year later she had recruited volunteers to help her maintain and continue the cleanup of the cemetery. After a year Vanessa obtained the deed to the cemetery’s from the former…

house, though, because rotting tombstones remain standing in a cemetery behind it. Nobody can explain why it is there, because the only churches in town are Saint Ann’s on East Grand Street and Musconetcong Valley, which is nearly right across the street, but is too modern to own this very old cemetery. Nobody has lived in this building for years, yet I have seen strange things occur. Like when I was younger and I saw a figure in that cemetery in the dead of night,…

“No, No… I know where it is.” My mama then said chiming in. “She’ll be with the rest of the family down by the creek.” When we came to the area of the cemetery where my mama had said the Barrett clan lay buried, I could see right away by my family’s isolation, that the people of Mount Harrison didn’t want our family being with the rest of the deceased residence of the village. Our family’s tombs were down at the bottom of a hill and at the end of a narrow gravel pathway that snaked its…

Whenever I have the occasion to walk the grounds of historic cemeteries, the mature trees dotting their landscapes bespeak the work of the nation’s earliest horticulturists. The idea of a “rural” cemetery for Trenton was conceived by Jacob M. Taylor in 1857. He introduced his plan to a group of the city’s leading citizens— William M. Force, John K. Smith, Isaac Stephens, David Witherup and William S. Yard—who together founded Riverview Cemetery on January 16, 1858. It was was incorporated by an…

“The Night of the Cemetery” One Halloween night when I was a younger girl I was told “The Night of the Cemetery.” My dads dad, so my grandpa, told me about it. He was Hughes in the story. He told me it was true and it wasn’t just some scary fake Halloween story told around bonfires to spook you before you go to bed that night, it was really true. One night my son asked me to tell him a spooky story to get him ready for Halloween night, I decided he was old enough to hear the story my grandpa…