I Love Graveyards and Tombstones

[donbosco]

Both the inscriptions and the designs...




I love a good stomp through a cemetery and to read the inscriptions. Perhaps it is morbid but I find myself actually pondering life more than anything else when I do this. I know there are some good tombstone photos in the photo thread but here's one just for remembering the dead.

 

[donbosco]

 

[Bigs23]

Both the inscriptions and the designs...




I love a good stomp through a cemetery and to read the inscriptions. Perhaps it is morbid but I find myself actually pondering life more than anything else when I do this. I know there are some good tombstone photos in the photo thread but here's one just for remembering the dead.

Have you ever been to Hollywood Cemetery in RVA?

 

[donbosco]

Have you ever been to Hollywood Cemetery in RVA?

Have not...must though.

The Guylula is from a Buncombe County graveyard and Samuel Gompers is buried at Sleepy Hollow.

 

[whatntarnation]

Have you ever been to Hollywood Cemetery in RVA?

Hollywood is really cool. I really liked the "Stump" gravestones of the U.S. foresters.

Mount royal in Montreal is nice, Leonard Cohen grave and the untended Molson crypt.

 

[donbosco]

Grave of poet Randall Jarrell at New Garden Cemetery in Greensboro.

 

[grubar]

Great topic. My favorites include several in Savannah, Mount Auburn, Highgate

 

[uncgriff]

There is an amazing cemetery outside of Virginia City Nevada.

 

[donbosco]

Riverside Cemetery in Asheville.





Here's the story that goes with this one: https://zzlpolitics.com/threads/178...carolina-this-date-in-history.648/post-240806

 

[Patb78]

Great topic. My favorites include several in Savannah, Mount Auburn, Highgate

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Jonny Mercer and Conrad Aiken are buried there. Aiken’s and his wife’s tombstone is shaped like a bench. If you ever are in Savannah, definitely worth the drive to see.

 

[Patb78]

GF Hansel’s tomb in Westminster Abbey.

 

[05C40]

I always liked these two and figure Mr. Prince must of had a good sense of humor.

 

[05C40]

. . .. I really liked the "Stump" gravestones of the U.S. foresters. . . ..

I really like the Woodman of the World insurance company markers, like this one.


But the fanciest Woodman of the World insurance company marker I have seen is in Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte.

ETA: Everything below that dark line near the bottom of the chimney is one solid piece of granite.

 

[Bobfripp]

Have you ever been to Hollywood Cemetery in RVA?

My high school friends and I used to go there after midnight during the summer. We climbed the cast-iron fence and hung out near Monroe's tomb (all carry-in carry-out, left no trace). Back then, the Monroe birdcage was painted black, but now it's white. It was a spooky place at night! You could see the city of Richmond and the James River really well from parts of the cemetery. John Tyler, Jefferson David, Gens George Pickett and JEB Stuart are buried there as well.

 

[milom98]

Lots of cemeteries and graves to explore online. Also does a pretty good job of tracking deceased family members.

Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records

The World’s largest gravesite collection. Contribute, create and discover gravesites from all over the world. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records.

www.findagrave.com

 

[duluoz]

Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, not far from the main square. This is a snippet but it’s a very small area for over 10,000 gravestones, crammed in like jagged shark teeth. Layered burials to the point where they built up the soil above ground level and put walls around it. Estimated that 100K could be buried there, going up to the 1780’s. Doesn’t seem possible but that’s what they say.

It’s blown my mind every time I’ve seen it.