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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 09:39:26 AM
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| Yes, found some longs lost relatives in once and took a friend with me who also like cemetaries to have lunch with them. We talked about our family and we left flowers on each grave. Then we wandered around saying "hello" to their neighbors. I like to find the oldest grave site in a cemetary. I am fascinated by history. |
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 10:36:27 AM
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When I still lived in NY there was a cemetary we visited every spring. Forest Lawn Cemetary. It is beautiful there. We always fed the ducks & looked at all the memorials they have there. There is one for President Millard Fillmore and the Blocher Family Monument. The Blocher one is gorgeous. It is enclosed in glass. It has statues of a mother & father standing over their son who has just died & an angel overhead. Story I heard was that he had died of a broken heart. I am not sure the story is true, but it still is nice to look at. Really a peaceful place. I guess they all are though.
A funny side note... one summer while we were up visting, we were on our way to a concert & got stuck in traffic. While sitting there I looked to my right & noticed a small cemetary & the small road next to it had a sign that said Dead End. I couldnt help but laugh. where was my camera when I needed it?
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lilpunkin
True Blue Farmgirl
368 Posts
Texas
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 10:44:46 AM
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Kelly, That is hilarious, Dead End! I guess that would be something we would laugh at. LOL!
Life isn't measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away. |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 11:31:48 AM
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WOW, I thought Richard and I were strange, well maybe we are, but anyway we love walking around cemeteries, have been doing that since we were dating. Kelly, once in a while we go to Forest Lawn, but for the most part we find really old run down cemeteries to go visit, I figure those people need the company.
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 12:50:05 PM
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| My hometown of Rochester has one cemetery in particular that really stands out. Mt. Hope Cemetery is supposedly the first municipal Victorian cemetery in the US (founded 1838). What makes it really cool are the famous people buried there, like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, and the glacial geographic features of the land. Mt. Hope is full of dramatic hills and deep glacial kettles and eskers. Apparently, there used to be lots of these features around the area but most of them were leveled to build houses by the early 20th century. It's an impressively beautiful place to visit. I especially am drawn to the overgrown areas, where I have come across Civil War graves buried in the underbrush (I've gotten poison ivy there more than once, but it's worth it). |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 2:27:59 PM
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MAry Ann - the tree stone I talked of was near Rockford and Cherry Valley Illinois. Do you think it could be the same one?
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
766 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 4:02:09 PM
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Kelly, I saw a sign like that years ago at a cemetery as well. Too funny!
Rosemary, thanks for the condolences on Darling's warped mind...somehow I'm doubting your sincerity, though... And also, thanks for the compliment on the photos...not so good as City Boy spent more money than I deserve on a camera. Seriously...I've no clue how to work the bloomin' thing unless it's in point and shoot mode. What a waste, eh? I swear some day I'll learn...
I was looking for cemetery websites; found one called 'Grave Addiction'...don't you love it?! http://www.graveaddiction.com/sunacre.html
Golly, we're a warped and feaky bunch! So glad E-less pointed me in this direction (come on, e-less...haven't you gotten your password working yet?)
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2007 : 4:55:22 PM
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Oh, my! www.graveaddiction.com is great! Many of the symbols on the list of gravestone carvings were previously unknown to me. I was reminded that there was a winged skull at the top of Thomas Davis's headstone (he of Dorchester, late of Nantucket, so to speak). I'm going back for more browsing now.
That Potter's Field place is sad, isn't it? Nice that they cleaned it up, though. I wonder what a mixed achievement it was to be #1 there. Hmm. |
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
766 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2007 : 11:29:09 AM
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Well, I just had to do it...couldn't help it! Now I'll have one more thing to snatch away my time doing...travelling to area cemeteries looking for the perfect photo op!
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(Sounds like a baseball team, don't you think? The Marbletown Angels...I can see it now, Darling and her friends all dressed up in gothic make-up playing ball at the local graveyard...Rosemary, you in?)
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Forrester Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
703 Posts
Ann
Belmont
MI
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2007 : 2:05:19 PM
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This topic really started quite a conversation with my husband and I about burials. It seems as though so many people get cremated now - much more than in the past. What are your thoughts on that? Ann
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
766 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2007 : 5:56:19 PM
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City Boy and I both have said we'd like to be cremated. Simpler, I guess, and takes up less land. Not that I'm into the whole "there's not enough land to feed the people" theory, but I'd rather see it in farmland than graveland 
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2007 : 6:50:51 PM
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DH and I always stop at the cemeteries. We have seen some very cool ones in Mexico. We will be taking the Great River Road this year from Wisconsin to New Orleans by motorcycle, i'm sure we will run acrossed some good ones. Tracey, your DD sounds very charming.
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
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Posted - Feb 05 2007 : 04:09:04 AM
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jpbluesky, the one that I saw is in the tiny town of Ohio Illinois. That's south and west of Rockford/Cherry Valley. It's about ten feet tall, maybe more; and at first glance you'd swear it's a dead tree in the cemetery. But just like you described, there are names on the branches....
It must've been a style around here at one time. It sure is beautiful; it looks to be cast in cement instead of carved, and the detail is amazing. |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Feb 05 2007 : 05:46:54 AM
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| Have any of you ever seen zinc tombstones? They look pretty much the same as any other, maybe a little more blue-gray in color. When you knock on them you can tell they are hollow and metallic. They were popular for a brief time in the late 1900s. My husband really wants one for his grave but I don't think they make them anymore (reason he wants one is because they do not wear away like marble, you can still read them easily after 100 years). |
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
512 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2007 : 10:35:22 AM
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Thanks for the links to the websites. I will have to look when I get more of a chance than 15 min break at work  They look pretty interesting. Especially the grave addiction one since there are so many other places to look at too. Living here in TX I do not see too many cemetaries. Kind of have to go out of your way to find them in my area. When I lived in NY there were many. My grandma used to live down the street from some & my uncle worked at one as well. I wonder if he ever saw anything strange. Unfortunately he's no longer alive, so I can't ask. My grandma used to take us when we were kids to see where her parents were buried.
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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